Scotty

OK so got 5 months to get this wrong ... but here are my predictions for top 2 for each group A : Netherlands, Senegal B : England, Euro-Playoff (unless Scotland, then Rasczak scenario above comes into force and USA scrape in instead) C : Argentina, Poland D : France, Denmark E : Spain, Germany F : Belgium, Canada G : Brazil, Serbia H : Portugal, Uruguay

England -V- Scotland/Wales or Ukraine would be on Tuesday November 29th

Time for a thread on this since the draw was just completed ... Had a feeling that the draw would place the winners of Scotland/Wales/Ukraine into the same group as England ... let the fun commence Group A : Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Holland Group B : England, Iran, United States, Wales/Ukraine/Scotland Group C : Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland Group D : France, Peru/Australia/UAE, Denmark, Tunisia Group E : Spain, New Zealand/Costa Rica, Germany, Japan Group F : Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia Group G : Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon Group H : Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea

Wish the lad well, shame about the circumstances.

Remember that game. Was there as well

Scotty: Annan @ 1.80 CDN Girl: Queens Park @ 1.45 SOS: Hamilton @ 1.70

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Pars: O'Hara Crowd: 2102 CDN Girl HT: 1-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Sutherland 1st Pars: Connolly Crowd: 1999 SOS HT: 0-1 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: Samuels 1st Pars: Polworth Crowd: 2022

Good marketing though - they have the High-vis version available for the council and workers ....

I wonder if the back has the lettering too or is just plain?

nice strip but still the shitty badge !

Cases increasing here again too ... the new variant of Omicron .. but reporting has changed so you no longer get daily numbers and have to go by hospitalisations and deaths for comparison! Anyhoo - back to the topic ... if we want a COVID topic we can have it separately. Got an email for a Zoom call this morning, missed it due to working, I guess that must have been the strip reveal? Dont see anything on the official site yet - twitter shows 5pm reveal time so I guess we will know then If the video on twitter is accurate and it is a proper teaser of the real thing then pausing at various parts to see through the transparent bits, it looks like wider stripes again which would be great (IMHO). My biggest hope - although I don't think it will happen - is that they have used a decent badge this time and not one with the huge white border from the last few tops, it makes the whole thing look cheaper.

Early but kind of makes sense, the existing stock has been on sale in the club shop for a while now. Maybe they are hoping there will be a bumper crop of sales as folk hope to have a summer holiday this year for the first time in a couple of years ... lets hope COVID cooperates!

you probably have to tag @CaleyD in this thread and maybe even email him to see ... He's not really on here these days since he stopped at the club. @Andy johnstoneor @ANDYCAM is our camera person and likewise an infrequent visitor but may also be a good shout. (I think both accounts are him from different times so tagged them both). After 10 years it may be a leap, but worth a try. Tagged them in here - if their account settings are set to tell them when they are tagged on the site they will get an email, otherwise, you may need to contact them another way as they wont see this thread.

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st RR: Zanatta Crowd: 1211 CDN Girl HT: 1-1 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Doran 1st RR: Poplatnik Crowd: 1314 SOS HT: 1-0 FT: 1-2 1st ICT: Sutherland 1st RR: Connolly Crowd: 1455

Scotty: Airdrie @ 2.05 CDN Girl: Falkirk @ 2.00 SOS: ICT @ 2.62

Jake Mulraney scores a 96th minute winner for Atlanta FC against Charlotte FC after coming on as an 83rd minute sub.

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Arbroath: Donnelly Crowd: 1568 CDN Girl HT: 1-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Doran 1st Arbroath: Hamilton Crowd: 1288 SOS HT: 0-1 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: Pearson 1st Arbroath: McKenna Crowd: 1666

Scotty: Montrose @ 2.00 CDN Girl: Annan @ 2.25 SOS: Stenny @ 1.85

Have to disagree about the former chairman. He may have put things in print, or at least he had someone organise that for him ... but my experience with him, as a shareholder, as a sponsor, and as a service provider, was not in any way, shape or form in the slightest bit positive. I will leave it at that.

There is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, even TikTok if they got IHE to do it for them Then there is their own website, the Trust/Supporters Club, CTO, Wyness Shuffle podcast, Courier, HN ... and I am sure other outlets to get news or information out to the dwindling masses. So many options available but none taken which is a bit disappointing in this day and age. Chairman used to lurk here and read the site, and I got the odd WhatsApp message from him, but not sure if he is still lurking/reading posts.

This Communication has always been an underlying issue at ICT. There's is and always has been a rationale from some at the club that knowledge is some form of sacred power and the fans should never be given that knowledge or power. I have seen (and heard) that first hand. Sometimes communication has been good when the club have established and maintained relationships - be that with us, the supporters club, the Trust, the Courier, or even just on their own website! Other times - like now - it is non-existent and that leaves a void that, whether you like it or not, will be filled with disinformation and rumour. We are still afloat, amidst a two year long (hopefully) once in a lifetime pandemic so the chairman, CEO and other directors must be doing something, and possible doing it very well ... we just don't know as they choose only to send out missives about hospitality or who has bought hoardings at the stadium. Regardless of how well they are selling advertising boards though, the judgement on how we are doing is on the pitch and that's not so good right now! The execs (like the team) actually started quite well at the beginning of the pandemic and when laying out the fact that we were skint and looking for the fans to bring in revenue and/or suggest where we might find some, but just like the team performance, that has tailed off and dare I say it tanked badly. I cant speak for other outlets I mentioned above, but I do know that when we had the ear of the chairman or other directors we were constantly asking for and publishing 'interesting' info, most of it with a positive viewpoint because at the end of the day we are all ICT fans on here and like to look at situations through our red and blue tinted glasses. The same is true of CaleyD when he took on a role at the club and was publishing whatever he could. There are things the club cant publish for various confidentiality, business or personnel reasons, but everything else should be fair game. Otherwise it ends up out there as a rumour, and seldom in a correct fashion. The 'rumour' about Roddy listed above is a classic example. "He's not turning up for training after a fallout with Dodds" - sounds plausible if you want to believe that, and on a poor run, where tempers and emotions are likely frayed then its no big leap and has the potential to grow arms and legs ... but equally the reasoning that "he was affected by COVID, then got injured and unfortunately had a recurrence of that injury when he came back" should not be a state secret if that is the case. You say that, people may criticise the coaching or medical staff for rushing him back rather than questioning the boy's loyalty to the club or making him look like a petulant child or opining that Dodds has lost the dressing room etc.

Scotty : Kilmarnock @ 1.90 CDN Girl : Raith @ 1.90 SOS : Arbroath @ 1.80

I have been taking pictures at BMO field, in the stands since the opening season in 2007. Getting the camera into BMO Field has always been an issue, so much so that for the first few seasons I carried not only a printout of the BMO and TFC camera policies but also a letter from Paul Beirne specifically noting that cameras were permissible for personal use and that my use had been verified as such. This website exists for friends and fans alike, its personal rather than professional and I never thought it would be around for 15+ years if I am honest, but it has just kept plodding along. There is no commercial element to it, and although we have google ads on here, realistically they have never generated enough to pay for a memory card let alone anything else. The site is actually funded based on Ad revenue from another site that I have been running for 28 years (CaleyThistleOnline). My photos have only ever appeared in print once (other than the odd Wikipedia page) and that was in Joshua Kloke’s book, for which I asked for and received nothing but a thank you. Over the years, with or without the letter from Paul (mostly without since he has been gone for a fair few years now), I have had varying experiences with security at BMO mainly on entry. Once in the stands in section 113, everything is fine. The security and guest services personnel are typically those who have been around for a few years so a camera with a zoom lens is no surprise. However, getting to 113 is sometimes a challenge as I have been told everything from its absolutely not allowed, to its a professional camera (I use a trusty old D7000 which is not exactly state of the art, nor good enough to be down pitchside with a mega zoom lens) to the fact that I need a press pass … I was always able to be assertive enough or ask for a supervisor to get me in the gate but its a bit draining to be honest. However, it looks like this may be even more challenging during 2022 as COVID measures from 2021 have been continued in terms of a more restrictive bag policy. I understand and respect what they are trying to do for everyone’s safety, but it seems just a little too restrictive for me. I have access to a regular camera bag (approx 1/2 size of a backpack) and this is not allowed. Fair enough its really a backpack type item and I basically didn’t take it before because it was the one that always seemed to draw over-officious security at the entrance gate like a magnet. I also have access to a small 6x5x4 cube camera bag that snugly fits and protects the camera and not much else. It just falls within the size limit for an allowed clutch purse but it IS a camera bag and that is explicitly banned according to the BMO Field website. It may not be worth trying to reason with security personnel for any of this and I don’t see the camera fitting into, or being protected by, any of the approved bags so there may be a dearth of photos again this season unfortunately. Got to figure out if there is a way I can take any kind of bag which I can use until I get to BMO then just put in my pocket (like one of the black TFC drawstring bags ~ also not allowed) and sling the camera around my neck as the camera policy hasn’t changed, just the bag policy. I will endeavour to keep the stats and other pages up to date as I know there are several people who come here regularly to view that info but in case anything is a little behind then I absolutely recommend that you follow @martyn_bailey on twitter if you don’t already. In fact, follow him anyway as he has all sorts of instant stats at his fingertips that he regularly posts before, during and after games. I’ll keep bashing away at the stats for as long as I can and maybe make some other enhancements to the site if the photos become an issue. Lets hope we are all posting some positive stats this year both from the football world, and the real world. View the full article

Recognise anyone in the Courier pic? Perhaps someone may know where they got it .... https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/city-residents-show-support-for-ukraine-267430/

They have now come out and said they will not "play against Russia at ANY level". This follows England and Wales who said they would not play them.