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    Paul Cherry Medal Raffle In Aid Of Dnipro Kids

    in Caley Thistle

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    11 hours ago, SMEE said:

    As far as the line up in the team photo above, who is the fella back left.....next to Scott Maclean? And also, who was the back up goalkeeper?

    *ps, may as well ask who the lad, right at the back, to the right of Ian Macarthur is?

    Robbie Benson on the left, Neal Sinclair on the right. Don Macmillan was backup keeper. 

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    Here is the New ICT Home Strip

    in Caley Thistle

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    10 hours ago, SMEE said:

    What is the issue with the "crappy badge"? Does it peel off easy or something?

    personal taste really - I just think it looks cheap and nasty compared to the embroidered version. Perhaps if the border was smaller it may not look as bad. On the flip side, you could argue the stick-on badge is more accurate given the imperfections in the thistle and the eagle on that badge ... you decide 

     

    Logo on newest shirts compared to final Errea shirt (click to enlarge)
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    Side by side comparison

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    An older shirt (Feb 8th 2000 squad shirt) showing a crest with a border - but a much smaller border. 

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    World Cup 2022

    in General Football

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    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

     

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    World Cup 2022

    in General Football

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    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

     

     

    Here is the New ICT Home Strip

    in Caley Thistle

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    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.  

     

     

    Here is the New ICT Home Strip

    in Caley Thistle

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    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! 

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    Missing Highlight Reels

    in Caley Thistle

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    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.  

     

    Partick Thistle -V- Inverness CT - Preview

    in Caley Thistle

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    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.   

    Partick Thistle -V- Inverness CT - Preview

    in Caley Thistle

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    There is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, even TikTok if they got IHE to do it for them :lol: 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. 

     

    Partick Thistle -V- Inverness CT - Preview

    in Caley Thistle

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    5 hours ago, Douglas Mackenzie said:

    If I learned one thing in life, it is to be transparent,open and honest with staff, in this case fans. Tell them exactly what is going on, what the challenges are and what the proposals are for overcoming these challenges and then we are all focussed on the one thing (No side issues and dealing with rumour) - Improvement and the route ahead. Keep your staff (fans)in the dark, let them see that there is a disconnect and tell them nothing, just leads to factions,disaffection and disloyalty.

    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.   

     

     

     

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