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jk lol, they are from the BBC site.

38 minutes ago, Gregor said:

love the stats mate

where do you find all these ?

would love to have a look at them.

I just made them all up.

We've played three games in the league so far - beating Falkirk 1-0 and drawing 0-0 with Ayr Utd and 2-2 with Alloa.  Beating Falkirk maybe isn't the good result it seemed at the time as they look to be a bit of a shambles.  Similarly, maybe drawing with Ayr Utd is a better result that it seems, with their recent wins over Dunfermline and Dundee.

In the three league games so far we've had 40 shots on goal, with 12 of those shots being on target, 30% of the total.  Historically a Shots on Target percentage of 30% is associated with being relegated but it's early days.  One of the observations that Charles Reep made when he was initially analysing football statistics was that the more shots you have, the more goals you score.  You can boil that down to the more shots on target you have the more goals you score - not all shots are equal of course, and a shot that's on target is a better guideline to how dangerous your strikers are than a ballooned 40 yarder that nearly hits the corner flag.  Generally,though  if you have more shots on target, you score more goals, you win more games.

So far in this seasons Scottish Championship, here's the shots on target per game for each team, in the current table order.

It's worth pointing out that it's very early days and that there are statisitical outliers - most obviously the game on Saturday when Queen of the South had 27 shots on goal against Falkirk, more in one game than most sides in the division have had all season.

You also have to consider how good your strikers are - how many shots on target does it take for you to score a goal?  So here is the shots on target per GOAL for each team, again in order of the current league table.

This table shows that when it comes to efficiency, we are very poor.  Only the abject Falkirk take more shots on target to score a goal.  If we were as effecient in terms of converting chances as Ayr Utd have been this season we'd have scored seven goals, and would most likely have won all three of our games.  Do we have the strikers to make a promotion challange?  Do we have the players capable of creating chances for them, are they making the best of a bad situation? 

From what I’ve been told some young fans started singing “Liam Polworth, your sisters a slag”. To sing stuff like that is ******* idiotic, it doesn’t need saying. 

I do wonder about how we decide which players are fans favourites or not though.  Some players seem to attract criticism - people hated Vigurs and were desperate to jump on him. Going back further there were fans who constantly criticised Paul Ritchie, despite him being a deadly goal scorer. At the same time, Liam Keogh became a cult hero!depite only really playing well for a few months. Fans sang that Keogh song years after he left but we don’t seem to commemorate a guy like Ritchie, who did far more than Keogh during the same rough time period.

its been discussed to death on here by me and others but Polworth is one of the best players in the division and in our squad. In terms of assists and goals he’s unparalleled among our midfielders. If you are going to try and create things then you are going to make mistakes, it’s the nature of the game. Most of the objections to Polworth seem to come down to his “body language”, which is meaningless. 

Its well established that scouts in many sports go for players who look like the perceived ideal player. I think a lot of fans do similar.

Aberdeen would the obvious choice.

Who has all had testimonials with the club?  Ross Tokely, Roy McBain and Grant Munro are the ones I can recall.  Did Russell Duncan get one?

There’s a double page spread about the march in today’s Courier.

I think Sean Welsh is available, considering how dreadful our central midfielders were at Tynecastle maybe he could be an option?

Ipswich Town have a debt of £89m, bouncy castles must be expensive in Suffolk.

On 7/29/2018 at 11:34 AM, caleyboy said:

Wetherspoons have imo cracked the market in value for money. A curry and 5 pints (if you can take as much) for £20 and 3 to 4 hours craic with your mates in a really busy pub. Football needs to learn how to provide real value for money from sources who know how to do it.

Wetherspoons have two million customers a week and 1000 locations.  That's why it's cheap, as well as the food being microwaved garbage.

An absolutely appalling performance, we got the result we deserved.

Chalmers and Trafford were liabilities in midfield and our defence couldn’t cope with anything. Abysmal and a much truer reflection of where we are than wins over a Highland League side, the worst team in the Scottish leagues and a chaos riven Raith team.

I got my ticket yesterday, I see the club have tweeted out that no more tickets are available.  Have we sold out our allocation?

ETA - I understand we didn't sell them out, tickets have been sent back.

I bought my ticker online yesterday, looking forward to receiving it on Monday  

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Sometimes, it's just not that easy.

It's supporting a football team not climbing Mount Everest.

#ardent 

Some football agent / itk Twitter account has said that we have Grant Nelson, Rangers striker, on trial.  It's also been reported on one of these accounts that we tried to sign Mitch Megginson from Cove Rangers but he decided to stay there.  Apparently Premiership teams were interested in him but he'd rather stay in the Highland League.

Pre-season has been back for a week, any trialists training with the squad?

What am I reading?  

I think fans often make assertions about players not trying or not being committed when their form dips but there are other reasons why players might not play well.  I doubt many professional footballers, especially playing on a short term contract, ever stop trying.

Hopefully we play him up front with Oakley and Austin either side and play a dogs-of-war, long ball hatchet man style.

Can't say I know that much about White but he has a decent record in this division previously with Livingston.

Here is a shaky YouTube video of some of his goals from Livingston.

People always hark back to former players because we are fans, not scouts.  Most normal people don't have the time or inclination to compile in depth knowledge of available players within our budget range.

Greg Tansey would be a great signing for us.  We offered Kyle Hutton a deal to play central midfield, it's obvious that Tansey is a better player than him, he's probably a better player than Trafford as well.  There isn't a team in the Championship who would turn him down.  We won't be signing him as we can't afford him.  The P&J reported that he doesn't want to play in the Championship either.

Mind when Yogi wanted to sign about five Partick thistle players?  Those were the days.

We've got a new Chief Executive.  Assume that this aligns with Danny MacDonald moving more into the development side of things.

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Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC is delighted to announce the appointment of a Chief Executive to provide strategic leadership and advice to the Board of Directors as the club restructures and looks to become a more community-focused club.

Mrs Yvonne Crook is an experienced consultant whose skills in business development, branding and marketing are seen as hugely valuable assets as the club strives to attract new investment and operate in a more business-like and sustainable way.

Mrs Crook is the owner of View Marketing and a founder and director of Good Highland Food Ltd, which she runs with her husband Mike. She has also held strategic advisory positions for several destinations and visitor attractions in Scotland including Loch Ness by Jacobite as well as Perth Racecourse.

 

I think these kits are great.  The home one reminds me of Genoa and Calgiari, away one is excellent.  I may even buy one.

Anyone know if they do baby kits?