Renegade

In an ideal world, I'd love to see us retain both with initially Fon Williams as first choice and Brill challenging for number one (or number 25.....or 12 in this case!), with Esson retained as the full-time goalkeeper coach and the emergency keeper. Granted I know that even if it is paper talk, money is still pretty tight and retaining all three might be a bit too much for us. If it comes down to picking one or the other though, it would have to be Fon Williams for me. I think he's looked a pretty solid keeper this season and his performance yesterday was probably the best he's ever had for us. How well has Brill recovered? Will he ever be the same again? Quite often players get bad injuries and they never come back the same. Obviously, I'd love him to return and be back to his best, but I'm prepared that it might not happen. With a heavy heart, it would be Fon Williams for me.

As has been said in the press of late, ICT will look to retain only one of Dean Brill or Owain Fon Williams for next season with Esson presumably continuing his back-up/goalkeeper coach role. The question then is simple. Who would you retain? Brill or Fon Williams.....or would you release them both?

Wonder if his pattern of being good for the first few games, then becoming guff and then leaves with a huff cycle continues...

Attempting to pass the ball into the net wasn't our undoing. It was desire from around a half hour onwards to time waste, defend and drop deeper and deeper for the remaining hour. For the first time in my football going life, I witnessed a keeper booked for time wasting in the first half! We invited Dundee onto us and for most of the game our goal lived a charmed life. Inviting a side featuring the likes of Harkins, Stewart and Hemmings to attack us was always asking for trouble. We were punished as a result.

In footballing terms, I have to admit I feel we're Better Together.

HT - DFC 0-0 ICT FT - DFC 1-2 ICT DFC 1st scorer - Hemmings ICT 1st scorer - Warren Time of 1st Goal - 51

It's my understanding that Inverness United had been/was/is already in use in the welfare leagues (as was Inverness FC IIRC). I must say, I quite like the name but I do personally refer to the club in speech as 'Caley Thistle' (to me simplified names are for one of the pre-merger clubs), while central belters almost exclusively seem to refer to us as 'Inverness' for some reason and it's no more simple than Heart of Midlothian (should they just change their name officially to 'Hearts'? Nope!). Another option for the new club name though that may well have fit bill would be Inverness Union FC which could also be used as an homage to another club within our DNA. Just for the record, there are clubs with longer names. Some of the Faroese teams for example have ridiculously long names!

I agree with the poster above. I don't think Vincent has shown anything like the same amount of bite that he showed when he first arrived. Now the cup win was a brilliant moment but I do wonder if it's blurred some people's opinion somewhat. Vincent's not a bad player and I would be pleased if he was retained, but if he was to go, it wouldn't be the end of the world. In all honesty, I would aim to keep Williams out of the two every day of the week. Fast, direct, versatile - he's a great and very underrated player for us. It'd be a blow if he was to leave.

I don't know how true it is but I do recollect talk that Hughes doesn't rate Vincent highly. Remember there was talk of him being offloaded a couple of seasons back?

As pointed out earlier in the thread, I'm not referring to you.

Again, I have no issue with the Gellions running a bus, Dows running a bus....or even the health food shop on Baron Taylor Street running a bus! They're free to do that and we'll see if there's the demand across the support for it (which I'm not sure there is but we'll see). We all know how hard CJT find it to fill a bus at times, so surely if you're on the board of CJT, your job should be to fill it's bus. Attempting to run a bus for somewhere else would that would potentially harm the amount travelling on the CJT bus (and not to mention the missing out on revenue) so would undoubtedly be a conflict of interests. If you're on the CJT board, you're attention should be with the CJT bus. I don't think that's too much to ask.

I knew we weren't the only ones, but I'd still say it was a fair uncommon occurrence in the past few decades. After all, Aberdeen's and Motherwell's etc. took place well well beyond living memory. I'd say though, the only other merger from say the last 30 years that's been more successful than ICT is probably Copenhagen!

It'll be interesting to see if any extra people start attending ICT away games as a result of the Gellions running the bus (and I'm skeptical there will be). If it was a cheaper option then they might attract a few, but not for £20. Again, we'll see how long this 'allies not rivals' mantra lasts. Could it not also reach the stage that our already small away support could disperse across both buses, thus meaning that neither bus reaches a quota allowing it to run? Only a matter of time IMO.

Indeed I was. I have no issue with with the Gellions (or anyone else) running their own bus. Allies not rivals? Really?! The Gellions were happy to waltz in when the Stirling bus kerfuffle was going and attempted to advertised itself as being different and essentially better (singing is allowed!). There's no doubt that one will take business away from the other and so forth. Someone on the board of CJT while also actively organising a bus for the Gellions has a conflict of interest and as far as I'm concerned in a dereliction of duty. Does the CEO of Coca Cola work part time making arrangements for Pepsi?

Why's someone who's wanting join the CJT board trying to run a rival bus?

I'm starting to get a bit tired of this attitude that the merger is something to forget, something to cover up and something to feel embarrassed by. The merger is an interesting historical event that took place here and that's something to be remembered. Mergers are nothing new on football, but ours is one of the few that's happened (probably worldwide) in the last few decades and it's undoubtedly been a big success. That's something to be celebrated......as are the achievements of the two clubs that came before.

It'll be interesting to see how the Gellions bus gets on in competition with the CJT bus, especially considering it's the same price.

No. Scrapped years ago.

Once again I'll use the Hamilton Accies approach to outline the use of youngsters on the bench. What they used to do under Billy Reid (and may well still do) is name their starting eleven, then a bench with five first team subs and a goalkeeper. The seventh spot was reserved for a player in the youth set-up but he'd have little chance of coming on. What the coaches would then do the following week is look at how he'd changed as a result of that experience. Had he become arrogant? Was he still pulling his weight? Did he now think he was too good for the youth team? Or on the contrary, did he benefit from that experience? Was he now working harder to gain that spot again? If it's good enough for the highly acclaimed youth system at Accies, it's good enough for us. And who's to say they won't make an appearance? If we were gubbing a team, what would the harm be in giving him the last 20 minutes and if he didn't, at least he'd have the experience of being in the matchday squad. We'd have nothing to lose by doing this when he can't fill the bench but could well potentially have something to gain.

The line up to me looked like - Fon Williams Horner Warren Devine Tremarco Tansey Polworth-------------Vigurs Draper Roberts---------------------Storey Draper would often go ahead of Roberts and Storey in order to pressure the Celtic back line, with Storey and Roberts folding back into the wings of the midfield. Worked really well on the whole and I too was impressed by Vigurs and Horner. The only change I'd like to see would be Storey and Roberts swapping sides as I think Storey works better on his natural side.

HT - Celtic 2-0 ICT FT - Celtic 3-1 ICT Celtic 1st scorer - Griffiths ICT 1st scorer - Roberts Goal - 17

Massive rebuilds work when there's some direction to them. The lower league up and comers that Butcher and Marsella used to scout for example. Some of Yogi's have been like something out of Football Manager! And what about Raven? Pleading for a new deal in the press last month. One of our most reliable and consistent players. Still nothing.

What's your favourite race? Big fan of Eskimos personally.

Fon Williams Devine Warren Tremarco Polworth D.Williams Draper Tansey Vigurs Storey Roberts Subs - Esson, Wedderburn, Horner, Hughes, R.Williams, Mutombo, MacRae If Danny Williams is still out, put Vigurs in left wing back and Ryan Williams into the midfield.

I'm really starting to find the whole gypsy stuff a bit tired. I know we might not look at it with much malice and neither ourselves or Ross County look at it as particularly offensive, but the world's moved on. Hard to believe anyone has any sympathy with this clown who got banned though as using terms about teams and people especially from Romania was always asking for trouble. Can't say I'll mourn the absence of this repeat offender who can't even get himself a half decent haircut.