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  1. 4th August 2023 Manager Billy Dodds says Inverness Caley Thistle are a scalp for other teams now. Billy Dodds believes Inverness Caledonian Thistle's cup exploits last season will have others looking at them as a scalp in the 2023/24 Championship. 2-0 with Arbroath winning...........
  2. We normally provide longer contracts to Managers after reaching Scottish Cup Finals and then so far get relegated. We can but hope that if results remain poor and without a string of injuries that there is some wriggle room on ending Dodd's contract. Something has to change soon. Arbroath play Queens Park next Friday so a point for them leaves us where we currently deserve to be. We have two weeks to put in a decent performance at Airdreonians. It is unlikely that we will hammer them.
  3. Dodds did say pre match that once we cut out silly mistakes we will give a side a good hammering. Still a minute or two to achieve that today.
  4. Two visiting Dutch visitors concluded that the referee was poor. We cannot blame him for our 70 minutes of lacklustre play. However, hopefully that is the end of our pre-season friendlies or else we will be bottom after the next two away games.
  5. The compilation video is quite some piece of collating for whoever put it all together. It is quite interesting to see how many headers Billy has scored. A great achievement. Ross County were not expecting his volley. Looked fantastic from behind the goal.
  6. Our first success this season - keeping the score down to 1-0 and eliminating Dundee from the competition. Max Ram back and a few others getting invaluable experience or game time. In retrospect it might have helped if the Club had made it clear that because of the Cup Final players were required to have 28 days rest...and that as a result, the League Cup was a bigger challenge for us this season because of the Cup Final late date in the previous season.
  7. Pleased that Big Harry has been signed. Big challenge for him but his height up front changes our attacking options.
  8. I was not present on Tuesday night but swearing at staff in some workplaces is deemed serious misconduct.
  9. We have recently seen too much emphasis put on Billy beating our scoring record. Great....but.... For the bigger picture let's hope two poor defeats and a less than convincing win against Bonnyrigg create a big wake up call before we end up bottom of the Championship after our first three games.
  10. These were the days 'In 1990 Caley scored a penalty shoot-out victory against Airdrie in a third round replay at Telford Street and in 1991 they held St Johnstone to a home 2-2 draw. They lost the replay 3-0 but the thousands of fans who went south that night to Perth sent out a strong message – Inverness could support a Scottish League team.'
  11. Potentially Luis is a good signing. Let's see if Big Harry is offered a contract today.
  12. Disaster. Our only hope to progress in the League Cup this year is that Dumbarton fielded an ineligible player.....
  13. The club are giving him an extra week on trial owing to him having a strain. He was a spectator on Saturday. I believe I read that in the Courier which had this headline ..for subscribers Inverness Caledonian Thistle are delaying decision over trialist By Andrew Henderson - andrew.henderson@hnmedia.co.uk Published: 22:30, 13 July 2023 | Updated: 11:22, 14 July 2023
  14. Aaron and Lewis Nicolson were the best yesterday. So far the first three games this season have confirmed the young talent we have within the club. Dumbarton on Tuesday will be tough.
  15. Despite his pedigree, I thought big Harry did well last Saturday. Ross Draper bounced off him in their first challenge. Big Harry certainly looked strong in holding up play and potentially could be a good squad member. We will need to work on his fitness for the Championship and give him lots of heading practice if that is a weakness.
  16. Good luck to Tom. Just shows being a professional footballer is not always glamourous.
  17. Not sure about source of Kyle Lafferty rumour. However, he is a very experienced player who could partner Billy and Austin. Last year was not a good year for him after being set up for the social network. After missing a lot of games it was not unresonable that he suffered injuries if truth be known. If he is on the verge of retirement, one final contract could be real focus for him. Having two Northern Ireland internationals up front for some games could be beneficial. Over the bridge, Malky McKay made mistakes early in his mangerial career but the dust has settled after he served his sentence. The Manager of Livingston is an example of turning life around. As is Paul McGowan at Dundee. However, no one has come up with evidence that Lafferty is indeed on our radar. Saturday's game against Elgin may result in some trialists getting a chance. It will be easy to recognise him if he is one of them.
  18. This is good news!! The squad is still a bit short in numbers so it would be nice if there are some more loan signings in the pipeline and, who knows, other signings. Clarity on a few existing players such as Tom, would be useful before the Elgin game. Training starts today so it is likely the Club will reactivate after the period of relative quiet after the Cup Final.
  19. Paul Ritchie and Edward Ofere came to mind.
  20. It would be quite a disruptive move for Billy unless Ayr offer him a superb package. One thing to bear in mind is that he is approaching 35 so after two years would be approaching 37. We cannot forever rely on him scoring. At present we are short on goalscorers but we do not know what business is being done behind the scenes. Historically we have picked up some good goalscorers late in the day.
  21. It is interesting to note that certain players have been taken off the Club's web page but Billy and Tom are both there.... https://ictfc.com/team/inverness-caledonian-thistle The league fixtures are out this Friday and we can probably expect more news about new signings or re-signings before then.
  22. No but it looks like the Celtic support think the treble is in the bag.
  23. We are on the way up, and they will pass us on the way down!!
  24. Another motivator is the fact Ross County look as though they are going to qualify for the play offs. I fully back Partick to beat them next week in the lead up to the Cup Final.
  25. On the assumption that this is correct, it is fair to say that with the catalogue of injuries we had and the chances he had to impress, it was our younger home grown players who were the better performers.
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