DoofersDad

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Carrick

Crowd. 1008

I'd have taken a point before the game but disappointed not to have got all 3.  We played well in the first half and would have gone in at the break with a comfortable lead had a couple of well worked chances not ended up with tame efforts straight at the keeper when a bit of composure  would have seen the ball side-footed past the keeper into the net.  Nathan Shaw showed great composure for his 2 goals and others need to follow his lead.

The surprise return of Danny Devine showed what we have been missing in central defence and David Carson showed why he should be playing in midfield.  I was, however, rather disturbed to hear Billy Dodds' comments after the game saying that both Devine and Welsh  were not fully recovered from injury.  If they weren't fully recovered, they should not have been playing.  Putting players who have not fully recovered from injuries into a highly competitive match environment puts them at serious risk of aggravating their injuries.  It was a real worry to see Devine forced to go off in the 2nd half and I sincerely hope that was simply a reflection of a lack of fitness .

Oh, and why did people boo Logan Chalmers?  It only made him play better.  In fact, he played very well, and after he came on as sub, he was far and away Ayr's most effective player.

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ICT Billy Mckay

Opp. Akinyemi

Crowd 1922

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Murray

Crowd 492

If we had all of the squad fit, I wonder how many of Saturday's starting line up would have been starting - and in the position they played?  Not very many, that's for sure.  Missing the central pairing of Deas and Devine together with Allardice is a big loss defensively, whilst the loss of the creativity of Dan MacKay, MacGregor and Samuels limits our attacking options.  In addition we are without the often under appreciated Shane Sutherland whose importance to the team is reflected by the fact that he was the players' player of the season last year.

In those circumstances, I thought we played pretty well on Saturday.  Mackay was rarely troubled in goal, we played some good passing football and created some decent chances.  Shaw, in particular, had an excellent game.  No doubt with the return of some of the injured players we will create more chances, but the question is, will we take them?  Billy Mckay remains our main striker, he works his socks off and has scored 5 goals in all competitions this year, but his conversion rate is just 14% .  Oakley has played in 17 games and scored just 2 goals with no assists.  He's only had 7 shots in those 17 games.  Doran is 7th on our all time scoring list but in 16 games he has only scored 1 goal with 1 assist.  Boyd isn't shy at having a pop at goal but just 1 goal from 20 shots is a poor return.

Of the players out, only Samuels looks as though he might contribute a reasonable number of goals in a season and therefore it seems to me that we are over reliant on Mckay to get the goals.  There is a lot of pressure on him and he gets a lot of attention from defenders, so we really do need others to step up and get their shooting boots on.  We also need to be sharper in our attacks and have a bit more movement in the box to help Mckay find a bit more space.  Given our injuries, we have performed pretty well defensively and in midfield.  What we need now is to be more clinical in creating and taking chances up front.

13 hours ago, Yngwie said:

Saw in Match of the Day FA Cup round-up that Immanuelson Duku scored a header for York. They still got knocked out.

He scored it just 2 minutes after conceding a penalty at the other end.

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ICT Billy Mckay

Opp. McKenna

Crowd 2214

We can help them out with that dilemma by getting promotion ourselves.

On 10/29/2022 at 9:17 PM, Jaggernaut said:

If I remember correctly, Scott Gardiner said on a podcast that they could tell when the online program was accessed, and not enough people accessed them to justify to keep producing them.

He's told the Supporters Trust that as well and that the hard copy programmes are simply not economically viable.  The Trust is currently developing a draft survey about the matchday experience which we hope to discuss with the club in the near future.  The aim will be to issue this as a joint venture.  We hope to include a small section on matchday programs, and if there is a reasonable demand for their reintroduction, the Trust would certainly be happy to be involved in its production in order to provide the kind of content fans are looking for.

The combination of defensive errors was a bit freakish, but missing Deas and Devine we can expect to be vulnerable at the back, especially with Allardice missing as well.  If we are vulnerable at the back, we have to be more incisive and clinical up top, and that is where we struggle at the moment.  We have only scored 4 goals in our last 6 games.  We huffed and puffed tonight with good possession but very rarely threatened.  Often when it looked like we might threaten, we turned back and played a safe ball which only served to allow Morton's defence to get back in position.  And when we did shoot, our shooting was woeful with only 2 shots on target and their keeper never seriously tested.  You don't win games by keeping possession, you win them by scoring goals.  

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ICT. Boyd

Opp. Muirhead

Crowd. 1256

tm4tj lists 9 players who are currently out injured and a further 2 who are just returning from injury.  Those players would make a pretty impressive starting 11, so it is all the more impressive that we are as high in the table as we are.  It may not always be pretty but when a team is picked on the basis of who is fit enough to play and you can't play a settled side, then any result is a plus however it is achieved.

Morton will be very hard to beat.  After their 5-1 gubbing at the hands of Partick on the 1st of the month, Morton have taken 10 points from 4 games and only conceded 1 goal.  To get anything out of the game will be a real achievement, but we tend to do well when the cameras are there.  It is an opportunity for those coming into the side to show what they can do and fight for a place in the side when injured players return.  I'm not expecting us to win, but I am expecting to see a team playing with real commitment.

9 hours ago, Scotty said:

As you now show up as a 'site sponsor' then yes, i know it went through. will double check. Thank You. 

Are you using Safari then? or a different browser on your mac? I don't really encounter macs too often. never owned one and none in our corporate environment. 

Yes, Safari.

1 hour ago, Scotty said:

it's weird. I can't duplicate this at all, and a bunch of people have literally gone through this same process to do the player sponsorship.

I will try to take a look at this in depth during the week next week. I am in the office all this week so our firewall and connection does not lend itself to troubleshooting this and the short bursts of time I get at home in the evening dont allow a deep dive. I am working from home next week so can try to check and test on my own internet connection and not corporate connection.   

I've just tried again.  Initially I got a bit further but it froze on the page which should then take you to PayPal.  I refreshed the browser and managed to complete the transaction.  I use an iMac so I don't know if that would be relevant to the problem I was experiencing.  Anyhow, hopefully you will now have my payment.  Thanks again for your help, Scotty.

On 10/25/2022 at 1:59 AM, Scotty said:

I do see it in the system but for whatever reason you did not get to / go to Paypal: This link may allow you to try again Orders - CaleyThistleOnline

 

Thanks Scotty, but no joy I'm afraid.  It takes me to the page but the entire page, including the menu bars become inactive.  Same happens when I refresh the page.  If I close the window and come back into CTO, I can navigate through the site OK, but when I use that route to get to "Store" and then "Orders" it becomes unresponsive.  Try as I might, your system is preventing me from giving you money!

I've had problems today trying to respond to a PM and signing up as a site sponsor.  Pages become unresponsive.

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Easton

Crowd 2152

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ICT. Oakley

Opp. Winter

Crowd. 1966

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Scully

Crowd. 823

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Akinyemi

Crowd. 2196

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Robinson

Crowd. 4381

I'm afraid you are too late, for the meeting Robert, but your points are well made and we can pick up on points not otherwise covered at a later date.   We hope to be in a position tomorrow to issue a brief statement regarding the outcome of our meeting.

Sorry to see Keith departing the club.  Always very personable and helpful.

Vacancies now at the club.

https://ictfc.com/job-opportunities-at-inverness-caledonian-thistle-football-club

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Connolly

Crowd. 1561