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Absolute madness to want to drop to League 1 for 'reboot'. 

Part time football would be an almost certainty if that happened. That said we can't even beat a PT team with our plucky band of loanees. 

Fear not though, Gardiner will have a plan. Like the concerts, or the freeport or the battery farm! 

2 hours ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Probably as I have just lost interest to an extent.

Partly down to me as the product / entertainment on offer is poor. 

Partly down to not liking the way the club is run.

To summarise, ICT is not as appealing to me anymore for various reasons.

I've no clue who you are, but this is a sentiment I've heard echoed from many long time supporters, and a feeling I've had myself over the past few years. 

Yet I persist, as some other do, often against my better judgement. The one thing that keeps me going is the people I spend time with while I'm at the game, be it family I take or friends I meet there. 

Planning permission has been sought and plans are in the docs.

Would be awesome if it comes to fruition and as someone who was an IRA pupil and used to play on these pitches back in the 90s, I'd love to see them in use again. 

https://wam.highland.gov.uk/wam/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=S7D0JUIHGU500

I'm no Gardiner fanboy and I'm not sure how much he's been involved anyway as it seems to me to be more from board level. Regardless the club have to look at ways at generating income away from the matchday as we will never make enough from tickets, pies and hospitality to make ourselves viable long term in the Championship. 

External revenue generation is something that we desperately need and could help us survive long term if done right. If done wrong (like the concerts) then it's a double whammy of losing money and damaging our reputation in the community. 

This is why imo they lean so much into the good work that the Community Trust do. As they do way more to promote ICT positively in The Highlands than the actual club does. 

I wasn't at the meeting nor can I speak to the rest of it but the ICT girls football academy has absolutely no link to the battery project and is entirely self funded. 

Not sure why Mr Morrison would say that. 

13 hours ago, Jack Waddington said:

Got a slice in the Courier this morning, looks like the Battery Farm's main problems have been ironed out and the only one left is Green Space loss. Next review is next wednesday but the committee are visiting the site before then.

If that's the only issue, it would be laughable if it's refused as there seems to be no issues with any other greenspace being gobbled up by Tulloch or any other developers for building houses. 

Great write up for the Women's Academy awards evening on Sunday. 

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/picture-special-glittering-prizes-as-caley-thistle-women-fc-340019/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

If we hadn't scored a late 1st half goal yesterday fans would have started to turn. We were putrid. 

I remember similar comments made when Hughes first came in about boring 'tippy tappy' possession football. That did come good over time (at least for a while) however the biggest difference between now and then is the calibre of players is vastly different. I don't think we have good enough players to play that way to a consistently effective level. We are quite honestly, turgid and very rarely have any urgency in counterattack or when on the offence. 

I hope that they do manage to turn it around and make it more effective and produce better results, time will tell. 

1 hour ago, Yngwie said:

With Billy on the bench, who would you have trusted with the penalty?

Doran would be the obvious choice. 

2 hours ago, MacOne said:

Aye nothing less family friendly than orange.  You are aligning the club with that nonsense, along with one or two others. Anyone would think you had an agenda.

• Blackpool play in tangerine – a tone of orange – shirts and white shorts, with their socks combining both colours.
• Brisbane Roar play in orange shirts – with black diagonal shoulders with a thin, white line under the black – black shorts and orange with black banded socks.
• Dundee United rock tangerine shirts, black shorts and tangerine with black banded socks.
• Houston Dynamo don all-orange kits, with black designs on the necks, arms and sides of the jerseys.
• Hull City play in black and amber (yellow and orange) striped shirts, black shorts and black and amber socks.
• Istanbul Basaksehir FK play in orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Lorient wear orange shirts, with a diamond checker pattern with a subtle wave pattern applied, black shorts and white socks.
• Luton Town play in orange shirts, with white and blue on the trims, blue shorts and orange socks.
• Montpellier play in predominant navy and less conspicuous orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Shakhtar Donetsk rock orange shirts and socks with thin stripes, with black shorts to match.

On the international scene, only two popular countries are among the football teams that play in orange kits

• Ivory Coast play in all-orange kits, with a touch of green on the shoulders.
• Netherlands rock bright orange shirts, shorts and socks, with black designs on them.

 

He doth protest too much methinks.

Can't believe you actually typed that all out

Too many bloody clickbait proponents on here.

Very tough game this afternoon and a not altogether unexpected scoreline given the gulf in resources. Fantastic to see over 1000 in attendance though. 

1 hour ago, CaleyTennis said:

Is this the same Liam bloke that does the after match interviews with the manager ?

No. 

This simply cannot be true anyway as the club would have surely kept us in the loop. Communication is always on point. 

21 minutes ago, STFU said:

If only we could drink battery acid

Some people do like Tennents

"Who put the 'O' and the 'Y' in County?" 

ICTWFC Academy is looking for coaches. Experience is great but not necessary. 

Can't beat that authentic 70s/80s ICT merch!

Craig, Dan and the guys do a fantastic job

7 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

Dodds back on the radio today seeming perplexed about why he was punted while Chick Young and but chums wax lyrical about caley being rash and Billy being treated unfair. Also ducking and weaving any acknowledgement or interest into the action at Gayfield.

If Dodds genuinely never saw this coming or thought there were issues then hes clearly as narcissistic and deluded as the rest at the club.

 

I don't think Dodds is narcissistic (others at the club clearly are) I think he's just pretty clueless.  

You used to get team lines from inside the shop but i just get them on the ICT Facebook page or on Twitter. 

I'm being optimistic and going for 6th - mid table mediocrity.

20 hours ago, TheCaleyOne said:

I would love someone like him just for the contacts he has. We need someone that can attract players to come up here like he did.

I'd actually love to see TB as the Director of Football (or sport or whatever the hell they call it). 

That was some morning at the SWF U14s North Highlands League Cup final!

ICT U14s Reds V an undefeated Ross County U14s.

0-0 at full time. 1-1 AET (both goals in the last 4 minutes! ). Ended 8-7 on penalties for the girls in Red & Blue.  

The girls showed absolute grit and determination to hold their nerve through the penalties after 90 mins of football against girls, some of whom were 3 or 4 years older. 

Well done to all the ICT girls and the coaches for fostering such an awesome team spirit

14 minutes ago, bdu98196 said:

I suspect he see's the idea for a fan meeting at a pub as being a few dissenters ranging into the 10's and not really representative of a majority.

Well, he sees fans forums as a waste of time (cancelled them), sees the ST as non representative (without any indication of what is representative in his view) and won't enter into any meaningful dialogue, sees fans complaining online as 'clickbait proponents', sees the matchday survey as 'too negative' (if rumours are to be believed and I quite believe them), sees a public fans meeting as just people venting their spleen and in general people unhappy are just the 'noisy minority'. Everything can just be dismissed away with the wave of a hand. 

So the silent majority are all tickety bo and there's no issues that need to be addressed, therefore, 'I'm doing a great job'