PaderbornCaley

HT: 0-1

FT: 1-3

1st ICT: Doran

1st Opp:  Goodwillie

Time of 1st Goal:  12

The less TV games for us the better.  Keeping as many games at 3pm on Saturday is what I want.  The Scotland v Ireland Shinty international is on the Saturday of the County game so the Friday change is convenient.  A weekend of sport and beer! ;)

 

Edit:  Actually got my dates wrong.  The home leg is the following weekend.

I very much doubt the Rangers would offer him the job after the way he slated them after leaving them . The the Rangers fans wouldn't want him .

 

 

I agree.  Any Sevconian who has read his autobiography considers him a traitor.  Which, I as someone who dislikes the old Rangers and dislikes Sevco am very happy about. 

1. Raigmore Hospital, Inverness
2. Inverness
3. 1992, Telford Street
4. Glasgow (studied at Edinburgh for a few years as well).     

He was such a nice man.  Away games won't be the same anymore without Mikey.  R.I.P

HT: 2-1

FT: 4-1

1st ICT: McKay

1st Opp: Harkins

Time of 1st Goal: 7th minute.

Disgraceful from the Tims, almost as bad as when they had that "Islam" banner at the Scottish Cup final.

 

Can't make it - I'm in Ayr on mother-in-law duties.

 

Thought you were boycotting all pre-season friendlies on the grounds of excessive gate prices? 

 

The £2 difference between this and the Rovers game clearly made the difference.  He'll be playing 10p Bowling soon :)

Not a great match and not a great performance i'm afraid.  Rovers were the better team.  First half we were terrible.  Struggling to string passes together and hoofing the ball up to Billy McKay on his own.  The defence looked shaky.  We were extremely fortunate to be only 2-1 down at half time. 

 

Although Ben Greenhalgh clearly has good skill he was being pushed off the ball far too easily and needs to toughen up.  Liam Polwarth came on in second half and we improved from that moment. I thought that Polwarth was one of the stand outs.  A huge positive.  Doran also had a good game as did Raven.  Goodness knows what was wrong with Warren however.  Probably his worst performance in an ICT shirt.  He looked nervous and lost the ball on a few occasions.  He played well against Elgin the previous week though so hopefully this was a one off performance. 

 

Rovers fans treated us very well and we had some great craic in 'Styx' pre and post match.  They all hate Derek Adams :)

 

Although there were good performances from a few players, far too many had an off day.  We must do better.

 

 

My understanding is that the SPL (as a company) is remaining in place and just being rebranded and restructured into the SPFL.  If that's the case then there's no position to be filled as Doncaster is the CEO of that company.  Surely they can't just ask someone to reapply for their own job in that manner?

 

I'm not too clued up on employment law issues but I was thinking the same thing myself!  Although, I would ideally want other candidates to apply as well as I am far from happy with either of the candidates. 

 

Before I even read about the 'bonus' and the contract situation for Longmuir, I wasn't wanting him near the top job.  Now I am certain.  His pro Sevco agenda does not sit well either. 

 

If it's out of these 2, then Donkey it is for me!

Who do you want as the new SPFL Chief Executive?

 

It's a straight vote between these two.  Personally I think that others should be allowed to apply for the position.  Ideally I wouldn't have Donkey or Longmuir any where near the job.  But if I HAD to choose, i'd go for Donkey.

 

What does everyone else think?

Welfare football or not, a player is registered to the sfa as playing for 1 team...

Unless you are Richard Brittain.

Or Uncle Roy just decides to register you. Just 'cos he wants to!

Or unless you are Jim Calder.

All booked ready to go with Red Card, SPL Jaggie and IHE. Come on Capital Caley, sort it out son. Trafalgar Sq, fountains, kilts and ICT tops seems like a plan for the day.

I‘ll confirm what i‘m doing by Monday.

Flats, flats, glorious flats...

Down at Tynecastle they‘ll build....

I found this table online.  Quite interesting.

 

ICT are 9th in the all time rankings.

 

It's most pleasing to think that Elgin are one bad season away from getting punted back to the Highland League!

 

Funnily enough there are only 2 teams in Div 3 right now that would go into the Highland League if they were relegated. Elgin and Peterhead. (Albeit they aren‘t actually in the Highlands but their former HL status would probably see them go there rather than the Lowland League).

^{Clachnacuddin, Nairn or Buckie?}

Kowloonatic, you'll definitely get to see a game even if we're ( Inverness CT) away. Ross County (SPL) are in Dingwall not far north and likely to be scheduled home if Inverness are away (trains from Inverness go there - the Wick/Thurso service).

Then as you suggest, Clachnacuddin. Local Highland League team. Short walk from the centre of the city. Nairn County and Forres Mechanics are also Highland League and they're on the train line to Aberdeen from Inverness.

Just out of interest, what team do you support?

Are you drunk!? You‘ve just suggested a visitor to the area should go to Dingwall. Tut tut.

Avoid Dingwall at all costs!!!

Forget all my concerns! My bad :)

Regan has confirmed all 18 HL teams will remain. There will be 10 initially in Lowland League with the view to making it bigger.

In regards to the relegation scenario, there may be occasions where one league is imbalanced. i.e. 1 HL team promoted but a Lowland team relegated. In that case, they will look at opening membership up to any fitting team or simply have an odd number of teams in the L/H league that season.

There won't be a 'new' Highland league, It will just be the champions of the current set up who will play the Lowland league champs in a play off. The winner of that game will automatically get promoted. As far as I'm aware the reason the Lowland league will only have 10 teams to begin with is because a lot of the semi-pro teams down in the central belt don't have the adequate ground facilities to make the jump to the SPFL.

Im pretty sure that I read in the press when it was first announced that there will be ten from HL invited into the new set up. That would indeed be a new league. I am not 100% sure however and it may have just been lazy journalism.

So if a Highland team beats say Albion Rovers in a play off final, who then replaces the Highland team in the Highland League? Surely Albion Rovers would go into the Lowland League.

One very alarming point is that the Lowland League will only have ten teams. Does this mean that the Highland League will be reduced to ten teams? Priority should be given to the actual Highland clubs - Clach, Fort William, Brora, Wick, Nairn and Strathspey Thistle. But I fear IF it is reduced to ten teams we shall lose some of these teams. Unfortunately priority will probably be given to Lowland teams such as Cove. Unless the Lowland teams playing in the Highland League right now are invited to join the Lowland set up.

Has anyone heard about the number of places available for the ‘new‘ Highland League?

Get Tuffey signed up!

Because he's 'simply the best'? No thanks. I'd rather see Thomson come north. For those of you at the League Cup match against Stenhousemuir he put in a great shift. Quite incredible it was his first competitive match for Stenny that night too. It was his first professional match full stop.

comma, he had a great game exclamation mark!

It reminds me of Captain Picards uniform.

 

 

 

Ach it gives us something to talk about during the close season! Kingsmills you'll have to suggest alternative topics to discuss.

If we dont talk about the merger or wanting to sack the manager - its going to be a long break............

Butcher out!!!

We could always talk about the atmosphere at the games.

 

 or the catering.......

 

or the stewards

Fabulous!

How many of those involved Foran in some way?!

My fav?... Foran's in the cup against the tinks!! I doubt I will EVER get tired of watching that one.

Ahhh the famous Mo celebration will never get old!