Eagle4Caley

I saw Wimbledon's very first league game at Plugh Lane against Halifax, and I also saw them play Leeds Utd in an FA Cup replay at Selhurst Park (Palace's ground)... Later on we then endured the ground-sharing arrangement with Wimbledon, when they had to move out of their ground, and can recall them beating Palace 5-0 at Selhurst Park, when they were technically away, a low moment indeed. Palace largely had the upper hand overall, but we have never matched the 'Dons' epic achievement of winning the FA Cup, despite two attempts. All credit to the bunch of supporters who faced down the opposition of other interest and indeed the Football League to re-surrect their club. For some obscure reason they don't like Palace, which seems a bit unreasonable given that the ground-sharing arrangement kept them in business. During that period the two respective chairtman hatched a plan to merge the two clubs (sounds familar?) and met with hostility from both sets of supporters (sounds familar?), although it was probably a none starter. I shall watch their progress this year with interest.

19 minutes ago, lightwelter said:

Very good point, off the bottom of the table as well. Not expecting anything from next week, although hopefully they'll be feeling the effects of an old firm game followed by an away tie at Barca!

Yes an excellent result, especially coming back from behind, having seen Celtic today anything other than a thrashing next weekend will be a very good result! Then I'm up the following weekend after that for the Dundee game, can't wait!

Blimey clearly not much happening on transfers today if ICT are getting mentioned on the Skysports Transfer website..... next thing you know we'll be paying a transfer fee!

Both my teams scored in stoppage time to get points out of the game (ICT a bit more than Palace) so makes for a lovely weekend...also a good weekend for Caley Mad in Berks, who had several golfing chums up for the match, that result will have made him well happy.

Three points and what sounded like a pretty decent performance, whats not to like! Especially after last week.

Coming up for the Dundee match with Mrs E-4-C, and can't wait..be nice to get a point or two from the next two tough fixtures before then though

A pretty good summing up of the situation from itcfcsince94, the gist being there is no budget, we have to get used to it and we should be prepared for the championship, because the board isn't going to bankrupt the club to stay up. Arguably a club of our size playing in the SPL is actually us punching above our weight, so to have finished third, won a cup and played in the final of a second (noticeably all under Hughes albeit from the core of a team created by Butcher) is a mighty acheivement. It's clear that the Hughes/Board fracture revolved around whether the latter would find decent money to replace good players who had gone for little or nothing, and the Board obviously felt they couldn't. The Raven/Hughes situation was really a side show which got the fans on Hughes back which worked in the Boards favour. I'm sure that DR will still put the effort in, now he has the benefit of a longer contract, but in a club where every wage has to be effective, lets hope Raven still has the legs and brain to deliver. One lesson that has been learned (probably too late to retain our status this season) by the Board has to be the way that our best players were on short contracts which meant that we have not really been able to generate much in the way of funds from transfers.

I've got to be honest the appointment of Foran as manager, didn't really excite me, but a 4 year contract tells me that the Board realise that they have done all they can to compete financially and have decided to start from scratch.

Unless we are able to find another CB and perhaps a forward, this year is about whether any of our youngsters can step up to the mark and make the first team, and not have such a bad time of time of it that we lose too many players in January and go through the trapdoor so fast that we end up in League 1!     I still hope that players like King, Mulraney, Doran and Polworth can give us moments to treasure this season

Still I find myself looking at the Championship teams with a bit more interest than before!

Oh yes and given Roberts latest injury at Crawley, your right itcfcsince94

Ooops, not a good result at all, although according to the BBC we had nearly as many shots on target as they did?? That was effectively our first team out there...(I presume Billy King was absent due to terms of his loan?)... but already we seem to be down to 5 substitutes. That early season optimism has rather gone up in smoke hasn't it. I think we may be about the find out what a good job both Butcher and Hughes did on sparse resources (and small squads). The loss of Storey and the strange decision not to keep Jordan Roberts is already looking costly on the back of some of the other players that left the club in the summer. The board need to find some money for some quality players (now where did I hear that before?), but I doubt RF will see very much, and in reality the monetary benefits of being in the SPL compared to the Championship wouldn't justify risking the financial survival of the club, whereas in the possible event of us being relegated, we would be competing with clubs with similar finances to us.

On 14/08/2016 at 9:37 AM, ictfcsince94 said:

Foran turned up in his suit, as are the players now, which I think is a good change that Richie has made.

it's funny really, everyone shouts for more direct, attacking football, but in doing so, you leave yourself vulnerable to losing goals. you cant have it both ways. we criticise the team for playing out from the back, then moan when they play a hopeful long ball, or try and slip through a pass that gets cut out.

WE asked for change. we got it. time to deal with the consequences.

A six-pointer - the second game of the season - get a grip!

Well judged post, obviously a bit of a bummer that we've lost three games in a row, but going to be a classic 'transitional' season which we may or may not survive, but we have a young in-experienced manager at the helm. Hopeful Meekings will be back soon as he is a big miss. However lets give the new guys a wee bit of time to blend in. A top six position is possibly a tall order this season, just need to avoid becoming the 'whipping boys'.

At my youngest daughters wedding on Saturday and only this result and Palace's put any sort of dampner on the day.

53 minutes ago, ictfcsince94 said:

Hardly. Not the first prem team to be beaten by an on-form team. Just a typical cup upset 

I agree, a Premiership team losing to a lower ranked club in the early stages of the League Cup, in August, is a shock, but not an earthquake...it happens all the time in the English version. ICT lost to the same club that knocked out our closest rivals, so arguably predictable if we weren't fully focussed. Annoying? Yes .....could be an interesting season

On 22/07/2016 at 1:53 PM, DalgetyBayJaggy said:

Anyone know when Aaron will be fit to play?

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/Aaron-Doran-closing-in-on-Caley-Thistle-return-28072016.htm

Very encouraging, sounds like A.D. could be part of the team by the start of September, in better shape than before his injury, and I suspect more focussed

1 hour ago, CaleyD said:

 

Quality video....loving that strip, decent looking stadium.....also strange to hear the 'Glad all over' song when Dunfermline score as that is very much Palace's theme tune

Well this is quite relaxing!

Surely if we don't progress from the group stage, some one will have to start a 'Foran out' thread!

5 minutes ago, RiG said:

After whining about this again on Twitter I see my moaning has paid off and BT Sport have announced some more TV games. Our match v Celtic on 17th September has been moved to Sunday 18th September at 14:15.

Excellent!.... just keep schtum about the home match against Dundee the following week, since I have flights, train tickets and a flat booked that weekend for me and the missus!

4 hours ago, northstandfan said:

I love the stripes. We have an identity again.

I know a few Palace fans who will be envious of the home shirt, as we have done away with the stripes this year to a certain amount of 'wailing and gnashing' from some fans

Sadly both Rangers home games clash with Palace home games...but Dundee in September looks on, and the missus will join the ranks too. Ross County home in March in the diary too. Might have another bash at Hearts away in Feb (my attempt in Dec saw the match called off due to weather)

14 hours ago, old caley girl said:

No thanks to either of them. 

There are plenty other Miles Storeys out there and one or two of them will suit us fine. 

You mean players at English League 1 clubs, rarely first choice for their host club, constantly on loan, scoring  a mere handful of goals for any side he plays for...I am sure there are, but that takes a hell of a scouting system. 13 out of his 24 goals came for us in one season, so spotting his potential was a big plus for Yogi.

It also shows how much of a gamble it is

21 hours ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

One of the new Manager's first tasks is to sort out this kind of thinking ' Brendan Rodgers insists he has no problem going from the highlife of the Premier League to facing Inverness on a Tuesday night.. Last season he would have said '...going to face Ross County on a Tuesday night.' How low have we sunk? 

He's never heard of Ross County, doesn't even now where it is!

As a Palace supporter, who was there on the famous Crystanbul night which put paid to Liverpool's championship, I look forward to Caley giving BR more Red n Blue nightmares

Meanwhile back at the FA Cup

It was fun being part of this!

4 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

Very tough luck on Palace. Denied one certain goal and possibly a second by two rank terrible refereeing decisions.

Yes... almost all I can say is 'Bollox'

Super proud of the boys, and all our fans, the atmosphere we created was AMAZING, the Man United fans were pretty quiet for much of the match, and it's the Palace fans you hear behind Rooney's interview on the pitch after the final whistle!

5 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

I have to disagree. Steve Paterson is a club legend as are the likes of Ross Tokely, Barry Wilson, Grant Munro, Dennis Wyness and Iain Stewart. Yogi had that status too in his grasp despite this last season but by his actions over the last couple of months has forfeited it.

 

J.H is definitely a legend in my eyes, although I don't have the first hand experience to compare him to other managers apart from Butcher, but getting to a League Cup Final (and finishing in the top six the same year) , winning the Scottish Cup, finishing third in the league and getting into Europe, and finishing well above the drop zone this season given injuries and departures, and getting to the quarter finals of both cups this year.....how can that not give you 'legend' status. What more do you have to do, yes sometimes the performances have not been great, but there have been plenty times when they have....don't forget we got to the Cup Final last year after we had sold effectively our only striker (Mckay). And yes there have been disagreements, in particular over Raven, but every club has similar issues. I also don't get this poor signings thread...given the pool we have been fishing from, Ofere, Fon-Williams, Storey, Roberts and Mutombo have all been decent signings, which offset against others in the same way other clubs sign duffers (I'm not saying the ones I mention are brilliant but definitely showed promise or delivered or did a job for us). In the same way guys like Christie, Polworth, Devine and Tremarco have flourished under Yogi.

A sorry end frankly...but as we say at Palace (usually every year) 'new era, new era'

56 minutes ago, AlexJones said:

Not a single fan I've spoken to today is sad to see him go FWIW 

Which shows how fickle some fans are...It's amazing how quickly Yogi 'lost' some of the fans after last year

4 minutes ago, 12th Man said:

Haven't you made an appointment to be somewhere this weekend.

Best of luck by the way.

Sure have, and the butterflies are just starting ...hope to see one of my teams lift a Cup for the second year running! (and end 26 years of hurt)

Foran as Player-Manager with an 'experienced' coach sounds like the sort of cost saving measure that the club might have to resort to, depends on the size of Yogi's severance...... and given the 'bargain basement' Highes had to resort to, and the whole scernario whereby JH was sacrificied to keep the player budget even lower, expect to see more youngsters in the first team as well

Bollox! A most unsatisfactory end to a very good managerial spell. I know some people didn't like the possesion game, but if the quality of recruits echo's bears out Yogi's fears then the ability to keep possession might be the only thing that saves us next season. Somehow I suspect Tansey may go to give the new manager something to play with.

Last season's success and the trip to Hampden will linger long