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1 hour ago, Yngwie said:

Here are the latest odds from McBookie. Dodds remains their hot favourite, but I’d be surprised if it was him given the public advertising of the post. Hughes only appeared on the list yesterday morning, many hours before it was announced he was leaving County, so somebody clearly knew that was about to happen. 

Out of that list, I'd be more than happy to get Robinson in as the new coach, did pretty well at Motherwell and knows how to work on a tight budget as well

Good to see Cammy, Robbie and Roddy called up for the friendlies next month. Also nice to see Daniel in the squad to,  even if the SFA cocked up and has him down as a Caley player and not Hibs.

u21 call ups for Caley Jags four

“And similarly, the work John Robertson and his staff have put in to further develop the boys and transition them from the Academy into first team players and stand outs at that, has been exceptional. Robbie Deas has also come into the ICT team this season and has been exceptional from start to finish, even playing out of position and excelling at left back. He deserves the recognition. Seeing that ICT are second only in numbers to Rangers in the Scotland squad gives all of us such a great sense of pride.”

*Dan is of course still an ICTFC player until his contract expires in June and I’m sure that he acknowledges that this call up has truly been made in Inverness!

12 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

Interesting article by Tom English.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52646285

In it, he says 

 

"Scottish football missed an opportunity to examine itself three years ago and it has missed another opportunity now. Strip away the bile and all the inter-club warfare and ask a simple question - can we do better than this? If a neutral party put that to a vote and asked club leaders, players and supporters to respond yes or no, what would the result look like? 

Can we do better? The answer, surely, would be an emphatic yes. This is the problem, though. When you try to lift the bonnet to have a look at how things are done, the thing that some want to know first is who's doing the lifting and why? What's their agenda? Who are they acting on behalf of? What are they really trying to do? 

That mentality chokes progress. It protects the status quo. Clubs have it in their gift to introduce radical change to the game if they so wish, but they don't want it - or don't want it enough. People like to talk about change, but not many are brave enough to see it through."

 

Seems to sum up the situation pretty well.

Just now, lightlamp2 said:

No doubt he will be hounded for that. Even though he is bang on

He already has been, noticed a couple of comments on P & B  saying that he's a failed journalist and doesnt bother to do any research

Wonder if the SPFL will be hauling Robbo up again after those comments about the ref? Not because he was wrong, because he was totally spot on about that ref. He gave nearly everything the other way. Especially not blowing for the fowl on Charlie in the first half and then sending Keatings off, when it was obvious even to a blind man that there was plenty of contact. 

It was said at top of the game. United's chairman has invested in the club? Does that mean he's bunged the SFA and Ref assoc? Thats both legs the ref's influenced the game. 

They dont want little inverness with a chance of getting back in the league above a so called big team

4 hours ago, PumpFake said:

Trafford now suspended for next week's crucial league game. So glad we played a full strength side!

Trafford is free to play next week. Seeing as how he wasn't given a straight red for violent conduct or for spitting, but 2 yellows. He's only suspended for the next game in the challenge cup.  Dont know where you found the information you've quoted, but if what you have quoted was the proper rules. How come when Tremarco got a red in the cup final. he was only banned for the following scottish cup game, and not the first league game the following season?

3 hours ago, RiG said:

 

 

Rather than Manning up and going "Sorry guys, we f**ked up" They've just gave the club the middle finger instead. If they were proper supporters of the club then they'd either issue a statement of apology if any of their members were responsible or at least say they'd offer to assist the club in helping to try and find those responsible. 

I could be very wrong here and apologise if i am. But from this statement it does kind of sound like some of the guilty parties maybe within the leadership of the group. Respect must be earned, not just given. These boys must learn that, as from the wording of this statement they don't respect other supporters, the club or its good name which because of them is being dragged through the mud. If this is the case then good riddance, go support a club which will condone this behaviour, either of the ugly sisters come to mind.

As has been mentioned on this thread and a few others. We all want a bit more atmosphere at the games and generally these guys do try to inject that into the north stand. and then go an ruin it by setting off smoke bombs and chucking them onto the pitch because they've had a whiff of a pint and think they're the big man in front of their pals. When actually its quite selfish, they don't know exactly how many people in the stands have asthma or other respiratory conditions that these could aggravate. Plus as has been said many a time, setting smoke bombs and flares off at a match is actually illegal and these idiots are lucky they just get chucked out the stadium and not into a cell for the night or weekend or have the police waiting for them to do the same when the bus dropped them off after the criminal damage that was caused

Unfortunately I can't ever see this problem stopping. Unless because of a few idiots and not just those ones "claiming" to support our great club. They decide to do a stop and search of everyone entering the stadium regardless of if they have a bag or not and if found to be carrying such items are then refused entry even if they've just bought a ticket or are a ST holder. Then imagine how long those queues would be, plus the extra expense to the club of having to take on more stewards to deal with this. That wouldn't improve anyone's matchday experience. In fact may actually drive already low attendance figures down even more. Just because a few wee idiots within their ranks think its "enhances" the atmosphere.  Just singing, banging the drum and generally cheering the players on will do it, and if they behave they may find their numbers may rise with both younger and older fans.
 

7 hours ago, RiG said:

According to this piece in the Courier another player has been told that they are free to go.

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/Caley-Thistle-add-Joe-Chalmers-as-John-Robertson-warns-suitors-off-Ross-Draper-13072017.htm

Seems to be a fair few rumours around that Raven is set to leave so perhaps it's him.

I'm thinking more than likely it'll be Aaron, Given he's hardly played the last 2 seasons due to injury. Plus he'll more than likely be one of the big earners given the length of time he's been with the club and the length of the last contract signed. 

Wasn't there, as  was working but watched on BTsport 

5 points has to go to Owain, best performance he's ever had for us

3 to Drape's for his as usual hard work in the middle of the pitch and attacks

1 is hard as I want to give it to both King and Fish for the goals, but will give it to Fisher as it was his first for the club and after injury

Ref gets 2 cause how he missed the blatant foul on King near the start and then not sending the sviatchenko off or at least giving a pen is inexcusable

Then giving yellow cards to our players for fouls that celtic never got book for is bewildering. he would of got only 1 point. but he did have the decency to at least give Brown a yellow card

BBC is saying McNaughton's season is over as he had surgery on an achilles injury

Just now, CaleyCanary said:

I quite like the look of the revamped Challenge (Irn-Bru) Cup, and the inclusion of the Welsh and Irish teams later will be very interesting.

Along with the new look League Cup, it's a bold move by the SPFL to freshen up the formats. I'm now looking forward to their next step forward to regenerate fan interest - a league restructure with a 16-team premiership!

And both the ugly sisters relegated to the lowland leagues for 50 years? (We can but dream) haha

Maybe a bit left field and risky, but with our reputation for finding gems. I see that striker connor gethin has left Nairn county

Hasn't got a bad record of 173 goals in 178 games, Abet against highland league opposition, but still a pretty decent return and with some pre-season and guidance

he may be the next billy? Plus as coming from lower leagues, probably wouldn't break the bank on wages

I'm seeing hibs have agreed to let malonga leave. Would it maybe be worth taking a punt and seeing if he wasnt to come north?

Looking at his stats, he could be just the person we need to play just behind/in front or along side Miles. Has quite a few goals in him and at least he's match fit having played 22 games for torquay this season. Also it seems he's trained at the glenn hoddle academy. Quite a few decent players have come through there, ikechi anya is instantly one that springs to mind

Only 1 more goal to go till we hit the target :)

GGGOOOOOAAAAAALLLL      2-0  Vincent :)

They havent gone near St Johnstone tho? Only kneecapped 3rd and 5th places

Hope the new offer from Septic isnt as disrepectful one like the 500 grand which even Yogi said wasnt good enough

And hope getting him back on loan for the season was still part of the deal, But all the best to him even though he should have held out for an offer

from south of the border.

Does seem like we're getting humped and out played all over the place. But at least it seems as if we have been creating some chances

After watching his performance tonight we dont need to bring in another striker. Already have one all yogi has to do is get calum ferguson playing more first team games

Not long home from the game and can comfirm we won 3-2 and calum did grab a couple of goals and looked hungry for a lot more as well

Hope yogi bloods him in first team a lot this season cause he looks like the striker we're in dire need of

I know it was against an amatuer team, but some good football was played and good to see big dunc trying to put yogi's passing game into the youth team

Looks like a couple of them could go on to be future shinnie/christie's

Jason Brown looks like he could be a good stand in for gaz or his natural replacement. Did well at controlling the game from the back and was very vocal at organising the team when halkirk tried to mount attacks

Both halkirk goals game from set peices, deflection from a free kick and a penalty. Where as 2 of where from open play, Both calum's were headers, one from a corner and over from a cross, not sure who scored out 2nd but it did go in off the post

BBC is reporting that he was taken to raigmore with an serious ankle injury. So looks like he's out for a few weeks unfortunately :(

will probably be tansey or drapes

Those officials are feckin shocking tonight. That was a stonewaller on ryan any day of the week

No way was that a free kick and yellow card to raven. Hardly touched the guy. But where was the free kick and yellow for the knee into wee ryans back?