Robert

Dates have been announced for our three postponed games (to date) to take place: 27 and 30 January (Morton away and Queen if the South at home) and 3 February (Arbroath away): https://ictfc.com/rearranged-championship-matches No word on when / if the Buckie game will take place and we may, of course, also need a date for playing Raith if Saturday’s game does get called off. I can’t help but wonder how long it will be until the Championship gets suspended, though.

Good to see that, despite everything, the club is still securing support from businesses. I love the comment below the club’s tweet too about the club having new coaches!

All five Championship games tomorrow were postponed after the cup postponements at the weekend. It looks like none of them have been rearranged so we now have three league games and at least one cup game to catch up on assuming our league does not get suspended. 30 January could now be used for a full round of games.

Interesting statement from Hibs. Their request seems very reasonable and sensible to me. More to come on this I suspect. Hopefully no Hibs players contract it as a result of tonight’s game going ahead. https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/club-statement-1

The arrogance of Celtic in letting the trip go ahead last week defies belief. I agree that playing the game with a weakened side means they have got off lightly, and what confidence can there be that there are not other players who should be isolating given they were all together last week in Dubai? They should have points deducted and given a large fine that can be used to let lower league teams pay for their testing.

Doubt it can be rearranged that quickly particularly as weekly tests now required at Championship level.

Well it wasn’t to be but 5-0 was not a disgrace. Great to hear him described as “excellent” by Dion Dublin after he was subbed. I wonder if that will be his last game given the league he is in is being suspended and may be voided. If it is, quite a game to end with!

He’s in the starting line up, and I really hope he has a great game. Kane is not in the Spurs squad whilst Son and Bale are subs.

Looking at the ties and IF we beat Buckie, there is no reason why we should not be on TV as there are no ties that are real stand outs, the closest being Rangers against Cove. As it will be Yogi against the team he won the cup with, that adds to the story.

Over the next few years the pyramid system could see some decent teams join the league, such as Kelty and Bonnyrigg. Add that to Cove emerging and Queens Park investing to progress, some established teams will suffer. We need to ensure we are not one of those teams that drops down as a result.

Dundee’s game tonight should be used to ensure we are not complacent on Tuesday (if it goes ahead then) as they only got to extra time with a stoppage time equaliser and Bonnyrigg led again in extra time. I didn’t watch it but was hoping when I checked the scores that Dundee would have lost.

Nathan Austin scored the opener for Kelty in the cup against Stranraer tonight. Despite being two up early on, they lost 3-2.

Not surprisingly there is a pitch inspection in the morning. Mckay and Carson are suspended, with Doran, McHattie and Toshney all out injured. The latter two are back in training but are several weeks away from being able to play. The club preview is at: https://ictfc.com/match-preview-buckie-thistle-a

Graham Alexander confirmed as the new Motherwell Manager.

He will be able staying at home and travel to Kirkcaldy, which would be deemed an essential work journey. I think he will only be allowed to train with Raith as otherwise he would be in two professional sport bubbles. Up here he was staying on his own according to the link below and would have not been legally allowed to travel back to his family. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/18989870.amp/

Charlie Christie will be in the dug out on Saturday as two coaches and a senior member of staff are isolating. No details as to who they are but they must include some of Kellacher, Wilson and Esson. Hopefully none of them have the virus. No players affected. Christie has been helping Robbo with the training. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/three-self-isolating-at-ict-223973/

Just seen this on the club website. Given he is only 18, very understandable. https://ictfc.com/kai-kennedys-loan-period-ends

He’s definitely left us and media speculation is as stated above regarding him going to Raith: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/6494462/rangers-kai-kennedy-new-deal-raith-loan/amp/ I’m looking forward to seeing Mackay hopefully make a positive impact.

The kick off time for next Tuesday’s game has been changed to 1830.

Really sad and tragic news. All our thoughts are with his family. His books, Going Ballistic and Milestones and Memories, are even more poignant now, but mean that Ian and all the great work he did over many years will never be forgotten by the club and fans. https://ictfc.com/inverness-caledonian-thistle-fc-mourns-death-of-club-historian

Just looked to see the latest scores in tonight’s games. Dundee 2 up on Hearts after 36 minutes.....,

Ross Draper for County and Rory McAllister for Cove are two from today.

I can’t see Robbo being interested, as he lives locally and only got back into management because we approached him. You never know, though. Perhaps the lure of managing Jordan White again will make it irresistible for him!!

Disappointing another game is off, but Ayr losing to Queen of the South and Morton drawing with Alloa are bonuses for us. That said, we cannot be complacent when Queens are here on 12 January as they have beaten Raith and Ayr in their last two games and are now only two points behind us.

Aaron Doran our for at least two weeks with concussion after the knock he got on Tuesday: https://ictfc.com/match-preview-arbroath-a-02-01-2021 Meanwhile a good deal on merchandise from the club. My wife did some shopping for my Christmas at the shop and came back with a 25th anniversary scarf, hat, jumper and polo shirt. All seem good quality with the logo on the jumper very subtle: https://ictfc.com/free-shipping-until-january-18th-2021