Robert

After the debacle of the farcical and rightly withdrawn Conference League proposal (as an aside I’m not aware that Caley Thistle ever stated their view on it), Rangers have spat the dummy out and withdrawn their colts from the Lowland League: https://www.rangers.co.uk/Article/club-statement-scottish-lowland-football-league/6jLBPpT4G4BgTju0QQfL7X

They haven’t quoted what the prices will be after 3 July when the loyalty and early bird discounts end so we can’t calculate what the discount is.

Marley Watkins released by Aberdeen. They also hope to buy Graeme Shinnie from Wigan for a 6 figure sum.

Prices released including loyalty and early bird discounts: https://ictfc.com/2023-24-season-tickets-info/

A belated announcement about Cairns, Hennem and Thompson: https://ictfc.com/three-academy-graduates-agree-new-deals/

This was released earlier: https://ictfc.com/ceo-update-13-06-2023/ Some hints about forthcoming announcements. Anyone know anything?

Devine has a “conditional second year” whatever that means. The league we are in? Appearances in the 23/24 season?

I think he’s from that area as he started with Blackpool as a kid and was at AFC Fylde before joining us. Hopefully he is under contact for next season but if Fleetwood are sniffing around he may not be, although that would be strange as noted earlier in the thread given he’s on neither the list being spoken to about new contracts or the list of those released.

This is what the club said when he signed: https://ictfc.com/nathan-shaw-signs-for-ictfc/ Normally if the deal is more than one year (eg Delaney or Ram) they give the number of years, but they didn’t for Shaw, so we don’t know his situation.

I didn’t pick up on that bit of your post Gringo until I saw Jock’s post. It will be a sad day if you decide to stop doing this!

Thank you for all the work you put into this. I am sure all of us appreciate it. Just waiting to see who the CTO Player of the Year is.

Unclear whether his contract expires this year or next. Hopefully next!!

An unseemly end to Shane’s time with us regardless of the rights and wrongs. The process the club has outlined is the correct one and if the followed it then it may be that Shane misunderstood the initial e-mail. It sounds like it is a standard template issued by the governing body and, if so, it ought not to be deviated from. I suspect we will never know what happened but it adds to the general concerns many have. Reading the list of those offered deals, I’m confused at the Billy Mckay situation as it sounds like he can stay if he wishes to exercise the option in his contract. Do other posts above indicate that the club is trying to change those terms in some way? I hope not. I hope those also being offered deals accept them and that we do have Shaw tied up for next season. Im surprised if we are letting Cammy MacKay go though.

Given we’ve announced the departures of Deas, Boyd and Woods, does that mean that talks are ongoing with the others that are out of contract, but that no deals have been concluded yet? If so, there is hope that we can retain the likes of Allardice, Devine, Mckay and Shaw.

The extension was, in my opinion, inevitable if Dodds wanted to stay. Now is the time to get behind him and whoever is in our squad as the decision is made. We need to hit the ground running after what will be a short break compared to most of our rivals due to our cup run. Clarity on Robbo’s situation would be welcome.

Congratulations Gringo and thanks for doing this again.

So has another of our youth team, goalie Lewis Munro. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/highland-league/5815117/nairn-county-swoop-for-caley-thistle-duo/

It is good that Duffy is staying. He’s come on a lot in his time with us, both when playing full back and centre half. For me, he should get a run at right back to let Carson be influential in midfield, but I suppose it will depend on our squad next season, particularly on whether we still have Allardice and Devine.

I am sorry to see Deas move on but it was inevitable and I was surprised we still had him this season. He goes with my best wishes, except for any game he has against us! I think Delaney was signed last summer as insurance in case we needed to replace him then so it will be interesting to see what moves we make once the overall position with the squad is clearer. Looking at those out of contract, I hope we can retain Allardice, Devine, Duffy, Mckay and Shaw, plus all the youngsters and agree with Satan that we get the youngsters tied up on long contracts if possible. Doran is a tricky one, as he’s been a tremendous servant but it looks like his best years are behind him. Sutherland and Walsh are also tricky. We stood by them and hopefully they are close to fitness. Sutherland was excellent most of last season whilst we only saw glimpses of Walsh. On balance, I’d offer Sutherland a new deal.

Anyway it’s in the past. Each to their own! I can recommend a good therapist for bdu!! The group I was with had a great weekend in Glasgow. It would have been great to win but the guys performed well and can hold their heads very high.

Seems bdu found it funny!!

I make no apologies for this post. You should be really ashamed of yourself. When Celtic scored their third, a numpty a few rows in front of me celebrated. That provoked an angry reaction from our fans with kids caught up in the ensuing scenes before a Steward ejected the numpty. He was punched by one of our fans and credit to the female steward who stopped a brawl resulting. Goodness knows what that could have led to. I don’t know if the idiot involved had a ticket you wrongly sold on or not, but it wrecked a big day for many youngsters and you really need to grow up and realise your actions have consequences. Rant over but I hope you know your head should be hanging in shame.

Proud of all 16 who played today. We all feared a beating but to be only 2-1 down going into stoppage time must have exceeded all our expectations. Celtic are a class or two above us in terms of skill, pace and performance, but we did better than many top league teams have done against them. I think the formation was right and we hoped to keep them out for as long as possible and catch them on the break. It wasn’t to be, but it would have been a surprise to us all if we had won. I thought anything better than 4-0 would be good and we did a damn sight better than that. A shout out for the singing section and our fans overall: you also did us proud. A good day out, despite the result, and as I said above I’m proud of the team.

Came down yesterday afternoon. Spent the evening in an Irish bar which was good but strangely quiet despite having music on. Just at chucking out time a rendition of “stand up for the Caley Jags” started from the far end from where we were. No idea who as they were leaving at the time but great to hear! To the day itself, safe journey to all those travelling and hopefully our guys spring a major surprise and we upset the odds again! I didn’t see the P&J but have been sent this link which may be of interest if you didn’t see the paper itself: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC&edid=26059f04-a62b-4303-b4ba-127eec60c8e8 Come on ICT!!

We could be looking at Highland derbies next season, but I’m worried that Partick will rue not finishing that off tonight. It’s not a done deal by any means. Kris Doolan has had 18 games in charge at Partick and only one defeat….. to us!