Super Caley Man 94

5 hours ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Did the players make more of an effort last night as it was on TV?

Putting themselves in the shop window for 24/25? 

Wanting to get a Championship club for next season, as opposed to being in League 1? 

None of our team are good enough for getting interest from a Premiership club.

Sadly, given Doran's reaction I think that's his last game for ICT. 

Considering 8 of our players at full time were loan players I don't think they'll be too concerned about playing in League 1. 

Back to back wins has given players a much needed boost the players are finally gelling together. Big Dunc has actually got a couple of things right tactics wise ️ can't believe I'm actually saying this but the team seem to be turning things round whether it's too late remains to be seen. 

If we do fall into the play offs I can't see Alloa, Cove or Montrose beating us now. Hamilton is a concern but i reckon we have enough to see them off.

Tough season for every ICT fan & I get the frustrations & skepticism but back the team & manager, let's see what happens before we start having nightmares about League 1

On 3/14/2024 at 12:46 PM, STFU said:

I think the right decision was made, but it saddens me that it carries with it such dire consequences for ICTFC.

We need to keep in mind that it is not the Highland Council that put ICTFC into the financial position it finds itself, and it would be a dereliction of duty for the planning to have been passed on that basis.

It's time that our CEO, Chairman and Board showed some accountability instead of resorting to the victim mentality we've been subjected to from them the last few years.

They chose to continue spending beyond the clubs means to chase promotion back the Premier League, have failed to achieve that, and have pinned our future on a series of failed initiatives.

Enough is enough.

Not many fans are disputing that the board have messed up financially chasing a return to the Premiership. But to say that was the "right decision" yesterday is a load of crap. The club had the application accepted under legal circumstances then the Highland Council took it away from the club cause they didn't like the outcome. No legit reason to refuse the applications. The club has been shafted & if you're siding with the council & still calling yourself a "fan" then you need to give your head a shake. Wether you love, like, or hate the board this absolutely stinks. 

23 hours ago, STFU said:

This idea that everyone should support the club at all costs is the kind of knuckle dragging mentality mostly exhibited by fans of the OF.

A lot of fans backing the club on this have been very vocal about the board & how they are running the club but majority of us can see that this was actually a great idea for once to generate income.

23 hours ago, STFU said:

Being overdeveloped is even more reason to protect the green space, is it not?

We live in the Highlands there's loads of green space! It's filled with dog crap & long grass it's hardly worth protecting. The battery farm would've been so much more useful & beneficial then a few acres of long grass. 

Majority of the green space would've remained anyway you can still walk your dog etc. Plenty of places people could've went to get their nature fix if the battery farm put them off that much 

On 1/19/2024 at 5:10 PM, Yngwie said:

Can’t believe we are even talking about this 6 months after the kit launch, but our current away kit looks nothing like those Rangers ones you posted (apart from the sleeves), and doesn’t it actually have more red than orange?!

Sorry man but I have to strongly disagree it's a carbon copy of the Rangers orange kit anyone who says otherwise needs to go to specsavers.

We haven't released a Orange kit in over 20 years n the last one had no blue in it. Looked more like Dundee Utd & that was the only one we ever did. 

Why after 20 years have we decided to release a Orange & blue kit??? It's baffling

Everyone I have shown the away kit to has said it looks like Rangers not ICT that's very important 

Never had that with any of our kits. The clubs identity is important to me so that's why it annoys me. 

Our away kit last season was so popular they've re released this season as a third kit. This kit on the other hand will be on a half price deal soon in a desperate bid to get rid of them all cause no one is buying them

On 1/16/2024 at 9:29 PM, ICTPaisley said:

It’s not even our first orange kit

Aye & it looked nothing like Rangers see if we did something similar this season it would've been absolutely fine it's the blue tints that ruin it. 

Walk through any Scottish Town or City with our away kit on say under a hoodie or a jacket don't show the Caley badge & watch how many people assume that you're wearing a Rangers top... 

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On 1/16/2024 at 5:34 PM, MacOne said:

Aye nothing less family friendly than orange.  You are aligning the club with that nonsense, along with one or two others. Anyone would think you had an agenda.

• Blackpool play in tangerine – a tone of orange – shirts and white shorts, with their socks combining both colours.
• Brisbane Roar play in orange shirts – with black diagonal shoulders with a thin, white line under the black – black shorts and orange with black banded socks.
• Dundee United rock tangerine shirts, black shorts and tangerine with black banded socks.
• Houston Dynamo don all-orange kits, with black designs on the necks, arms and sides of the jerseys.
• Hull City play in black and amber (yellow and orange) striped shirts, black shorts and black and amber socks.
• Istanbul Basaksehir FK play in orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Lorient wear orange shirts, with a diamond checker pattern with a subtle wave pattern applied, black shorts and white socks.
• Luton Town play in orange shirts, with white and blue on the trims, blue shorts and orange socks.
• Montpellier play in predominant navy and less conspicuous orange shirts and socks, accompanied by navy blue shorts.
• Shakhtar Donetsk rock orange shirts and socks with thin stripes, with black shorts to match.

On the international scene, only two popular countries are among the football teams that play in orange kits

• Ivory Coast play in all-orange kits, with a touch of green on the shoulders.
• Netherlands rock bright orange shirts, shorts and socks, with black designs on them.

 

Not one of those kits look like Rangers orange kits though that's the issue..... see if we just did an orange kit with no blue, it would've been fine. Black or white would've been a perfect 2nd colour. We had no issue not having blue colours on our away stripes before last season being a prime example with Black & Red. So why did we decide to do orange & blue??? Sorry but it doesn't take a genius to work it out when you know Scott Gardiner is a bluenose. Probably trying to build some affiliation so the glory hunting Rangers fans turn up for the odd game.... 

1 hour ago, Scotty said:

If true, would be interesting to know on what basis. 

 

I honestly don't have a clue why. They were far less negative about the club then a lot of fans to the point they were accused of "kissing a**" so to hear that they've been banned from speaking to players n staff is quite surprising.... even some members of the pod don't know why. So I'd imagine only Moffat n Stevie know the reason.... 

Thought it was a bit odd this season that they hadn't had any players or staff on for interviews cause they normally have at least one player or staff member on for a interview. They even had our performance analyst on one episode.

On the Christmas podcast they mentioned after the interview with Billy Dodds that it would be pretty much impossible to speak to Big Dunc so that raised a few eyebrows. They even spoke to Deas cause he's obviously a former player. Now it's come out that they are actually banned from speaking to anyone from the club! Which is just madness and the decision was purely down to Gardiner. 

Just an appalling way to treat your fans especially the guys at the podcast who devote a lot of time, money & effort into the club. 

Just found out he's banned the Wyness Shuffle Podcast from speaking to any players or members of staff that's why they haven't spoken to anyone from the club this season. Absolutely no clue as to why. Baffling decision! Can this guy be anymore of a d***head!? 

3 hours ago, robbo1985 said:

In my opinion the only reason David Wotherspoon is not playing in the (Scottish) Premiership this year is that he has lost a bit of pace and sharpness required at that level.  It is clear he is still a very intelligent and classy football player.  He was instrumental in dragging us out of the hole we were in (which hopefully we are not slowly sliding back into) and increasing the performance levels of other players around about him.

Should the move to Dundee Utd materialise, he will almost undoubtedly be on higher wages, with a high probability of winning another medal and (I would imagine) closer to family and he will go with my best wishes!

Hopefully we can uncover an unlikely gem to fill his boots in the second half of the season.  I'd say prior to his arrival Keith Bray was our most promising player of the season....would like to see him getting more game time in the next few months.

Looking at the table, can't help but feeling what an opportunity this season was/is to at least make the play-offs.  Even despite our horrendous start to the season and our recent poor run of results, we are still not that far away from 4th position.  I don't want to give up all hope of Highland Derby play-off final just yet!....

 

 

Aye if it wasn't for that horrendous start to the campaign we'd be right in that top 4 or thereabouts 

2 hours ago, Oferesbumfiddle said:

My god Welsh is pony can’t believe he was our club captain. Him and Delaney were absolutely dire

Bet harsh on Welsh he has spent a long time injured this season. Delaney has no excuse apart from match sharpness so totally agree with you on that 

I think it's clear after today our sqaud depth is poor if we have too many first team injuries this season we will struggle.. 

3 hours ago, Douglas Mackenzie said:

Dreadul watch and I thought our front two in the first 70 were very poor.

Id say we got out of Jail.

Brooks was OK still very young and needs to develop before we see the player he can be. Sheridan on the other hand was poor had a clear cut chance and he pulled the trigger way too late. In all fairness the service from midfield wasn't the best

End of the day he took a wage that none of us would've turned down. Can't hate him for that. If the BBC was offering him more wages to be at Dingwall every 2nd Saturday then in all seriousness I can't blame him for that either! You look after number one. It's just a shame that it came out of the clubs pocket but that's our Chairmans  and CEOs fault not Robbos. I honestly wish him all best and hopefully we can put his wages to better use. He's still a club legend to me and I still appreciate all the work he's done for the club and the community as a whole. 

Great win today against the in form team of the league. We were actually ruthless for a change and took the chances given to us can't help but feel a few weeks ago we would've lost or drawn that. Actually playing from the back and we looked threatening again going forward. Seems Ferguson has made an impact already. I'm praying that it continues. 

Only issue i have which has been our main issue this season we still can't hold onto a lead..... lucky that we scored 3 or that would've been likely more points dropped. Big Duncs park the bus tactics let us down a bit in the 2nd half along with our subs. 

Nevermind we got our first league win of the season! And we should savour it next few weeks is massive for us. Partick Thistle at home then Morton away if we get at least 3 points I'll be happy 4-6 points would be just the ticket 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/11252717/inverness-caledonian-thistle-billy-dodds-darren-odea-celtic/

Best we played all season to be fair but as per usual we can't score and we keep letting in cheap goals at crucial moments in the game cause we have a leaky defence. Just a recipe for disaster..... we could've literally been 2-0 up by HT but our quality in the final third is so poor... for a coach who used be a striker his players aren't the best at finishing. 

3 hours ago, Yngwie said:

Gotta disagree with that. We should play our strongest team in league and Scottish Cup matches. This diddy cup is the ideal opportunity to rest some players who play every other match, and more importantly give fringe players and youngsters some experience and a chance to show what they can do in a competitive game. If you can’t do that in this fixture, when can you do it?

Some of the squad players took their chance, and in the highlights Cammy stood out in particular.

Can't say I agree with that statement we needed to win this game. This cup was a good chance to lift morale and get confidence in players just like we did back in 2018. Its still a Semi Major cup not a total diddy like the "Inverness Cup" some seasons aye we can treat it with less priority but this season I just felt we really needed to go for it

Let's face brutal reality We're not reaching another Scottish Cup or a League Cup final anytime soon. So I say just go for the Challenge Cup give the fans a day out to look forward to in March. Give the fans and players a distraction from the league. A win yesterday with a strong sqaud would've given them that winning feeling that they will be craving right now. 

Our only chance of silverware and success this season gone. Also a great chance to lift some heads.  People forget what the cup win in 2018 did for the teams morale and confidence after an horrendous start the season. This team badly needs something to hold onto and we've chucked it away. No way will we reach the later stages the Scottish Cup unless the draw is kind to us. 

Reaching the final would've also given fans something to cheer about a day out to look forward to instead it's complete focus on what will be a long league campaign . 

Regardless of how serious this competition gets treated by the fans, board and management we can all agree that getting knocked out of the Challenge Cup in September is not good .... 

Enough with the conspiracy theories ffs. We are where we are now because we had to pay off 2 managers one of which was on a 4 year contract. We've spent 6 years in the Championship and it's finally starting to catch up to us it's as simple as that. Not to forget that along with many other clubs in Scotland Covid-19 was a massive financial setback. Setbacks that are still affecting us to this day. 

A few parties are to blame for where we are now the board, the management the players, even the people of Inverness who just don't care about ICT they'd rather support Celtic, Rangers or Aberdeen. 

It sucks but it is what it is.... you're either gonna be supporting the club through thick & thin or you're gonna walk away after a while. I'll support ICT till I die even if we're in the Highland League.

24 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

The BBC stats reckon that possession is about 50-50, and that we have had 9 shots to their 4 

That's literally been how our last few games have went the opposition dominate in some periods during which we concede a poor goal then we dominate rest of game missing chance after chance..... 

4 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

Don't know what's up with Doran, he wasn't in the team photo at Clach and he was getting into his car as we left the ground right after the game, so he was out before the team had left the field with the cup.

Probably pissed off that's he's not starting games and players like Lois Longstaff are getting the nod ahead of him so he's been reduced to playing in glorified friendlies to keep him fit.

******* hell... not good  

They have to sit in the West Stand because they're not welcome in the North Stand without having to sit like mice too many fans in the North and Main Stand complain about the noise, language behaviour etc. I don't think they want to be sitting in the most exposed section of the stadium but they literally have no choice. Club has been promising them this roof for a while now. 

4 hours ago, ICTPAISLEY said:

Yes that’s why I gave him a funny emoji, just letting my opinion out that the west roof is stupid. 

Gotta give the young team some cover. West Stand would look so much better with a roof as well. Yes it's hardly our number one priority and some might argue that it is stupid but they have been promising that certain section of our support a roof for months now. Not a good look that in January 2023 the club are nowhere near to fulfilling that promise. 

On 1/21/2023 at 6:07 AM, Jaggernaut said:

I heard the same rumour going around in the main stand. Nobody I talked to seems to have heard anything about the extent of the injury he is supposed to have.

According to Scott Gardiner on the Wyness Shuffle it's a rare Injury due to the result of the ball hiting him too hard unexpectedly. This was back in November he said this and I really hope that's the case and he's not trying to cover up  any turmoil in the dressing room....