Super Caley Man 94

Oakley just hasn't been the same player since his leg break it's been clear to see, plus Dodds just used him for backup and didn't utilise him properly he will no doubt be remembered for his first stint in the Highlands where he was much better and also used a lot better. When we beat Cove 6-1 earlier this month Dodds threw on three of the youngsters (Nicolson' Cairns and Thomson) but didn't sub Oakley on i had a feeling his time was nearing an end after that. He came on for the last 10 minutes against Queens but again was rather underwhelming. I think it's safe to say Billy Mckay is our main man up front with Samuels not far behind, Daniel Mackay can also play as a striker and once Sutherland is back which could be anytime between now and March it would've been harder for Oakley to get game time so it makes sense has to why he requested a transfer and why Dodds and the club were more then happy to let him go.

Rumours have it that he has fallen out with Dodds and won't be playing for us again very similar to the Ridgers situation. Hopefully this isn't true. It is weird how he was last seen on the bench in that catastrophic game against Morton having been deemed fit again. Then all of a sudden he was nowhere to be seen on the team sheet after that. Obviously it's presumed to be a injury but of course we're none the wiser!

If rumours are to be believed we can't afford to sack Dodds we just gotta hope we survive both on and off the pitch this season and then hope the board won't renew his contract. I just can't see him resigning or coming to a mutual agreement with the board to terminate his contract. We're unfortunately stuck with him

We were dreadful last night terrible performance. Morton had 6 shots 5 on target and they scored 4 of them. We had 11 shots 2 on target and didn't convert any of our chances the first 3 goals were totally avoidable too. Only so much you can blame on injuries the players on that pitch just simply didn't give 100%. Seems to be drama happening behind closed doors which clearly is affecting morale. Like last season this could be our best chance of going back up and we're messing it up gonna be a tough few weeks if you ask me.....

11 straight games without a win if we don't beat Arbroath that'll be 3 months without a victory, 6 points from a total of 33. I can't recall us being this abysmal I was there for the Richie Foran experiment, Craig Brewster's 2nd stint in charge still in the memory. The first half of our 2017/18 season was not fun either but man this is just depressing.... When Foran and Brewster got us relegated ICT was obviously in the Premiership during those reigns. John Robertson had a tricky start on his return to ICT but in all fairness that squad was in a mess at the time. He soon turned things around and brought us good times such as a couple of good Scottish cup runs, reaching the play offs in 2018/19, A Challenge Cup victory in 2017 hell we might have won the play offs in 2020 if it wasn't for the pandemic. We certainly were in a good position to finish 2nd that season. This has to be the worst level of football we have played in a long time. This season we have crashed out of all three of the domestic cups before the new year even started!. Not even a Challenge Cup final to distract us from this painful run of form. If it wasn't for our great start to the season we would be in a relegation battle right now. If we don't sort this mess out we might as well get ready for League One in 2023/24.

Looks like the match is going ahead let's go for this! Hopefully Robbo will rotate the squad give our youth players more game time. The last 3 out of 5 winners are Premiership teams now (Rangers Livingston & County) Dundee Utd look set to go up. The cup has more prestige then fans maybe want to give it credit for. Its still a cracking wee cup for the lower league teams just a shame about the Colt teams but we can take care of that today!. My dad supports Raith Rovers so personally for me it would be very interesting to see a ICT Vs Raith final. National cups don't come often for both teams & I would love to take the cup off County & back to Inverness!

The city is full of glory hunters & people still bitter about the merger. As Terry Butcher said Inverness doesn't deserve a team like ICT. It's amazing the success we have achieved during our 25 years as a club. But does Inverness care? If it ain't the glory hunting Old Firm fans with their TV subscriptions or people still crying about a merger of two Highland League clubs that happened 25 years ago people just don't want to give ICT any respect. Baffles my brain what would fans rather have? Still going on away trips to Forres Mechanics? or away to teams like Hibs in the Scottish Cup playing in the top leagues of Scottish football. As much as I like the Highland League there is no doubt that playing in the Premiership or the Championship is miles better. ICT have done the Highlands proud it's about time we get the respect & appreciation we deserve. We should be getting four to five thousand fans with the population we have not to forget the surrounding areas. Imagine if ICT & even County were nearly selling out their grounds it would be amazing. You can only dream eh?

What a result! Thought it was pretty even throughout the whole game with both teams having to clear of the line. The wind played a huge part and It played to our advantage in the 2nd half most notably the failed clearance that led to to our goal. It was a tough gritty performance from the team & it proved that not only can we win ugly but we can do it against top sides. Trafford Carson & Welsh were great in the midfield big standout in the team for me.

Great win today the whole team played well in tough conditions. Keating's was my MOTM Carson & Trafford were close runners up they dominated the midfield. Jordan White had a decent game scoring a superb goal. Miiles Storey's pace was causing Ayr all sorts of problems on the flanks. Went on a brilliant 45 yard run to score the 2nd goal catching them on the break after another poor corner from United. James Keatings looked pissed off that Storey didn't lay it off to him? but fair play to Storey he scored. I would of been pretty pissed off if he hadn't.

"Jobbers"?? This ain't professional wrestling ?. Totally agree with you said. Just thought that was a weird word to use in football terms?

He got loaned back for what four five months? I reckon we definitely would of got a sell on clause. Would of been outrageous not to.

First half was pretty decent in my opinion especially the first 25 minutes that was when we created most of our chances could of scored a few by HT had we been more clinical. Again though we conceded when we looked comfortable. We failed to deal with a Thomson cross from the right he found Bobby Linn who got way too much time & space on the ball giving him enough power to smash it past Ridgers. Carson seemed to be the only one who tried to block it. Jordan White didn't have a good day at the office his head got on the end of about 3 decent crosses but he failed to find the back of the net. There was Good link up play between him & Vincent with the handball incident he just couldn't quite pull it off today. On another day i'm pretty sure he would of scored at least one of those chances. Doran got in a good couple of scoring positions but sometimes I thought he was trying to be too clever. He got a brilliant chance to score after a lovely pass from Keatings but took way too much time to decide where he was going to shoot. The Arbroath keeper (Jamieson) managed to come of his line & save from close range he then saved Tom Walsh's rebound which was a pretty good save to be fair. Keatings nearly scored a great goal with a bycycle kick he just needed a bit more power. It was a brilliant assist from him to Doran for the first goal that through ball was perfect & this time Doran took no time & was composed enough to score. The 2nd half was not as good we were very lucky Arbroath didn't score again. I don't know how the hell they missed that chance shortly after the whistle it was a very dangerous cross from McKenna which was begging to be smashed in the net how Spence missed that opportunity is beyond me. We didn't create as many chances as we did in the 1st half a low cross from Walsh found Doran in a great position but his shot was comfortably saved by Jamieson. A Walsh corner then found Mccart his effort was just wide. It got worse when Storey came on not his fault it was just cause Arbroath decided to play deep due to Storeys pace. We definitely play much better when teams play higher up. After that we were really struggling & looked like we were lacking ideas. Storey caused some problems & he got lucky with the goal. He did well to cut inside from the left & it was a great shot but Jamieson should of saved it with both hands the power of the shot got the better of him he won't want to see that again anytime soon...... We could of killed the game off after a decent move from the team resulted in Walsh finding Keatings his deflected shot just going wide. Good save from Mark Ridgers right on the 90th minute Donnelly managed a wee spin in the box & pulled of a shot no one saw coming apart from Ridgers good reflexes & reaction from our number one. We couldn't match our 5-2 win against Arbroath 25 years ago it was without a doubt an ugly win just scraping by in the end. Still good to get a win in the first home game of the season but we gotta do better against Dundee.

1-0 to Utd already Lawrence Shankland header. James Keating hit the post on the 2nd minute after meeting a cross from White. Seems like end to end stuff so far we just gotta make sure they don't score again or the heads will start to go down.....

That's it officially confirmed

5-2 to Fort William against Nairn County (North Cup) Jack Brown scored a 30 yard curler looks like our youth players are making a difference.

Brilliant result gives us hope in getting to the last 16. Pretty comfortable win in the end Rovers gave us a scare when they equalised but we responded really well kept our heads up & got the win we needed. Tom Walsh was MOTM & well deserved IMO. I was in the Raith Rovers end for the 1st half & some of the fans were slagging of his haircut when he was taking corners & saying he was crap reckon Walsh had the last laugh as he tore them apart. The whole team did well & did a professional job good to see White Doran Donaldson & Todorov scoring. Was a Brillant ball from Vincent to Walsh for our 3rd goal & it was a great cross from Walsh to find Doran who made no mistake as he hit the back of the net.

We scored ten penalties in a row & we still couldn't win. Pretty shocked that we actually scored that many penalties......

Not much happening in the last ten minutes looks like it will be going to penalties.......

Another save From Ridgers this time from a corner which was met by Dunlop then moments later Dunlop has a shot that just skims the bar. Not good defending by the sounds of things.......

Peterhead came close to scoring Smith showing some skill beating Donaldson cuting inside & forcing a excellent save from Ridgers. Minutes later Peterhead threaten again a driving shot from Brown forces a one handed stop from Ridgers. We then hit them on the break & Jordan White forces a one handed save from Fleming after meeting a cross from Walsh.

James Vincent hit the post with a header pretty close.

That's OFW officially gone to Hamilton Accies. He has barely played for us since 2016/17 he played like 3 games in 2017/18 while Mark Ridgers was going through a really bad period in form. His only appearances in 2018/19 was on the bench while Mark Ridgers was injured in the later stages of the season. Cammy Mackay didn't have a ridiculous appearance fee so he got put in between the sticks ahead of OFW. He wasn't the best keeper we had & certainly wasn't the worst. Pulled of some outrageous saves but then he would have horrendous blunders like that one against Dembele when we got thrashed 4-0 at home by Celtic. No one is to blame for the contract apart from the management that was in charge at the time. Anyone would have done the same if they got offered a luxury contract like that. Anyone who says otherwise is talking bollocks. It's not his fault that the situation turned into an farce GK department is a position we have a lot of depth in (Ridgers Mackay Hoban MacKinnon) I would imagine OFW's departure has given us a lot more room in the wages department. I wish him all the best for the future he seems like a pleasant guy. I'm glad he's finally found a club & has got himself out of this mess.

I never rated Storey as highly as other ICT fans he did a decent job for us don't get me wrong & he was 10x better then Dani Lopez but that was about it. I thought he would of been better suited as a winger/inside forward. He scored a belter against County so he'll always be remembered for that in my books. The move to Aberdeen was obviously a bad move for his career & he hasn't really recovered since.