Happy Birthday

[GaidhealtachdDosser]

From nappies to top fight League leaders in 20yrs ----- not bad going  

 

 

SIWY

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Oh my GAWD - not another Merger thread. Well there is no Hopeman. Taxi fer this newbie.To Minsk preferably.

[caley100]

Not quite 20 yet, this time 20 years ago there was still a lot of fighting going on! but thanks anyway

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

What was all the fiting about ?

[caley100]

Fieteen to get served first at half time in the Muirtown!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Oh dear Oh dear you will upset the Fools from the Hill !!

[old caley girl]

Dunno where this has come from but we are not 20 yet!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Born in Muvversmell and working in Morayshire - what would you expect !!

[Alex MacLeod]

Is this Moray Dosser full of big pies I wonder?

[GaidhealtachdDosser]

Dunno where this has come from but we are not 20 yet!

Heard it on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, and there was an interview with Charlie Christie on same at lunchtime. Thistle voted 33-12 while Caley voted 55-50 apparently. 

 

Born in Muvversmell and working in Morayshire - what would you expect !!

Born in Lanark if you please    and working in Inverness        But I appreciate the diplomacy my old friend 

[old caley girl]

Dunno where this has come from but we are not 20 yet!

Heard it on BBC Radio Scotland this morning, and there was an interview with Charlie Christie on same at lunchtime. Thistle voted 33-12 while Caley voted 55-50 apparently. 

 

Born in Muvversmell and working in Morayshire - what would you expect !!

Born in Lanark if you please    and working in Inverness        But I appreciate the diplomacy my old friend 

Yes I know. I attended the Caley meeting. Personally I would think the first game or registering of the merged club would be our birthday.

[+bughtmaster]

How many birthdays can you have ? 

 

No matter,  We at this moment in time are the best team in Scotland just twenty years on so who cares.

 

Congratulations to all at ICT,  management, players and all concerned at ICT including supporters both positive and negative    :ictscarf:

[+standbydave]

To the IHE, there is a Hopeman and they mind on you as well!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Tell us more about that meeting OCG.

[old caley girl]

Tell us more about that meeting OCG.

Johndo you can catch Nicola MacAlleys piece on the stv news last night on the stv player. Won't let me post link sorry! You can even catch a glimpse of me standing at the tunnel at Telford St! This is a much more balanced piece than the bbc one IMO (sorry Charles)

[lukemackay]

still hurts to this day!

[Scotty]

The 20th birthday of the club will - in my mind - be the date when ICTFC (or CTFC then) were accepted into the league as an entity, or the date we signed all relevant paperwork to 'form' the club just ahead of that vote. I dont know what date that is, perhaps Charles or someone can confirm? The 20th anniversary of our first game is not our birthday, it is a milestone IMHO.

 

(incidentally the same debate rages at Toronto FC! Many places list the club as formed in 2007 when it played its first game in MLS, but I already had my season ticket number in October 2006 after the club had been accepted into MLS and had started looking at filling out the not-yet-built stadium and recruiting staff and players!) 

 

The 20th anniversary of CTO will be in June 2014 !!!

[Renegade]

I wonder if the club will do anything big for the 20th anniversary.  There wasn't much, if anything for the 10th IIRC.

[ictchris]

We're like the Queen, we have two birthdays.

[Alex MacLeod]

I wonder if the club will do anything big for the 20th anniversary.  There wasn't much, if anything for the 10th IIRC.

Think the plan may be to wait till 25th

[CaleyD]

When we were accepted into the SFL, it was on the basis of "a club yet to be formed" so we didn't actually exist (in current guise) at that time.

 

Inverness Thistle & Caledonian Football Club Ltd was incorporated on the 17th February 1994 and officially started trading on 1st June 1994.

 

As we technically came into existence on the 17th February and replaced the "club yet to be formed", I imagine that will be the date used to mark any anniversary.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

This is the anniversary of a death not a celebration of a birth.

[GaidhealtachdDosser]

Apologies for inadvertently re-opening old wounds. It certainly wasn't my intention.

 

I've never experienced a merger, (just outsourcing then redundancy  ), and hopefully never will - so I can only guess the emotions of 20yrs ago. 

 

I have to ask tho:  1. Was the merger a condition of acceptance to the SFL ?   2. Would you rather have made application individually ?  3. If yes to 2, would either Caley or Thistle be playing Premiership football right now  ?   4. What was the deciding factor in being a Caley or Thistle or Clach fan ?

Edited September 10, 2013 by GaidhealtachdDosser

[old caley girl]

1. Don't know as it was only the merged club that applied.

2. At the time yes but no now.

3.Absolutely NO

4 I grew up beside Telford St park. Taken there age 11 and it was instant love...lol

[PartTimer]

I think of yesterday as the anniversary of our conception rather than our birth. There were several months of joy and worry in between the two. And a few regrets for lost youth...