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Inverness CT -V- St Johnstone - Premiership Play-Off


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8 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

We are all disappointed most of us think it unfair but the club has embarrassed itself with that statement.

Not at all professional.

Emotions are running high, but why should we let them walk all over us without replying. 

What else could we say? Rightyo chaps, Danny is out, let's get on with it.

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I have no problem with the last paragraph frankly. How many times have clubs - not just our club - had ridiculous decisions imposed on them or reasonable appeals rejected unless you have one of the larger support bases ! It may not be right, but there are too many examples to say it is not true. 

Willie Collum has been an incompetent and notorious whistler for years as have many of his colleagues but there is ZERO accountability within referee circles ... FFS even at amateur level you cant question referee decisions. I sat on the committee of the Inverness Amateur association for years and the instruction we got from Glasgow was that the referee report is sacrosanct. It is unquestionable, regardless of what others, multiple others, might say (even when that report is known to be fabricated) and that pervades right to today all the way up the chain to the top. It is one reason why, on the whole, we still have such bad referees. Good referees get jaded or lost in the mix with all the dross, and of course the headlines all go to wallopers like Collum who revel in it and have no repercussions for their self-serving narcissistic tendencies .. and because he is a headliner, then he must be our top guy in organisers eyes .. no he is not the top guy, he is an embarrassment to Scottish football and to the referees association. 

Same with the suits at whatever acronym association you want to quote. Like referees there may a few good ones that come into the association as club reps or as workers over the years but once again, they get jaded or lost in the mix and its the self preservation society and the wallopers that rise to the top. We have played around at changing the names or acronyms every few years but until there is root and branch change - which will NEVER happen - its just shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic. 

So come Friday, yes Danny is out, so lets get on with it. We have turned outrage into motivation before, we can do it again. Lets not get mad, lets get even! The best medicine for these incompetents is for Caley Thistle to do what they do best and upset the applecart when the odds are against us. Anecdotally, Stevie Paterson put the newspaper with the 18-1 odds on his whiteboard in his team talk on Feb 8th 2000 and used that to fire up the team ... a picture of Collum or the letter from the appeals committee might just do the trick on Friday (hopefully).

 

 

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2 hours ago, RiG said:

The end of the statement is utterly embarrassing. I appreciate emotions are running high but the final few lines are absolute drivel.

Disagree.  It is the perfect follow-up to what I had said without having read the club's statement: "Every player, manager, coach and everyone else associated with a club tries their hardest and does their best.  But some self-important clown with a whistle ruins everything, safe in the knowledge that his chums will back him up.  That's when everyone must ask "What's the point?".

To which a very appropriate response is: "The Management, the Players, the Staff and just as importantly, the Caley Jag support will now need to pull together over the next two crucial games ....".

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They’ve made some  shambolic decisions but this must top the lot ……Ok boys you dug in last Fri. with 8 men and came out on top so go out there and show them what you’re capable of .We are all behind you .It was always obvious no referee ever wanted us in the premiership when we were in it .Beats me what they looked at there’s not one pundit who I heard on TV or radio could believe his decision .Sorry about the rant but I’m so angry .
C’MON. CALEY THISTLE YOU CAN DO IT …. Willie Collums day will come 😡😡😡

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15 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Disagree.  It is the perfect follow-up to what I had said without having read the club's statement: "Every player, manager, coach and everyone else associated with a club tries their hardest and does their best.  But some self-important clown with a whistle ruins everything, safe in the knowledge that his chums will back him up.  That's when everyone must ask "What's the point?".

To which a very appropriate response is: "The Management, the Players, the Staff and just as importantly, the Caley Jag support will now need to pull together over the next two crucial games ....".

The statement would have been better ended with something along those lines rather than a few lines of drivel that could easily have included a few Great Britain flag emojis as part of it.

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34 minutes ago, bughtmaster said:

Absolutely nothing wrong with our Club statement. Another unjust  SPL decision....  Collum should admit he was wrong but he hasn't got the guts.

*screams into the void* 

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4 hours ago, izzy said:

They’ve made some  shambolic decisions but this must top the lot ……Ok boys you dug in last Fri. with 8 men and came out on top so go out there and show them what you’re capable of .We are all behind you .It was always obvious no referee ever wanted us in the premiership when we were in it .Beats me what they looked at there’s not one pundit who I heard on TV or radio could believe his decision .Sorry about the rant but I’m so angry .
C’MON. CALEY THISTLE YOU CAN DO IT …. Willie Collums day will come 😡😡😡

I was just about to add my twopennyworth, to the red card fiasco, but Izzy, you have taken the words out of my mouth. Well said! 

Our boys seem to triumph in adversity, and so use this lads to give you the strength to battle out a win on Friday. We'll be right behind you - We believe.

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The sending off was wrong.

The appeal decision was wrong.

The statement is spot on. It is designed to motivate everyone, on the park and in the stadium, to ensure justice is done by doing everything possible to secure promotion.

We now need to put this behind us and focus on the final.

By my reckoning, given the injuries and suspensions, we will only have 15 players available, so there are few decisions to be made about our starting line up unless we have any miraculous recoveries.

The interesting bit will be who the front 4 are. I’d go with:

Ridgers

Carson Broadfoot Deas Harper

Welsh McAlear

Samuels Doran Chalmers

Mckay

with MacKay, Allardice, Hyde and Hardy on the bench. 

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Over the almost 3 decades now since we were formed we have got many things right.

We have often got the playing side right, we have, by and large, got the financial management right, usually with limited resources. However, in my opinion, we have never managed to get the media and communications side of things right.

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4 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Over the almost 3 decades now since we were formed we have got many things right.

We have often got the playing side right, we have, by and large, got the financial management right, usually with limited resources. However, in my opinion, we have never managed to get the media and communications side of things right.

Even with a communications man on the board?

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10 hours ago, Robert said:

The sending off was wrong.

The appeal decision was wrong.

The statement is spot on. It is designed to motivate everyone, on the park and in the stadium, to ensure justice is done by doing everything possible to secure promotion.

We now need to put this behind us and focus on the final.

By my reckoning, given the injuries and suspensions, we will only have 15 players available, so there are few decisions to be made about our starting line up unless we have any miraculous recoveries.

The interesting bit will be who the front 4 are. I’d go with:

Ridgers

Carson Broadfoot Deas Harper

Welsh McAlear

Samuels Doran Chalmers

Mckay

with MacKay, Allardice, Hyde and Hardy on the bench. 

In addition to Hyde there might be a couple of youngsters to put on the bench we might need them. 

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Gordy is a lovely guy, but he's a total dinosaur and (as with our CEO) a dyed in the wool blue nose.

It's not surprising our comms have got so cringeworthy and our social media so bland and generic.

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Anyone travelling to using public transport might want to check the "temporary" timetable from Scotrail as you may not be able to get back home after the game due to a number of train services being cancelled.

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3 hours ago, RiG said:

Anyone travelling to using public transport might want to check the "temporary" timetable from Scotrail as you may not be able to get back home after the game due to a number of train services being cancelled.

Maybe the missing Scotrail staff will be back from Seville by tomorrow.

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If only we'd had a bit more time between the matches then everyone would have forgotten about the performance and been encouraged to attend based solely on their memory of the result.

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