Gable Endies Trip North

 

A week is a long time in the changing faces of Caley Thistle. Montrose are the visitors this weekend as news of a Savage intervention overpowered the extra sensory perceptions of fantasy that were wafting around the Caledonian Stadium as if they were going out of fashion. Not since the early days of LSD have we been subjected to such psychedelia and hallucinatory fables that we were experiencing at the moment as philanthropist or fantasist Ketamine McWannabe attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of those we once trusted to lead our club in search of the holy graill. He did manage to bluff his way through a few clowns, but sense and sensibility will now take over as the prodigal son, Alan Savage, returns to stabilise the club. The club motto is 'Pride of the Highlands'. It was about to be altered to 'Laughing Stock of the North'. But wait! There is a God afterall, his name is Savage, Alan Savage. Was it written in the stars...

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Match/Ticket Info

Savage Intervention

Supporters Trust

Forensic Audit topic on CTO

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On hearing the news, the fans turned a Whiter Shade of Pale:

We skipped the light fandango, turned some cartwheels across the floor, I was feeling kind of seasick, when the crowd called out for more. The room was humming harder, and the ceiling flew away when I called out for another drink the waiter brought a tray... 

Apologies for the lack of Football information on the preview this week. Unfortunately a lot has happened in a very short space of time and it's difficult to keep abreast of the situation as it changes everytime you log in to the laptop. What we do know is that Alan Savage will conduct a 'forensic review' of all that is concerning the club in these difficult times. Scotty has started a topic on CTO to discuss this. Scot Gardiner has been shown the door and with Alan Savage at the helm we can be assured that all will be upfront and integrity will return. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg and the deeper they dive, the more we will know about our plight. We are not out of the woods by any means, but it is the first positive step forward in what will be a long arduous trek after years of self inflicted decline from within. 

 

Last Time Out

Inverness lost out again at Annan as they did on League Cup duty when a Tommy Goss penalty was the difference between the two sides. Goss also scored the only goal in the League Cup game. A disappointing result on the back of a 1-1 draw against Dumbarton in the League opener at the Caledonian stadium. Danny Devine opening our account on half time but a resurgent Son's perked up after the break and got a deserved equaliser. Billy Mckay makes his 300th appearance for Inverness tomorrow. What a legend sitting on 112 goals. Note to Dunc. Billy is a striker, so let's see him strike please.

 

 

Montrose have drawn their opening two fixtures in the League. A 1-1 draw at home to Kelty was followed by a goalless draw at Arbroath. Craig Brown scored the goal on the hour against Kelty who hit back soon after through Cunningham. Surprise surprise, but Michael Gardyne was sent off after an hour against Arbroath and will be suspended for the trip North.

We will find Montrose a stubborn team and our last encounters with them saw us scrape through the play-offs at the end of last season. That's sort of irrelevant now with our playing staff decimated and morale at rock bottom.

<<<That was their starting XI against Arbroath last week. No massive squad changes from last term but Gardyne suspended.

In: Ben MacIver-Redwood, forward (Stirling University); Craig Smith, defender (Heriot-Watt University).

Loan in: Blair McKenzie, defender (Aberdeen); Callum Hannah, defender (Raith Rovers).

Out: Liam Callaghan, midfielder (Arbroath); Ben Hermiston, forward (Deveronvale, undisclosed); Craig Batchelor, forward.

 

 

37 minutes ago, TheNorthStander said:

Not wanting to get into a slagging match however it was not at all clear what you meant by “mindless idiots” hence my question as to my knowledge there was nothing out of order from the young guys said or done yesterday as I sit literally right behind them. Legitimate concerns about the shambles of a club we support right now are rightly seeing those young fans challenge the board, players and management team and they have the same right as you, me and any other paying fan to do so so long as it is within the law and from my experience that is more often than not the case.

Secondly, @Leaky Blinder has already said “cretinous shouting” was the reason his child was upset. Obviously, thats not good to hear of her having a negative experience at a game and I hope she can come back in the future and have a far better time. However I would say that frankly taking your child to any game for that matter up and down the country you are going to hear unsavoury things that you won’t like, unfortunately thats just life. Considering the Summer in particular we have just had and the last few weeks especially, there was always a high likelihood if not certainty that fans would be making their feelings felt. There are more than plenty areas in the ground where i’m sure any young fan attending his or her first game can go and enjoy the game in peace away from the Young Team in Section D.

@Fraz made a great point in the thread about us having one of the most laidback supports about and its true. As I mentioned earlier I genuinely believe this is a reason frankly that the board for the longest time got away with what they did for so long as not enough people were vocal enough at games to call out the mess behind the scenes as it was seen as a small voice in an otherwise silent support.

I also don't want to turn this thread into an argument so that's a positive so I'll leave it at that 👍👍.  

First of all, I think what you stated about giving the board flak for what we've become is legit because it's about time they understood how much anger we have towards them for the mess they've created, the same should really be aimed at the management team for their part in this said mess and, as you stated a couple of posts ago, they are rightly getting flak for the style of dull and boring football we play so I again think this sort of flak is legit 👏👏.

In reply to the issues @Leaky Blinder had, I remember there was a family section at the club which if I remember correctly was not far up from the away dugout so I'm not sure if that's still there and the @Leaky Blinder didn't know of that because family section would be more child friendly and likely free from this issues of swearing and shouting etc and fwiw I can understand why a young child will be frightened of "cretinous shouting" even if it wasn't in an aggressive manner etc 👍👍.

As I have said above, I'm willing to accept/respect your opinion and move on in respect of the mods who will want to keep this thread on topic and not to upset @Leaky Blinder in any way 👍👍.

 

As you say, most of our fans are sound people that go to matches to support the team and try and generate an atmosphere to help the players, we certainly don't have thugs that go to cause trouble with violence etc 👍.

Matheus Machado returned to Inverness in midfield for Montrose.  When he arrived with us he showed terrific promise, so it was a bit sad to see him playing for a part time club and contributing so little to the game.  One wonders why it is that some players who show such flair at a young age seem to go backwards when they grow older.  It's as though the modern mantra of possession based football coaches the natural intuitive flair out of them.

3 hours ago, DoofersDad said:

Matheus Machado returned to Inverness in midfield for Montrose.  When he arrived with us he showed terrific promise, so it was a bit sad to see him playing for a part time club and contributing so little to the game.  One wonders why it is that some players who show such flair at a young age seem to go backwards when they grow older.  It's as though the modern mantra of possession based football coaches the natural intuitive flair out of them.

That always seems to be the way with youngsters more recently unfortunately. For every Ryan Christie, there are 100 Machados who don't quite make it for one reason or another either as academy graduates or as youngsters coming into the team.

its not only a Scottish thing either. We see it over here all the time. Toronto FC has what's recognised as one of the best academies in MLS in terms of resources, funding and facilities and within a few years of formation in 2007 started churning out some really good prospects that looked exciting, but a stint in the first team seems to burn them out and they either have to move to restart a career or they just fade away. Just last week, we traded one young prospect (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty) to Montreal for around US$1m which on the face of it sounds good, but as a prospect breaking into the team at 16, just a few years ago it was expected he would be the next Alphonso Davies and go to Europe for somewhere in the $10-$20m range around now. At least JMR still has a shot, but others take a similar route to Machado, they drop down to the 2nd team at their club, then perhaps to the Canadian Premier League, and maybe either USL or League One which are the US/Canada tiers below that.

He rejected a 2 year offer from us and then spent a year in Portugal before returning to play for Elgin.

He didn't do anything to really impress against us that I noticed so don't think we missed out.