The pre-season friendly no-one predicted

[alternative maryhill]

Report in today's "Herald":

"Inverness Caledonian Thistle are in talks over a pre-season friendly against Qatar. Charlie Christie's side have been approached by Errea, their Italian kit manufacturer, over the possibility of playing the Middle Eastern nation during next month's week-long trip to Italy."

Qatar's current Fifa world ranking: 83. 8 places below Wales, 11 above Canada.

[Kingsmills]

That's been under discussion for a number of weeks now.

[Scotty]

old news ..... Errea are trying to organise it as both ICT and Qatar will be in Italy .... the stumbling block appears to be the venue for it as the two teams are several hours apart from each other.

with Errea organising it, I expect it to be a 3am kickoff on the 33rd of November  :015:

[CaleyD]

I nearly suggested that they produce a set of one off shirts for the occasion  :029:

[Tug]

now thats just cruel :33:. i finally get my self in the right place to see an away match (qatar) and they are not even going to play it there. mind you might just have to see if i can do a little bit of scouting for charlie while im here :014: :sillywave:

[Guest TinCanFan]

What teams are ICT playing in Italy? Do we even stand a chance against teams like Parma and Liverno even though they are fairy low in Serie A.

[+Gringo]

Similar teams to last season I'd suspect, all of which appeared to be lower than HL standard.

[Scotty]

What teams are ICT playing in Italy? Do we even stand a chance against teams like Parma and Liverno even though they are fairy low in Serie A.

I doubt we will play anything other than 'local' sides - the senior leagues wont have returned from end of season break when ICT are there.

[Kingsmills]

It seems that there may after all be a friendly against Qatar but their under 21 team rather than the full side.

[Guest TinCanFan]

It says in today's courier that ICT are trying to arrange a game in Italy against a Romanian and a team thought to be the under 21 Qatar side which means that it may not be them. 

[Exiled ICT]

What teams are ICT playing in Italy? Do we even stand a chance against teams like Parma and Liverno even though they are fairy low in Serie A.

It'll be Serie D sides I imagine, as the Italian season only finished a few weeks ago and doesn't kick off again until late august/early september so pre-season won't e near starting.

And we would get humped by lower placed Serie A teams as well as the majority of Serie B teams as well I'd imagine.