A Winter Wyness Shuffle Wonderland

God rest ye merry gentlemen and deck the halls with lashings of Scottish football! It’s the Annual Christmas Wyness Shuffle Extravaganza.

Join very special guest Shuffler ‘A View From the Terrace’s Craig G Telfer’ as he buckles down for the thrilling Polar Express that is the annual festive Shuffle. Hear the 2024 ICT story as reimagined as a Christmas tale, marvel at the magic of festive ICT themed puns you’ve maybe only heard once before, and join in the wide-eyed wonder of the Wyness Shuffle Secret Santa. It’s all here, It's a Wonderful Life, Die Hard, Eastenders, Clay Davis from the Wire, plus all the festive football action and much, much more

01.06 Festive Tidings

All your regular Shuffling Elves say hello, we introduce Telfer, and wonder what everyone’s up to for Christmas Day.

06.21 Gamebird by Gamebird

Before we get on to the festivities, we look at the football over the past three weeks. What games jingle our bells and what matches have given us the chills? We review the Arbroath anguish, the Montrose marvels, and the Scottish Cup exit to Cove.

34.00 Fan-tastic

We get the views of a few Caley Thistle supporters on the new manager.

37.40 Talk Tinsel To Me: Craig G Telfer

Craig is mostly known for fronting the excellent BBC Scotland TV show A View From the Terrace but he’s also been podcasting for the Terrace for years, and now regularly hosts jobs for the Scottish National side. He takes us through his career, give his views on Caley Thistle, and reveals a startling revelation about TWS host Andrew Moffat.

01.03.47 Talk Tinsel To Me: Alan Savage

Administrators BDO were appointed on 22 October, but just what has happened since? We’ve heard very little other than there are 20 interested parties. Other than the administrators, one man has more insight into any of this than anyone, so Stevie spoke to Alan Savage. And two previously unknown pieces of key info are revealed!

1.24.32 The Xmas ICT Story

Christmas time is the most wonderful time of the year, but as ICT fans we have all been part of another story, a tale with no end of Grinchs, Herods or Hans Grubers. So, we thought we’d mix fantasy and reality, and reimagine the ICT story of 2024 but the key individuals as characters from Xmas tales and films and stuff.

1.29.57 Craig G Telfer Best & Worst

Telfer takes us through his best and worst. Hint: it’s Maya Jama and Robert Borthwick.

1.38.07 The Festive Feast of Football

It’s the festive feast of football preview as we cast our eyes over the delicious spread of ICT action before us and wonder what will be the roasted tatties you can’t get enough of and what will be the minging brussel sprouts. We focus mainly on the clash at Stenhousemuir on the 21 Dec before moving onto Cove and Dumbarton.

2.09.13 Secret Santa and Competition Time

Some say Christmas is about the baby Jesus and goodwill to all men. We say it’s about getting as many presents as you possibly can. So we present the very first TWS Secret Santa, featuring lego, traffic cones, Napoleon, Buzz Lightyear and a lovely jumper. Followed by the RETURN OF COMPETITION TIME! On Christmas Day you could be in with the chance to win a signed ICT shirt.

There’s it.

Thanks to all for listening throughout the year. Please do have an amazing festive period and we’ll see you all on the other side of 25.

Merry Christmas from all at TWS.

15 Reasons & 66 Points

The Wyness Shuffle is back with news of the Caley Thistle resurgence under Scott Kellacher and Billy Mckay. Join Andrew Moffat, Andrew Young, Stevie Riley, Sandy Sutherland, and Lee Tarling as they discuss consecutive wins, Ferguson binned, the15 point penalty, and Dumbarton joining us in Admin hell. Plus 30 years-worth of ICT references packed into 2 hours and 24 minutes of wild conjecture and mild distraction.

00.58 Intro and Highland Highlights

There is sunshine on the horizon as we shade our eyes against the beautiful highlight highlights. The boys talk about their personal highlight from the last month including Big Musa’s arms, Adam McKinnon’s chest, and cardboard boxes.

08.03 Game by Game

We kick off by talking about the cold snap and the late call-off of Queen of the South away, before moving onto consecutive wins over Alloa and Cove away, the form of Charlie Gilmour, Adam Mackinnon, Paul Allan and many more, before discussing the changes the new Head Coach has made, and comparing the cold hard facts, stats and differences between Duncan Ferguson and Scott Kellacher’s football.

42.04 Administration

We cover the next steps of the administration process, the 20 interested parties, the crowdfunder, player and staff departures, and the power of work of the ICT Supporter’s Trust and Bar 94. And will the administrators be included in the ICT Secret Santa?

01.03.52 Dumbarton

There hasn’t been an insolvency event in Scottish football in some 12 years, then two come along at once. Dumbarton FC have been plunged into administration – after years of behind-the-scenes uncertainty. We spoke to Dumbarton fan and Lennox Herald and Daily Record reporter, and Terrace podcast contributor, Fraser Clarke, about the situation.

1.29.00 Duncan Ferguson: The Inquest

Duncan Ferguson arrived in a frenzy of publicity. A big name, big personality, but no pedigree in Scottish football, and at the time we said maybe when you’re as big as him then you don’t need a pedigree. Turns out you do. We discuss the entirety of his tenure, and why did it all go wrong.

1.54.22 The Number 15

A 15-point penalty doesn’t always have to be awful. It could also lend itself to some mildly amusing gags.

1.56.11 Talk to Me: Roddy Macgregor

We hope to get players and coaching staff from ICT onto the pod in the coming weeks and months but in the interim we spoke to a player (and a fan) who we all wish was still wearing the red and blue.

2.10.08 League Lookahead and Season Predictions

We look ahead to Cove in the Scottish Cup, and Montrose, Arbroath, and Stenny in the league, before pondering over where we will finish come the end of the season.

There’s it.

THE A TEAM

Inverness Caledonian Thistle is officially in administration as of Tuesday 22 October 2024.

On 2nd October, (then) interim ICT chairman Panos Thomas issued a club statement summarising the key findings of financial consultant Alan Savage’s forensic audit, announcing the launch of a ‘Save ICT’ crowdfunding appeal and warning that ‘unless the Appeal can raise £200k immediately, and certainly by Wednesday, 16th October, then Administration is inevitable.’

On 21st October, after several days of rumour about last-minute investment, (now) interim chairman Scott Young confirmed that the administration process had begun.

In this epic episode of TWS, recorded on the evening of the 21st, host Andrew Moffat is joined by Stevie Riley, Andrew Young, pod original gangster Ross Mackenzie, The Press and Journal's Paul Chalk, and some special guests to discuss what administration will mean for the staff and supporters of Caley Thistle, how the club got to this point, and what the future might look like. Is this the next stage of an inexorable decline, or the start of a much-needed reset? And despite it all we do try to have a bit of craic as well cause you've got to, haven't you?

Let’s shuffle!

00:01:07 – Introduction and initial thoughts. Moff introduces the panel and gauges feelings about administration now being a reality.

00:08:18 – The October 8th meeting. At the recent open meeting in the stadium’s Highlander suite, Scott Young, Alan Savage and Charlie Christie spoke to supporters. We discuss the key points that emerged from it and the mood among those in attendance.

00:18:51 – What will administration look like for ICT? Insights from the interim chairman. We are joined for this part of the podcast by Interim Chairman Scott Young, who talks us through the potential timescale and structure of the administration process, the role of the administrators, the implications for club staff and for the club’s SPFL status. He also reflects on his short but eventful time on the board and what his role might be going forward.

00:43:12 – The squad: what next? An inevitable consequence of administration will be the loss of some players. We discuss what the criteria for retaining or releasing players could be and what the squad might look like after the administrators’ work is done. And if the manager, as he suspects, has already had his last game in charge, who might succeed him?

00:54:40 – The view from the north stand. Some die-hard ICT fans discuss their feelings about the imminence of administration.

00:56:35 – The A-Word: a fan’s perspective. We are joined by Livingston fan Liam Innes, who reflects on what it was like to watch the club he loves go through administration – twice!

01:17:23 – The old regime(s). So how did ICT get to this point? We consider not only the mismanagement and negligence of the most recent regime, but also how the seeds of ICT’s decline were probably sown much further back in the club’s history.

01:30:20 – Talk to me. ICT groundsman Dale Stephen talks about work and life at the Caledonian Stadium under the shadow of administration.

01:59:00 – More views from the north stand. Our ICT die-hards share their hopes for the future.

02:00:40 – Game by game. Finally, some discussion of matters on the pitch! We review the recent games against Arbroath and Annan in the league, either side of the narrow Challenge Cup loss to Livingston.

02:16:50 – League Lookahead. A very brief chat about the upcoming fixtures against Dumbarton, Kelty, Cove Rangers, Alloa and Queen of the South.

02:27:20 – The New Era. Once the administration process is over, what might the future look like for ICT and how can we make it work? We share some thoughts and hopes.

02:38:09 – Competition winner. No competition in this episode, unfortunately, but we do reveal the winner of the 30th anniversary away youth top donated by Alan Savage.

02:39:50 – Final thoughts. A few last reflections from our supporters and from this episode’s panel.

The Season Starts Here.