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✍️ 𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤! Stevie May joins the Lions permanently after a loan spell last year in the Championship. The forward is the third player to sign up as he makes the move from St Johnstone. Welcome back, Mayzo! 🤝

📅🧮 SPFL 42 TEAM 2024 TABLE 🧮📅 📊 At the end of 2024, here are the 42 SPFL teams ranked by points per game earned in 2024, divided into a top and bottom half of 21 teams each. ❌ It is exactly 42 teams as of course nobody was relegated out of the SPFL pyramid in 2024 as Scotland's third oldest club - Stranraer - avoided relegation by winning their relegation playoff 5-3 Vs East Kilbride. ⚽️ The table is comprised of results from league matches only, with points deductions removed so that the table reflects only on field performance. Some teams of course will have results from across two divisions due to promotion or relegation in May. _____ _____ 3 CLUBS AVERAGING 2+ PTS PER GAME 🍀 As expected for 2024, Celtic were top for all metrics; most points (92), most wins (29), most goals scored (97), and had the best goal difference (+67). Celtic lost only one match in 2024 (2-0 at Tynecastle in March) and had the least number of draws (5) as they averaged a colossal 2.63 points per game. 🐴 2nd in the table based on PPG was Falkirk at 2.32 ppg. After an incredible unbeaten season in League 1, they are still on course for back-to-back promotions as they sit top of the Championship with only 3 defeats thus far. Rangers were the only other side in Scotland to average more than 2pts per game across 2024. _____ PERFECT SYMMETRY 🦌 Ross County had the worst goal difference in 2024 (-38) while Montrose were the only side with a goal difference of exactly 0 – scoring and conceding 50 times. ⚖️ In fact, Montrose had a perfectly symmetrical record with that zero goal difference coming from both 14 wins and 14 losses. Motherwell and Hearts both had 14 wins and 14 losses in 2024 but with a GD of -4 and -1 respectively. Clyde had 12 wins & 12 losses, with a GD of -1. 15 teams out of 42 had a positive goal difference, while Inverness C.T and Kelty Hearts are the last two teams to make up the top 21 performing clubs in 2024. _____ ANNUS HORRIBILIS 🚜 It was a torrid year for St Johnstone, bottom of the entire SPFL table on PPG as nobody earned less points (30), had less wins (8) and the Perth Saints suffered by far the most losses (24). 📉 They were one of only 4 teams to average less than a point a game, along with Stranraer, Edinburgh City and relegation rivals Ross County. 1⃣ Dunfermline (38) and Airdrieonians (37) both earned exactly the same number of points as games played to give them their somewhat boring 1 point per game average.

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Club Statement As one major part of our planned strategic restructure of the club, ICTFC are delighted to announce an innovative agreement with League 1 side Kelty Hearts which will see the club move our training base to the Fife club’s New Central Park Stadium. This creative partnership will mean that we will hire their excellent facilities which include a 3g pitch, onsite grass pitches and offices for our coaching staff, as our training base during the week starting from this coming pre-season in June. The last few years have seen the geographic challenges in getting players to move to the Highlands become ever harder for a number of reasons. Caledonian Stadium will always be our home, but other factors in Scottish football have changed and where we train should not be an impediment to the quality of the players we can attract to Caley Thistle, or to our potential to progress. The commercial success of the city of Inverness – which will always be our home - both as a tourist destination and a place to live, has led to very high prices for the accommodation we require to house players. In addition to these high costs which our competitors do not carry, the extremely limited housing stock in Inverness continues to be both a challenge and a huge factor working against us. Increased playing budgets in and around the central belt has meant that on many occasions, even when we have offered players more favourable terms than our competitors, sometimes even agreed deals, we have then been told that the player has changed his mind due to challenges relocating their families. Support structures in and around the families of players may all be in and around the central belt, partners will have jobs where they live and moving kids schools to the Highlands and moving home itself can just be seen as impractical for a one or two year contract. It makes it particularly challenging for us to sign senior players, a category which through no fault of our budget, or of previous ICT Managers, we have struggled to attract in the last few seasons. Similarly, our location means that we miss out on the opportunity of signing promising players from the larger clubs in Scotland, on loan or otherwise. For the avoidance of any doubt we absolutely intend to continue to develop our own homegrown Highland boys and we will take the appropriate steps to make sure that by being creative, innovative and practical, they do not miss out on the chance to have a pathway to first team football with their team. We have a proud tradition of introducing local players in to our first team and this will absolutely continue. We obviously never intended to be in the same division as Kelty when originally exploring this concept, but football throws strange things at you sometimes and having reassessed the proposition and judged that the pros still far outweigh the cons, we would like to thank the Board of Kelty Hearts and MD Stefan Winiarski and his management team for considering this unique to the SPFL partnership, and then seeing and agreeing on the possibilities and benefits for both clubs. To reiterate, by moving our footballing department's training base to central Scotland, both the club's Board of Directors and the club's First Team Management feel we give ourselves the best possible chance to attract the highest quality players to the club, allowing some of the players we sign to also live in and around the central belt while playing for ICTFC. We now look forward to taking further positive strides on and off the pitch to address the football and financial challenges we face we believe this exciting opportunity to help us attract players previously not available to us and build a better squad, is one of the first steps we can make and we hope to develop further innovative partnerships. Inverness is and will always be our home. The Caledonian Stadium will always be where we play our football. We hope this venture will help us achieve our goal in giving our supporters a team to be proud of.

Enjoy your weekend, @dundeeunitedfc fans! 🍊 🏆 #cinchChamp champions - signed, sealed and delivered!

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