Injury-stricken Caley Thistle are pleading for special dispensation to recall players out on loan in the Highland League.
The Championship promotion hopefuls now have 10 players in the treatment room, a good number unavailable for the medium to long-term. First team coach Barry Wilson revealed yesterday that they had approached the SPFL to ask for four players currently with part-time clubs until the January transfer window could be brought back early.
With numbers desperately thin on the ground, Caley Jags’ manager Billy Dodds has had to turn to untried schoolboys including Aaron Nicolson and Matthew Strachan to fill in. Dodds would prefer to call on slightly older youngsters including Aly Riddle and Robbie Thompson (on-loan at Clach), Ethan Cairns (Forres) and Harry Hennem (Wick Academy). Lewis Nicolson is also on-loan at Elgin City. Wilson said: "It would be wrong to say that we're not concerned. We don't need to go on about the injury list, but it is a massive concern.
