From lifting the trophy with Rangers to suffering a shock defeat with Aberdeen. Inverness Caley Thistle head coach Billy Dodds speaks of his highs and lows with the Scottish Cup
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle head coach Billy Dodds has had some great memories and not so great memories of playing in the Scottish Cup.
He has a winners medal from his time with Rangers when he scored in the final in their 4-0 victory over Aberdeen in 2000.
However, he also knows what it is like to be on the end of a massive shock, and in particular, one which has gone down as one of the biggest upsets in the history of the game.
In 1995, Dodds was part of the Aberdeen team which suffered a 2-0 defeat to Stenhousemuir at Ochil View.
Stenhousemuir were in the former Second Division, now rebranded as League One, and would go on to finish in fourth place that season.
Aberdeen were expected to cruise through to the next round, but Tommy Steel scored twice to give Stenhousemuir arguably their most famous result in their history.
Dodds says as many good memories as he has of playing in the Scottish Cup, he also remembers the ones which went wrong.
"I've had good and bad memories of the Scottish Cup," he said.
Against Stenhousemuir, big George McGeachie, who was 40-year old at the time, marked me out of the game and then had a cigar on a quagmire of a pitch.
"But i've won the Scottish Cup with Rangers, so there are highs and lows.
"There have been horrendous ones and some good ones."
Dodds is now in charge of Inverness Caledonian Thistle who won the Scottish Cup in 2015 beating Falkirk 2-1 in the final at Hampden.
Current squad members, defender Danny Devine and midfielder Aaron Doran along with goalkeeping coach Ryan Esson were in the starting line-up which saw Inverness win their first major competition.
Cameron Mackay was also the substitute goalkeeper at Hampden on that famous day.
Dodds says he's not sure if those players speak to other members of the squad about their memories of that famous day.
But he says the entire squad is fully aware of what the Scottish Cup means to Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"I like to mix with the boys, but not doing that - that is their place, so I don't hear what they are saying to one another. I'm sure there are a few tales.
"At the football department at this club, you see all along the corridors the photos of when they won the Scottish Cup.
"When you win trophies, you see what it can do to a group of players.
"We already have a good team spirit, but winning cups are special days and you don't get those very much.
"You only have to look at the walls here to see what can be done."
