What with reports that geography had something to do with Pressley opting for the Bairns over us (see Elvis thread) it got me thinking about why it is such a problem attracting personel to go north.

It shouldnt be a problem for anyone living in Scotland to be frank. Scotland is a tiny country which can easily be covered North to South in a day. Edinburgh is a meagre 2 and a half to three hours drive away from Inverness and Glasgow similar.

People in Canada (im sure Scotty could probably back this up) regularly travel distances like that to work every day, no sweat.

People move to Cardiff and train it to London to work as it's cheaper to live in Cardiff and it's no problem.

Even in Scotland hundreds of people commute back and forth from Edinburgh to Glasgow doing likewise without great strain.

I dont get the Scottish fan mentality either. So many fans of other central belt clubs complain about how far we are to travel to. They should be thankful their not an English club. Just look at Boro, Sunderland and NU and the distance to London or worse Pompey and visa versa.

I think it has more to do with peoples attitudes of ICT in that we are seen by the outside as a wee diddy team up in the sticks. Something really has to be done to change this image. It's held us back before and probably will again.

TB is the only thing that makes us attractive for a good player. Other the last few years we have attracted some pretty good players but we can no longer offer SPL football or SPL wages and geography will be more of a problem than before.

Most central belters will not relocate to Inverness if they can get a move to Dundee/Partick/Dunfermline/Morton etc.

To be very fair even in the lower leagues we attracted some good players. Keogh, Mann, Bingham, Caff, Hissie, Brown to name but a few.