Here we are again in the quarter finals of the nation's premier knockout tournament. A great achievement especially set against our terrible season in the league so far.

Yet, despite that fact that ticket prices have been set well below league levels, it looks as though the crowd will be around the 4,000 mark with at least a quarter of those supporting the opposition.

Contrast that to a number of years ago when more than twice as many turned up to watch us play Kilmarnock than attended to watch the same opposition last week or the 6,000 or so of us who eagerly travelled to Tannadice to watch our first quarter final after Telford Street was deemed unsuitable to host Rangers despite Caley entertaining them in front of a full house without incident only a few seasons before.

I can think of Caley playing host to the likes of Airdrie and St Johnstone and the Jags entertaining Kilmarnock in earlier round of the tournament all in front of larger crowds than we are expecting for the Falkirk game. I bet if any of the three Inverness teams had made the quarter finals back in the Highland League days there would have been a full house with tickets like gold dust no matter what the opposition.

Why is it do you think that we now seem to take this tournament that many of us thought so glamorous before for granted ?

If the club made a big fuss about the cup then i'm sure we would get about 6000 for the falkirk game. Say if Butch came out a couple of days before and stated: this cup game is a huge chance/biggest game so far. I'm sure a couple of thousand more would come along. I mean, i sit in section H, and there are people sitting around me who, like myself, haven't missed a league game for years; then they are nowhere to be seen for the cup games. Its downright strange.

Anybody else think that if we weren't in our current position then we would pull bigger crowd? Everyone is focussed on the league, the cup just seems like a bit of a distraction for most.

I believe the tickets for the Falkirk game have been selling really well over the last few weeks and I too would expect the crowd to be between 5-6,000 and possibly 6K+ if the weather is good on the day....

A crowd approaching 6,000 would be very acceptable but still a surprise in my book.