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Disgraceful attitude of a tiny minority of ICT fans

Hi all, i'm going to bring up a touchy subject and stand shoulder to shoulder with John Robertson. Every week including the Partick game on Sat, there's a tiny pocket of Inverness fans who throw needless verbal, personal abuse at our players/management and the opposition. I was sitting at far right towards Partick end and had to listen to a grandad shout aggressive/offensive/derogatory remarks towards the pitch.  This comes from the mouth of a man who has his grandson and son with him, yeah nice pal, great role model for the youth of tomorrow. Thanks for partly spoiling my experience to when i just want to watch the game. If you want to conduct yourself like that, do it behind closed doors in your own house. The huge majority of fans are pure dedicated, brill and supportive. I looked over when john was  commenting to a fan who was clearly being offensive and gold star Robbo! In todays eera and our team and management being so highly professional, who would really  take kindly to a plonker shouting obscenities. I was guilty of not getting behind the team more; after a superb result against Ayr, i was expecting goals galore from us. Its impossible to sustain that level twice in a week, the boys were and are a credit to themselves and the city. Lets be more positive and get behind the team by starting with a verbal flurry of support; come on the Caley! - we should be proud and the 12th  man always and provide the support and encouragement to our boys.

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You've hit the nail cleanly on the head there. 

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2 hours ago, Alan Simpson said:

My workplace is full of bullying! Not kwl abusing the players but tbh it gets way to much coverage on here iv seen more abuse shouted at my boys under 13 games! Can't see how some1 shouting your ***** would suddenly turn u ***** lol

Aye fair enough, guess it depends what kind of job one does and that. 

43 minutes ago, Elginer500 said:

Aye fair enough, guess it depends what kind of job one does and that. 

You've come on here and upset the clique. Rookie mistake ?

2 hours ago, AncientMariner said:

You've come on here and upset the clique. Rookie mistake ?

Bloody clique - oops - which one ? ?

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19 hours ago, bdu98196 said:

Well now you've posted on CTO it'll make all the difference and I'm sure your matchday experience next time will be instantly better instead of having the issue addressed at the time and the culprit warned such that they understand what is acceptable and may modify future behaviour.

Lol :)

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17 hours ago, AncientMariner said:

You've come on here and upset the clique. Rookie mistake ?

Lol! I learn my lesson and wont identify myself to the fellow caley fan clan :):):)

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19 hours ago, Alan Simpson said:

A bit like primary school tho ain't it grassing up your fellow fan for saying big Whites playing gash ffs where would it end grassing coz some1 eased ahead of u in the toilet line!

Ha ha! Lol, yeah totally! I don't want a steak pie thrown at me, too scrummy anyway and what a waste :) 

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19 hours ago, bdu98196 said:

Well the way I see it there's 3 options

1. Address the situation

2. Move seat (plenty options considering so many moaning about low crowds)

3. Ignore it and get on with life

Posting online isn't one that's worthwhile or will do anything positive and will in fact potentially make others not want to go to matches if they think this is rife.

Good! Im quite happy if they don't go to matches, go to aggression anonymous instead.

Multi quoting is a thing. Just sayin'. 

I sometimes wonder if the people who come to the TCS and spend much of the time whinging and moaning and shouting abuse at the players also go to Eden Court and shout insults if someone in the orchestra strikes a false note or an actor fluffs a line. If not, what on earth thinks they can behave that way at the football.

What is the motivation of these fans ?   I realise they wish to show their disappointment and displeasure at performances.  Is it just a young male problem ? Is it a society problem ?. I say this because , I see very little respect in he media , for important members of society .  People these days  do not hold back in venting their frustration, in ways in my day would not have  been   tolerated. I have no answer ?

My Dad always said " treat other people as you would wish to be treated yourself, courtesy costs nothing".   If people do not enjoy their football, why go to the matches?

Imagine if these supporters were Notts County fans, the oldest club in football, founder member of the original football league, about to drop out of the EFL into obscurity. They  would really have something to moan about.

!!! Yes Johnjo   you will see them at Chorley next year, amazing !!!

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10 hours ago, Laurence said:

SWhat is the motivation of these fans ?   I realise they wish to show their disappointment and displeasure at performances.  Is it just a young male problem ? Is it a society problem ?. I say this because , I see very little respect in he media , for important members of society .  People these days  do not hold back in venting their frustration, in ways in my day would not have  been   tolerated. I have no answer ?

My Dad always said " treat other people as you would wish to be treated yourself, courtesy costs nothing".   If people do not enjoy their football, why go to the matches?

Imagine if these supporters were Notts County fans, the oldest club in football, founder member of the original football league, about to drop out of the EFL into obscurity. They  would really have something to moan about.

!!! Yes Johnjo   you will see them at Chorley next year, amazing !!!

Yep totally agree with you! I think it is a society problem, its a parenting problem and its an ignorant person's issue with low self confidence which is manifested through acts of verbal aggression. Sure i felt down and a bit bewildered at our game plan against Partick (and im no expert) but i would never shout the comments at Polworth or Mackay after they made a mistake. If its any conciliation, i wanted to applaud Storey when he came off. He was awesome for us in the premiership and he excelled up the wing on sat, bravo young man :)

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I reckon its snowflakes like elginer that are driving people away.

Last time I checked it wasn't Sunday school when you go to a match. Folk are trying to turn it Into a father Ted protest. "Down with that sort of thing" "don't do that now". ?

On 2/5/2019 at 11:54 AM, tm4tj said:

Some folk are just not cut out for attending football matches.

This!!!

Fckin mad eh don't shout myself gotta say tho if I didn't have the kids I might be different footy ain't church end of the day people care it's there team ffs the players can come and go supporters always be there to a lot of our fans icts just a second wee team I think they ain't that fussed if they win loose or draw where the guys who give it large could well be old highland league die yards who at least expect the players to try !

On 2/4/2019 at 7:34 AM, scorpio60 said:

And John Robertson swearing at a fan is OK?

To be fair, that's better than when Paterson threatened to blow up people's houses...

On 2/5/2019 at 1:51 PM, Laurence said:

 People these days  do not hold back in venting their frustration, in ways in my day would not have  been   tolerated. I have no answer ?

What utter nonsense, back in my day blah blah blah.

I've been going to football matches for near 30hrs, various clubs the length and breadth of the country not necessarily to watch ICT just to see a game and have heard fans all over react like said fan mentioned in the original post. It happens everywhere, at every ground, every week of the season and it won't change.

Yes there's ways to go about it but no one person is the same and everyone reacts differently, if you take offence to it do something about it, don't take to an online fans forum and vent your frustration making out it's much worse than it is.

It paints a bad light on the rest of the fans.

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