THE TRAVEL CLUB ARE TRYING TO SOURCE A UKRAINIAN FLAG FOR FRIDAY IF ANYONE HAS ONE WE COULD BORROW PLEASE CONTACT US ON HERE OR ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.THANK YOU 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Are there any Ukrainian folk in Inverness?  Maybe tell the Polish shops in town that you're looking for a flag, in case they know anyone who might lend you one or more.

Our Town Centre operative is on the case.

10 hours ago, Hearach said:

Our Town Centre operative is on the case.

Sorted 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦😄

There is an interview on BBC with our first manager Sergei Baltacha, who is originally from Mariupol.

And the club is supporting a charity trying to source supplies to help Ukrainians with diabetes:

https://ictfc.com/ictfc-supports-lochlans-legacy-ukraine-appeal

Whilst it goes without saying some world events transcend the game of football it will be interesting to see whether the world governing bodies demonstrate their usual pedantry or is a laudable terracing political show of solidarity deemed allowable provided they agree you're backing the good guys ? 

Not that I'm suggesting our away support will have that many flags on display friday night ! 

I did think of suggesting that it would be a matter of courtesy to inform both clubs in advance.  However, since the SFA have subsequently pledged solidarity with and support for Ukraine, I think you're on solid ground. 

Unless either club is secretly owned by an oligarch who is mates with Putin....  

11 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I did think of suggesting that it would be a matter of courtesy to inform both clubs in advance.  However, since the SFA have subsequently pledged solidarity with and support for Ukraine, I think you're on solid ground. 

Unless either club is secretly owned by an oligarch who is mates with Putin....  

No open displays of political soldidarity is permitted unless we first pledge our support.. It is quite Putinesque come to think of it 😎

33 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I did think of suggesting that it would be a matter of courtesy to inform both clubs in advance.  However, since the SFA have subsequently pledged solidarity with and support for Ukraine, I think you're on solid ground. 

Unless either club is secretly owned by an oligarch who is mates with Putin....  

I sincerely hope that the club will be sourcing it's own Ukrainian flag to fly above the stadium for our remaining home games.

A small gesture but these little things add up.

The players at Everton game tonight doing the handshakes to Imagine by John Lennon. Very moving and should be replicated all over imho 

On 3/2/2022 at 1:22 PM, Yngwie said:

There is an interview on BBC with our first manager Sergei Baltacha, who is originally from Mariupol.

And a piece about him in the sports section of yesterday's (Saturday's) "Times".

He is youth coach at Charlton, and has never actualy gone back to stay in Ukraine.  (You'll remember that his late daughter, Elena, was the UK's no 1 female tennis player for a while.)

Interestingly, he is proud of what the USSR was - "better than Russia is now" - and sees himself as both Soviet and Ukrainian, in much the same way that some of us might regard ourselves as British and Scottish.

He has a 67yo brother in Kyiv, "armed with hope and a Kalashnikov".

Supporters Travel Club displayed two Ukrainian flags at the game on Friday night. 

On 3/6/2022 at 10:28 PM, Hearach said:

Supporters Travel Club displayed two Ukrainian flags at the game on Friday night. 

Great effort at such short notice.

Also nice to see the flag flying high at the stadium today

2 hours ago, WYNESS101 said:

Also nice to see the flag flying high at the stadium today

Where it should stay, for every home match, for as long as the illegal occupation continues.

The Ukrainian flag was the first thing I noticed on arrival at the stadium on Saturday. It made me feel proud of the supporters involved and of the club for their support. I don't think a flag exists that is too big to show, in support of those from Ukraine. It may be that as a result of all these small gestures of support, that the people of Ukraine will find the strength to carry on.

I had wondered if there would have been a collection at the gates for those in need as a result of the situation. I would be happy to be involved if there was one at a home game.