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I was recently in Northern Bangladesh as part of a project looking to build cheap floodproof housing. While we were over there the local builder, who was leading our work, had just set aside some land to be used as a football pitch for local kids. He wanted to have a bit of an opening ceremony for the pitch so organised a match between us lot and a local youth team. I thought I'd bring over a Caley Thistle ball over and spread the good name of the mighty ICT that little bit further! We thought this would just be a bit of a laugh and a kickabout but soon found out from the local gossip that it was getting built up as a big deal for the local villages - mainly due to the fact that we had been billed as International Superstars - must have been a let down, expecting Ronaldo and not even getting Kirk Broadfoot! Walking the couple of miles from our building site to the pitch set the tone, initially we had about 20 folk walking along the path with us which quickly grew to a couple of hundred. When we came through the trees into the clearing for the football it was absolutely incredible - it was like walking into a festival. Pre-match crowds International Superstars! The opposition - bunch of ringers! Action Shot! Can just about see the caley emblem on the ball... Barefoot as well, you don't realise how hard football is without boots till you try - well that was my excuse anyway After the game we were told that an estimated 5000-6000 people had turned up for the match. Roads were blocked for miles and people were rafting across the half-mile wide river to come watch! I reckon that makes it the third biggest attendance for a game involving a Caley Thistle ball this season! And by the way, we won 1.0 Anyway, I was wondering to what other faraway places has the good ICT name been taken to? Flags in Brazilian Pubs? An Ian Stewart shirt in deepest Transilvania?!

basra 2008 bonfire night (i know it was day time but you know what i mean)

There is NO WAY i would go up to a complete stranger in Inverness and start discussing ICT, i have experienced at first hand unpleasantness and animosity towards myself and ICT whilst out drinking in the city Fair enough if you are in the Caley Thistle club surrounded by fellow ICT fans well that maybe the case but you are wrong to say that everyone is willing to discuss ICT and make you welcome Even on this forum i've not really been made particularly welcome by some, i've even been targeted by a red dot campaign which has caused me a lot of heartache dougal Dougal, I think you have been made very welcome on this site and many of us have a good laugh at your posts. I am sure that is your intention, so, well done! It is really quite an acheivement to be averaging more than 1 red dot per post. And I don't think there is any targeted campaign to give you red dots, it is just a reflection of the general stupidity and offensiveness of your posts. If you speak with people in pubs the way you communicate on this forum then I'm not surprised you find some animosity. It's not a reflection of Inverness or ICT - it's just personal. I've quite enjoyed your drivel today and haven't given you a red dot but then I don't sit in section G and I'm not Ginger. Keep the posts coming - with no football on we need something to amuse us.

ICTPaisley wearing another Inverness top in Basrah, Iraq. Taken in 2006. I had to look twice when i seen those flags above your bed! I had mine positioned like that as well.

And how could we forget, the top of Mount Everest, where a fan died earlier this year. Peter Kinloch

I'm sure I've told this story before, but I was wearing an ICT top in Cairo about 10 years ago and enthusiastic market trader called out "Come here my friend, I support Scotrail too!"

I very much doubt there would have been any great effect had the snow clearing folk been out all night. The biggest problem I think is folk making journeys that are totally unnecessary, getting stuck and abandoning vehicles. Maybe some motorists should take a look at themselves and ask the question "Did I really need to go out in this"...chances are, many would have said No. I heard one driver on the news saying it took him 3 hours to get home in his car and he went on to say he could walk it in 40 minutes...so, why the hell didn't he walk in the first place?

Who was it that actually let the dogs out ?

Witty chants?? If i was you i'd get the mods to delete this thread before it gets any more cringeworthy if thats at all possible Having said that i'd still prefer to hear your chants than the govan/ulster orks dougal

There is NO WAY i would go up to a complete stranger in Inverness and start discussing ICT, i have experienced at first hand unpleasantness and animosity towards myself and ICT whilst out drinking in the city Fair enough if you are in the Caley Thistle club surrounded by fellow ICT fans well that maybe the case but you are wrong to say that everyone is willing to discuss ICT and make you welcome Even on this forum i've not really been made particularly welcome by some, i've even been targeted by a red dot campaign which has caused me a lot of heartache dougal

Witty chants?? If i was you i'd get the mods to delete this thread before it gets any more cringeworthy if thats at all possible Having said that i'd still prefer to hear your chants than the govan/ulster orks dougal You can have a green one from me for your intellectual wit. 12th Man

Don't think you are missing something, weren't Caledonian and now ICT known as the Rangers of the North??? I could be wrong but Caley have always played in blue and now predominantly blue in ICT's case I personally wouldn't purchase this product but i could think of a fair number of posters on this site who definitely would dougal

"Father Jack" got hiself into a right fankle on the radio this morning. He had tried to blame the weather forecasters but he was played three clips of forecasts and a forecaster which showed that the Met Office had predicted PRECISELY where and when the heavy snow would fall. Incredibly, he then appeared to try to blame some other unspecified source of information for the catastrophe but the top and bottom of it would appear to be that the road clearing services, for which the Scottish Executive is ultimately responsible, could not keep traffic flowing, despite having been told exactly how much snow would fall where and when. But politicians, especially ones with a wafer thin mandate to govern and an election imminent, are of course never to blame. It's always somemone else's fault. I suppose poor Father Jack also felt all the more exposed on this occasion because he couldn't blame Westminster for the snow.

You must be either related or attend the same lodge dougal