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Ross County are riding high, on their best run of form in their history. They are unbeaten in 40 odd league matches, are in the top half of the SPL and, most likely, have the best side in their history. What are their fans talking about on their forum? How many tables ICT have sold for hospitality for a game not involving Ross County. Dear oh dear.

How our friends across the bridge must be laughing at this! But hey ho, who cares? If you've got something to say you should be able to say it and I have to agree that Dougal has a point here. For me the issue is a bit more than just one of communicating when tickets were on sale. We are constantly being told the club has no money and we have threads on here looking for fund raising ideas etc etc. But when we have a forthcoming match which is the first SPL derby between us and our very in form local rivals and when we desparately need a full home support, what does the club do to stir the local population? As yet, sweet FA by the looks of things. This is a huge match. Apart from the local rivalry and it being our first SPL derby there are other issues: the return of Munro and Tokely (and others) and the fact that County may be going into this game still unbeaten in the league for over a year. How difficult should all that be to market? And with tickets on sale last week what an opportunity to market the match with a weekend break from SPL action due to the internationals. There could have been a great piece in the Courier, for instance, about the game with quotes from Butcher urging the fans to get their tickets whilst there were still some left (ha, ha!) and really get behind the team. But what do we get, a silly non-story of Richie Foran urging the fans to get behind Billy MacKay. This is a hugely important game and it is vital we sell out the home allocation. The earlier tickets start selling well, the sooner people will commit to buy. Leave it too late and folk decide they won't bother after all. For a club that needs the money, its lack of activity in ensuring we get a sell out for this game is disappointing to say the least.

I think I prefer their udder name

I think that you are all being rather rude to the country bumpkin as my gut feeling is that his concern is genuine and he may well have been alerting many of us to the worrying dilemna of unsold hospitality tickets which is evidently a financial worry for ourselves and the even more concerning news that our financial position has worsened that we are unable to provide free school milk to the players and staff. It could also however be a marketing ploy from a milk farm in Ross-shire. If we are honest most of us are envious of Tinkerville Town and, their fairy godmother Robbing Roy and the influences of the Addams family. The most annoying thing of all is that it is akin to watching an ICT 2nd X1. Financial constraints and financial management are phrases not yet experienced by our opulent neighbours - well at least until they realise that they spent too much prior to the demise of the Sevco and when they realise that the SPL is not the footballing wonderland that they have always striven towards. And he kindly states and admits that the future of SPL football in the Highlands is dependent on a strong ICT and Tinkerville. Thank you for your concern and the rudeness of some of the reponses. In conclusion I am further heartened that your head has been planted in the ground rather than up yer erse as it usually appears to be.

Can you make your writing smaller please

Glory Hunter

ICT are doing better than most and whilst I am worried, that has as much to do with the financial state of the game as opposed to the financial state of ICT (or any other individual club). Enjoy the honeymoon period at C*unty...we had one of them too, but it doesn't last and when the reality of just how much it costs to subsidise an SPL hit home with your sugar daddy then reality will hit home. Yeah, you can sit and gloat, as we have done in the past....but it might be wiser to take a lesson from our past and ensure that whilst you are living it up on the good (financial) times that things are put in place to prevent you landing on your face when that starts to disappear. Just for the record....Tullochs finances are not, and have not been for a long time, tied to the finances of ICT in any way, shape or form. If C*unty fans are only picking up on that now, then you're living further in the past than I thought.

I'm going to start supporting our Under 20s.

You are now an enemy of the ICT players I would imagine.

Aberdeen is about to get a second Nandos. No wonder Hayes left. Butcher get it sorted!

That staggy bloke is having a laugh if hes trying to be a Wiseman.

Maybe they will change their name to Ross Cownty?

:lol: So that is why we only got one feckin table booked for the Aberdeen game. I can just imagine that potential attenders were asked what their preferred toppings were - replied chicken, ham and bacon. Butcher was told but put chilli beef on the right, prawns on the left and peppers up front.

Only one word for it - obsessed. Ross County will be forever in our shadow. Bloody hell, just had a look on their website - this is the 2nd most commented topic after Riordan (not) signing for county! http://www.overthebridge.info/showthread.php?tid=648

You would have Jimmy Calderwood ahead of Gordon Strachan? Strachan took Celtic to last 16 of the Champions League several times with limited players. Calderwood has a comparable record to Levein and he would be another disaster. Smith wouldn't be that bad an appointment, he steadied the ship last time. They should sack him immediately, we have zero chance of qualifying. Nothing Levein has done in his time in the Scotland job shows any potential for us to turn this situation around.

Would rather watch Scotland struggle against the Faroe Islands than contemplate a Team GB.

Whilst C*unty lost 1-6 to Dunfermline at the Global Energy Stadium yesterday.

Im giving you a green dot Dougal as you made me chuckle, when you mentioned 3 stands I immediately thought of main, north and south stands and thought yes, you have taken the bait. You have also inadvertently highlighted that the tickets are on sale. If their that keen to start buying tickets then the only thing to suggest is buying a ticket early and keep them in the south stand.

I wasn't suggesting that the club was faultless in any way....nor did I seek to defend the tardiness in getting the information online. I was, in fact, the one who highlighted that it should have been up but wasn't...and there's likely someone at the club cussing me for that, but hey ho!!! Nor do I think that the fans are to blame for everything, but I do think that their needs to be a bit of movement from both sides if we are to start improving things. There's certainly nothing to be gained from spending more time on the blame game than on striving to put things right, especially if that involves hammering the people who are trying. The information wasn't put online when it should have been...that's a screw up, but nothing can change that and I'm sure it will be looked in to by the club to see how and why (something I would not have been confident of happening a couple of years back). However, the information did go out to the press and was in at least one of last weeks local papers...so the failure to communicate was not total (of little consequence in the eyes of some I am sure). I totally get (and share) the frustration from fans when things, sometimes simple things, don't go/get done as the should. I just choose to deal with it different these days. I could have come on and done as others did by bitching, moaning and complaining about it and I would have been just as entitled to do so as anyone else. Instead I chose to use that bit of time and energy to go find the information and get it online. In deciding to do that I somehow become the villain and the next thing Caley Jags Together are being blamed for the screw up...how does that work? I could have just ignored the situation, done nothing, posted nothing and left fans without the info to continue to bitch and moan (seems that would have been the outcome either way) and saved myself the grief. People want to know how they can help....take a little bit of that time you were going to spend a rant and use it instead to spread the information instead. Not saying people shouldn't complain when things get screwed up, but we all have the power to help negate the effects of that if we just approach things with a slightly different mindset. Fans should not be viewed, or be viewing themselves, as "just customers". They are so much more than that, they deserve to be treated as so much more than that, but they also have to behave in a manner which is so much more than that.

I don't know who you are referring to as the "playground bullies" as I certainly wasn't jumping on the person who spotted it. So by your way of thinking if Debenhams are having a sale and nobody turns up to it as it wasn't advertised it is the customers fault for not phoning Debenhams to check if there was a sale on and not Debenhams for advertising it. I just feel that in the present climate where every pound is a prisoner the club failing to advertise the tickets for potentially our biggest gate of the season is amateurish. Some on here now seem to think on here now the club is faultless and the fans are to blame for everything now but they must remember the fans are the customers.

Not having a go but I don't think many of us were aware that they were on sale.