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TerryMo, it's something that the club and supporters groups (not just at ICT) have though about long and hard this year. Our attendances, like every other club in the SPL, have been hit hard by the fact that there's a recession on and money is tight. The latest SPL figures show an average league attendance of 4032 for this season and these are at the bottom end of the scale. However, they are not way out so it doesn't appear that there is something unique about us ( St Johnstone, C*unty and St Mirren are much and such) so outside of the main population centres there's a definite loss of attendances. Forget the stuff about the Rangers, that's a smokescreen and has made no difference at all to our overall crowds this year. Forget the stuff about the SPL being boring and substandard - we certainly can't subscribe to that this year! Away supports seem to have suffered greatly this year as well, so what evidence there is points to finances being the problem. So what can we do? The club can (and will) subsidise admission prices in an effort to get people in (£15 for the replay). Caley Jags Together will bang the drum and continue to fundraise and work our a*ses off in support of the club. The players and staff deliver a really cracking product week in, week out. We will continue to raise our media profile so that more and more people know about ICT and how good we are this year. So we do what we can, and will continue to do so but we need individuals to make the decision to come to TCS. We need you to persuade your partner, your mates, your neighbour to come along. We can't do that for you. My real fear is that we reach a point where the players who have reached historic highs for this club decide that their stock is sufficiently raised to go to places where bigger and noisier crowds will value and encourage them, and that would be a real shame. The solution is in the hands of the fans - and now they need to step up to the plate.

Lets get down to the feckin nitty feckin gritty - WE ARE A CLUB IN ITS FECKIN INFANCY - WE ARE A CLUB THAT WILL ALWAYS BE A FECKIN SHOP WINDOW FOR "BIGGER" CLUBS - WE ARE A CLUB THAT WILL LOSE OUR BEST PLAYERS ON A FECKIN REGULAR BASIS - WE ARE A CLUB THAT WILL ALWAYS STRUGGLE FINANCIALLY TO BALANCE THE BOOKS - WE WILL ALWAYS FACE COMPETITION FROM THE OLD FIRM AND THE ATTRACTION TO GLORY HUNT. And we will possibly never be in the same positive position that we are now BUT we just seem to keep going and going - year after feckin year - on a feckin shoestring, picking up players who many have dismissed and blending them in to a feeling of togetherness. Have we had some feckin great times or feckin what ? We probably only have a fan base of 2000-3000 but that is becoming the faithful and it can only grow if we influence the yoof of inversneckie to follow - and staying in the SPL will only help that recruitment and retention process. It took me 3 feckin seasons to forgive and forget the bloodiness of the merger - BUT I have built up a tremendous group of friends from all over the feckin world - AND I am now INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE till i die - which could be a feckin long time !! If we are in the bottom division in 2021 and playing East Stirlingshire on a feckin frost Tuesday nite in mid-january - I will be feckin there - WILL YOU ?

I think you should move house!

I'll put money on that facebook page being the fountain of knowledge and fact that is the Inverness CT Fans one...!!!

Before asking what others are doing, perhaps people should ask themselves what they are doing.

Feck me who got him started....and there was you only after a quiet pint with your mates....god help them if they ask for Guinness as they might just give the game away....

understood that perfectly heilandee. must be the upbringing or something, eh dinna ken. BTW if you still need info about the sports bar, get in touch with Peter McCallum at the stadium ( although CD might have sorted you by now)

It's quite amusing. Quite a few of their fans are saying the match on Saturday against Dundee is more important for them - I don't believe them for even a nanosecond. At the same time, Adam is trying to make out they're the underdog. I don't see it that way at all. County are a club with a chairman with money to invest - we don't. However, we have grit, determination, skill, and a real 'TogtherNess' which they lack. Make no mistake, they'll be up for this one.

And not forgetting Nick Ross

Distracted by filming the new series of An Idiot Abroad.

Just wondering, in that context, could "Sold out" also mean "Not made available for sale yet"?

I'm sure Laurence could provide you with a few of his novels

I can accept that early on in the season, one or two games in, we could find ourselves in a strange league position - up too high or down too low, due to the early opposition we have had to contend with. WE ARE HALF WAY THROUGH THE SEASON AND MY WEE TEAM ARE SECOND TOP!! SHOUTING??? OF COURSE I'M SHOUTING! I hope they heard me in Dingwall! I hope they heard me in Central Scotland where they complain that the road to Inverness tires out their players but our players are immune to this journey. I hope they heard me in Dundee where our presence in the league was not wanted by one team there - I think they said they wanted their neighbours instead. As we look down we can only wonder ...WHO ARE YA!! I hope they heard me in every house in the INVERNESS area unwilling to support us ... like the ones traveling home from Glasgow having scrapped a win against the lowest side in the SFL. Following today's poor turnout I feel that INVERNESS does not deserve any team, never mind one sitting SECOND TOP of the SPL - and there will be many sitting waiting to say 'I knew it', when we drop/if we drop to third spot. Anyway, to the aforementioned, GIRUY, the view is great from up here!!!!

Who needs antidepressants when we have ICT. i. e. IMMEDIATE CHEMICAL-LESS TITILATORS second in the SPL i.e. SUPER PRESSURE LIMITORS division of the SFA. In fact our needs are really SFA as long as our side effects to eliminate all opposition, presented to us in cups, or other measures of potential containment. With all due respect IHE, sir, togetherness relates to ......... in the case study of ICT .......... The Only Good Emotion Tonic Held Entirely Responsive Now Excluding Sexual Satisfaction.

At least the announcer today is an ICTFC fan!

I'll pass on your comments.