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Caught on video, his "downfall". http://meemsy.com/v/5592

I'd like us just to play in solid red and blue vertically striped strips, Barcelona style.

I think the club should build a big advertising board, the size of the missing stand. Sell advertising on the outside and paint the inside as an image of a full stand. Standing of course. It would generate revenue. Keep the noise in. maybe even cut down on the wind swirl. and be relatively simple to design / construct. It could also house the Jumbotron. It would also provide a better backdrop for using as a stadium concert setting, acoustically and visually. Local artist could be hired to insert real fans into the visible first rows or two, to be sold to those fans wishing to have themselves in the mural, places for fans to be honoured in life and beyond. Hall of fame section of managers and players? What do you think? I think I had too much coffee

The sooner we all realise that the vast majority of those purchasing and wearing the strips these days have little or no concern for how much either of the merger clubs are represented, the better....and I include the club in that. I'm all for remembering ICTs roots and recognising the merged clubs histories as part of our own, but I do fear that there exists an underlying fear of upsetting one half or the other of the merger contingent in many things which holds us back as a club. As I said above, those people are a small and ever shrinking proportion of the current fanbase and it's ridiculous that they should still hold, or think they hold, any sway with what should be happening today.

Absolutely, it's unique within the Scottish game, displays an intertwining of Inverness Thistle and Caledonian and would end the calls of the club showing a bias towards the latter. I also believe that a Caledonian style home shirt and Thistle away is a ridiculous idea that would do nothing more than open up old wounds. Bring back the stripes!

Why? I bet the club don't share that same view. I'd rather have as many fans there as possible. More money for the club and a better chance of hanging on to key players and getting new ones in when required.

Cant get it on my phone. Any chance of uploading it to youtube, that works on most phones!

For me, this is 100% true! I started following ICT in 1996 as a 7 year old and have no affiliation with the two old clubs, however, i am well aware of the merger history and i like to personally remember both teams and their histories and even go as far to say i support them BOTH. This is because to me, Caley and Thistle are like older brothers who created the finest club the Highlands have ever seen. This is why, like me, we should CELEBRATE the merger and stop bickering about it! And with the whole strip thing.... If you were to ask any of my generation, what is ICTs identity? I believe the vast majority would say blue and red stripes. We're coming up to the 20th anniversary of our formation and in 2014 we will have a new home shirt. I would love it if the club would draw a line under the past and look to the future and say "We Are ICT, And This Is Our Identity" and bring out a 50/50 blue and red striped home shirt! Ditch the white and black or like the current away, white and black can be the away shirt colours. Crystal Palace are the only other team in the British Isles who sport red/blue stripes and we would be the only ones in Scotland. If like this season (so far) assaulting the top of the table becomes a regular occurance, we need to have an identity so that those the world over know exactly who the MIGHTY ICT ARE!!

Wrong thread! Are you a staggie in disguise? Merger is past history in case you didn't know!

Why? because we closed a thread that had become personal and abusive? We did that 18 years ago, we did it 10 years ago, and we will continue to do it. However, please feel free to follow our site rules and report the specific message that so offends you and the mods will discuss and/or re-open threads (minus the abuse) if they feel it is warranted. Yet post #109 is acceptable . Usual double standards ! How do you know that the guy in the picture is not called Dougal?

I don't disagree with that, and as I alluded too, I think the club actually still fear drawing that line and saying "this is our image" because they think it might upset someone or other....even though those people are very much a minority. Red and Blue stripes would be great, IMO. Not because it's 50/50 representation or any of that nonsense though....just because I think it looks good and, as you say, would develop that identity we so definitely need.

I was a season ticket holding Inverness based supporter when I founded the site in 1994 ... but life happens. Would you like me to turn it over to someone else now that I am in Toronto and just a shareholder rather than a locally based season ticket holder? Make me an offer? I know the costs involved in having run this site for free but using commercial grade hosting and software for the last 18, almost 19 years. As for supporting a big team, yes i followed one (rather than supported one) prior to the creation of ICT. That team was Celtic. I was a paying customer at Telford Street but watched/supported Celtic on TV. My first visit to Celtic Park was the postponed game in 2000 where I ran an ICT bus via the Caley Inn, and my first time inside the stadium was in the away end on Feb 8th 2000. Even one of the ultimate refuseniks (Kavs), told me later that he respected the fact that I was a Caley fan and that I dropped all other allegiances when ICT was formed, even if he himself could not respect 'that team'. I am now a season ticket holder at Toronto FC in MLS and make no secret of my Scottish allegiance. If the two teams ever played, I would be in the ICT end and that is a fact. TFC are my wee team now, even if TFC play in a larger stadium, have a larger fan base, more money etc etc etc ...... I would not argue with the strip thing other than to say that aesthetically there are limited things you can do with red/white/blue/black. I would be happy if we had a red/black home strip and blue/white away strip then alternated them every couple of years. Regardless of percentages, both Thistle and Caley are our history and should be viewed as equal partners. Alternatively, I would also back a permanent combination of (equal width) red/blue vertical stripes. Those have always been my favourite ICT strips and as mentioned above, definitely unique. It is our "Brand" if you like. If other teams (globally) with vertical stripes or (in the SPL) with horizontal stripes can stick with the same basic design and just tweak it every year or two to be slightly different then I dont see why we cannot .... our away strip could then alternate between blue/white and red/black etc ..... Why? because we closed a thread that had become personal and abusive? We did that 18 years ago, we did it 10 years ago, and we will continue to do it. However, please feel free to follow our site rules and report the specific message that so offends you and the mods will discuss and/or re-open threads (minus the abuse) if they feel it is warranted.

That said though and irrespective of your personal history and for others age I think most believe blue and red stripes should be our identity (happy to be proved wrong but don't think I am). Unfortunately as you point out CD the club don't really care too much about identity. This is not in my experience how to create a brand image but more than anything I just feel sad that's how they are....

As I've mentioned before , the lack of respect shown to Thistle is the only thing wrong with the merger . Otherwise it has been one success story after another . 2nd in the league , managed by a former Captain of England , and just knocked off Celtic in their own back yard , trust me , it will never be as good as this ever again , but why oh why , the insulting playing strip , how would Caley fans like it if Caley Thistle played in black and red stripes , with a few (almost invisible) blue squiggles through it ?

Dougal photographed whilst asking Santa if he can be a mod....

Oh it was so good watching Sportscene tonight , to hear our team being credited for their amazing achievments make's me so proud to be an ICT fan

I think the Dundee Santa had too much sherry!

And all I look at is how many points we are behind the leader.

The page would be far better if you/they dropped the rabid bitter ex-hun content. Such tripe besmirches the name of Caledonian FC. And fair play to you for getting so up to speed with things, having spent the time of the merger in 'Nottingham'. Sorry to dissapoint you Danger but I had absolutely nothing to do with the FB page but I'd agree with you regarding the Orc content As for your other point what can I say I'm a quick learner Dougal Edit King Beast you don't have to post what your favourite hobby is when your on your own It just only confirms what we already knew Dougal

I was 14 years old when CT were voted in to the league. I was a shirt-wearing Aberdeen fan at the time. I'd watch Caledonian in pre-season friendlies when school was off. Went to the autograph signings, supporters bus, member of the junior supporters club, even wrote a letter to Ian Porterfield at about 7 years old. That was that. Took a while, like coming off heroin. These refuseniks are by and large OF fans who were caught out by CTs formation and couldn't kick the habit. They are questionable Highlanders

Well if there was ever any proof needed to back up the alleged number of refuseniks in our City or for that matter further a field this Facebook page has it This is a new page created only a few days ago yet the number of likes is steadily increasing Bannerman and his new best mate CaleyD can try and spread their lies regarding their phonebox or a handful of rebels but this blows their theories right out of the water Dougal

Because some of what he/she puts into that article is written to put Inverness folk down. Inverness is nearer Faroes than London. Whats the relevence of that. Newcastle is nearer to Inverness than it is to London as the crow flies. Inverness is the most remote city? How do you interperate 'remote'. To me 'remote' is somewhere very difficult to get to. "Due to its location and the sparseness of the population" What because its location is north east Scotland and not Essex? A small city with a population in excess of 60,000 can hardly be termed sparse. Sparse is the population of Wester Ross or Lochaber even. Cant really describe the city of Inverness as sparse. The use of certain words and phrases are there to belittle the city of Inverness. Nothing to do with Whisky battlefields and monsters. The attempt is to belittle the city. That's some chip Alex..................live and let live. It's all in the interpretation.........and the size of the chip. Are you still upset about Culloden? No chips on me mate...........as for Culloden, they got what they deserved. Had they not been so stupid as to listen to yon traitor Campbell they'd have continued the march from Derby and taken London. Incidently I'm 3/4 MacDonald 1/4 MacLeod.

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.

I am sure Mr Bannerperson will be happy and quick to educate, debate, inform, scold , elucidate, possibly obfuscate, interpret, confuse, review , go.."phew", annotate, analyse, conclude, high-falute, dictate and dynamically divide and conquer us all with a daring dash of precise prose, a plethora of parametric, profuse anagrams and terrific, trite, textual tongue-ticklers trimmed to tease and tantalise our epiglottis's. Hold on, let me just draw a wee breath before the onslaught..... And I hear that the cops are bringing in a large Mountie for County..... smile.