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Cant we just go to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for all this to blow over?

now, now. Don't exaggerate. Nothing's more tedious than that. With the possible exception of Dougal and the merger..

He should be sacked just to stop this thread! Getting worse than Bannerman and Oddquine's ramblings about the referendum

Hate to say it but C*unty are a bigger club than us . Ok explain...... Bigger support and better stadium to begin with .

After seeing Foran on BBC Alba talking at half time, maybe we should sack Hughes and make him the gaffer - inspirational!

Yeah it really has to be Draper and Foran or Tansey. I'd want my captain playing, but there certainly isn't the room for Draper, Vincent, Foran and Tansey in the same 11. You've also got Polworth pushing for a start now. Ross should play more. I feel there are plenty of physical players to make up for his lack of presence, as he has better vision and guile for the defence splitting pass. He doesn't really give it away passing either. So ideally in an attacking midfield role. Be nice to see Christie play a bit more with Doran out. He clearly has something and now would good be a good time to get plentiful 1st team exposure. Rest some of the boys and get them to earn their spots back.

This is your OP Mahonio. Sorry, but can't see any question marks in that. The thread title may have a question mark attached but you make your position very clear in your post. Your post was a strong criticism of the manager and was not a question. If you don't like people disagreeing with you then you only have yourself to blame. I'm glad you have posted something more positive about giving the youngsters more of a chance. I'm sure most folk will agree with you on that.

Yeah with top 6 secure now and our chances of anything higher than 4th looking quite unlikely it's probably a good time to rest some legs and see what the others can do. Evans, is he the forward we're looking for? Can Christie be our Ryan Gauld? Is Liam Polworth the perfect foil for Draper? What of Pepper, so promising in his 1st season. Lets see what won Greenhalgh his TV contract with Inter Milan. No better time when we realistically have little to play for now.

2-0....and that, ladies and gentlemen is it for this season. Best we can hope for is keeping St J at bay for 5th. I'm afraid JH has not quite found the right balance yet: too many central midfielders and no pace

BBC: The pace of the game at Tannadice is electric! Good football is at a premium, but after some controversial moments in recent games between the two this one is being played like a derby match.

Yes i recently had a relapse i had a magnum after saying i wouldn't after due to Judas left

My name is caleydawson and I am a threadoholic. I will think of any excuse to start a thread.

Thomas Piermayr? Good God. I must have been at upwards of 20 games in season 11/12, and can remember absolutely nothing about this player. I can't have been drunk all the time, surely?

We've been over this ground so many times I sometimes think a furrow has been ploughed. I know that many people think that football is too expensive, but it's relative cost is much the same as twenty years ago. You earn more, you pay more and in Caley Thistle's case that's less than all other SPFL clubs (for a matchday inclusive cost) according to this year's BBC survey. If ticketing is discounted, does it result in an upsurge of attendance? Not really. In Inverness' case, the majority of support come from a relatively affluent area, although there are areas of deprivation so if cost were the factor you would expect that to be reflected elsewhere in the leisure sector and it's not happening. So cost, despite what people might feel, isn't the issue for the majority. The matchday experience is continually being surveyed as being value for money, despite the obvious limitations of the stadium. Sure it's out of the centre of town but no more of a walk than to Parkhead or Tannadice or Tynecastle from the centres of Glasgow, Dundee or Edinburgh - although there the similarity ends. Hospitality at Caley Thistle frequently earns good reviews and marketing is becoming more and more effective - look at the stats for website hits etc. The Club knows it is an entertainment business and lives or dies by the product it markets, so I don't think that's the issue. It will always be cold, windy and sometimes wet at TCS, we live in Scotland after all so the only way to address that and make the football better to watch is to move to summer football, move the stadium or install an artificial surface that compensates for the battered pitch at this time of the year. But I don't get the impression that this is the issue, and in any case could the Club fund a move of stadium (which would cost millions) on the back of attracting a couple of thousand more fans every month? I meet a lot of football fans, especially Caley Thistle ones. I meet a lot of non-football supporting locals as well and in all of the conversations that I've had - and there have been thousands - I've only ever met three merger refuseniks. Three. I keep looking for objective evidence that these Caley Thistle resenting thousands are out there but they simply aren't. Inverness doesn't hate Caley Thistle, it simply doesn't engage and that is the issue. The Club is not enmeshed in the community in ways that are true even of our neighbours over the water and that's simply down to the amount of time we've been on the planet. Putting down roots takes time. Caley Thistle does a vast amount of community work that is aimed especially at younger people and that is starting to make a diference, but it won't in the short term and that's what people are concerned with in this thread. What will make a difference is taking a personal stake in making things better. Make it your responsibility - not the guy in the next seat, or the ones in the main/ north stand - to take just one person along with you for a home game. If they think it's garbage, at least you've tried. But not all will. Some will come back regularly or irregularly and that's where the issue lies and that's where you can make a difference.

As far as I'm concerned Doran is nowhere near fit just now, I'd give him a week/2 week rest Brill Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Draper Foran Watkins Tansey Williams Mckay

Celtic players I think. Allowed to sit there to give them a feel for what it's like to be on the pitch at a cup final.

Certainly weren't there to move the Aberdeen ballboys during the penalty shoot-out.

We decided to do this weeks video with Yogi a bit differently today by having myself and Iain Auld join him for a round the table chat. It's over 27 minutes long, but covers some of the topics being discussed on here recently....

Any of you eejits calling for his head, take half an hour out your life and watch this. Brilliant wee insight.

Their away top is pretty cool too. http://www.designfootball.com/design-galleries/fantasy-football-shirts/fc-basel-away-13729#joomimg The only problem with this link is that it is an attempt at a design, not their actual away top. The real away top is white with a red/blue stripe down the middle.

I think our board just go on the Errea website and pick a blank canvas design then have Errea do the personalisations (ie crest and sponsor). Going back to this would be a preference I'm a stripe fan.