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Actually looking for more than one flat/house Does this mean we've signed Leigh Griffiths!? His squad of ex-girlfriends and kids would need an entire housing estate...

Happy to see the Edinburgh clubs back up. Less so to see the toxic Bigot Brothers re-united as a double act.

I think we should have a referendum on September 14th to decide if we stay in this "Union" or if Caley and Thistle should go it alone.

Without having researched it, I may well be wrong, but I'll bet they took the suffix 'Caledonian Thistle' as a quaint, Scottish-sounding alternative to just 'Thistle'. "What'll we use as the 'bit after' Hamilton.....United?...City?...Wanderers?...Rovers?...Thistle?...yes! ...NO!...even better....Caledonian Thistle!.. After all, Inverness use it!" Typical, ignorant central belters!

Hadn't realised until Caley Mad pm'd me at the weekend...so now have train booked from Euston as well (1 hour behind Zoid it seems)

Oh! for Goodness sake why can't we all just support the Sneckie team. The Union was made between the two teams to further the cause of quality football in the Highlands, it has worked, we are a successful SPFL contender, so get behind the pride of Sneckie. The marriage worked let's just remember that and leave the separatism behind like our neighbours over the bridge................... IN OUR SHADOW

£10 million I reckon.

They are a girls youth club and, as is only fitting, their colours are red and b.......................................................................lack. Also their name is one letter shorter that the real Caley Thistle.

I personally spent the best part of 6 years chasing the same path that you seem to be on....and came very close to packing the whole thing in, including my support of the club, due to the frustrations of not actually achieving very much (in terms of getting support from others). It wasn't until I refocused....thanks to people telling me the same thing I'm saying to you....that I found a task that allowed me achieve something tangible through my contribution, and something that I (mostly) enjoy and get a great deal of personal satisfaction from. I still champion the idea of a lot people doing a little instead of few people doing a lot...it's just no longer the primary focus. And the thing is, more people have come forward to offer help and get involved in the past 2 years than I ever saw in the 6 years prior to that. I'm not the only person that's been in the above position and had those experiences, but I can only speak for myself. For all I know, you may be the person to get a different result and if you truly believe you can, then go for it. Being the stubborn, opinionated SOB that I am, it's probably what I would do (and did for years)

Talk is cheap and ideas are worthless without the money/resource to back them up. Until people who are willing/able to commit time to projects, then all we do is keep going round in the same circles we have been for as long as I can remember. Also, my tuppence worth on having a network of Supporters Clubs. If there's a group of people in an area with the will to make something happen, then it'll happen....and it's how it should happen. If these groups should appear and want any assistance from the club or CJT, then I'm sure it would be given. There's also nothing to prevent any of these groups becoming affiliate members/branches of central organisation (such as CJT). There are lots of small groups of fans who already get together to attend games and/or socialise before/after games....most of them aren't interested in becoming organised groups as they (understandably) can't be ersed with the politics and paperwork that inevitably arise the moment you start forming committees etc. If there is one thing I've learned from years of banging my head against the above walls, then it's that the "build it and they will come" things is a load of BS. If you really want to make a difference, then put your time into doing things other than regurgitating endless lists of ideas. Maybe, just maybe, leading by example is the key to getting others involved...and if not...well at least you've not waste your time.

Poor Dougal He really is having such difficulty coming to terms with the stunning success of the merger-catalysed transition from a few hundred fans shouting abuse at each other in the relative anonymity of the Highland League to a high profile team in the top half of the Scottish Premiership.

Beam him up Scotty !

You really are f****** clueless arent you. Have you ever attended an MLS game? How does an artificial surface translate to creating a mini MLS? and would mimicking some aspects of MLS - a league on the up, with rising attendances, improving quality, and a very serious youth policy that requires every club to establish an Academy, not to mention 22 players representing their respective countries at the world cup - be that bad? Just for a bit of clarity ..... MLS has 19 teams playing in 18 stadiums (LA & Chivas share). 3 teams (Seattle, Portland, New England) use Field Turf, 1 team (Vancouver) uses Polytan. So 14 out of 18 stadiums using good old grass ..... Of those 18 stadiums, 13 of them are "soccer specific stadiums" with only DC United, New England, San Jose, Seattle and Vancouver playing in stadiums not built specifically for football. DC United & San Jose are building new stadiums, and future teams New York FC, Orlando, and Miami are all building or looking to build proper football stadiums too..... so in the next 3 years or so MLS will have 22 teams, 19 in their own "soccer specific" stadiums with capacities of around 20-25000 each, with 18 of them using grass. Only 1 team in MLS that is playing in its own stadium will actually be choosing to use Field Turf (Portland) .... and that surface is approved at the highest level by FIFA. As for the hot dog vendors in the aisles .... not seen them at any ground yet, they usually stay in the concourse, i think the grill is a little heavy to carry up all those stairs, but I have seen popcorn vendors and the all important beer vendors going up and down the aisles. Funnily enough, I also dont recall any teams having mascots like we do in Scotland, and no cheerleaders either ...... so if anyone is guilty of making things a bit 'Disney' it is the SPFL .... and I am sure its not the first or last time the words Mickey Mouse and SPFL will appear in the same sentence !

Train from Solihull to Tysley from memory, 10 mins

£29 a night for a room at Premier Inn in Solihull

Conveniently I fly back from America, arriving in Manchester early Saturday morning. 2 hour journey from the airport to Birmingham and I'll be there for the game! I've already booked to stay overnight in Manchester before flying home to Inverness on Sunday. That was lucky planning!

Thinking of making a couple of nights of it. Hotel ibis Bordesley Circus (5 mins from ground) £79 Double room B&B for two nights. Anyone else fancy it?

Match Ticket prices.... £7 Adult £5 Senior/Student £2 Under 16's

Wish to point out that i said this months ago

Incorporated this friendly into my summer holiday. I'm already looking forward to his fixture already.

Looking forward to it :)

Feck me - £23.00 return - sorted

20 years on, I really prefer just to boil the merger down to four brief statements. It happened. It was controversial at the time. It worked. It has brought football in Inverness on light years since 1994.

Virgin Train from Euston Booked. Arrive at Birmingham New Street @ 11:08. Depart @ 20:10. Cannae wait....

FlyBe from Edinburgh 1000 returning at 1850

We are getting a train down from Glasgow at 0550. It stops in Preston and Warrington. I think around 0815 or something like that. Return train at 1815. You jumping aboard?

I'll be there +1

Birmingham, Alabama?

Birmingham's only pre-season home game seemingly - should be a decent crowd then.... http://www.bcfc.com/news/article/20140616-blues-to-host-scottish-premiership-side-inverness-in-pre-season-friendly-1645183.aspx?utm_campaign=Wildfire+Message+-+PRE-SEASON+UPDATE%3A+%23BCFC+will+play+%40ICTFC+at...&utm_content=po_1205486&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

Gringo will have the pubs covered and will try to look after you. The ground is a good walk from the city centre but we can arrange a suitable meeting point and take it from there.

alternative maryhill seems to be coordinating the effort for the Central Belters. I'll be down for the Commonwealth Games anyway so I think I'll tag along.

I'd be keen, permission from the boss pending... Edit- Dab speeling.

we're not running a train. will still go tho.

B&B at Gringo's (home) pub :-)

What a great fixture. I'll be there for sure, perhaps with one or two others from this area. I'll try and get the lads who went to Charlton with me last pre season interested. We probably need a Brummie to recommend a good pre match pub.

Me plus wife and so far 7 West Brom supporting relatives. Plan is a wedding on Friday and game Saturday with much alcohol between the two. Couldn't believe this when it was announced with us already being in Brum for the weekend.