Leaderboard

I never realised there was an identity crisis regarding the club and how it is perceived by our own fans on what other football fans think about the club. Never realised we were a joke club either considering what the club has achieved in its short history. We have earned respect from a lot of people involved in football and from supporters from other clubs. I been away from the site for a few months and what's changed?. Have the Dingle County supporters and the 'flat earthers' got folks this rattled over the club's identity? I wear the ICT colours with pride, f**k 'em.

The last home kit was a good one but despite being a former Caley fan I would go down the identity route with more red and go for the blue/red stripes which is unique currently in Scottish football. This is the new Ado Den Haag home kit, it would be a cracking kit for us if using in that template the green was swapped for blue and the yellow swapped for red with both white and black used in the fine detail.

Or you could dress up like a pint! CD Lugo (Same division as above team I think)

There is a very good reason why no club does anything like that. A clubs home colours should be instantly recognisable.

I see in January, I posted that I couldn't see anything other than a No victory but I don't feel that way anymore. The sense I'm starting to get is that there's a good chance Yes will pull this out the bag. Even if they don't, I can't see a landslide for No and I reckon in the long run, independence could well be inevitable.

Have I missed something?. I have been under the impression right or wrong that for the last twenty years our colours were red and blue

Spanish 3rd tier club, Cultural Leonesa have had a novelty kit for pre-season. A tuxedo themed top - it's been so well received that the club are going to use it as their change strip! Totally quirky and completely unique. It would be like playing against waiters!

Killie third kit template. I have spotted we have the same training tops as them but our colours.

Here's an exclusive first look from one 'in the know' Hibs fan.

Yes, the Caley ballroom for me too, (and, yes, it was Harry Shore's band there), unless I was slumming it at the Meeting rooms. I remember being stopped by the doorman on entering the Caley one night. He pulled me aside and I thought I was in trouble. Imagine my surprise, when he offered me a job as a bouncer! I had to decline, because I was more keen on chasing skirt inside the place, than in chasing drunks away from it. Happy days indeed.

Hey! Royalties! Just wanted to reprieve one of the infamous Mantis4... you normally trotted that one out as we were leaving Ballinluig if I remember. Helmut Schoen at Carrbridge. Cannae do that anymore with all them cameras about...

When asked who I support I always say Inverness, down in England mostreply with Inverness Caledonian Thistle? Clearly having one of be longest names in football sticks in people's minds. Until we have blue and red polka dots I personally won't be happy. We could avoid this whole debacle by just playing shirts v skins and not bothering with a strip.

Outsiders call us Inverness. Nearly everyone i know in the central belt know us as that. That's my experience as well. In Inverness from what I've found, we're usually called Caley or Caley Thistle. Almost everyone to a man and woman I've spoken to about ICT referred to us as Inverness. One person I know was really surprised when I informed him of this as well!

Trying to find a blend between two strikingly different kits is always going to be difficult, particularly when the two clubs played in blue/white and red/black. Mucking about with different designs every few years leaves us 'wide open' to accusations of not knowing our own identity and being an artificial club. We need to have a consistent , recognisable identity - and this should have been addressed at the outset. Obviously, the debate had more to do with the feasibility of such a club, rather than what colours it would be wearing. But, rightly so - a time-scale had to be met. However, this constant changing of kit is pathetic. Ask a football fan in the street to name the colours of Scotland's clubs: Celtic - green/white hoops Ross County - navy blue Aberdeen - red St Mirren - black/white stripes Hibs - green/white arms Dundee Utd - tangerine Hearts - maroon The Rangers - blue Kilmarnock - blu/white stripes Motherwell - amber Dundee - navy blue St Johnstone - blue Elgin - black?white stripes etc. ICT - Nobody knows. And we wonder why we're still considered a joke club?! Yes, it may take 60 years or more until the last Thistle or Caley fan 'passes on', leaving the debate behind, but surely, in the present, can't we find an identity, a unity, a consistent set of colours that we're recognised by?

That would be ok till 2016 but then there wont be a union flag as we know it. Proposal after Indy

You mean you hope we might win some Highland League titles and the odd Qualifying and North of Scotland Cup ?

The club is referred to as "Caley" by most so it makes perfect sense to wear a blue strip . Hopefully some of Caleys success will rub off on ICT .

Decent mix of red and blue, some stripes and a general image to reflect the amicable union of two clubs with proud traditions. Is this the sort of thing folk are after?

As somebody who grew up supporting ICT and not a glimmer of any bullsh*t from before in sight, I've always been fond of Stripes. Fairly equal measures honouring both old sides just seems adequate to me. Obviously it all comes down to the board and such ultimately but I'll still be livid if it's not Stripes. Hell. I suppose I'de be alright if it was just red AND blue and none of this predominantly blue malarkey. Grew up with ICT being red and blue bar a few seasons, why change it now. Just delves further into seeming we don't know what we want to be. Shame.

Thanks. Guess I was too subtle!

Absolutely. The resentment built up from being subjected to the unfair, self-serving and hypocritical acts of these politicians on a long term basis affects mood, your pocketbook and your happiness. This ultimately can lead to depression and stress which leads to chemical changes within the body and thus a deterioration in health....and higher medical premiums. For the more robust individuals in society , those who are sound of body and mind and usually have more interests and outlets for their energy, it can all be shrugged shrug off for time periods which allow them to counter these degenerative changes. But the disabled can't do this due to the fact that they are much more moribund and inactive AND unable to exercise. The latter being the best antidote to the poison generated in uncaring bucketfuls by these parasitic political panderers whom you can usually trust only if they say something that you know will definitely lead to something else that will line their pockets with filthy lucre. So, for those who are still contemplating voting "No", I rest my case. Good luck with that one. But while you ruminate again this evening on the words of the sage Confucious, who sayeth unto thee : ''The river, if taken at the flood, leads on to greatness." do remember also that "He who hesitates is lost". Or, to put it bluntly, chums..."Faint heart ne'er won fair lady." You have got only ONE chance to break the yoke of the new English Hammer of the Scots ..and his name aint Eddy the 1. It's ..."You can Trust Me" Cammy the Cute, who now thinks he's the modern successor to King **** You'll be in fine fettle if you grasp the nettle And dinna run away 'But if you don't, your Master Cameron will make you pay And, even if you enter the fray, youse will never have a say No matter what you do or what you think Your boat willnae float for long but will surely sink.

Heard we are wearing body paint and wode this season.

I was actually worried that the situation may have escalated given the previous stated fears of Alex mc cloud

So to sum it up if Caley had gone it alone they would be somewhere between bust and regulars in the europa league and would have between 300 & 20,000 fans, their stadia would be on the high school grounds and the kids would get taught in the old b&q

I am 50 and had a brief infantile flirtation with Glasgow Rangers but grew out of it by the age of ten when I was old enough to appreciate just what they and their fans espoused.For the last 40 years my big teams have been Inverness Thistle and ICT although I must confess a soft spot for Clach as my late father supported them all his days and never quite forgave me for my red and black affiliations.