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Hibs demonstrated last night the merits of treating The Rangers as the mediocre Championship side they are and having a go at them rather than standing off like they were Barcelona or even Celtic.

I hope you and your 400 followers can make the county matc;-) Aye should be going to it and i shall bring my followers Are you bringing your female friends again.

3-2 final score. First win of the season! Calum Ferguson must be getting close to a place on the bench!

Hibernian FC ‏@HibsOfficial 7 minutes in and Nick Ross has opened the scoring for the Inverness under-20s Official ICTFC ‏@ICTFC 1m1 minute ago GOALLLLL : Nick Ross sets up the second for Calum Ferguson : @ICTFC 2 v 0 @HibsOfficial : @SPFL Dev League. Hibernian FC ‏@HibsOfficial 23 mins 23 minutes in and Taylor Hendry has had to be subbed due to a suspected broken thumb. Jordan Sinclair is his replacement Official ICTFC ‏@ICTFC 27mins Dunsmore pulls one back from 30 yards : @ICTFC 2 v 1 @HibsOfficial : @SPFL Dev League Hibernian FC ‏@HibsOfficial The wing-back picked the ball up and fired home a rocket into the top corner from 30 yards, great finish from @AaronDunsmore96 Official ICTFC ‏@ICTFC 28m28 minutes ago GOALLLL : Calum Ferguson gets his second of the night, and a second assist for Jaime Wilson : @ICTFC 3 v 1 @HibsOfficial 3-2 Official ICTFC ‏@ICTFC 17s18 seconds ago Sinclair pulls another back on the 90th Minute : @ICTFC 3 v 2 @HibsOfficial : @SPFL Dev League Full Time 3-2

Either offside or ball out of play before being knocked back.

Would certainly put an end to the removing of shoes...

I think we are looking here at the quite common phenomenon of an outcome created by several factors operating in the same direction. I also think that reasons for any club suffering low attendances fall into two broad categories - factors relating to the club and external factors. Yes, it may well be the case that ticket prices are a deterrent but on the other hand how do clubs react to this? It has all to do with an economic principle called "elasticity of demand" (how much your sales figures change in response to a price change) and also the need to maximise income. If you reduce ticket prices by 20% but your gate only increases by 10% you are actually going to lose money. There are various other factors which could be discussed, but the question which I have been asking of late is simply whether watching football live in a stadium (or possibly football which is not quite at the very highest levels) is drifting away from being flavour of the month again. Back, for instance, in the 1950s, you would get huge crowds at Scottish games but by the time it came to around the early 80s this had seriously fallen away. Then into the 90s (round about the time ICT and County entered the SFL) there was an upswing again and now I wonder if that is returning to full circle once more because it's not just the TCS that is feeling the draught (excuse the unintended pun!!!) This may well be a natural cycle of period several years and I suspect that on this occasion it may be driven by the plethora of televised football now on offer. If people can get their football fix by watching the Champions' League or the English Premier League on TV, the incentive is all the less to pay 20 odd quid to sit outside in a chilly stadium watching technically less gifted, albeit perfectly worthy, football. That is a prime example of factors external to any club and I do wonder if another is also TV related. The continuity of going to watch football on a Saturday afternoon has been so seriously dislocated by games rearranged for the necessary reason of TV revenues that I also wonder whether the habit of fans going along is also being broken? Also on that general subject, whilst strongly supporting Saturday afternoon football, I do wonder if 3pm kick offs are now just a bit late. I would imagine that they are an historical legacy of the days when men worked on Saturday mornings so needed time to get to games. Nowadays maybe people would prefer to get home a bit earlier, especially when traffic problems and car park exit delay that process even more. I am sure that there are other factors directly relating to individual clubs - including ICT - but I am now rather concerned that actual attendance at matches other than of the very highest calibre is becoming the flavour of last month.

Crowds dropping is nothing that's unique to us and one of the reasons I've never really bought this "we're a new club so we don't have generations of fans" argument. If it was all about how old the club was, the likes of Kilmarnock and St Johnstone, would be attracting 7,000+ to every game and formerly big supported clubs like Clyde and Queens Park wouldn't be out in the wilderness, attracting a few hundred to every match. Lets be honest though, prices are too high and that's across the board in Scotland and it's even worse down south. People can throw around the "we're top of league" and "we're playing good football" arguments until they're blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is, £25 to sit in the North Stand and watch ICT play Aberdeen is far too much for the standard of Scottish football and £30 for the Main Stand is quite simply a rip off. I know it's been done to death as well, but the location and design of the stadium has never helped matters. If we lived in Florida or Australia or somewhere like that, then it would be great, but the fact of the matter is, any stadium right on the seafront in Britain is going to be cold for three-quarters of the football season. Why wasn't this considered at the time? Places near the sea are cold and windy. People, especially old people, don't want to sit in places that are cold and windy. It's not rocket science. The design is also something that should've been looked into at the time. McDiarmid Park was supposedly based on Ibrox, why didn't people from ICT go to lots of different grounds prior to the Caley Stadium being built to see what worked and what didn't? We're far from the pitch, in a openly designed stadium in a location where it's usually cold and windy. Not exactly enticing is it? Around where I sit I can think of quite a few people who have stopped going to matches over the last few seasons. Maybe in all these good intentioned efforts to entice more people was done while taking those who were already there for granted. Maybe the time has come to accept the crowds for what they are and try and maintain the regular fans we already have. What about creating some kind of incentive to make them stay. Three consecutive season tickets and then a free one for example? And what about the dwindling away supports? What about allowing season ticket holders of opposition clubs in for a discount as well? Match experience must surely come into play here. Someone earlier mentioned MK Dons and match experience at events in North America. These are both good suggestions. I've heard that teams like the Braehead Clan do match experience very well, particularly for a minority sport. Why don't we bring the person in charge of that to the Caley Stadium and allow them to sample our match experience? And when I say bring them to the stadium, I don't mean sticking them in a warm and cosy director's box, I mean sticking them with a normal seat in the North Stand. Maybe bringing in from the outside would be the best thing we could do.

A covered Standing Section. More people, more atmosphere, more enjoyable, self-fulfilling.