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Williams is good but he can't play in LB and LM at the same time ;-)

That's 12 months old!

I dont buy the location BS. If people want to go to watch ICT they will go wherever we play .... ask the 500 or so who were in Romania ... or the diaspora who live all over the UK and elsewhere who schedule their travels to try and ensure they take in a game when they can, or even those in Inverness who for whatever reason (eg. personal, work or family reasons) can only go occasionally but do go .... If people in Inverness who dont already go really want to watch ICT then the stadium location may not be perfect, but it is something they will overlook. Yes its baltic in winter due to its open-ness, and yes the infrastructure around it is far from ideal .... but please ... if its Baltic at the TCS, then its not going to be tropical elsewhere in Inverness !! and whilst you could perhaps make a case for better location in Bught or perhaps Holm Mills now that we in effect almost have a ring road round the town (or will do when the next bit is done), its like comparing apples and oranges because we didnt have it when the stadium was built and if we cant afford a few grand for an additional striker after our best ever season we certainly cant afford to up sticks and move to some fantasy stadium that will bring an anecdotal attendance nirvana to the club.

I see no melt down just concerned fans expressing legitimate concerns in generally moderate terms.

Sorry I just read it on the vital forum Why they post old news I do not know Maybe I am too old myself ? SORRY

Gary Warren will be back in time for a cup final.

This is what I heard being shouted before half time yesterday at the match from a so called ICT fan in the North Stand. This was shouted during a quiet spell when people on and off the pitch could clearly hear him. This negative rhetoric does nothing to help our teams performance but undermines morale and the confidence of the players. At the same time it gives a lift to the opposition, which is not really what you want! Yesterday's game might have been poor, however not our worst home home performance against Motherwell, I was at the match in Nov 2012 when we got thumped 5 goals to 1 by them. Gutted - you bet I was but still did not find it necessary to add to the players despondency by taunting them or booing them off the pitch which happened yesterday. Caley Thistle - simply unbelievable............ Scottish Cup winners, 3rd in the League AND European Football. This makes me proud and very happy to support my local team through the highs and lows. Remember yesterday was only 1 game in a whole season, both Mutombo and Williams having a good game, Mutombo with his pace and clever footwork and Williams for keeping us in the game. To the man who shouted the above words and others like him, maybe you should find another team to support - in fact there is a team just over the bridge which might suit you more!!! Let's get behind the lads!

Some people like to just have a moan about anything. If everything was absolutely perfect they'd be unhappy about that too.

Team to face Accies: Hoban, C Brown, Howarth, J Brown, Gilchrist, MacArthur, Rennie, Blackett, MacRae, Sutherland, Wilson

That's their accumulated losses since that Dundee FC corporate entity started. Not the losses for the 2014 year on its own. Big difference. Their abbreviated accounts and ours are publicly available free of charge on the betacompanieshouse website. TBH, looking at what I presume to be the main trading accounts for ICT (entity legally called "Inverness Thistle and Caledonian FC Limited"), our accumulated losses from that legal entity's beginning (1994) are at a similar level (over £3million). Intriguely, it also shows that for the year to 31 May 2014, ICT only made a very profit (£28k mentioned in a note to the accounts) even given the money from the 2014 League Cup run. The harsh reality I imagine is that we live hand-to-mouth from year to year and any windfall that comes our way (e.g. Billy Mckay) merely serves to make the day-to-day running a bit less of a stressful headache. Charles Bannerman has alluded to this kind of existence on a previous post somewhere in the past.

Apparently in tomorrow's Highland News, Yogi is pretty much asking Kenny Cameron and the board for loan deals - Sounds promising!

Only if you could actually get served at the half way shop!!! staff clueless.

And the aftermath will be clear when it comes to updating contracts. But we have been here before and won through. Again just wish that there was that gist of communication as there has been in the past. And nice to see that the merger ostriches are still burying their heads in the sand and dismissing the obvious that "real" fans have been aware of since the onset. You can ignore if you want but attendances are significantly affecting ICT.

Pies tasted nice

Just to get back on topic here... Do all the posters defending the club on this thread accept that if no more reimbursements, they have made the decision to spend less on contracts this year? If so, why now after the most profitable season in our history? Unless there is some sort of large investment planned, the board have effectively left the manager and players out to dry ... Raven has pretty much said it himself If you're not moving forward you're moving backwards... we've always been a progressive club.

I'm not suggesting the concerns aren't reasonable, it's clear we need huge improvements, however I feel that it's being blown way out of proportion. Celtic would struggle with the amount of first team injuries we have! I feel last years 'history' is very relevant. All but Watkins, Ofere and Shinnie that started that game are still at the club and surely past success should teach you to have faith in our quality having seen what our players are capable of?

I know its been said that theres no money left but I'd like to think we could SURELY get at least one loan in. I'd much rather develop our own youngsters first but having said that I'd happily take Lawrence Shankland on loan from Aberdeen (its the least they could do for us after developing 3 of the first names on their teamsheet). Shankland scored 29 goals in the Development league last season yet has only made the bench once in Aberdeen's competitive matches this season. I thought he must've been injured but he scored for their U20s team yesterday.

We might start to play some of the youngster. Can only be good for the long term.

I agree Davie, but in my opion this will never happen whilst we play our football in the Longman, we built the stadium in the wrong place.

The worry for me is that if we can't add to our crowds after our great season then I doubt we will ever be able to!

I agree with you there Kingsmills at least on the disappointment aspect, however if financial reasons will not allow further addition to the squad now, it may be prudent to do a County and review things at the half way point of the season. There is still no need for the pessimistic feel running throughout the forum, we have a nucleus of triers on our books and a manager who knows how to get things back on track. So once again I say to the doubters show patience and understanding and let's get the togetherNess back.

Was listening to the news headlines on Radio 4 earlier and was astonished to hear that our injury woes had made the UK national news! But then I realised they were reporting the latest on the Calais crisis.

Well said Scottbamby.

Exfeckinactly

Isn't there some kind of new rule that punishments for going into administration increase exponentially with each repeated occurrence? IIRC Dundee have 2 strikes, and if they were to go into administration a third time they would be sent to the bottom tier of the new pyramid system, which given their location north of the River Tay, would be the Highland league. Spending above our means isn't the answer, it's the equivalent of living large on a credit card and never ends well. We have a more than adequate squad IMO. Don't see the point in paying over the odds for a short term stop gap. Each player that returns from injury will be the equivalent of a new signing. It's too early to write any of our new recruits off. As others have stated, it took Mckay a few months to even break into the first team, then another season to start hitting the net regularly. G Shinnie was a fairly average bottom 6 left back for years before he became as good as he is now. Patience is key, and a hallmark of our progress. Some elements in our support have gotten drunk on our recent success and now act like OF / Aberdeen fans. We need to temper our expectations. Staying clear of the relegation dogfight is our first priority. If other clubs want to bankrupt themselves to reach the top 6, that's their prerogative. As we've seen with Rangers and Hearts recently, those who live above their means are destined to live beneath their means. And when that day comes, well run clubs like ICT and St Johnstone who didn't get involved in the self-destructive spending race are there to fill the void, as we've seen in the last 2 seasons.

We're not bottom of the league. We're above County in the table. We didn't ship 4 goals like Killie and St Johnstone. Our attendance was more than Hamilton's. Owain Fon Williams and Mutombo.

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The main positives are that we have fared well in a history making experience in top class European football against a relatively established European team. The whole adventure was relished. And in case anyone has not noticed we are only ONE game in to the current league season. It looks like expectations have gone through the roof. Let's face it - life will go back to normal for ICT supporters - given the current situation it may even go into a wee bit of a dive. It is at times like this that we need to cherish the good times but support rather than chastise. I would hope that our signing / loan situation has not come to a halt. If it does I also think that questions should be asked about the financial management and status of the club. Every time that we have gone into a slump in the last few seasons - usually in December - the doom merchant vultures circle the Longman. Me - I may well join the criticism if things are not turned round but that is 4-6 games away and is doable - and if it ain't fixed then I will get out the ceremonial knives.

This is another of these occasions when it is not entirely clear whether a post from IHE should be taken at face value or whether it is the latest attempt to wind people up and create an unwanted rammy. Either way, I don't think it's particularly helpful to have the less savoury aspects of the merger continually dug up in a negative manner. In particular the persistent assertion that Inverness remains packed with refuseniks becomes especially irritating since this is simply groundless assertion which is never based on anything more than anecdotes out of the "There's guys at my work who say...." stable. Far more relevant is that, even in these under subscribed times, around five times as many people come to watch football in Inverness than you would normally get in the early 1990s when Thistle and Caledonian were, on the grander scheme of things, struggling small town teams. Part of the problem (and this is especially a "Caley" thing), is that rose coloured spectacles have been in operation for far too long and too many people actually believe that Caledonian FC really was a major player rather than a small, provincial semi professional club, too many of whose supporters had an unfortunately inflated perception of its significance - which is the wont of the big fish in a small pond. I think that this is especially the case among Howden Enders of the late 70s and 1980s who had never known anything other than that period of prominence in Highland League terms and as a result tended to display a lack of humility which, alongside a vastly inflated view of their own significance, gained the club the nickname "The Rangers Of The North". It would perhaps be a lot more constructive if some of the older fans around would take a hard look at where they really came from and just be grateful for the opportunity which football in Inverness has had to escape these decidedly modest beginnings and reach where it has in more recent years. Please note that these observations come from someone who felt equally supportive whilst standing in the Howden End or the Kingsmills shed in days gone by which he still looks on with enduring fondness. Whilst never having been a fan of either team. I myself have alluded to some of the statements you make here. Perhaps with a little less tact. If Caley had really been as big as is sometimes made out they'd be a dominant European powerhouse instead of a dominant Highland League team. Its a disease often common amongst the Hibernian FC fraternity - delusion-of-granduer-itis Still, back on topic - hopefully a couple of 6 month loan deals if Hughes remarks in the Courier carry any weight.

http://www.scotland.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=545500

This is another of these occasions when it is not entirely clear whether a post from IHE should be taken at face value or whether it is the latest attempt to wind people up and create an unwanted rammy. Either way, I don't think it's particularly helpful to have the less savoury aspects of the merger continually dug up in a negative manner. In particular the persistent assertion that Inverness remains packed with refuseniks becomes especially irritating since this is simply groundless assertion which is never based on anything more than anecdotes out of the "There's guys at my work who say...." stable. Far more relevant is that, even in these under subscribed times, around five times as many people come to watch football in Inverness than you would normally get in the early 1990s when Thistle and Caledonian were, on the grander scheme of things, struggling small town teams. Part of the problem (and this is especially a "Caley" thing), is that rose coloured spectacles have been in operation for far too long and too many people actually believe that Caledonian FC really was a major player rather than a small, provincial semi professional club, too many of whose supporters had an unfortunately inflated perception of its significance - which is the wont of the big fish in a small pond. I think that this is especially the case among Howden Enders of the late 70s and 1980s who had never known anything other than that period of prominence in Highland League terms and as a result tended to display a lack of humility which, alongside a vastly inflated view of their own significance, gained the club the nickname "The Rangers Of The North". It would perhaps be a lot more constructive if some of the older fans around would take a hard look at where they really came from and just be grateful for the opportunity which football in Inverness has had to escape these decidedly modest beginnings and reach where it has in more recent years. Please note that these observations come from someone who felt equally supportive whilst standing in the Howden End or the Kingsmills shed in days gone by which he still looks on with enduring fondness.