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Earlier in the game Rangers were passing straight through us exploiting gaps in the midfield and between our defence and Tansey, Vigurs etc in the middle of the pitch. It made much more sense to sit off them a little bit more and try and plug the gaps in middle of the pitch that they were finding so easily and make it harder for them to play through us. If you start asking the players to press the opponents then that by default creates space for the opposition and Rangers looked very useful at exploiting that space on Friday. Fisher came on at a totally different point in the game where we had to go and take more risks and press much higher up the pitch. It did get some results but at times we also found ourselves susceptible to a Rangers counter attack as well. It would have been a very risky approach to adopt at a point of the game when Rangers were well on top.

Have to careful what you post. Using words like that, County will be making an offer.

That's a complete mischaracterising of what is being said. No one is talking about headless chickens. It is called the pressing game, as practised by more than few leading clubs. It does not mean playing out of position or leaving gaps. Fisher did a good job, and made a significant difference by doing exactly that.

Killie - Must Win Well - Must not lose Hearts - Must regain face!

Yes and the new stand that Aberdeen seem to have decided to start building shortly is certainly not designed to assist in packing in anything like 45,000 into their ground. More like 20,000 or just above it as far as I can remember from a couple of articles I had read. If this is correct it's a realistic commentary on what the situation is in the premiership for the more favoured teams these days, excluding of course the old firm gates.

If you are suggesting that those not born and brought up in Inverness or who happen to be women, of whatever age or background are somehow less worthy or less valuable fans than native born Invernessian men then this particular native Invernessian man could not disagree with you more.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when any reference to Inverness football in the early 90s has to be sniped at as an alleged reference to the m****r. This thread has now drifted away off topic, mainly due to misleading photos which weren't even of Highland League matches being used to imply that Highland League crowds were much greater than they actually were. And that was before the next bright red herring of attendances for Elgin City's all time most famous Scottish cup campaigns in the 1960s. The point I was making was that Highland League attendances spent a number of years dying on their backsides and, in the case of Kingsmills and Telford Street, to appraise that we clearly have to adopt the end point of the early 1990s, by which time things had become pretty thin indeed. I am sure there must be some recognised clinical diagnosis for a fixation with looking back to an earlier phase of your life with an exaggerated fondness and delusionally inflated perception of just how good it was. "Hovis Syndrome" might suitably apply. "Who mentioned profiteers?".... YOU did IHE. Take a look at the penultimate paragraph of the post five above this one! Then we have very interesting views from dougal and dougiedanger respectively about the ethnic integrity and ideological soundness of "real" fans of Inverness football. First we have DD who seems terribly concerned about getting "the right kind of chap" through the gate. Only the ideologically sound. Only the "Inverness minded" perhaps? Then we have Dougal, who for all we know may well be an Albanian or an Eskimo who has never visited Inverness in his (or indeed possibly her) life. Dougal is clearly very concerned about the Aryan credentials of people gaining entry to Inverness football matches. Given that this time round, measuring nose length wouldn't provide an indication of ethnic Invernessian purity, might he instead be proposing placing "real" Invernessians at the turnstiles who would only admit those with "acceptable" vowel sounds...... "righ'een naff". Clearly the xenophobic, parochial tribalism of the old Inverness football remains alive and well.

The only thing the "above picture", which is on the previous page along with two other instances of similarly disingenuous nonsense, does is to illustrate the fantasy world that some people are still living in. The "above picture" isn't even of a Highland League game. It is actually of the Scottish Cup visit of St Johnstone to Telford Street early in 1992 which of course attracted a capacity crowd, but of the huge crowd, the huge majority were the glory hunters you always get at games like this. Similarly the photo below the post in question, which IHE doesn't discourage us from believing is also a HL match, is actually the 1984 cup encounter with Rangers which again attracted a capacity crowd for the same reasons. (This of course may be one of IHE's wind-ups, but the "RFC" on te visiting team's shirts is jus ta tiny giveaway) Meanwhile, the swarms of fans walking past Howdens are those attending one or other of these one-off cup ties.... not a Highland League match where crowd numbers were dying on their feet by that time. It does strike me that there have always been some from the former Caley side who have stubbornly harboured the delusion that that club was some kind of footballing superpower as opposed to the big fish they were in the little pond of the Highland League. This "Billy Big Time" delusion unfortunately tended to be prevalent among the Caley support and was not always to that club's advantage. Indeed it very nearly cost Inverness the opportunity of Scottish League football.

This is what I'd like to see against Killie. An all-out attack minded 'roll-of-the-dice' OFW Meekings Warren Tremarco Draper Tansey King Polworth Mulraney Fisher Boden I know we wont come out like this, but it's nice to dream....