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I know the new chairman has a number of plans in place to improve the stadium and what not. So far I've heard plans are afoot to improve the car parks, new toilets, try and bring some sort of tie in with the North Coast 500 and the sports bar will soon become something a bit more homely. So what plans do you have to improve the matchday experience and try and enhance the crowds? I know he's been having meetings with a lot of fans and I assume he read this site so it could be a good idea to use this thread as a sort of central hub for everyone's ideas. Here's one idea I have for an improvement is for the wheelchair-bound supporters. Now granted, there's been a slight improvement in the perspex dugout, but the general match experience must still be pretty poor, shunted over to one side with a worm's-eye-view. Surely it's time we gave disabled fans a special area with a decent view. As some may have noticed that St Mirren recently built this - Could we not do something similar?

The idea for a local bakery to supply the pies, etc, is long overdue (think I may have said something similar on another thread, long ago)-I noticed that Nairn County have their local bakers products on sale (Ashers) at 1 of the pre-season friendlies. Again, a community club should be supporting local businesses (& vice versa)...also, would be far better quality & would sell more!

And as promised Charles the plans are indeed underway

There's some truth to this I think. I may be wrong, but there seems to have been an attitude in the past with the club that the town and it's local businesses should be grateful for the club. It has to work both ways. Perhaps if the club approached local businesses themselves and perhaps giving special tariffs for smaller local firms in terms of advertising boards etc. then the club's connection with the town could be vastly improved. We'll use the aforementioned Harry Gows as an example. It's one of the biggest Inverness based companies. They have a huge advertising board at Forres Mechanics and another at Elgin City. Do they have any board whatsoever at the Caley Stadium?

i agree. i do however hope everything is in place before the club agm.

The pies are very average and poor value. A quality local supplier would have the double advantage of improving the quality of the catering from a fan point of view and provide good will locally. Any loss of income from the point of view of the club could be compensated for by increasing the prices slightly which I'm sure most people would be happy to pay for better quality.

On the subject of pies .Hastie & Dyce supply us on away buses with pies .I can honestly say they are the best macaroni and meat pies I have tasted . It would be good to use a local supplier . I bought a macaroni pie on Sat before game and it was so frazzled it was virtually impossible to eat . (Food for thought if you pardon the pun )

Has to be your most sensible suggestion to date Renegade . I'm well impressed !!

Make the west a pay on the day standing area.

agreed but when there is an extended period of silence people assume nothing is being done.

Good, pleased to hear that. The important thing was not necessarily to do it quickly but to do it properly.

Agreed on the disabled area - just because someone uses a wheelchair they shouldn't be forced to sit down the front in the rain, although I do understand how it could be difficult to accommodate but putting them at the back of a stand isn't right either. Fortunately we are lucky that we don't fill our main stand so could somewhere introduce a platform area and sacrifice a few seats although it may mean relocating ST holders - problem is then does the club have lift access otherwise its yet another expense in a stadium that was never built that way? I'm also not certain on this but there may be lottery money available for modifications of this nature as its more than just football related but community also. The catering needs looked at, queuing in a system that seems to have no real order to it and service which is pedestrian and highly inefficient - you have a lack of co-ordination between the staff and too many doing too many things rather than defined roles - the food & drinks on offer don't really represent value for money based on the quality (or lack of) and I'm sure its got worse over the years. Tickets - it would be nice that on matchdays tickets for the next home game are available for sale either before and after the game, possibly with small reductions to try capture fans on a high who may have come along and seen a positive result. Advertising in advance of promotions etc - if I'm at a game I don't want to wait til a few days before the next match to know I can get a reduced ticket for my mate through an offer but need to turn up to get it before the day of the game - give the opportunity to get it when fans are there already and in advance. Make it easy for the customer especially those who travel distances to games.

Sometimes life is more important than a football club.

Should have been called up to the Scotland squad instead of Ryan Jack.