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  1. The team has just equalled the club record for the number of league games undefeated (22) and moved back into the play off places. It's a great achievement. Yet some of the "support" choose to boo the team at the end and to hurl abuse at our leading scorer who happened to score the 2nd equaliser tonight. It can't exactly encourage players to want to play for us if that is the kind of "support" fans give. Of course the recent draws are frustrating and we've lacked penetration going forward, but you don't go 22 games unbeaten if you are a poor side. The players themselves were clearly gutted not to have got a win from the game tonight. Perhaps if some of the folk who were constantly on the players' backs all night had shown a bit of support instead, then the players may have felt less pressured and played better as a result.
  2. 3 points
    Isn’t it more the financial case that between investing / borrowing to get into the Premiership the strategy now is to remain in the Championship, with a largely home grown team, and break even - “sustainable”. And, if the Premiership can be reached on the cheap, once every five years to a decade, so much the better. Sadly, that means waving goodbye to £1.5 to £2m in prize money and instead getting £200k. Our Chairman is a risk management executive and it isn’t too much of a leap to see that in our dealings and I’m sure some agree with that strategy and some don’t. But any season ticket renewal PR next year should at least avoid overpromising and just state the plan ahead rather than muddy it and disappoint.
  3. Surely a victory in tonight's match could be the start of a winning run. We've already beaten The Pars away this season and that was a very good performance. A return to that sort of form would be a big boost prior to Saturday.
  4. 2-2 arguably better than 0-0, but another disappointing result.
  5. Against my better judgement wrapping up and heading down to this, if its another dreary 0-0 at HT I'm going home, too cold for that **** I feel this is the game where we have to start the turnaround, county will gubb Falkirk tonight and if we draw again we go 9 points behind with the penultimate game on Saturday. Mathematically it's far from over then, but I'd say realistically it will be
  6. Oh well,you can go along as Tremarco is out.
  7. What the on earth has someone's weight got to do with being 'soft' ? What does that even mean? What a nonsense ramble. I'd love for you to have gone up to some of the guys I used to work on site with who were 20+ stone and call them soft. Goodnight Vienna.
  8. 1 point
    We appear to have become rather too cautious recently. It is as though subconsciously the manager and team feel the need to keep the unbeaten run going as the priority. Perhaps also, the caution is because they know that with our difficulty in scoring, conceding at the other end will make it that much harder to get anything out of the game. But let's keep a bit of perspective here. Whilst we have played better as a team under Robbo than we are just now, we are still getting forward and creating chances. According to the BBC stats, we had more attempts on goal on Saturday than County did in their thumping of Morton. Less of ours were on target, of course, and perhaps we are having attempts on goal when better options aren't on, or the quality of the strike is poorer. Either way, we are getting in the right area and with a bit more quality or confidence in the box I feel the goals are not far away. Unfortunately, the current results and style of play are not going to bring extra fans to games. Instead, they will lead to a slow trend the other way. We need to get fans through the gate to increase the revenue for the club. We need to be bolder and to attack with a bit more pace and more directness. We need players taking defenders on and taking a few more risks. Even if it doesn't result in a better points per game ratio, at least we will be better entertained.
  9. 1 point
    Although the unbeaten run is a good thing in one way; it shows we have a good keeper and defence, and they should get the plaudits, but if they were letting in 2 or 3 goals a game it would be a different story and I'm sure Robbo would look at changing the lineup or tactics, so why, when the front line is misfiring match after match does he seem reluctant to drop White? It has echoes of last season when Baird seemed to be his blue eyed boy, even though he couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo. I think we have become too predictable now, other teams know how we will play and near enough our starting 11 every game. I think it's time to throw in a few surprises, different tactics and personnel. If I'm not mistaken, when Dunfermline beat us in the Irn Bru cup did they not have several youth players in their lineup, so what's stopping us from giving ours a go.
  10. 1 point
    Now you've gone and said it! ? Agree absolutely, we go on about following the team no matter what, but it really does make all the difference when you're sat in the winter sitting on your hands for 90 minutes for a nil nil draw. If the fans have nothing to cheer for, dribs and drabs of people will choose not to go. I'd hate to think we have these boys up front who call themselves strikers that struggle to get a goal and we may have someone sitting on the bench with talent that don't get a fair whack a la Alex Fisher.
  11. Perhaps the most idiotic rambling I've seen on CTO, which is really saying something.
  12. You can't say "I'm not going to tar everyone with the same brush" when that's what you've just done and then reenforced it by saying you're making a generalisation....well, you can as that's what you've done....hence the
  13. 1 point
    Failing to win for 5 consecutive games including home to Morton and away to Alloa is concerning. We showed at Dunfermline that we can score goals on the break if the space is there, but since then nobody has given us that space. I'm worried that teams have sussed us out. We're solid at the back but if you sit off us, we've got nobody with the craft to create anything. Most teams are happy to take a point from Inverness so they have no motivation to open up. Home fans should get used to low scoring draws, more are coming.
  14. For the rest of this season fares to all away games for Travel Club Members will be £15. Members will also qualify for future special offers. Under 16s still £10.
  15. Absolutely spot on. White is having a torrid time playing up front on his own with no support and long hopeful balls pumped up to him. . Time for Polworth , Doran and Walsh to step and start creating ,all 3 totally ineffective again yesterday . TBH that was f****ing rubbish and a joyless watch for a decent away support ,Robertson and co need to get their collective fingers out as their is no Brechin safety net this year.
  16. This coming week will have an effect on our season. Two wins and a few goals scored would be good. Defeat to either not good. I think a win Tuesday and at least a draw Saturday needed. Let's get right behind the team and provide support ?
  17. Remember how many matches are postponed due to frozen waterlogged or snowed off every year and then ultimately replayed on a Tuesday or Wednesday night. The winter season does not work. How family friendly it to sit in an exposed stadium to rain wind sleet and or snow as opposed to more Clement weather In the summer where pre match entertainment can be provided to enhance the experience and create more revenue and be more competitive to families to attend and get youngsters supporting the club.
  18. Hi SP, no direct connection with Sneck - was brought up in Aberdeen but had family in Keith and Glenbarry. Caley was my 'wee' team after seeing them playing at Keith when I was a nipper. That got cemented later in the 1980s when I was stationed at Kinloss (I've moved about a bit!) and then came 1994, the advent of the Internutters and the rest is history ?
  19. The world is getting smaller daily and kids are now in possession of electronic devices that now they just can't do without. They don't even read comics or the Inverness Courier these days. They can see any sport they like on the telly and so forth and so on. which discourages them from the exhaustion that may result from moving to get out of their chair just to go down to the football stadium in often very nasty weather to watch the more energetic lads get the odd kick of the ball. To suggest that it would be exciting for them to walk down the road a mile or so to the Stadium and stand on the windy high Terracing, like I did at Hib's ground every other Saturday for years...…..but never telling them that truly in them thar days there was not much else for a man to do on a Saturday afternoon in the Winter...…. is never going to be an option that they will take seriously IMHO unless they have an initially large incentive to actually attend games. Which would be what...? The huge effect of T .V, and cell phones and rapidly-advancing technology and gaming etc., etc, online contacts has worked their magic and it's nearly a lost cause. AND I just don't think that Scottish footie promoters have got enough ball rolling to now ever crack the puzzle, Complacency on their part may be present but lack of money and a refusal to embrace change and adapt to the successful ways of other world-wide stadia events is gonna kill them. It's too much of a challenge good friends and there just is not , apparently, the thirst for success and the dynamism present in their bones to overcome the changes creeping up and over them. North America is razz ma tazz, banging marching bands and and lovely young dancing girls trying to thrill the punters etc.at sports events whereas Scotland doesn't seem to have anything to offer the punters at half time. "Same old" nowadays just can't cut it, at least IMHO, because changes are too rapid for them to ever catch up when the opportunity to seize the nettle by the whiskers drifts past their windows. The solution? Frankly I don't think there ever will be one on a scale grand enough to make that much , or even any, difference to the clubs on the lower financial levels. Life and the progress of events is mostly all about money and so, without substantial investment being made, apparently the edge of the precipice is always going to loom large for the majority of wee clubs. And in about an hour's time I will be watching the Canucks on T,V, playing at home in Vancouver, and I know that there will be very fast ice hockey with often brilliant skating from very fit youngsters, lots of physical contact...some brutal spills and thrills and hopefully a barrow load of goals and all played in front of big crowds baying and cheering most of the time determined to get their money's worth. To be truthful.....it's catching. Especially when you are sitting in a warm room with, er, a small nightcap in your hand. But no (now legal) marijuana anywhere near me. " My name is Vyshinski, Vyshinski with a hyphen, what's yours, eh?" " Waal, buddy, whusky, whusky with a siphon will do me fine." And why not because the Whitecaps have now sacked their Manager and many of his assistants and hangers on , so where do they go now?
  20. Hi MJ, according to the WHO obesity rates have increased 93% since 1996 and two thirds today of the male population in the UK are classified as overweight or obese (also a WHO stat). If you are overweight you cannot compete at a contact sport (there are a few exceptions) I include rugby, football, boxing, wrestling you are soft, as you cannot cope with the physical challenge, you simply have not developed the necessary amount of muscle which is gained through training, nor the courage to get into direct confrontation. We are told that the youngsters today are spending on average 5-7 hours on social media that hardly leaves time for anything else outside of school and studying. As regards entitlement, I know of several employers who have offered jobs to unemployed lads, effectively apprenticeships and they cannot find an assistant, the various excuses are 1) the start time is too early 7.00am 2) the work is too heavy 3) The wages are too low, when I started work my annual wage was £600, less than my part time summer job paid me pro rata. I could also bore you with stories of the Welfare league in this area but I wont bother. Look, I'm not going to tar an entire generation with my comments because there are exceptions but as a generalisation my comments are fair. PS Add in the attitude of schools today when we can have no winners and no losers and you end up with a generation of non triers where even the losers WIN ie give grades for qualifications which are in fact a FAIL. Sorry, I need to lie down now.
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