I am very much with you there, Buckett, although it’s worth mentioning that ICT has also had a lot of money thrown at it, albeit far more unobtrusively. The problem is that after around 2018-ish, the good financial work done during the previous years was basically pi$$ed against the wall by atrocious mismanagement.
You also raise an intriguing point about County’s dependence upon Inverness. That has probably increased since ICT were relegated in 2017 before going down the toilet. Meanwhile County, with more, and more predictable external financial backing than ICT, have been in the Premiership apart from 2018-19. In particular, newcomers to Inverness won’t fully appreciate that these two clubs are very distinct from each other and won’t see a trip to Dingwall on a Saturday as a particular hardship. I wonder if, with ICT’s renaissance alongside County’s relegation, the next couple of years may see any shift back in the position of this particular pendulum?
Not for the first time, I couldn’t help but smile when listening to Off The Ball at the weekend, where a discussion (among central belters) seemed to predicate County’s support entirely on the population of Dingwall (once they eventually established that this was actually approaching 5500 and not 2500!)