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Fact is every pub in the city should be encouraged to get their locals involved in forming a pub fans club and running buses, be they full size or mini, to every game. Its nothing to do with rivalry but more to do with fans getting to games at reasonable cost. Communications between all the parties could also be set up whereby if one group is oversubscribed one week and another has seats available they can put each other in touch.

They could merge

The more buses the merrier .. its an onerous task to organise and administer (been there, done that, and had all the hassle). The 'official' bus(es) will not suit everyone just like the 'independent' buses wont either ... room for both IMHO.

Goodness me. Stop the Dows bus as it deters fans from using the social club. Don't drink in the Innes bar as the stadium has a bar. If I had enough interest, like this fan does and also had the assistance of a pub to promote it, I would be running a bus from Culloden to home matches but we can't do that as people may not use the clubs carpark, Lol. It's progression and I wish them well. Good to see The Dows Bar and The Gellions helping the cause. Within the next 5-10 years there will probably be a Moray and Aviemore bus too. Our local council now has a member who keeps the locals updated with info on social media sites, so when they start digging up a junction in Culloden you can easily find out why. Maybe CJT could look to do the same and help project their aims for the season, once you have all the email addresses gathered then keep in touch and make it interesting. CJT Go and sell yourself ffs Trains to Hampden 25 Busses to Hampden The Cup final pop up shop Pop up shop in the stadium. The card display. Do a quarterly email with a few articles in it. Like who is the mystery man who organised the Romania Busses. What orphanage received a welcome cash boost. This man also paid for a bus for the League Cup final and subsidised 2 more for the Scottish Cup final, use your strenghts get a q&a s one on one with a player. I can see the immediate threat from competition for away travel, just move around it and play to your strenghts and don't hinder a fan with good intentions.

Happy to see the Gellions running a bus - there's enough demand out there. Would be happy to get together when we run low: say this Tuesday to Hearts - we have less than 20, but with your numbers, we would have enough to run a bus. I may bump into you, Ross, at Dundee on Saturday.

Think there may be an issue with this link. It's saying "File not found"

Again, I have no issue with the Gellions running a bus, Dows running a bus....or even the health food shop on Baron Taylor Street running a bus! They're free to do that and we'll see if there's the demand across the support for it (which I'm not sure there is but we'll see). We all know how hard CJT find it to fill a bus at times, so surely if you're on the board of CJT, your job should be to fill it's bus. Attempting to run a bus for somewhere else would that would potentially harm the amount travelling on the CJT bus (and not to mention the missing out on revenue) so would undoubtedly be a conflict of interests. If you're on the CJT board, you're attention should be with the CJT bus. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Just for you Deano ......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phhs3DjI7Kc

Dereliction of duty is a serious allegation and one completely without justification. Running buses to games, whether home or away, is not a competition but a service to fans. I don't hear CJT or anyone from them complaining. We have a great, if sometimes exclusive, band of away fans some of whom travel by bus but most of whom don't. If the Gellions regularly running a full bus helps add to our away support that can only be a good thing.

Wed 24th Feb Highland League Cup - last 16 Stuart Soane TWO GOALS (Forres Mechanics 5-1 Fort William) *on-loan, current ICT U20 player, Stephen Rennie, scored for Fort William.

Allies not rivals.

HIBS BUS NOW FULL! Taking names for reserve list incase there are any pull outs between now and game. Message us to add any names to reserve list. First come first served! Dundee bus not far off capacity either. 2 superb away days ahead!

NEW SUPPORTERS CLUB BUSES RUN BY GELLIONS BAR - INFORMATION: VERY limited seats left for both confirmed buses. Book now via our Facebook or twitter page, or call 07971895858. £20 per person be be paid via our PayPAL - gellionsictfc@outlook.com, or cash to be dropped into Gellions bar. Dundee away on Saturday February 27th (3pm ko) - 51 seater bus departs Gellions Bar 09.30am Hearts away on Tuesday the 1st of March (7.45pm ko) - Mini bus TBC (this is dependant on demand, will be confirmed either way ASAP) Scottish Cup Quarter Final v Hibs on Sunday the 6th of March (2pm ko) - 51 seater departs Gellions bar Sunday AM, departure time still to be confirmed for this one! Bus for our quarter final is almost full and Dundee we have 10 seats remaining at this moment in time. Get you names in or get in touch for more info. Thank you everyone! Ross

TRAVEL FOR UPCOMING AWAY DAYS- Book your bus for one or all of the away games that are coming up soon! Call or text on 07951 309504 to book your seat. £20 adults, £10 under 14s. Dundee away on Saturday February 27th (3pm ko) - departs ICT Social Club, Greig St 9.45am / Stadium 10 am. Hearts away on Tuesday the 1st of March (7.45pm ko) - departs ICT Social Club, Greig St 3pm / Stadium 3.15pm Scottish Cup Quarter Final v Hibs on Sunday the 6th of March (2pm ko) - departs ICT Social Club, Greig St 8.45am / Stadium 9am (times approximate and TBC for this one). Thanks everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYpMunpIEk&feature=share More scenes .......Maybe some of the older users of this site can remember a game when caley beat us ?

I'm sure you would, but you can always hope that your reading age may, one day, progress to higher things.

Pretty good that they have kept the price the same instead of trying to undercut. CJT still offer the best value for a family away day with u 14s £10 One poster quoted what was on the Gellions Facebook page it's just it looked like it was their own quote. Hope it all works well

Almost thirty hours to post in a thread with the word 'merger' in the title. You're slipping.....

Just for the record, the Annual Return filed at Companies House this week confirms that it was indeed the Scotlog/Catto shares that were transferred to the Highland Hospice.

As pointed out earlier in the thread, I'm not referring to you.

Lost me again. There is only 2 people involved in 'actively organising' these Gellions buses at the moment myself and Rory, and neither of us are on the board of CJT? Anyway, hopefully see you all Saturday! Ross

You have to applaud the Gellions for starting such a venture. Inverness must be the only town/city till now that doesn't have a supported club running from a local boozer. Cant help thinking that caleyjagsforever must be silently seething not that they would admit it though Gives the day to day punter a choice which is a good thing Putting it simply if you want to bake cakes and sing shania twain songs you go with caleyjagsforever but if you want the traditional football experience you go with the gellions Dougal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phhs3DjI7Kc Great scenes !!

Well I definitely see the Gellions bus as allies and not rivals. They will be a differently run bus and in my eyes different is good. Life is made up of all types of people and with just one bus going to the away games run by CJT they were trying to be all things to all people and it didn't work. Now people have a choice CJT or the gellions. Hopefully that will encourage the people who didn't like travelling on the CJT bus to go on the gellions bus. Maybe eventually other pubs in Inverness will be able to run busses to away games too, the more the better. I for one would be quite happy to travel on either of them.

Renegades talking about Wyness 101

well done to Gellions boys for starting a bus

I'm starting to get a bit tired of this attitude that the merger is something to forget, something to cover up and something to feel embarrassed by. The merger is an interesting historical event that took place here and that's something to be remembered. Mergers are nothing new on football, but ours is one of the few that's happened (probably worldwide) in the last few decades and it's undoubtedly been a big success. That's something to be celebrated......as are the achievements of the two clubs that came before.

Nobody buys shares in any Scottish football club with a view to a financial return but out of love for the club and/or the community it represents and that is entirely as it should be.

If ye mean far left then aye, Titchy Black, an excellent player by the way.

I refer you to my post dated 17 Jan

The CJT people are all volunteers giving off there time freely. Your previous analogy of a Coca Cola employee promoting Pepsi is simply not valid. It might be time for you to stop flogging this particular deceased equine....

That would appear to be a bit on the sensible, fan friendly side for the SFA but you never know. And I wonder how favourable the Police would be to such a harmless arrangement for the fans of two non OF clubs? Or will the claimed existence of organised hooligan elements within 35 of the 42 SPFL supports emerge as an excuse?

No you're right I wasn't, and I don't know what it was like for those who supported these teams so I can't judge how people felt about it. But unfortunately I'm one of these young a***holes that likes people to move on from the past! And it winds me up to hell when people mention this merger and more so when I say "Caley" or "the jags" and someone tells me it's "Inverness" or "Caley thistle". So as much as people will hate me for it and disagree, the club and the fans have to move on from then and only look forward! You may still feel upset or angry about the merger but like everything else in the past...its history. now I haven't meant to upset anyone about this topic but there is one or two out there who won't talk about anything other than the merger so for those people they now have these new clubs to go and watch!

Bang on Fraz! But what the original poster needs to remember is that Caley Thistle is the latest stage in the evolution of organised football in Inverness which goes right back to the 1880s and possibly before. The OP was as yet unborn even when Thistle and Caley played out their latter games in the 1990s but he has to appreciate that for over a century these clubs were at the centre of the continuous thread which very many people still regard as highly important although there will be some who are not of an age to be able to do so. Thistle and Caley winning the Qualifying Cup or beating Kilmarnock or Clyde in the Scottish Cup is part of exactly the same historical thread as Caley Thistle winning the Scottish Cup. This awareness of Thistle and Caley will not survive forever and in perhaps 60 years there will be no one left who still remembers them. Active memory of them will by then have literally died out, just as there is no one left now who remembers Crown and Union which were partners in the process which formed Thistle in the 19th century. In the early 20th century it would have been just as valid for their former fans to have marked their past as that is for Thistle's and Caley's now. OCG is bang on the money with what she says too, while Sneckboy makes a fundamental point which begs the question of Deano - in the event of the formation of a Highland United would you want to ignore the act that ICT and its already proud history ever existed?

Id recommend The Beano or The Dandy before Against All Odds Its wrong for CTO to advertise such a publication claiming it gives a balanced account of the merger Dougal

Why's someone who's wanting join the CJT board trying to run a rival bus?

It'll be interesting to see if any extra people start attending ICT away games as a result of the Gellions running the bus (and I'm skeptical there will be). If it was a cheaper option then they might attract a few, but not for £20. Again, we'll see how long this 'allies not rivals' mantra lasts. Could it not also reach the stage that our already small away support could disperse across both buses, thus meaning that neither bus reaches a quota allowing it to run? Only a matter of time IMO.

Indeed I was. I have no issue with with the Gellions (or anyone else) running their own bus. Allies not rivals? Really?! The Gellions were happy to waltz in when the Stirling bus kerfuffle was going and attempted to advertised itself as being different and essentially better (singing is allowed!). There's no doubt that one will take business away from the other and so forth. Someone on the board of CJT while also actively organising a bus for the Gellions has a conflict of interest and as far as I'm concerned in a dereliction of duty. Does the CEO of Coca Cola work part time making arrangements for Pepsi?