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and the red card appeal was turned down, so there must have been enough in it to warrant it. if not it would have been rescinded

I had the unenviable pleasure of watching the game with a number of County and Neutral fans. Whilst none of us thought that it was a stone wall red card, we did agree (including the peg sellers) that the tackle would have appeared to have been two footed.

As a result, I'm not really surprised by the appeal failing.

It is apparent from a number of things which have happened over the past month or so that the club realises that there are improvements to be made in the way in which it interacts with the supporters.

I see clarification of the stadium ownership as closure of a long running area of confusion.

With the positive manner in which Darren has been interacting with supporters via CTO and the reappointment of Kenny C with a view to improving communications there is acceptance that things could not continue in the manner of the past couple of years.

Clearly with results improving on the pitch, the overall atmosphere is much more positive than it was a few months back, however there at least an appreciation that improvements must be made. Time will determine whether this is successful, however this is a positive development.

If we can just sort out the aquifer, all will be well!

I blame Loof Lirpa. Should never have voted him on.

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Anyone would think something big had happened in the last 24 hours!!!!

Not if the coverage on the STV evening news was anything to go by! An interveiw with an ex player........why even bother.

Its pretty bad craic if seats were damaged last night...regardless of the reason.Absolutely NO excuse for it. Av never damaged a seat in my entire history of celebrating! And its obviously the club that will pick up the tab!

It wasn't done on purpose.

I think it was very responsible of you to come on here and admit to it. At least the club will know where to send the invoice.

Seriously guys, you do yourself few favours and then wonder why you get a (self perceived) hard time!!!

I know where you are coming from, but we are nothing compaired to most football fans in larger clubs. It's not as if we are hooligans or anything.

Oh that's all right then

As an alleged goalscorer, it speaks volumes if you don't even get a game when your team is needing to score three goals to even get a point.

Absolutely not ! As another poster has very perceptively observed - you're never alone in Section G !

Slighty off topic, however I was highly amused to see the tinks in the south stand were actually annoyed that Section G were jumping up and down for a good part of the second half.

I normally don't go in for all this Section G nonesense, however on this occasion :021: :P

God...it was cold tonight. There were a few ropy moments tonight, at 3-0 up i thought the game was gonna be called off coz the floodlights were gonna pack in.

Thought we were good the first half, and TOTALLY let them off the hook the second half. We sat back and let them come at us.

Few observations here....one may prove controversial. Firstly Odihambo=Too Lightweight. Offers nothing to the team.

Second..............Rooney...fook knows who he has scored 15 goals this season. Hes soooo slow, he cant hold off defenders, he cant win the ball in the air.....i honestly think hes the poorest striker we have ever had. IF we go up....he wont do anything in SPL, Im fairly confident of that!

He will do a job until the summer tho.

PS....get Johnny Hayes signed up ASAP!

The second half performance was professional. We effectively stopped County having any real chances and made sure that we did not over commit. Three points at this time is more important than trying to score six and throwing away the game.

I thought Rooney did ok. Worked tirelessly and caused a number of problems. Will he be good enough if we get promoted.....not sure but deserves a chance.

Its not sad at all, and don't stop going to the games if your mates aren't going. Although its better crack with your mates.

I have it on good authority that SMEE doesn't actually have any mates :P

We can even forgive the Official Site for claiming we are on top by goal difference only :D

I really enjoyed last night where you could watch two Inverness teams face each other on one of the town's old grounds. OK the occasion was only a shadow of what many of us witnessed in decades gone by, but if the Inverness Cup with its 100 year plus history isn't wanted for competition among the wider Inverness FA clubs, then last night was a great way to decide it.

Not sure if you are referring to the football or the non-football antics - I can see a Facebook campaign starting to bring back the Whippet racing

Today, Proctor had an off day - most, if not all of his passes went to Morton, so his confidence will not be 100%. Surely Nauris (with his ability to score) might be preferred, for the County game. I do rate Proctor but heads must over-rule hearts, sometime, and we MUST win against our neighbours. PLEASE.

In a defensive sense Proctor was sound yesterday. Going forward and passing are not his strong point I would agree.

Butcher must balance the fact that Tokely seems to have lost pace this year (not that he was ever the fastest) and fitness wise is not able to get up and down the line. He does add a bit more in an attacking sense however.

Having seen the tactics which County employed against us I would stick with Proctor. The call is between Bulvitus and Tokely for the Centre Half.

I agree with the OP.

One of the worst performances I've seen by a player in an ICT shirt. Other than a few neat turns he was not interested and jogged about the park.

Baffled how he stayed on the park as long as he did.

Hopefully this was simply a bad day at the office.

Same lack of mental toughness that we saw at the tail end of last season and have seen in a few games this season prevents us closing out of the game when we are 2-0 up :angry:

My uncle (Donnie Ross) worked at the baths for many years ..... I still remember going there with my little card from the High School that got you free entry and had a box marked off each time you went. Once you got there it was over to the right hand side for males, left side for females to change in the cubicles with the swing doors facing the pool and putting all your stuff in the wire baskets ......

after your swim, when you were chucked out on the basis that your hands were all wrinkly and you had therefore been in there long enough, the chicken soup from the machine tasted like the best ever. For some reason, I always seem to remember the walk down the riverside (either along the river or past the house where the guy made targes) and over the Greig St Bridge as always being drizzly after a swim but maybe it was me that was still damp rather than the weather ....

Scotty...do you ever remember a sort of youth club that used to be right opposite the Baths. I can remember going in there a few times in the past. Im sure it was just a little shed thing...but cant really remember much about it.

I certainly remember that there used to be some form of tuck shop in the sheds across from the baths which used to open in the evenings.

Scotty - The hot orange always trumped the Chicken Soup :001:

What a complete and utter all round farce made even worse when I have just heard that the groundsman supposedly advised that the USH should have been switched on on Thurdsay evening or the game would be called off.

Even though the position seems to be that the pitch was playable!

This seems to be the biggets "he said, she said" thread we have had for a long time. :021:

So to sumarise the posts so far

a. The game should have been called off on Friday because the pitch would never be playable by 3pm on Saturday

and

b. The decision should have been left till 1.30pm on the Saturday when the pitch was playable

Dougie Imrie gets the MoM award on R. Scotland for the 2nd week in a row

However he got it for 'effort' and effectively being the best of the worst!!!

To be fair the basque country is probably the size of Scotland (I haven't checked)

It's a bit idealistic but I imagine it would offer tremendous benefits for team spirit (us against them attitude).. and if you are promoting from within the club would always be working at a profit for transfer revenue... it does have advantages.

all I'm saying is would I prefer we concentrated on our youth players instead of trying to import cheap (not so good) players..

I suspect that no club has a policy which intentionally attempts to put poor quality foreign imports ahead of locally sourced players.

The reality is that a large catchment of football playing kids is needed to give any hope to being able to sustain a successful team simply with local players which even if in our case this means the whole of the Highlands (inlcuding the Western and Northern Isles).

The area is not populous enough not do we have unrestricted call on the talent either with County, Aberdeen and the Old Firm also scouting this area.

The reality is that we need to have a solid youth and community structure combined with adding players from outwith the area.

Go to the Rugby at ICT Stadium on Friday evening to see players respect the officials - a lesson to be learned.

Thankfully rugby players do not try and con the officials by feigning injury with blood capsules and the suchlike :P

They are such gentlemen :clapping04:

Shoddy way to treat a volunteer. I wonder if enthusiasm will be as high for snow clearing when next required.

btw Have you seen this amusing youtube video called ICT Boardroom ?

Caley D, I understand and appreciate that you may not wish to answer this and indeed have a perfectly entitled right not to answer this, however were you involved in posting this or any other similar video on Youtube?

This relates to matters I heard yesterday regarding the reasons for your 'dismissal'?

Going on what I've just heard on Radio Scotland Travel, Inverness is in effect almost cut off. As at 4pm the A9 was reported as shut at Daviot and shut southbound at Blair Atholl. It is also blocked at two points in Caithness. The railway, as we have seen above, is closed and the bus service to Aviemore from where you could take the train is presumably also out of action because of the road closure at Daviot. I believe the airport is currently open.

Does Morrisons' stuff also come up by rail? I try to buy as little as possible from Tesco for a number of reasons (although I do welcome their decision to remove the dreaded Tesco Lorries from the A9) and do most of my shopping at Morrisons.

The airport is effectively shut for the day as well.

My girlfriend bought some ready to use screenwash out of tescos and had it sitting on the passenger seat to be uses when I had found out what the problem was, the unopened bottle had started to freeze up that was left overnight sitting on the seat.

This is my first car that has ever had this type of problem.

The ready mixed stuff is really pretty poor and is off little use during the winter when it is far too dilute (it is pretty rubbish in the rest of the year when it justs seems to leave streaks everywhere!).

Regarding an earlier post on travelling on the A9, even when the mix is adequate for low temperatures (mine is currently good for minus 12), the wind chill means that driving on a fast road will more often than not give actual temperatures of lower than the thermometer is showing.

My car has heated nozzles and lines but will still give up the ghost eventually.

Are Season Tickets valid for this game? :eat02:

So why was my mate stuck for hours at Balinluig ?

Thats the effect of those all day breakfasts :002: