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Will this be the lowest ever amount of away fans at the semi-final of a national competition?

Maybe only for a couple of dozen hours. So far, St Mirren have shifted fewer tickets than we have.

That is embarrassing for St Mirren when it is close enough for them to get to.Why is there such an apathy towards this cup these days do you think,is it because they have taken away the european spot or do people just not have enough money to go? i think years back the earlier rounds were included in a season ticket

I know it has been devalued in England for a long time but in Scotland it has been the chance for many clubs to actually win a bit of silverware.

maybe it just needs a revamp to get the fans excited again,think its sad that one of our national competitions is treated this way

Will this be the lowest ever amount of away fans at the semi-final of a national competition?

There are no away fans at a semi-final, it's on neutral territory...

I wouldn't really class Hearts fans as away fans when it's in their Home city

Will this be the lowest ever amount of away fans at the semi-final of a national competition?

Mark McGhee rumoured to be his assistant...

Never have i seen a man more dislocated from reality than what McGhee was when in charge of Aberdeen. He Thought he was doing a good job and couldnt see the obvious. Im not liking this appt

Egotastical maniac the man is,lied about Aberdeen fans spitting on him,played players out of position and tried to bully kids

Horrible man that i think the players may not take kindly to

ICT volleyed back an informal "tester" from Blackpool but I am reliably informed that TB is near the top of the "wish list" now. One rumour is that one suggestion will be for Steve Thompson to stay on as caretaker manager until the summer.

He will have to stay on until the summer,surely TB can't backtrack now

Steve Thompson has made no secret of the fact that Houston is gone at the end of the season unless he takes a massive pay cut...sounds like this was an attempt to push him out the door!!!

Thompson is desperate to get rid of Houston and no wonder.£200,000 a year for that dullard!!

heard he has been offered a new contract of £80,000 a year plus bonuses and he's walking,mcinness or Harry Potter to take over.

 

Do the maths....

 

Our average is 3900 (give or take).

 

In suggesting that Aberdeen would outnumber us with 2000 fans you are basically saying that the average home crowd this season has been about 2000 and visiting teams are averaging 1900+

 

Don't know what's worse sometimes, the fact papers come up with such ridiculous nonsense, or the fact that people give it the time of day by spreading it around.

I'd say the average home support is around the 2700-2800 mark this season.boosted by a few hundred for some games and lowered by a few hundred for others

Crowds boosted greatly for Celtic,Aberdeen and County

The average is probably a wee bit more than that....but even at the levels you suggest, 2000 doesn't outnumber 2700 and that is the point I was making.

I hope Aberdeen do bring 2000 to 2500...all money in our pockets.

Not sure if i am right but certainly looked like Aberdeen had the bigger support at the September game,was there not 2500 odd away fans at that one? As for this one there will be at least 2000 from what i'm led to believe,although the weather might put some off travelling

For the wrong reasons though.

An extract from http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inverness-caleys-dwindling-fan-base-1538612

 

Seriously. Aberdeen’s Red Army will be a couple of thousand strong and in full voice could, if this season is anything to go by, outnumber the home support.

So it's a bit like Uncle Roy's calculator. Except they have two voices each instead of eyes.....

Didn't Aberdeen take about 2,500 to the game in September?

Do the maths....

 

Our average is 3900 (give or take).

 

In suggesting that Aberdeen would outnumber us with 2000 fans you are basically saying that the average home crowd this season has been about 2000 and visiting teams are averaging 1900+

 

Don't know what's worse sometimes, the fact papers come up with such ridiculous nonsense, or the fact that people give it the time of day by spreading it around.

I'd say the average home support is around the 2700-2800 mark this season.boosted by a few hundred for some games and lowered by a few hundred for others

Crowds boosted greatly for Celtic,Aberdeen and County

I don't know who your source close to Aberdeen is but I will quote Craig Brown as my source. He seems pretty close to Aberdeen.

 

In answer to a journalist asking about A. Shinnie, Paw Broon said " We have had no contact with anyone in connection to this player."

 

Arron Doran turned Aberdeen down before signing for us, whats the difference now? oh yea we're much better now.

 

If you know anything about Craig Brown the first person who would know about any interest in ICT players would be Terry Butcher. Just check back at the Hayes saga.

Do you actually believe things written in the paper? Did Craig Brown nearly miss out on Hayes because the club went announcing it too early??

That has made me laugh i have to say,thought you knew Craig Brown personally the way you quoted that.

Instead you believe things written by Scottish Sports Journalists       

 

 

 

Al Haj Douglas? From Facebook used to love slagging ICT on the Courier page, strangely quiet this season. Guy's an absolute gimp, loved winding him up.

Have you left him a message to let him know your feelings?

I'd imagine he is quiet this season because he is busy following his "team" home and away......i'm sure you are the same of course

Left him a message, err... why? Doesn't really figure that much in my life to FB stalk some full of seeth, refusnik Sevconian. As you say, enjoying life as an ICT supporter to worry about that pish.

You appear to have a real anger towards the person in question and have called him a gimp on here.Thought you may have preffered to leave him a private message rather than on a board he doesn't go on.

It's all very well slagging the guy but he does support his teams.think he has missed one game all season,can you say the same? i know i can't

Whatever are you on about? One comment and it's 'real anger'     From his posts on FB about ICT he comes across as a gimp to me, simple, I've responded to him on the Courier FB page (in status' about ICT games so he was clearly on the troll to which admittedly I bit) at the time, he's slagged me for supporting ICT,  I've slagged him for his love of a dying team and refusnik, anti-ICT seeth mentality. I'm sure he thinks I'm a gimp too. Big deal.

I'm not obsessed with him like you seemingly are so I have no idea as to his forum habits for game attendance. Are you suggesting that every time someone has an opinion about someone else they should try to contact them personally to discuss the issues between them? 

Also what's his game attendance got to do with anything, going to more Sevco games makes him a good bloke? Strange judging by his hatred toward ICT he didn't go to ICT games after the merger but according to you went to The Rangers games after they became a new club.

Anyway I don't go to games, too much hassle like. 

Not obsessed with anyone.Just thought when you were putting peoples names on a public forum and slagging them of it would be better to pm them.

I would have thought one with a university background like yourself, would be above such a level

 

Al Haj Douglas? From Facebook used to love slagging ICT on the Courier page, strangely quiet this season. Guy's an absolute gimp, loved winding him up.

Have you left him a message to let him know your feelings?

I'd imagine he is quiet this season because he is busy following his "team" home and away......i'm sure you are the same of course

Left him a message, err... why? Doesn't really figure that much in my life to FB stalk some full of seeth, refusnik Sevconian. As you say, enjoying life as an ICT supporter to worry about that pish.

You appear to have a real anger towards the person in question and have called him a gimp on here.Thought you may have preffered to leave him a private message rather than on a board he doesn't go on.

It's all very well slagging the guy but he does support his teams.think he has missed one game all season,can you say the same? i know i can't

It‘s very simple.

Take for example the top 10 rows of the north stand.

Kenny Cameron or Peter Macallam tell the stewarding company (that ICT employ) that this is a standing area. The fans come in (one fan to a seat) standing and watch the game. They arent blocking any views and if the stewards regulate it so that it is one person standing per seat then it is ‘safe‘........ (Insert Meerkat gif)

What happens if someone in row 11 wants to sit?

After the season he has had so far though you would expect someone to come in with a bigger cheque book and take him to England,Aaron Doran i was told about 6 weeks ago that he was somebody Aberdeen were looking at closely,think either Hughes or Rae could be leaving at the end of the season and Aaron is seen as a replacement.

 

Is his contract up at the end of the season or does he have another year,i wasn't 100% sure

 

Gavin Rae and Stephen Hughes are both central midfielders, Aaron Doran certainly isn't. If Aberdeen are going to replace either with Doran they've either seen something no-one else has or Paw Broon is finally losing it.

Wasn't Nial Mcginn a left midfielder before Brown turned him in to a striker? That looks like it has turned out not bad but maybe your right and Brown is loosing it

If my memeory is correct, the last game between Caley and Thistle was in April 94.  A certain Billy Urqhart scored the winning goal (despite the small fact that he wasn't a registered player - result!).

Typical Caley...Always Cheating!!

Source?

Mary Jane

      She's good but not that good!!

I heard from someone close to Aberdeen about Andrew Shinnie at the start of the season and have heard again in the last few days that it will be announced after the game on the 19th.

After the season he has had so far though you would expect someone to come in with a bigger cheque book and take him to England,Aaron Doran i was told about 6 weeks ago that he was somebody Aberdeen were looking at closely,think either Hughes or Rae could be leaving at the end of the season and Aaron is seen as a replacement.

Is his contract up at the end of the season or does he have another year,i wasn't 100% sure

Shinnie will be confirmed an Aberdeen pre contract signing the week after the game against them.

Have also heard strong rumours that Aaron Doran could be heading down the east coast also

Al Haj Douglas? From Facebook used to love slagging ICT on the Courier page, strangely quiet this season. Guy's an absolute gimp, loved winding him up.

Have you left him a message to let him know your feelings?

I'd imagine he is quiet this season because he is busy following his "team" home and away......i'm sure you are the same of course

 

 

Two minutes after the announcement that Terry is staying and Dougal posts another boring anti-merger tirade! Why am I not surprised?

Remind me of your whereabouts pre-merger?

Remind me when you started taking an interest in Inverness football?

Remind me of your birthplace?

Another ICT incomer lays down the law.

Why am I not surprised?

Dougal

But for your information the answer to your questions are:

Remind me of your whereabouts pre-merger?  Inverness

Remind me when you started taking an interest in Inverness football?  1975

Remind me of your birthplace? England

I know I've only been in Inverness for 37 years so I would be really grateful if you would advise me how much longer I need to be resident here to be able to have a valid opinion on the subject?

Fair enough Doofersdad I can only apologise for singling you out without knowing your background

I'll be first to admit if the answers you gave are correct then you are probably more qualified than myself to voice your opinion considering I wasn't in Inverness during the murder( sorry merger) although I was born in Raigmore and lived in the Sneck before and after/now

Anyway I think it's time I took a break from CTO as it's not doing my high blood pressure any good especially when there's threads like this one on the go

Sorry again

Dougal

Never apologise man,it's the first sign of giving in and accepting the wrongs!!

It's a message board everyone has their view,some agree some don't that's what makes them good or bad.

You won't see Charles Bannerman apologising :tongue: i notice he still hasn't answered the questions asked obviously a bit too controversial :amazed:

Two minutes after the announcement that Terry is staying and Dougal posts another boring anti-merger tirade!  Why am I not surprised?

errrmmm maybe because he is on a discussion titled merger talk?

 

Makes me laugh all the people slagging the guy for setting up this page.It is not an ICT page it is a Caley page the pages uploaded are from the fanzines of the time,of course their is going to be a lot of anti-merger talk in them it was the era of the merger after all.

I in no way agree with any of his "views" but he was a Caley die hard who supported his club literaly to it's death and tried to save them from extinction,i wonder how many on here would go to the same lengths if ICT went through the same mess....

 

anyway i'll always hate Caley

It would seem he was also a Rangers supporter until they died too...

And Wimbledon FC....He really is a bad omen for football clubs that guy

 

 

not sure how you would look at it,before ICT the area around the "dump" was just that,some forthright people in the Highalnds and Islands Enterprise had a vision which included ICT in a place where nobody wanted them!!

Some members of the HIE got rich and regaled about how they brought scottish league football to inverness....as for everything else down the "marina" area well that's only come in the last few years,long after HIE ceased to exist and Mr Sutherland got a grip to make yet another beautiful landscape on the Inverness horizon.

 

Reef.. I'm afraid that statement simply shows how poorly informed you actually are on these topics and also again highlights your tendency to come up with the first unsubstantiated statement which comes into your head as long as it suits your preconceived point of view.

What actually happened was that INE's (not HIE's) preferred stadium site was Stratton Farm on the A96 which they wanted to develop to kick start the Golden Mile. This was one of a short list of four sites from a long list of 13 from Bruce Hare's 1993 feasibility study into stadium sites in Inverness - which is incidentally not at all well endowed with suitable sites. Also among the four was the current East Longman site which was the strong preference of THE CLUB. ICT and INE then had a protracted debate about this during the spring of 1994 and the CLUB's will eventually prevailed.

So Inverness Caledonian Thistle's stadium is where it is because that is where Inverness Caledonian Thistle and not INE wanted it!

It is also reasonable to mention that the possibility of a marina first arose away back in 1995 - over four years before David Sutherland had anything to do with ICT - in an interview I did with Councillor Clive Goodman, Chairman of the Harbour Trust, about the possibility of the stadium road linking through to the Harbour which he said could vastly increase the value of the area, which indeed it has.

The Common Good Fund's £900,000 stadium grant has been refunded many times over by that alone.

I wasn't referring to Mr Sutherland having anything to do with ICT,i was referring to Mr Sutherland owning the marina land which we saw a grand plan for over 17 years ago and we have......

Bit like his housing estates with no amenities to be fair.

Charles you are pretty good at bluster and gloss yourself my friend.Still no reply as to what way the players were told to vote?

Surely as the man who was on scene and who has written a book about it must know about this?

Also you said that you listened to the whole of the merger tapes in the holidays but didn't hear yourself say that Peter Donald was "accosted by hooligans" when in fact it was a peaceful handing over of a petition?

did you get it wrong? or did you mis-report for some other agenda?

What are your thoughts on your reporting at the time after listening to the tapes? Did you take an unbiased view or were you pro-merger and anyone against it was a rabble-rouser?

that's not a sly dig or anything btw just interested as to how it sounds nearly 20yrs on,would be a very interesting listen i'm sure.

Its been said many a time over the years that they are better at certain things "off the pitch" - but which team has finished above the other 16 out of 18 seasons? And about to be 17 out of 19. That's not rivalry, it's a massacre.

I think most fans prfer results on the pitch to where they are sitting match day experience etc,will it still be the same in 10yrs?

I'd agree that TCS isn't in the greatest location for amenities however was their ground not opened in the 20's? I'd have imagined the village / town grew out and around the ground rather than the other way around. 

not sure how you would look at it,before ICT the area around the "dump" was just that,some forthright people in the Highalnds and Islands Enterprise had a vision which included ICT in a place where nobody wanted them!!

Some members of the HIE got rich and regaled about how they brought scottish league football to inverness....as for everything else down the "marina" area well that's only come in the last few years,long after HIE ceased to exist and Mr Sutherland got a grip to make yet another beautiful landscape on the Inverness horizon.

The biggest council housing estate in the western world is how i would describe Inverness,all created by our once director Mr Sutherland,.does his bit for the community and charity(in a tim nice but dim way) all round good guy who doesn't ever think about his bank balance before the city

 

Actually if you look at our attendances to population ratio then it's higher than a lot of other teams in Scotland.  As much as it pains me, you also have to tip your hat to C*unty who undoubtedly top that specific table.

But you've got to look at catchment area rather than the population of the place the stadium is located. Population within 20 miles of us and them can't be massively different.

I'd tend to agree with you on this one,the population difference is probably in the few thousand,the question is who has done the better job?

For me Ross County win hands down and i know some will say pre-merger fan etc etc but i think i am justified with my comment.Ross County have tried to go about things in the right way,integratated the local community,set up a ground in the heart of the support not 2 miles walk away,pubs all around.

Community coaches an indoor facility on your doorstep and pubs a footstep from the ground...hmmmm for me this is the model that ICT should have achieved by now but instead it's the Dingwall tinkers who look far superior