Gringo I know your sore at missing the game but to extend youre arguement to pubs and B and Bs just doesnt hold water. ICT is a football club, it is there to promote football and to do so it needs to take in as much money as it can. Setanta are offering an extra £250K or so per club for the Monday night facility and in relation to that ICT can and should only look after it's own interests. So if £20K is lost to gain £250K, that sounds like a good deal, even though I dont particularly like football being fragemented all over three days and i in particular enjoy my Saturday afternoon game followed by a full evening in the pub.
ICT and Setanta have no responsability at all to B and Bs, pubs etc. They all actually do quite well out of football and therefore need to accept the sport as it is. I actually don't believe the Inverness economy as a whole would have lost out much at all since the main downturn was of around 600-800 Aberdeen fans who just arrive, watch and head back along the A96.
In fact I get a bit pissed off with all these claims that this that and the other events put huge amounts into the local economy. At best, most of them rearrange the allocation of money that will be going into the local economy anyway and, in relation to the total GDP of Inverness, any extra is realy just sweeties.