Couldn't agree more. I would much rather see a team of local lads that want to play for Inverness, rather than just seeing us a stepping stone. This was a line up from Hearts pre-season July '03.
1 Mark Brown
2 David Proctor
3 Stuart Golabek
4 Robert Mann
5 Stuart McCaffrey
6 Russell Duncan
7 Richard Hart
8 Steven Hislop (Anthony Kevin Low 78)
9 Paul Ritchie
10 Roy McBain
11 David Bingham
Grant John Munro
32 Christopher James Finnigan
33 Lewis Craig MacKinnon
34 Michael Alan Fraser
What a team!
Many of the guys from that team (most of which are local to us) have stayed/did stay for a number of years.
5 of that squad are still with us, include rossco too. 3 are too old to still be playing and 3 didnt make the cut I guess. Both keepers, Caff, Hart and Hissy moved elsewhere to better themselves or get a regular game, and none of them could really be blamed, as all of them served the club well for a number of years.
Contrast that to Saturdays game-
Esson, Tokely, Bulvitis, Munro, Golabek, Cox, Eagle (Rooney 76), Duncan, Foran, Sanchez (Imrie 71), Hayes.
Subs Not Used: Proctor, Stratford, Allison.
How many of our new signings really care about ICT, and how many would hang around if we were successful (or unsuccessful?!)?
Not one up and coming highlander amongst them
Please do not confuse this with racism, I have no particular problem with most of these lads being English, my problem is that most of them do not really seem to care, which makes the team a lot harder to support at time like these.