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Having witnessed yet another home draw, one of my expectations is that attendances will continue to drop gradually until we get a home win.

However, so long as we keep climbing the table, a point at a time, there is a possibility we'll escape the play-offs.

I can't help feeling this squad of players is yet to click - hopefully that'll happen before the end of this season.

I think we'll peak on the last game of the season at 7th place!

(and ffs get Cammie Harper signed up for another 2 years!)

18 hours ago, dougiedanger said:

Of course a decent-sized place with a long and proud football history like Inverness can and should be able to support a competitive, full-time senior football club.

And it does - the club is called Ross County!

3 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Is there a reason for injuries occurring every feckin season??

Just wear and tear - it affects all clubs, just that we seem to make an issue of it!

13 hours ago, BobbyDazzler said:

I took in the Forres v Huntly game tonight. It was great to see Jack Walker and Sam Nixon playing. Walker was inspirational at the back. Hopefully we had staff there watching these lads. Walker looks like a future captain. Hopefully big Dunc gives these lads from our own youth system a chance 

Fully agree - I'd like to see a lot more of our own home-grown players given a chance in the first team.

Nothing to do with the fact that we're all just a little bit biased?

Thought the purpose of town-twinning was to provide jollies for Councillors, VIPs etc., all sponsored by the generous Council Tax payers!

2 hours ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Revisit the title of this topic? What a disaster he is. 

 

I'm beginning to think you may have a point!

45 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Today was the day that I finally gave up on us getting to the promotion play-offs.
At the end of November I was confident we could do it. End of January after the win at Raith I was hopeful. That hope has been fading through February, and now I finally accept it’s all about staying up. Offer me 8th place and I’ll take it.

Anyone else still clinging on to hope?

Nope, gave up today too.

I'm actually thinking a spell in Div 1 may be a good reset for the team - get rid of all the baggage, loanees, mercenaries, hangers-on, etc.

Put out a team made up of our own players - local lads with a passion for the team and for Inverness. And let them grow with the team. Promotion to Championship eventually, in their own time. Might be the only affordable option at the end of the day.

Still hoping we can survive in the Championship though, although on current form I wouldn't fancy our chances against a fired-up Falkirk in the play-offs!

And the Fergie thing - our saviour etc. It's just a myth! He's no better than Dodds.

3 hours ago, Robert said:

One is the Home Car Park, allowing it to be used as a car park for staff involved in the Red John construction project.

 

Even that seems a bit vague. Surely there are more convenient areas to park between the Stadium and the project?

11 hours ago, Fraz said:

I've no clue who you are, but this is a sentiment I've heard echoed from many long time supporters, and a feeling I've had myself over the past few years. 

Yet I persist, as some other do, often against my better judgement. The one thing that keeps me going is the people I spend time with while I'm at the game, be it family I take or friends I meet there. 

Well I vowed that if I didn't see a win for ICT on Saturday, that'll be the last game I go to until they get some home wins together.

Probably be there a week Saturday!

A great, entertaining game for neutrals.

Unfortunately there weren't many neutrals there.

Very frustrating for this particular non-neutral. Partick always looked dangerous when they got into the final quarter but we just didn't. Somehow, despite our defensive frailties we found ourselves leading for the best part of the game but never looked comfortable when ahead and ultimately were fortunate to hang on for a draw. Wouldn't really commit to naming a star performer in blue but I'm liking what I see in Harper.

Joke thread . . . . surely?

Fickle

Agree with previous comments. A difficult watch, especially the 2nd half. And when QP scored we just fell apart.

I console myself by believing it'll take a game or 2 for the new recruits to gel. Then we'll be unbeatable!

We were their bogey team, back in the day!

15 minutes ago, Fraz said:

 

I remember similar comments made when Hughes first came in about boring 'tippy tappy' possession football. That did come good over time (at least for a while) however the biggest difference between now and then is the calibre of players is vastly different. I don't think we have good enough players to play that way to a consistently effective level. We are quite honestly, turgid and very rarely have any urgency in counterattack or when on the offence. 

I hope that they do manage to turn it around and make it more effective and produce better results, time will tell. 

Just what I was thinking - the "tippy-tappy" football was a bit of a novelty to us and often it was painful to watch.

But under John Hughes we pretty much perfected it with a fairly mediocre bunch of players and what a joy we were to watch!

Be patient folks, perhaps history is repeating itself!

21 hours ago, buckett said:

Trying to think of an appropriate caption . . . 

I particularly like Jim Goodwin's resigned look! 

Trying to think of an appropriate caption . . . 

What's happened to all these bright young prospects we had in our youth set-up?

On 12/17/2023 at 7:01 PM, IBM said:

After our poor performance and result yesterday here is a bit of 'seething' to cheer you up.

'It's rubbish' - Adams slams Premiership quality - BBC Sport

 

A hundred times better - everything's a hundred times better.

Lets not exaggerate though!  

ROBBO (again)

On 11/12/2023 at 10:18 AM, tm4tj said:

At least nowadays you can eventually see the goals that you couldn't really see during the game because you're sitting in the North Stand and all the goals were scored in the first half and you weren't really sure it was a goal until you see the players celebrating. Hurrah for modern technology!

6 hours ago, STFU said:

What I am refusing to do is make any contribution towards the salaries of Gardiner or Robertson.  The former treats the fans with absolute disdain and has overseen huge losses, and the concert fiasco which means there are many local companies who will no longer have anything to do with the club.  The latter seems to be picking up a wage for doing nothing and spends more time over the bridge than he does at our games.

I'm all for diversifying the business, but battery farms, freeports and Robertson commentating on County matches isn't going to bring fans back.

If the decision makers think dropping fan numbers and fan income are worth it to have Gardiner and Robertson as employees, then either they're missing the point of a football club, or I am.  Or maybe they just prefer watching home matches in silence?!  It's their money keeping the club afloat (for now), so their choice I guess.

It's taken them a while but it finally looks like they've made a decent appointment in Big Dunc and there is now an air of optimism about the club. Hopefully results will continue to improve and more spectators will be tempted back to the Longman on matchdays.

As a long-time supporter of Caley and then ICT, I personally couldn't care less about the mechanics of the upper management structure, or what they get up to on matchdays. My interest goes no further than the team on the pitch and that's what I pay to see and financially support.

Continue your one-man campaign against Gardiner and Robertson by all means, but by doing so you are, sadly in common with the majority of Invernessians, not supporting your local team.

1 hour ago, IBM said:

Even seeing the highlights you can see a change in the team where everyone is playing for each other and fighting for every ball which wasn’t the case before. 
 

Yes definitely, although I think that was more noticeable in the Partick game a couple of weeks ago.