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People are frustrated by the inconsistency. That's why there are so many negative comments about his performance I suspect. That's it in a nutshell. On another day, he would have booked a lot more players. He also appears to not understand what constitutes a foul at times. All in all, he is a dreadful referee and one slightly better game than the previous ones he has had up here does not make it better.

Not sure that buying a season ticket does actually cost the club revenue. Yes it is cheaper than pay at the gate over the season but you are provding substantial amounts of income to the club at a time when they have little revenue coming in and they also know that they have a set level of income before the season starts. To me, everyone who attends is a fan whether they are a season ticket holder or not and I for one do not see myself as spuerior because i have a season ticket. It is very sad if fans are following this route of I'm better than you because (fill in whether season ticket holder or pay at the gate).

You sure you could remember!

What is it with some fans who refuse to go and back their team at certain grounds. Never understood that.

While not totally convinced with the syle of play that Yogi is trying to introduce, and it is what many have been calling for over the years rather than hoofs up the park, it is a bit disappointing to hear groans/maons and comments when we do keep possesion of the ball. Keeping possession of the ball is surely what we need to do rather than hoof it up the park and lose possession. Don't for one mininute think we hvae got the style of play correct yet but when it does work, it is good to watch. Not so sure we went to a plan B in the second hald but simply moved the ball quicker and played more expansive as opposed to narrow. That I think was the problem in the first half, no width so difficult to get forward and put pressure on County.

And how would this have prevented the two goals down to defensive errors today?? Had Warren not attempted a cushion headed backpass, the first goal could have been avoided. Without doubt Warren was trying to head the ball back but got it wrong. How that can be used as an example of passing the ball within our defence and causing errors as in stop passing the ball back, I simply do not know. That is what I was trying to say.

And how would this have prevented the two goals down to defensive errors today??

Don't know if money is as big an issue as some people make out and how much would you have to reduce tickets by?. To my mind, a £5 reduction which is the minimum needed probably would still not generate sufficient fans so what then. When we have reduced prices before for cup ties, crowds have not increased so that is why I do not think pricing is such a big deal as is made out. However, probably a bigger reason is the league format which is just too boring and repetitive as it stands and needs to change to make things more attractive. As for improving the match day experience for fans, I just don't think the American/Canadian experience will work here. I have been at several baseball games in the States and while many fans make a day/night of it, just not convinced we have the same mentality here. Having said that, there are some simple things that we could do. Pricing and choice of catering have to be more keenly priced with better service. The choice of music played at the ground seems very random, perhaps if more rousing tunes were chosen or build up to a rousing tune before kick off might help increase the atmosphere. The club also needs a rousing song that the fans can identify with that signifies something to the fans. No easy solution but there are some simple ideas which could be tried.

Seems you cannot please all the people all of the time. While I will admit the new style of play isn't always working or exciting, it is generally starting to be effective. People have moaned for years about our style of play under Butcher but no matter what we do, fans still are not happy. You could see what the team were trying to do yesterday but the ball would simply not break for us in the first half. If anyone is saying our first goal was a punt up the park, all I can say is watch again and that was classic counter attacking football. Billy did not have his best game but some of that is down to him being out of sorts and some poor play by us when the final ball to him was poor. It was the most I have seen the team try to get him involved. As for Billy not being at the top of the scoring charts, all I can say is that other players are stepping up and scoring and, to be frank, as long as someone scores, don't care who it is. Probably classes as a happy clapper but with the on going complaining and constant negatives being highlighted about the teams performance, could this be contributing to poor crowds?. Getting a bit disillusioned with the negativity.

They are there as can be witnessed in the attendances for the bigger games such as Celtic, Aberdeen and County. The trick is getting these people along for games with hamilton, Kilmarnock etc. Don't know if the cllub has details of who these people are, and maybe the club do this now, but worth contacting these people with special offers, incentives to try and attract to more games?. Would 6 game season tickets, or something similar be an option to try?. Even Celtic Aberdeen and County crowds are going down. Less than 6000 at the Celtic game. A few year's ago that would have been over 7. but only looking for another 500 to make a significant impact on finances. The fans are there if we can somehow make it more attractive to attend.

They are there as can be witnessed in the attendances for the bigger games such as Celtic, Aberdeen and County. The trick is getting these people along for games with hamilton, Kilmarnock etc. Don't know if the cllub has details of who these people are, and maybe the club do this now, but worth contacting these people with special offers, incentives to try and attract to more games?. Would 6 game season tickets, or something similar be an option to try?.

There are a couple of issue here for me. The latesness of the decisions on which games to screen are the most annoying and frustrating for fans. Surely the SPFL and the broadcasters could come up with a better minimum period of notice for changing games which would then help fans plan better. This may also help the club sell local hospitality packages which must be a bit of a nightmare to do when kick off days and times change. This is another important source of revenue for us. With regard to TV in general, I think that with so many games on TV now, we have a generation who would rather watch a game on TV now than actually go to a game. Removing games from TV, which is never going to happen TBH, might result in a few more fans through the gates but not many. What would annoy me if some fans say they would rather watch the game on TV then they turn around and say it is too expensive to attend matches. It certainly is not if you compare witha few drinks in the pub. Bottonm line on gates, and I know I am way off topic, is that we need to try something, I don't have any brilliant ideas as yet, that encourages people who do not attnd currently or are irregular attenders to come along. Only then will be see gates increase.

Think the club should bank the money and wait a few days in case administration strkes again for Rangers!!

While I agree with you on these two games, point I was trying to make, and TBH, not very well, was that there should still be enough "locals" to attend the game and keep crowd numbers up. Then again, who knows how many of apathetic Invernessians will turn out for this game to boost the attendance. If we cannot get the "loacls" to turn out for these games then we are in trouble.

While I appreciate this impacts on supporters who travel from the central belt, surely there should be enough home supporters to not dent the crowd a huge deal or the atmosphere. When game was on a Friday night, it didn't impact on crowd or atmosphere and final Sunday game two years ago at Dingwall did not impact hugely on the crowd. The endless negative postings on this feed through to people who read this and have an impact on the crowd. Sure it would have been better to be on a Saturday but so say this will kill crown and atmosphere seems a bot OTT.

Or how about Poundland Stadium

I disagree. It may be more difficult to compete over a whole season but that doesn't mean we cannot compete. The defeatist attitude of many of the SPFL clubs in this matter makes iteven easier for Celtic to win the title by maybe 20/30 points. If every team had a go at them at home, difference may be closer than everyone thinks because, to be honest, Celtic are not a great team and have weaknesses especially in defence.

Couldn't agree more Hawkeye. He seems to take no time to think about things (the sign of a good referee)and flashes cards automatically. Dreadful dreadful referee but the majority on the list, who still are referees are not a huge lot better.

Hard to disagree with the majority of what has been already said. Only positives from me, over last season is that we did a much better job of closing down and harrying Dundee than we did last season (Draper was excellent at this last night) and that ball retention was a lot better than last season. Major concern is that we were very slow to support on the break at times so good breaks came to nothing as not enough players far enough up the field. Best moments came when Raven got forward and put in some decent crosses which strangely, in the first half especially Graham Shinnie seemed reluctant to do when he had the opportunities. Both full backs had plent of both space and the ball and I was surprised Dundee did little to stop that. To sum up, a bit betetr than last season but passing has to be sharper and quicker in the final third, the problem is that i don't think we are good enough to do that.

Are you seriously suggesting that if he said the things you mention, it would encourage more people to attend matches. In my opinion, the people of Inverness just do not want to come out in numbers to support the team each week. Even when we were plating really attractive football, scoring goals and at the top of the league at the start of last season, the crowds did not pick up. Unless people start coming along on a more regualr basis, we will have more seasons outwiith the top 6 than within down to purely financial issues that could be helped if more supporters came through the gates.

As has already been said, if we sign another striker, do we then go to play with 2 strikers. If so much easier to sign someone. If the striker is signed as cover for Billy, much more difficult to sign someone when all you can offer is to sit on the bench most weeks. If Fleetwood do sign Billy, then they will have to pay a fee which, hopefully, we can then spend on a new striker. Don't forget, we may already have the answer within the club (genuinely do not know if one of the existing players could take this role on) but Billy didn't exactly set the heather on fire in his first season and took time to find his feet. maybe that will be the case now for someone within the club if Billy does go.

I do find it hard to believe that if Doran was greatly overweight, the coaches would not have noticed and commented/taken action on this. I have not been to any pre season games from comments, he doesn't seem to be unfit. I agree with IHE that the problem with Doran is that he really could go to a higher level but whether he has the mindset to do it is another matter. Either way, glad we do have him as we are a better team with him than without him despite some of the postings on here.

Don't think Charles was referring to glory hunters in the same way you are IHE. For those of us who did support Thitle, as I did, and Caley, we all know that cup ties against the "big" teams attracted much bigger crowds than league games because of the novelty factor and the possibility of a genuine cup upset. These are the glory hunters I think Charles is referring to, not exiles who no longer live in Inverness and cannot attend games as a result. Towards the end of their existence, cup shocks were much fewer for Caley and Thistle although probably down to both of them having much poorer teams than previously. I well remember local Inverness derbies attracting well over our average gate of 3500 in the 60s and 70s but these days had long gone at the time of the merger.

if anyone has been to baseball games in the States, it is common to see vendors walking up and down the aisles selling food and beer, without any issues. Something could/should be trialled to see if it works and cuts out the half time stampede for food/drinks. The circus is a one off so probably an extreme but we sure could learn about marketing from the Americans. Dougal - if you want things to still be as they were 100 years ago, I politely suggest you stop using the internet.

I thought he died years ago !!