That's the problem with having a relatively young football club, back in the day it was either follow highland football or pick a team from the media friendly SPL. We've had to start a fanbase from almost scratch, after the merger half the supporters of either Caley or Thistle didn't want to follow ICT and still don't. Everyone else interested in football had picked an SPL team to follow i.e the OF and would come along to watch ICT as their "small club", then we started to get better and when it showed we had potential to go somewhere more and more fans started to come along to show support. Now that we've hit the SPL we have a massive chance to advertise ICT to a whole new generation of fans but instead of making it easy to support the club we're making it harder by not having cheaper ticket prices for consessions and having a poor selection of merchandise in the shop. If the ticket prices were cheaper then more kids could afford to come to more games and even if we did take a hit to our finances we would eventually make more money the next season and the season after that etc. It all just seems very short sited and even with the new strips... we could have been taking pre orders weeks before they were officially released but nothing.
I have hardly had a go about this before because we were rushed into the SPL and it was inevitable that it would take time to come up to scratch with the other SPL teams but that's 2 years now
rant over