RichieKass

Cental Belt bias? Grow up for god sake. I wasn't at the game today but my flatmate and several other friends were there all of whom said it was worse than any game they've witnessed in a good while, however... Since Butcher has been at the club I think it's been obvious we have players who have the fight and the want to stay up, beating rangers, drawing with celtic and clocking up a few wins - granted with not always pretty performances. Yes we failed big time today but what no1 here seems to take into account that when you are in a situation of such high pressure and you start playing badl phsycologiclly it becomes VERY hard to break out of and I imagine ever player on the pitch is devestated with their performance today and will work their asses off to improve. Sometime you have a very bad day on the pitch and you just can't get away from it the whole 90 mins no mater how you try. Yes, i know these guys are professionals and i know they get paid a lot because they are expected to perform but it's hardly as if this is the 5th defeat on the trot each with a dire performance. We fecked up a big game, okay but I think some people need to take a step back. Whilst I sympathise for those who spent time and money going to the game I do think some peole need to put this in perspective instead of being a shower of pessimistic sods all the time. Sh!t performance, let's look forward and hope we improve, i'm sure every single play at the club is gutted about today, now can we quit with the teuchterish moaning and laughable allegations of central belt bias?

I don't necessarily agree with Linton's comments, but I see where he is coming from - Yes i think brew's an idiot and i would like to see him sacked - however i also think that negativity at games has a clear affect on the players - which doesn't help our situation. I will support my team no matter what - and i'll separate my view of the team from my view of the board and the manager. So come 3PM on match days i'll be cheering for the caley jags even if I do think Brewster is totally incompetent. I think part of the idea of a column is to get people talking and to provide an alternative view point - to play devil's advocate if you will and in this respect maybe the column was effective. Okay so maybe linton seems to be wearing then tinted spectacles but this is after all a column and not a factual piece. Yes - we've played some dire football recently and maybe it'd be nice to see some acknowledgment of this, but I do think some people are maybe over-reacting to the column. On a side note - whilst the media's free speech is very important in society (vital in my opinion) i'm sure they also have to be careful what they say sometimes as they need to keep parties on side (to get interviews with players and managers in order to print material that sells papers for example). Sometimes people forget that papers cannot be too one sided because they have bridges to avoid burning - especially in a small town where relationships have to be maintained over many years. Now, let the flaming begin...

I think Charles would be a more 'scientific' manager... Perhaps a little more 'experiemental'?

Right here. I'd be up for that...

If i was forced to have sex with a hippo this is how I'd mount it...

I presume that dick hastings must be our all time most capped player. But who is our SECOND most capped player???

*** removed *** The point of a chant is not to abuse our own players

Aye - it's much better than hear smeone say ehhhh between every second word when they need to think about what to say next....

Excellent result - gutted i missed the game but i had rehearsals that i 4got about (festival time means lots of work for musicians). Great that barrowman scored - hopefully that'll put pay to worries that he'll have a slow start to the season while he tries to find the net for the first couple of times. Oh well, that's made my night...

I have faith that Barrowman will do good for us this season and i still think we have a strong midfield. My only concern is about our defence, I just hope our new boy zadi can play consistantly for 90 minutes and just be solid, but i fear he could be the new zibi - shows some good potential training but makes so many errors when on the park, i just hope he proves me wrong. Oh and Tokey needs to get his act together, hopefully he can raise his game for the start of the season, he's not been looking to chipper in preseasons...

Well said

Me plus 2 or 3

Rory was bad yesterday and i don't think he's cut out for SPL football, certainly not yet, I think he'll be outta here soon. However that's no excuse for booing the poor guy when he came on and every time he got the ball, that was fvcking shameful. A lot of goals for such a bad game however there was some hope there, Zander has got amazing ball control, Vigurs looked great and i'm excited to see Barrowman playing in the SPL....

Ahhh, the classic bring back calder post which comes up every now and again - you beat me to it!

I love the rivalry, the songs, the jokes and banter with their fans but as far as county are concerned we have a lot to be greatful for - especially in terms of players we got from them, some of them on the cheap/free transfers. I think it'd be great if they made it into the SPL (not at our expense though) it'd bringback the league derbys which has been missing for too long - pre season friendlies arn't quite thje same. On the other hand i think ICT would lose out badly if County made it to th SPL and stayed there - we'd have essentially lost our feeder club, we'd certainly lose some home support and long term we may well miss out on some sponsorship money/deals as there would now be two top flight teams vieing for sponsorship in the highlands. But I can't hold that against County - I think it'd be great to see another highland club do well and i'm not going to be the kind of sour grapes miserable git who is against them doing well because it would threaten our (not-as-well-run) team because of our failings as a club.

Good to hear the section G boys will be around, hopefully we'll get some singing done. I hope the shop isn't open or i'll end up with the bloosy new home strip - which i don't even like that much but i know i'll buy if i set foot near the club shop...

Prettu self explanitory guys, who here is going down on tuesday night for the game? Anyone taking any inflatable sheep with them this time?! Rich

well said - league one isn't a poor quality league by any standards and the championship whips the arse of most ay the SPL

bit of an oxymoron no?

:018: got to disagree, whilst sometimes nostalgia can colour memories i don't think you can call CC an average player, he was very skillful in my opinion and has a lot of tools which suit him to manegement, perhaps he's not the full package yet but when he was in charge i enjoyed watching the football more - and that's almost as important as seeing your team win, infact maybe more so - i'd rather see a good 90 minutes of great football that we narrowly lose that 90 minutes like i watched at tynecastle last weekend - even if we had somehow won that game it would still have been dire to watch

Aye, quite agree with that. The Lothians & Borders Police were totally out of order this afternoon, both inside and outside the ground. After the match four mounted officers "shepherded" a small group of young ICT fans down Dalry Road towards Haymarket Station and none too pleasantly either. This left a very bad taste in the mouth indeed. Pity they wouldn't concentrate their efforts on the real louts and criminals. Young lads of course can't fight back like some of the gangsters they're too feart to take on. Quite disgusting. :008: I'm gonna be unpopular for saying this but here goes... I think the cops are takin a bit too much flak here. I was sitting at the end of the row next to the lads who got flung out and I had a word with the female officer (who was thoroughly decent) after she had spoken to the boys the first time just before half time. She agreed with me that the banter between sets of fans was sublime but what they had the problem with was not that the boys were standing up, but goading the other fans (both groups were doing it) who were only seperated from each other by a rotund steward (the sex offender) who couldnt have sprung into action with a written invitation never mind if a fight had broken out and another steward who was also totally anonymous until the cops came up. I even heard her get on the radio and tell her gaffer that nothing outrageous was being said and the boys should be left alone. She was being chatty because she wanted to find out where the boys had come from (obviously thought I might know - I didn't) and she knew they hadn't come down on a supporter's bus, so they'd been watching everyone since before they even got into the stadium. What she said to me was that they didn't want to spoil the craic and thats why they didn't tell the boys to sit down the first time they were spoken to. She was also talking about what they can do with fans who don't do as they're asked i.e. remove the entire row of fans resulting in the loss of those fan's home ground season tickets. So the cops were giving the boys plenty chances. Anyway, the game went on and Hearts scored and a couple of our boys jumped into the stairs and started winding up the Hearts fans (one of whom got his badge of honour by getting flung out right at the end). If they hadn't done that the police wouldn't have come back up. Fair play to the older folk who stood up and stuck up for the boys because they thought they were being harrassed for standing but the fact is they weren't being picked on for standing, it was because of the "aye, come on then, outside now, lets go" chat that was going back and forth between the fans. It also didn't help that the boys didnt do what they were told by the 8 foot tall copper without being told 3 times. I mean come on lads, you're not gonna win in that situation no matter how many white lightnings you've put away ;) As I said already the atmosphere was great and it was made by the boy's songs. I was creasing myself for half the game with the "you look like a sex offender", "oh f*ckin sheep is wonderful", "HIV capital" and "glad to hear you're still alive" shouts. Keep it up next time but be cool in front of the cops lads. Fair enough, the stewards often pick on folk because they're d1cks but the cops don't get involved without a reason. I have to agree, although like proctor said, both parties have to take some blame, but if everyone had sat down when the cops came up and asked and then stood up again 5 minutes later the whole situation would have been avoided. I think the boys were absolutely amazing with their singing and their spirit and i don;t want this to be an attack on them it's not. But i did feel sorry for the cops who i though were being quite lenient and pretty polite. I though the council tax song was brilliant (heard FC United do it before) but the cheerio was a bit wide, the 1st was banter but the second was a bit too cheeky. Whilst i totally understand it is annoying that the hearts fans were standing that doesn't mean the cops can't tell you to sit down, and the harsh reality is that those folk in the cheap seats stand up every week, there's a lot more of them, they're not sitting next to opposition fans and they're sitting a lot lower down - different stands, different rules - sh!t but the way it is. Additionally the cops don't know the Inverness support like we do, so they have to take precausive measure - how do they know the Inverness fan's banter isn;t going to turn into people throwing coins or a few people going across for a fight? You can bet your b0llocks to a barndance if that was certain other hearts fans sitting in the same stand there'd have been fights. The reason for the escort was purely to stop trouble - again WE know you guys are well behaved supporters who arn;t going to start major trouble - but they don't, and they are certain groups of Hearts fans who wouldn't have hesitated to get involved in a good old fight if they'd come across of bunch of guys singing some Inverness chants after the match - there have been a fair few carnages after football games - and not just derby games in Edinburgh. I know it seems very OTT but they cops were just doing their job and i didn;t think they were too rude/heavy handed in the situations i witnessed, i feel for you guys because i know you are just out for a good time and a laugh and are a real asset to the club.

IHE - saw you getting up and encouraging everyone to stand for the chants of 'Stand up for the Caley Jags', nice to see people actively encouraging people to join in, so kudos to you mate! Well done the guys up the back, i was in the row in front of ya's and was honored to be singing all the chants with you, it's nice to not be the only person within 20 seats of you who is singing. Great atmosphere at a pretty uninspiring game, well done everyone who sung!

I see your point but if you had seen quite how bad Hearts were yesterday, how badly ICT played and how many easy goals Hearts missed yesterday you may take a different stance, it was a terrible game of football and a shocking performance from Inverness, if we had been playing a top 6 team that could have been 6 or 7 nil, seriously.

A few of us will be going to the caley sample room on slateford road before the game and then parhaps the diggers (athletic arms) before KO f anyone is looking for a pub before the game. Anyone got any other venues they are visiting, should be a decent turnout from the Edinburgh contingent of the ICTFC fanbase this game, i know quite a few folk who are attending....

Whenever i have doubts about the club i just have to listen to this guy who always seems to talk sense. He obviously has a vested interested in the club but i genuinely feel that he also wants what is best for the club. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/7364026.stm