caleykid1994

Who cares, when the clubs loses more money from this appeal we can then have a go at them and say "told you so!"

can we not just leave it as the weather wasnt as previously predicted and was colder than the USH could manage. That way everyone keeps face, except for the ref for not bothering to get up for the 09:30 pitch inspection as he "couldnt be bothered" and decided to get up here at 11:00. Will we get the usual from these southern refs of "Inverness is sooo far away to make a 09:30 pitch inspection" crap.

yes but the income stream from the SPL would have cushioned any blow we had on wages, now in the 1st we are feeling the full effect of 6 months of paying Barrowman & Imrie on SPL wages and no TV income nor big money attendances. Oh and do Rangers & Celtic have relegation clauses in their contracts aswell? :021:

Marshall (Cardiff City) that is probably the only one i dont want anywhere near Hampden ever again. Has not been the same since he left Celtic and is such a calamity in goal for Scotland.

On this one I am going to give the club a big :021: . They are contractually obligated to change strips every so often to generate revenue for themselves and the kit supplier, but in ICT's case, they do not gouge the supporters in the way that some other clubs do. Many clubs change their kit every year and sometimes that can mean 1st, 2nd and even 3rd strips changing at the same time generating lots of expense for supporters (and revenue for the clubs). ICT only change the design of one strip every two years and stagger it so there is 1 new kit a year - home kit one year, away kit the next. In fact, on more than one occasion, the away kits from previous seasons have also doubled up as a 3rd kit so you get more than two years out of it (like the black kit for us this year) ! Obviously there will be a change to both kits for us next season as the sponsor will change, but the design of the away kit will most likely be exactly the same with that one exception .... I even remember one season (think it was 98/99) where ICT issued iron-on sponsor logos to cover the previous sponsor logo as the kit hadnt changed so fair play to the club, and praise where it is due on this one. Having said that, I do think we should keep our identity as red/blue stripes of some description ... the style can still change within a vertically striped template by giving more prominence to the red or the blue in different seasons but keep the stripes, it is our identity now and clearly the most favoured design of most supporters. yes, i have no problem with the club changing the kit but how about keeping it as stripes. maybe every other year changing the likes of how many stripes or how thick the stripes are. Not going from stripes to block design, then back to stripes then to a top that looks as if its had a can of red paint thrown across neck of the top.

This is coming from a club that as it stands, cant even negotiate a standard contract with an International player and are just now trailing it through the courts so i doubt there are enough braincells between all the board members to say" hey if we go down, shouldnt we have some sort of clause in the players' contracts that reduces their wages?". unless the board come out and say that there are clauses in these contracts then we can assume for the time being that there isnt any.

Inverness Citadel 4 - 2 Inverness Ladies D.MacKay S.Ceplinski J.Knight G.Leitch not too sure on the scorers for the ladies though!

maybe so, but i found out last night that the game is going ahead at Jubilee Park

You forgot to add Barrowman too. Right you are now forgetting the other factors that have come into play aswell. S/T - as caleyD has said that season tickets are ?100 down on what they were last season. wages - we are still paying 1st division footballers SPL wages so thats a big drain on our funds USH - for the games that have had the USH on before hand runs at approx ?5-7k a game that had it on Niculae - We still have to pay him the monies he's due aswell as this pointless appeal next month which we will lose. attendence - We may still be getting close to some of the crowds we had in SPL but most were paying ?22-25 a ticket for that instead of the ?13 it is now plus there is no TV revenue coming in and now we are out of all cups so there will be no income from that. Basically we cannot afford to run something that (a) might not work in the weather conditions being forecasted and (:D will greatly reduce the income from a game against let's face it a team who will bring up maybe 200 fans tops.

Don't think you will get a reply stevico1 cause he doesn't have a clue! First off I dont think there's any need for sarcasm. Second, If you don't know me then don't assume I dont have knowledge. Lets look first at wages. Average U-19 wage ?150 a week (guess) = ?7800 a year x average squad of 18 = ?140k + costs of staging home games + costs of travel + insurance + kit + coaching staff. So we could be talking in excess of ?250k a year to run one team. Players could, of course, be part time in which case they'd need to be holding down other jobs so wouldn't be in a position to train alongside first team squads. :( Oh Alex - you always rise to the bait. I think you have been listening to the spin doctors at TCS - they always talk the costs up. When we were in the SPL we received massive financial support for the young pro squad from grants and sponsorship deals but most of the kids got ?90 per week. Danny Macdonald did bring in a lot of money on the youth side but he also spent a lot on salaries for himself and others. I'm sure that a great deal of this money is no longer available now that we are out of the top league. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise Alex - this club has NEVER spent a lot of money on its youth development - FACT. For all the cost, we could have a team in the SFL U19 league and the squad could easily be made up of full-time and part-time players. I think the truth of it all is that we just couldn't be bothered trying to get this together! I think you may find the truth is we kept a squad of players on SPL wages with a first division budget so some things had to go. I would hope that was a temporary decision. Aye you may be right - and who's fault would that be then? obviously the boards for not negotiating relegation wage drop clauses in the contracts but what player would sign one with that in the deal?

well if the USH wasnt switched on i honestly dont blame the club whatsoever for not putting it on. Its costs a good deal of money to run it a day and we just dont have the money to spend.

Just got told by the Citadel manager and the Ladies Ass.manager that the council have postponed the game tomorrow. shame it would have been funny to watch! :(

Because the club is trying to pick and choose when they want to play teams. The club tookages to agree when the county game was going to be played. and im glad they chose the day after my 22nd b/day!

well the sun has been beating down on my front garden for most of the morning and it looks fine, but when you walk over it ts still rock solid. so if the USH wasnt switched on then im sure the pitch would be in the same condition

Our very own official club website would you believe chappy! Gutted!! The SFL had it before the offishal site did

SFL now has it as OFF! ICT Offishal site says its off now Radio scotland now says its off

where are people reading that this is off? SFL havent got anything on it nor does radio Scotland

The only reason it can be taking so long is that it maybe just be frozen in 1 or 2 places and maybe they are just trying to figure whether it will thaw before 15:00 edit:oh well

how long does a pitch inspection take?

Yep, you could sunbathe in that!

My moneys on them aswell. The only thing in Citadels favour is that they have a professional striker in their manager Krystof who used to play in the 2nd tier of the German leagues and after moving to Scotland he joined Golspie last season. My brother is contemplating whether to play for them or stay with Raigmore(he is an ex-ICT youth player). Thats a photo from when Citadel took part in the Leisure Leagues national tournament down in england. they have merged with Delta force so they have a squad now and are on the hunt for players.

Sex wool is my favourite Mine is the FTWS(Ferry Time Warp Syndrome)

while searching for the welfare league on google i came across uncyclopedia.wikia.com the description of Inverness is out of this world funny!

probably as half the citadel line up work wth half of the Inverness Ladies line up

Just thought i'd bring this up seeing as i havent found anything on it. My old work mate from Tesco has resurrected Inverness Citadel and they have successfully applied for a place in the Inverness Welfare League. They have been using the HFA in Dingwall for training and have confirmed earlier this week that their 1st match back is against Inverness Ladies on 21st February at the Bught. Citadel