Sneckboy

An article in the Daily Record regarding Butcher's 'rant', and what clubs in general could be doing to attract the fans. Some good points raised but nothing really new. It would be great having a dedicated club shop of sorts - with a city centre presence. We're a one club city - yet two of our rivals have prominent stores in our city centre. Aye, the ' ugly sisters' have a lot to answer for...and are, frankly, the root of the problem for all clubs bemoaning the lack of supporters turning up.

Saturday 16th February SPL Stuart Armstrong (Celtic 6-2 Dundee United) 1st Division Bryan Prunty TWO goals (Raith Rovers 3-2 Dumbarton) 3rd Division Garry Wood (Montrose 4-1 Elgin City) Highland League Calum Dingwall (Lossiemouth 1-2 Formartine United) English League 1 Barry Robson (Sheffield United 3-0 Colchester United)

Will very likely come down to the last game!

It's a very valid point. A place the size of the Granite city, with its catchment area, would certainly expect to be attracting more fans. But look at Edinburgh. The Capital, the central belt location, approx 450,000 population with only 2 senior teams...they should be filling their grounds' modest capacities on a weekly basis. As for our 2,529 gate vs kilmarnock, it should be remembered that the corresponding game in August only attracted 3,000. That was the first home game of the season for us football starved punters. A Saturday 3pm kick off. No other distractions/excuses like Xmas shopping (!) and there was a reasonably healthy Killie support that day. So despite the weather and Champions League in midweek we didn't actually leek many fans at all. Our average this Season at the stadium is on a par with last Season...and, whisper it, commensurate with our debut season in the SPL- with the novelty of Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Aberdeen, Hibs, Dundee United etc coming here on league duty for the first time. Our average attendance across all the seasons in the SPL is around 4400. So yes, we're slightly down on that but other clubs have seen significantly bigger falls. For the record, here's the latest figures for this season. (Taken from the SPL website.) Celtic 45,953 Hearts 13,384 Hibernian 10,693 Aberdeen 10,073 Dundee Utd 7,472 Dundee 6,544 Motherwell 4,889 Kilmarnock 4,864 St Mirren 4,442 Ross County 4,184 Inverness CT 4,017 St Johnstone 3,791

Saturday 9th February 1st Division Bryan Prunty (Livingston 2-3 Dumbarton) 3rd Division Rory McAllister TWO goals (East Stirlingshire 2-4 Peterhead) Ian Black (The Rangers 4-0 Queen’s Park)

Ross Tokely made his debut for Brora today, away at Steve Paterson's Formartine. Brora lost 2-1 and Rosco got booked!

Need to stop the Europe talk. Top 6 has long been the 'Holy Grail' for us and should still be our primary objective.

Well done! You're totally spot on, there! Aye, Marius Nicolae scored vs. Russia in a friendly shortly before the Euro 2008 Championships. Probably helped get him selected for the Romania squad...and he played in those Finals whilst still with us! Richard Hastings got the winner (his solitary Canadian goal) against Mexico in the Gold Cup quarter-finals of 2000. As if beating Celtic 3-1 at Parkhead wasn't enough (both within 2 weeks)! Canada ended up winning the whole thing! Hastings a vital cog. They played in the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2001 as winners of the concacaf region but Hastings was on the bench for all their games! But the fact is: a player from Inverness CaleyThistle played against France and Holland in Euro 2008!!

Yngwie, I've got a Caley Thistle related question: Billy McKay became a Full International player last night, as an Inverness CT player. He didn't manage to get on the scoresheet in his half hour, sadly. However, TWO players on ICT's books at the time, have netted in Internationals for their Country (1 goal each). Who are they??

Russell Duncan and Richard Hastings have been released by Brora Rangers.

33. Gandia, Ferrol - Antonio Reguero

2. Barcelona - Juanjo

20. Happy Valley - Paul Ritchie

Here's a great website for previous kits! http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Scottish_Football_League/Inverness_Caledonian_Thistle/Inverness_Caledonian_Thistle.htm

Was it a change of sponsor logo? From flybe.com to OrionGroup?

Ryan Esson's favourite song is The Reflex by Duran Duran...or should that be Doran Doran!

Ah, welcome back fevtyke!...No need for the gloating(!) but your comment is taken in the good humour I'm sure it was intended! The recent results of our teams are in sharp contrast- I see you guys have won 5 and drawn 1 of your last 6 - and have a realistic shout at reaching the Quarter Finals of the FA Cup! Inverness have had a poor rub-of-green in the last few games...no need to hit the panic button just yet!

Saturday 2nd February SPL Iain Vigurs (Ross County 2-2 Hearts) 1st Division Bryan Prunty (Dumbarton 3-4 Livingston) 3rd Division Rory McAllister (Peterhead 1-1 Berwick Rangers) Highland League Zander Sutherland TWO goals (Brora Rangers 4-1 Keith) English League 1 Adam Rooney (Crawley 1-1 Swindon)

Check how far off his line Dudek is saving that pen!

Yeah, the Brora move might actually materialise for Tokely! Then again, there's always Elgin or Peterhead!

Let's try to make the Top Six first?! February will be a crucial month with 5 tough fixtures in 19 days. The gap between us in 2nd and St. Mirren in 11th is just 9 points. As nice as it is to be where we are, there are no prizes given out for January league positions. Things could yet unravel very quickly!

Wednesday 30th January SPL Gregory Tade (St. Johnstone 3-1 Aberdeen)

Yeah, he was released at the end of December along with Andre Martins.

Well Draper netted a penalty again against Stenny! And by the way, Philip Roberts isn't English! He plays for the Republic of Ireland!

For the record, the penalties vs. Stenhousemuir were: Foran - Missed...! G. Shinnie - GOAL! Morrison - GOAL! Doran - GOAL! A. Shinnie - GOAL! ---------------------------- Sudden-Death Draper - GOAL! Roberts - GOAL!