Kingsmills

Last week we had a very disappointing crowd against Hamilton for the first home match of the season especially considering our great start away at Pittodrie. This week, on a pleasant August afternoon, we can only muster just over 4,000 against Hibs, far and away our lowest ever SPL gate in Inverness against the Hibees. I know that season ticket sales are well down on previous SPL seasons despite slightly improved marketing but it seems a worrying trend is appearing. Since we moved back to the Longman our average crowds have hovered about the 5,000 mark. This year it could be 5 or 6 hundred less which would equate to a drop in income of around ?200,000 in the course of the season at a time when, Marius apart, our wage bill is the highest in the club's history. Is the novelty of SPL football in Inverness waning ? is it the recession ? or is it dissatisfaction with poor results and negative, uninspired football even at home ?

I think that's right. The new one will be cheaper to reproduce on merchandise etc.

I believe that there's a very real chance of this happening in the next few days.

I don't believe that Bamba is the consistent, reliable central defender we're in need of.

Quicksilver

unfair

strange

novel

To be fair to Brewster, he's made it clear for some time that he would like to sign another defender if he can get someone of the right quality at the right price. It appears that the man we had on trial was a Colombian by the name of Enrique Pla who had been playing in the Venezualan Premier Liga. It seems we're casting our net far and wide these days !

fictional.

ancient

festival

No great surprise really. The clue is in the suffix XI after the word Liverpool. A bit of a throwback to the Highland League days when Thistle and Caley both regularly faced Old Firm XIs in friendlies.

The signing seems to have been confirmed.

advice

Early days but the most worrying thing is that man for man we've probably got more skill than Hamilton, we've undoubtably got more experience but they seemed much more committed to the cause. We've got to recapture the team spirit from our early seasons in the SPL if we want to avoid being sucked into a relegation dogfight.

pointing

Good luck to Queen of the South tonight in their first foray into European football. Tonight's match at New Broomfield appears to be on following a pitch inspection. I've lonng had a bit of a soft spot for the Doonhamers and it would be great to see them make progress against one of our pre season opponents.

I believe that Rooney will be signed tomorrow on a season's loan deal and will be straight into the squad for Saturday.

I like it. It's very possibly the seventies styling that appeals to me.

A decent enough player but I tend to agree with Harry Chibber on this one.

Manji

firm

Can't take issue with any of it.

I agree, given the lack of a second out and out striker 4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1 wouldn't be a bad way to set out our stall.