DoofersDad

I thought the crowd would be a good bit higher today. Not only are we playing well but so are St Johnstone and this had every prospect of being a really open game of football between 2 in-form sides who like to play a passing game. It was the sort of game which I would have thought would attract folk who are only going to attend a few games. I wonder why more of those who turned up for the County game and who must have enjoyed it decided not to come today. The price of attending games is clearly an issue for many folk but it does not explain the overall picture. The recent survey showed that it was cheaper to watch football at TCS than just about anywhere in the UK and yet crowds are holding up very well South of the Border where prices are much higher. We need word to get round that we are playing some really good stuff at the moment and perhaps more folk will feel it is good value.

From A.A. Milne's "Now we are six". "If I were John and John were Me, Then he’d be six and I’d be three. If John were Me and I were John, I shouldn’t have these trousers on." Yes. The word "if" spawns such profound philosophical musings. If I were Andy and Andy were me We'd not have missed that penaltee

So do you have privileged knowledge of how Julia Roberts "plays" DD? Yup. Looks good, but after stripping off it's 60 minutes of rather tame action. Just a few brief touches and then heads for a shower before the climax is reached.

Regarding Philip Roberts Whilst he shows glimpses of talent I thought he played more like Julia Roberts today.

Pretty much agree with Hislopsoffsideagain. But two points on two points lost. 1. Why substitute A Shinnie right at the death and bring Morrison on? Doing so served no purpose other than to cause confusion around who was doing what defensively. 2. Why suddenly resort to hoof ball in the last few minutes? All that tactic does is give the ball back to the opposition and provide them with a succession of chances. Whilst the first half saw few chances, it did demonstrate that we can keep possession pretty well these days, so why not go back to doing that at the end. We did not fail to win this game due to missed chances, we failed to win it through tactical naivety.

His name is one letter shorter than Immortal Howden Ender

I don't think he'll stay long. Hair today, gone tomorrow.

I like the bit where is is saying that they are now "closing the gap on the likes of Inverness and St Mirren". We have 9 points from the last 3 games including humping County 3-1 and yet he thinks they are "closing the gap on us"! :rotflmao:

Great result but from the commentary I'm not sure about the performance. Obviously started very strongly but allowed Dundee to get back in it and it sounded as though Dundee were the more likely team for much of the game until we stepped up a gear at the end. Might have thrown it away against a better side than Dundee - and all the other sides are better than Dundee! Sounds like 4 - 1 flattered us but the positive here is that we are finding the back of the net with regularity. We seem to have the potential to blow teams away and we need to keep the focus and the hunger for the full 90 minutes. If we can do that it is not just a question of top 6 next year, it could be Europe! BBC seemed to pick out Raven and A Shinnie as the top players so it seems it is someone different every week. Get everyone at the top of their game at the same time and we will be awesome.

There's just no pleasing some folk. I would have thought she would have been delighted because said style would have allowed her to watch MOTD as well.

Its an interesting survey to look at. Over the years there has been a lot of talk on here about the price of watching ICT with a number of folk urging a drop in prices to get more punters in and saying that high prices are one of the factors causing poor crowds. But this survey shows that it is cheaper to watch football here than just about anywhere. We are an SPL side and yet it is cheaper to watch football here than at some of the English conference grounds. Having said that, I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw from that. Inverness is a relatively affluent area and one conclusion might be that a majority of the paying customers could afford a significant increase in prices which in turn might allow us to retain better players. The fact is that prices in England are generally significantly higher and the size of the crowds is proprotionately higher as well. Maybe we just have to accept the economic truth that if we want a higher standard of football, we are simply going to have to pay more to see it. In the meantime, the club should make full use of the survey to attract new customers by pressing the fact that a day out at TCS is actually very good value for money.

With or without the horses ? The idea of the cubans boxing whilst wearing the dressage clobber and the dressage team clad only in a pair of boxing shorts whilst bouncing around on their mounts is not without appeal.

Excuse me as an Englishman butting in on your national grief but I do wonder why there is this sudden desparate rush to replace Levein. Just a few games ago he was the new white hope and folk were excited by his appointment. I don't think his approach to international management has changed that much since then. So if Levein jumps or is pushed in the near future what does that achieve? Will Strachan, McLeish or the Moderator of the Church of Scotland turn things round so that Scotland qualify? No, they won't! Even if Scotland were to win their remaining matches that would not necessarily see them qualifying. Scotland can get a maximum of 20 points and Belgium and Croatia only need another 10 points from 6 games to equal that. The SFA now need to look to 2016 and beyond and that is a long way away. Levein's appointment and others before his seem to have gone pear shaped in no time at all. So what the SFA need to do is to take a long hard look at what they were aiming for with recent appointments, analyse why things went wrong, consider what they need to do differently in the future and then identify the qualities they will be looking for in a manager to deliver the future strategy. They'll not be able to do that in a week. In the meantime they should be giving Levein full support and telling him that he will not be dismissed at least until some defined point in the future at the earliest - the point at which it is mathematically impossible for Scotland to qualify, for example. After all, Levein has been working with the SFA, players and coaching staff and has as good a chance of getting some decent results from a reasonable squad as any other manager has. It was, after all, the SFA who appointed Levein just a short while ago and he is still the same guy now as he was then. If they rush to get rid of him and rush to get someone else in without giving proper thought to what is required, they will simply get it wrong again. If the SFA axe him now, it will say far more about the ineptness of the SFA than about Levein.

Hark! I think I hear the sound of a fat lady gargling.

Don't worry. Sweden 4 - 0 down away to Germany and have come back to draw!

The fat lady ain't even warmimg up yet. Of course it is disappointing that Scotland lost a match they should have won but if they beat Belgium and Wales beat Croatia then Scotland will only be 2 points off the top. They could be top of the group at the half way point. With a bit of luck and the team gelling better together there is no reason why they couldn't still qualify comfortably. Any side is capable of beating any other in this group and there's still 7 matches to play! With an ex ICT player in the midfield tomorrow instead of the unpleasant Brown, I fully expect a better performance and for Belgium to under-perform under the pressure of being hot favourites. It's far too early to talk about a new manager .... ...another 24 hours should be about right.

It may be that a crowd will be smaller when a match is televised but if what is on show is an exciting match, that should help to encourage folk to attend the matches when ICT are not being televised.

That little taster of a BBC rugby commentary sounded about as exciting as an episode of the Archers.

I would rather there was not a pipe band, but given that the club invited them in it is a touch rude, to say the least, to then play loud music over the tannoy drowning them out.

It's laughable when you compare that to what our lads went into the book for on Friday.

Rangers lose to bottom of the table Stirling :rotflmao:

There is apparently a rule that I was not aware of. Provided you are are within 10 feet of the referee and are wearing a red shirt, you can forcibly push an opposing player out of the way just before the ball reaches you.

Shinnie is saying to the County supporters:- "Now you know why we let them go!"

Feelings before the match are above. Feelings after the match? Can you hear the County sing? :ictscarf: