FoolPhysio

Bye then

Missing you already . . . 

Also it's like comparing apples with oranges,,,,,Product (and money) totally different!

My point exactly.  What they charge in Germany or Spain or Italy or Estonia is of passing interest but cannot be used as a measure to our prices.

I believe our prices to be fair value.  The only comparison we can and should make is with others in the same league we are in.  Beyond that it is meaningless.

more shoddy 3rd rate marketing - why have an announcement with new sponsor revealed, getting the clubs name into the press & then no-one can buy it?!? do they think every single person who contemplated buying a shirt upon hearing the new sponsor news will check back on a weekly basis to see when it is released? if it needed SFA approval etc then why not get that done before an announcement?!?

Seriously?  We get new sponsor - news.  We put in hands-off warning - news.  We announce new shirts ready - news.  

That is 1st rate marketing - by using drip drip method, we keep the momentum bubbling along rather than one flash-in-the-pan-soon-forgotten extravaganza.

If someone is contemplating buying a shirt it isn't because it has a sponsor name on it, it is because it has the club name on it.  So they will buy it when it comes out.

It is not ready yet.  They will tell us when it is.  They do not need to explain why it is not ready yet or what is happening before it is.

You must be a joy at Christmas-time.

Perhaps when Scottish football brings its prices into line with the rest of Europe . . .

Prices from the top league of our closest European neighbour:

Manchester Unit: £31 to £53

Arsenal: £63 to £126

Southampton: £37 to £50

Sunderland: £32 to £40

Norwich: £33 to £60

ICT: £20 to £30 

So, you are saying we should be putting the prices up? 

Voted.  Could watch that for hours . . .

Babbling

Losely related to attendances so will post on this thread. I noticed that St Johnstone who have lower home attendances than us from a community smaller than Inverness took twice as many fans to their final as we did to ours. If we had taken a similar proportion of our population we would have had in excess of 20,000 instead of the 7,000 we did take.

 

I realise that part of the reason is that the Scottish Cup is a more prestigious competition and the 3pm Saturday kick off helped as well but similar sized towns and cities such as Perth, Paisley, Motherwell and Kilmarnock tend to galvanise about a third of their population to attend finals both of the League Cup and the the Scottish whereas we took about a tenth of the population of the greater Inverness area. It can't be due to geography as County who are based even further from Glasgow than we are took the highest ratio of all.

 

Why is it that, despite great efforts by the club,we are still failing to engage and enthuse the wider Inverness community even for important well publicised one off occasions and, what if anything can we do to address the problem ? Before certain posters turn this into yet another merger thread I am talking about the community as a whole and not the few dozen continuing refuseniks.

You have forgotten to mention that when we played, so was virtually everyone else whereas for the Scottish Cup, the only alternative fixture was the FA Cup. 

Been following World Cups since 1970 in Mexico sometimes including Scotland and latterly not and I have never been less enthusiastic about the premier international tournament than this one.

 

At this stage, honestly don't care.

Same.  Just don't feel enthused about it in any way, shape or form.  Seems very low key at the moment but wondering if that is more to do with how close the English Premiership was run up until the final games at the weekend.  I expect the media deluge to start any . . . moment . . . now.

Beaver

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Has anyone else heard the guy in Section D (I think)?  He speaks with a broad Invernesian accent and seems to go on rants that last a good few minutes!  Classic entertainment!

Someone must know him as there can't be many that have such an accent amongst all the incomers

Dougal

 

You are absolutely right Dougal, I feel so ashamed and almost dirty now for supporting a team from a town I have not lived in and only loosely associate with through being a Highlander.

I shall write to Kenny apologising for soiling the sacred ground with my unclean presence and not having the good grace to just loiter in the Away end, and revert to watching my local team instead.

Although how I get from Aberdeen to Portree every second weekend may be a challenge.

(You didn't think I was going to start going to the sheep shank did you . . .?)

Adams

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THe biggest game in the clubs history and hardly a cheep about it from the club in the local press , they should be shouting from the rooftops to try and encourage as big a support as possible but if your happy with that then more power to you .

Actually, I have to agree with this.  I don't tap into Inverness media that much (more a WHFP man) but the local BBC news her in NE Scotland has something referring to the sheep being in the cup final in every sports spot - it may be that the news is Highland and not Grampian and so with two SPFL teams they are not as keen to promote one over the other, but it is getting wearing hearing the red update hourly just because I live on the east coast.

If MFR and the Courier are not running a nightly briefing on ICT to stimulate interest then they are missing a trick.

For comparison, what did they do when C*unty were in the Scottish Cup Final?

Dougal manages to turn another thread around to the merger!

That's some all-consuming obsession.

Fixed that for you.

Knight

Three tickets for myself and my two little ones, and two commemorative scarves bought.  Feeling good about this one especially after the result last night.

Driving down from Stonehaven if anyone needs a lift?  PM me.

What I have noticed with recent one-on-ones with the keeper is that Billy tends to blast it straight at them at the moment - noticed that in the semi final and in the league game again against Hearts.  A little chip now and then would solve that.  He still seems to have the positional sense, just doesn't seem to have the killer touch at the moment.

Bunker

I am at a loss to understand why there is supposed to be clash in TV scheduling.  I seem to recall that whenever this happened in the past, the football was on BBC 1 and the rugger went on BBC 2.  Of course that was in the days when TV had to accommodate the sport, and not the other way around. 

Since when did rugby reach such a level of prominence that it is considered to have parity with the beautiful game?

Why does Billy Dodds sound so anti-ICT?

 

Because he is.

He is the kind of wee nyaff that if he won 3 million quid he would moan it wasn't 5 million.

As the song says - you ain't somebody until somebody hates you!

Pixie magic.

Fairy nuff.

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