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id have to see these figures to believe them, as my experience with highland league football is a bit different!

not as interesting as our strip, what the feck was going on there?

ye dancin' ?

yes :011:

going back to the point of my first post, its clear that people on here dont view team selection as a weekly issue but rather a stuttering long term thing, people saying 'dont bring back black because duncan is playing well' have no football brain at all.. theres games where black will obviously be a better choice in the middle (like yesterday). its not even like keeping the same 11 for several games at a time is going anywhere, theres no obvious development in consistency or teamwork and we seem to go in cycles of playing well and playing sh1t. no player should view their place in the team as a 'reward' for doing their jobs well, but thats exactly what getting picked for this side has become. as fans we've been ruined by ict over the past year by cc, we think that a side who beats dundee united at home in the cup one week should be good enough to put on a show away to hearts in the league, despite the opposition and competition being completley different. thats why we were poor yesterday, the players on the park were not set up right to deal with the changes if black plays against motherwell and does very well, that shouldnt automatically put him on the teamsheet for the following week, as it shouldnt for ever player.

proove it..! the club doesnt have a clue about pr and marketting, as i learnt through various conversations on saturday evening! they will never, ever, do anything.. they have a budget of about £20 a week

sometimes its ok to agree with people with silence

>>> That's me just back, how unlucky were we, that was blo ody robbery

numbers about 20 in inverness

kids and their families... jesus the merger was only 12 years ago! all have minds of their own. ultimatley the numbers who believe the old way of things in inverness was better are a drop in the ocean, or the puddle

well done alex you win first place now baagger off and unregister yourself or something. the time will come to bring black back eventually, today wouldve been as good a day as any, unless youve got the charlie christie philosophy on team selection. thats trial and error. if we win a game we keep the same formation regardless of opposition, if we play ok and lose then we dont change, we have to lose several games in a row for a change to be forced. one of the two main reasons we need a squad larger than 11 players is to offer flexability with regards to tactics for each individual game, theres no question black wouldve been right today in a 451 formation that wouldve forced us to play through them and given rankin the chance to get forward without leaving kingston free reign of the dance floor. its worrying that somebody suggesting a different set up might get a strange reaction around here, which there wouldnt be if cc wasnt spoon feeding us the old 442 with the exact same players week in and week out until injuries or suspensions force his hand, as we'd be operating like every other club in scotland and mixing things up on a game to game basis.

robbed...? we never deserved to win that! we were awful front to back with theexceptions of bayne and fraser. dods and munro, solid, true... but they also punted every clearance aimlessly towards coolio (russel latapy of 10 years ago, great player, dominated us in midfield) and grant munro attempted his party piece with the throw ins again with usual results.. a waste! most of them came from the right hand touchline (from the attackers perspective) which is a dangerous position, if youre attempted to swing one in or get a corner. i was waiting for him the whole game to dummy a long throw and drop it at wilsons feet, itll never happen.. pure desperation rankin and duncan were not superb, they were sh1t, compare them to brellier and kingston who were excellent, they werent in the same league today. neither even attempted to dominate the central area of the park that black seems to mince into as if he owns it everytime, once they wereon the backfoot there balls forward or down the channels became as desperate and rushed as munros throws. that said taking rankin off was a mistake. hastings was solid and covered other areas of the midfield well but couldnt make anything happen going forward as the midfield were all over the place, the moment he lost it and gave them a chance was due to there being nowhere but the touchline to put it, he had to carry it forward. roscoe was impressive coming forward but lacked the fitness required to make an impact. macallister did hit the bar with an excellent header but he did nothing else, gary shouldve been given much longer than the 2 minute cameo when the game was lost. rory did a great hissy impression of sprinting as fast as he could into the corner flag, before giving away a throw in or a goal kick on several occasions. he was very poor and needs to learn from bayne how to close players down and make a nuisance of himself bayne, looks like he missed a sitter in the first couple of minutes but otherwise typically solid performance, rarely wasted the ball and chased everything. sorry i cant see past this --- "The players fought for their lives" :015: at least we know the identity of christies speachwriter, can all of those who attended the game post 'AGREE' or ' :015: ' to this statement from stevie. ill start [The players fought for their lives - :015: :015:]

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gordon should move to celtic and garuntee himself some champions league experience, id hate to see brown completley out of his depth there and end up stuck in the reserves forever :019:

ill assume you mean ict and not scotland, the national team has loads of bad keepers to pick from (and an excellent one with a big gob who thinks hes bigger than hearts) before they consider the current AD Ceuta first choice. for us though he could be worth a trial

how many tickets were sold?

id never comment on a woman who uses this forum! id never hear the end of it

motherwell made the stand behind the goal opposite the away end £5 a seat. over an 8 game period the results showed an increase in attendances of about 1,500 a game but it never lasted as all the fans who normally paid to use the other ares of the ground ended up sitting in the stand too, shafting the club £15 a head. when the stand went back to the normal price the attendances did the same. i was worth a try but we'd be foolish to not learn the lesson for ourselves. offering price incentives to attract new customers will result in the loss of hundreds/thousands of perfectly loyal fans to the same deal

expect nothing more from the ****

point being that ticket prices count for balls all. if 10% was added onto the cost of a regular hl ticket to see the league champions back then people wouldve paid it, as theyll have to now even though the game isnt anywhere near as big

"I see it like this. As an ex....er.......em......Caley fan ( am i allowed to say that?), why is it in the old Highland league days of the 1960s etc, you would get 8000+ turning up for games yet the population was prob a third of what it is today?" as an ex....er.......em...... caley fan (its ok you can say that) you would probably only see the league champions maybe once or twice in a decade (i dont know if they even did that) and its very unlikely that it would ever be a scottish cup quarter final, comparing todays gates with those of the past is ridiculous when you consider how huge a game that would be compared to the kind of run of the mill quarter final fixture we're used to now.

sadly i think the only way we're ever likely to genuinely increase home support is with consistent success on the field, home and away. that will never happen at a level thatd effect change. where we can move forward is in the close season and with seaosn ticket sales, thats where the marketing should be targetted (starting now even), as we're never likely to increase pay-at-the-gate numbers without remarkable success in the spl. a realistic target for next season should be 4,000, get the thinking caps on now and sort it

football 100%. no idea if ill be home for the game, i did buy a train ticket but itll be a last minute decision as always. since working in edinburgh ive actually bought transport to three games that i havent gone to, because friday nights always go to far and i hate travelling at the best of times i love the cup though so will try. f+ck the rugby