12th Man

I would have thought it was a wee dig at Hibs.

Do you fancy helping out and saving the day. Have you ever stood in the bar and tutted to yourself about the length of the queues. Or tutted because people are jumping the queue. To resolve this, all you would have to do is arrive a little bit earlier and help out for the rush. Instead of turning queuing customers away, they will get served earlier, they will get served quicker and its because of you. You will also be making extra money for the club. It may only be for 20 mins and doesn't have to be for every match, it can be shared and it wont clash with the football. I have been told that not just anyone can turn up and start helping out as training is required. To overcome this. Our proactive club is offering bar staff training to people who are reliable and who are genuinely interested. I hope you enjoy seeing all those happy faces savouring a nice cool pint served by you. If you are genuinely interested, contact the club and I look forward to seeing you behind the bar. Cheers.

I have some very good news for all those kind hearted people who donated to the Cup Final Surfer Flags. You all bought into a vision and collectively we created our very first ICT giant flags for the club. 1st ones in 20 years I have wanted to announce this for quite a few weeks but 1st wanted to make sure the head count was correct and also wanted to remind those who said they would donate, to actually donate, without telling them of the outcome Being a community club and a proactive club, the chairman and I wanted to reward those who gave but did not expect anything in return. For the individuals who donated towards the flags there are various prizes on offer to be drawn at a later date. The prizes are as follows. 1st prize A signed shirt from our very first cup final. equal 2nd and 3rd is a pennant and a signed photo from the glorious great escape semi final, containing 5 players looking pleased with themselves. 4th prize is a poster of the fans which has been signed by the players. On top of that. Its been a great season and to pass on that feel good factor, every single person who donated towards the flags will each receive a miniature flag of their choice and I more or less know which flags to order due to the private poll carried out over the past few weeks. These have yet to be ordered so we are probably a few weeks away from getting any sent out. Special Thanks to. The fan who contacted me regarding the supplier. Don for Designing the flags. Peter our safety officer for advice at the design stages. Our Chairman Kenny Cameron, for listening to a fan with an idea, for the continual support, the prizes, collecting the money and also contributing to the flags. CJT for their collections, contributions and for offering help to get the flags out on display. Caleythistleonline for the paypal links and the publicity. All the sponsors. The club and players. And lastly the nuts and bolts of the club, You. Whether you contributed or not, they are Your Flags and represent you and your club. If you are a bit miffed that you have missed out on the above, there are also some cracking prizes that the club have made available to the 1st 1000 season ticket holders and the early bird season ticket prices finish tomorrow, 6th June, so if you get your skates on, not only do you get money off your season ticket you might win something too. :ictscarf: :ictscarf: :ictscarf: :ictscarf: :ictscarf: :ictscarf: The 12th Man.

Regarding the free-ish shirts Ross County are 'giving away' Youngsters have to pay £25 to watch the games and get a free shirt. There is an advertising slogan for fresh natural white fish called 'Simply Cod' (which contains 54% fish) If we had an advertising slogan for our youngsters to get it to the matches it would be called 'Simply Free' (100% free entry) No catches no gimmicks, under 12s go free. For the rest of us the early bird prices finish tomorrow.

I think you would be very surprised how many fans we have in all of the locations you mentioned and beyond. We could have easily taken more buses from Dornoch/Tain and Moray area to the cup final. ICT have done a lot of good work, sorry thats a bit of an understatement. ICT have done a lot of terrific work looking after fans far and wide. Time and time again you hear of ICT lending a helping hand, children upset because their school garden gets vandalised at North Kessock, a boy getting his shirt replaced from up North, Eagle for Caleys brother getting shown around the staidum. Healthy eating in schools. I also believe more good news is on the way.

Why restrict a fanbase to only Inverness when we are the pride of the Highlands.

Regarding attendances I think the family section will be pretty good this coming season.

Everyone else is irrelivent, you support your club and your team, your local team. No matter how big or small, its your club.

I didnt realise but the early bird prices are only valid for another 10 days. Savings against pay at the gate 10% off at the club shop. Subway deals The 1st 1000 go in to a draw for special one off prizes.

Thanks for all of the contributions, if you stated that you wanted to pay and havent yet done so can you please send me a pm. Cheers

On saying that its better to get players on the up, than players on the way down.

Thanks for all the replies

The next major signing will be at the dole office. ( once a fortnight )

1st he will be sacked in the morning. 2nd Hibs wont bounce straight back up.

Any players worth taking Terry as there wont be a Butcher bounce next season.

A legends summer derby would be good, as long as we get Tokes and Munro. I could see both clubs doing well for local charities.

I had the view that if you reduce prices you get x amount more through the door. What blew that theory clean out of the water was that for all the season ticket holders that we have, the numbers hardly increased when they could take someone for free ! Scottish cup QF £10 adults £5 children. You need x amount of fans to break even, any extra fans are pure profit. Pulling figures out of thin air, if a seat costs £25, 2000 generate £50,000 if that is the figure to break even, then at £15 you have to suddenly find an extra 1,333 fans paying full price just to break even, an increase of 66.6% and even offering free tickets to st holders didnt increase volume by that much. Nor did cup tickets at £10.

A season ticket book now also get you vouchers for subway. Perhaps someone who actually got them with the season ticket book can tell us what you get.

That's a good idea, its just a case of thinking about how to turn that thought into reality. If people also had a link to pay online 1st they would probably pay more and 2nd the tax can be claimed back.

I popped in to have a chat with the chairman regarding a couple of things and it was good of him to spare a few minutes of his time at such short notice. He did say the door is always open if anyone does want to pop in, however going by some of the comments on this site, I think he is a little more eager to meet up with some posters than others

That's a decent idea! Would totally be up for that, maybe something CJT could organise a tourney or something.I'm fair game for that plus i would be able to munch ya Roughi. Looks like you've just volunteered for something Rig and warrants its own thread.

So far there isn't a lot of weight behind the idea as everyone has different suggestions and not enough interest so I don't even have any bargaining power to find out what can be negotiated. If the club bar is involved it has to be opened up. bar staff and someone to buy and cook burgers and it all costs, unless the club can do that on the day of the new shirt sale I would rather approach businesses and see what they can do for x amount of customers

Would we have to have the "North Stand Ultras" on it Sounds like a good header for a flag.

Wow something so simple and no ones interested, I wouldnt have been going though as Im far to busy, lol

Just a thought but if a get together was to be organised this summer for fans what would you be most interested in. A casual bar lunch? High tea? Curry night? Beer and Barbie? Something family orientated?