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Any sane person would be looking for 4th place , at the very least it will give us some much needed pennies from the play offs?

I know we have all been critical of the club of late and some of the recent comments have been over the top! However we really need to start getting the basics right for instance I was down at the stadium this morning hoping to purchase a new away top for my son and surprise surprise the club shop was closed with no notification of whether it would be open or not! The doors to reception were also closed. Do they want our money? Granted I could have phoned / tweeted beforehand to check but come on it was 10.45 on a Saturday morning and I grudge spending my work lunch time through the week going down to the shop. It's time we got our act together its little or basic things like this that gives off the impression that we have a amateur set up! I do not want to blame individuals here but the club as a whole who really need to step up a gear!

Sounds like we gave up on this game after going down 1-0! I'm speechless can't see where we go from here! FFS Hamilton will now have real belief that they will not finish bottom! I like Foran as a person however talking a good game no longer gives me any belief that we will stay up! A win on Sat is now a must just to give the boys some confidence! I'll refrain from the Foran witch hunt for now!............

Couldn't' agree more! There must surely be a hefty reserve fund after last season's exploits. Do we not receive a payment from UEFA for our exploits this year I'm sure it's in the region of 200K, (perhaps we get this at the end of the season!). We must also have some dosh left over from the Scottish Cup (Again we must have made at least 500K!) . Hope the Board are willing to splash out in January (if need be!)

Just noticed that our twin town /city Augsburg are like ICT entering the Europa Cup for the first time! Not just that but they also formed through a merger of two local teams in 1969 between TSV Shwaben and BC Augburg, unfortunately the similarities end their as having finished in 5th place in the Bundesliga they are already in the group stages of the competition proper. Would be great to meet up with our German cousins at this stage of the tournament though....

It's not about the money.......However does anyone have a clue what the club made in terms of finance from our brilliant cup success? I would make a guess that we made a profit in the region of 500K however without knowing what kind of well deserved bonus the boys were on for lifting the cup this really is a stab in the dark. We must have done well in terms of merchandise sales and would have received a six figure sum from William Hill for winning the trophy plus whatever cut there was in terms of ticket sales. It would be nice to hear from people in the know?

Need to win both the Motherwell match and the Ross County match to have any chance of a Top 3 place it's that simple! Lowering the bar a bit, we are more than capable of beating our previous points record of 58 points so all is not lost. Knowing our luck we'll end up with over 60 points but in fourth place! Maybe I'll be more optimistic after this Friday!

I was really hacked off with the Aberdeen under 12 boys dancing behind the goals during the shoot out. This should never have been allowed at a major national final our boys showed a bit more respect and sat down when asked. I thought the whole affair was very amateurish! My pal in Glasgow also noticed the Aberdeen neds whilst watching the match on the box! Anyway rant over I think it was the Aberdeen Ned who had a kind of Mohecan who put our boys off, I'll go as far as to say he cost us the final lol!

Always expect the unexpected from ICT! Would be good to get a solid win against Hibs mid week which would all but guarantee a Top six place and provide the players and Hughes with some confidence moving forward to the final.

Think there was about 6000 or so against Dundee a few years back (Hampden) wonder how many we took to Tannadice Vs The Gers at our quarter final (home ) match? I Like most others was seeing double so there could have been 10,000 for all I can remember of that day!

With Capital Caley on This one, hope they go down!

How much have we sold then? I'll be happy with 10,000! We'll take down 20,000 easy to the Scottish Cup Final! I now hope Aberdeen manage to sell 40,000+ with the empty seats draped in the colours of both clubs Celtic Park will look almost full! Bring it on!

The ideal location would be at Beechwood plenty of parking spaces readily available and good infrastructure into the area. Discussion have made made in the past between the local economic development agency (whom I will not name!) and senior staff at ICT (whom I will not name!). Initial discussions were about training facilities but moved on to discuss stadium 're-location however as is usually the case these talks came to a standstill mainly from the ICT end. T here always seems to be a lack of vision from the club in terms of facilities I guess it's all about the money, maybe a good run in the Scottish Cup could provide the additional money to kick start new training facilities. My guess is that we would require about £1M to start it all off with matched funding coming from elsewhere we could rent out the pitches assuming they're of 4th generation standard and accumulate revenue to go towards an indoor training centre. There could be a real business case on the agenda here but unfortunately all my cash is been tied up on other things!

I think Sky Sports have the rights to screen live a replay from the last 16 could be US if they so choose? Nice little bonus considering the crowd will be lucky to hit four figures!

I was one of the locked out and to this day I still blame one of my pals (InvernessThistle Fan) for delay tactics before leaving the "Sneck" by car! No urban myth just 200 or so peeved off fans unable to get into the ground! Think we'll get over 10,000 to Parkhead no problems!

Knowing it's not all about the money,money, and wanting first and foremost to congratulate both the club and the supporters today on creating a piece of history by reaching out first cup final, I would however be interested in a guestimate on what the financial reward to the club will be for reaching the final? I reckon a 40,000+ final would give the club between £250K and £350K if the winning proceeds are split between the two finalists? Not sure if we get anything from the SPFL for reaching the final but we could also expect between 20-50K in Merchandising for the final and some 80-100K for reaching the semi final stage. Please feel free to correct me on any of the above!

I'm now feeling very optimistic about the rest of the season after today's win at Pittodrie, no more negativity from me as far as the strength and depth of ICT's squad is concerned given that we still have Draper/Foran/Warren to come back into the mix (An additional striker to would be great though!) nor any more negativity towards Yogi until the end of the season at least, he's now coming across as a decent guy and has not "rocked the boat" since taking over from Butcher indeed he's already given youth a chance to shine with both Polworth and Christie now seen as regular first team players (would Butcher have done the same, doubt it!). With Lattapy arriving next week there's a lot to be positive about and of course we have the semi-final to look forward to. It'll be no surprise if this is going to be ICT's most successful season ever! Oh I forgot were still in the Scottish Cup and almost guaranteed at least a place in the last eight! Been a season ticket holder since 94 and things have never looked so good for ICT so come on no more negativity on the message board until we know how the season pans out! (Worth a try I suppose!)

Let's be just a little positive were playing Hearts are we not? A weaker Hearts than last year!

Back to the original post, if we do make it to the final and end up playing the Dandy Dons and do say profit from it by say £400K what should the club do with the windfall? I seriously believe that this money should be spent on new training facilities and not squandered on short term contracts!

I'm aware that this might have already been discussed this time last year but has anyone got a clue about the financial reward awaiting the club this year if we make it? Would an additional £0.5M be way off the mark? I know it's not a given that we'll make it given our previous history at the semi final stage of national competitions but has anyone got a clue how this additional income will be spent? I for one would like to see the money going on first phase training facilities, it should therefore be "ring fenced" for creating a legacy for the club and not wasted!

I would have taken a Top 6 finish at the start of the season and a cup final and were still on course for both. What we want is for ICT to become a regular Top 6 team and for the club to budget on this basis so that we can confidently strengthen the squad year on year. Let's not kid ourselves that were bigger than we are.

Just come back to the forum after a wee break,(about two years) just thought it was time to provide some perspective on the attendance situation at the home matches. Inverness according to the 2011 census has a population of some 61,000 perhaps now in 2014 this has grown to around 63,000 probably just in the Top 10 of largest towns / cities in Scotland (albeit one of the fastest growing). Stats lesson over! It has to be said that ICT pull in fans from beyond the hinterland but this is counter balanced by the fact that many folk in Inverness support one of four clubs ICT, Celtic, Rangers and Ross County, add Clach and its a five way split this I believe is fairly unique in Scotland and supports my theory that ICT are still doing well to have a hard core of around 3000+ home attending supporters. Maybe just maybe this 3000 average figure could rise to 4000ish but that's up to the club to make the match day experience just that bit more attractive for the punters (answers in a postcard?). Basically what I'm trying to say is that we will never compete with the City Teams in terms of attendance's so let's not get too hung up about the current crowds we have a lot of competition out their and if say all the county supporters living in Inverness saw the light then we would attract another 1000+but that's never going to happen is it? I guess we might just have to wait another 30 odd years for Inverness to have a 100,000+ population to attract 7000+ attendance's.

So once again we'll not be spending freely during the transfer window, how much can we afford to splash out? Apologies if this question has been asked elsewhere!