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.
