Alex MacLeod

If anyone knows your job Tug then they're bound to understand the committments you have to make in life mate. I dont think anyone could say you were any less of a fan of our club. Besides did you not parade the Caley Jags colours in front of the Regimental colours in Basra. Up until, and including our relegated season, I would be at a home game every time I wasn't away. Sadly, price increases and no wage rises dictate that I can no longer do that. Am I any less of a fan?

The big problem with the vouchers for cup games CD is that you dont know if you'll be at home. It is entirly possible that the extra payment you suggest is made and no home games are drawn in that season. As for the number of cup game......for Scottish cup, so long as we're an SPL team we'll only have a possible three games where we can dictate the price. Think its the same for league cup. Semi's and final's are Hampden. So I suppose if you see the draw as being a 50/50 lottery them there should be a chance of at least three home games over both competitions. I dont know what the answer to pricing is. I think ST's are over-priced. I believe pay on day prices are ridiculuous but I dont have to balance the books but increase the entertainment factor and I'll happilly pay up.

I've watched the game twice now and the highlights even more and I dont blame Tokely for the Samaras goal. Samaras was doing what he does best. Hanging around looking bored. At this point, as Hooper (I think) puts the ball forward, Samaras snaps into action. Tokely doesn't get on the end of it and the rest is a very good goal. However, I do think Proc should have seen what was happening and stayed with Samaras. The only other bad mistake was the pass back from Tokely that could have resulted in another goal. We played fairly well up to the first goal, had a lapse of concentration for three or four minutes then got it together again for the remainder of the firts half. We even had a couple of efforts on goal and should have had a penalty for the way Tade was held during a corner. All in all I was sure we'd come out in the second half and go for it. I dont know what was said in the dressing room at half time but a different team came back out after the break. Celtic were mediocre at best and were there for the taking but we didn't capitalise on that. In fact we held up a white flag and threw down our arms. Proc tried to shepherd the ball out and then gets pushed of it and then makes an error of judgement that gives them a penalty. If only he'd dragged the ball across the line and given a corner things may have been different. Other than the couple of incidents that cost us the game I wouldn't single out anyone for criticism. I think everyone played well for th first 32 minutes. I think they got it together as a team towards the end of the first half and I think they all failed to play as a team for the second half. I couldn't for the life of me understand what the tactics were supposed to be. I also couldn't understand why, when he should have been on the touchline shouting encouragement and guidance, TB was sat up at the back of the stand. This was a cup game. No points at stake. Nothing to lose. We should have been set up for all out attack. If we had done then failed at least heads would have been held high.

Yes you're probably right & ive heard it said before Inverness folk are renowned for being very reserved Which is why the place has the reputation of being the swinging capital of Britian

Yes but how do you know you'll get that extra thousand bums? And the more people you have the more the cost to police them.

You crack me up....complaining about lack of support from the local area in one thread and hoping that we don't convert people to the cause and bring them in on an another!!! How exactly do you suggest converting one of them, once an Orc always an Orc IMO You maybe quite happy sitting next to union jack waving bigot but I'm most definitely not With that kind of attitude I can see now why you previously voted yes to kill of your previous team Dougal By not tarring them all with the one brush. They're not all as you describe but to describe them all as such is just to show yourself up to be as much a bigot as the minority who sing the songs and wave the flags.

Your no wrong there dougal. If we could resurrect the Corries we fill the stadium double over. I'd go along with that if there was a profit. I also think we have proven on numerous occassions that reducing prices for cup games does not increase gate reciepts. We have reuced prices when we've played lower league teams and the crowds have reduced correspondingly.

Network of contacts isn't much use if your in administration.

If Rangers were to go completely and there were left a number of football fans looking for another outlet for their matchday entertainment then I'd welcome them with open arms. Personally I think that, now they are out of the cup, and, with the team they have just now, it looks very like they are out of the title race Rangers will go into voluntary administration. They will know they have enough leeway to avoid falling into a relegation battle so will stay in SPL. That then gives them till start of next season to regroup and work towards getting out of administration. And if it takes longer than that they start next season on a ten point deficit. In that time they keep operating as a going concern and they get a load of debt written off. They may also have to sell off some assetts, reduce their squad and get rid of Murray Park but I dont think there's enough value in Ibrox to force the sale of that. Not many developers out there prepared to take on all the problems of a listed building.

Aye and theres a lot of empty seats up Gorgie way

The matchday experience needs to be entertaining. The pipeband really got Murrayfield buzzing yesterday but so did the match. Trouble with pipebands is they cost money. There has to be entertainment of some sort. There has to be music that gets the hackles up. I dont think many who have gone to Gorgie, Ibrox or Parkhead would not admit to letting their feet tap to the music. Even the announcer at Murrayfield done his bit to gee up the crowds. At the end of the day though, there has to be excitement on the pitch.

I'm beginning to think this cup just doesn't have the appeal of the majority of football fans any more. All attendances yesterday were way down on normal. Aberdeen - 6785 Hibs - 8198 St Mirren - 3334 Motherwell - 5139 And looking at Ibrox just now I dont think that stadium is near half full.

My reason for not going is pretty much what Johndo said. The entry cost didn't put me off. The early kick-off and the poor weather forecasts were my deciding factors. There are many fans around Tayside and the central belt who, had this been a three o'clock k.o, would probably have made the journey but the early k.o usually means a mad rush from train to station, a mad rush for very early train or an overnight stay. For me the first two options dont make for an enjoyable start to a match day and its too soon after the festive period for the third option.

Johndo, you could invest some of you massive pension in the club and take over control of the board.

Thats what I said

Nothing to lose now. Get Proc off and Winnall on

Forty three minutes of good play and two minutes of madness puts us one behind. Repeat the forty three minutes with 110% concentration and we can still do it.

I reckon he'll lay flat in the dugout and claim Tokes stuck the heid in

If he's beaten fair and square I think he'll still find the ballboy was to blame

AMEN!!!!!!

Yes, they wanted to win trophies. Aye and they had to wait ten years for the first one. Think your stats are a bit dodgy Alex Unless the records I'm looking at are wrong then there's nothing dodgy mate. In 51/52 season Caledonian won the Highland League, Highland League Cup and North of Scotland Cup. I find no records of them having won anything after that till 61/62 when they won the Scottish Qualifying Cup. In the 63/64 season they won the league again and the Inverness cup. They won the Highland League cup in 68/69

Cut and paste from rules of game. A coin toss takes place just before the game starts, the winner of which will get the choice of choosing which end to attack or whether to kick-off. Should they choose to kick-off then the other captain will be allowed elect which end to attack in the first half. Should the winner decide to choose which end to attack then the loser can choose whether to kick-off in the first or second half.

Yes, they wanted to win trophies. Aye and they had to wait ten years for the first one.

I wouldn't see it as a shock. We are an SPL team well capable of beating any other team on our day.

Dont think it matters.......there'll be Celtic fans in both ends