ROLL CALL FOR DINGWALL!

[The Mantis]

For goodness sake, the rest of Scotland kept the Highlands out of national league football for decades.

Charles, I would never have divined from your posts that you harboured any distrust of things south of the Highland Line  :015: :015: :015: :015: :015:

To be fair, the clubs voting against Highland clubs in the past, in the days of one member, one vote, were doing so for purely selfish, business reasons- minnows like Berwick and Stranraer who would struggle to get the cost of a coach to Inverness when they could play Ferranti instead (and probably win too, thus avoiding a bottom place finish a la Shire). But it would be stretching it to call that a conspiracy, any more than keeping Cove or Wick out of the HL could be.

By 1994 the voting system had changed. The Premier division got 4 votes, Div 1 got 2 and div 2 got only 1 vote. So the big clubs could look at it objectively rather than in self-defence. And so we got 68  :021:

[Row S]

We wore ICT colours in the Gretna end at Hampden last year

  No wonder they managed to shift 12,500 tickets L_C. There were H*bees in disguise on the train we were on from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida that day as well.  We were amongst Jambos friends.

I would prefer to see St Johnstone promoted instead of Gretna so a draw or defeat and a St J win would work for me.  As for County I wouldn't care too much about how that affects them but I certainly wouldn't go and support Gretna. Surely heading down to Tannadice should be the only thought.  Either that or doing what Dennis Law did during the 1966 World Cup Final - play golf.     

[Guest BigPieMorayDosser]

According to news report on MFR you folks are heading over the bridge in force to support County.

I have no idea how intense your rivalry is, especially given your historical Thistle-Caley rivalry, however would it not be better for football in the north to have as many clubs playing at as high a level as possible. Surely you do not wish to be in a 1-fish pond  :018:

Besides I feckin hate Airdrie, (scumbags, gangsters, neds, Huns without tickets, Pikeys, etc., etc.,).

So for me it's gotta be; County draw with Gretna (which is enough to see them promoted) and QoS to gub Airdrie sending them back towards oblivion again :clapping03:

[Mrs Pauliebee]

I personally don't want to see County go down, we need to keep our feeder club in good shape.

One of the reasons people think we are just a diddy club is our lack of "big" derby! 

We need a competitive local derby, and a good relationship between the clubs to bring on Highland talent.

I'd love to see both clubs in the SPL fighting it out.  It's the only other time (excluding the old firm)

we can guarantee a half decent attendance!

It's too easy to dismiss them as "The Tinks" - reckon some folk need to look at the bigger picture.

We need them to help get rid of this problem people have with football in the north, you can't do that

with only one SPL team.

County are also pretty decent in their behind-the-scenes work too, an area where we are still sadly lagging behind!

[caley100]

According to news report on MFR you folks are heading over the bridge in force to support County.

I have no idea how intense your rivalry is, especially given your historical Thistle-Caley rivalry, however would it not be better for football in the north to have as many clubs playing at as high a level as possible. Surely you do not wish to be in a 1-fish pond  :018:

Besides I feckin hate Airdrie, (scumbags, gangsters, neds, Huns without tickets, Pikeys, etc., etc.,).

So for me it's gotta be; County draw with Gretna (which is enough to see them promoted) and QoS to gub Airdrie sending them back towards oblivion again :clapping03:

Almost there mun, Saints to hump Hamilton to gain promotion, that would be a good outcome.

[RiG]

Similarly the thought of ICT fans supporting Gretna at the cup final last season still makes me cringe with embarrassment.

Nothing would please me more than seeing Mileson’s millionaires stuck in first division limbo for eternity.  As previously stated Gretna are everything that’s wrong with the modern game.

Hooray!  :001:

dignity??its blooming football.ur supposed 2 h8 every other club that u dnt support.especially ur biggest rivals.

County? Our biggest rivals?  :015: :015: :015:

[FortressICT]

who are our biggest rivals then?

[Guest birdog]

who are our biggest rivals then?

Thistle, oops sorry there I am living in the past again and in case you Jaggies out there get offended that was a

joke      /dʒoʊk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[johk] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, joked, jok·ing.

–noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him. 

2. something that is amusing or ridiculous, esp. because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce: Their pretense of generosity is a joke. An officer with no ability to command is a joke. 

3. a matter that need not be taken very seriously; trifling matter: The loss was no joke. 

4. something that does not present the expected challenge; something very easy: The test was a joke for the whole class.

I am currently trying to persuade the missus to let me go to Dundee unescorted, however if this fails I shall be going to watch the rivers of tears flowing from the Jail End.

[FortressICT]

so who r our biggest rivals then?i still think county!

[RiG]

Up until last season I would have said Livi.

[Guest birdog]

so who r our biggest rivals then?i still think county!

Our biggest rivals are Man U because their catering department buy up all the prawn sandwiches and smoked salmon leaving a large section of our fans nothing but Wearthers originals and the rustling noises do my head in :029: I have even been known to annoy them back by chanting and singing, even making a few close to the cuff comments at opposition players and fans just to really get them riled.

[FortressICT]

:015: i know.i got told to be quiet at the last home game coz i was singing.we are going to section a for the dunfermilne game.should be a gud atmosphere

[The Mantis]

so who r our biggest rivals then?i still think county!

The Dons

[Guest birdog]

id still take a pumping of clach, elgin or even nairn over a win against county

And how exactly are these clubs rivals? I dont believe ICT have played any of them in a competitive match ever, I don't count cups like the Inverness cup etc as competitive matches as we rarely put out a team for these games with more than a handful of 1st team players.

The Mantis said Aberdeen and in a way I would agree because they are bigger than County.

I would say we have a strong rivalry with Livi but I don't dislike them as much as I dislike County.

Football rivalries are generally local affairs or historical affairs so I would say in terms of the annymosity between supporters it has to be County for the local rivals and Livi as our vanquished nemisis.

That being said I fecking hate county, I fecking hate county, I feckin hate i feckin hate county.

[ymip]

Forgive me if I digress for a moment........

I don't like County or their fans but if you go back to pre-merger days they were an absolute nonentity until the nineties and could be filed alongside Rothes or Deveronvale on the rivals barometer.

During my youth a visit to Dingwall was like a Sunday school outing.  Their fans were/are so clueless there was never what I would consider a hostile atmosphere.  Visits to Elgin or Peterhead on the other hand were an altogether different proposition with a more volatile undercurrent the minute you got off the train/bus. 

At the end of the day the level of animosity between two sets of supporters is what ultimately defines a 'real' rivalry.  For me a rivalry is historic, cannot be fabricated and is less about league tables and more about the off the field state of play.

If we fast forward to our SFL encounters with County it's fair to say we all loved turning them over but I would suggest their fans are to be pitied rather than hated and I've never encounterd an edgy atmosphere at a single ICT/County match.  They profess to hating us but it's all pretty tame stuff from where I'm standing.

Always enjoved p'issing on Livi's chips but again their support are pre-fabricated nu-fans too soft to venture to Easter Road/Swinecastle in the eighties so again there was never a particularly carniverous atmosphere at out encounters.

The Dons thing is a bit of a white elephant as there's no historic reference point and I don't think our disdain for them is reciprocated by the vast majority of dandies. All their negative energy is taken up hating the huns.  Get yourself along to a Dandies/Huns match and compare the vitriol with the last ICT/Caley match you attended and you'll se what I'm getting at.

In short we have no REAL rivals despite what some of our younger fans may believe.

Only my opinion but as my missus will testify I'm seldom wrong  :001:

[chris123]

I think the aberdeen thing is more us just being desperate to beat them. Like was said in the above post, if you want passion, go to an old firm game. If you want pure hate, sit in the dons end at a huns-dons match. Also remember they have a fierce rivalry with United aswell, and real rivalry has to have both teams despising each other. Aberdeen couldnt care less for us.

[clacher_holiday2]

face it guys.  ross county are our local rivals.

ive never worked anywhere in inverness without having to share the space with county fans, knew a couple in school too.  get them over a couple of pints and youll soon hear that they really hate us, which is why i love whats going on with them now.

same as i reember 4-5 years ago some livi fans used to say they hated us, im laughing at them now

elgin city still claim to hate us on various websites and once on a train some city fan said he was pissing himself when celtic beat us!  i look at where they are now and i laugh again

3 of the clach fans im still in touch with from my old ferry days say they hate seeing us in local papers all the time and have STILL talked to me about the murder of caley and thistle (as if i had anything to do with it!).  look at them now, they are nearly out of business

**** even local rangers fans used to give me **** as a caley fan, plenty of them used to tell me they hate ict for various reasons, i laughed at all of them this year.. undefeated..

... the above clubs have fans who at one point or another claimed to hate ict to me personally, all of them ive had a good laugh at and all of them i actually have no hard feelings towards deep down!