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There's never been a time in our history when our fans have been so subdued and pessimistic. Even in our (previous) relegation season we always maintained hope and belief, right into injury time of the final game, justified by the team's passion and ability to get results. However, a win v County could restore our long lost optimism. Come on ICT, give us something to believe in.

BBC website: Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Richie Foran: "At the moment, Ross County are out of the relegation battle in terms of finishing bottom because they have an eight-point advantage over us, but by the end of the game, they might be right back in it and we've got to make sure that happens. "Jim McIntyre has done a fantastic job over there. "They are a real attacking threat. They have a lot of players who can score goals. They are a dangerous outfit going forward, as are we. "It will be a big night for both teams. We need to take the ball under pressure and we have players to do that, like Iain Vigurs and Greg Tansey and Iain Polworth." So, it looks like Vigurs and Polworth will start. It'll be interesting to see Iain Polworth play again...! Sorry guys, but Vigurs has not delivered in the vast majority of the games that he has played in this season. for me, the heart of the midfield has been a mess all season and Vigurs has been a major contributor to that, mainly due to a lack of tracking back and do the hard graft. He also has a tendency to give away needless free kicks - and we know how strong Fon williams has been in that area of the game. I keep hoping that he proves me wrong (and to be fair, he started quite well in the game that he got injured in) - maybe this one will be it.

It'll be Kenny Cameron that wins

I bet an under 12 wins a free season ticket. Sounds like good incentive to boost the numbers for the match.

Since you asked so nicely......no.

Tremarco out, obviously, but Billy Mckay and David Raven are fit.

While we are now at the crunch time and every game is key, in some ways if we even get a point then its a good result - I think staying up will depend on getting home wins in both games against Hamilton & Motherwell and beating Dundee at Dens, obviously the more points outwith that we get the better but County will probably be our hardest game. I'd also question whether OFW has the confidence or is deserving of being in goal, while he has been inconsistent all season with mistakes, I think they are becoming more frequent and that doesn't help an already unstable defence. Lacking any young, hungry keeper on the bench, then does Esson come into the team or do we just stay with OFW and hope for the best. Fisher needs to start, with McKay just off him - he's our 'form' striker having scored a brace in the last game, Billy isn't on a great run of form but if fit needs to start. I expect Vigurs to start if fit along with Tansey & Draper in a central midfield 3, no pace or creativity but I think the influence of MM will be that we have to defend and have a tight unit. Wont be a shock if we go to 'park the bus' - clean sheet, get a point and if we can nick a goal somewhere. Fon Williams Raven Laing Mckay McCart McNaughton Vigurs Draper Tansey Fisher McKay

Of course they will re-select them.....because if found guilty, they are talking about a one year jail sentence as a maximum, in anything I have read. You have to get sentenced to over a year in jail to automatically lose your seat and trigger a by-election. Under a year, voters can petition to have their constituency MP removed if 10% of his/her electorate sign it...or the amusingly named "Commons Committee on Standards in Public Life" can decide, if a less than 12 month jail sentence was for a heinous enough crime that would warrant being removed, to do that. I think that any MP jailed for anything at all should be removing themselves as unfit to hold a responsible position in the Government of the country....but that would imply some measure of morality among our ruling elite....and few of them do morality.. or empathy...or even basic thinking past the ends of their noses. Given prisoner's can't even vote...why should it be acceptable for prisoners to be MPs? I often wonder if that was the reason for Parliament deciding that it doesn't matter to the general public if their well paid representatives become jailbirds, thus making it impossible for them to do their jobs, and then choosing a maximum sentence length to coincide nicely with the worst that could happen if an MP was found guilty of election fraud? In an independent Scotland...let's not allow our legislators to write their own contracts of employment....we'll do it for them....something more on the lines of an employment contract in any business...where performances are expected to be at least adequate, and less than that gets you a warning to pull your socks up...and failure to improve means you get sacked...and one with a strict gross misconduct clause...with real penalties for transgressions. Keeping their basic salary, expenses and perks might then concentrate MPs minds on more than just working out ways to get more money on the back of being MPs.

Is Billy MacKay over his injury for this game? .I hope Fisher gets a start to show what we've been missing !!

I fear you are right RiG. My preference would be to go with: Fon Williams Raven Laing McCart McNaughton Draper Tansey Mulraney Polworth King McKay .....with the option of subbing any of the midfield 5 not performing with Fisher and going 4-4-2.

I'm surprised people are mentioning what Malpas got up to before and after ICT, without concentrating on what he did here. Why hasn't Malpas been in management for two years? Because of the disaster of Hibs. How did he get the Hibs job? Because of the success he had at ICT. Someone else brought up the relegation event, without mentioning ICT were promoted and leaving when we were (IIRC) second top and in the semi-final of a cup. Malpas was a roaring success at ICT. It's a great idea to get him back and see if that can be replicated. Malpas sat in the Inverness dugout when Butcher was with the Hibs Chair in the stand. Yes, he left, but he did so with dignity, unlike the manager at the time. Yes, it's very late - maybe too late - but it's a good idea. And I'd be happy to see Mo stay, even with relegation. As for Brian Rice...it's an open secret that he and Foran don't gel. No surprise, given Rice is a tipp-tappy Hughes assistant, whilst Foran is from the kick-and-rush school of Butcher'n'Malpas. It was always a marriage of convenience.

I've been kinda resigned to going down since about February. Poor management decisions, an obvious lack of confidence from the players, lack of leadership on the park, and a complete loss of form from previously top performing players has only served to highlight the reckless board decision with regards the length of Forans contract, given its likely we can't afford to be relegated or pay compo to terminate his contract. From a previously prudent club, I find it an extraordinarily naive bit of business, assuming there isn't some kind of escape clause off course, and if there is, it's an extraordinary show of loyalty to Ritchie Foran that he's still here. That said, I've got a sudden strange feeling of optimism now we are going to get off the bottom and give ourselves a sniff of a chance in a playoff. Not because Mo is back, although I'm glad he is. It's because we are Caley Thistle, and if there's one thing we have consistently proven through the years is that we can defy the odds. I've seen almost nothing this season to merit this optimism, we deserve to go down as things stand, but I also know we still have enough quality individuals here to shi*fest our way into the playoffs if the players stop hiding, feeling sorry for themselves and give us some performances that are long overdue. We will beat County. Dundee are going to drop more points and give us a six pointer against them that we are going to win. Sitting here bitching about our demise before it's sealed is pointless. I'll be getting behind the team for the remainder. We may have had a nightmare of a season, but it can still end on a high, and then action be taken to improve for next season.

Very odd appointment if you ask me and when I got the text from a mate earlier I thought initially it was a wind up For a club that has supposedly no money where has this extra income come from for this additional wage? What it does emphasise to me is we definitely can't afford to put RF on gardening duties Afraid it's just a token gesture by the board to try and appease the fans and sadly the happy clappers will just lap it up Dougal