Stuart Golabek comments at today's Caley Thistle press conference.

‘I was delighted to sign a new contract today for a further three years which will mean that I will be fortunate enough to get a testimonial year. It is a great honour for me particularly as I am a local lad. This season has been very good so far and I am sure that we are 80 - 90 % of the way to staying in the SPL. For me, starting my career in the Highland league, working through the divisions and now being able to play top flight football in my home town is a dream come true.

I was delighted to take over the captaincy from Bobby Mann, it's been great here every week and there is a great atmosphere in the dressing room. There are no boys with big egos here and the team sprit is massive. We have been lucky at ICT with quality managers and Craig is another good appointment. Both he and Malky are helping us go from strength to strength.

We have four hard games coming up and hope to pick up some points especially when we have home advantage. We are looking forward to the game against Hibs who are playing very well just now with some good young players. We have to have belief, we are not feared of anyone and if we work hard we should pick up something.

We were unfortunate not to win against Rangers at Pittodrie and we should have picked up a point at Ibrox earlier in the season. Rangers have hit a bit of form just now and Novo is skilful with a lot of pace and Purso is a hard working player with a good brain.

The gaffer has been impressed with our form to date, winning seven out of nine points in the last three games and playing at home has been a big factor in this.'