Many people made plenty of noise when Grant Munro and Russell Duncan left Inverness at the end of the season after gaining promotion back to the SPL at the first time of asking. There were loud murmurs for them to return to Inverness and once more grace the hallowed turf at the Caledonian Stadium, especially with Inverness struggling defensively as injuries began to take there toll. But these players had moved over the bridge to join rivals Ross County, and they have certainly made an impact, with County poised to make the step up.

Well, back by popular demand the former Inverness Caledonian Thistle favourites will be playing once more on Tommy's turf in a testimonial game for two of the players who were deemed surplus to requirements after lifting the first division championship at the end of season 2009/2010. Between them they amassed a total of 720 appearances in the red white and blue of Inverness Caledonian Thistle. These guys have been fantastic servants to this club and well deserving of a healthy turn out at this testimonial match, where Ross County will provide the opposition.

For the first half of this testimonial, we may get an insight into how the new first division champs will fare in next seasons SPL as both clubs will field their current squad players. The second half will see legends from both sides perform, I wonder if we can spot the difference.

These two players have totalled over 21 years of passionate service to Inverness CT and have been an integral part of the club, helping to shape the history of our team. Grant had captained his home town team for a number of years and when County are officially promoted that will be his third step into the SPL. Russell has recently been loaned out to Peterhead and his battling midfield qualities will be welcomed at Balmoor.

<style type="text/css"><!-- .centre {text-align: center;} .justify {text-align: justify;} --> </style><table border="0" cellpadding="10" width="95%"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td width="47%"><img src="/ccs_files/images/player/misc/munro200.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left">Grant was signed on an "S" form and was part of the Caley Thistle first team squad for 13 seasons. For his first three seasons he was a youngster attempting to make the breakthrough.

He only made a total of 10 appearances between August 1998 and August 2001 and was also loaned out for part of each season (to Fort William [98/99], Clach [99/00] and Elgin [00/01]) as manager Steve Paterson sought to carefully develop his talents.

However his break came in season 2001/02 where he made 22 starts for the club and by the end of season 2010/11 he had racked up a total of 367 appearances for ICT (352 starts) and scored a respectable centre half total of 17 goals.

As a youngster he developed a good partnership with Bobby Mann and when Mann left at the end of 2003/04 season, Grant became the rock at the heart of the ICT defence, first with Stuart McCaffrey and then as one half of probably the best central defensive partnership ICT have ever had alongside Darren Dods.</td>

<td width="6%"> </td><td><img src="/ccs_files/images/player/misc/duncan200.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="5" align="right">Russell came to ICT from Aberdeen in the summer of 2001 but it was not his first visit to the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium. He had previously captained the Scottish U-16 team here in a 5-1 victory over England in 1997 !

Russell was a bit of an enigma in terms of fan appreciation. Many saw him as an "unsung hero" who often failed to get the credit he was due, whilst others would bemoan some of his performances and recount each and every missed pass. However, it is a fact that ICT results with him in the team tended to be better than when he was out of it ....

His importance to the team can perhaps be gauged by looking at his appearance statistics. In 10 seasons with the club, through the span of 6 different managerial regimes, Russell never played less than 29 games in any season ... thats someone who the manager knows he can rely on !!!

In the end, Russell made 353 appearances for ICT (318 starts) and scored 11 goals. It may only have been 11 goals but as every Inverness fan will know, Russell only scored spectacular ones, most of them coming from outside the box.</td>

</tr> <tr> <td class="centre">Debut (squad): 4th Aug 1998

Debut (played): 2nd Jan 1999

50th appearance: 13rd Nov 2002

100th appearance: 27th Oct 2004

200th appearance: 3rd Mar 2007

300th appearance: 24th Oct 2009

Last Game: 14th May 2011

First Goal: 16th Feb 2002</td> <td class="centre"> </td> <td class="centre">Debut (squad): 4th Aug 2001

Debut (played): 4th Aug 2001

50th appearance: 28th Sep 2002

100th appearance: 17th Jan 2004

200th appearance: 25th Nov 2006

300th appearance: 31st Oct 2009

Last Game: 14th May 2011

First Goal: 13th Oct 2001</td> </tr></tbody></table>