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Yes - I am going to post this prior to the last away game of 2010: I would wish to raise a glass to Terry Butcher, Maurice Malpas and the regular away supporters - Win, lose or draw tomorrow I will be on my feet at the end - having sang for another 90 minutes - standing proud - with hopefully the entire ICT squad at our end - and acclaiming a season that will surely NEVER be equalled. The performances - on the park and on the terraces - has just got better and better. CaleyAwaywithTerryandMo - 2010 - Vintage feckin stuff - Never to be forgotten.

I think it should be clarified that we are unbeaten away from home in the league in 2010.

Me too TUG....i thought we might come a cropper today. It is going to happen one day, its inevitable, it was just nice to go a whole calander year, then the whole of 2010 unbeaten. That will do me. PS>.....I think going 2 yrs is a tad optimistic

all my hearts friends told me last night they will beat caley thistle easy today going to slag them off tonight

i fancy more goals in this game - for both sides - and with Duncan and Black still to be booked, and Duff not shying from challenges there's possibly a red card or two in there as well !!!

We have become a nation of people who need to be rushing from place to place and who need somebody to blame if we cant. No matter who the transport minister was this setback would still have occurred. And it will occur again. I predict the same come february and next year and every other year. Years of financial cutbacks and mis-government are to blame for this. Not the minister. I'm old enough to remember when areas of the highlands would get similar snows every year but we coped. Yes some used winter tires. Some used chains (the modern aesthetic alloy wheel cant cope with either and / or the cost of having two sets of wheels to hand is way too much) but many just stuck a few bags of sand in the boot with a shovel and just went on their way. My father worked on the roads in seventies and eighties with Lochaber council. Back then they had two snow blowers and six MAC snowploughs. These vehicles along with other tipper lorries fitted with grit spreaders and snow blades kept hundereds of miles of road open in area's such as Glencoe. GlenRoy, GlenSpean, Rannoch Moor, Fort to Sneck etc. And also the single track roads into the hills and glens of Lochaber and Ardnamurachan. Inverness district had a bigger fleet of similar vehicles and done great work as well. The MAC's could plough eight foot drifts with ease and what they couldn't do the blowers done for them. They all patrolled the roads, kept them black, salted and gritted and kept road users on the move. Trouble was that the money counters came along and realised that we were in a period where the snows are not so heavy or long lasting and the vehicles lay in storage for nine months of the year. They also believed the scientists who spouted the global warming slogans and so chose to let the custom built machines go and prayed ever since that all would be right. What they failed to realise was that climate change, if indeed its happening, will take hundreds of years. Not days, as the urgency seems to suggest.

There have been numerous new betting accounts opened with heavier than normal betting linked to the Hearts v ICT match. An official spokes person from Bet Aware has noticed that new accounts have sprouted up in Dublin with heavy bets being placed on a Mr Adam Rooney to score a hat trick. There are also irregular betting activities around the Inverness area with Mr Duff and Mr Munro to score in the first 5 minutes in the same match followed by heavy betting with any time scores for players Tokely,Shinnie,Cox,Duncan,Hayes,Ross and Foran. The betting website suspects foul play. The full story can be found on the Bet Aware website with the following link. http://www.betterware.co.uk/

The problem is when we (the fans) see an incident, ala McCulloch dive last week, that is so obviously a dive yet the ref gives a foul, even a rangers fan i spoke to the other day said it looked a dive from where he was sitting in the south stand. The ass. ref had a good view of the fall/stumble/dive yet didnt try to correct the referee. Why anyone would want to be a ref is beyond me, they demand respect, but respect has to be earned not given easily.

It doesn't improve his performance, but personally I have more respect for the refs if they are able to come out afterwards and admit their mistakes. I was as angry with the decision as anyone at the time, but these guys are only human, and get one quick look at an incident. Can you honestly say we have not had any dodgy decisions go our way this year? These things usually even themselves out over a season. Just be thankful Essons big toe stepped up to save us a point and the refs blushes, and lets not all turn in to mini Neil Lennons!!

Everyone had a lot to say at the time and some of it was beyond harsh. I consistently gave the much maligned board (to quote Sorted) the benefit of the doubt, because I thought it was clear they were the victims of a Romanian stitch up, and because I don't think they've ever really let us down - well, apart from being too slow to punt Brewster. Anyway, does this case count as our first win in Europe?

I believe that this is true. No-one is perfect and we all make mistakes from time to time, but in general our boards (over the years) have steered us through some pretty tricky football and financial turmoils. I just wish that at times it had been done with less spin or at the very least spin that wasnt as shoddily created. Personally, I am not slow to give credit where I feel it is due, and conversely, I will dish out criticism as and where I also feel it is due. Based on the information we had available to us at the time, I dont feel sorry for criticising the club ... I am just happy I was proved wrong !!!! To put a positive finish on this - and it is something I have said before - I have always said that the club should just be honest with us. Give us the good news when it happens, give us the bad news when it happens, but basically give us the news (and truth) regardless of what it is. That way rumours get quoshed and facts come out and we can deal with them and then move on. The club went through a spell of 4 or 5 years where even the slightest bit of news should probably have come to us via WikiLeaks given how closely they wanted to guard it at a management level (despite it pouring out from other sources like a sieve). But fortunately, they now have an operations director who is customer focused, straight talking and more than willing to embrace the concept that fans can handle and process more information than they are used to giving out, and can also bring improvements to the table via fan/club partnerships at all levels .... hopefully that continues

Disappointed at the lack of humble pie munching going on in this thread (Scotty apart) but as usual, the opportunity to praise or apologise isn't as exciting as the chance to savage (no pun intended ) or lambast. Delighted for our club and in particular, our much maligned board. They stuck by their guns and ultimately, were proven to have told the truth. I hope our legal costs are huge and I hope the club pursues compensation to the very end. Our board get far more, way more, right than they get wrong. When you look around at the state of other clubs the length and breadth of the country we should be delighted to have what we have. Granted, like every institution, they get things wrong at times but for this poster, any mistakes made are far outweighed by successes. Do us good to remember that more often. As for Marius (nothing personal, only met the guy once) but like many involved in our game , the £ or $ or € comes first. He never had a burning desire to play for our club, couldn't wait to get away and took some bad advice. I await publication of the full judgement with interest (not on CAS site) as I'm pretty certain it will conclusively prove our board were 100% right and the player (and his advisors) 100% wrong. This will not be an "on balance" case. No doubt there will be more to come in the Scottish Courts but I have faith in our system too. Wait to see. Meantime, delighted that our cash (the money generated by punters going to football) will stay in our game and at our club , not lining the pockets of mercenary players or agents with no interest in our club. Well done George and Co!! PS. Make sure he coffs up for the parking charges at the airport!!!!

...shortly after the Pope announces it's ok to use condoms...Ireland goes bust!!!

Not entirely accurate

Thats not even funny!

Some photos - http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/271110-Celtic-v-Inverness-CT/G0000qZVW0ctJB4Q/I00006A4CANF5zxU Lennon really is a horrible specimen.

Go away.

Translation: "GIRFUY IHE!" Looking for the green dots eh - can remember YOU having a lot to say at the time as well. Bring on the feckin red dots if they have to come - at least I stick by my principles ya CREEP - and lets not forget who almost took this club down the feckin tubes in the first place (and many posters agreed at the time)- and the other issues attached to those two seasons. And before the personal "insults" I was going to let this rest. But lets give praise where praise is due - the Muppets have learned from their mistakes and the fortunate intorduction of TB and a few other changes have brought this club up to SPL standard. They have learned from their mistakes and are becoming more and more "professional by the day" - can only be good fer the club. But some can blame the likes of me BUT we were in "CRISIS" because of inane decisions. So smack me with all the red dots ya feckin care to give me - cos if ya dont agree you are either deluded or feckin unaware of what happened. I hope that this post shows how much I actually CARE - I am eating humble pie but if TB hadnt come along and Brewster hadnt been pushed (by the fans)we may all be feckin starving.

Pysh & Drivel have a story saying Duff praises Ref calum Murray for coming out to apologise for getting the penalty decision wrong, Ref Murray spoke to Butcher at the end of the game and said sorry to the ICT manager. Thats fine then, everbodys happy, the ref has not got a guilty concience anymore, does that make his performance acceptable then ? H e was rank rotten that day, and if Miller had scored that penalty and won 3 points would an apology make it acceptable? dont feckin think so.

Can't agree SP. No cameras, no 4th official, no retrospetive cards, no rescinding, no video replays at all...just 2 teams, 3 officials, lots of controversy and lots to talk about after!!! Support KFP - Keep Football Pure Ryan Esson saved his bacon by saving the penalty. What if Miller had scored? Would Murray then have said : Sorry boys - I cost you a couple of points there. Nothing we can do about it now, I'm afraid. One point?