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We are where we are, not everyone is in agreement as to how it happened, whether or not it should have happened and if it was avoidable...but right now, that matters not. The points on the board are fixed, they are in the past, we can do nothing about them and every moment spent pondering over them is a moment less spent on getting us over the final hurdle and getting the one point we need to secure SPL status for next season. It's a big ask, and it will be beyond some, but can we set aside all the other stuff and just get behind ICT until that objective is achieved? I'm not asking anyone to support a manager, player, board member or anyone else they may have an issue with....I'm asking that everyone show support for the one thing that binds us all....Inverness Caledonain Thistle FC. If you are able, then get along to the game on Wednesday night. I know some people are at the stage of not wishing to part with any more money and/or effort to watch the team this season, but if the fans aren't willing to step up to the plate when it's needed to do everything in their power to help and support ICT then who is? If you aren't willing, then I ask that choose not to beat up on those who are just because they choose to be a little more positive, objective or supportive. If you want to brand such people as happy clappers, wearers of rose tinted specs, delusional or whatever....then can you please save it until the job is done (or not done and you can gloat and come back with all the "told you so's" you like). If any of the players happen to be reading this, then I make the same plea to you. Forget everything up until now and put every moment of thought and preparation into giving Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC your best game when you take to the park against Dunfermline, and if it doesn't happen against Dunfermline then take it to St Mirren and if needs be on against Hibs. ICT's biggest strength has always been that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Let us not be divided, let us not be conquered.

Very sad indeed and a few tears were shed at Rugby Park. The football as entertaining as it was just faded into the background as this traumatic event unfolded less than three yards from us. One of our own fans went over to help him to his feet but it was obvious from there on that the medics were fighting a losing battle. I have to say that the doctor was onto it in a flash and tried his best to revive the fan but to no avail. Great effort by the team to try to revive him, they were doing their utmost for half an hour or so. Well done to the Inverness fans for raising the incident as quick as possible, unfortunately no amount of aid was able to reverse the process. Saddest event I have ever witnessed at a football match. RIP John.

Hope they have a minutes silence for the poor chap , much more dignified IMHO .

I have been asked to post the following from Strathclyde Police... John McDonald from Milngavie, an Inverness supporter, collapsed whilst within the Frank Beattie stand despite assistance from the paramedics and club doctor, he was pronounced dead at Crosshouse hospital Kilmarnock at 1710 hours. We would like to thank your supporters for their understanding and assistance on Saturday afternoon, being the first to be aware of the problem they conducted themselves in a very sensitive and sensible manner in regard to the situation, obeying the instructions of the stewards and police officers without question. His partner was present throughout the incident and passed on thanks to one and all.

Oh, for goodness sake, give it a rest! Please. GMS wasnt signed, even everyone at Clach Park that day thought he was great, but.... The others were. End of. Topic closed, please.

Seriously??? No doubt you'll pull the "Fishing Trip" excuse...whatever. It's one thing to disagree with a situation, event or the actions of another, but it's entirely something else when you set out to be deliberately obstructive or to undermine just for the hell of it. It might be some kind of game played out by your alter ego, but that alter ego has turned in to a complete pr*ck. The club did not have to make any further statement on the matter, there's press and website articles which already set out their position, but someone took a bit of time out to respond to the allegations being made to draw a line under a rumour that could have proved disruptive/upsetting to the player. For long enough the club have been criticised for not communicating and when they do they get met with the above tripe. The club might not be get everything right, but I can hand on heart say that they are trying more than they ever have. Not only that but there are people who work hard to defend the fans right to an opinion on club matters, whatever those matters or opinions may be. So not only does your nonsense serve as a slap in the face to those at the club who are working to improve communication and relations, it's a kick in the balls to those who take the time and make the effort to speak to the club and make case for the fans. It might have been a bad season on the park, but what disillusions me even more is this attitude by some that anything and everything that comes from the club should be derided. Granted, the club don't have a good history when it comes to honest communication, and the certainly don't get everything right, but there comes a time when everyone has to realise that you gain nothing when you're pulling in different directions. If the club can make the effort to try and change that, then surely it isn't too much to ask that we do the same. In fact I would go further than that, I would say it was VITAL that we all did our bit to put the nonsense of the past behind us, close the gap between the club and fans and get everyone pulling together. Scottish Football is falling down around our ears, and that's far more important than massaging ones own ego. For what it's worth, I don't doubt for one moment that CapitalCaley posted what he did believing it to be true...and I said that to the club when I was contacted this morning. R2D2, C3PO, Nanoo Nanoo Mork calling Orson or whatever other psychoanalytic pigeon hole you might choose to assign me to, fill your boots because I really don't give a toss.

The memory of Saturday afternoon and the loss of a fellow Caley Thistle fan will be with me forever. The family and friends of John will be very much in my thoughts and prayers over the coming days.

What Luke said. About the only sensible post on this thread,

I had the same problem and was told to empty the cache. This I did and all was well again.

Yeah his loss , he could be fighting relegation with ICT instead of going for a Champions League place . Are you really that stupid ? you want to get into this again? im not the one that threatens 15 year olds from behind a computer screen id say your the dumb one he went to airdrie for 6 months and got a move to an spl club. he could have signed for an spl club and could have moved his career on so much quicker if he had signed for us so yes it is his loss.

cant agree with the post saying we deserve to go down. hibs and dunfermline have one 1 game each at home this season. thats relegation form. when we went down we were probably one of the best teams to go down. we went down in the crulest manner. through rossco getting sent off and through michael higdons ass. imo we are still recovering from that. we lost alot of money and players because of higdons ass. not fair.

We are more deserving of relegation this season than we were when it actually happened in 2009.

*heads to the bookies to place money on Man City*

I agree DC - Of course I was posting what I believed to be a 'fact' but since the club have stated otherwise then yes with hindsight I should have posted in rumour mill.

Is he training to be a doctor

Best wishes for the young man and I look forward to him coming back with a head full of new training methods and fresh ideas that will hold him in good stead. Ps remember to take an eye mask as it will be 24h daylight.

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As a Killie fan please accept my deepest sympathy to the Caley fan who sadly passed away at Rugby Park today, the game and result are irrelevant when things like this happen

Not quite sure what I need to elaborate on? We (ICTFC) are an absolute joke (not very good at football). It's pretty self-explanitory. On a side note, not only are we an absolute joke on the field but we are a joke off it as well. The management team is a joke, the "coaching" is a joke, the Board of Directors are a joke. Just cause we get beat, everyone in the club is a joke. Can't see the logic behind that one. On a side note, not only are we an absolute joke on the field but we are a joke off it as well. The management team is a joke, the "coaching" is a joke, the Board of Directors are a joke.] No Jay, you are the joke. It's no disgrace to lose 4-3 to a side who are pretty much on a par with us, and who have won a cup this year against the runaway league leaders. To have run it close when we are down to 10 men isn't a joke either. You are entitled to your (as far as I can see) jaundiced view about the management team, but I fail to see how you can rubbish the Board in the same sentence (the same board who are trying to get funding to improve this side) Face facts here; we are probably about the tenth best supported side in Scotland. We live in an area that finds it difficult to attract talent and we have probably the smallest budget in the SPL. Our local patch for finding football talent is limited to say the least. And yet, for failing to live up to your unstated expectations, we are a joke. Were you at the game today? Were you shouting your head off about what you see wrong with this club to those that you blame? Were you going ballistic when we scored? Thought not. Tell you what, get off your arse and support this team on wednesday and next week, and bring Smee and the rest of these never pleased/ never will be pleased moaners with you. No excuses, no whining, just do it. Then I might just have some respect for your point of view, however condescending, twattish and juvenile you might seem when you put it across. And if you can't, you lost whatever moral authority you might have deluded yourself that you have and you can look forward to choruses of telling you to quite simply shut it. And, for what it's worth, I hate when we lose.

As long as they score goals, win games and keep us in the SPL; i care not a jot about their nationality!

Not too sure what to make of the whole issue with there being not a single Scot in our starting 11 on Saturday. I say that because when you consider Tade, Gillet and Golobart were our only foreign tongue players on Staurday (IE their first language isn't English), it all seems a little OTT to suggest it's an embarrassing situation to find ourselves in.

I'll have you know that I am a former athletics champion - Kinmylies Obstacle Race circa 1982. There was skill involved in that, unlike these simple "one leg in front of the other" events that you call sport!