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Relax! Terry will not leave until he wins the League. Why? Because the challenge to win big is so tempting and so magnetic that he will never be able to resist it.Being a big fish in a smaller pond is very attractive ..he has never been feted in the way that his present position offers. And,imagine his worth in the marketplace if we win the league and progress dynamically through Europe. And, if we ever get a sniff in the champion's League you will be sure that half the Premiership Managers will be shaking in their boots in case their bosses want to approach Terry the Terror. Manchester United?..Maybe? Why not? That team is slipping and simply does not have the roster now to compete. Rooney will be off within another season since his play is now required to keep this team's head above water, let alone win the league. Or so it seems. David Moyes looks so despondent and is putting on a brave face but, let's face it, if he doesn't start winning, then Alec Ferguson's opinion or not, his job will be in jeopardy by half-way through this season. He looks like a man who feels he has not assessed the job correctly based on the criteria of the present circumstance he now has to face. And, yes, maybe the shoes he filled are too big or he has bitten off more than he can currently chew. But the fans there are so used to being top of the heap etc. that their patience mightalready be wearing thin? As Scotty says, his hacienda above Loch Ness offers tranquility, peace and a retreat from stress and an ideal way to recharge his batteries every day. How envious of him are you? And if he can guide our heroes to the League Title, a cup win and an entry to Europe then he will achieve that emotional high that all winners crave and rightly so. Forget the negative ideas and attitudes from some of the posters on here; I think we are on a winner and so does Terry. I have waited a very long time for this..only 60 years or more so I intend to enjoy it.. POSITIVE, Positive, POSITIVE.

And you accuse others of negativity! Just not worth saying anything more. Stating a few facts is negative???? Where tell me is the negativity in my post? If you do not see the current position from my view point that is your right BUT ... It is my right to offer MY views and just consider .... If they differ from yours perhaps, just perhaps, I have looked at the current situation from a business view and not a blind believer stand point. OK - I'll bite. You have not stated facts, you have expressed opinions. All of your opinions are negative. To paraphrase "We are currently top so the manager will be head hunted". We'll have less money to spend because gates are going down". "When we slip in the league the forum will be full of negative posts which will increase the chance of the manager leaving". "The manager will want to leave due to lack of cash and the apathy and negativity of the fans". Nobody is questioning your right to voice your views, but I do rather object to your arrogant assertion that your views are somehow more valid because of your apparently superior "business" standpoint. Nobody expects us to be top of the league for ever and we all know (even us numpties with no understanding whatsoever of the business viewpoint) that fortune will take a turn for the worse soon enough. But the fact is, we are top of the league. Can we please enjoy it while we are?

I'm longing for the glory days of scrapping about in a relegation dogfight. No other teams are interested in your manager or players and ambition is to get the first win of the season before September is out. Oh yes those were the days

Woman's football in Scotland is a growing participation sport if not a spectator sport. It's not fair to compare it to the men's game IMO. It's more skill bases and understandably less physical. Less bad behaviour on the field too, no arguing with officials or play acting! I'm sorry what Tam Cowan said wasn't funny in the least and bad judgement on his part. However, I respect his right to say what he did and suspending the guy is well OTT.

Can't believe the fourth paragraph, 1st line, wasn't edited. Mind you, it's hardly the Observer, Independent, et al... But still!! To be honest, I haven't watched MOTD at all this season. Can't get excited over millionaire players who are greedy whining racist/violent/criminal/morally corrupt idiots. Kind of like paying £35 to go to Golds Gym to shout for Mark Zuckerberg against Bill gates at Squash. has no meaning. maybe just getting old, but women's football - at least they do it for the love of the game and give it their all. The SPFL has more interest for me than ever for the same reason.

Am I a "better poster" Johndo? Or this: Or this:

I see from this article that the ICT legend Gnapka is now playing in India, alongside Darryl Duffy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24352543

But you could get proper use of your half and half scarf!

And you accuse others of negativity! Just not worth saying anything more.

As I was in the car, I somewhat misguidedly tuned into 810 MW again at ten past six this evening and caught a programme almost entirely devoted to the offfield affairs of a team with one Third Division title to their name and the slim prospects of Celtic's goalkeeper gaining international recognition. Have BBC Scotland given up any pretence of interest in anything that goes on in Scottish football outside of Glasgow ?

The most negative post on this thread is the opening one. They deride our manager, our team, our future and some of the more prominent and knowledgeable posters. And then like the fishing worm that they are they crawl under a stone and await the hook to work. Hard feckin lines.

Glasses becoming half empty again in some cases on this thread, fortunately not all of you though, some typical Inverness negativity reflecting on the negative instead of being positive and looking at what has happened here. .....................Forget the BUT!..................... We are the top. The togetherness factor is still high, most of the players are more than content to give their all for the club and eachother that reflects in the play. Did someone say something about cobbling together a football team?? A lot more than a bit of cobbling I would say, skilled workmanship, training tutoring and management more like so mark my words the Management Team are enjoying this success as much as anyone and they will want to go on doing so for a long time yet. The posts coming in since I started my reply post are much more suited to the Team's fortunes and status so I don't think I need say any more, at least for the time being. EXCEPT keep the faith and enjoy.

He would also be the first mayor of Inverness or, indeed, of anywhere within several hundred miles of Inverness for that matter....

It may be a bit 'head-in-the-sand"-ish but I have no great concerns. TB has a nice lifestyle here, he likely has one of the safest jobs in football, and he can literally do as he pleases at the TCS without fear of board or others clamping down on him unless he does something really stupid. He has experienced the goldfish bowl at bigger clubs as well as the disappointment of being sacked a couple of times and I believe those experiences alone make him hesitant to go anywhere else. We know its not about the money or we would have lost him last year, so I can only assume the lifestyle and quality of life in the Highlands are just as important to him. He has also mentioned a few times the "challenge" or that the "jobs not done yet" at Caley Thistle and I don't think it ever will be .... there is always another challenge. We are riding high right now, and my heart would love to say we can and will win the title this season, but realistically, over the course of a full season we will likely have a dip in form at some stage and maybe suffer a couple of key injuries and teams with more resources and deeper squads could overtake us. We have never won a League Cup, a Scottish Cup, qualified for Europe or won the title in the top division so each of these are ongoing challenges that he speaks of .... If he managed all those this season, I think he would just retire with his knighthood and sip a few glasses of red by the shores of Loch Ness while Maurice masterminded our charge on the Champions League ... or maybe not ... the lure of Europa League and/or Champions League would likely be too much ... yet another challenge ! Ok, so the last paragraph was a bit tongue in cheek, but it serves to show he does have a good number here, and plenty of things to challenge him so thats why I have no great concerns ! If he were to leave, it would take something big, like an EPL side, or perhaps Ipswich. I would also have said Rangers but apparently him and Rangers fans no longer see eye-to-eye - not sure what that is about? As for players, I also have no huge concerns. If TB stays then we are in the best position to keep many of our players and to rebuff low offers that previously we might have accepted. He can obviously motivate and manage the players and despite a good few being out of contract at the end of this season, many will be made offers by him and accept although we will likely continue to lose a few each year due to them looking for fresh challenges or more money elsewhere .... but lets not forget that the deal handed out to Aaron Doran last season was the longest contract we have dished out in years ... 2 years was our max for as long as I can remember, so 3 years is quite a departure. If we continue to do well then that could be the norm and squad stability will sort itself out ......

Whether or not Brown made contact is irrelevant.

Brown is a thug. Always has been, always will be. Some may argue that you need that type of player in your team and I suppose there is some truth in that but will never change which means that despite having good aspects to his game he will always let himself and his team down with that petulant side to his game. Last night was a prime example. He makes very little contact with Neymar (who rolls around like hes been invaded by an Ant farm) but its still contact and its blatantly obvious he aims the kick at Neymar which he dosent have to do, he gives the ref a reason to send him off. If I were Lennon id be fuming as Celtic had a major foothold in the game and to lose not just any player but your captain to something so ridiculous and in such an important game is a measure of Scott Brown. But when it comes to Celtic or indeed Rangers (RIP 1872-2012) for that matter its never an internal problem. Always someone elses fault. I hope he sees sense to not appeal. It would be a waste of time.

Why is such an obeese nation so obssesed by eating pies at a football match? For goodness sake your only at the ground for a couple of hours so if the queues are too long, do your body mass index a favour and dont bother. Look at it another way. Going to football costs about 20 - 30p a minute. So why spend a large part of the game standing in a pie queue and very possibly missing a goal into the bargain?