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I'd much rather be a Inverness fan than a County fan. We have dominated them since we joined the national set up. First up through the leagues, we have the Scottish cup, we have been in Europe. Despite them lot throwing a lot more money at it. When planning the criteria for the spl was 10,000 seats so we had to plan for that. County benefited from us getting there first, highlighting the ridiculousness of the rule and it being changed.

The County model is totally unsustainable for a club of their size. They're a slightly bigger Gretna.

Sorry but we CURRENTLY have a squad of players capable of Top Six. If we had produced performances we would have attracted a few more in attendance figures BUT the team have simply have not been managed properly. Again Foran was an average player, played fer the shirt, gave everything, was popular BUT had no experience of coaching or managing and unfortunately has FAILED. The BOARD are to blame fer promoting him taking a massive risk, probably because he was cheap and THEY gave him a long term contract in the HOPE that he would succeed. THE BOARD ARE ULTIMATELY TO BLAME FER THIS. Unless we clear the Board OR get ONE voice in control - ONE who has football experience - and get in some experienced coach we will linger outside the top league fer ever. Who cares about Ross feckin County - WE have only ourselves to Blame - and if we go down you watch our loyal troops going AWOL

I think had McNaughton been an ever present this season, ICT wouldnt be fighting for SPFL survival. I think he is one of the few class players we have

I thought he had a great 15/16 season. It's hard to imagine that at his age he would suddenly be a less good footballer than he was, which makes it likely that his lack of progress this season is down to a different manager's tactics, positioning, roles for him etc.

Not saying Liam hasn't improved over the years but for almost 3 or 4 seasons now people have been talking about him as a breakthrough youngster, he's still yet to establish himself as a first team mainstay and yet to find a position on the park he can dominate and call his own. While like everyone I want to see him succeed will he make it to the highest levels? Fortunately he also seems to have been given a lot more game time than some other youngsters who have been cast aside by the club after several managers who haven't even given substitute appearance even when we have struggled so badly.

The time to start the blood-letting and taking stock will be when our fate is decided. We still have it in our own hands to avoid relegation and yes I am only too aware that games are running out but things could change for the better quickly if we could get a early win in the remaining games and lets remember that all the teams next to us will be taking points of each other. Lets use our energy to give the team all the positive backing we can and you never you the team may surprise you.

From an Inverness point of view, I just can't see any justification for looking for a Hamilton win, or even a draw. For Inverness, the rest of the season is totally about overtaking one or preferably both of Hamilton and Motherwell. Anyone else overtaken would merely be a welcome bonus but I really don't see any case at all to wish for any outcome that gives Hamilton or Motherwell points - even if it disadvantages County. Safety is the supreme - indeed really the only - consideration and in comparison, the hope of catching County pales into complete insignificance.

I agree about McNaughton, he is still a class act but we took a punt on him on a significant salary with his injury prone record and that punt unfortunately didn't pay off but hopefully he can reward us now by helping dig us out of the hole we're in. Whilst not in the Rooney or Ronaldo financial league, McNaughton has had a highly lucrative career and has, most certainly, earned a good deal more in the course of that career than any other player in the squad in addition to which he has recently benefited from a testimonial match at Cardiff. It would be nice to think that he would repay the faith we showed in him by signing on next season, whether in the Premiership or Championship, for a more modest rate of remuneration. As far as tomorrow's match is concerned, in the interests of sporting integrity, St Johnstone should play the second half with nine men !

Not sure about this - look at Saturday's opponents. Not dissimilar size of town, same problem with local Old Firm numpties, difficulty in bringing in supporters. But despite a dodgy recent run they're safely in the top six. Glass-half-empty - look at St Mirren, similar size of town, even bigger problem with local Old Firm numpties, and until recently they were in freefall. Summing up - something gone awry. Agree with those who suggest the journeyman route worked for a while, but isn't working now. Need to develop more players and also rediscover our former trick of acquiring young Scottish players who had underachieved at their first clubs and bring them on (like, say, going way back, Robson and Wyness).

The 'demise' may be more of a case or return to our natural position in the pecking order of Scottish football after years over-performing. We finished consistently well in the league, won a cup, lost a final and qualified for Europe - all things a club our size should never have done but unfortunately it never encouraged fan numbers to rise or investment into the club. We may have done even better bar the instability of management change and loss of some key players but we were perhaps lucky to find a bunch of hard working, skilled players out to prove themselves. Recently our recruitment has been questionable - we have too many journeymen, passengers or guys who aren't good enough for this level yet we feel obligated to give them chances after several failures elsewhere - we lack the signing of young, determined and 'hungry' guys. The backroom staff also need questioned - have some been there too long and just out of ideas, then there's our assistant who personally I feel has to take more responsibility, since his arrival the team tactics have been so negative and lacking in ideas - with an inexperienced manager he should be offering more support. Sadly we will go down, its a rut we are stuck in, whether we can return is a bigger concern.

Am I the only one on here who isn't giving up on us staying up ? Love or loathe Richie it's far too late to do anything as far as a manager goes .Personally I don't have a problem with him . We shouldn't rely on results elsewhere but apart from Celtic we are not alone in that ,and this must be our worst season for other results going against us . It's not over yet so get behind the team and KEEP THE FAITH !!!

I agree that what the Perth Saints have achieved is remarkable but., as far as miraculous is concerned, Perth and Inverness are not dissimilar in size but St Johnstone have been members of the Scottish Football League for over a century and took over a century to win their first major national trophy. After a hundred years of exclusion on increasingly spurious geographical grounds, we have achieved our league standing from a standing start just over twenty years ago and secured our cup in less than a fifth of the time it took them. If either team has created a footballing miracle it's us. I just hope this season isn't when that magic dust runs out.