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Whilst we obviously need to recruit to supplement our now wafer thin squad, in my view, the most important thing is to retain Ross Draper. In what is likely to be a physical and combative league, his presence could be the difference between challenging for promotion and battling relegation. Yes, he is likely to be on a high salary by our standards but to shed him would be a false economy.

Trouble being the "short time you seen him play". His Achilles injury wasn't the first injury he'd had in recent years and as a result he hadn't played much football. Having him on the books in the championship might have been seen as a pricey risk, despite his ability and experience.

It was a trait that served him and us well as a player and club captain but which proved to be a fatally flawed quality in an inexperienced manager.

Yeah and the worst thing about him, his biggest mistake and ultimate fail was his complete and utter refusal to believe that even when it was blatantly obvious to everyone else, internally and externally that his players and tactics weren't working, that he might have been wrong. His stubbornness and pig headed determination to see it through in his own vision single handedly cost us our place in the spl

I think I would prefer to wait until that's been confirmed in a newspaper.

Who was playing for Caley Thistle ?

I was there early enough to get a team sheet. Caley- 1 Esson 2 Raven 3 Chalmers 4 McKay 5 Warren 6 Leitch 7 Polworth 8 Draper 9 Davidson 10 Oakley 11 Elbouzedi Subs 12 MacDonald 14 Lawton 15 Stark 16 Chalmers 17 Foy 18 Wilson 19 Ridgers (GK) No 23 for Forres was Callum Howarth, who used to be with Caley.

FFS hardly a brutal game , thought Forres outplayed us in the first half and the second was pretty uneventful . Interesting to see Polworth still used as wide right midfield was hoping he would be a direct replacement for Tansey. Hard to tell much about the trialist's after 1 game but liked the look of the young lad who came on No 17 very direct and pacy.

I sincerely hope that they are better than they succession of third rate Dutch players who came and went at County under Adams.

#pedant alert Your signature is rather out of date

A useful first work out and an encouraging clean sheet after our defensive woes last season. Good to see the likes of Raven, Warren and particularly Draper starting. Here's hoping all are still with us and playing their parts come the business end of the season.

trialists are Chalmers, Leitch, Davidson, Oakley and Elbouzedi Ridgers on bench

#ICTFC to face Forres: Esson, Raven, Trialist, Mckay, Warren, Trialist, Polworth, Draper, Trialist, Trialist, Trialist

I don't really care to be depressed about hearing our ticket sales. I did however renew this week.

Really hoping he is the long lost son of Jim, sired during a post-season trip to Mexico and he's returned home to win the respect of his now ageing but still legendary father.

£2k a week on Boden

Hmmmmm...

There is lots going on behind the scenes Robbo is going to bring in 3 more should be next week

finally managed to load up pic from champions league . Can we get one from forres today? Would be nice to have one from every ground this year.

Thought No 3 Chalmers looked decent and solid, a good replace for Tremarco to start us off.... Davidson looked threatening until he went off injured looked a sore one, hope not as bad as looked, thought No 17 Fit looked very confident and quick and was terrorising their defence at times, a bit Mulraney esque with slightly more end product, Oakley looked decent too, thought Ridgers for me looked strong and commanded the area well. He committed himself to high balls and was confident in and around clearing his box

#pedantalert There is no such thing as the SPL anymore. It folded 4 years ago.