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Seems daft, why try to change crusaders game to a free week I presume so we can keep our fixture with pars. Then when pars offer a straightforward solution by playing us on the tenth, we say no. Now with the call off we have no game for 17 days. Later in the season, players will be playing unnecessary midweek games due to poor decision making by the club.

This indeed looks like poor decision making. The Crusaders tie has been an organisational mess from start to finish however, not sure of the benefit of turning down a game next week. No amount of trying to justify is convincing me sorry.

Hopefully we will see the launch of the Duncan Shearer Cup as part of the celebrations.

It’s the 25th Anniversary of CTO as well (wonder how that happened!). Maybe we can do something special too like removing everyone’s red dots

or now have to travel to Dunfermline midweek?

I don't have any records, but I have the feeling that that we often get off to a bad start after a break - whether due to weather, internationals, half-time or the summer!

But we were (allegedly) trying to bring the Crusaders game forward so the players wouldn't be getting any extra rest. I'm pretty confused by our stance on this.

We should surround the badge with stars to commemorate our Inverness and North of Scotland Cups and one big mahoooosive one to celebrate that time our reserves won the North Caledonian League years ago.

If we don't get our finances sorted out, we may be emulating them in other, more worrying, ways.

no highland derbies next season cos they will survive and we are nowhere near getting there. sad but realism must kick in.

as long as it's on our REAL badge and not that crap fake designed and adopted without any consultation

You would need to bring in portaloos. Could even paint them black and red

A centenary is something to celebrate. 25 years? It’s not going to get the fans excited, but still, there’s a small marketing opportunity here and I like the idea of doing something to mark the occasion.

My money is on the club not having even thought about it yet!!!

If for no other reason than we don't want to emulate Sevco in any shape or fashion.

jake cost us the three points

My view too. He's only shown any form in the first half of the 4-1 win over Falkirk, that's all. If Hearts are daft enough to make an offer then sell him.

I don't see it that way at all. The common bottom line is this - were it not for external financial intervention, neither club would have achieved a fraction of what it has done. In Ross County's case, the appearance is that there's been a constant, generous financial drip feed of funds which have allowed infrastructure to be built and wages to be paid at such a level that it has been possible to achieve Premiership football in 2012 and then sustain it, including top six finishes and a national trophy win. Otherwise, what might County have become? A Championship - League One yoyo club? In the case of Caley Thistle, the assistance - which may or may not total less than in County's case but has been far more life saving - has simply worked differently. This is because of the critical mess the club got into in around 2000 with its approximately £2.5 million debt. No amount of revisionism will alter the cold fact that if that debt had not been taken away, the club would have gone into administration or receivership. As we all know that debt was removed by Tullochs, the only game in town, who also provided working capital and then upgraded the stadium. The net effect of Tullochs' £5.3 - £6M intervention was, in five years, to effect a transformation from virtual bankruptcy to playing SPL football, debt free in a fully compliant stadium. However, two issues have intervened to alter the perception of that process in the eyes of far too many. Firstly, there has been a failure to realise, or to accept, that Tullochs aren't a philanthropic society although they have accepted a significant net loss by becoming involved with Caley Thistle. And secondly, we are back to the delusion that's too often held in football that the world somehow owes the game a living. Back in 2000, Caley Thistle had hugely overstretched its means. To be brutally realistic, I would also have to add - very reluctantly indeed because he also did a huge amount of good for the club - that this was under the chairmanship of one of the main complainers about the manner in which salvation from a potentially fatal event was then achieved. The club's future existence was secured by Tullochs, but what I seem to be seeing now is some kind of revisionist view that it might have been better after all if their considerable assistance had been rejected and oblivion had been allowed to ensue.

He scored a goal against Clach but so did Fort William today!