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Semi Finalists in the Scottish Cup, 3rd in the League, very successful under 18s. A great season so far.

Great signing the Wall best keeper in the championship!

There have been 'screw ups but that should not mask the fact that, given the resources available, Robbo, the coaches and the players have done a remarkable job keeping us in the promotion race. I have been as critical of the board as most but right now is the time to get fully behind the team whatever our off field issues and concerns might be.

Excellent news. He's become an asset for us, and is also a really nice local guy!

What a finish for a part time club 4 wins, one draw from their final 6 matches and helped us into 3rd place. Great achievement.

Good win for us, but congrats also to Alloa for getting a draw at Ayr which keeps them up and got us the extra £75k for 3rd place.

This is undoubtedly a prime opportunity for John Robertson to secure the signings of teams facing relegation and an unsure future. It is a case of being of looking at the "Sales" due to budgetary constraints, as long it is a player who has attracted our attention recently.

I've had a letter from the club promoting the early bird offer. I will get mine next week some time.

The product that was known as "the working mans game", where it was an escape on a Saturday, for a small entrance fee, to watch your local team play, is long gone. Money has spoiled the game so much now. It's all about budgets. The club need to budget for players wages, and they need to charge the supporters an equivalent amount to try and go someway to balance the books. Times have changed a lot since the 90's, people have a lot more options to spend their hard earned cash on, they too have to budget, and if it's a toss between going to the football, where they don't know what quality will be on offer or going to the cinema, where you do, then they may choose the latter, or something similar. I have watched football in Inverness since 1970, and it was the same problem with attendances in the Highland League then. Caledonian and Inverness Thistle were not blessed with huge attendances in Highland League games, but in cup competitions they could bring in a couple of thousand, and then back to a couple of hundred the following week. Whether it's apathy or some folk just wanting to spend their money on the more glamorous matches, who knows, but if half of them then, or half of them now would attend the league games, the club would be in a far healthier place, attract better players and hopefully put on a better product.

Paying for cup games or playoffs is standard practice the world over. Think of it another way - as we debate our club being skint --- the club can budget or at least be aware of the fact that they will host 16 home league games. These have costs that need to be budgeted for when we set ticket prices. Costs such as heat, light, stewarding, policing, etc etc etc. We cannot know before the season how many cup games we may be involved in, or if we will be in the playoffs. If we did - and having these in the package was actually allowed - then we would have to factor in that cost into the overall season ticket price. You would not "pay" for these games when they came along as you already did so ...... I was the same over here in 2016 and 2017 when Toronto got to the MLS Cup Final .... cost me about $300 for my season ticket, then as the playoffs came along it cost me the same again over about 4 or 5 games in our run to the final each year. Same applied when the club were in the Champions League over here. We actually got the first game 'included' in the ticket price but had to pay for all others in our run to the final of that competition too ! My $300 season suddenly became about $900 ! Personally, I think crowds are down because people have so many other things to spend their ever decreasing discretionary cash on, and the football authorities have, over the years, made the sport less enjoyable and killed the atmosphere to a point where going to a game is not high priority for those outside of the diehards. There are probably things the club can do better, but its not their fault that a typical football game nowadays involves 'customers' turning up to a stadium to be treated like potential criminals for a disproportionate sum of money that has to sustain ever spiralling costs, to be fed on over-priced crap, while watching a game that is inevitably of a lower standard than we have been used to because the Scottish game just cant compete even with the lowest tiers in England because of TV money. I dont know the answer, no clue at all, but as much as the club can do, the SFA and SPFL need to try and figure something out for everyone's sakes !

We were widely ridiculed by Central Belt commentators and pundits for our small crowds when we were at Pittodrie. However, the fact that Hamilton v Livingston in the Premiership on Saturday attracted only 1,135 seems to have passed without comment, even with Hamilton having everything to play for. Had that been us in the Premiership there would, without doubt, comments about how worthy we are of our place in the top tier. Our fans have somewhat deserted us this season but I can't imagine us getting just over a thousand for a Saturday afternoon league game in the Championship far less the Premiership. Double standards yet again. It would be great to shake up those Central Belt dinosaurs by, once more, having two Highland clubs in the top tier. We would certainly bring more to the party than Hamilton Accies.

Just proves that the whole thing has been a farce

A clean sheet and a superb save to prevent the equaliser - well done Mark!

Pretty uninspiring stuff today never really carved out any clear cut chances but happy to take the win.Thought Trafford was excellent and Mchattie put in a decent shift at left back other than that pretty average stuff. Looking forward to next week and hopefully the Inverness public will respond, at only £12 a head there can be no excuses.

Well done to all the players and coaching staff at ICT, a terrific effort from one and all. Not the best game I have seen, but we did the business, maybe too many changes, and hopefully everyone will be fit for the playoffs.

They should be on sale from Monday

Both important factors.

The good news is that, unlike this time last season, this is not our final game of the season. Hopefully, six more and a huge end of season celebration to come.

Have a read of this Alan whilst you are sitting at home and we have to listen to screaming girls looking for you at the Stadium.............

Think I got the gist of it at the fourth time of reading.

Think I'll give this 1 a swerve can't find my season tickets just putting this out there for any of the chics who undoubtedly travel to see me save the petrol money for the play offs! Think we'll win the day a few of the young team staking a claim for nxt season#ictforlife

Och suppose I will trudge along as usual............................ but wait we still have a slim chance of getting third place which would be great and a boost going into the play offs. No hospitality for me but I might get a bite of Jagsters Pie

I am happy with this news.

Yup. Too many armchair fans in Inverness.

Different time zone.

Bus Eight

Not sure whether snooker is really a sport rather than a pastime but congratulations to a previously completely out of form John Higgins for reaching his eighth World Final over twenty years after first winning the tournament. Here's hoping his luck is better than in the last two.