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Is that George Galloway in the North stand?

I think we'll be comfy in the top 4. Tonight was poor for the most part but we've got enough quality in midfield and spark up front to see us turn in more performances like those we saw against Raith, Dundee and Queens. Still unbeaten at home this season.

Some really depressing posts on here tonight,not sure they are all merited. Players know when they have a mare, dont think some of the stuff on here would give them a boost. Second half was better,if only final ball or cross was. Only way is up. Different posts on here next time out, am sure of it.

We're they using round balls?

A point deservedly rescued in the end and it could have, and maybe should have, been more. In a truncated season, we remain only one or two defeats from becoming detached from the battle for promotion. Here's hoping that 2021 brings greater joy on the football pitch as well as on the health and welfare front.

I’d have taken a point at half time but a much better second half. We need to play full games and turn draws into wins so we can climb this league. Dunfermline were nothing special.

Not sure that’s true. I’ve heard he is a youngster making his way and very enthusiastic. Remember he is watching the same feed as us, so we need to make some allowances. Enjoy Netflix!!

Galloway wouldn't waste his time coming to watch this pysh.

In correcting their first abject 'apology' Queen of the South seem to have forgotten which country they are in by, more than once, referring to Dumfries and Galloway moving from 'Tier1' to Tier4' between the time George Galloway and his family were invited to their actual attendance. The last time I checked, Dumfries was on the Scottish side of the border so, like the rest of mainland Scotland, is in Level 4. Tiers are only applicable in England. If you are going to try to apologise, however insincerity, try to get the basic terminology right.

I, for one, don't blame Yogi for taking the opportunity to try to revive his career in Dingwall. I also give him credit for overseeing the greatest times in our history and, in particular, one fantastic day out at Hampden in May 2015. However, I won't overlook the fact that he also oversaw the start of our slide and deliberately picked a public fight with the board but only after signing a lucrative new contract. In my view, the ICT report card for Mr Hughes remains a decidedly mixed one.

Pars Preview........ Weather Permitting??? 👀 ☃️❄️brrrrrr STREAMING INFO FROM ICTFC This game can be streamed on a PPV basis live from ICTFC for a mere £10. Season ticket holders will have access to the game as part of their season ticket deal. Covid restrictions mean that there will be no fans in attendance, not even George Galloway! Remember, Scottish cup draw tonight so look out for ball 27, that's us, ball 27, twenty-seven. Lucky 27, would a wee cup run do us any harm or is it a write-off this season? Hampden here we come? Ball 8 -V- Ball 27. Good draw predicted by Gringo. Have a good one and let's hope next year is a better one.

The Raith game seems like a long time ago. Might make top 4 , comfy...🤣 Only two games left against each team now in this shortened season, so our late charge needs to start about now.

Reflecting on tonight, both teams under performed and struggled to keep possession. We seemed to concede a soft goal but nearly got right back into it when Sutherland hit the woodwork. At half time, we deserved to be behind, but the second half was much better and we deservedly got back to 1-1 and were the more likely to win. I always feel we are best when we play it quickly but too often we slow the play down and don’t use the pace we have wide as well as we could. Inconsistent as he can be, I prefer it with Storey wide and Sutherland through the middle. Storey’s goal was either quality or luck! Ridgers was steady. Mckay is being overly criticised in my opinion as he put a power of work in and got up and down the pitch: he is getting slagged primarily for one poor cross. Harper has had a lot of game time and is getting more confident. I’m not sure what Devine or Deas could have done to stop the goal, and Devine had one great stop. He was injured late on so we may need Mckay at centre half on Saturday with Duffy at right back. It is good to see Welsh back, but he is not at his best yet and I hope Carson is fit soon. Allardice was quite quiet and it took Vincent a while to get into the game, although a lot of his work breaking up play goes unnoticed. Doran seemed to suffer after his knock but Kennedy showed some good moves and needs to grow in consistency. Storey got us the point whilst Sutherland had a few efforts and on another night could have had two or three. Toddy and Mackay did not have much time other than the booking Mackay got. 2 points out of 9 is not good enough, but we are still in the mix for the play offs as no one is winning consistently. Our next two league games are against teams below us, so 6 points and 2 good performances please!

W3 D3 L3 That’s a sure fire recipe for mid table mediocrity but we can definitely do better.

We had a pretty good 2nd half which was encouraging, but sooooo many poor touches, passes and crosses throughout the game.

Lot of harsh comments on here, we seem to have turned into greetin old firm fans. Commentator getting more flak <<yawn>> Let's not forget there were two teams on the park, and one of them tried to stop us scoring. Red and blue stripes do not make us Barcelona.

Leaving Dumfries and Galloway for now and returning to the Highlands, I fear that some in the area, like Aberdeenshire a few weeks ago became complacent after so many months of following restrictions, and decided, with a relatively low prevalence locally, to take more risks and take a more casual approach. With this virus, and particularly with this seemingly more virulent strain, that is a recipe for disaster and what can seem to be a situation under control can, within a week or so, rapidly escalate out of control. We all need.to keep doing what most of us have been doing since March and by the Summer, with the vast majority of the most vulnerable vaccinated, we can all return to something much closer to normal with as few more families as possible suffering the heartbreak of bereavement or individuals suffering debilitating illness. The rules are tedious and restrictive but they are not difficult to follow or understand and they are in place for a reason

That was absolutely garbage. Thank christ I didn't have to sit in the cold and watch that. Absolute scandal we never replaced Rooney if Robertson thinks that Brad Mackay is a full back he's a worse manager than I thought he was.

Those performances can't continue.

All over, 1-1. A lot better in second half.

Did we train this week?

Brad is like something Baron von Frankenstein made up and got the feet the wrong way round.

Inverness is wonderful and bridge and castle are amongst our words....

Hmm

He must be watching it on his phone then. Vincent and Storey mere passengers in this game. Need to get Carson or MacGregor and Dan Mackay on too.

I agree with your comments but it definitely was Devine. Welsh was in the box but not near the ball so I followed the player who cleared it until the number was visible. Definitely no 6. Kennedy on at half time for Doran. Doran took a knock which is maybe why he had not imposed himself.

Bloody hell that was dire... Hope Robbo has got a good half time blast ready. Storey very poor, And our midfield seem very slow to get back and also to support forwards, Sutherland ain't no Brewster and Storey no Billy Mackay!!!

Remember it well, especially Rosco scoring. Them were the days.

Only if they had somehow dragged the town 20 miles south.

Shocking defending. Their first shot on target too. I thought Shane had scored there. We are struggling to string more than 2 passes together.

Feck all happening up front either.....

Stream miles behind real time, need to turn my phone notifications off😒

That was feckin awful.

That's me logged on and working. I hope jagster is on for this one as he has paid for it Have to win tonight.

When I spotted that Scotty had been good enough to give me a name check and decided to reply, I realised that I had been in "read only" mode for a long time so hadn't been logged in. Yes, I've been analysing a lot of Covid statistics, and in Highland we have really got off lightly, although suddenly rather less so since 21st December. We had spent most of this second wave sitting at 5-15% of the case levels Scotland had - eg typically if Scotland was at 150/100K population, we would be at 15. For many weeks a rule of thumb applied that you would have to attend half a dozen games with (a different) 300 at each before you were likely to have been in the same stadium as one infected person. Highland has the lowest death rate in mainland Scotland, and there have been just 3 Covid confirmed deaths since mid May. As recently as December 4 there were as few as four people among 64,000 in Inverness who had been diagnosed with Covid during the entire previous week. Although we were allocated to what I call "Tier 1.5" (the original Tier 1, but with the original promise of limited indoor contact withdrawn) we did seem to qualify for Tier 0 but never got it. On Dec 20, our incidence was 14.9, around 15% of the Scottish figure (it had been just 9.3 on Dec 8 ) but suddenly things started to go wrong more quickly in Highland than in the country as a whole because today our incidence is 62.8, or round 40% of the Scottish figure (which in turn is around 40% of the UK figure). Test positivity had been 0.5% but it's now 3.1%, although low Christmas test numbers aimed at the most urgent cases will influence that. In the first wave we never got higher than 30% of the Scottish case figure although if our first wave cases had been diagnosed using the second wave testing regime, incidence might have reached around 85/100K. So in Highland we have suddenly made a very rapid transition from being almost a Covid free zone to a rather worse place in just a week and indeed the areas which have suffered worst here do seem to be the ones which had been doing best before that - eg also Moray and Dumfries and Galloway. One major caveat with these statistics, though - there are so many variables that people can sometimes make them appear to say whatever they what them to say and I do believe that the media, various Governments and some scientific interests have been guilty of that. My own view is that a better strategy would be not to try to scare the hell out of people to get them to comply to often over-vicious restrictions but to control the disease better by more stringent enforcement of less rigorous constraints.

On this day 18 years ago, John Robertson took charge of his first match as Manager of ICTFC. It was a 4-1 win away at St Mirren on 28th December 2002 Here's the match report from our archives: Love Street, Paisley, Attendance 3053, Ref S Conroy. Report by Ian Broadfoot An excellent start to John Robertson's managerial career amidst major media hype. St Mirren were a poor, dispirited side but Caley Thistle played good football and took their chances well. Ludo Roy had a busy afternoon and he delayed the opening goal with good diving saves from Charlie Christie and Paul Ritchie. He was beaten in the 14th minute after a neat move which started with a short Barry Robson corner to Christie. He fired goalwards and Dennis Wyness flicked it past Roy from close range. Mark Brown had a quiet time in the other goal but he did make some important saves, including an 18th minute parry from a Graham Guy 25 yard free kick. Goal number two came in 24 minutes following an inswinging Robson corner which caused confusion in Roy's goal. It came out to Ross Tokely who hammered home from the penalty spot. The pressure continued and Bobby Mann was unlucky when his header came off the post following a Robson corner in 27 minutes. Just after the half hour mark Graeme Stewart celebrated his first start of the season with a fine goal. Wyness was the provider when he drew the defence on the left and slipped it to Stewart on the right side of the box, he switched it to his left foot and drove low into the net. It could easily have been four or five by half time. A Robson corner was scrambled away by Roy in 34 minutes with the aid of a post then three minutes later Christie took a Paul Ritchie lob in the box and hit it over the bar as Roy advanced. Brown did well in 40 minutes to save from Mendes with his legs then Roy did the same at the other end to foil Ritchie. In 51 minutes Ritchie's hard work paid off when he outpaced the defence down the right and sent a low angled ball past Roy at the near post. Roy then kept the score down with good saves from Ritchie and Wyness. Play became scrappy as the visitors sat on their lead and Saints continued to create little. They did gain a consolation four minutes from time when Martin Cameron scored with an angled near-post header after a Ricky Gillies cross. This did nothing to placate the home fans but the small band from Inverness went home happy. Falkirk won 5-0 but ICT remain top on goal difference.

I hadn't noticed his absence, as I've had him on 'ignore' for years!

It's bad this Covid 19 has caused all this problems. This would have been a good away day for us with easy travel and a good payday for a highland League Club which does not always happen. I hope Brora get through and Hearts have to travel up north without a night in the luxury Kingsmills, the turkey sandwiches will be rank by then

Slating a manager who has his name in history for bringing the highest level trophy that ICT has ever won and then mocking him for joining a club in a division higher than your own (and probably has more chance of still being there next year than your own) epitomises seething!!!

I don't think our fanbase is proactive and motivated enough to set up a club, that's way beyond us imo. I'd probably casually follow Clach and just wouldn't be as interested in football.