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Once again, the only real disappointment yesterday was the size of the crowd. There are over a hundred thousand people living less than an hour's drive from the stadium and for fewer than 2% percent of them to turn out to watch a team still unbeaten at the top of a very competitive league playing very decent football is very disappointing. Come on Inverness, get yourself and your family and friends down to the Longman on a Saturday afternoon and cheer this fine team of ours back into the Premiership.

There are nine teams to keep an eye on starting next Saturday with Hamilton hoping to be the first to beat us in the league this year.

What a fantastic result at the stadium this afternoon when ICT women won their first game at the stadium 12 - 2. A sublime afternoon spent watching the game - Congratulations ladies.

+10 to us, and +2 to Grampian. Ran out of data just before 3-0. 12-2, dunno if I'll ever see another game with more goals...Unless we play some wee team in the Cup and go in with no mercy...

It looks like the board did well signing Dodds as the manager, having handled John Robertson's situation very well. They have done well again with recruitment for the team, with what appears an excellent mix of youth and experience, but all talented...the number of players on decent length contracts is another factor that has to be helpful Few of us would have dreamed that we would make quite the start that we have, and it sounds like yesterday's result was highly deserved. Good to hear that guys like Broadfoot and Gardyne, whose signings were met with a little bit of eyebrow raising along with Devine whose re-signing last season triggered the same reaction are delivering to a good level. I managed to swing past the stadium a couple of weeks ago, with my wife, as we started our holiday around the North Coast 500 route in generally excellent weather, and picked up a Caley face mask which I look forward to wearing in various places down here in South London, we spent three days in total in Inverness, and it was a real delight to be back. Trying to sort a trip up for a home game, but Kilmarnock away in Jan is on!

I can assure you I was using my rattle to the fullest when Gardyne scored! Lizi x

Deserved win. We largely cigared that today save for a period in the second half when Queens got their equaliser and looked like they might steal a point but fortunately we were able to go up a gear and get a deserved winner. Smashing performance from Gardyne. He might be 58 but he's still as fit as anyone in our squad and still has plenty to offer. Pacey and direct and not afraid to have a crack at goal when some might take an extra touch too many (Duku). Lovely finish for the winner and a deserved MotM. Devine continues to be perhaps our most consistent performer. He almost score a comedy own goal but other than that he was excellent again and stepped out of defence on numerous occasions to intercept balls forward from Queens. Carson was again solid at RB and MacGregor, before his injury, was running the midfield. Walsh was disappointing though and I feel that he's not really hit the height he did in his previous stint with us. Connelly looked useful for Queens who did press and harry us a lot in the first half but seemed to cease after conceding a goal and seemed content to let us knock the ball about looking for an opening. Unfortunately a fair bit of our play broke down in the final third (we definitely lacked a killer pass at times) but I felt we dealt with their few attacking opportunities quite well. Their equaliser was absolutely stunning but fortunately we just upped our game a bit and took a deserved win. All in all, a very pleasing day.

Gardyne was really up for it today and encouraging others. His goal celebration showed how much he wants to win games with us, then there was his dance with Carson after the final whistle as they were clapping the fans. He wants to do well here.

There is nothing quite like the buzz of a Saturday morning when there is football to go to. Especially when the team is on such a rich run of form.