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Started at 3, dipped to 2, got as high as 5 after the Killie game, but ending at 3. We have the potential, on paper we have the squad, but we are inconsistent and fail to deliver consistently. This could easily be a season to forget that cements our place in the Championship and is another step towards becoming part time, but we could end up at Hampden twice and be within 90 minutes of an amazing achievement by actually winning the cup and qualifying for Europe (no, I don’t expect that to happen!). Either way, a big decision looms for the Board and CEO that will determine our short and medium term fortunes. We need financial stability but we also need a competitive product on the pitch that inspires fans and retains and grows the local support.

I wasn't at this game, and as I've said before, I don't attend away matches due to health issues, but I have been at every home match this season and I have noticed that on many occasions we, or our opponents are a different team in the second half. Is this down to our opponents manager noticing that things aren't working for his team, and that he has to change tactics to get a result, and our manager not realising that his opposite number may change tactics to swing the game in his teams favour and Dodds not being aware that things will change, or does he not have the ability to alter things? Having watched all the home games, I have come to the conclusion a long time ago, that unfortunately I don't believe that Billy Dodds has the tactical awareness to counteract the changes in tactics his opposite number makes. His substitutes are more than often like for like, the formation rarely changes, and when we are chasing the game our default position is the good old Hoofball, which rarely, if ever, results in a goal. If Dodds sees that the team weren't doing what he wanted in the match, why doesn't he scream at them and get them to stop what they're doing? He's the coach!, he needs to get them to play the way he wants and change tactics and personnel to achieve the result. So Plan A wasn't working, switch to Plan B, oh, I forgot, there is no Plan B.

Well to be honest the reason that I started this topic - and the reason I have been posting after an absence - is that I was disillusioned and TBH totally cheesed off - by the negativity and IMHO a number of unfairly derisive posters who appeared to be more intent in catastrophising and being overly critical and negative. Shure there was a lot to complain about but I could not understand that the injuries this season were not seen as being a major reason for our poor form. No other team in this league would have dealt with the same situation. It gave me great pleasure to witness the rise in the scoring and the positivity in the last few weeks. And did anyone actually believe that we would take three points from Queens Park ?? Well some eejits are still talking about relegation. I sincerely am sticking at a FIVE - as I truly believe that we have an outside chance of making the play offs given our fixture list - and I intend to go to Morton and to Hamilton (away). We have been away behind before and made up the ground. I dont think that we will get promoted but we have to keep up the momentum for the Cup. And as for the sanctimonious amongst us - I wish I could start a podcast revealing the rumours that I have heard - I evidently cant - BUT wholly agree that the club needs a clear out and a managerial reconstruction. There may be individuals retained which I do not agree with but individuals given more creedence and influence plus financial support from a - lets say previously rumoured source. At the end of the day I am a feckin diehard and my season will be saved by two trips to Hampden and a play off or close to play off place ending. OK the negative may be that I have little confidence in the tactics during the league fixtures and the unbelievable, continuing lack of communication with the fan base.

That is terrible. It wasn't me, although I was sore and tired having had to walk from Kingspark to get to the stadium and then having to walk back after the game. I just couldn't believe it. I have to pick my away games because I can't sit or walk long distances with my arthritis, and with the League Cup final, when they put the bus miles down the road from parkhead and we couldn't get off at the stadium and not being allowed to use the disabled parking spaces at the final, it doesn't make for a pleasant day when you know you have a long walk after the game. So as I said, I will be watching it on the TV this time, and hope everyone has a better trip.

Just a quick heads up. The Supporters Travel Club now has some extra capacity. If you snooze you lose. Also we have applied for parking passes at Hampden and Scot Gardiner will be taking this forward for us tomorrow.

Just a quick heads up. Travel Club have now got extra capacity. If you snooze you lose. Also we are applying for parking passes at Hampden and Scot Gardiner will be trying to arrange this for us tomorrow.

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts 1. Queens Park 29 16 6 7 58 38 54 2. Dundee 28 13 8 7 44 31 47 3. Ayr United 28 13 7 8 52 35 46 4. Partick Thistle 29 13 6 10 49 39 45 5. Morton 29 11 10 8 41 35 43 6. Raith Rovers 28 10 8 10 39 37 38 7. Inverness CT 28 9 9 10 39 41 36 8. Cove Rangers 29 6 8 15 34 62 26 9. Arbroath 28 4 13 11 25 41 25 10. Hamilton Ac. 28 6 7 15 25 47 25 Our remaining Championship fixtures. I'm afraid it will take a miracle to make the play-offs. 24th Mar 19:45 - PARTICK THISTLE (H) 01st April 15:00 - MORTON (A) 08th April 15:00 - RAITH ROVERS (H) 11th April 19:45 - ARBROATH (H) 15th April 15:00 - COVE RANGERS (A) 18th April 19:45 - HAMILTON (A) 22nd April15:00 - DUNDEE (H) 05th May 19:45 - AYR UNITED (H)

I was there and that's pretty much spot on! He compounded matters by taking Allardice off and the midfield fell apart

We were BUZZing when RiG got that tweet in the car…

NPL Review for Game 39 One week on a high and next week on a low. Football is stupid. No maximums in any section for this game. Only three winners in the Correct Score section. Gringo got the Crowd Section bonus – 16 under. old caley girl is still holding on to top spot. Total Entries 16 Predicted Match results H - 2 D - 5 A - 9 The Results HT: 0-1 FT: 2-1 1st ICT: D MacKay 1st Opp: Savoury Crowd: 627 Correct Predictions HT: 2 FT: 1 1st ICT: 0 1st Opp: 3 Crowd 5 pts: 11 Crowd 10 pts: 0 Crowd Bonus 2Pts: 1 Bragging Rights MrCaleyjag 11 Jokers Played 0 Your Points MrCaleyjag 11 Doofer 10 Gringo 10 Jodie Carnie 10 caleyjag 8 caleycalum 7 DoofersDad 7 Ictross 7 Lmclmm 6 Mrs Gringo 6 old caley girl 6 CaleyCanary 3 Robert 3 Caley Braveheart 2 crownjaggie 2 Joonya 2 TABLE - 39 01 - 251 - old caley girl 02 - 239 - Gringo 03 - 231 - caleycalum 04 - 226 - Ictross 05 - 223 - MrCaleyjag 06 - 196 - CaleyCanary 07 - 189 - caleyjag 08 - 188 - Robert 09 - 187 - Mrs Gringo 10 - 183 - Doofer 11 - 177 - Jodie Carnie 12 - 173 - crownjaggie 13 - 165 - Joonya 14 - 163 - DoofersDad 15 - 154 - Lmclmm 16 - 149 - Caley Braveheart 17 - 134 - Scotty 18 - 123 - CDN Girl 19 - 108 - bughtmaster 20 - 99 - SOS 21 - 22 - Jock Watt 22 - 21 - Kingsmills

CTO offering All but ended: Inverness' play-off hopes all but ended at Ochilview after we surrendered a half time advantage once more at the same venue. Both sides had gone close early on before Daniel Mackay drilled home a tremendous low strike from around twenty-five yards after the ball broke back to him off Billy Mckay in the box. Twenty minutes after the interval the Spiders pressure saw them level when Grant Savoury headed home. They went in front some five minutes later when Stephen Eze headed into the top corner. Substitute Roddy MacGregor limped off to be replaced by the even lesser spotted Ben Woods. Both sides created opportunities as the game entered the final phase and Duffy and Samuels went close to an equaliser deep into time added on but it was Queens that took a massive step towards the Premiership as we took a massive step back into the Championship. Good luck to them. If it's any consolation, Falkirk, our semi-final opponents lost 1-0 at Queen of the South today.

That was one sided a contest as I've seen for a while. Queens Park were streets ahead of us for large parts of that match. Decent opening to the game with Eze missing two glorious chances when he had free headers from corners but he would eventually get his goal later. It was surprising that we didn't really seem to know how to counter him and were content to keep letting him win header after header almost scoring each time. Danny MacKay had a great chance to open the scoring after a nice phase of passing play saw him scamper in behind the Queens back line but he lost his footing and shot right at Ferrie. But he was to open the scoring when a long ball forward bounced off the back of Mckay and Mackay raced onto it to place a wonderful low shot beyond Ferrie at full stretch to give us the lead. Queens seemed to lose their way after this for the rest of the first half but regained their composure in the second and utterly dominated the rest of the match. The equaliser arrived when a cross from the ICT right found Savoury in acres of space with no ICT defender near him and he placed his wider beyond Ridgers to bring QP level. Despite this being the umpteenth warning to us to try and defend crosses into the box we decided to, erm, not do this and instead let Eze have another header from a cross almost unchallenged and he found the net this time to put the home side ahead. Mckay and Devine had decent chances for us to head in equalisers and Samuels fired a late effort right at Ferrie but Queens were easily deserving of the win especially as we ran out of ideas and blootered long balls to Mckay to try and win against tow defenders with an average height of about 8 ft. Bizarre decision to sub Allardice when he was probably our best midfielder and Samuels continues to be quite unimpressive in his outings. MacGregor got a few minutes before appearing to catch his studs in the pitch and had to be taken off inured so that's swell. We just didn't seem able to cope with the intensity and pace of Queens Park who moved the ball so quickly whilst we were relatively slow and ponderous when we had it. The gulf between the sides was there for all to see. Even if Queens don't win the league I'd imagine they will fancy their chances to go all the way in the playoffs and it's hard to argue they don't deserve it.

I remember walking back to the bus after the game and it wasn’t there. A few others turned up after and one elderly gentleman was struggling a bit. We all stood around and eventually found out the bus had then gone to Hampden which meant walking back. Felt really sorry for the gentleman. The driver should have told everyone before getting off the bus. Goodness knows the others found out there was about 8 I think including ourselves

Perhaps we have actually been spoilt over the years and playing in a major semi final no longer holds any real sense of achievement, expectation or perhaps even passion. Perhaps it is about being the favourites and not playing against a more illustrious club. Perhaps many may be anticipating a win and saving up for a bigger day out playing one side of the Old Filth. Unfortunately in the current climate the obstacles of finances, travel and TV coverage also take its toll and the game may well have been better attended if it had been played at Easter Road or Tynecastle. My sense is that this is another unforgettable and unmissable episode in the history of ICT and Inverness football. So I am going to strive to be there and look forward to meeting up with the fortunate and the rich elements of our support

I hope it's true that the supporters buses take you direct to Hampden, as this was not the case in the semi final against Celtic. The buses were not allowed to park in the coach park and were directed to park at Kingspark, which was quite a walk for someone who has mobility issues. So, knowing that, we took the car down for the final against Falkirk, so that I could use my blue badge to get parked closer, only to be told by the steward at the gate that unless we had previously applied to use the disabled parking spaces on that day, we weren't allowed to use them now. So, I was dropped off at the corner and waited for my friends to find some parking, and when we eventually got slowly to the stadium, most of the disabled parking spaces were empty! So, watching in the comfort of my own home with no walking sounds good.

Huge obstacle stuck in my way with the lunchtime kick-off. Can't get out of my Friday night-shift so hoped to fly up on the first morning flight from Stansted, unfortunately it's not early enough to get me there in time and its too far to Heathrow to catch an earlier flight so has to be a tv watch for me