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I sense that the patriotic positivity is on the wane. Only way to keep the Fat Lady and the negative forum following off the stage is to maintain the improved performances and rewards. 12 points from the next four is not unacheivable and then who knows. Keep the feckin faith dudes.

The free kick was odd when all the players and the crowd highlighted to the ref that he had only put the wall 7 paces back. However he left it as it was ? And Harper's shot hit the wall- surprisingly

I got the number of goals right

We should've done ourselves favours, many times over this season. Can't depend on others to do the work for us.

A few weeks ago we were nervous about getting dragged into the relegation battle. We are now officially safe!

Massive result for Partick. We need to peg back Ayr or they’ll be out of sight, so either a draw or Morton win tomorrow is crucial. However, it means bugger all if we don’t beat Raith!

Shaw probably burst his nose with the effort he was putting in to a great performance

I counted 8 but it was as though the wall had decided they wouldn’t budge and the ref just moved them an inch! That apart I thought the ref did ok, letting a few things go that would have been a card with other refs.

Can you imagine: we reach the cup final, and win it on penalties! We reach the playoffs and make to the playoff final. We win that on penalties too, against ross c#unty ! Nah... me neither

Counts for very little if we struggle and lose against Arbroath, then Cove, and of course Hamilton. However, there are signs that we want to keep grinding out results to see if we can make more progresss. That said, we do generally struggle against teams from the bottom three places in the Championship. Here's hoping we can squeeze something out of Arbroath. Pointless worrying about other teams and their results.

We did what we needed to do by getting the win and a valuable three points, but we had a chance to increase our goal difference against a poor Raith team and we eased up in the second half when I believe we could have scored more. With our last game of the season against Ayr, it may come down to goal difference, so we should have done what Partick did to a poor Queens Park last night, and went for it. Good performances from Carson, Shaw and Ridgers. On to Tuesday now, and hopefully another home win.

Spent most of the afternoon slapping on the coconut oil we never let Raith get a sniff...good team performance...deserved win and could have scored a few more...

Good comfortable win today over a poor Raith.Carson,Ridgers,Shaw and Henderson stand out,although the team did well.Amazed how lethargic and lack of desire shown by Raith.Even the Manager and coaches spent most of the game in the dug out.It was like they accepted they are out of top four and no getting relegated,but what about passion and pride.ICT up to 5th

Good win, which keeps our play off hopes alive. Morton drawing with Ayr was good for us too. So it is in our own hands now, keep winning and we will be in the play offs. Thereafter it is in the lap of the Gods. Well done lads. Onwards and upwards.

Would it be sanctimonious of me to politely suggest that Henderson and Shaw May be improving because of being in a more settled team, having more experienced players around them and not having so much responsibility on their shoulders.

X-Rays suggest that the fat lady has turned blue and the red blemish is suggestive of the development of laryngitis

That was a poor game at Plastic in the first half. Two quality team goals in the second set up the Plastic for the three points. Spiders offered nothing in return. With the match entering the last ten minutes I switched off...and missed two goals . Plastic are certainly knocking in some goals just now and are looking good. Anyway..enough about them. As mentioned, three points is crucial for us today. It's also true to say we shouldn't be relying on others but, in our self made situation, we have too. The chance is still there hanging by a thread so lets grab hold of it and do this.

Pretty sure STFU & CaleyD are the sane person! #Kenny’sBoy

Queens Park have lost their last 3 games. If they continue to play like they did against Partick then they could lose out on a playoff place. It is still possible for us to finish 6 points ahead of them. Having said that, whilst it is no longer possible for us to finish bottom, it is still possible for us to be relegated.

2-0 midway through the second half. This game is doing us no favours. We need to win tomorrow and hope Ayr either lose or draw so we start to close the gap on them.

A must win game Raith Rovers head North this Saturday for a 3:00pm kick-off at the Caledonian Stadium looking for their first win over the Caley Jags since October 28th, 2000. Yes, it really is that long since they beat us over ninety minutes. Once upon a time, Raith were one of the benchmarks for a rising Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Since we started beating them there has been no going back. However, there are no easy points at this stage of the season and this amazing run will come to an end one year, Let's hope it's not this Saturday. If this is not seen as a must win game, then it's certainly in the category of must not lose, and that applies to both teams. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Match/Ticket Info AGM Hampden Calling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venue Pld Won Drn Lst For Agst + / - Home 20 13 5 2 38 15 +23 Away 17 9 5 3 34 21 +13 Neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 37 22 10 5 72 36 +36 It's unbelievable to think that Raith's last win over Inverness over 90 minutes was almost 22 years ago. Mind you, Raith had a pretty handy team back then and they had won four of the previous five encounters since we met them in the big boys leagues, with the other one drawn. Since then, we have literally swamped Rovers with 22 wins, 10 draws and zero defeats. Getting back up to date over the last ten, it's 4 wins, 6 draws and zero defeats. Starting to level out a bit, but still no wins for Raith. Here's who played for them last time they won: Peter Hetherston was player manager back then. Van de Kamp; McCulloch, Dennis, Hamilton, Browne, Black, Hetherston, Ellis, Mballa, Clark, Stein Last 10 Competitive Meetings 2 - 2 (A) 1 - 1 (H) 2 - 0 (A) 3 - 2 (A) 1 - 1 (H) 0 - 0 (H) 1 - 1 (A) 1 - 0 (H) 1 - 0 (A) 0 - 0 (H) Last Raith win: Oct 28th 2001 - 1 - 2. Injury-hit Caley Thistle lost this game because of a poor first half display. Despite this they nearly took the lead in 13 minutes when a David Bagan shot was blocked by Greig McCulloch and spun over the bar. Raith scored first in 16 minutes when Jim Calder failed to hold a Shaun Dennis cross and Jay Stein hit home the loose ball from six yards. In 21 minutes a poor headed clearance by Stuart McCaffrey was picked up by Andrew Clark and he set up Ivan Mballa and the Frenchman slammed the ball into the net from 12 yards. ICT had a penalty claim turned down in 38 minutes when Charlie Christie was brought down by Paul Browne. After the break the home side improved but Guido Van de Kamp denied them on several occasions. Paul Sheerin pulled one back in 79 minutes when he netted from close range after a good cut back by Roy McBain. Four minutes later Sheerin watched in frustration as Van de Kamp saved his low shot. As time ran out he came close twice more but Raith held on to win. Report by Ian Broadfoot Last Time Out Inverness pulled off a good win at Cappielow last weekend beating Morton 2-1 with super strikes from Scott Allardice and a late one from David Carson, only his second goal for the club. Pretty much a replica of his other goal against Dunfermline Athletic. Another few replicas would not go amiss. Raith Rovers failed to capitalise on their game in hand by going down at home to Hamilton Accies by 2-1 on Tuesday night. That result keeps them one point behind Inverness in the race to get into the play-offs. Time Accies did us a favour instead of beating us all the time! Encounters this season have been tight affairs. A Scott Allardice penalty and a late Billy Mckay strike were the difference between the sides at Kirkaldy back in September. There followed two draws since then home and away. The 1 - 1 draw at Inverness saw a tremendous header from Robbie Deas cancel out a Sam Stanton strike. That was the game where Deas broke his leg late in the game. Remarkable that he has made such progress since then. 2 - 2 in the last one at Stark's Park with Billy Mckay once again saving the day with another late goal to frustrate Rovers once more. Rovers had led twice through Lewis Vaughan and Aidan Connolly but Jay Henderson then Mckay squared matters. Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts Table ahead of Partick v Queens Park tonight at 7:45 BBC Scotland TV 1. Queens Park 31 16 6 9 58 41 54 2. Dundee 30 15 8 7 54 32 53 3. Ayr United 31 14 7 10 56 40 49 4. Partick Thistle 31 14 6 11 54 40 48 5. Morton 30 11 10 9 42 37 43 6. Inverness CT 30 11 9 10 42 42 42 7. Raith Rovers 30 11 8 11 42 39 41 8. Arbroath 30 6 13 11 28 41 31 9. Hamilton Ac. 30 7 7 16 27 55 28 10. Cove Rangers 31 6 8 17 34 70 26 Friday 7th April Partick Thistle 4-0 Queen's Park Saturday 8th April Arbroath v Dundee Ayr Utd v Morton Accies v Cove Inverness CT v Raith Rovers Latest Team News Danny Devine, Wallace Duffy and Roddy MacGregor all missed out at Cappielow last week leaving us with a sparse bench. Jay Henderson came off injured after ten minutes. Here's Dodds to spill the beans... Raith Rovers top scorer is Aidan Connolly with twelve goals followed by Dylan Easton seven goals. Connolly is the big danger here, not just his goals but he is also credited with seven assists, much greater than any of his team mates.

ROLLOX!! That’s what they want to call themselves…. Rollox FC. The establishment is best known as the St Rollox locomotive works (my grandfather worked there during WW1) and to me, the “Caledonian” bit is incidental, originating from the works making engines for the former Caledonian Railway (for which my other grandfather worked). If they don’t like Rollox FC and are all that concerned about having a name relating to their red and yellow badge then I suggest that they should call themselves Partick Thistle FC… and create some employment for the renowned PTFC posse of QCs with whom we in Inverness became more than familiar in days gone by. But in any case, SFA Articles of Association would appear to suggest that they are on a hiding to nothing anyway… so ROLLOX TO THEM!!