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Hopefully we can keep this action up and take a win up the road.A long way to go but 9th playing 4th we are doing okay.I said if we can get four points from today and last week we will be doing well. Hopefully some on here who continually beat the doom and gloom drum,will give the boys a chance.

Not my experience, I see plenty of shirt wearing young scrotes kicking about in Caley tops, and can't recall seeing many young Gypos clad in County colours.

It is a strange league this one. Anything can happen. When we last lost a game (1-0 at home to Queens Park) we actually moved up a place on goal difference to 7th in the league by virtue of Morton thrashing the Pars 5-0 at East End Park. Since then we have gone 4 games unbeaten but have dropped down, not one, but two places to 9th! We are in the relegation play off spot but with a zero goal difference. Potentially we could end up getting relegated with a positive goal difference. We are 7 pts clear of the only team below us but also only 7 pts behind Morton in 4th place and in a promotion play-off place. Don't you just love the play-off system! As I say, anything can happen.

Take that ya gobby wee bestards

Not going there to lay down to Morton today. They are a bully side, get them closed down and no backing off. Give us a result today and let's get the song sheet on this page changed. You can do it !

Delighted to be proved wrong certainly did not see that one coming. Absolutely over the moon for Billy McKay after last weeks debacle. Dougal

Yeehaaaa plus lovely day in Greenock

Goal Billy Mckay

The thing about us this season is that we lose when I expect us to win and win when I expect us to lose. So on that basis I am expecting us to win because I expect us to lose. Or does that mean we will lose because, oh forget it!

A great away day when no ICT fan really expected 3 points but went in hope of at least 1. Wow - what a game, from Billy’s goal in 77 seconds, there seemed no way ICT would go home without points. This is why the ICT Travel Club continue to run buses to away games, these days are a joy and why we are ICT fans. Thank you to all the players especially those who were “in the wars” and have bruises and stitches (Alex) to prove their endeavours. I truly hope the injuries sustained today aren’t too serious.

I also see that we have a small minority willing to post abuse directed towards Alex Samuel on 'X' because he is on loan from Dingwall. Do we really need these moron's in our support.

So long as we get to beat morton again last game of the season to crush their play off dream whether it's us or others that benefit.

Yup. Up to 4 games now.

…and the best prediction of the season - you nailed it!

A great away win today after a big battle on the park. Well done to Big Dunc and all the team not forgetting our loyal away support!

Imrie style of football to get physical when losing.Well done to a first class effort from a depleted squad.Do the same next week and we will finally get away from the bottom.

4 players booked on each side. That plus the injuries would suggest that the referee didn't have much control of the game.

Playoffs are on!

Just tell Big Dunc not to disrupt the team by bringing on subs....

How many do we need to feel safe?

Goal number 2 McAllister

The Harbingers of Doom are out in force now

Arbroath- a club with unity, spirit and fight. Plus a manager used to relegation battles. ICT - none of the above at this present time sadly.

As mentioned above, Arbroath showed there are no easy games in this league (except when teams play us). Raith could have been out of sight in the first half if wasn't for Gaston in goal. He got MotM too by Billy Dodds. Great game of football for the neutral too in atrocious conditions in which at least three balls ended up in the sea.

Arbroath’s result, whilst unhelpful to us, shows anyone can beat anyone in this league. We need to show that we can upset the odds too by beating Morton. I’ve a sneaky suspicion we can.

F**kin Arbroath... expected them to get beat. Now look!

I think a lot of us will understand exactly where you’re coming from!

And it does - the club is called Ross County!

The club? Communication? WITH FANS!? Don't be daft

I have tried for years to be optimistic as I can about the financial future and, while several factors have been operating, I think there is one huge and probably unavoidable fundamental - the Inner Moray Firth plus some hinterland is an insufficient base for two “sizeable” football clubs. It was fine at the start in the Third Division with an added novelty factor, but as Caley Thistle and Ross County both grew and moved up the leagues, that progress was only made possible by £5M from Tullochs and some very good club and football management in the case of ICT and repeated subsidy of Ross County by Roy MacGregor. In County’s case, their latest loss of £579K has been announced today and that has been written off, as it tends to be annually, by their “holding company”. And even that level of ongoing subsidy is JUST keeping the club in the Premiership. In the case of ICT, the factors I mentioned there worked through the system some years ago and since about 2018 the club has been substantially loss making and dependent on ad hoc emergency handouts as it now clings to second tier status. There have also been other factors and members of the business community tell me that Inverness Caledonian Thistle is not flavour of the month in many quarters - especially since the collapse of the Concert Company where the club netted a large stadium rent before the company went bankrupt, leaving local traders out of pocket. The bottom line (personal view) is that the local area is unable to sustain these two clubs ant current levels and, should Roy MacGregor’s support of County end, the deficit would be even greater. However, in a football environment there is NO way out of a situation where two companies are fundamentally loss making in the same marketplace, unless one shrinks massively. It would appear that the battery farm might well be another short term fix, and a big one, but here there is a dilemma. Much as we would love to see this latest income source realised, the Councillors who will be making the decision are obliged to do so solely on the merits/demerits, practicability, safety, environmental implications etc. That the football club has a substantial financial interest cannot be a consideration in a completely isolated planning situation.

Exactly this. I'm not going to repost my comments over the last few days but its clear so many fans are failing to see the financial reason for loans and turn over of players or acknowledge where a club with a gate of 2k max sits in the Scottish football hierarchy. Stars aligned once achieving unfathomable success but the chances of that again is slim so we may yet need to go further back both on and off park to build again.

Not a comfortable position to be in! Personally, I think the locating of the battery storage is wrong and I'm angry that we're in a position where my thoughts on that will be seen (by some) as my somehow wishing bad on the club. All I want is the charlatans gone and for us to get back to being a club with at least some moral fibre. It's not right that a wrong (in my view) has to be done to secure any kind of future for ICTFC. It's not right that Councillors have to make a decision knowing it could be catastrophic for ICTFC. It's not right that this whole sorry affair is driving division among fans.

If I see anyone abusing our players or their family I will in the first instance report them. In the second instance, having just come out of the Royal Marines after 22 years, will slap you silly. There is no place in our club for lowlifes.

One of our very best results of the season, a battle well won.

Ooh Aah Duncan Ferguson - 100% committed and a feckin legend

McAllister kicked off the park too. Another injury

Sounds like they are kicking hell out of Alex Samuel

Imrie style...

Just what we needed, boost for the lads !

Thank feck for second hand toffees

And change MrCaleyjag first Morton scorer to Muirhead please, thanks.

Not enough donations, and the Sections been dead most games anyway. It was never going to happen anyway, the crowd numbers are so inconsistent due to all the big game weirdos appearing for one game then it dies off when we play Morton at home, so putting up a roof would be pointless. Have a feeling it was more of an SG Project to make fans think they've got a voice in happenings at the ground

You tell them Private Pyle https://images.app.goo.gl/oX3oicfHQAQmBAje6 Dougal

There was a time when we’d look down and laugh at a team whose top striker had a mere 8 goals! Meanwhile our star striker hasn’t scored in our last 8 games, and if he was handed another penalty would you wouldn’t bet on him to put it away.

Arbroath ain’t giving it up without a fight - we seriously need to pull our socks up pdq or else that relegation playoff spot will end up looking like this season’s ambitious target!

Yes, but the problem, as CB states, is that there are two such clubs. Very close to each other - Bing maps says it's 13.7 miles between the postcodes of the two grounds. And the roads are half-decent. Long gone are the days of my childhood when it was a slow trek round by Beauly and Muir-of-Ord. In terms of pulling power, ignoring those of us who have history before 1994 - and who are inevitably becoming a smaller proportion of the support - then I don't think it's unreasonable for someone, especially an incomer, to choose which of these local teams to support. In which case County, at the moment, will win out. And Dougal has already pointed out the differences in the companies that support the two clubs. Even there we see that Uncle Roy is keeping them going to the tune of more than £500K a year. I suspect that when he pulls out - he's 71 now, so who knows what his plans are - then if there are no similar sugar daddies for either club, then a merger/takeover will follow soon after. And that's before we look at the problems of attracting the best players and coaching staff to the north, where, unlike the Central Belt, there are no other top clubs within 100 miles. I wish it were otherwise, but it's difficult to argue with geography!

Since relegation in May 2017 and up to year ending May 2022 the club had lost about £3M. The club is now another 2 years into the same hole. Despite some transfer cash (£200K Dan Mackay?), sell on clause boosts from Christie?, and reaching the Scottish cup final, I would not be surprised to see total losses from May 2017 to May 2024 > £4M. The chairman joined the club in 2018 and Gardiner in 2019. This creeping financial situation has unfolded on their watch. Instead of facing down the bread and butter basics of cloth cutting and improving the football business, they have made a sh1t or bust bet on a bizarre and controversial left-field project (I shudder when I see folk describe it as innovative).

If you are saying we should live within our means then you are effectively saying we should have gone part time years ago after getting relegated and we would likely have been relegated again by now. Can you confirm that if we had, you’d be applauding the board for their financial prudence?! Instead, they tried to get us back to the top flight by maintaining a very competitive (expensive) squad and our impressive youth set up, and got close to promotion a couple of times. In doing so the club racked up huge losses every season and some generous individuals dug deep into their own pockets to keep us going. They have said for years this business model doesn’t work and needs supplemented by non-football income so they pursued concerts and, very innovatively, the battery farm. It’s easy to criticise, especially when we are in such a poor position both financially and in the league, and mistakes have been made, but what specifically should have been done different that would make a 7 figure difference to us now? Should’ve slashed the wage bill, giving up on Premiership aspirations? Go part time, and end up as a League 1 side? Should’ve shut down the youth set up? Should not have loaned us their own money to keep us going? Should not have sought non-football income sources? Those are the only realistic options I can think of. Rather than criticise all the time I just try putting myself in their position and wonder what in terms of the business model I would have done differently over the years. It’s not easy.

The smart move would have been not putting the club in this position to begin with, no?