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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 anyone in the main stand on Tuesday night was witness to the abuse they should report the perpetrators to the club in order that action can be taken.

Fantastic result

Well done to all, superb effort!

McAllister kicked off the park too. Another injury

Tactics worked, he's off injured.

Imrie style...

I don't want to wake up from this dream any time soon!

Arm the arm holes in County tops bigger than average so they can get their 6 fingered hands through them?

Changing my first Morton scorer to Strapp.

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

Was watching it, absolute sickener for us. 0-2 going on 0-5, so one sided until Arbroath get one back out of nowhere, then Raith are rattled for 10 minutes including their keeper misjudging a cross.

Sounds fair enough, but personally I would go for County's stadium - far more atmosphere. I appreciate that parking can be an issue in Dingwall, but we could raze our current stadium and its "temporary" stands to the ground, develop a large car park and operate a park and ride to Dingwall. In that way, one of Gardiner's grand ideas might finally come to fruition.

Well said Danger You know and I know there are large areas of Inverness who hate us profoundly I.e the communities of Dalneigh and Merkinch being two examples but sadly there are plenty more, they want us to fail and are delighted how much we are in free fall. ICT are a business catastrophe when you compare us to our neighbours 14 miles north. Look at the advertising for example around both pitches they have massive multi national companies pumping money into them while we have one man bands and local yokels etc Our advertising is more suited to a highland league outfit. Many business want nothing to do with ICT especially after the concert debacle but being honest the problem was there long before that. You are 100% right a city of 75k should be able to support a competitive full time senior football team easily. Would dropping down to part time status be such a bad think and regrouping it certainly would be better than administration or worse still liquidation. It happened to the orcs so it could happen to us. Dougal

To be fair, the rot set in before Morrison and Gardiner were in charge. Our high point came with the cup win and coming 3rd in the league in 2015. This was achieved with a bit of help from bigger clubs who had managed to self-destruct, but was also the culmination of a history of good management leading to our best squad ever being pulled together by Terry Butcher. He left us for Hibs, and Hughes capitalised on his inheritance by leading the club to success in the following season. Sadly, it has mostly been downhill since then. Not only was Hughes unable to recruit the quality of players Butcher had, his style of play was, at times, mind numbingly boring. Rather than building on the success of the 2014/5 season, fans started to drift away and the team started to struggle. What Hughes was good at was persuading the Board to give him money to pay players higher wages on longer contracts. Hughes then left at the end of the 2015/6 season and the Board, under Kenny Cameron, made the bizarre decision to appoint Richie Foran as manager on a 4 year contract. Foran did not have the experience or the resources to halt the slide and inevitably, we got relegated. Cameron resigned as chairman with Willy Finlayson taking over on a temporary basis. Foran left within days but apparently with 3 years of his contract still to pay off. John Robertson was appointed manager again and hopes were high that his appointment would see us return to the top flight, but with the financial shackles created by the mismanagement of the previous couple of seasons, it was not to be. Graham Rae took over as Chairman and he appointed Yvonne Crook as CEO. Crook might have had business experience but she knew little about football. She lasted less than a year before being replaced by Gardiner in April 2019. Morrison took over as Chairman soon after that. So, to be fair, the current management team inherited a difficult situation where the club had financial commitments for payments which were producing no benefit to the club. They were also hampered in their efforts by the Covid pandemic. But whilst they inherited a mess and have faced obstacles not of their making, the way they have gone about trying to reinvigorate the club have undoubtedly done more harm than good and have antagonised a lot of people on the way. It's time for a new approach.

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).

Was it not mentioned previously that the plan was now for a disabled platform or something? Surely that would also need a roof?

Why wouldn't County fans have an IV postcode?