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Just to cheer you up a wee bit. I travelled north on Friday and holed up in Nethybridge, a favourite haunt. Armed with train timetables I plotted my day and slept easily.......contemplating a mighty do or die game.......on Saurday at 15.00hrs!!!!. Sprung out of bed on Saturday morning and , on reading the news, realised the season culminating games had all taken place on the night before. My wife laughed and, after 3 or 4 hours, I joined her. What a f,in plonked!!!!

It is all quite simple and it’s solely down to the so called guardians and blazers who correct me I’f im wrong initially handed out free season tickets and hired in help to outvote the real fans and members? Decades of deliberately failing to communicate with the new fan base probably using the naivety of same fan base to inflate their egos and take the club down this route of destruction. Vast overspending and paying inflated wages chasing the pipe dream that Inverness could support an SPL club despite having such a very poor fan base and no rich backer. This amazingly continues today if we are to believe what big Duncan’s rumoured wage is. Yes we got to the SPL won the Scottish Cup and entered Europe but at what cost? The cost is what we are currently witnessing serious decay due to gross mismanagement and neglect it would be difficult to argue otherwise although there are still sadly some happy clappers/deluded halfwits on here that will. It could be argued the next 2/4 games are the most important games in the clubs short history failure to get through these successfully is a quite frightening prospect. Dougal

I suspect that at that point we may have been financially OK. It was after that - paying inflated wages, paying Yogi off, paying Foran off, etc etc - that the financial slide started. Football-wise, we've never really had a reliable, consistent goalscorer since Billy Mckay first left us in 2015. I know they don't come in six-packs at the supermarket, but we really should have done better. As folk have said, look at our goals for and goals against this season, and that will show which end of the field our problems are at. Club management and directors - I only know what I read here, so I have nothing to say.

The administration were such awkward a-holes to the volunteers who did it over time they pretty much all jacked it.

Starting in April with two wins. Home against Arbroath and away to Queens Park followed with a loss at home to Raith Rovers and a draw away at Dunfermline. The winner for April is Alex Samuel with Cameron Harper and Cameron Kerr close behind. The PotY standings are now Alex Samuel leading with Cameron Harper, Billy Mckay, Nikola Ujdur, and Max Anderson still in the running. A good start to May last night playing well and securing a good win against Morton so lets hope we can keep it going into the playoffs! Please keep voting.

Does media mean communicating with the Fans? If so then Forget it those days are long gone though I assume there will be communication shortly to purchase tickets and in a few weeks season tickets again

I think the criticism of Ferguson is way over the top and, realistically, the club cannot afford to pay him off. Without doubt he has made mistakes but he is learning his trade and his lack of knowledge of football at this level didn't help. There gave been signs in the last few games that he was starting to make things work. Don't forget the mess that Dodds left with no real strikers apart from Billy, who let's face it, isn't as sharp as he once was. I think we will win through the play offs and if we do, the hard work will start to get a team together next season. Don't forget, some posters on here would have been happy with Imrie as manager.

My thanks too, to Gringo for keeping this going. It is always a bit of fun and very quick to take part in. Hopefully a few more taking part next season. Congratulations to Robert for his back to back successes. I left it too late again and didn't quite manage to pip you on the post. Bring on the new season!

Fair play to you coming clean on that one Rod! However, if Mantis had found out and posted yer story... well.

Davide Xausa just got elected to the board of directors of “Canada Soccer”. With the 2026 World Cup prep happening and a new national team manager to find after John Herdman took the Toronto FC job at the end of last season he may be a busy man.

Well done Alex very well deserved not only for your contribution every game but for the shocking treatment you receive from the opposition. You deserve a medal for rising above it and never complaining .I really hope you can stay with us for next season . PotY next hopefully.

I’m very disappointed that the club didn’t do the bites so presentations couldn’t take place after last night’s game. Last year was the same so it looks like a pattern. Harper gets my vote for player of the year. Depending on the age cut off, he’s my vote for young player too. If he’s too old, it’s a hard pick given the number of loans, so it would be Bray for me. Why we put him out on loan still bemuses me.

I stand corrected. A pity we won’t see him up against Carson…….

Does anyone know if we have anyone watching Montrose today? I presume they weren’t fielding their strongest side though (no Gardyne) but still came from 0-2 to win win 3-2. I’d forgotten that they have another ex-ICT player, Matheus Machado.

You are right He had one yellow with us in four games and if the BBC stats are right he has had 7 plus the yellow/red that he was suspended. I hope someone at our club are looking at this!

Yes and this has occurred in an era of 5 consecutive managers who had been forwards themselves!

It is a big straw and surely valid? Why should one club headquartered at Hampden not be subject to scrutiny?

Not here to moan but we could have done with some live radio commentary last night. I remember Moray Firth used to do it and Im sure a couple of fans did it at one point. So i need to ask what happened to the various media (Radio, TV) that the club, fans, local radio used to provide? Oh and I don't live in Inverness so home games are tricky to get to for me. #IBelieve

Tremendous work Roddy. I'm sure this was a storyline in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine in 1983. You just needed Compo, Foggy and Clegg (usual ICT suspects standing in obviously...) and a handcar firing down Drumossie Brae to complete the storyline.

Without going over the same old points I've made before some of which are already above. Ponder this, in many sections of the media Dougie and hid Morton are lauded for an amazing season and yet only 3 points above us which turns out to be 5th and best if the rest. Similar the job of Brown at Ayr and Davidson at QP is again praised yet both within 2 points. Has Dunc been as poor as some fans suggest or is it an exceptionally tight season? Point being we have been poor but it's at creating and scoring, our defence was 2nd best overall and we have positive goal difference. Still enough room for optimism for play offs and to build on. Recruitment last summer was poor and Dodds tenure this season set us on a negative path. Whether he knew the cost cutting was coming and chucked it, who knows but Jan saw an axe yielded and influx of loans with blame allowed to be directed at Dunc when it's the board driving that philosophy. Perhaps the fact he isn't phased by this criticism and negativity suggests he's gotba 'thick skin' so is the right character to take the inevitable backlash when this summer more players are cut and deals struck to minimise player costs at the expense of known quality.

Indeed, massive congratulations to you on retaining the CTO PL Bragging Rights title. I don't keep a record of winners but, I can't remember anyone retaining the title before. You could be the first but I'll stand corrected. A poor show from me this season and never looked like hitting the top spot all season. The CTO PL will return next season and hopefully without adding teams we've never seen in this league before. It's just a shame we can't attract more players to the contest. Well done.

Thanks for keeping this going Gringo. I’ve just seen the final table: two in a row, which I’m amazed at given I normally back ICT to win. Looking forward to another close battle next season, and hopefully some new players enter.

Silver linings Gringo - we now get to play at least 2 more NPL games

I suspect a lot of them are working at the weekends.

An irrelevant piece of info, but with the benefit of hindsight we now know that on 27 January we became safe from automatic relegation!

There will be load cheers in the Highland Council after they receive news that we have reached the playoffs this year after narrowly missing out last year.

Video credit Iain Latto on X

Forget he ifs, buts and maybes. We're where we deserve to be and the table doesn't lie. There is no fight in the team, no discernible tactical style of play, players are picked to avoid paying their wages, decent players sit on the bench irrespective of what's happening on the pitch. Ferguson signed five centre halfs and we still ship ludicrously soft goals against teams who're already on holiday and last night aside we seem completely unable to score nearly enough goals. From my perspective Ferguson's appointment has been an unmitigated disaster and whether we sink or survive he needs to go along with the clown who pushed for his appointment. How the board can sit through the barage of anti-Gardiner chants at every home game and not address the issue is beyond me. To be facing relegation to the third tier is an utter embarrassment for the club and those responsible should be held accountable. Onwards to Montrose on Tuesday I guess.

Brilliant game brilliant atmosphere on a lovely night ,just a pity a bit too late but not over yet. So glad Dougie Imrie is not our manager ,if that is his style his team were a disgrace .They had nothing at stake and the treatment to our players was disgusting .As for Muirhead he has to receive some punishment for his conduct on the sending off .He was right in the face of the ref with very abusive disgusting language ,kicked the wall in anger (possibly a broken toe or two ) then on way into tunnel looks to Caley bench giving rude hand signal .Absolutely shocking behaviour from any player .He must be dealt with accordingly. Dougie Imrie has nothing to be proud of .. C.mon Caley Thistle we can do this albeit the hard way and with discipline..

Maybe save this speech for the League two playoffs

With regards Billy McKay, just had a thought, Am I right in thinking he's been relegated 4 times in his career? ICT, Wigan, Dee Utd, C**nty . Heaven help, but if he is involved with another relegation I'm sure it must be some kind of record?

I don’t think Gardyne has featured much for Montrose. I don’t know if he is injured or whether anything else is causing his absence.