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A point is fine now the dust has settled but a topsy-turvy afternoon with the score changing 4 times along with the news from Ochilview. I said that i’d be happy if we were still top at 5pm. Both goals in the first half were a bit fluky - Sole’s shot took a deflection and wrong-footed the keeper. We were well on top until Kennedy’s cross floated past everybody and sneaked in at the far post. He let us know about it. This fired Queens into life and they probably had the best of it till half time. I thought we were the better side in the second half and Alonge scored with a magnificent header. Bav had a chance to tie it up but tripped over the ball. Guthrie had a fine battle with Remi till he was subbed late on and sub Dickenson was to have his say… Queens led the booking count by 3-0 but we overtook them with 4 in the last half hour (edit- Kel got carded too). One of them was Adam Mackinnon who was not having a great day and was replaced by Paul Allan. We had a lot of intricate passes around the box as usual without making the breakthrough and Queens defended well. Queens had a flurry of corners but nothing to trouble Munro although he made a magnificent save at one point from Dickenson. We weren’t exactly hanging on but on one of the rare occasions that they got in behind us, Dickenson squared it to give Hewitt a tap-in. A much improved Queens today and great to see a game where the other team was actually trying to win unlike most weeks 🚌

We had the trickiest fixture of the top sides, so draws all round isn’t bad for us.

2-2. Disappointing to draw after leading twice, particularly with Stenny dropping points.

Full time 2-2. Disappointing not to win the game having gone ahead and Stenny dropping points, but probably would have taken a draw before the game, and still top so can't complain too much.

Liam Sole opens the scoring in the 9th minute. Calum Macleod with the assist. Let’s kick on now.

A very valuable point after two tough games.

First Draft Tense Draw at Dumfries A big game for both teams with only three points separating the sides at kick-off, and at the end it was still three points that separated them. Peter Murphy went with an unchanged side from the one that thrashed East Fife last week with danger coming at us on a few fronts. Kai Kennedy, Jack Stott, Kurtis Guthrie to name a few. Scott Kellacher made more changes again with Chanka Zimba and Alfie Bavidge getting the nod and Alfie Stewart the driving force in midfield. The points were shared like this. Liam Sole opened the scoring inside ten minutes but Kai Kennedy squared matters ten minutes later. Just after the restart Jordan Alonge headed Inverness in front but Mikey Hewitt levelled with ten minutes left and despite a tense finish, that's how it ended. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Early pressure from the visitors with Adam MacKinnon bursting forward before being taken out by Hewitt who was booked for his trouble. Jordan Alonge's free kick hit the wall and his next opportunity was saved by Ross Stewart minutes later. We were rewarded for our bright start with Liam Sole scoring from the edge of the box to put the Caley Jags ahead, deflecting into the opposite corner. Queens looked to hit back immediately and Kurtis Guthrie went close with a header. Alonge did the same at the other end, glancing just wide. It was now an open game and Queens drew level through Kai Kennedy with twenty minutes gone, shooting home from outside the box, possibly unintentional, but the was in the back of the net and that's all that matters. Kennedy was always going to be a handful and he shot over after half an hour. However chances were at a premium in a tight game as the interval beckoned and it remained all square with all to play for. HALF TIME: 1-1 Brennan Dickenson replaced Reece Lyon as the second forty-five got underway. Five minutes into the second period and Jordan Alonge put the visitors back in front brilliantly heading home a cross from Sole after great work on both flanks. Hannah took a sore one and was replaced by Rogerson. With half an hour still to play, it was a precarious lead for the visitors and Ross Munro kept our noses in front saving from Dickenson as the keeper pushed his low deflected effort round the post for a corner with around twenty minutes remaining. We were pegged back a second time when Mikey Hewitt scored into the bottom of the net from inside the six yard box off a cut back from Dickenson. In a tense ending to the game, the visitors had to settle for a point after leading twice, but this was always going to be a tough one. FULL TIME: 2-2 Match reaction to follow>>> Pos Team Pld Gd Pts ICTFC 22 24 41 Stenny 23 14 41 QueenS 23 8 38 Alloa 23 11 34 😀 Monty 21 -11 27 6 P'Head 21 -12 27 7 E Fife 22 -15 25 8 Accies 22 15 23 9 Cove 22 -6 18 Kelty 23 -28 14

Could also be viewed as a good point away to the form team

Jordan Alonge restores our lead: two in two league games for him. Liam Sole with the assist. Stenhousemuir currently 2 down.

Great start.

Players guilty of racist abuse in recent years have tended to get banned for anything up to 8 matches for the most serious. My initial thoughts are that anyone who does worse than that probably shouldn’t play for the club ever again, but I guess we’ll never be told officially what was said.

Macleod has done well at right back and now we’ve Davidson fit we’ve cover in the absence of Millen.

The rumour at the time was homophobic abuse.

Was browsing the Courier website when I came across a couple of articles on our former chairman and benefactor David Sutherland. Written by experienced journalist Val Sweeney, They are well worth a read. I am sure he has a few stories to tell, at least some of which might involve encountering the late @IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER on some of the away days when we organised get togethers back when he was chairman. However, it is sad to read that he himself might not remember these at some point in future now that he has made it known he has been struggling with dementia since it was diagnosed 4 years ago. We are lucky that we have had people at our club like David Sutherland throughout the years whether it was Dougie McGillvray, Ken Thompson, Kenny Cameron and of course now Alan Savage. Without those benefactors and the emotional as well as business involvement they gave to the club, all we might have right now is those memories or some form of Phygital presence on the internet. DFS was, in my opinion, a great chairman. Some liked him, some did not, but I was lucky to spend time with him, Kenny and Ken back in the day as they sought to protect and run the club in much the way Alan Savage has navigated similar waters more recently and got us back to a similar mindset of fiscal responsibility and stability. DFS steered us through tough times in his own way, not always making friends, but always I believe having the club's interests at heart. I/We wish him well in his ongoing health battles now and in the future. Inverness CourierDoing it his way - former businessman with formidable rep...As the boss of one of Scotland’s biggest building companies, David Sutherland was renowned for his formidable and forthright reputation.Inverness CourierFormer construction boss reflects on his New York Maratho...It will be 10 years ago this spring since the first patients walked through the doors of the new children’s unit at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.