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lest hope we are in third or second and cannot be caught then we can all take our towels sun cream and sun hats they will not need them as they will be in the shade The shortest Highland march on record with the most marchers ?

Hi guys i am not an Inverness Caledonian Thistle fan, but i really admire your team. I'm a Celtic man and i just wanted to come and say how impressed i've been by the ICT squad this season. Your team have been fantastic adverts for how teams in Scotland can flourish if they have enough drive and ambition. With the budget Terry has been working with and the results he's brought to your club, i think you would all agree it's been a fantastic season for you all :P. Only thing that could have made it sweeter i guess would have been a cup win. Anyway i think i've said what i wanted to say. I wish your club all the best on the push for second spot and i truly do hope you guys get it, it is definitely a deserved achievement if you guys get there. All the best for the future folks. :) Vinnie

St Mirren to vote against proposal to change league structure http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22063775 Well done Saints having the bottle to join RC and oppose these absurd proposals. Fans throughout Scotland already showing their relief common sense has been applied.

Would anyone fancy a trip to Dingwall on the final day?

With due respect Caley D, absolute tosh. Put aside selfish self interest and self preservation and all these things could be achieved without the rest of the nonsense. The only thing stopping it is pure greed and if ICT found itself outside the self serving clique of the SPL I am sure we would be singing a different tune.

What is essential is one league body, a change in the voting system, playoffs and a filtering down of a proportion of TV and sponsorship income. All that could be achieved without this ludicrous contrived 'middle eight' business. If it is such an attractive arrangement why have the only leagues in the world to have experimented with it long since abandoned it ? Well done St Mirren and County. I hope we have the bottle to follow suit.

I'm all geared up for an early summer trip to the sand pit

£100,000 is about the same as he spent on Marius Niculae, will he be as successful?

I am apolitical .... I believe politicians of all stripes will screw you no matter what, and I have little time for any of them. For me, Thatcher was a study in contrasts, and a woman who dealt in black/white not shades of grey ... She gave me the right - as a low paid grunt - to buy my council house, a measure that still had (positive) ripples just a few years ago when I used the equity I had built up to buy property over here, so for that opportunity, I am grateful. Yet she also forced the poll tax on me because I lived in Scotland rather than England and for that I could never forgive her .... she screwed around with my student grant, but when working she lowered my (direct) taxation .... yet more contrasts. As for unions ... I do believe they needed to be reigned in. Certain unions could bring the country to a standstill if a boss looked at someone the wrong way ... but again, another contrast, I believe she went way too far in removing what should be basic rights of employees to strike over legitimate issues. From the point of view of watching the coverage of her death on the news over here, it is quite clear that she was a true world leader. One of the (tory) politicians that commented noted how she ruled what was then the G7 with an iron fist ... the likes of Mitterand, Reagan, and Canadian PM Mulrooney (all essentially tories too) were in awe of her, yet here to is a contrast where she embraced leaders who we now know to be dictators or heads of oppresive regimes such as Saddam Hussein, yet called future leaders (like Nelson Mandela) terrorists. I will not be getting all sentimental and mourning her passing, but I will certainly not be dancing on her grave either .... or worse still, making comments like one extreme left winger did on Twitter in noting he was "sorry she died, but even sorrier she was born in the first place"

Great news - I may just be able to complete the Highland March this season - Saturday night - walk to Bogroy Hotel / Sunday to Brockies Lodge / Monday to Beauly/ Thursday to Muir Of Ord/ Friday to Conon Bridge / Saturday up to Culbokie / Sunday to Dungwall.

The shortest Highland march on record with the most marchers ?

Let's just wait and see what the SPL computer decides! It's maybe a Commodore 64 so give them time!

Next time someone invades our territory I think we should just ask them politely to leave - and if they don't, that's fine too, because I wouldn't want to upset anyone.

Although one has to have some respect for a great parliamentarian like Margaret Thatcher, I feel that David Cameron was well over the top waxing lyrical on TV last night. Somewhat hypocrital too. No mention it was the Tory party that gave her the boot from office. Do you remember the farcical ballot for leadership of the Conservatives, Michael Heseltine thretening to fight against her, meetings in smoke filled rooms to rig the election in favour of John Major. margaret Thatcher crying as she left Downing Street. The Falklands conflict , the whole United Nations condemmed it, France sold misiles to the Argentine , Americal tried to it's best to pusude her stop it. Agentine battleship topeadoed without warning , Nicola Sturgeon would have a field day on her upside down doll squeak of "illegal wars", she uses as an excuse for independence. She shuld remember both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were born in Scotland. Do you remember the Poll tax ? True you would expect David Cameron to make the most out of the demise of Margaret Thatcher , but the truth is she was no saint.

Her government made many mistakes and had some terrible policies but she was a necessary Prime Minister. As a country subsidising loss making industries couldn't continue, the outdated practices of trade unions couldn't go on, the state-owned monoliths that accounted for a large percentage of the economy weren't sustainable, or right. The self-pity and childish egotism shown by those celebrating or self-conciously 'not mourning' is mainly because, in the end, Thatcher won. She moved the post-War social democratic, statist, corporatist consensus to one in favour of free markets and individual responsibility. She didn't address many aspects of this - the welfare state, to take a topical example, or healthcare. However, it's worth noting that every single major political party in the UK (including the SNP for any patriots reading) back her programme.

and this is the organisation that wants a split to 8-8-8 a bigger farce I cannot think would accet that if were for 2nd place get the job done by then and a party for both

I am from Muir of Ord and suffered through Dungwall Academy, I was one of two Inverness fans out of my friends as my family were originally from Beauly. But I did perhaps enjoy the end of my time when we earned SPL status, certainly not royal status where i went...

The point that St Johnstone won last Monday against Dundee Utd meant that 5 teams were confirmed in the top 6. The SPL at that point should have been able to work out the fixtures for each of the remaining 4 scenarios and could have asked the TV companies and the police for their views on that. If the TV companies or Police were not prepared to discuss until the 6th team was confirmed then at least the SPL could have got the fixtures to TV and Police by 5pm on Saturday. With no OF derby there should be no major policing issues so it all seems rather shabby to me.

What pretty much all supporters want is a merger of the league bodies and the end of the SPL's ludicrous 11-1 majority voting requirement. Without overcoming those obstacles, nothing will ever change. The number of teams in the league is actually pretty irrelevant to me, because if it doesn't work then you can just change it. I think it would be really sad if we missed this opportunity for fundamental reform.

Just out of interest, could these quadcopter things be modified to carry out drone strikes over Dingwall?

It'll damage his Scotland prospects too. Just pathetic. In football terms, it's the same as him dropping down to play for Stenhousemuir. 2nd Division football. The only difference is the money. Strachan should avoid this guy. I'm quite bitter about this because it's made Killie look for another top 'keeper...and they've gone for Reguero.

Very true, St Mirren were talking about Europe at the start of the season, Hibs were high up the table and failed to make a top six, Kilmarnock looked like they had done enough to make top 6 and get chucked out, literally in the last minute. Theres one important thing that I would like to highlight, we are all ICT fans, there are only 5 games left of a great season which will end before we know it so remember to turn up in numbers at the remaining matches and enjoy the final games, what will be will be. If you want you can be a mathematician, an analyst, a football pundit, or a misery, the singers seem to have the most fun but remember to enjoy supporting ICT, Its still been a great season what ever happens, what will be will be.

Feck me I thought that I was hallucinating when I saw the Combine Harvester hovering over the stadium.

Let's not get into this "I go to more away matches than you so I am a more loyal fan then you" nonsense. The reasons why people go to particular matches whether it be home or away are matters for them. Some folk wish to and are able to get to most matches. That's great. Other folk for financial, work, or personal reasons (caring for a disabled loved one, for example) only manage to get to a few games. Going to away matches can involve planning and pulling in favours from others and therefore that will tend to be the glamour ties or special occasions rather than Wednesday evening in Kilmarnock. I accept that there are also plenty of folk who don't have the same level of commitment to the team as others and who could but simply don't want to go week in and week out. Of course, it would be great if they went to more matches but they are unlikely to do so if others make them feel that they are not proper supporters. If we get into Europe it would be great if we got good support for away matches (note the optimistic plural). If folk who rarely manage to get to away matches can sort things out in order to be part of that historic chapter in the club's history, then we should all join together in giving the best possible support for the team. Having a small group of regular supporters questioning the right of others to be there really isn't very helpful. CaleyJags Together and all that. I go to more away matches than you do.

Plenty of people on here giving it big licks about what country they can't wait to visit but they don't normally make it to an away game further than Dingwall.

Charles why do you always seem to think that my questions to you are rhetorical? They may be metaphorical, diabolical, comical, even maniacical but nay, never rhetorical...