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Thanks to everyone who travelled on our bus yesterday, a great day out. Hope we see you all again for the next instalment.

I think that some people in Inverness have an inferiority complex. People look at us and think 'it's only Caley' and that Rangers and Celtic are 'real' football. It comes from the legacy of not having a league club and of having Highland League teams that people supported alongside their 'big' team. I think some people in the Highlands have an attitude that 'we don't do things like that' here - we can't have Nandos at the retail park, we don't have people singing and getting passionate at the football. It is changing though, when we were in the First Division we had averages of 1500 people there every week and zero atmosphere. There are also a generation of fans for whom we are an SPL team and always have been, which makes a difference.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhkmPcAN4U&feature=m-ch-fea I have uploaded a video onto my YouTube account of the celebrations at the end of the game.

Even better than last week! :D

I remember so well, myself, Michael and Ian Chisholm making our way down to every home game from St Valery Avenue, where we all lived, possibly from the late 50s and certainly through the 60s to the Caley Park via the Bumpers lane. Michael was Caley through and through and certainly a gentleman, who would never hurt a fly. So sad to hear of his passing at only 64, Caley and ICT have lost one of its best supporters.

Esson has had a knock for the last few weeks so isnt match fit. For me i would stick with brill. He has being good so far and hasn't done anything wrong to be dropped. I must admit he is alot better at kicking the ball than esson.

Yeah, Wick reckon they'll lose around £5,000 playing the tie! They'll have to stay overnight on the Friday, maybe in Edinburgh, (or maybe not if the Festival's still on!) Nairn have a real tough one away to Linlithgow Rose, but Brora will be pleased with a home game and a very winnable one vs. Vale of Leithen. Lossie v Culter is interesting as it pits the North's top Junior club against a struggling Highland League side. Was looking for Cove but then remembered they've got a bye! (Along with Formartine, Dalbeattie and Whitehill Welfare*) *Mantis's favourite team!Nairn and Brora will walk over their opponentsI'll take that bet. Linlithgow will beat Nairn fairly comfortably i would reckon. Linlithgow are a poor side did you watch the SJC final? Yeah i was at the game, up until that game Linlithgow were unbeaten ALL season. They won their league comfortably and were only beaten 1-0 in the cup by the greatest junior club there is. They had an off day, it happens. Junior sides usually make it to the 3rd round of the Scottish Cup, until they reach teams from the 2nd and 1st divisions when things are just a little too much for them. I will be putting my money on Linlithgow for the Nairn game anyway, They as well as Auchinleck should be able to handle most of the HL teams i reckon. You overestimate the strength of all the junior teams

A very good day out yesterday.....and new bus steward did very good job ,got us all there and home safely.Only a suggestion for future could planned stops or no stops please be announced before travelling .Thank you .

I scratch my head at the reasons for this. There's no doubt that the team deserve a bigger, more vocal support at home games in response to the standards that they are currently delivering and perhaps what gets me most is wondering how much better they might be in reacting to a greater support. I know that there's this "highland reserve" to be overcome, but it can be - look at Johndo. I know there's an old firm allegiance borne of generations for god knows how many murky reasons, but if we attract them young enough, ahead of that stuff they will be back. That's where we need to concentrate, and if you want evidence come to next weeks kids kick around for evidence. There's also a feeling that Inverness struggles a bit with its identity - its subsumed into a "highland" definition (being only city, capital etc) which Dingwall isnt. As Charles says (or doesn't) is that RC's season tickets (based on demographics) share is 86% of the population of Dingwall. Really? Perhaps Caley D might enlighten us at some point about just where these ST holders are at County, and you know our support might just hold up under the scrutiny. We are playing a long term game here, County are not.

2 games and no goal conceded. Absolutely illegal. Butcher out for scaring the opponent's strikers!

Fraz....NOOO! You had me fooled for a moment.

Amazing performance from ICT! I haven't seen them so comfortable like that for ages and I have to say everyone played well again. I thought Ross Draper was outstanding and so was Gary Warren when it came to battles with Goodwillie. We really deserved the 3 points again and tbh DU were pretty poor throughout the 90 mins. Sean Dillon espiecially kept giving us the ball back and today none of their players really turned up. I do have to thank Goodwillie though for his lack of finishing when it comes to 3 yard open goals;) Overall, great day out, saw Gary Warren get booed for "kicking the ball" at a baby seagull that was blocking play and another great result to keep us top! Even better, County have no points and lost to flamin PT! Anyway, Bring on Motherwell and Iain Vigurs!:D

Not if Aberdeen or Motherwell etc. get a bigger win than we do ! Dalneigh Very pedantic!

So was this the first time an ICT player has been booed for kicking the ball at a seagull that stubbornly refused to leave the field of play?

Excellent display today. No failures in our team and the passing at times was great to watch. I am really looking forward to this season. The stewarding today was by human being's with common sense, and not the normal Tannadice zombies!!!!

Great performance today, good all over the park. To difficult to single out individuals, very encouraging. Fans played their part too

Great performance today. All over the pitch. No real weaknesses and totally committed. We simply bullied United . Better in every department. Also good stewards no bother what so ever from any of them. One even stopped me when I was going in on my own and handed me a spare complimentary ticket somone had given him. Braw ! And Terry at the end .........superb. BRAW DAY !

No problems with the stewards at all. They left us to it. Standing, singing, jumping around were all permitted. Big thumbs up.

Adams seethes that "our season starts next week" :laugh:

I know the plural of stadium is not "stadiums" but I couldn't be bothered to change it. Before the "correct" brigade sort me out.

What about all the people (particularly women) who haven't been battered due to having no Old Firm matches, which are renowned for huge spikes in violence? Is this question Rhetorical ? Do you really expect me to answer it, Or are you just showing your own views ? How am I supposed to know about violence to women, children or anybody else. I suggest you contact Glasgow home for battered wives or the Police. Lawrence, if you wonder why the "lynch mob" sometimes have a pop at you, this illustrates the reasons perfectly. You put a post on here and whilst you acknowledge it is not a popular view you provide no evidence to justify it. Then when someone responds with a valid reason why they think you are wrong and suggests you consider that point, you come sniping back with a "do you really expect me to answer it?" Well actually, I do. Renegade has provided evidence for his statement relating to a situation which is actually pretty well known. It is evidence which suggests that the longer the new club with the same old moronic support is kept away from the top flight of scottish football, the better it will be for the women of Glasgow. Of course you are entitled to air your views but please have the good grace to give some reasoned argument to support what you recognise to be an unpopular view. As I said before, whether some of us like it or not, the Rangers will be in the top division all too soon. It may not be as quick as you would like but it is arguably a lot quicker than it should have been. And it is not the wider footballing community which is keeping them out - they are being kept out because of the way they went about their business. They are lucky their assets were not split up and sold off to different parties. The new club has acquired a fully functioning infrastructure for way below market price whilst creditors of the old disgraced club are left with next to nothing. The Rangers are lucky to be in Division 2. To suggest the footballing community should somehow connive to bend the rules to allow them into the top flight at the expense of clubs who play by the rules is not only nonsense, it is offensive nonsense. I would respectfully suggest you either come up with some sound arguments to support your bizarre suggestion or withdraw it.

This old chestnut re the stadium only having three sides - It is certainly the case that in umpteen stadiums only 3 areas are being opened, due to cost, lack of numbers, stewarding, etc. For the past umpteen years I have followed ICT to most away games and there are many clubs where whole areas of the stadiums are left empty (from bad memory - Killie, Motherwell, St Mirren, St Johnstone, for a start). Inverness is not the only stadium to only use 3 sides - maybe the original poster complaining about our 3 sides doesn't visit many away games - he would maybe change the record. The same applies to those who complain about parking - what about the clubs who provide no parking at all for away fans - our club should be justly proud of providing parking for both home and away fans, no matter the grumbling about getting away after the final whistle (but that's another story/gripe). Get a grip, all of you, you don't know when you are lucky and, if you don't like getting wet/burned with the sun/wind in your face/whatever, then change your seat to the North Stand - simples.

Mikey's funeral today was an extremely good expression of how his family, his many friends and also his ICT friends, really held him in high regard. The Humanist service was a true reflection of Mikey's life and Toni (from La Taverna in Aviemore) spoke so well and moved most of us to tears (but there was laughter too, anecdotes aplenty). Great to see so many ICT colours on show and also a white and blue football shaped wreath on his coffin. I am sure there would have been more stories told about Mikey in the Caley Club afterwards. An amazing day and a fitting farewell to Mikey.

You need to look up what a troll is. Dougal has a habit of posting his opinion, which he is entitled to do so of course, but when challenged on his often far fetched viewpoints he is seldom able to back them up with any shred of evidence whatsoever. I'm still waiting on him telling us why a stadium with only three stands isn't suitable for top flight football in Scotland - Maybe once he's finished gathering the numbers that show everyone that Ross County have sold more season tickets than ICT for two seasons in a row,as he claims, he can get cracking on the stadium issue. I'm not holding my breath though given his general inability to back up any sweeping statement he tries to pass off as a fact.

Must have been some helluva sized hole (and fence!) to squeeze through from Broadstone Park! That bit of road's Broadstone Avenue....pedantic? Me?! I'll see your pedantry and raise it. The fence in question was at the bottom of my neighbour's garden. Broadstone Avenue was only half the length of Broadstone Park; after that the back gardens in Broadstone Park ran right up to one side of the ground. My parents' garden actually represented the dead end at the end of Broadstone Avenue, but our garden fence backed onto the stand, so I had to squeeze through my mate's fence two doors up.

All the same.... just don't take the bait!!!! With all due respect I look at our stadium as a fan whereas you look at is a freeloader Let's face it wouldn't matter one hoot how many stands it has in your mind, just as long as you have a comfy press room with access to free hospitality with all your cronies Poor man's Frank Gilfeather in my opinion Dougal Do you pay to get into your place of employment Dougal ?

All the same.... just don't take the bait!!!! With all due respect I look at our stadium as a fan whereas you look at is a freeloader Let's face it wouldn't matter one hoot how many stands it has in your mind, just as long as you have a comfy press room with access to free hospitality with all your cronies Poor man's Frank Gilfeather in my opinion Dougal Why is a stadium with only three sides not suitable for top flight football in Scotland?