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I'll be there. Its costing a fortune in flights and hotels but I couldn't care less. It might be the fact that I don't get to many games due to location but I've got that buzz for this one.

I dont understand why there is this lack of buzz. Yes it is Celtic and its an awful Ko time on such a limited day when it comes to travel but we took 7000 to our last semi at Hampden and we weren't even a top flight club then. This is our first semi final in this tournament which is far more prestigious than the league cup and yet if it 2000 is a disgrace. At least make sure we get more than a usual home game. This is no slight on anyone who cant go we all have our reason and there are logistical problems for travel as I have said but why should we be struggling. I will be there and so will the other hard core fans that travel each week to back the team but I feel sorry for the players. We know we are going to be out numbered but to be excited to play at hampden and only see a few thousand in a game where they will need everyone of us to help them is disappointing. I hope come 12.15 on sunday that we will have more and maybe get towards 5000 as a figure that i think is fairly respectful although judging by the sounds of it we may not even make half of that

What is this all about "a lack of buzz"? The only people I feel a lack of buzz from are the people that are saying there is one. I'm blooming mega buzzing and so is everyone that I know who supports ICT.

Those will be the same stewards that looked round confused when those two lads skegged Paul Gallacher a while back and scored a goal

I think he still attends games as a Main Stand supporter, he was a very good boss to work for!

In truth I think that those citing the 12.15 kick off as the reason for not going are mostly making an excuse. If it was 3.00 they would probably be saying it's too late on a Sunday cos they have to work on Monday. Of course there will be some who can't make it for perfectly good reasons but by and large those that want to be there will be there. I don't think our numbers will be great but as long as those that are there get behind the team then the team will get a lift from that. They will need one too - a Griffiths hat-trick tonight shows that he is a player on form and we will need to be on our very best form to beat Celtic on Sunday.

I see Dundee have 4 games in their home city, and the other one is on telly!

I said achievable, not expected! I'd love to see what a semi-final win would do for performances - could galvanise this team. Much against DU will depend on the first game against them. They're not great at the moment and if we win that one, they might be scunnered for the second because they won't catch us. Dundee away? Done that already this year. St. Johnstone away I always fear because we've had some gubbings off them when we have least expected it but they don't seem to be the team they have been in the past few seasons. Aberdeen? Depends on whether they are on their holidays or not and Celtic? Hopefully they will be all out for revenge. They can have that. So that's my thinking but it'll probably bear no resemblence to the actual event. That's football.

I know we have been in some poor form that lets be honest could have been worse like Utd's for instance. People saying that we may struggle to pick up alot of points have to look at the other side of the coin. The other teams chasing us also have to play each other and could take points off each other. Apart from Celtic and Aberdeen everyone else are very evenly matched. The Dundee Clubs will be tight especially with difference in form and the fact the dark blues have their tales up after breaking their derby hoodo. St Johnstone have been to tannadice and comfortably beaten Utd this season and on their day can match anyone after drawing with Aberdeen and winning at Parkhead. So even if we continue to be a bit dodgy the other clubs may do us a favour. Another thing in our favour is that four of the teams have got more than just points to play for because of location. Aberdeen and Utd wont want to lose to each other St Johnstone and Dundee are derbies so even if they mathematically cant catch us they will still want to beat Utd for pride and even finishing above them. Looking at us we narrowly lost to Aberdeen on three occasions and we certainly could have taken something at Christmas. We outplayed St Johnstone last time we played them and i know that Perth is not our happiest hunting ground but we can certainly beat them. Dundee have not been impressive in any game we have faced them and we were unlucky not to win a few weeks ago. And then the UTD games itself well they are not going to relish coming north twice so lets be positive. As Davie has said it has been fine margins in this poor run and one win could make everything different and we end the season strongly.

I'd expect us to beat Dundee and Saints if we were at home, but as it is we are away, and won't be bookies favourites for either match. Nevertheless I will be there and will hope for a perfectly achievable win each time. Anyway, if we could somehow win both games v Utd, the other matches don't really matter!

Sadly, can't disagree. Frankly, expecting to win games usually ends in disappointment. The only games we might expect to win at the moment would be against St Mirren and Hamilton. So, the only way that we might expect to win games post-split is to have been in the bottom half! Not sure anybody would have preferred that! The whole point of getting in the top 6 is that you get to play the best in the country, so, yes, they'll be tough: wouldn't want it any other way. I'm sure DU are not relishing 2 games against both us and Aberdeen + 1 against Celtic + 2x Tayside derbies. Match their results and we're in 3rd.

We all support the club, we are all behind the team and want them to win but please excuse some of us for tinging expectation with realism based on recent results and performances. The club is indeed fantastic which is why, happy clappers or not, we all back it fully...

What a bloody attitude !!! As I have said before inverness does not deserve the team we have . Constant negativity from both so called supporters and those who never bother going to a game !!3rd in the league and in the semi final of Scottish cup , aye I suppose that's a pretty poor effort for a club with such vast resources .Get a grip and get down and back our fantastic club !

Fixtures are out: 25th April: Aberdeen (H) 2nd May: St Johnstone (A) 9th May: Dundee (A) 16th May: Dundee United (H) 24th May: Celtic (A) 12:30 KO

This weeks update ICT H2H Highest Scorer 58 iThistle / Steaming In Lowest Scorer 24 Mair Untd Highest Score Game 114 Pingu Untd 56 - 58 iThistle League 1 Steaming In 72 (1760) 2 CD Stoke 66 (1709) 3 Ross Rovers 59 ( 1661) 18 Bey FC 37 (1426) 19 Mair Untd 25 (1231) 20 Farcelona 21 (1305) Classic Highest Scorer 67 Tea & Busquets Lowest Scorer 24 Mair Untd League 1 Steaming In 1760 2 CD Stoke 1709 3 Sterling Effort 1704 29 Farcelona 1305 30 Mair Untd 1231 31 G'mans Goalgetters 1193 ICT Championship Highest Scorer 71 FC Chelsea Lowest Scorer 27 Vagisil Rub'n'GoX1 Highest Score Game 110 Mancron 11 70-40 DTF League 1 The Bhoys 67 (1667) 2 Sterling Effort 66 (1704) 3 The Benchwarmers 60 (1582) 16 Average 35 (1449) 17 Reebok 11 35 (1376 18 G'mans Goalgetters 18 (1193)

I like Marley and if he stays I will be very happy but........ We have been here before and as far as I am aware we are going to have our best season ever ( in terms of league placings and at least a cup semi final). We have lost players like Bingham, Mann, Robson, Wyness, Dods, Rooney, Hayes, Rankin, Cowie, Wilson to name a few and always seem to come back stronger and better.

As tremendous as the TNS poll looks, it's pretty old data but entertaining nonetheless. With Labour holding huge majorities in a lot of seats it needs a massive swing for the SNP to win, and while polls have them mopping up just now, even a very slight Labour recovery could see them turn obliteration into just a massacre. Milliband won't get close to a majority, IMO, regardless of how they perform in Scotland anyway. However, even better than the polls, news today that hot on the heels of being stomped on by Ed Balls, Jim Murphy's shameless, flat out lies have been exposed again by his own Uk Labour masters. "We won't make cuts in Scotland" said Jim, repeatedly in the debates, and as recently as yesterday. Really Jim? Chukka Umunna delivered the biggest slap down to date for Murphy in confirming the cuts as Labour appear to be conceding defeat in Scotland. ... "The leader of Scottish Labour will not be in charge of the UK budget" https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8-OUxLmxNi0

Achtung! I actually find it hilarious listening to to the British nationalists continually bleating about the referendum, which they won FFS, and how it's all the SNP are interested in. It goes some way in explaining the mentality of UK Labours northern branch and the contempt to which many in Scotland now hold for them. When Scotland was promised change, told we were valued in the UK, and voted to remain in this "family of nations", was it somewhere in the small print that we weren't then allowed to vote SNP? In a democracy, are campaigners and political parties required to abandon their views, stop making their case and go away? In the face of a barrage of UK propaganda and almost complete media opposition, 9 out of every 20 people in Scotland voted Yes, many in the hope of charting a different path to the one offered by centuries of London rule. The simple fact of the matter is that the issue of Independence will never be "put to bed" as the British nationalists would wish. Scotland is moving forward, democracy will be heard, and if the UK fails us it will likely be what leads us to the next referendum, through a majority voting for it at Holyrood. The SNP, or any unionist party, have no right whatsoever to rule out any referendum, for any period of time, except the term they may be elected to at Holyrood. That said, I haven't seen many Yes supporters advocating another referendum soon, nor does the SNP. If it's even going in their 2016 Scottish election manifesto is itself debatable just now. They will off course always seek to bring new powers to Holyrood. But all this only suits the Labour GE15 rhetoric. The fact is, for the general election, Labour and the Tories have ruled out full fiscal autonomy for Scotland. So why the hell are they still talking about it?... Because they are crapping it at the thought of Scotland actually having a voice in Westminster. As irony meters explode, some are even calling this undemocratic. And still these same people scratch their heads as to why we'd vote SNP. What the London based unionist parties are offering is three similar shades of Sh**e. More austerity, more cuts, a decrease to the Scottish block grant and a further squeeze on public services and pressure on those that can least afford it. But still, 100 billion is spunked on renewing trident. 50 billion on HS2. Big business dodge tax while the benefits of the poor and disabled are targeted. The piece de resistance for me, paedophile sex offenders are protected by the official secrets act. I'll give as much of that a miss as I can if you don't mind. The SNP, Greens and Plaid are offering the option for to push an alternative, progressive path with the influence that a strong voice in Westminster will give in a hung parliament. And Westminster needs that voice to ensure Scotland gets all that was promised to it and protection from the rest.