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Very competent and professional performance yesterday against a team with twice our budget and the best possible reaction to last week's setback against Arbroath. Realistically, we are now in a battle for second spot and it's impossible to overstate just how important it is that we retain that place. History shows very clearly that teams occupying third or fourth place in this division have little or no chance of prevailing in the play offs due to the extra effort of the two extra games. Second place gives a chance and has been good enough to achieve promotion more than once. Whilst a cup run would be a bonus, all efforts must now be on retaining second place and giving ourselves a chance of promotion. It's no exaggeration to say that retaining full time football in Inverness may depend on it.

If we can get Walsh and Welsh back match fit and playing their best before the end of January they will seem like new signings.

That’s so offensive. Who are you to judge fans like me who are passionate about our team? You like to be challenging, which is fine, but don’t overstep the mark with what is tantamount to personal insults. Get a life!

Loch Seaforth and a nice wee saltire in SY last summer.

I have never been on that one or this one, another freight boat which was the last on the Stornoway to Ullapool route which was known in Stornoway as 'The Olympic Flame' because it never went out!

Christie is wonderful connection to the club and history. And a great cash bonus. But lets focus on our next one and getting that 20% into all our transfer dealings for players under 23. Who is our next developing player we will improve as a club . It is our inability to profit from our players that causes us problems. Scottish youth international Daniel Mackay, Ryan Fyffe, Mchattie, Macregor etc. We have a great chance with sound development at fort and elgin to build a club to benefit our local players and local players to benefit our club. I would be so happy for Ryan if this is the move he wants and happy for the club for helping him get there.

Superb football in the first half. Superb support......................especially 'Paul McGowan..................does your Mum cut your hair?' and as the dejected Dundee supporters trudged out 'Was there a fire alarm?' However, with 20 games gone, the transfer window and bad weather soon to affect games, we should be realistic and fully accept that Dundee United will be worthy champions. Congratulations to them. However, we must grind out results to see if we can take second.

Aye - still here! At what is now 87 years of age, and still the oldest on here I think ! Well away from the fires but continually watching the telly to keep abreast with what is going on. Global warming, ye ken !

Haha Santa steal your sense of humour brother ? So touchy u not understand a wind up biting like jaws there my man! No promotion there's always the Orange Walk to look forward 2 (joking btw) I no your a Caley man we all are on here glory hunter free!

Nurse...he's broken into the office and got on the computer again!!

Ridgers ???? He is becoming a major bonus. Another deserved clean sheet and three tremendous saves. Rooney ????? Simply superb in the first half. Not as effective in the second half when moved forward but covered every blade of grass McHattie ???? Was unsure to begin with but he and Coll looked like a real partnership. And that pass to start the first goal move was "World Class". Donaldson ???? Looked more like the Coll of yore. Won EVERYTHING. Tremarco ??? Solid if not spectacular but Dundee did play mainly down our right flank. Vincent ???? I thought that he was superb and you could see him continually supporting and egging on all around him. Trafford ??? Grafted but defended more than gave anything going forward. Keatings ??? Very well taken goal. I felt that he too suffered from the enforced half time goal. Desperately needs a striker who knows how to be a foil to a number 10. Storey ??? Has so much potential but frustrates me that he does not take people on more often. Still a striker to me and not a winger. Todorov ?? Sorry but had a big chance to make his mark but did little to impress. Simply not a holding target man. Doran ??? What a finish as only Aaron could do. He is the one person who you think could do something impromptu but lacks pace these days BUT still worth a starting place McKay was a bit of a bomb scare at times, Carson is tireless and White looked good and hopefully continues to look over his shoulder at Toddy. Robbo got it spot on today but I still think that he should have taken on McGregor at halftime but WTF. And even Robbo the Ref gave us far more than he usually does ? ???

Well I would bet mucho spondoolicks that the 194 ICT supporters who witnessed this performance would rank that first half performance as the most fluent and effective that we have played in a long time. I would class it as entertainment personified and the singing must also class as the loudest and most prolonged in years as well - even though a few idiotic barstewards tried to ruin it. Storey coming off at half time definitely affected the rhythm and Rooney was nowhere near as effective in midfield - although he had done enuff in the first 45 to win the MOM by a country mile. We started off as a 4-2-1-3 but were forced into a 4-4-2 in the second half. I reckon we would have trounced them if it had stayed the same. We totally controlled the first 15 minutes and then we were treated to the goal of the season which will be very difficult match. McHattie fired a pinpoint 60 yard cross field ball which found Rooney in miles of space. He then moves forward and we expect a looping cross. Well he cut it back along the 18 yard line at pace and DORAN smashed it into the corner. And only seven minutes later Rooney is at it again and at the end of a speedy counter attack KEATINGS cooly chipped it home. And we all thought that Storey had smashed in a second but unfortunately it was the side netting that bulged. And as we drew breath we wondered if the second half would be more of the same. Alas Storey going off, presumably injured, we probably lost our system. Brad McKay coming on at right full back and Rooney moving into right midfield. Harsh maybe but I feel that we should have taken on McGregor. But don't get me wrong - we continued to boss the game. We never really looked like grabbing the third but Dundee never looked like scoring either. We did play a low lying back four but they won nearly everything and our workmanship and pressing was excellent. The only negative is that we may have lost three more squad players but let's hope that none of the injuries are serious and that Welsh and Walsh will return soon. Do it is a very happy IHE who sips his post match voddie and let's hope that 2002 brings more of the same. Smileymometer to follow ?

? Never actually heard that one before, been going over to Lewis over 40 years. Muirneag is a hill in Ness. The Suilven had a small lobby in front of the cafeteria where the toilets were, plus a few seats for those feeling a wee bit delicate. One time at Easter I was on my way over and went in for a leak. Lucky there were urinals as both cubicles were occupied by guys spewing up. I went back out and got chatting to an elderly couple using the seats. The man looked into the toilets occasionally to ask one of the spewers if he was OK. They asked what I was doing and I said I was going over to see Peigi-the-dragon aka the mother in law for a week. When I asked how long they were staying they said they had only got day returns ? So the guy spewing was going to spend 7 1/2 hours without even going ashore...

People stop with the denials just come out in the open embrace your love of the ugly sisters while also looking out for your small team i.e. iCT it's fine who am I 2 judge your bigoted selves I 2 once followed the queens 11 until the Caley v Airdrie game back in the day!

Still think the club should have issued limited pre merger kits to celebrate the 25th anniversary. They would have sold like hot cakes and a tidy profit would have been made. Sadly there seems to be a lack of forward thinking in our commercial department. Am I surprised? NO!!! Dougal

It was late 1995 when I first traveled to the Western Isles and on my first trip on the Isle of Lewis there was a hell of a clatter every time a wave hit the bow! I also think the Loch Seaforth (photo below) is a far superior boat which seems to glide through even rough seas although I think they could also do with a freight service as well but it will be down to lack of money. I was never on the Suilven but heard many stories about it, one from a friend who was a lorry driver and regularly traveled the route who left Stornoway and by the time they reached Loch Broom it was to rough for berthing in Ullapool they sailed back across the minch and it was to rough to berth in Stornoway, after sheltering outside Stornoway for 12 hours they sailed back across the minch to Ullapool and finally berthed after 30 hours Here is a link of the Suilven when sailing as a freight boat in New Zealand don' look at it if your going to be travelling on a ferry soon!