Only my third post, my first was to wish RF good luck which didn't do much good and number two was about Rory Gallagher playing Telford Street!
But I do support ICT, because I moved to the area in 1993 and as a result of the merger with which I had no connection I had a local league team to support for the first time in my life. Previous football had meant traipsing around the various London grounds which at the time were mostly absolute dumps with overpriced entry prices (sound familiar?) with little affiliation to any team bar West Ham which was in truth as much social as about the football (well, it was West Ham!). As a kid between the ages of ten and fourteen I did get to watch Ware Town FC who played in the Athenian League but that was hardly on the same level. Their biggest day out was in the first round proper of the FA Cup having qualified and the result was a 6 - 1 defeat at Luton Town, but it still seemed glamorous at the time.
But back to ICT and although it's hard for me to get to games (working Saturdays is normal for me making evening fixtures hugely important and the sparsity of those recently has been a blow) I continue to support as best I can. I admit to being one of those "making up the numbers" at both cup finals but think I claim a degree of entitlement because I have been at games against the likes of Stirling Albion (my mum's hometown and my 'other team') in the lowest level and then all the way through to the top.
And back down (again). But I will continue to support, whether by getting to games or driving home from work on a Saturday listening to BBCScotland in the hope that at some moment they will overlook their obsession with the Old Firm and whoever is clinging to their coatails or the politics, and mention something that matters to rest of us even if it's just a score. And I will get to games when I can and smile when things go well and grimace when they don't. I will be frustrated by what seems to be going wrong at the club, and continue to hope that something good will start to happen both on and off the pitch.
Why? Because they are Inverness Caledonian Thistle, they are my local team and they have brought glory days and huge great memories to my family and I.
What the future holds I don't know any better than anyone else but whilst I am no 'happy clapper' and see the real picture I will not walk away from MY TEAM
Andy