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Fan view: After Gayfield, Caley Thistle’s play-off final with St Johnstone almost seems simple – it won’t be!

The Inverness players celebrate after Kirk Broadfoot scores the winning penalty during the Premiership Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd Leg match against Arbroath.
The Inverness players celebrate after Kirk Broadfoot scores the winning penalty during the Premiership Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd Leg match against Arbroath.

We’re in the final, and only St Johnstone now stand in the way of Caley Thistle returning to the Premiership after a five-year absence.

That makes the job that lies ahead for Inverness seem almost simple… It won’t be.

I think the Saints are definitely favourites and the Caley Jags will need to be at their best, and have a bit of luck on their side, if they are to get the better of the Perth side.

I’m sure Billy Dodds will have been watching them carefully in recent weeks and ICT will be represented at their game at Easter Road on Sunday.

I can’t imagine, though, the team they put out there will be remotely similar to the line-up against Inverness when the Premiership play-off final kicks off on Friday.

But what drama!

The semi-final second leg at Arbroath was a game which will probably be remembered for the windy conditions it was played in.  Breezy conditions are fairly commonplace at Gayfield, but you sensed even the home team were struggling to cope with the gale.

Caley Thistle were playing into the teeth of it before the break and were finding it hard to get out of their own half.  Arbroath were struggling to create much in the way of good opportunities as well and you wondered what both teams would have learned from the experience of the first 45 minutes that they could turn to their advantage.

The second half was a more even affair.  Inverness were still struggling to create much and there were too many aimless long balls.  Finding a team-mate with the ball was a problem for them all night.

One red card I understand, the other was totally incorrect

The sending off of Danny Devine was definitely a big moment.  It was a controversial decision in the eyes of some, but I can see why Willie Collum brandished the red card.

Inverness defender Danny Devine protests his sending off.

Before you knew it, Inverness were another man done after Shane Sutherland was stretchered off.

Things were spiralling downwards for the visitors, but Arbroath were struggling to trouble Mark Ridgers.

The game was hardly a classic and as we moved into extra time I was certainly feeling the pressure.  It was really tough to watch and got harder still when Wallace Duffy was dismissed, quite incorrectly in my view.

Somehow the nine men fought through to the end without conceding and the ICT penalties were all superb.  Great spirit and determination from the boys.