Last week was one of those weeks when at times you wonder why you bother with football.
Times when you think the footballing world is against you and there’s one rule for us and another for everybody else.
Moments when you seem to be at the wrong end of decisions that are at best highly questionable and at worst plain wrong.
Having to go through a play-off system six games long just to accommodate the Premiership’s timetable. Queen’s Park, Edinburgh City and Bonnyrigg Rose won through after four.
Either Nottingham Forest or Huddersfield Town will go to the English Premiership after playing just three.
It’s little wonder that no team has ever won promotion to the Premiership that had to play six games in the play-offs.
The whole thing is skewed in favour of the 11th placed Premiership team in a way that is simply unfair.
It is, though, in moments of adversity like this that Caley Thistle have produced some of their finest performances over the years.
Perhaps, despite being huge underdogs, it was time to make history again and I could sense the club’s fans warming to the challenge. An angry crowd can bring energy to a game as can an angry team if they channel it properly. Would all this be enough to help Inverness on Friday night?
In the early stages it didn’t look like it.
A starting XI we have never seen before and will never see again looked all over the place and it was all too easy for the Saints.
We were lucky to be two behind at the break. The introduction of Austin Samuels and Logan Chalmers made a huge difference.
All of a sudden the game had turned and the home team were doing the pressing. Two goals from Reece McAlear were well deserved and this tie is perfectly poised.
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