After a summer of doubt ICT were finally told that they would be playing in the SPL. If they would groundshare with Aberdeen 2 and a half hours drive away. This was down to Caledonian Stadium only having 5000 seats compared to the 10000 needed in the SPL. However this was never going to stop Caley playing in the SPL. So Pittodrie here we come

Optimism was high around the city but was severly dampened after a 3-0 away defeat to Livingston on the opening day of the season. This lead to critcism from the journalists includinga certain Graham Speirs who said after the performance that he would eat his hat if we stayed in the SPL. I would have my hat waiting for him come May I hoped!!!

It looked like things would turn around on the first home game of the season. Well when I say home I mean in the loosest possible sense. But anyway Dunfirmline were the visitors and a 2-0 win was a great result for the 3000 small crowd. The rest of the month saw 3 league defeats and the start of the genereal hatred of Neill Lennon after diving in the box resulting in a penalty and Juanjo getting sent off. At the end of August we were in 11th place out of 12

The next 2 months were mixe for the club. only 1 point was taken in the next 5 games which saw ICT rock bottom but then the tide started to turn. A well earned away draw to Kilmarnock was followed up with wins against Dundee and Livingston. This lead to 9th place at the end of October. The win against Livingston turned out to be John Robertsons last game at the club as he moved onto Hearts where he was a legend so everybody understood why he left but we were deeply dissapointed. A 1-1 draw in the next match against Dunfirmline was a great result in the circumstances and meant our unbeaten run was extended to 4 games. The run was over in the very next match at Parkhead. Celtic hammered us 3-0 then a draw at Dundee Utd seemed to steady the ship.

New management came in. Craig Brewster was the man in charge of keeping us up and signs were promising in the first game even though it was a 2-1 win for Hibs. It got better as Rangers and Hearts both were held to draws at Pittodrie and the hope of a early move back to Inverness were on the cards as long as we had 6000 covered seats by January 29th 05. Dunfirmline at home was scheduled for that day. The last 2 matches of the year showed the new lease of life around the club. A 2-1 away win at Motherwell and a 0-0 away draw at Aberdeen strenghtened out position in the table.

The 2 new stands were up in no time and all looked set for the 29th of Jan. Before that 2 defeats at the hands of Kilmarnock and Dundee were dissapointing but revenge was in store for Livingston after their 3-0 win against us on the opening day. Back at Almondvale Inverness played some exquisit football and came out 4-1 winners. At last SPL football would finally be in Inverness and nobody was going to stop the good feeling around the club. A 2-0 win against Dunfirmline in front of a packed crowd capped the day off perfectly. At the end of January Inverness were 8th in the table 9 points ahead of bottom club Livingston

Only one league game was played in February and that was a 1-1 draw against Dundee Utd. Celtic were due to play at the Caledonian Stadium but a waterlogged pitch saw that game would never be given a chance. The draw did make the gap between Livingston 10 points so everything was still looking very rosy.

The first 3 games in March showed the confidence flowing through the Highland team. Hibs and Hearts were despatched 3-0 and 2-0 respectively, HAhaha John Robertson. Inbetween those 2 wins probably the best result of the season was a 1-1 draw at Ibrox. Bryan Prunty scoring a last minute equaliser. Relegation was starting to become an impossiblilty but the re-arranged match with Celtic brought us back down to earth. The Celts going back down the A9 with all 3 points

April was off to a bad start with defeat to Aberdeen but after wins against Kilmarnock and Motherwell dreams of a top 6 place were unthinkably on the cards. All be it with 1 game untill the split Inverness were 3 points behind Motherwell who were in 6th place but miracles have happened before. After 65 minutes of the deciding game it looked like a miracle would strike. Inverness were 3 up at home to Dundee while Motherwell were loosing 1-0. Only if the game finsihed then. Motherwell got a equaliser and drew the game securing 6th place for themselves while ICT tried to throw the 3 goal lead away but in the end we won 3-2. We gave it one hell of an effort but just a little bit too late. On the bright side going into the split that victory had made us unable to be relegated and at least 8th was guarenteed. Unfortunatly we could not go higher than 7th in the next 5 games but we were safe and that is all that mattered.

Things tailed off in the latter part of the season. We failed to win any of the 5 games and we dropped to 8th position and Kilmarnock took 7th but it was one hell of a season and SPL Football would be back in Inverness in 2005/06