RUMOUR MILL CAN HALT ANY TITLE DRIVE

The rumours have started.

A number of people came up to me last week asking if I had heard one story or another. How A is coming to the club and B will be leaving.

That C has fallen out with D.

Perhaps E had been dropped and unlikely to return in a hurry while F is moving to a different role in the club.

Most worryingly, G needs to happen to reduce costs at the club.

What the rumours are doesn’t bother me that much. There will be truth in some while others will be nonsense.

What troubles me is these stories are out there and, in the great big village that is Inverness, they spread rapidly, grow arms and legs and do damage.

I have, though, to think there are players, management and perhaps directors who are not exactly thrilled with life at the moment.

At a time when the team is decimated with injuries I’m not convinced everyone is pulling in the same direction.

A win on Saturday against Arbroath might have helped to settle things down but sadly that never happened.

Caley Thistle couldn’t hold on to the lead Nathan Shaw gave them early in the second half and had to settle for a point.

Disappointing, but not entirely surprising when you consider all the injured players.

There’s nothing that can be done to rush them back but the stories emanating out of Caledonian Stadium right now are not helping.

Over the years I have seen this kind of thing happen before and it usually indicates a difficult period ahead.

Every game in the days ahead is going to be hugely challenging and we have to somehow hang on everyone’s coattails in the hope we can still challenge when players return.