March games will define Inverness Caledonian Thistle's season
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle captain Sean Welsh believes the next few weeks will be crucial for the club’s promotion hopes.
With a backlog of fixtures still to make up from the spate of postponements early in the year, ICT face six matches this month, starting away at Dundee tonight.
The Championship table is incredibly congested, with just 10 points separating Raith Rovers in second and Ayr United in ninth.
That means the opportunity is there for practically any club to make a charge up the table with a few wins, or sink into trouble after a few disappointing results.
Having just passed the halfway point of the season knowing the league is extremely changeable, Welsh knows that the coming stretch could define what the Caley Jags are playing for at the end of the campaign.
“I think it’s make or break,” the experienced central midfielder explained.
“I’m saying that, but you see how tight the league is and a couple of results can put you from the bottom back into the play-off positions.
“We know that we need to put a string of wins together. We want to be in those play-off spots.
“So we need to go to Dundee and get a positive result to push right up the table.
“Then we would have a couple of games over most teams to go and build on that and put ourselves in a strong position.
“In this league, everyone beats everyone. Places change from week to week, so we don’t want to get too carried away win or lose.
“At the end of the day, we’re going to try and win every game. Doing that would put us in a much better position, so that’s what we’ll try to do.”
With teams swapping positions every time a match is played, it becomes all the more important to drown out the noise and stay focused on the next match.
“Everyone in the league is beating each other, it’s not like any team is pulling away or winning every week,” Welsh reasoned.
“You’ve just got to take care of the game that is in front of you, and you can’t control what happens with the other so you let that go.
“You just have to control your own destiny by winning the games that are in front of you.”
