Inverness Caledonian Thistle boss Scott Kellacher hopes his dream of getting out of the bottom two comes true on Saturday when they face Montrose
SCOTT Kellacher says he hopes his dream of Inverness Caledonian Thistle getting out of the bottom two in League One on Saturday will come true.
Victory for Inverness against Montrose at the Caledonian Stadium and if Annan Athletic fail to win at league leaders Arbroath, will see them move out of the relegation zone for the first time since going into administration in October.
Inverness dropped to the bottom of the league in October when they were deducted 15 points for going into administration.
They fell 12 points behind Dumbarton who were ninth.
He has turned the club’s fortunes around as they are now two points from safety with 11 games remaining.
With a game in hand, Caley Thistle’s fate to get out of the bottom two is within their own hands and Kellacher says he was always confident they could get out of relegation trouble. Even when the 15 point deduction was implemented four months ago.
Asked if he thought Caley Thistle would get to this position with still 11 games remaining, Kellacher said: “Yes, because I am a dreamer.
“I go and lie in my bed at night thinking to myself it would be amazing to be in that position.
“You have got to and that is why the fans are excited .
“ You don’t want fans coming to the game miserable.
“Go and dream, if you think we can do it, we will do the best we can to get there.
“I am the same, I sit at home and think about it.
“ Sometimes dreams come true, hopefully this year it does and our dream is we stay in this football league.”
Inverness Caledonian Thistle came close to getting out of the relegation zone at the start of February when they were only two points from safety and beat Queen of the South 1-0.
But Annan Athletic recorded a shock 3-1 win against Kelty Hearts to remain above Inverness and have picked up the points to stay out of the relegation zone ever since.
Kellacher recalls that day as a hard one to take.
But he says that his team must rely on their own results and making sure they will be good enough to eventually get out of the bottom two in League One
He said: “It was the hardest when we played Queen of the South and Annan beat Kelty. “That is all it takes for a team to win back to back games and it becomes harder for us. “We are the chasing team, it can be a slog and it is up to the staff to keep refreshing it and getting the challenge right and knowing what lies ahead. We might go and win on Saturday, but Annan might win.
“It is in our hands, we can’t control what happens elsewhere and we know anybody in the league can beat anybody.
“We didn’t expect all the results last week to go our way.”
Kellacher says he does have a couple of injury concerns going into Saturday’s game.