Inverness are struggling to find warm-up opponents ahead of their clash with Celtic as their failure to make the Championship playoffs leaves them facing a unique challenge.
There had been fears Billy Dodds' team could face a clash of dates for their Hampden showpiece with the playoff final, the second leg of which is pencilled in for the same weekend, throwing a potential scheduling spanner in the works. But they are now facing the opposite problem as having missed out on the top four altogether, they have three weeks without a game before their date with Ange Postecoglou's team.
And the Daily Mail now say they are scrambling to find friendly opponents to keep themselves sharp for the final showdown. Chief executive Scot Gardiner said: "It's a real challenge for us to get meaningful games. Right now it's proving a very difficult challenge indeed. We could not do anything to prepare until we knew our play-off fate on Friday night.
