Its ICT -V- Hamilton Accies this week and the preview is brought to you by Davie.

Its one win apiece in fixtures between the teams this season with both of Accies goals (1 in each game) coming from the boot of former Caley Thistle player Dougie Imrie.

enough of the preamble, here is Davie's preview:

The Rough Guide

Hamilton appears to be most famous for the motorway services on the M74. That’s the only mention it gets in the Time Out Guide to Scotland. The Rough Guide skips straight from haggis to Harris. There is no mention of things to do in Hamilton. As well as a racecourse, it does have an extremely large mausoleum with the longest echo in the world. “Is there anybody there, there, there, there”….

The Accies

Hamilton does, at least have an academy or there would be no Accies – the only senior team in Britain to have been founded in a school. Yes I know about Wick. They won the old second division in 1904, but weren’t promoted as the top flight was by invitation only (and probably controlled by the ugly sisters) Sounds familiar. They used to play in cerise and French gray. Lovely. Honours have been thin on the ground but they did once do well in the B&Q cup.

News

Enough history boys and girls, what of today? Bottom of the league, Accies will travel north with more hope than they are entitled to. Injuries plague them, and their young defence was decimated by Rangers last week. That it stayed respectable was really due to the foot being taken off the pedal in the second half. After all they had an upcoming fixture on Tuesday against quality opposition………

For ICT, is Adam Rooney still here? Is Gill? Has Gregory Tade arrived? Is he going to? Previewing anything in this window is a nightmare, never mind the injuries. Is Jonny Hayes still here for that matter? We’ll just go with the same bodies that performed manfully at Castle Grayskull and hope for the best.

Head to head

This does not make good reading. We need to improve on a poor record between the sides. The visitors have won 2 of the 5 previous games, with the Caley Thistle winning just 1. The away form of Hamilton is pretty catastrophic, accumulating just 1 victory and 1 draw from their last six played. While the Accies have hit 4 goals, 14 have hit the back of the wrong net. For them at any rate. I steadfastly refuse to quote our home form – the recent slump must end soon.

Accies have the token ex-jaggy in their ranks in the diminutive form of Douglas Imrie. The last time he visited these parts, he was treated to a pretty unedifying display of abuse at TCS and we know how he reacted. Mind you, he scored again at New Douglas Park as well, and look how we reacted. Think what you like about him, let’s not give him an excuse this time.

Prediction

2-0. And not to them.