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I do like the story about Dougie Imrie being refused entry to G's because he was too drunk..... Dougie: Do you know who I am? Bouncer: Aye, your Dougie Imrie, now f*ck off!

In my interview for the Motherwell match day programme 'view from Inverness' page they asked what do I hope for ICT in 2012. My first sentence was simply 'A penalty'.

Let's take care of business at East End Park first before discussing what might be a non topic come this time next week.

Match winner on his day. Just a shame that it was rarely a Saturday

Indeed he was, but they fell out and he instead opted for a career in football. Let's just hope he has chosen the right club.

According to both BBC and SPL web our game at Motherwell on Saturday is on BBC Alba on Saturday evening at 5.30pm. Here's hoping Ten4's comment above is a good omen.

Aye apart from that one they did win - a sending off which you thought was the correct decision of course despite the referee admitting he was wrong........

We stopped getting penalties in the league when Butcher spoke out against de-construction of the league.

Absolute no brainer, not now, not ever.

Therein lies the problem, but first let me make a couple of comments on Don's last post. I agree completely that it's unlikely that funding like in 1996 - which was made to get national league football initially into Inverness and £900,000 of that was a dire emergency - would materialise again. And the question relating to a relocation of the value of the remaining 81 years of the lease, allied with the added complication of it being owned by the Trust not being owned by the club (I only changed that to avoid Don going off on one of his perorations ) is also an interesting one. But to move on to the question of "where?" regarding any relocation. What you have to remember here is that in the years up to 1993, Caley (sic) tried a whole lot of places including Kinmylies, Canal Field, the Bught and the Carse and they all fell through. In the absence of the Holm Mains - A82 link, the thought of thousands of football fans trying to get across the Ness Bridge at 5pm on a Saturday continues to make the Bught a non starter - assuming a site could even be found because the Bught Stadium and the Queens Park are absolute non starters. Unfortunately I once again have to refer to Against All Odds, Chapter 8 on this occasion, where there is a detailed account of the eleven sites, no less, in Inverness which were looked at on Caley Thistle's behalf in 1993 and all but two were rejected for some reason or another. Apart from East Longman, the only other strong runner was out on the Golden Mile at Stratton Farm and after a titanic battle between the club and INE that also fell by the wayside, leaving the current site. Stratton Farm was still regarded as suitable, it was just that it was too far away from where a lot of fans lived. But whether it would still be available is another matter. But the bottom line here, I might imagine, is that the club's number one financial priority for the foreseeable future might well be keeping the books as close to balanced as possible with respect to keeping a football team on the field and in the SPL, with relocation somewhat further down the list of priorities.

Doesn't count... the referee wasn't from the central belt.

Let's put the subject to bed untill we are playing in European ties regularly and getting the sort of income from T V and attendance that will warrant a move or reconstruction of the ground, 'tll then I'm afraid it is really just pie in the sky. We haven't reached the top six yet, We are not getting enough fans in, concentrate on that please you whizz kids and bring up some realistic ideas on how to get more fans in, more noise and more money. In the meantime accept what we have got as adequate.

two gone hopefully we can get a striker and centre back in with the freed up wages

The red card for Kompany was fully justified. I don't know why it has generated so much debate.