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I think we might be safe from relegation now! Our 37 points matches the highest ever for a relegated team (us) and our GD is currently 33 better than it was then. I declare that phase 1 of our mission has been accomplished.

Looks like him....

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Ryan Esson.

I've been thinking for a while what a good piece of business it was signing up Josh Meekings, Certainly has the potential and now showing what a great player he could become and go on to much greater things.

Hayes just ducking and diving, moaning and groaning, but financially better off. Today's game was critical. It would have been a disaster if we had lost leaving Terry and the team in no man's land. That said, every game is now critical especially next week and if we manage to work harder than Hearts and edge past them, Charlie Bannerman will be able to follow up with ''Against All the Odds 2012/13''.

I would say that the seven days from Saturday 26th January to Saturday 2nd February 2013, in my humble opinion, are the most looked forward to period that I have ever experienced for any team in my 500+ years. It could be feckin delightful or depressing - we could end up being delirious or devastated, it could be deserved or demeaning, we could be demented or desperate for more. I will be at all feckin three - please follow suit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20997587 The bit I dont understand How do they determine the winners of the second tier if the top four play off with the bottom four of first tier?

There's no "one product fits all" with these things...and the great thing about Social Media is you can take it or leave it...if it's not for you, then leave it. If these guys want to try and organise some kind of mass fan participation, then good on them. Maybe they were a little naive to think that everyone watched their FB/Twitter and would know about it....but we all live and learn, and in future if they want to do something then they should be sharing it wider (on here, asking the club or Caley Jags Together to get involved in spreading the word etc). When all is said and done, we're all ICT fans and none of us deliberately does anything we think might do harm or create extra work (I hope) for the club. This season has all been about "Togetherness" and whilst nobody needs to embrace anything they don't like, at least try and accept that just because something is not for you, does not mean it's not for others.....a bit of "live and let live" I guess.

dont complain about the standard of the SPL then if you hope the best players go to the old English 2nd Division.

Travel line phone doesnt seem to go to voicemail for some reason. Please actually phone, or text me, to confirm your names and seats booked. To date I have answered over 200 calls and texts! so I have definitely answered the phone.

http://www.afc-chat.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=32449&st=120 Butcher had the ICT players training every day in the winter break...Broon let the squad go off on holiday while he watched the box set of Midsomer Murders Archie gave him for Xmas while dunking custard creams and nodding off between episodes...there was only ever going to be one result today...Broon is a charlatan and a wage thief...the sooner some folk wake up to the fraudulent cu*ts behaviour the better...he's taking us for cu*ts...pure and simple Did you notice their suntans? Dubai and Egypt can be quite good at this time of year.Clark Robertson especially looked like an Oompa Loompa after a sunbed and was utter gash today Hayes has already trotted out the let fans down excuse on twitter, well maybe instead of getting yourself pissed for a week in Dubai.... Apparently "if you take the 3 goals out of it, there was nothing in it" C/O Craig Brown 5pm 19th January. Craig Brown, the Aberdeen manager, admitted that his team’s reaction to the loss of the first goal had been poor, but he argued that three goals flattered Inverness. “We have a goalie who has made one save in the game, and he has let in three goals. Every time Inverness had a goal attempt, they scored. If you analyse the possession, it was probably quite even.” MATCH STATS Possession41%59%90minsInverness Caledonian ThistleAberdeenInverness Caledonian Thistle: 59% Shots

As I look out my ICT top for the gym, I can't help but look forward to work tomorrow. Sometimes living in Aberdeen can have its advantages :)

Pardon ?

Highlights on You Tube: Put them into http://www.proxfree.com/ and you can have a wee look at us demolishing the Dons.

Had no trouble in hearing the ICT fans today!!!

A really important result for us in keeping the momentum going after the break and all the off the field issues. After a fairly indifferent first half for both himself and the team, a touch of real quality from Andy Shinnie turned the game and after that we were different class. If Shinnie's goal was good, MacKay's first was even better - and his 2nd wasn't bad either. For me, MacKay was MOTM by a country mile because apart from 2 great goals he never stopped working for the team. Meekings was superb as well. Just a mention for Nick Ross and Philip Roberts who came on as very late subs. No sooner were they on than they were involved in a great move which nearly produced a goal which would have rivalled if not bettered MacKay's first. There is real quality on the bench and you have to think that if Hayes was still with us, not only would he not get into the starting eleven, he might not even get on the bench. Very impressed and happy with that performance.

After every game, I think "it can't get any better than this", and the team keep proving me wrong. Long may it continue! I felt we were just about the better team in the first half, though Langfield only really had to make one save, a terrific stop from a Foran header. Aberdeen looked dangerous until Hayes spurned their best chance of the game early in the second period, denied by a great Reguero stop. After that, there was only one team in it. All three goals were superb. Did Andy Shinnie catch out Langfield at his near post for the first? He seemed to have the ball pretty much on the by-line, yet he found the opposite top corner. However he did it, it was just sublime. The second might be the best team goal we'll score all year. I think it was Doran who drove from midfield, then Draper back-heeled it into McKay's path, and the wee man shimmied round a defender and stuck it in the bottom corner. I can't wait to see it again. For the third, Raven crossed, Andy Shinnie got in front of one centre-back to flick it on, and McKay was quicker off the mark than the other centre-back to pounce and smash it in. I can't think of any particular criticisms at all today. It was a great team performance. Most of the praise will go to the attackers, but the defence played very well today, with Raven and Meekings real stand-outs for me. I was worried that the three weeks without a game might have sucked our momentum away, but no sign of that yet!

All my nightmares come home to roost, Strachan, aided by the arrogant McGhee. Do we want to just complete the set and get the County manager along with Willie Miller. All ex Dons, and arrogant berstewards. As for Doofer, Scotland being too small. Tell that to Denmark, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, and Uruguay. Uruguay with a smaller population than Scotland, have won the World cup twice, been South American champions many times and still produce world class players. Granted where we get let down is the subs bench. Anyway Strachan is a shocking decision. Even the Celtic fans turned on him when they were winning the league and getting into Champs league last 16

I was at the game when it went ahead. Also got the belt of Mr Baillie for being spotted on tv on the news.

Unless there's been some editing going on, I don't see a lot there that can be described as patronising. And it definitely is as others see us........ I would make a couple of points related to the football though (yes!!!!!). The SPL is a poor standard, but you only need to look at some of TB's signings to realise it's not that bad. Eagle, Stratford, anyone? Even people like Tansey who made a lot of appearances but looked like a headless chicken if you ask me. A poor man's Russell Duncan. Gary Warren coming from Newport is not typical. He gave up a teaching career to go full time so would probably have gone upwards anyway. It seems to me that only players who have at least a decent bit of league one experience can hack the SPL. People from the subs bench or league two seldom have it but we're forever told our league is no better than league two. It's usually more about wages than ability. Which brings me to..... TV has contributed more than anything else to the sinking of standards in small nations. I could see it coming about 20 years ago when I first ventured over the pond and took in some baseball. Below the elite major league there is nothing but minor league baseball playing to about 100 fans. Fast forward to the Champions' League and the Carling Premiership. The elite get stronger and the rest get weaker. Diddy clubs such as reading and qpr turn over about twice as much as the OF because of the TV money. Chelsea are not a big club, just a rich club. Before the coming of wall-to-wall TV, English clubs actually had to send a full strength team out to play Scots clubs, even in friendlies, because they might lose otherwise. Up till about the 1980s Scotland actually had more international wins head to head than England. Sport and satellite TV is part of the free market of course, so no use whingeing about it: however the good old BBC is public service, yet they still pay astronomical sums for highlights on MOTD while they do not support the SPL in the same proportion.