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The win against Hamilton means we have now defeated, in Inverness, all the clubs who have ever been members of the SPL/Premiership. We've also won away at all these clubs - except Partick Thistle! (although we've beaten them at Firhill in the 1st Division). March, next year is our chance to complete the 'set'! It's quite an achievement. Aberdeen Celtic Dundee Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Falkirk Gretna Hamilton Accies Hearts Hibernian Kilmarnock Livingston Motherwell Partick Thistle (still to beat 'away' in the top-flight) Rangers Ross County St. Johnstone St. Mirren

It also infuriates me that Roy Hodgson gives Chris Smalling the nod ahead of Gary Warren.

It's amazed me for a while now! I absolutely think Shinnie should be given a shot! Typical 'big team' bias. While on that topic, I was listening to BBC World Service on Saturday night, and their 'Scottish football' headline was, 'Hamilton Academical miss the chance to go top'! Never mind who has (at the time) gone top - central belt club could have gone top - but didn't - that's the headline. Utterly depressing journalism.

And the winner of Geek Wars 2014 is.....!

And here is that anorak, with Renegade and myself looking on enviously. Meanwhile, Sneckboy was overjoyed at receiving his well deserved accolade.

Not your imagination - that's how I read it as well.

I feel reviving this thread is necessary with the latest news on the Scotland Squad. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29989566 I'm baffled. A full back pulls out and a player playing in the 2nd tier of Scottish football is drafted into the squad. I still solidly believe Shinnie deserves a call up and every time I see him over looked I'm astounded. This time though, it's really beyond me.

Good team performance against the Accies, and thought we bossed it for the majority of the game. Accies became far more dangerous once they were 2 goals down and started throwing bodies forward, prior to that they offered very little. Actually thought we played better against Dundee United, but never got the reward we deserved then. Top of the league in November, hats off to all involved, long may it continue.

Whittaker is probably a bit better, as is Robertson. Wallace and Mulgrew definitely aren't. Shinnie will get his chance soon enough, Whittaker is pretty prone to mistakes and fans get on his back quite quickly compared to other like Robertson, who whatever he does they adore him anyway. There will be calls for Shinnie to be included pretty soon IMO

He, Strachan that is, likes to keep in with the ' Big Boys ' always has and always will do. I wont be at all surprised if he gets his way and the Premier league is extended to incorporate these 'big boys' for next season. Merit, scruples what are they ??

To be fair Alex, Callum Paterson plays right back and so does Bardlsey so seems a straightforward swap. - I wouldn't go anywhere near Ricky Foster at Rangers. I was at the Hearts vs Dumbarton game last month and Paterson was superb throughout. What baffles me more, how does Steven Whittaker get ahead of Graeme? Andrew Robertson deservedly number 1 with Graeme number 2 would be my choice and that's not through ICT tinted glasses.

I think there's a lot more to Elgins woes than Barry can fix. Wyness and Andrews are well past it and the rest of the squad is made up of mostly youngsters released by ICT. Apart from reaching the play-offs in 11/12 under Ross Jack Elgin have been constantly at the bottom half of SFL3 / SPFL2. Perhaps they are one club who should never have left HFL. I'm sure Barry and Graeme Bayne do all they can to coach this team but think saving them from the drop will be the proverbial mountain.

Who are Rangers?

One other thing - was it just my imagination, or was the massive cheer when Billy scored his first, much louder and warmer than it would have been just because it was a deserved equaliser? A sort of communal outpouring of good feeling, good will and celebration that he'd got the monkey off his back?

We won 4-2 to (temporarily) go top and the performance of the ref is getting more Collum inches than the performance of the team!

A couple of weeks ago we were all moaning about him giving out too many cards. Now people are complaining that he isn't giving out enough. A tad harsh. I prefer the way he handled things today. Made for a much more fluent, hard fought, high tempo game. Have given Collum pelters in the past, but credit where credit's due. Big improvement.

Got me thinking of records so lifted following from Wiki On 20 July 2011, during the 2011 Copa America tournament in Argentina, Brazil missed 4 penalties in a row, which allowed Paraguay to reach the semi-finals 2–0.[citation needed] The current World Record for the most penalties scored consecutively in a shoot out stands at 29, in a Hampshire Senior Cup 2nd Round game between Brockenhurst and Andover Town on 9 October 2013, in which the 30th penalty was saved allowing Brockenhurst to win 15-14.[46] This beat the previous record of 27, in a Johnstones Paint Trophy first round match between Leyton Orient F.C. and Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. on 7 September 2011, in which the 28th penalty was saved allowing Dagenham to win the shootout.[citation needed] During the final of the 1992 African Cup of Nations played in Senegal, Ivory Coast won the penalty shootout by 11:10 with the last penalty missed by Anthony Baffoe the stand in Ghanaian Captain. This is the most penalties in the final match of a major international tournament.[citation needed] Fourteen years later, the Ivory Coast and Cameroon needed 24 penalties to decide who would advance to the semi-finals of the 2006 African Cup of Nations. The Ivory Coast advanced by winning 12-11 after Samuel Eto'o missed his second attempt, as his was the only miss of the penalty shootout.[citation needed] The current world record for the longest penalty shoot-out in a first class match is 48 penalties during the 2008-2009 Greek Cup Final when Olympiakos Pireus beat AEK Athens 15-14[47] However, the record for the highest score in a penalty shoot out was set in the 1988 Argentine Championship, when Argeninos Juniors beat Racing Club 20-19 after 44 penalties.[48] On the 11 December 2012, Bradford City set the record for most consecutive penalty shootout wins. They have won 9 penalty shootouts since 2009 and that has included wins against Arsenal and local rivals Huddersfield Town.

Anyone know where George Brislen-Hall is now? There was a thread a while back saying he was at Buckhurst Hill in an Essex league far down the English pyramid. He doesn't seem to be there now and I can't track him down. Although going by Twitter he plays in the same team as celebrity Mark Wright Thanks ETA- turns out he plays for Wright's team Essex FC. In the Essex Business House league (level 15 in the English pyramid). Last he was playing in level 11 with Buckhurst Hill FC, so seems to have a massive drop, Arsenal -> ICT -> Buckhurst Hill -> Essex FC Quite staggering, he always looked good in youth games too

‘Another tactical masterclass from Big Yogi and the Team. This has to be some of the most intelligent football ever played by Caley Thistle.’ Caley D ‘Great game to watch, great players, great performance against a good team’ 12th Man ‘First time we've ever been top of the league as late as November’ Yngwie ‘The first time in just over 3 years that we've won a league game after conceding the first goal. The curse is broken!’ Yngwie ‘Thats the best performance i have seen in a long long time’ Forza Caley Patience and persistence has it rewards! Well done Yogi!

It's crazy to think that Yogi has been at ICT nearly a year ago. Feels like yesterday he just joined!

10 months ago I witnessed a couple of Yogi's first few games in charge (0-4 down to the Dons at HT before fighting back to 'only' lose 3-4, and then losing 0-1 to Celtic a week later with a better performance but no bite), then a couple of weeks ago I witnessed another game (winning 1-0 against DUFC). The difference in the style of play and dare I say it, in the belief some of the players seem to have, is very noticeable to someone who usually gets their ICT fix over the radio and only sees them in person once in a while ... Unlike the Christmas debacles, the team played well in the game I saw a couple of weeks ago and despite a few squeaky bum moments when Ciftci (primarily) got the ball, we were a better side than them all over the park. Things may not always go to plan with Yogi (or with any manager for that matter) and that is frustrating as hell when you know what they CAN do, but when he has them playing well then he is doing as good a job as any manager we could have under the circumstances and constraints that will always be around our club. I have to add that it was good to see Yogi having a bit of banter with the crowd at the DUFC game (not sure if this is normal?) and also giving the 4th official pelters for the lack of consistency in the refereeing ... he appears to still be a punter at heart !!!