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Thank you to all the players and staff of ICT for a superb night's entertainment on a chilly evening. Four goals by four different players. Pity the BBC Radio Scotland match report could only concentrate on St Mirren's problems rather than ICT's excellent football and their convincing result.

It may be in ICT's best interest if we hold onto him until his contract runs out cause we all know the offers in January won't be a massive amounts and with having Graeme in the side we may finish higher with him than without him so money could be saved there rather than losing out. I also don't think we should pay over the odds for him to stay when the likes of Watkins, Meekings, Mckay, Tansey and Raven's deals are up at the end of the season.

You mean that Spotty could be Scotty's adolescent lovechild?

A very convincing win in which again we dominated the play. it was four nil going on six or seven. Very impressed with Williams; Tansey's passing was superb and Vincent is now starting to show the form he displayed when he first joined the club. Overall, a great team performance. Bring on the Partick...

I didn't make the game as I was at work. Was pretty straightforward for me tbh. As for others I think for some folk they'd still not be happy if there game was in a climate controlled arena 2mins from their house, served the finest cuisine and cost a tenner.

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Thoroughly professional performance, very entertaining - job done. Thanks guys

ICT 1-2 Dundee FT

Had my doubts about the ref when he dished out a yellow to Meekings (I thought) in the first couple of minutes for what looked like a good recovering tackle from behind the goal. Reading the report I see that Shinnie was booked instead. But Ref did settle in and tried to let the game flow, allowing advantages where necessary. Hardest thing Deano had to do was work out who was passing the ball back to him. St Midden were generally poor and and seemed to lack any ideas. As others have said, there could have been a few more goals, but overall an impressive display.

Managers and those 'between jobs' - like Stuart McCall himself, attend games all time. Half the managers in the Premiership were at our match last night.

Let's see how these sports are doing a few years down the line when the novelty wears off. Basketball in England went through a popular phase a few years ago and then went bust over night....ice hockey did similar. About the only thing that article tells us....and you have to read between the lines because the journalist totally misses the point....is that people like a bit of novelty. The "lesson" to be learned is that Scottish football currently provides the exact opposite with teams playing each other 3/4/5/6 times a season. As I pointed out on Twitter to someone yesterday....the cinema is expensive, yet people still go time and again (some people go every week). Why? because there's variety and they don't go along to watch the same movie over and over. That's not something that's within the clubs control....and thanks to St Mirren and Ross County who veto'd proposals for reconstruction that would have allowed a shift in the right direction....it's now going to be even more difficult to achieve agreement for. I had a discussion with someone recently who said they never bought a season ticket this year because the price had gone up again....they "had to go" when I pointed out that prices hadn't increased in the last 4 seasons. People need to stop lapping up the garbage spouted by the media (not all, but a large majority) who, in my opinion, are doing more to damage the game with their constant negativity. I stopped buying newspapers years ago because there's less and less about the actual matches and more and more negative BS about non match stuff. I witness it nearly every week where (some) journalists don't want to speak to goal scorers and guys who've had a great game...they want to speak to the guys who maybe had a bit of handbags with someone or made a couple of errors during a match. Anyway, back to attendances....one small (positive) factoid which I've not seen any journalist or reporter pick up on... Our average attendance is holding up for this season....despite a huge drop in away fan numbers. Conclusion : Home fan numbers must be on the up. Also, last nights attendance was par for the course given the recent history of attendances for midweek cup replays (not just with us)....in fact, it was about 25% more than was predicted/expected.

Will there be highlights of the game posted on the BBC or SPFL Youtube? Or will we get the same treatment as Sportscene on Saturday with less than a minute to show just the goals...

The double is still on, but the treble is only the domain of teams left in the League cup - Celtci & DUtd as I dont consider winning the lower leagues as being worthy of a treble consideration

Well worth going out on a cold night for that great performance from all

On a back shift so missed what appears to be a cracking game. With £18 a ticket 3 weeks before xmas, i think 1300 is a pretty good crowd tbh. Still, had it been cheaper i reckon there would have been alot more

Great result! Going by the statistics we totally dominated them. We didn't want Partick in the next round but I'll bet they wanted us even less! Thank you players,coaches and management.

Much as I consider myself a solid BBC man, totally agree with the comments above. Considering all teams were Premier league sides, we only get moments to fill two and half minutes, some of which is interviews? And one of those shown is currently joint-top of the highest league in the land. Meantime, we can get two and half minutes of a non-league side playing a League One (2nd Div) team, 7 and a half of one Championship (Div 1) team playing a team in the upper league and fully 9 minutes of another such pairing! Very poor show BBC. It's almost as if we are beneath your notice.

Quite right LIzi but I didn't go as far as to call him a commentator just a commenter. A plebiplonker sounds good to me.

Folk are often saying ..oh i dont know how you can go to that cold stadium ! I always respond .. its not that bad if you wrap up .. hat scarf gloves , strap a hot water bottle to yourself if you have to ! Whats 90 minutes to go & support your local team !! I've spent many a winter watching shinty in open fields without even any shelter , having a seat & roof is a luxury !!