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Whew, that was hard work. Raven was easily MOM, having supplied two great crosses before the third which Billy squeezed in. The Saints made it difficult, defending in numbers and easily cutting out our rather easily read passing/dithering game. Using the flank via Raven paid dividends by circumventing that. It was noticeable how better we were when Draper and Williams came on, and they should be on the team sheet if Watkins is still injured next week. In fact I would play Williams ahead of Christie, who is showing his youth and lack of experience in an ineffective role. Would be good to have Shinnie back at left back, if only to give us what Raven gave us, on the left flank. Then at least we have options to go round a defence like St Mirren's who pack the middle and edge of the box, where we can't get a break and just pass sideways. Very relieved to have the three points, though, and it keeps us right up there.

I do despair at times listening to some of our fans and their 'expectations' they have of the lads. We're currently sitting fifth in the table and are within touching distance of our rivals whilst still producing some of the best football we've ever played as a team. Sure today was pretty grim viewing from an attacking sense but defensively the team looked resolute and solid throughout, with Raven producing yet another fantastic performance as you mention. However, the return of Nick Ross to the starting XI was a pleasing surprise and in my opinion he should have been awarded man of the match for his constant energy and willingness to drive forward with the ball on a day when our midfield was mostly static and devoid of an attacking threat further emphasising the importance of Marley Watkins to the side. Being in the North Stand I can't comment fully on the manager today but your comment does sound highly petty. I'd never been his biggest admirer, but he's answered his critics time and time again and won over much of the support for his clear enthusiasm and his style of play which has bare fruit countless times this season; which funnily enough is far more attractive than his predecessors 'kick and chase' tactics.

Quality goal. Great long ball from Tansey, tremendous take from Raven who then skinned the defender (see what I did there) and fizzed a low cross for Mckay to turn it in with the ball through his legs. Fabulous goal. All been said already. Low quality game, and great three points. Nick Ross started well but disappeared for an hour then popped up again near the end. Doran did well enough and I know he does score sometimes, but he could double his tally if he connects better with the ball. He was though quite a busy player. Raven MotM by a long way, showed tremendous skill to gather then beat the player and aware enough to play the right ball into the mix. Thought Meekings and Mckay also performed adequately. We'll play better and lose so it's a bonus that we won without setting the heather on fire. St Mirren made it difficult, shutting us down quickly and closing down the options on the sideways passes making us rush a bit and giving possession away. Three points though, onward and upwards.

Toothless at times but with some nice interchanges up to the final third. David Raven MOTM by some margin, Nick Ross also did well and probably worthy of a starting spot next week. Substitutions made a good impact with Williams pace and Drapers break up play both noticeable. Tremarco showing his quality which will surely only improve with a run in the team should G Shinnie move on as expected. Probably should have been ahead through McKay in the first half but a good three points and a clean sheet.

A few more goals would have been nice, but a good 3 points keeps us in touch with the leaders. Well done everybody.

Spelling is ruining the game in my opinion.

What a spectacularly poor post. There is categorically no "uncomfortable truth" with our crowds. There were 6614 at the game, of which 3052 were Aberdeen fans. That means that 3562 people made the effort to be there and support their team, a fact that delights me. The club were so grateful for the support at dingwall that they released a statement thanking the fans who made the trip. The assertion that there are some people only go to games against county is frankly ridiculous. If it's not, please give me some evidence and I'll target these people as the ones we need to get along to TCS regularly and make the noise that you snipe about. It is difficult sometimes to create a vast amount of noise in such an open stadium but I don't think that it makes the people who turn up, pay their money and support the club and less than valued. What does make it difficult is the constant carping about how poor our support is from people who ought to know better. So do us a favour DD and give it a rest for a wee while eh? You've made your point. Charming! I write a post praising the support on Thursday and saying it would be great if that kind of support could also be given to the team at routine home games - and I'm told to give it a rest!

Spotted a number of ICT players at Clach today - Mckay, Devine, Doran and Tansey amongst them. Wee bit worried that the likes of Mckay and Tansey might be signing deals with the Lilywhites

They are a very very bitter group of fans for some reason. In the New Year game here last season they were giving all sorts of pathetic excuses why they weren't coming from there's no transport to I'm not giving them my money. Now they're having a go at us for taking a decent crowd to a derby game. I can only assume that they struggle to cope with dispite them having a moneybags chairman, great stadium, 'being a fantastic community club' , having more supporters etc etc (at least that's what they propagate) we still dominate them and have done so for years. It pleases me we upset them so much.

Think most people will probably disagree with you ten4. He is a great player and deserves any big move he gets. I would say a move to a bigger club will certainly get him in about the national team, even if backup to robertson.

I'm sorry if anyone thinks my post was a pop at home fans and hope they can accept that it was simply an expression of disappointment about a situation and not one of blame. I certainly didn't see your post as "jumping down my throat" nor do I disagree with anything you say in your 2 points. As you say, what is the point of a forum if you can't express views without others who disagree with you being personally offensive in response? I've been in management long enough not to bother about some of the less pleasantly worded posts that are sometimes directed at me but it does concern me that some with less thick skins don't post on here because of the nature of the responses they see others getting. I've also learnt that attacks on the poster are often a defensive reaction of those who don't like or don't want to accept what the poster is saying. Better simply to let the post go unanswered. By the way, with reference to my original question of "after a large and noisy turnout at Dingwall, are we going to revert to a sub 3,000 crowd on Sunday with just occasional bursts of support from time to time?", the correct response was - "Yes!"

Thank You RiG.....thought I was the only one that had Raven beating Tesselaar and not Goodwin.

We are an almost established Top Six Team - that`ll do me theses days ! A couple of years ago don't forget we were an established bottom sixer

Whilst I don't expect to see Shinnie at ICT beyond January, though I would love to be wrong, I think the line up today is more a reflection on Hughes not wanting to change a team that's just come off a thoroughly convincing victory the week before. We've seen it before with Hughes that he won't tinker unless it is really required hence why Shinnie persevered for so long at RB last season before we started to stumble and then the set up was amended. Today was much the same.

Agree Raven MOM. Otherwise a pretty dull cold Sunday afternoon but great result helps to even out bad run of luck recently. Post Christmas and a point behind Celtic has to be good whatever the circumstances. Here's to a record breaking 2015.

I quite enjoy the 'banter' aspect of the show. Especially all the palaver about Aberdeen being title contenders.

A very valuable three points well done ICT

yup. worse and worse every week. SPFL does a wonderful job of marketing itself (sarcasm!) .... will check in periodically as I switch between Man Utd, Man City and Real Madrid games live on basic cable TV. Motherwell/Aberdeen IS live on TV here but again on that obscure channel that you need a special (expensive) subscription for .....

This is true. I've even been to Celtic Park and sung "is this a library?" when there were an alleged 40 odd thousand in the ground. I wonder if this is a malaise that is solely confined to football or is it part of a shift to a much more homogenised society where vocalising support is frowned upon. It seems so. The football fans traditional lexicon has been limited by fears of offending someone (anyone), banner waving politicised and frowned upon, singing subject to unworkable and discriminatory laws. The power of fans to challenge this is limited by the fact that they have been demonised for years by a London and Edinburgh elite who make the laws and are far more interested in rugby. Any objection is drowned by them. This isn't the case in bundesliga. Most of their teams are located (there will be exceptions to this, like Hoffenheim or Paderborn but bear with me) in high population density areas where local identity is an ingrained and classless tradition - and celebrating it is encouraged. There's precious little space between moenchengladbach and dusseldorf, but their fans have a very different identity and there's lots more of them so you can't compare that to any SPFL fixture. Perhaps we're not vocally poor, we're vocally different. I'm not expecting a great crowd today (I hope I'm wrong) but I'll enjoy it just the same and I'm looking for a good home win to start 2015 with a bang.

The win in Dingwall also meant that, unusually, we didn't draw a single away league game throughout the whole of 2014. It was either 3 points or nothing! Our last score-draw 'on-the-road' was August 2013 - so it's actually never happened since Hughes took over...if anyone's interested!

Let's be blunt...."No" means "no" on all counts.

Can't imagine many women being happy that we had signed a convicted rapist. Forgetting the appeal he was found guilty would many people be happy at someone like that representing the name of ICT may he rot in you know where asfar as im concerned Who would be happy trusting their daughters in his company I wouldn't

I'm not sure how I feel about Ched Evans tbh. Doubt I'd want him to play for us tbh but I'm uncomfortable that he's served his time but the media and now the Government don't seem to want him to resume his life and earn a living.....

At almost any ground man for man the away support makes more noise. I've seen us make more noise at Septic Park / Ibrokes than the home support. Rather than as per usual moaning about our home support lets give credit, at least for a couple of days, to those who made the trip in far greater numbers than the seething Ross-Shire mob bothered to.

Have to admit that its a guilty pleasure of mine to go on OTB after a derby victory. Pure comic gold some of the delusional babble you get. And i have found it appears to be the same ones who are the most bitter. The likes of forfinn, Fleakeuy, brora boy and frankthetank are the worst, Calling us 'dump rats' or t i n k s haha. Some of the favourite repeated quotes is that we are cheats and hackers with have a vile set of players who have the referees conned.....truely hilarious at times. Then ofcourse there are the utter mutants on facebook and twitter who just take the biscuit. The 'county ultras' for example are propa nawghty.... I think the best line iv heard on facebook is that they are still better because their ground has 4 stands and not 3 lol. (The fact that we still have 1500 more seats with 3 doesnt come into it eh) Like Fraz says, its no surprise really they are so bitter towards us as we have continually been the better side/club/fans for all of 20 years now. We truely are the Big Team! Oh and on another note i see another one of their favourite quotes 'we still have noisier fans' has all but disapeared. They'll never admit it, but i reckon they have finally realised what utter tripe it is. For example we took i reckon 1800 on Thursday. The same fixture last year they had 750 and only 400 for a sunny october day when all transport links were unaffected. Thats 1150 over two games.........exactly! Not to mention how fliping loud we were on Thursday! It was just truly class, honestly the passion shown by our fans was first class and the players clearly appreciated the support, and likewise the county players were feart by it! Brittain got abused to shreds at one corner and then spent the rest of the game as far away from us as possible haha. It just goes to show what we are capable of atmosphere wise. Its ashame we cant get the same passion at home. I wonder if the close proximity of the stands to the pitch affects that? Anyway i have kinda went on a bit now. But as u can probably tell.......i had a right feckin good time on Thursday :)

Little Britain's Vicky Pollard. Yeah but no but yeah they had more fans, but really not cos if we were playing away from home we would have had more but we wouldn't go to their ground and they only had more fans cos they are near the top and we are bottom but we are better cos if we had been as good as them we would have beaten ourselves by a lot more goals and anyway Aberdeen had more fans!

A great start to the New Year - fantastic win yesterday. It's so refreshing to be at the half-way point in the league and into January and just 5 points separate FIVE clubs!!! And Celtic aren't top! No time to rest-on-our-laurels though, with still another 6 Premiership games this month! It's often January that shapes many clubs' seasons. We're really well placed for top-six - but won't look any further than that for now. County look in trouble - even Jim McIntyre was sounding a little down beat - almost resigned to the reality. They have a fight on their hands - but St. Mirren are just as poor so they might be okay! And I thought Motherwell were going to sort themselves out but losing 5-0 to Hamilton suggests something's very wrong there - so all is not lost for County. I enjoy the derbies so, from a personal point of view, I hope they stay up. With a 'big' team likely replacing them, I doubt our club would feel any financial loss from a potential County relegation. I'd certainly prefer games against County that Hibs, Hearts or Rangers!

Oddly enough I'm kind of pleased. I just don't want him to go to Aberdeen!

Sorry I couldn't make it. Surely we get to keep them now?