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Greg Tansey signed a new 2 and a half year deal!

Great news he is one who can tell others that "the grass is not always greener elsewhere" hopefully they will take heed

How about collection buckets at the exits so that if people felt that the entertainment was worth more than they paid they could toss in a bit more? But no taking money out of the buckets if folk feel they paid more than it was worth!

My mistake, with Goodwin laid flat out after the goal I thought it was him. Quite frankly skinning Tesselar just doesn't seen quite as fun. From the highlights clip it appears it is actually McLean who Raven skins. But frankly, who cares who it was! It was a great goal and worth the admission money on its own.

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.

A huge incentive to win on the Rugby Park plastic on Saturday with Dundee United and Hamilton not playing each other until Monday a victory would guarantee third place on Saturday evening with at least fourth by Monday. It would also give us a 14 point margin over seventh place and virtually guarantee top six for a third consecutive season.

In my opinion, Josh Meekings and David Raven are crucial re-signings for next year and beyond. I would like Billy Mckay and Marley Watkins to re-sign but they can be replaced easier if they do decide to go at the end of their contract.

It may have been Butcher's selection but John Hughes has made them the team they are today. He had 'eye' enough to keep and shape them where many a new manager would have rushed their 'own' players in. I have no worries about any replacements he brings in, they may not 'star' overnight but he will work and mould them to fit.

Absolutely delighted, great worker and team player with a good eye for a shot. Hope his team mates now follow suit.

Will be interesting to find out what the average fan pays. PWYW has a pretty solid track record. Pay-What-You-Want: Gimmick or Genius? Surprised Sevco haven't tried this, given the obvious opportunity it creates to stiff the taxman.

Money tight in January so worth a go? Club asking fans to help spread the word. Tickets can be bought in advance or pay on the night....

Not a great performance but a wins a win. We've had a lot of games recently and 2 of them had a derby feel so yesterday was ok. One thing that was good to see, was that Gary Teale was totally dignified and and wasn;t just appealing and shouting for anything and everything even when they know they're wrong. More Gary Teale's and less McInnes, Darren Jackson and the laughable Alex Neil.

He is playing very well and it is a credit to the Club that despite poor attendances we can still keep very good players.

Two sapping games in a short period of time, played on sapping pitches. Coming on the back of two defeats, both games on a hiding to nothing - local bragging rights in one and a team bent on a 1-0 in the other - both looking for much needed points. An the best ever festive season in a long time !! Personally I feel that it is always better to have a look from the stand at times as you evidently get a better perspective. A lot of bigger clubs have lookouts in both. Our problem is inconsistency in performance - putting in a blinder and then a crapper - that is so frustrating and leads to negativity - but it is acceptable to provide criticism if you pay your fare and your comments are acceptable. I can't see how playing Shinnie instead if Draper was linked to the former leaving. It would be the other way if that was the case. I also do not understand Yogis usage of Nick Ross. Plastic pitch up next though and that should actually suit us as should Hamilton later in the month. Again although there has been frustrating inconsistency in performances our point tally and position are better than we could have expected. All will depend on who goes out the transfer window.

My mistake, with Goodwin laid flat out after the goal I thought it was him. Quite frankly skinning Tesselar just doesn't seen quite as fun.

Nice to note that Raven wasn't backwards but NEVAR put a foot wrong . I liked Chinos' post. I note you are supposed to "not have made any friends yet" on your profile but, with a positive post like that, it won't be long before you do! It's Interesting also how people see things so differently from time to time.

A back to back win, is a good way to start the New Year, even if it was hard work (which it sounds like it was) still the evenings are going to get lighter, my ICT calendar is up on the wall, and I'm counting the days to St Mirren away in Feb... Main aim for ICT at the mo is to secure that top six spot and beat Thistle in the Cup

Some club chairmen such as Stewart Milne talking the game down don't help either the reality or the perception of our game nor does the obsession with the rancid cesspit of corruption and mismanagement that was once Glasgow Rangers.

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.

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.

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

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 :)

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.

Little Brittain fans.

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!

Ah Over The Bridge at it's best eh!

Has to be Considine's push on Richie in the final few minutes at Celtic Park that stopped him heading the winner and us winning our first big national cup. We were that close!!! Aberdeen should have had a player sent off and ICT awarded a late penalty. But that is football. It was a spectacular day out. On another front, it has to be Yogi's ability to keep smiling. Football management is massively stressful but Yogi keeps on smiling. No other SPL Manager can match him. Off topic a little bit, my favourite non ICT moment was discovering that the ICT Hitler video of Derek Adams was in fact a very accurate representation of his total gurning and authoritarian nature. Second favourite was Terry Butcher being exposed just as IHE had psycho-analysed.

I doubt he'll be out for too long.