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That clean sheet stat must be a record for ICT, at least in top flight? Yeah, it's an all-time club record - regardless of playing 'level'! As Alex states, there could be an abundance of records falling soon! Fewest goals conceded in top flight, best goal difference in top flight, most points gained in top 6, most points total in the top flight, first Scottish Cup semi-final as a yop flight side! On that last point, it's amazing that this will be our 9th Scottish Cup quarter final in our relatively short history. And as, I mentioned we've managed 2 wins, both as a Division 1 club, under Robbo. History everywhere! But we must take care of Raith - it's a golden chance.

What I want this season is to establish a milestone that may never be feckin bettered - and the Seer has a good feckin feeling.

Was at the game today and I felt that the first half was a non-event from our perspective. Our passing was not slick at all and very sloppy and slow. If we want to dominate next week then we need to pick up in the intensity especially in the first half. Second half, they started well and there was no chance that Esson was getting anywhere near that bullet header from Laing. After we scored our equaliser, we sat back to try and defend the point but when they brought on Ainsworth we couldn't cope as Ainsworth is a very pacey player but I need to see the second goal as I think it took a wicked deflection. In terms of Ofere's debut I thought he done well considering he was only brought to the club 24 hours before today's game. I felt he added a good bit of strength up front to hold the ball and interesting to see him drop very deep at times to defend but I could see the logic when defending set pieces because of his height. Anyways fair play to him getting a goal today and from today seems like a very welcomed addition but I agree with Yogi that he is a few weeks short of match fitness, once he is training with the lads and settled in the team, we could see a decent player on our hands. Credit to Motherwell, despite being the 'Whipping boys' they put up a great performance today. A must win game next week - very important to get to the next stage of cup!

Well....i for one aint got ANY complaints about sitting in 3rd place in the league, going into March. i think its remarkable and i think Yogi should be handed the Manager of the year award right now!

There are 9 teams in our league who would love to be where we are .

The much maligned BBC updated Brora's situation and views fully last Saturday evening and again on the Monday morning. Brora chairman John Young said that he felt that, for a part time team, the potential obligation of trips, including midweek, to the likes of Annan and Berwick (that's 600-700 miles both ways) was not realistic and he really didn't want to make the move. However he said that if they had to do it, and he understood that this would be the case, they would - reluctantly. On the other hand, when asked if they would be dreadfully disappointed if the club failed to meet the SPFL criteria, he said that he might get into trouble for saying this, but they would prefer to remain in the Highland League. I actually have full sympathy with Brora in this situation where Scottish football officialdom has again been incapable of seeing beyond the Castlecary Arches. Most of them probably don't even know where Brora is - apart from the notion that it is up in this monolithic community called "the Highlands" (which begin at Perth) where we all live in adjacent black houses and hide each other's claymores and muskets in our thatched roofs. It simply is not realistic for many HL clubs to fulfil the requirements of the League Two fixture programme. Getting from Brora to Fraserburgh or Cove on a Saturday is difficult enough and midweek the HL has a 110 mile rule to prevent unrealistic journeys. The SPFL has created the most ridiculous of ironies here because for decades until 1994 its member clubs operated a self protection racket, hellbent on keeping the Highlands out. Since then the HL area has acquired four SPFL teams, two of which have shown a number of these erstwhile protectionists a thing or two. That has gone a long way to meeting demand for SPFL football from this geographically remote area, so there are now much fewer clubs still wanting in - at which point the SPLF go and make entry compulsory! This is just another case of football being a mirror of the society we live in since up in the Highlands we have been used for centuries to being treated as second class citizens by the Lowland Scots.

Watkins, Christie, Doran and Ofere sounds a deadly attack to me! This is a vital game for the season - no margin for error. Play at our best and we'll starve Raith of possession, but cup games rarely go like that! COME ON LADS!

1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal(616 minutes) 5. Joint record for number of Manager of the Month awards (2 for JH) ....many more to come!

Kevin McCann and Warriors win the S-League charity shield....

Spoke to Ryan Esson this morning, he said it could be a couple of weeks for Brill to be ready. But I'm happy with Ryan in goals, he's getting sharper after an 18 month break from playing SPFL footie!!

From STV Sport Players receive a one-match suspension when they accumulate six yellow cards in league matches. A further game ban is applied for every six bookings thereafter, eg. two-game ban for 12, three-match suspension for 18. Bans kick in 14 days after the sixth yellow is shown. Cautions are not added to the record if a player is shown two yellow cards in one game.

Strong coffee for that man................

Realistically only the Dundee teams can overtake us so top six is assured. On current form I believe we will reach thesplit in same position and with same points difference below us as now. How things pan out after the split is anyones guess but I expect us to finish third. I also expect us to capitalise on our cup chance and win it. I predict all sorts of records being broken this season.

........continuation of what we saw on Tuesday in Dundee. Our ability to keep the ball and move it about at pace appears to have deserted us, albeit, as Maryhill suggests, in the face of two sides who have been up-and-at-us. Too many players having an off day methinks and the up-and-coming break could be timely. Initially not at all convinced by our new man up front but , as the game went on and on reflection, he did quite well. His was a difficult task, being parachuted into a team of guys he had never even heard of, let alone met and played with. His holding up and linking will be an asset. He won balls in the air. His post-hitting effort looked like a strange contact as it travelled throught he air in slow motion but he buried his goal. Do we get Marley back next week? Motherwells two goals should have been better defended. I left very disappointed. Mrs Naelifts ( bad omen) says " Thats it, never again".but she says that every year. I'll bet she wants to come when we draw St Lucia in Europe! We can't win every game and our recent run has outstripped any sane mans expectations. Still in third place by a margin. So.......keep giving the effort lads.....you can never be accused of not doing that; believe in yourselves; we are where we are on merit.......

I think that I am beginning to like Yogi as much as I hated Terry Butcher !! - at least his cover up bullshit actually comes across as being honest and genuine and was a roundabout way of saying "Sorry fans we fecked it up but are trying to sort it out". Kilt is pressed and ready to go.

Disappointed to lose today, although we didn't do enough to win. We should have gone in ahead at half time but Williams couldn't take it round the keeper. Our defence appear to have turned into vampires in that they just can't deal with crosses. Thought Ofere showed some promise, nice flick on to set Williams up at the end of the first half and held the ball up well. Having a target man will add a different dimension to our play. Slightly nervous about next week as I'm not sure how our defence will deal with Nade

John Hughes gives a personal message for the fans in the interview

And the steel wool in his linings to scratch his face to activate blood streaming so he can then con the ref again...and again.

Probably the biggest factor in a poor overall performance today was players that have been pretty heroic all season apparently having off days. Draper's passing was very poor; Raven similarly so; Shinnie, in the first half at least, seemed very reluctant to take people on; and Christie's brain seemed to be working just a split second ahead of his feet, so that the ball didn't always follow him to where he wanted to go. The opposition and conditions also played a significant part: Motherwell set up really well against us and stopped us getting into any sort of rhythm, a tactic that worked really well for Partick earlier in the season, and the pitch became increasingly heavy as the game went on, which made it difficult for us to establish any sort of fluency once we came into the game. Apparently there has been some criticism of Ofere on social media. I don't see why. He worked hard, showed a decent first touch and tried to bring people into play, and considering he must know next to nothing about his teammates, I thought he did well. Could be a decent signing as we push, now, for what is a very realistic and achievable third place finish.

Well

Can't you see it is all part of yogi's strategy Roll on the rest of the matches. Looking forward to our away gang's opinions, Incidentally BBC count on shots on target......one someone said ! Typical two hit the woodwork worthy of goals and one cracker from Tansey just over, I'll watch them and the rest tonight on Alba highlights. i.e. if they are not edited out.

Let's also remember, that while we have missed chances to further ahead of Dundee Utd, they have also missed chances to close the gap. Works both ways! All we can do is take each game as it comes.

Ok i am very frustrated as again we have blown another chance to nail it home. Of course it will go down to the wire but we could have been 16 clear had we won our three games. Today was always going to be tricky and i am more frustrated by the last two games where we score 3 at home and still not win and then lead against 10 men only 5 mins into the game and we cant finish the job which is what Yogi has been speaking about for a month now. On the other hand United are in worse form than us and now face Celtic three weeks in a row. We have 10 games left and face United twice, Aberdeen twice and Celtic Twice but so do they so especially with the form as it is we are still in the driving the seat and this is a good time to lose. Hopefully this will galvanise the lads to up it for the final run to the end of the season. We will have a mini break and will have players back like wakins and warren soon and from what i heard that Ofere got better as the game went on so we can still do it

If we had got 6-9 points it would be simply a boring anti-climax.

IHE is quite correct but I can't help thinking if we had got all 9 points (which arguably we should have done), we would tonight be sitting level on points with Celtic and 15 points ahead of Dundee Utd. It would have been a genuine 3 way title race with us involved! However, it's not to be, but we are still in a very good place. By the way, when was the last time the bottom four all won on the same day?

What this thread requires at this time is some psychological words of wisdom from a professional perspective. What a poor week. 2 feckin points out of 9, lose a lead 3 times at home, can't beat a team who went down to 10 men and 1-0 after 5 minutes and fail to beat the whopping boys of the league. And then we show more indiscipline and make the squad depletion even worse. What a feckin disaster. But WHOA - let's reflect and take in the bigger picture. Have the footballing gods been with us or not ? We are now possibly in a stronger position than we were before we kicked off against Kille. Just look at the table. And then look at the fixture list. MASSIVE game next week but what a feckin booster a win would be. And then - well time to recuperate, regroup, refresh and hopefully RETURN. It gives us time to get the injured back, it gives us time to get the newbies more aware of the system, blend in and increase their fitness levels. It also serves suspension and highlights the need fer discipline to ALL concerned. This is actually the time to get behind the team and the team to repay the loyalty of 3000 frustrated followers. That is all fer now as I need to let my kilt in the mothballs and dust off my passport. Looks like old IHE will have to don the outfit again, at least twice, show of the tat and embarrass his family.

Is it not next to Thursopedia?

Regardless of who might be bottom of the 2nd Division, who might be in the play offs from the Highland League? There is a bit of discussion above with some folk thinking that Brora were taking steps to meet the criteria for league entry. However, I recall recently hearing Charles reporting on Good Morning Scotland that Brora were unlikely to apply. Can anyone update? I was sort of looking forward to the Brora / County derbies in the 2016/17 season.

...make that 2014/15 - got ahead of myself!