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The way things are going, I fully expect our next match highlights to be on Casualty, rather than Sportscene.

Great win for us yesterday especially given the number of players out. We're missing close to a full team right now through injuries and suspension and given our recent record against Well I don't think many of us were going in to the game with much confidence. Whilst we went in two up at the break I thought Motherwell were the better team in the first half although we did defend pretty well to keep them out. A lot of their chances were coming from the wide areas and they sent in a number of good crosses but fortunately Fon Williams was able to deal with the few headers and shots that came his way pretty easily. Whilst we may have been on the back foot for a fair bit of the first half I didn't feel like Well really had that cutting edge to get themselves back into the game and they passed up a number of decent half chances. The penalty award will cause a lot of debate. From the Motherwell TV highlights I think it looks like a harsh award. I think it is McMannus who is judged to have handled it and whilst the ball does hit his arm I don't think he deliberately meant to handle the ball. His hand / arm may not have been in the most natural place but I can't say that he meant to deliberately block any attempt on goal. The retake however was spot on. The laws of the game are clear that if players from both teams encroach and the outcome of the penalty kick is no goal then it is retaken. Second goal was very lucky as well. Complete Rick O'Shea (as Storey himself said on Twitter) off a Well defender beyond Ripley who was totally wrong footed. Before half time we lost Christie to an injury. No word yet what the damage was but he seemed to land awkwardly and jar his knee or twist something. There was no contact from any Well player. Hopefully it's not too bad and the international break gives him some time to recover in time for Partick. I thought we started the second half quite well but then quickly sat back to defend our lead. Well again seemed to focus most of their attacks down the flanks and claimed for a penalty when a cross came into the box and one of Devine or Meekings looked like they were pulling at the Motherwell player who went over. Hard to see if it was a good shout or not but certainly the home fans felt pretty aggrieved. Polworth, who had a superb game for us, passed up a good chance to score. Similar to the chance the other week against Dundee he found himself with time and space at the edge of the box but sent his effort well over via a deflection. From the corner however we grabbed our third goal. Our set pieces aren't normally up to much and we typically loft a ball into the six yard area for a defender to try and get a header in but this time, with the normal targets occupying the Well players heading towards the near post Tansey picks out Vigurs all alone at the edge of the box and he rifles a first time effort into the goal. Outrageous effort and one that surely has to be down as a Puskas 2016 contender... Motherwell got a goal back when Tremarco just missed blocking a pass to Ainsworth and he cut inside, floated a ball across goal which Fon Williams missed and Moult was at the back post to tuck the ball into the net. McManus was boxed for a pretty reckless lunge on Polworth who was sold short on a pass from Lopez. I thought he was pretty lucky to stay on the pitch to be honest. Looked like a pretty bad tackle at the time and I was surprised when he was only yellow carded. Storey went off injured and seemed to be holding his hamstring when he departed. Like Christie hopefully it's nothing too serious and the break will give him a chance to rest and be back for Partick. The best chance of the remainder of the game for Well fell to Fletcher who seemed to slip as he got his shot away. Anything else we dealt with pretty easily and we saw the game out quite comfortably. The drama wasn't over though as McManus received a second yellow card for a tussle with Lopez. I didn't see much wrong with it to be honest (and the Well highlights don't make it any clearer) but I guess he was judged to have elbowed Lopez which, given the player involved, I'm taking with a pinch of salt as Lopez has a habit of going doing far too easily. If he was judged to have elbowed Lopez I thought it would have been a straight red card rather than a second yellow. Who knows. At the end of the game some of the well fans in the disabled supporters section who would have had a good view if the McManus / Lopez incident started challenging Lopez to a fight Not many away games are going to top that one for ICT fans this season. Bit of confidence for us now ahead of Partick in a couple of weeks time.

Goals here - Yaaaaaaaaasssssss

What Sneckboy says. You don't count goals that are cancelled because of an infringement, therefore you don't count misses that are cancelled because of an infringement.

As a rather belated footnote to this, it has just struck me that it must be very unusual that we have been knocked out of two tournaments by the end of October. The last time it happened was 13 years ago when we were beaten 1-0 at Berwick in the Challenge Cup and put up a good fight losing 4-2 at Celtic Park in the League Cup.

they say your memory is the second thing to go. the first is......... I've forgotten.

it would be cheaper to pay for everybody's travel...

Despite it being an awful season injury-wise, if we'd managed to find another goal against a pretty poor Dundee side last week we'd be lying 5th with Uncle Roy's plaything in their rightful place below us if you consider the late goals we conceded against Dundee and St Johnstone (twice) as well as last weeks draw against Dundee, we could be 7 points better off and just behind Aberdeen. Shows what a tight league it is this season. No reason we can't get back into the top six, but a couple of bad results could see us plummet.

That was only a practice shot.

Now that Vigurs has the bit between his teeth he could also become a front runner....roll on an injury free ICT with a signed up John Hughes too.

What the video does clearly show is gross encroachment with the first penalty. Indeed if the rules were observed absolutely to the letter, there was encroachment even before Tansey began his run for the first penalty because two Motherwell players have feet over the 18 yard line right from the start. Technically the referee should have pulled them up for that before the kick was taken - which on the other hand might then have headed off later encroachment and the first, saved penalty might have stood! Talking about Motherwell's "partisan element", Tam Cowan was griping from the very start on Off The Ball about the retake, his argument being that other referees ignore encroachment, so this one should have too. Presmably he would also argue that since Lord Lucan got off with murder, everyone else should as well. I also wonder what the next rule will be that he wants to ignore when its application is against his interests. On the other hand it might all have been a top-of-programme wind up to get a reaction.......

We weren't lucky at all - always in control and could well have scored more than four. One of our best performances for quite a while.

Are posters genuinely surprised that a package of highlights, produced by one of the clubs involved in the match, are more biased towards showing what that club did in the game? Get a grip. Motherwell aren't obligated to show whether the game was a fair balance or not. I'm sure the ICT highlights, whenever they come out, will likely favour ICT and what is certain is that both sets of highlights will be better than Sportscene.

Jeez. How one-eyed were those highlights? The camera may not lie, but the editing certainly can There's no way they dominated the first half like that. And interesting that the challenge that ended Christie's game wasn't shown. I thought we were ok yesterday. Apart from the shot that hit the bar in the first half, I thought that we defended comfortably. In the second half we allowed ourselves to be penned back and we were hanging on a bit at the end. Having said that, we looked more solid at corners than we had for a while. It was Tremarco diving in and not getting the ball away that gave them the space for their goal. Horner had a solid enough game at right back, and Lopez was ok when he came on, although he won't be winning any awards for industry. He seemed more suited to that slightly deeper role, but again it does look like time has slowed down when he moves. Taney looks like he's getting some form back, and it's good that Warren is back cos Devine must be nearing a suspension after that booking yesterday. We were a bit lucky with the penalty retake, but it was the encroaching player that cleared the ball, which may have forced the referees hand. I thought McManus could have gone for either of the incidents he got booked for..Pearson was acting like a total nob at the end, he was obviously trying to wind Lopez up. I thought that Motherwell were a pretty petulant lot. MacDonald was diving at every opportunity. And a special word for the Motherwell fans - welts. What a bunch of poor persecuted souls they truly are.

Absolutely superb! He'll climb to a new career high (or should that be low?!) World Ranking, too. The list isn't usually, officially published until Monday, when all the worldwide event results are known - but it's estimated that he'll now be ranked n the 30s... His cheque for winning is a staggering $1,400,000 !!! Let's get him (and his wallet) on the Inverness CT board! Edit to change '£' to '$' (still a prize worth getting out of bed for!)

He has done it! Russell Knox wins in Shanghai, the biggest win of his career. Well done to him.

Report coming up later after I have trawled home through the feckin incessant rain. That Well crowd was the whiniest I have ever come across. They should be bemoaning their final touch and shooting rather than shouting fer every 50/50 and blasting the officials. Bottom line is that the officials got all the calls right - although the assault on Dani's beard looked slightly OTT. When will we get everybody fit when we play them before they are recovered. Storey looked to have pulled the same hamstring again. It looked like a shocking challenge on Christie and I note that the Stalinist cameras did not play it. No doubt erased by Kruschev.

Extended highlights.

What a relief that game was. We still didn't create a great deal in terms of clear-cut chances, but the defence held its shape better and the midfielders closed down much more effectively than in recent games, and we never allowed Motherwell to get a grip of the game at any point. The original penalty decision looked a clear-cut handball, and fair play to Craig Thomson for ordering the retake for encroachment, which most teams do and expect to get away with. The Storey goal looked like it had wrongfooted Ripley horribly at the time, and apparently, according to Storey on Twitter, it was a big deflection. The Vigurs goal, however, was sublime - one of those where you could see him shaping to hit it as it fell to him, and it looked like it went in in slow motion. Vigurs didn't have a great game otherwise; Polworth, on the other hand, was superb from start to finish: fighting for everything, getting all over the park, and distributing the ball really well. He had a very good game earlier in the season against St Johnstone but since then seems to have been pretty inconsistent; hopefully him getting a run in the team has built his confidence and he might be able to establish himself as a first pick even when we have a fully fit squad. Tremarco was another player who has looked uncertain recently but who had an excellent game, and on the other side Lewis Horner looked fairly solid and didn't stop running all day. In the longer term, the most important thing about this game is that it has put more points on the board and stopped a potentially morale-sapping slump. There was nothing from today's game to suggest that we are likely to go on the sort of run that will get us back into the sort of position we were at the turn of the year last season; at the same time, I'm less worried than I was that we might end up getting cut adrift, with, say, United and maybe Partick. Yay for mediocrity.