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A settled back 4, with Meekings and Warren in the middle is a must. For me, Raven and Tremarco would be at full back, but I wouldn't complain at Williams. Horner doesn't do it for me and Devine seems to make one mistake per game which costs us a goal. If Raven goes it would cost us!

Without losing sight of the first defence, Stirling are actually on a very good run of form currently. Let no one get distracted from the fact that we have in recent years struggled against teams in other leagues let alone our own!

Nice to see ICT get a checky wee mention on BBC Sports Personality Of Year last night ... can be seen at just over 42 minutes in if anyone missed and wants to see on iPlayer.

Train operator Scotrail has announced a £475m programme, pledging new trains, thousands of extra seats, more at-seat power points and better wifi. Including improved trains for the north. ScotRail's new High Speed Train fleet will be introduced from autumn 2017 and throughout 2018 and used on the Glasgow-Aberdeen, Edinburgh-Aberdeen, Glasgow-Inverness, Edinburgh-Inverness and Aberdeen-Inverness routes. As this fleet is made up of four and five-carriage trains, rather than current three-carriage trains, the seating capacity will increase on these services by, on average, 36%. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35153722

I really hope you are wrong

Herald is unionist Elmer.

Merry chrimbo to all cybernats. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14159083.Poll__SNP_increases_lead_despite_opposition_attacks_at_Holyrood/ SUPPORT for the SNP has increased in the face of opposition attacks over the Scottish Government's handling of the Forth Road Bridge closure and the NHS, a new poll has revealed. The TNS survey found that the nationalists have extended their lead over Labour ahead of next May's Holyrood election, with Kezia Dugdale's party seeing its ratings drop since last month in both constituency and list voting intentions. It was also found that more people in Scotland oppose the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent than support it, although there is not an overall majority in favour of scrapping the weapons system among the public north of the border. New evidence also emerged that interest in the upcoming election is waning, less than six months out from the vote.

We really need Raven back, grown men surely should be able to sort things out. The team is bigger than both of them come on guys rattle back in the pram.

Another first for ICT. Mentioned in the BBC Sports Personality 2015, ICT winning the Scottish Cup with James Vincent scoring the winning goal that wonderful afternoon at Hampden in May.

Everyone in the stadium could see that we were being completely rogered down the left side during the first half. Yes Horner was very poor but surely Hughes would sort out some kind of technical help for him if he was determined that he should stay on. On today's showing Raven is a much better defender. The football we are playing is boring boring boring, lots of possession but no penetration, come on Yogi sort it out.

Aye, a poor result, but it was almost worse! Almost half-way through the season now, and much to play for! Europe, Top-6, relegation play-off! All possible!

Yup, that's a pretty hefty hit for the luxury of the leader of a devolved regional assembly trying to con the international community into believing that Scotland is actually a significant world player rather than simply the United Kingdom's equivalent of Bavaria, Tuscany, Wallonia and sundry regions of various other countries. However I suspect that the said international community is not going to be as easy to con as almost half the Scottish electorate have been - although evidence which will help the penny to drop there is now accumulating at a gratifyingly increasing rate. But quite frankly, I find it just a bit embarrassing that Sturgeon should turn up in Paris at a meeting where dozens of delegates from the world's sovereign nations would have been asking in various languages "Who the HELL is that? David Cameron's PA or Wee Jimmy Krankie?" Mind you I suppose it's just the kind of grandiose showboating you would expect from a successor of Alex Salmond.

I find it quite embarrassing to know that Bannerman, a fellow Invernessian and Scot, turned up on this earth.