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Highland League Zander Sutherland (Formartine United 3-3 Brora Rangers) Garry Wood (Formartine United 3-3 Brora Rangers) Grant Munro (Formartine United 3-3 Brora Rangers) Northern Irish Premiership Curtis Allen TWO GOALS (Carrick Rangers 1-2 Glentoran)

Charlie Yes I remember Mr Thom. I should , since he nearly took my hand off after belting me so hard that I was left wondering if their was a hand still on the end of the stump. He made sure he didn't miss either since he insisted that I double up my hands. I mean, was tying my scarf to the desk and around my leg and fidgeting and not paying attention is not a capital crime is it? The ignominy of not being able to get loose-- from my tireless efforts to do a good job on the scarf --was deflating enough after he called me out to get belted and the other pupils waited in awe and with bated breath watching Mr. Thom get somewhat irritated, probably thinking that I was just trying to delay the inevitable. A nasty type-? Dunno but I don't think so, it's just that Pimples have an endearing trait of pissing off teachers. --that was the second teacher that belted me for the exact same reasons. What was it with Academy teachers..eh? No understanding with pupils who have attention- deficit -disorder. Maybe this is a case for IHE to adjudicate.

Ended 1-1 with Andrew Macrae scoring for us.

Not me who is looking down my nose at our fans my friend as it appears anyone who disagrees with you is not entitled to say so. Didn't say anything about people being hurt or if seats were broken but if fans are behaving in an unseemly manner, even if only a minority, it can reflect on the club and perhaps discourage people from attending which is the opposite of what we both want.Being of a generation who have sung and shouted at football matches for over 40 years, I am happy to sing and support my team but will not sing along with certain songs if I think they are offensive. Enough said by me on this topic now.

^^^ smashed a seat up and threw it at the Motherwell Bois when Roberts scored that screamer the other week.

Starting on stewards- is that the same stewards who antagonised the situation by their over zealous heavy handed approach? The stewards behaviour was, I would suggest, like a red rag to a bull. Shouting at police - the same police that were hurriedly called to the section by the stewards who were fearing for their lives because some people were jumping and singing oh the humanity! The police that were then video-recording said singing and jumping. I'm sure they were politely asked to turn off their cameras........ A small pitch invasion....are you having a laugh!!!! One guy jumps over the barrier to celebrate a goal and it's a pitch invasion.....behave herself mun! and I agree, there is no place for foul mouthed hate filled chanting at a derby match......because that doesn't happen at a Dundee Derby or the old firm or Manchester or any London derby.....nope just those unacceptable ict fans..... and I witnessed a lot of pro ict songs. More than I ever did whilst sitting in the main stand at TCS, now....if this is what you want from football then you crack on. in fact, the 'support' that I have witnessed while sitting in the main stand at TCS is far more derogatory to the club than anything that happened through in Dingwall. Sitting in silence, only breaking that silence to deride every single pass and decision by every player and the management, whilst simultaneously tutting that the opposition never make a mistake and are just perfect.....the players hear it and pick up on it! the atmosphere on Saturday was described as fantastic and electric by the Beeb....this was of course as a result of the tremendous support of the two teams by everyone in the ground, except for those in section d.......because they were just childish hooligans! FANS NOT CRIMINALS

This is a thread started simply by a usual suspect going off on (another) one post-match, with the OP currently sitting on a rating of minus 9 whereas Renegade's response suggesting he finds it pretty boring is on plus 6. But yet here it is, almost 48 hours on, still piling up the posts (OK this is one but I need to make this related point) and going strong. That would seem quite unfortunate, even in the avsence a Cup replay and the Clash of the Cupholders in Dingwall both within the next five days.

I remember the good old days when there used to be a load of hype surrounding a Scottish Qualifying Cup QF where a win would get you into the first round of the real thing!

Methinks The Doctor is stuck in some kind of late 20th century denial-based psychological time warp. No doubt he will be able to self diagnose.

I can assure you that my motivation is not tribalism. I'll leave that to the SNP whilst I will continue to argue for a a greater level of working together for the common good. Neither am I gung ho for tax rises; it is just that I feel we have reached a point that we need to put more money into public services and there is no other sensible way of doing this. Let's go back a few years to when Blair first got elected. He inherited one of those rare things in British politics - a budget surplus. At that time Gordon Brown was renowned for his prudence, and whilst we moved into deficit in the next few years, it was nothing serious. Then 2 things happened. Firstly, Brown, having become PM decided he wanted to be popular rather than prudent and, with the help of Alistair Darling, significantly increased public spending. No sooner had they done that than the recession arrived. This caused expenditure to rise further with people losing jobs and needing welfare and bank bail outs etc. Meanwhile income from taxes of all sorts dropped and the deficit (the difference between the government's spending and its income) rocketed from just under £10bn at end of March 2008 to £103bn in 2010. In May of that year the Tories came into power in coalition with the Lib Dems and clearly faced a very serious crisis. If deficit is funded by borrowing this in turn increases the level of the national debt. In turn, higher levels of debt increase the interest payments and further squeezes what you can do with the income you get. They had to contain the level of public spending whilst taking measures to encourage business to grow in order to create jobs and get the economy growing again. Whilst there is much I don't like about the Tories, the fact is that, with some reservations, they handled the crisis pretty well. We are now one of the fastest growing economies in the world, employment levels have never been higher and they have halved the level of the deficit with it forecast to move into surplus (in the UK) in around 2020. The SNP, of course, have railed against the austerity measures and claimed we should have borrowed more to invest in public services and created jobs there. They know fine that all that would have achieved would be to increase the deficit and the debt even more because we need jobs which earn the country money. But it was easy to say because there was no chance they would be in a position to address the problems. In this way the SNP have been able to sit back and let the Tories get the economy back on track again whilst at the same time blaming them for any perceived hardship and getting a nation to hate them . That's pretty cynical, but what makes it worse is that in all this time the SNP have had it in their power to ease the pressure on public services by increasing Council Tax - even if only in line with inflation - and they have chosen not to do so. Not surprisingly, Education and Social Services amongst others have been squeezed and people have suffered as a result. They blame the Tories but that is SNP austerity pure and simple. Looking at the debate yesterday I cringe every time I see Sturgeon spit out those 2 words "Tory austerity". She spits the words out as though all Tories were child molesters, and yet it is the Tory policies which have, albeit with some pain, got the country's economy back on a sounder footing. The irony is that should Scotland vote to become independent in the next few years, thanks to the Tories, the Scottish economy is in a far better shape to go it alone than had we attempted to borrow our way out of recession as the SNP and the loony left of the Labour party wanted. But make no mistake, whilst the UK economy is steadily eroding it's deficit, the Scottish Budget deficit is growing. The Scottish economy may be much better off than had we tried to borrow our way out of recession, but according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies the deficit per head in Scotland is 3 times the level it is in the UK as a whole. In other words, the budget deficit in Scotland per head of population is currently higher than it was in the UK as a whole at the height of the recession. It is expected to rise to over £12bn when the UK as a whole moves into surplus. There is a huge black hole in the Scottish economy and it is about time the SNP Government took some responsibility for it rather than blaming the Tories all the time. This is why there is a need to put up taxes. It is either that or cutting public spending. With the new devolved powers it's becoming harder for the SNP to avoid taking responsibility, Yesterday's debate was interesting in that Sturgeon's tactic was a continuation of saying what is most popular on every issue. So she will increase welfare payments, invest more in education, the NHS and alternative energy but yet won't increase income tax. Interestingly, her policy of not increasing income tax is going to raise an additional £2bn! It just doesn't add up and I would expect the other parties to become increasingly effective at showing the public what frauds the SNP are. Unfortunately, the SNP's failure to act is in keeping with their usual cynical manipulative strategy. The excuses are being trotted out already. They say that if the better off are taxed more then they'll put their money elsewhere or leave the country - well, if that's the case and they are not going to use the powers, why didn't they think of that before they asked for them? They will now expect the UK Government to bale them out and when they don't, they will bleat on about it all being the Tories fault. They will point to the fact that we only have one Tory MP and Scotland doesn't get the Government it votes for. And they will use this to fan the flames of independence again. What's best for the Scottish people does not come into it.

I just looked at the caleyjags Picts. That smoke bomb made a fair mess. http://caleyjags.com/pa/g1516/160319_RossCounty/index.html

Taken prior to Caley v Rangers game

John Hughes said the fans and noise was fantastic. John Hughes is never wrong. Case closed.