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How nice it is to be able to enjoy a Saturday evening without being in an ICT-induced shitty mood because of our latest poor result/performance - you have to go back as far as September to find a Saturday victory for us. The family are enjoying this return of the ungrumpy me and are already fans of this winter shutdown!

Me, I missed my addictive dose, it's worse than losing, correction, I mean, well not winning. Roll on next match.

Man over board!!! Seriously though, you can't let the results of a club who are unlikely to lift the league cup in the next 50 years affect your mood. Even third placed Aberdeen have only won half of their matches, where as we haven't lost half of ours and I've still enjoyed a lot of the games.

There are still skinheads about or old bald men if you prefer that name.

Sat -07 Jan 2017 SL1 R McAllister (Peterhead 2 - Livingston 3) SL 2 S Sutherland (2) (Elgin 3 - Montrose 0) Highland League S Soane (2) (Clach 2 - Forres 4) Z Sutherland (Inverurie 2 - Brora R 2)

Aye Craig Storie...lol

Absolutely. Generic phrases like 'have been linked' and 'reports suggest' could simply mean 'ICT supporter in Edinburgh sitting bored at work opens Twitter and thinks, 'time for a spot of fishing...'' Re. your second question, Storey would at least provide pace, a decent finish and the ability to play off the last man; he'd be different to what we have, and would certainly improve the squad. I'm not sure if he's the sort of player that would function all that well as part of a partnership, though - he never showed the ability of, say, Mckay to play with his back to goal and hold the ball up, while also being a prolific finisher in his own right. Those sorts of players are pretty hard to get hold of, though.

No one is talking for putting the long term aims of the club in jeopardy. I don't agree with overspending either but if it cost the club £1,000,000 when it was relegated then if its possible to invest an additional something to keep it afloat then surely you would rather invest 5-10% of that potential loss in the team knowing full well that an additional two places in the league would recoup the money anyway. Nothing wrong with taking prudent precautionary measures, which is exactly what the club is doing as the gaffer is talking of bringing a couple of extra players in. Not directed at you but we often hear of us constantly punching above our weight, well what about Motherwell and their success or their players McFadden or Pearson as an example. We aren't far away from finding our own gems with the quality of football vastly improving at a junior level in the area. Hamilton v Motherwell Derby only had 3526 attendees. We are no longer the wee highland club that has come to visit the top flight for a novelty experience, it's now our home and it's up to everyone to pull together and secure the clubs future.

A small community club, sorry but to my mind that is doing ourselves a massive injustice. We are an established top tier club and should think of ourselves as one. If we accept second best that's what we will get. The balls up with JD Sports and Carbrini was amateurish and I wonder if it was either Motherwell or St Johnstone in our position the outcome would have been the same.

12th man, you were perhaps being a bit too selective when you chose only to quote the words "Yogi with a team that reached Europe and won the Scottish Cup, was a result of the quality of the players he recruited " whereas if you had instead chosen to extend your quote to the entire sentence "It has become increasingly apparent that much of the success of the Butcher era, which had enough momentum to provide Yogi with a team that reached Europe and won the Scottish Cup, was a result of the quality of the players he recruited" a different interpretation may have emerged. Now I do agree that there would have been no scope at all for ambiguity at all if I had said "the players which Butcher recruited" or "the players which he (Butcher) recruited" . In hindsight that would have been a better way of putting it since the last named person before the "he" is indeed "Yogi" rather than "Butcher". But, given that "Yogi" is in a separate clause interpolated into the statement linking "Butcher" and "he", and that the full sentence doesn't seem as ambiguous as the part of it you selected.... I maybe just got away with it! So to avoid any ambiguity - in my view, much of the success at ICT of John Hughes, whose own signings were less than impressive, originated from players recruited by Terry Butcher.