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Shameless plug here - I wrote a blogpost about our defensive issues this season and NareysToePoke blog kindly published it http://nareystoepoker.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/caley-thistles-case-for-defence.html Hope people find it interesting, any feedback welcome.

Gringo if we get beat by them it will be without doubt the most embarrassing result in our short history For those slagging off Elgin fans I don't think we are in any position to have a go at their attendances, a successful Elgin no matter how ludicrous that sounds would match if not eclipse our fanbase similar to County I'd reckon If any of the N.E.S.C (Never Ever Stand Crew) are in attendance they will get an awful shock to see how the Inverness Football Fraternity has evolved over the years since the great days of yore In simple terms Elgin always wanted to be Caley but they never ever came even remotely close Jealousy is not an attractive trait Dougal

Could be a good bet on both teams score / one team to win ? Anyway yesterday Hellgin appear to have almost lost a 3-0 win and the team that had spent most of the day in a feckin bus look as if their fitness levels were superior.

We should beat Elgin but I'm not certain that coming off a three week break is an advantage. Elgin have played weekly and will be match fit whereas we could be a little off the pace in that respect. I remember that when we overturned Hearts at Tynecastle when we were in the Old First Division it was the Jambo's first game after the SPL's Winter break whereas we, as an SFL club, had played all the way through. I am convinced that that was as big a factor in our win then as Ross Tokeley's big heart. No room for complacency.

Now 7/1 for an Elgin win. I cannot see Elgin being able to compete with us. They're part time and our players have had the benefit of the break. We will win comfortably.

We need a sleverer smiley.

AS per usual Dougal, what utter nonsense

A canny wee 2nd choice by the Mister - nice one indeed

Only ex ICT scorer I spotted this afternoon (14 Jan) was Shane Sutherland in Elgin's 3-2 win over Annan. Hope that is his lot now for this month, with our game against them coming up!

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey A MAN and his son were once going with their Donkey to market. As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?” So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.” So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little son trudge along.” Well, the Man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said: “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor Donkey of yours—you and your hulking son?” The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied the Donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the Donkey to their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned. “That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them: “TRY TO PLEASE ALL, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NONE. ALL YOU'RE LIKELY TO DO IS LOSE YOUR ASS!!”

I'm sure I did! As it happens, a couple of days after IBM's post I then happened to be in Hugh's company in the Caley Club both pre and post match.