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I find it mind boggling that Warren and Meetings aren't played alongside each other when both fit!? IMO they are the best defensive pairing we have ever had. They understand and compliment each other perfectly, I just don't get it..........

Agree with a lot of this. We seem to trying to play in a way that's so pure, anything that's considered un-footballing is looked upon as something we shouldn't do. Long throws are unpure, long range shooting is unpure, counter-attacking is unpure, wingers beating a man and crossing into the box is looked upon as embarrassing. It makes no sense. We seem to be playing with the mentality that possession is everything. It isn't. Something you want to control in the game yes, but it isn't the be-all-and-end-all of life. For my money, our best defence is Raven-Warren-Meekings-Williams and it's time we went to it. I don't have a problem with Meekings at right-back per se, but I would only really put him there in emergency situations. Again yesterday I was really impressed with Liam Polworth and those calling for the inclusion of Wedderburn were proven right. I thought he had a good game and should always be the go-to man whenever Draper is out.

Why do we make it so difficult for ourselves? It's great to get the 3 points. of course, but Kilmarnock were so poor that we could and should have taken them to the cleaners. The BBC report, referring to a period when we were 1 up, summed things up well when it said "The home fans began to voice their frustration as their side seemed to develop a tendency to play the ball backwards when an attack looked possible." In the 2nd half Kilmarnock had to score and pushed forward more. Instead of exploiting the space created and trying to kill the game off we continued with the passing at the back and generally trying to play it narrow through the middle. This allowed the opposition to regroup and cover. It allowed them to keep pressure on us in our own half and gave them hope. Generally we passed the ball about crisply and tidily but there was rarely any end product. Polworth played well and was looking to get forward and both Mutombo and Sho-Silva showed some ambition to get forward when they came on and the game was more stretched. But at the end of the day, I think their keeper (who had no chance with either goal) only had one save to make. It should have been a comfortable win but in the end it was a nervy one. Unless we can have a bit more urgency getting forward and create more chances, we are going to struggle to keep out of the relegation zone this season.

Bizarre language. How could anyone with any interest in Scottish football over the last couple of decades not recognise Duncan Shearer?

Put the ball into the box from a free kick? Don't be silly - we might lose possession!

I think Meekings has done pretty well at right back. He's probably overall a more sturdy defender than Raven and a bigger physical presence for set piece situations, but his end product at the other end isn't as good. Raven chips in with assists and goals whereas Josh all too often balloons his crosses into the stand and rarely gets into goal scoring positions. I also don't get why we don't use Meekings long throw in since we put him back on the right. It's almost as good as a corner, he's the SPL version of Rory Delap, but for some reason we have an aversion to putting the ball in the box. Same story with free kicks, almost always taken short in situations where every other team in the league would get the big men up and put it in. When you see how good guys like Warren, Draper or Devine are in the air, you have to wonder how many goals we would actually score if we gave these guys the service. We could easily be leading the chart for goals scored from set pieces. As it is I reckon we're probably near the bottom.

After losing so many talented players for nothing, I would suggest that now would be a good time to get Liam Polworth signed up on a minimum 3 year contract. What a prospect he's turning out to be. Won't be long till other clubs are sniffing around with PCAs. The usual. Hopefully the club has learned from the Ryan Christie experience.

Team lines for the Youth Cup last-16 game (from Hearts Twitter):

Out tickets finally arrived today. ICTChris had to pay £2 to Royal Mail for them because there was no postage on the envelope.

Sat 12 Dec 2015 Scot Premier A Rooney (Aberdeen 1 - Hearts 0) SL 1 B Prunty (Stranraer 1 - Airdrieonians 3) EL 1 T Aldred (Wigan 0 - Blackpool 1) Incidentally, a mate of mine is a rabid Blackpool fan. He says Aldred has been awesome all season! EL 2 A MacDonald (Oxford U 1 - Carlisle 1) Highland League D Wyness (Clach 0 - Buckie 4) A MacAskill (Wick 3 - Turriff U 3)

But it had been an project in mind for some long time before that, DD, at least in traffic management terms, if not in bridge safety ones......although a second bridge started then, by Westminster, via the TORY Scottish Office, might have prevented some of the problems faced by the original bridge later...because in 1995 Westminster was looking at the possibility of a second bridge..something to which Alistair Darling objected and which he called this ridiculous bridge. Those plans were shelved when the Labour Government took power after the 1997 GE.....and, while there was a Lab/LibDem Executive in Scotland from 1999 to 2007, neither they, or FETA, which they dominated in membership numbers, considered a new bridge more "essential" than trying to keep the old one open. The decision to proceed with a replacement bridge was taken at the end of 2007, not at any stage between 1999 and the 2007 election. Given that in 2003, Nicol Stephen commissioned a study into the cost of a second bridge, why was the decision not made then, and the process started? Given that FETA supported a new bridge in 2005, when it became clear that the old bridge was showing real problems, why was nothing done then and the process started? Given in 2006, even Alistair Darling thought the new bridge wouldn't be a ridiculous bridge, why were steps not made to get something off the ground then? Given that, in 2003, the cost of the new bridge was priced at £300 million, why did the Scottish Executive find it so hard to spend the cumulative £1.5 billion (£273 million of it added in 2004/2005) it handed back to the Treasury during their time in power? Why did they not use that money to undertake consideration of the planning options, conduct the planning enquiries, get the objections from the environmentalists and the NIMBYs out of the way, agree the contracts and get the proposal through Holyrood themselves? After all, they had from 1999 to do it, and even if they didn't ever get in again, no Scottish Executive coming after them would be daft enough to dump an "essential" project such as that. The SNP, I notice, weren't worried enough about somebody else getting the credit for their work that they waited to see if they were going to succeed in 2011 before getting things set up ready to go. As it is, because the 1999-2007 Scottish executive talked a lot but accomplished nothing definitive regarding the construction of a second Forth Crossing,it took until 2010 for the SNP to get all the planning issues dealt with, contracts in place, get it through Holyrood (which alone took a year),and get Royal Assent... and construction started in September 2011 (and, by then, the cost had shot up to around £3 billion rather than the £300 million of eight years before). So, let's be clear.......the original idea was a Tory one, the Scottish Executive prior to 2007 spoke about the Tory idea, paid out cash to study various aspects of it......and did absolutely squat about any part of the results of those studies of various aspects. The SNP Scottish Government actually did all the work required to get a second crossing built....because nobody else did! I'd probably have agreed with you if you had said that the Scottish Executive, prior to 2007, had set up policies like home care for the elderly and bus passes because they did.and the SNP just built on that, although they are receiving all the credit now......but come on....the Lab/LibDem Scottish Executive didn't initiate any process, because if they had, then the SNP, from 2007 to 2010 wouldn't have had to jump through all the planning/contract/parliamentary hoops they had to circumnavigate....they could just have come into power to deal with the same fait accompli that they would have left for Labour...... if Labour had managed to achieve a majority in 2011. If talking about stuff was all it took to make stuff happen, and then allowed somebody who had done nothing constructive, to claim the credit for that happening, even if somebody else accomplishes the project, then, if the Lab/LibDem Scottish Executive had actually removed their thumbs from their behinds and constructed the second bridge after 1999, would you be on forums claiming that the Tories should be getting the credit, because the process to explore the options was initiated by them before devolution?

Believe it or not, we don't actually have any footage from our match in Romania. AndyCam was (literally) taken hostage by an over-zealous steward over there and denied access to the TV gantry. They did promise to have a copy of the game for us made up before we left...but that didn't happen and the promise to send it on to us never transpired. Complaint to UEFA fell on deaf ears. Even if we had the footage, there's huge restrictions on what you can use and you have to pay a pretty penny for the right to reproduce it....so it would likely have ended up being cost prohibitive to include it anyway. These costs reduce over time, so if we ever manage to get our hands on the footage then it may be one for the future, such as St Johnstone have done. There's a 4 figure fee to the SFA for rights to use the Scottish Cup footage. There's a ton more content we would like to have included on both DVD's, but the more you add the poorer the quality, so it's a balancing act and the decision was made to go more with the content from the games than interviews and chat....some will agree with that and some won't, que sera. One alternative would have been to add a 3rd DVD, which would have delayed production until after Christmas and put another fiver on the purchase cost....or we could have just not bothered producing a DVD at all. The DVD's had to be produced on a tight budget (all edited together by competent volunteer/s, working in their own time) in order to ensure it remained financially viable...so I can understand that people will feel it's not up to blockbuster standards. Such is the nature of things when supporting a club the size of ICTFC where sales aren't going to afford the luxury of investing in bells and whistles. The DVD was very much done as a means of ensuring fans had a record of the season and the club certainly aren't going to be getting rich off the back of it.....if they were, then we'd be doing DVD's at the end of every season!!

Go to any railway station in Britain, no-matter how small and you'll hear announcements about unattended bags. This is no different. Irresponsible behaviour IMO and no sympathy from me and certainly none had they taken it out for a controlled explosion.

Unattended bags have been a big no no for as long as I can remember and not just a result of recent events in Paris. Whether you agree with the reaction or not, it's incredibly naive to think you can just leave a bag laying there and wander off....regardless of where you are in public.

Surely, in the current climate, a little bit of additional security and the minor inconvenience of retrieving a bag is a price worth paying to keep people safe.

On the contrary, it depends on how wisely he spends the budget he has.

The draw has resulted in:

Having watched the highlights and read the comments I am surprised so many knickers are getting twisted. We really were quite convincing winners, all that bothers me is the number of wasted and missed opportunities there were for us. We should have had a barrow-load of goals. Never mind, at least we are making the chances which means eventually the goals will keep coming. Admittedly it was the highlights I watched so I may have got the wrong impression. To me there were many positives there especially the three points we picked up.

That is shocking aren't stewards at the gate checking the bags before people head through the gate. Why not just get them to double check their is nothing in it. I know it was terrible what happened in Paris but come people in Inverness are not that clever no offence anyone. Disgraceful surely the stewards at the gate know the regulars that take in a bag for kids sweets and juice because people are not willing to pay for a terrible pie or very expensive amounts of money for a juice and sweets they have at ICTFC are not the best selection. sorry to hear your bag was taken away without you knowing they could of a least waited until you got back to your seat and asked you nicely rather than taking it away without you knowing!! . But im glad you got it back

Complete nonsense, Oddquine. How about we just stick to the facts? I'll keep it simple. The detailed Forth Replacement Crossing Study was commissioned by Transport Scotland during the last Lab/Lib administration. The first 3 reports of that study were published in February 2007 which was before the SNP came into power and the Final report of the study was published in June 2007 which was after they came into power. The Lab/Lib government could not have acted on the study because they were no longer in office when the final report was published! The SNP on coming into Government were presented with the report which gave options for the crossing which by this time most people had accepted was urgently required. The ground work was all in place and the SNP simply had no option but to take the process forward. To state that the Lab/Lib government didn't initiate any process is demonstrably wrong as is your equally absurd statement that the SNP government did all the work to get the crossing approved.

Lets not get carried away, killie were awful but we werent much better. We move the ball to slowly forward, we play 3 in midfield behind storey yet they seem scared or unwilling to break and move forward in support instead sitting or dropping back. Too often loose passes in the midfield from polworth and wed, vincent played well and got everywhere and vigurs had a decent game contibuting more than he has in any game ive seen him. meekings is wasted on the right especially when we look weak in the middle with devine still off form. We need either raven or horner right back and tremarco on the left that way williams can be further up field and support storey. Both the subs yet again fail to bring much both had good chances but made poor decisions whether thats lack of fitness, confidence or game time its yet unclear but after half a season they have contributed nothing so have a lot to prove but i dont see that in their play yet.