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Dire first half. Struggle to remember anything that happened to be honest. Second half saw a lot more action. Tudor Jones sending off was not, as Sky have it, for foul and abusive language. I am still undecided if I think it was harsh or not. At first I thought a yellow would have sufficed but I think that it could be argued that he was a bit OTT with the tackle and therefore it could constitute serious foul play. Regardless, I think he should have known better as it's not even as if the tackle had to be made. Clear red for Anderson though for me. Sutherland was lumbering towards goal and Anderson came through the back of him and took him clean out without getting anything on the ball. A certain sending off and Foran sent Langfield the wrong way to put ICT ahead. We should have bagged a second when we broke with four players v one Aberdeen defender yet somehow contrived to pass up the chance to get what would have a game killing goal. Doran took far too long on the ball and Reynolds (?) snuck in and cleared it. I think there could be some argument for a penalty and potentially another sending off but Doran should have buried the chance long before Reynolds even got a sniff of any attempted tackle. Terrible defending from ICT let Aberdeen in to equalise. Free kick was knocked down the right to Hayes (I think) who, under no pressure as the ICT defenders dozed in the middle of the pitch, was allowed to stand the ball up to one of the Aberdeen subs to place a header coolly beyond Esson. Overall a draw was a fair result but at times it was a desperately poor game. You can see why Aberdeen fans are so frustrated by their team at times. In Hayes and Fraser they have some excellent wide players who will create chances but they had absolutely nothing up front to put away whatever scraps were offered to their forwards. They didn't create too many clear cut chances today right enough but you'd imagine they will do over the course of the season. As for ICT it was a better defensive performance than recent games against Celtic and Motherwell. Hayes was contained well on his return and there were some meaty challenges flying in at times. Andrew Shinnie was disappointing. He never got going today. Graeme Shinnie did well at left midfield with Blackman performing solidly behind him. Doran was hugely disappointing and I feel that he could soon become the new Robert Eagle. He is too slow and can seldom get by his man. Today Hayes took our full backs to the cleaners at times but we never saw the same from Doran who struggled to get beyond his man on many occasions. A good point in the grand scheme of things but I do worry about where our goals to win games will come from. I know we have scored a few this season already but I honestly cannot see how this is the case. We look very one dimensional.

No he wasn't.

Dee Man I'd strongly advise taking your mobile number off the site just in case. I would send Caley D a message using the sites messaging system/ Cheers.

Basically, we've now established that we are losing our better players because we have no Nandos in Inverness. This is clearly the fault of Butcher who has shown he is not capable of building a Nandos in Inverness capable of retaining our star players. He has to go!

I like the sesame chicken strips in TGIs. Let's be honest, a lot of these places you only go to for convenience. They are glorified fast food chains.

You are now an enemy of the ICT players I would imagine.

Aberdeen is about to get a second Nandos. No wonder Hayes left. Butcher get it sorted!

Oh no not that roaster Burley!

Without meaning to go off topic tt really gets my goat when fans on here feel the need to chastise the ICT support. Especially so when the person doing it is someone who turned his back on his team when they were playing in the season opener to go and watch their rivals play on the same day!

I hope Meekings gives Hayes the same treatment that Golabek gave Wilson when he returned with Livi and crunch him right at the start of the game.

Naismith is a complete throbber.

The date for Stenny is wrong right.

Laurence / Scarlet - ICT play Aberdeen on 15th September. Scotland are playing today. Hope this helps.

Bought a season ticket today

To be fair, I think it's more the reason for their departure that is debated over.

Not that many of them were penalties. When Rooney got his most regular run in the team (SFL1 season and 1st SPL season) he scored 48 goals in all competitions (League and Cup [excluding North of Scotland Cup and Friendlies] ) 13 of which were penalties or 27%. To be honest, I would want my regular goal scorer, high on confidence, to take penalties as there's more chance he would score. People level this idea that a lot of his goals were penalties like it's a bad thing. It's a shame people seem to almost belittle what Rooney did with us.

Sod that I hope he comes back here and makes an impact!

Killie also took about 6 times the number of fans. That said, there would likely have been more fans in the home end c.f. our game the other week. Oddly enough, our games against Killie have never really been that well attended despite all the goals so the attendance, whilst disappointing, wasn't exactly unexpected.

He can cheer himself by buying more shoes, take pictures of them and post them on Twitter #madness #swaggy

I like the 49ers as does Hislopisoffsideagain. I love this video of Ronnie Lott. Think any of the ICT players would do something similar?

Hi Terry! *waves to Terry*

Balls. That's me out then.

Looks like a statement which you are questioning to be honest. Hopefully this game will be on the Wednesday so I might stand a chance of getting along to it. If it's the Tuesday I'm out.

Put Killie out in the last round. Aye, should be a stroll right enough.