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Reading the P&J it seems Munro is likely to come straight back into the side at the expense of Duff. Perhaps it's to be expected but it seem slightly unfair on the young lad, who, despite the very obvious mistake against Hamilton, has played pretty well. Should it not be the case that the player in possession of the jersey should keep his place if he's doing the job asked of him or is that just wishful thinking? Dods, for example, sat on the sidelines for months until MacAfffrey got suspended and never looked back after that.

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere but I've just read on teletext the club have formed a 4 man events committee charged with improving the clubs finances. They will be looking for input from supporters in how to raise cash. Mike Smith is quoted as being one of the 4!

We had McPake watched 2 years ago and he was deemed not good enough. Either he has improved or our standards have dropped??

Who?

The Leeds interest in Cowie was mentioned on the Radio Scotland tarnsfer news programme last night

According to the P & J online the other player was McCracken LINK The interesting parts of the article are.... Caley Thistle last night failed with an Inverness club record bid to sign Livingston captain James McPake. Inverness were ready to pay ?100,000 for the 24-year-old but the West Lothian club demanded ?250,000 for the player who will be out of contract in the summer. and Caley Jags also made an inquiry about Wycombe Wanderers captain David McCracken, 26, but again could not afford to sign the former Dundee United central defender.

No idea but I doubt it was Dods as that was dead in the water last week. Whoever it was must have been the one who wanted too much in terms of wages.

Allan Preston corrected Leckie telling him it was McPake not Mackay

Kirk Broadfoot called up to the Scotland squad!! What a joke!!

Apparently we enquired about McPake at Livingston and were quoted ?200,000!!!! This is a player we looked at a couple of years ago and deemed him not good enough

Leeds are likely to make a bid for him in January and we'll have to accept there offer or lose him for nothing come the summer. Why wasn't he signed on a 3 year deal!!

There will be no Caley Thistle signings. Tried and failed to get 2 different central defenders - one was asking for too much in wages the other we couldn't afford. More worrying is Leeds United are after Don Cowie. Unlikely to be a deal done now but they'll be back in January and there is nothing we can do!!

I see Martin Canning has been released by Hibs (along with Zibi) might be worth a punt??

Hibs & Motherwell appear to be battling it out for his signature

WOO HOO Superb result and by the sounds of it completely merited. Nice to hear we were playing the game the right way today and keeping it on the deck, it just shows you we can do it. Hopefully we can get a decent performance at home now!

Remember the name but not the player. Did Dods replace him at Utd?

P & J story says there would be too much red tape involved in signing him despite the fact he is a good player but Highland News says he's off for a trail at Newcastle!

Arbroath 2-2 Inverness CT Ayr 0-1 Aberdeen Brechin 0-2 Kilmarnock Hearts 0-0 Airdrie Utd Cowdenbeath 1-5 Dundee Utd Dundee 1-2 Partick Dunfermline 1-0 Alloa Hamilton 3-1 Clyde Hibernian 3-4 Morton Livingston 2-1 St Johnstone Raith 1-3 Falkirk St Mirren 7-0 Dumbarton A couple of pumpings in this round !!! Bottom line though, however ugly it was, we are through. As I said it is rare. Aberdeen only just scraped through against a team from the same league as Arbroath, while arguably the two biggest teams in this round crashed out, despite both playing reasonably well at this time. And if you really want to be pedantic, St Mirren and Dundee Utd were playing sides from the third division, and both SPL sides in those games unlike ourselves put out full strength squads. I fully expected the Brewster out brigade to have a field day with this one, but try as they might things just aren't that bad. A new centre back is all that is required to complete the team, and we all know that Brew is working on that, while we have taken 4 points from our opening SPL games, despite Christie managing none for 6 last season. For some things will never be good enough, however I have seen enough to tell me that Brewster is looking at the bigger picture and has plans to take ICT to the next level. Christie left after 3 games! I'm not sure Brewster underestimated the opposition. The team he picked should have been able to win the game. Maybe the players should shoulder the blame on this occassion

Tom Parratt signed for Queen of the South today

They are in the second division. I remember when we were in the SFL and SPL fans would come onto the old Rivals site and come out with this sort of thing. Fact is, in the cup away ties are always difficult. My mistake - for some unknown reason my brain had convinced me we were playing Forfar

Even our reserve team SHOULD be able to beat 3rd division part-timers. We are through and that's the main thing but it's still embarrassing

Win or lose it's a disgrace

Sadly no real surprise as size DOES matter to the current regime Did I read coorectly that Bobby Williamson is the new coach of Uganda?

"During the period covered by the accounts, ?285,000 of new shares was issued thus reducing the effect of the loss." Does that mean the loss would have been ?717,000 without the share issue or is it ?432,000 less the ?285,000??? Hard to believe I have an O Grade in Accounts!!

On offical website Loss of ?432,000 on the year's trading