Sneckboy

From Saturday 9th March SPL Grant Munro (Ross County 3-2 Celtic) Gregory Tade (St. Johnstone 2-0 Kilmarnock) John Rankin SENT OFF for Dundee United 2nd Division Graham Bayne (East Fife 0-1 Arbroath) English League 2 Alex MacDonald (Burton Albion 3-1 Cheltenham Town) Highland League Stuart Golabek (Rothes 1-9 Brora Rangers) Dale Gillespie (Rothes 1-9 Brora Rangers) Andrew Greig (Rothes 1-9 Brora Rangers)

Don't think it's a rumour.....It appears he's been down there and had a medical. http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/382648/Andrew-Shinnie-set-to-sign-for-Championshp-strugglers-Birmingham-City Good luck to him. Hope he has more success there than Adam Rooney.

Yes, great players are signing up to stay longer. But...football seems to run differently from any other normal business. Any 'contract' a player signs can easily be 'broken' by another employer coming in and taking them. This euphoria, celebrating players/managers signing deals is ill informed. Just because a certain player has signed until 2015 doesn't mean he'll be playing for the club until then. Money talks, it's that simple. The days of having the same guy at right-back for 6 seasons are long gone. Nowadays its one season mercenaries or loanees. If, Billy McKay got offered the chance to treble his salary at say, Huddersfield, he would go, contracted to Inverness or not. Sorry if this comes over as negative, but I get constantly annoyed at people thinking that footballers' 'contracts' actually mean anything, other than to themselves.

It was 12th April '97 when Inverness clinched their Division 3 Title. Game 32 of 36. It looks very likely The Rangers will easily 'beat' that, probably securing the League later this month.

Thanks for finding that 'feed' and for posting it, tm4tj. Great work. Good score for us that, although I concede that the U20's games aren't really about results - more playing time and rehab for returning players like Hogg. Amusing that the guy tweeting mentioned Polworth and Pepper as 'experienced'! They're both just 18!!!!

Delighted to read that Hogg's playing again!

According to his Twitter, he's got a knee injury.

Saturday 2nd March Division 1 Bryan Prunty (Dumbarton 2-2 Cowdenbeath) Division 3 Stuart Leslie (Elgin City 1-2 Stirling Albion) Highland League Lewis MacKinnon (Buckie Thistle 2-1 Rothes) Highland League Cup 1st Round Daniel Park (Turriff United 1-2 Formartine United) N.B. Brian Kerr sent-off for Arbroath today!

Maybe it's just me? I wouldn't swap any of our cup record. I think we have created 12 upsets in 11 years in the lower leagues. Two semis at Hampden plus a replay. Beating Celtic twice. The first time was 10 years before Cownty and it was our first ever season in div 1. More wins at Tynecastle, Fir Park etc. Coming from 3 down to beat Ayr. Reaching the quarters as a div 3 side. Taking DUFC to 210 mins as a div 2 side. Swap all this for what? One cup run beating Hibs and Celtic to reach a final, and then forgetting to turn up. Our cup record is amazing. 12 'shocks' in our time...and only once can I remember us being 'scalped'. Partick Thistle beat us a few years back. So yeah, we should be proud of our cup record! Ayr United in the league cup last season at Summerset. Queens Park at home in the league cup a few years back when we were in the 1st division. I'm not including the League Cup in my assessment, only the Scottish Cup.

Maybe it's just me? I wouldn't swap any of our cup record. I think we have created 12 upsets in 11 years in the lower leagues. Two semis at Hampden plus a replay. Beating Celtic twice. The first time was 10 years before Cownty and it was our first ever season in div 1. More wins at Tynecastle, Fir Park etc. Coming from 3 down to beat Ayr. Reaching the quarters as a div 3 side. Taking DUFC to 210 mins as a div 2 side. Swap all this for what? One cup run beating Hibs and Celtic to reach a final, and then forgetting to turn up. Our cup record is amazing. 12 'shocks' in our time...and only once can I remember us being 'scalped'. Partick Thistle beat us a few years back. So yeah, we should be proud of our cup record!

Okay, he didn't score, but thought it worth mentioning that Barry Wilson played for Wick last night in their 4-0 win against Clach...not bad for a 41 year old!

Yeah, the first opportunity to be drawn against each other would be the last 16 if the 'country protection' rules remain the same as this year. If you went into a bookie and asked for this wager, they would be delighted to take your money and would offer pathetic odds of around 5000/1.

Ironically, the Dundee United team we face tonight will have more Highland talent in it than County's team!! Gary Mackay-Steven is from Thurso and had a brief trial here, and our former youth player, Stuart Armstrong, is from Inverness!

26th February Aberdeenshire Shield - Quarter-final Lewis Mackinnon TWO goals (Buckie Thistle 3-1 Banks O'Dee)

I'm sorry Snafu, mate! I got the 9 bookings off 'Soccerbase' or 'Soccerway' or Soccer-something, but I admit I'm wrong. This might sound sad and 'anorakish' but I've painfully gone through all the league games and double-checked... and I agree now, it is 6 yellows in the league for Warren! I wish to god I'd not got involved in this thread in the first place! No worries!

Snafu, Again, I haven't mentioned the ICT website. I'm quite sure it's accurate and have never once disputed that or brought into account its integrity. Despite knowing that Warren had 9 bookings, I didn't know that meant a ban. That was my objective when I posted my 'concern' - to find out if anybody knew when/if a suspesion was imminent for Warren. On a side note, regarding my claims that other sites are often not accurate: only last night I had to email the BBC to update the Scottish 3rd Division league table!

Go here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/inverness-caledonian-thistle and click on each player to get card counts I see Ross Draper is one away from suspension and both Shinnie brothers and OTJ are on 4 yellows. Good to see our crime count is much improved from last season. With due respect, I wouldn't give much credence to a website still listing us as having Brislen-Hall and Blackman!! They were part of our first team squad so therefore part of the stats for this season. Maybe you think our club website must be wrong too??. I made no reference to our club website, Snafu. The linked website is BBC, which is notorious for errors.

Go here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/inverness-caledonian-thistle and click on each player to get card counts I see Ross Draper is one away from suspension and both Shinnie brothers and OTJ are on 4 yellows. Good to see our crime count is much improved from last season. With due respect, I wouldn't give much credence to a website still listing us as having Brislen-Hall and Blackman!!

I apologise to both tm4tj and fraz. In hindsight, my reply to tm4tj was ignorant. I'm sorry for that.

Except he doesn't! - not sure what your point is...?!

Warren has been fantastic since coming to us. Despite what many detractors would have us believe, moving to the SPL from the English Conference is a considerable step-up. He's not looked out of place and is a vital cog in our defence. I'm wondering if anybody knows how the disciplinary system works regarding bookings? I note that Gary is 'sitting' on 9 yellow cards at the moment - with 7 cautions in the SPL. I would hate to suddenly find he's got a one or two match suspension coming up for our crucial games pre-split if he incurred another booking. To be honest, I thought he might have already served a ban for his 9 yellows, but I can't find any up-to-date info about the suspension criteria. As a central defender, he's inevitably going to pick up a few! Especially with two Highland derbies on the horizon! However, 9 bookings in 34 games to date isn't quite in the Ian Black league! Talking of him, he's in the Sun today telling us he's not a bad boy - he likes trout fishing in Inverness! Aye, okay! He's got me, hook, line and sinker!

Yeah, the team's closing in on the 60-goal 'barrier'. Only five times has it been broken by teams outwith the OF. Hearts 71 (2005/06) - Rudi Skacel 16, Paul Hartley 14 Hibernian 64 (2004/05) - Derek Riordan 20, Garry O' Connor 14 Kilmarnock 63 (2005/06) - Kris Boyd 15, Steven Naismith 13 Dundee United 62 (2011/12) - Jon Daly 19, Johnny Russell 9 Hibernian 61 (2005/06) - Derek Riordan 16, Garry O' Connor 11

Good stat Yngwie! I hadn't realised this was a record! Amazing for Billy to get 18 with eleven games to go! To put it in perspective, Adam Rooney's best SPL return was 15!

Saturday 23rd February SPL Iain Vigurs (Ross County 3-0 Motherwell) Highland League Calum Dingwall (Formartine United 3-1 Fraserburgh) English League 1 Adam Rooney (Swindon Town 1-1 Preston North End)

I absolutely love remembering about how terrible he was, he's playing in the east of Scotland league at the moment I think, can't remember who for though. Vale of Leithen!