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Premiership Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Accies 1-1 Aberdeen)

I see he's been suspended for two matches on the SFA's latest disciplinary list. SPFL – PREMIERSHIP 17/11/2015 DANI LOPEZ (INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE F.C.) 2 FIRST TEAM MATCHES IMMEDIATE Not wishing to comment on the particular 'allegation' until the investigation has taken place, but a two game ban is consistent with the SFA sanction for a 'spitting' offence. From the SFA's guidelines: 3.2 Players Sent Off for Serious Foul Play, Violent Conduct or Spitting at an Opponent or Any Other Person A player who is sent off for serious foul play, violent conduct or spitting at an opponent or any other person, will have 12 penalty points added to his applicable League disciplinary record. In addition, he will automatically be suspended in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 3.8. 3.8 Serving of Suspensions – A player who is sent off for serious foul play or violent conduct is suspended automatically until such time as his club's team(s) has completed a match in a competition for which he would otherwise be eligible for selection. – A player who is sent off for spitting at an opponent or any other person is suspended automatically until such time as his club’s team(s) has completed its next two matches in competitions for which he would otherwise be eligible for selection.

And he's up to no. 29 in the World Rankings!

Challenge Cup - Semi-final Rory McAllister (Queen’s Park 1-2 Peterhead) Highland League Martin Bavidge (Inverurie Loco Works 1-1 Nairn County) Andrew MacAskill TWO (Huntly 2-4 Turriff United) Dale Gillespie (Brora Rangers 2-0 Lossiemouth) English League One Sam Winnall (Barnsley 1-2 Port Vale) English National League (South) Ben Greenhalgh (Concord Rangers 5-0 Basingstoke Town)

Congratulations are in order for our 'keeper, who tonight, became a full international - making his debut (as a sub) for Wales against The Netherlands!

Soccerbase is very good (now that we're an 'established' club) for our results, but still not wholly accurate. There are a few 'mistakes', but I would still take Soccerbase above any other database - I consider it accurate, but with the following: Errors and omissions from Soccerbase: Challenge Cup 1994-95. Round of 16. Inverness CT 1-1 Dundee (aet). Dundee 4-3 pens Challenge Cup 1995-96. 1st Rnd. Inverness CT 1-2 Alloa Athletic Challenge Cup 1996-97. 1st Rnd. Livingston 1-2 Inverness CT Challenge Cup 1996-97. Round of 16. Stirling Albion 3-1 Inverness CT Error Scottish Cup 1996-97. 2nd Rnd. Actual - Stranraer 1-1 Inverness CT not 0-0 Scottish Cup 1996-97. 2nd Rnd replay. Inverness CT 0-0 Stranraer (aet). ICT 4-3 pens Scottish Cup 1997-98. 3rd Round. Inverness CT 8-1 Annan Athletic

Very impressive stats Mantis & IHE! I can't see any record of us having previously played Dumbarton away.

Forgive me for not joining in the fanfare! - but If that figure includes the Christie transfer, on the back of a once-in-a-blue moon season, that's quite alarming!

It's a World Ranking of no. 31 for Knox. (10th ranked European)! He's hinted at playing a lot more European Tour events in the coming year with a view to meeting the eligibility for possible Ryder Cup selection.

It technically doesn't count as a miss! He can't be given an X and a Y when we were only awarded one penalty. For the same reason as, if he'd scored first time, but was ordered to re-take it (due to an Inverness encroachment) and netted again - it wouldn't count as two scored pens!

...but is now being 'bumped'! Partick Thistle away is the next game! Can we finally do it, when we return after the break?! C'mon, let's complete the set! Unfortunately, we may have a club called 'Rangers' in the league next season. And, as they're new to me, and Scotland's top-flight, we'll obviously have to beat them home-and-away at some stage, to maintain our record!

Absolutely superb! He'll climb to a new career high (or should that be low?!) World Ranking, too. The list isn't usually, officially published until Monday, when all the worldwide event results are known - but it's estimated that he'll now be ranked n the 30s... His cheque for winning is a staggering $1,400,000 !!! Let's get him (and his wallet) on the Inverness CT board! Edit to change '£' to '$' (still a prize worth getting out of bed for!)

Penalties taken for ICT. (Most recent: Greg Tansey (scored) v. Motherwell - 7th November 2015) Match penalties Greg Tansey Y Y Y Y Y Y Y (100%) James Vincent Y (100%) Richie Foran Y (100%) Aaron Doran Y X (50%) Penalty shoot-outs Ross Draper Y Y (100%) Aaron Doran Y Y (100%) Iain Vigurs Y (100%) Greg Tansey Y X (50%) Richie Foran X X (0%) Combined total (* = penalty shoot-out) Ross Draper (100%) Y* Y* James Vincent (100%) Y Iain Vigurs (100%) Y* Greg Tansey (89%) Y Y* X* Y Y Y Y Y Y Aaron Doran (75%) Y* Y Y* X Richie Foran (33%) X* Y X*

He's doing a superb job! It would certainly be a career high if he was to land that big title. It's a pity he's not currently eligible for Ryder Cup qualification!

Ironically, it's our former chairman, Dougie McGilvray who founded Weldex and is their current CEO.

We've been drawn away to Hearts in the last 16 of the Scottish Youth Cup. Tough draw, but we're well above them in the league this season, so there's a decent chance.

Just looked at our record v Motherwell under Mark McGhee in his previous spell in charge. We've played McGhee's Motherwell 7 times: won 0, drew 1, lost 6 Yes, it's a different era, different players etc. but McGhee will feel he's got the mark on us - it'll be a stern tactical test for John Hughes. Also surprisingly for this fixture, there have only been 4 draws in 42 games, which is quite unusual between two clubs who are often 'well matched'.

Nat Wedderburn curled home a free-kick from 22 yards

This weeks results: Fort William 0-4 Cove Rangers Stirling Albion 1-0 East Fife Montrose 1-2 (aet) Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale Final revised draw: Airdrieonians v Brechin City Albion Rovers v Greenock Morton Ayr United v Dunfermline Athletic Cowdenbeath v Arbroath Dumbarton v Alloa Athletic Elgin City v Raith Rovers Falkirk v Fraserburgh Formartine United v Cove Rangers Huntly v Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale Inverurie Loco Works v Annan Athletic Peterhead v Livingston Queen's Park v Forfar Athletic Stenhousemuir v East Kilbride Stirling Albion v Cumbernauld Colts Stranraer v Buckie Thistle Wick Academy v Linlithgow Rose

Result from today: Dundee United 2-3 Inverness CT I Don't know the team or scorers, though!

Not keeping the fans informed actually worked to our advantage in that last game, when nobody expected Gary Warren to appear in the match squad-list, let-alone play! Definitely a bit of a 'secret' and certainly not something Paul Hartley/Dundee would have planned for! I understand fans want to know about their players, but it should also be remembered that ICT FC is also an employer - and those who are 'off work' and their reasons for being so, should be subject to confidentiality. In any other line-of-work, if your receptionist, porter, section-manager, till-operator or boss is absent from work, then that's between the individual, their GP and the Human Resources (Personnel) department...and is no business of anybody else. Employee confidentiality is important - we (all of us), don't want every 'Tom, Dick & Harry' knowing our reason for absence, severity and likely timescale of return! Yes, it may be the talk of the work-place and at the water-cooler, but it's frankly nobody's business; this should also be the case at football clubs and fans need to recognise this.

Yesterday was our first penalty since the Scottish Cup semi against Celtic! Probably wasn't a pen, but we've had stronger claims turned-down in the interim, so no complaints from me. Impressive 'match' penalty stats we've got. (i.e. during a regular 90 mins) We've only got one single miss throughout all the current players in our squad. ...and I keep repeating this every time I update this, but it becomes a stronger claim each time - it's fantastic to have such a reliable taker as Tansey!

Penalties taken for ICT. (Most recent: Greg Tansey (scored) v. Dundee - 31st October 2015) Match penalties Greg Tansey Y Y Y Y Y Y (100%) James Vincent Y (100%) Richie Foran Y (100%) Aaron Doran Y X (50%) Penalty shoot-outs Ross Draper Y Y (100%) Aaron Doran Y Y (100%) Iain Vigurs Y (100%) Greg Tansey Y X (50%) Richie Foran X X (0%) Combined total (* = penalty shoot-out) Ross Draper (100%) Y* Y* James Vincent (100%) Y Iain Vigurs (100%) Y* Greg Tansey (88%) Y Y* X* Y Y Y Y Y Aaron Doran (75%) Y* Y Y* X Richie Foran (33%) X* Y X*

Results from yesterday: Turriff 2-3 Fraserburgh Wick 5-1 Nairn Forres 2-3 East Kilbride Airdrieonians v Brechin City Albion Rovers v Greenock Morton Ayr United v Dunfermline Athletic Cowdenbeath v Arbroath Dumbarton v Alloa Athletic Elgin City v Raith Rovers Falkirk v Fraserburgh Formartine United v Fort William or Cove Rangers Huntly v Montrose or Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale Inverurie Loco Works v Annan Athletic Peterhead v Livingston Queen's Park v Forfar Athletic Stenhousemuir v East Kilbride Stirling Albion or East Fife v Cumbernauld Colts Stranraer v Buckie Thistle Wick Academy v Linlithgow Rose