Sneckboy

...tink it's Maryburgh, innit...

As expected, Cove cruised past Golspie. Was slightly disappointed that Harestanes lost comfortably to Girvan, but as is often the case at amateur level, they had player availability problems. (best man duties, couldn't get off work, forgot there was a game etc...)

The final Preliminary round draw:

Civil Service Strollers  v  Kelty Hearts
Hermes  v  Auchinleck Talbot
Wigtown & Bladnoch  v  Hawick Royal Albert
Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale  v  Girvan
Cove Rangers  v  St. Cuthbert Wanderers

Tuesday 18th August
Inverness CT v Dundee - Grant Street Park, 6.00pm

Doran. Please!

Dorran doesn't even look right!

Bumping this, as it's all starting on Saturday!
Golspie don't start their North Caledonian League season until September, whereas, Cove have had 5 wins from 5 in their season so far - they could win this by 8 or 9!

Some parallels with last season - 4th league fixture, we're playing Celtic - they've got a huge European game next-up in a few days....
Last season, they 'rested' 10 players and we won 1-0! I don't think they'll be too bothered about this game. If it was allowed, and Yogi and Ronny had a chat on the phone - "don't bother coming down, will you take a 0-0, John?", I think both parties would take that!

caley100 : The season stretches until May next year, and as much as I'm keen to see us get a win, I really don't think an August league game can be described as a 'must win'!
Biggin : I don't agree that "...the first 3 games we should have been on 9pts...". That sort of thinking is where expectations sometimes exceed realism. Taking our best results from the corresponding fixtures last season - with (virtually unanimously agreed) our best ever team - we only got 4pts.

28% meat and 2.5% Buckfast! What about the other 69.5%?!!!

The St Etienne Pogba is apparently a central defender.

Paul Pogba was born in France and plays for the French national team, whereas the other two older brothers were born in Guinea and both play for the Guinea national team. 

Bobo Balde has already ticked the box for Guinea!

Vigurs scored from the spot during an ICT shootout win at Arbroath in 2008, so he's added to the list.

Match penalties
Greg Tansey 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 (86%) Y Y* X* Y Y Y Y
Aaron Doran (75%) Y* Y Y* X
Richie Foran (33%) X* Y X*

Signed until the end of next season (2016-17):

• Gary Warren

• Richie Foran

• Greg Tansey

• Josh Meekings

Signed until the end of this season (2015-16):

• John Hughes - Manager

• Brian Rice - Assistant Manager

• Dean Brill

• Aaron Doran

• Danny Williams

• Ryan Esson

• Ryan Christie

• Carl Tremarco

• Ross Draper

• James Vincent

• David Raven

• Daniel Devine

• Ali Sutherland

• Liam Polworth

• Lewis Horner 

• Calum Ferguson

• Cammy Mackay

• Nat Wedderburn

• Jason Roberts

• Dani Lopez

• Owain Fon Williams

• Andrea Mbuyi-Mutombo

• Iain Vigurs

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Development Squad players available for this season (2015-16):

• Calum Howarth

• Jason Brown  

• Jaime Wilson  

• Kane Hull

• Struan McArthur 

• Blair MacLennan 

• Chris Brown

• Stephen Rennie 

• Chris Blackett

• Daniel Hoban (goalkeeper) 

• Alasdair Stark  

• Andrew Macrae

• Cameron Gilchrist

I read that Ali Sutherland got our other goal.

The 'Contract Situation' thread doesn't bother with the 'option for a further year' nonsense. Utterly ridiculous. If a player is good enough, they'll get kept on: if not, they'll be released.
It's only meant as a guide to the end of a player's minimum stay, but I sometimes wonder about its feasibility - as any player can just leave at any time!
 

Will be interesting to see how he gets on at that level. Huge jump in standard from Conference South to League One. (6th tier to 3rd tier)

I'm sure he could do a job for a Championship team like Raith, Dumbarton or Livi. But, I think Premiership is now beyond him.

No Development League game today - but we have a game up in Caithness against Halkirk United in the quarter-finals of the North of Scotland cup. (7.30pm).
It doesn't have to be the youngsters that play, but with our injury situation and a game against Partick tomorrow, I doubt there will be any first team players involved.

Thomas Piermayr has signed for a club called Bekescsaba, who are level 2 in Hungary.

HaHaHa!
Now that is surely a joke!!!!

Barcelona v Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday will be interesting. Potentially volatile. Collum in charge.

...and Adam Rooney nets from the spot - deadly from 12 yards!

^^^ He was a hugely promising player and highly regarded through all the youth ranks at the club (top scorer in all age groups, I believe) - but sustained a bad injury at a crucial stage in his development. He was subsequently released - football can be ruthless! But, glad he's making a go of it in the Highland League.
Interesting archive article here, although it does go a bit off-topic near the end! http://caleythistleonline.com/topic/22739-adam-macleod/

Small profile from his U19 days http://www.ictfc.co.uk.p.preprod.performgroup.com/articles/20100727/adam-macleod_2208839_2103531