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The highland League website has it as the 12th August...still at home!

Andy Barrowman has joined Albion Rovers. Yet another club!!

....Sunday's game?

Gregory Tade scored for Steaua Bucharest tonight to help them into the Q3 stage of the Champions League.

Atajic left Celtic last year.

Yogi confirming in today's P&J that James Vincent and Carl Tremarco will definitely miss the Astra game. Probably no surprise, but at least we now know for certain.

Good to see the highlights of their game last night - must offer some encouragement. The boy Budescu certainly likes to try a pop at goal from distance - Although the 'keeper should have dealt with it!

It seems Yogi's keen to have another look at the Belgian player who appeared against Nairn. I was looking at the rules for the Development League, and clubs are permitted to field trialists in those. (a maximum of 2 in a game)

Apparently, this score equalled Astra's worst ever home score-line. It seems they also lost 5-1 at home to Rapid Bucharest in 1999, if this translation is correct! The Astra lost for the second time in history the 4 goals at home, after the defeat of May 26, 1999, when defeated Rapid 5-1.

Stuart Golabek has resigned as assistant manager at Brora Rangers. It had been rumoured that he'd followed Kirkwood out-of-the-door, but it's now been confirmed.

That's known as Muphry's Law!!

I guess the harsh truth is that even ordinary teams can be made to look 'solid and organised at the back' - if they're allowed to. Astra have failed to win either of their opening two league games (both at home) and conceded 7 goals to the largely unheralded, Concordia Chiajna and Targu Mures. We need to stop giving them so much respect and have a real go at their clearly, dodgy defence. Unfortunately, we appear to be quite impotent as a goal-scoring unit at present - but we have lost our top two marksmen from last season in Billy Mckay and Marley Watkins...plus Eddie Ofere. Our top scorer from last season, still at the club, is Greg Tansey, but 4 of his 7 goals came from the penalty spot.

Final score: FC Astra 1-5 Targu Mures

Romanian Liga 1 - FC Astra Giurgiu 1-5 Targu Mures Europa League Q2 - 2nd leg - FC Astra Giurgiu v Inverness CT (Thursday 23rd July) Europa League Q3 - 1st leg - West Ham United v Inverness CT (Thursday 30th July) - provisional Premiership - Inverness CT v Motherwell (Saturday 1st August - 3pm) Europa League Q3 - 2nd leg - Inverness CT v West Ham United (Thursday 6th August) - provisional

9 of the 11 that started against us started this game. Budescu netted Astra's goal tonight.

I hope I'm allowed to post this link as it's clearly not my work - and are posted on Flickr, courtesy of the 'A Gurn from Nurn' website. So I will credit them for these excellent HQ photos from yesterday's game. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gurnnurn/sets/72157655631654020

Romanian Liga 1 - FC Astra Giurgiu v Targu Mures (Sunday 19th July) Europa League Q2 - 2nd leg - FC Astra Giurgiu v Inverness CT (Thursday 23rd July) Europa League Q3 - 1st leg - West Ham United v Inverness CT (Thursday 30th July) - provisional Premiership - Inverness CT v Motherwell (Saturday 1st August - 3pm) Europa League Q3 - 2nd leg - Inverness CT v West Ham United (Thursday 6th August) - provisional

I have got absolutely no idea! Will be interesting to see what line-up is played. It's our final friendly and it was supposed to be predominantly first-team/trialists, but as you say, with the Wick game now off, it's difficult to know what sort of team we'll field! It'll likely be a mix of first-team and Development players. No doubt there'll be a considerable flurry of substitutions too!

Wick Academy P-P Inverness CT U20s Nairn County v Inverness CT (Saturday 18th July - 3pm) Romanian Liga 1 - FC Astra Giurgiu v Targu Mures (Sunday 19th July) Europa League Q2 - 2nd leg - FC Astra Giurgiu v Inverness CT (Thursday 23rd July) Europa League Q3 - 1st leg - West Ham United v Inverness CT (Thursday 30th July) - provisional Premiership - Inverness CT v Motherwell (Saturday 1st August - 3pm) Europa League Q3 - 2nd leg - Inverness CT v West Ham United (Thursday 6th August) - provisional

Today's game at Wick has been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch at Harmsworth Park. Source: Wick's website and Twitter account.

That's ironic! Due to bowling, you'll miss the game at the 'Bowlin' ground! (as it tends to be pronounced for some reason)

History is probably not on our side to overturn this - but it CAN be done, as Scottish clubs have done it in the recent past! Scottish clubs have lost at home in the first leg of a European tie 46 times before. And subsequently been eliminated on 44 occasions! The two clubs who've shown it can be done are Celtic and Motherwell both in 2009/10. (both also trailing by 0-1 from the home leg). Motherwell 0-1 Llanelli Llanelli 0-3 Motherwell Celtic 0-1 Dynamo Moscow Dynamo Moscow 0-2 Celtic

Yeah, I actually forgot about them, in my excitement!

Wick Academy v Inverness CT U20s (Saturday 18th July - 2pm) Nairn County v Inverness CT (Saturday 18th July - 3pm) Romanian Liga 1 - FC Astra Giurgiu v Targu Mures (Sunday 19th July) Europa League Q2 - 2nd leg - FC Astra Giurgiu v Inverness CT (Thursday 23rd July) Europa League Q3 - 1st leg - West Ham United v Inverness CT (Thursday 30th July) - provisional Premiership - Inverness CT v Motherwell (Saturday 1st August - 3pm) Europa League Q3 - 2nd leg - Inverness CT v West Ham United (Thursday 6th August) - provisional

6 August. Not sure if that's right, Gavroche. We were drawn away for the first-leg, so it would be London a-week-on-Thursday (30th July), with West Ham coming to Inverness on August 6th.