Sneckboy

Stuart Soane x2 (Fort William 0-3 Forres Mechanics)

Just glad I don't work in forensics! I wrongly assumed the floodlights in photo 1 were an 'upgrade' to those in the 2nd photo - and quite simply missed all the other 'clues'!

Same as above, from a different profile. Note the difference in floodlights and also the blue paint along the front of the stand in 'my' pic - whereas it's white in IHEs pic - I assume picture 2 is earlier than pic 1?

I've always found it quite eerie - a touch of the Blair Witch Project! God, there's even a bloody purple 'onesie' hanging there - imagine driving past it at night and your headlights caught a glimpse of that...

The final will be on the 30th of May, right? Yeah, that's right.

Shane Sutherland (Elgin City 1-2 East Stirlingshire)

Seems it's the default stance of managers to defend their players at all costs. Here's a cracking clip from a Stockport County game last month - a blatant 'assault', yet the manager still took his side, citing 'provocation'! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njQCuomonig

Despite an inauspicious start to his Wigan career, Billy has retained his place in the Northern Ireland squad for their forthcoming internationals.

(Edit. I had Butcher instead of Brewster in no. 5) 1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated via the play-off (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal (616 minutes) 5. Equal most 'Manager of the Month' awards in a season (x2 Hughes = Robertson & Brewster from 2004/05) 6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as top flight side 7. 3rd semi-final in a row 8. Yet another season finishing above the shadow dwellers!! 9. Equal highest 'Young Player of the Month' awards for the club in a season (x2) = (Doran & Meekings from 2012/13) 10. Record number of 'Young Player of the Month' awards for an individual (2 for Ryan Christie) 11. A record 5 'Monthly' awards for Inverness in a season (x2 Hughes Manager, x1 Draper Player, x2 Christie Young Player) 12. Record number of 'Manager of the Month' awards for an individual in a season (x2 for John Hughes)

Yep!, I reckon he'll be in a Scotland squad next year. As a non-Inverness player!! Strachan's best days at Aberdeen were in the 80s when Caledonian and Inverness Thistle were still playing Highland League - he'll obviously have a subconscious disdain for these clubs.

Just realised that as I was typing! 1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated via the play-off (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal (616 minutes) 5. Equal most 'Manager of the Month' awards in a season (x2 Hughes = Robertson & Butcher from 2004/05) 6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as top flight side 7. 3rd semi-final in a row 8. Yet another season finishing above the shadow dwellers!! 9. Equal highest 'Young Player of the Month' awards for the club in a season (x2) = (Doran & Meekings from 2012/13) 10. Record number of 'Young Player of the Month' awards for an individual (2 for Ryan Christie) 11. A record 5 'Monthly' awards for Inverness in a season (x2 Hughes Manager, x1 Draper Player, x2 Christie Young Player) 12. Record number of 'Manager of the Month' awards for an individual in a season (x2 for John Hughes)

1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated via the play-off (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal (616 minutes) 5. Joint record for number of Manager of the Month awards (2 for JH) 6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as top flight side 7. 3rd semi-final in a row 8. Yet another season finishing above the shadow dwellers!! 9. Equal highest 'Young Player of the Month' awards for the club in a season (x2) 10. Record number of 'Young Player of the Month' awards for an individual (2 for Ryan Christie) 11. A record 5 'Monthly' awards for Inverness in a season (x2 Hughes Manager, x1 Draper Player, x2 Christie Young Player) 12. Equal most 'Manager of the Month' awards in a season (x2 Hughes = Robertson & Butcher from 2004/05) 13. Record number of 'Manager of the Month' awards for an individual in a season (2 for John Hughes)

Just thought of another one. With Hughes having x2 'manager' awards this season, and Christie also having x2 'young player' - add in Draper's Player of the Month - that's 5 SPFL monthly awards the club has achieved - I've checked this! Another record! 1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated via the play-off (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal (616 minutes) 5. Joint record for number of Manager of the Month awards (2 for JH) 6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as top flight side 7. 3rd semi-final in a row 8. Yet another season finishing above the shadow dwellers!! 9. Equal highest 'Young Player of the Month' awards for the club in a season (x2) 10. Record number of 'Young Player of the Month' awards for an individual (2 for Ryan Christie) 11. A record 5 'Monthly' awards for Inverness in a season (x2 Hughes Manager, x1 Draper Player, x2 Christie Young Player)

Alex.... for goodness sake check up the history before you make totally inaccurate statements like that! I know that the '15 and especially the '45 are both valued parts of Nationalist Grievance Folklore, but this really is so much tosh. What the 5 Jacobite risings across the period 1689 to 1746 were about is exactly what it says on the tin - Jacobite... Jacobus... James... James the II and his progeny..... OK I'll also call him James the VII to avert further nationalist chunterings. Nothing to do with independence for Scotland at all. At the end of 1688 James got the heave for being a despot and a Catholic since the Reformation had not yet been fully resolved in the UK (and still hasn't been in Scotland judging by Orange Walks etc). There then followed various attempts to restore the Catholic Stuart dynasty which had been replaced by Protestants - initially from 1688 to 1714 by James's immediate family and after 1714 by his more distant relations from Hanover. These attempts started when Scotland and England were both still separate countries and owe much of their existence to the French wanting to create a diversion and internal division during their wars with Britain. But let's be absolutely clear about what Jacobitism was - a series of religious and dynastic conflicts where it so happened that much, but not all, the Stuart support was Scottish, principally because Catholic clansmen were forced into service by their Catholic chiefs who in turn were leaned on by the Stuarts as part of the primitive feudal system which still operated in the Highlands. There were plenty of Scots on the other side as well - Protestant clans like the Campbells and also Lowland Scots, many of whom were as nasty as the next man in the aftermath of the '45. I know the Nats love to portray the Jacobite Rebellions as sort of Scotland v England games since this fabrication fits beautifully into the Nationalist Grievance Culture. The trouble is that this is total nonsense. Because the reality is that the best concise description of these rebellions is, not Scotland v England but a series of Old Firm games. Their basis was religious - a Protestant versus a Catholic claimant to the throne of what became GREAT BRITAIN during the conflicts. I really do worry about how many Yes voters there may be wandering about there, substantially inspired by a mistaken understanding of what Jabobitism was or having seen Braveheart! What happened to the "I'm trying to keep out of this thread"?!! Not 'going back' on a VOW, surely? I knew you'd get sucked into it, CB! But, who wouldn't - I'm not huge on politics but the referendum stoked an interest for me - and I'm really looking forward to what's going to be the most interesting GE in recent times. Nobody is certain of the outcome - even the bookies! Wednesday's budget will be the 'starting pistol' to what is hopefully 7 great weeks of debate! Will maybe get the odd loon popping literature through my post-box, the odd laddie canvassing in the street and the odd quine......

Pedantry alert! Changing no.6 to include 'Scottish Cup' as no.7 otherwise doesn't make sense! 1. Avoiding automatic relegation spot (earliest ever for us in top flight) 2. Top 6 assured (earliest ever) 3. Cannot be relegated via the play-off (earliest ever) 4. ICT record for longest time without conceding a goal(616 minutes) 5. Joint record for number of Manager of the Month awards (2 for JH) 6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as top flight side 7. 3rd semi-final in a row 8. Yet another season finishing above the shadow dwellers!! 9. Equal highest 'Young Player of the Month' awards for the club in a season (x2) 10. Record number of 'Young Player of the Month' awards for an individual (2 for Ryan Christie)

Yeah, Ryan's two Monthly awards equals the two we got in 2012/13 when Doran and Meekings won them!

peace

That's goals at Easter road and Ibrox in the space of a few days - get in there, Ibra! A quick scan at other results - Prunty netted for Airdieonians Calum Dingwall for Formartine in the Highland League. Plus, Andrew Greig & Gavin Morrison for Brora.

6. First Scottish Cup semi-final as a 'top flight' side

Good news that it seems he's staying - for now! It's reported that he was interviewed, so perhaps he's looking at having another crack at management. Can't blame him for that, but when you consider what ICT are currently on the brink of and Alloa's present predicament, they were probably the wrong club at the wrong time!

There's a poster on a Dundee United forum, with a 'legal' background who predicted that Ciftci would 'get off' due to an error in the wording of the citation. The Compliance Officer suggested Ciftci had 'deliberately' kicked a player on the head. The poster suggested that the word 'recklessly' would have been more appropriate and in that case, Ciftci would certainly have been found culpable. Apparently, from a legal standpoint, it's difficult to PROVE deliberate intent from video evidence - hence the not proven verdict. So, perhaps the Compliance Officer made a blunder!

I don't think he featured when Accies U20s came up - but, he certainly could in the future. 'Ticking off' Iraq would be great! http://www.acciesfc.co.uk/index.php/news/211-u20s-win-at-inverness

Playing Kilmarnock at the TCS right now! 2-0 up! Approaching H/T From Twitter: 1-0 Chris Blackett goal - played through by Liam Polworth for a one-on-one with the 'keeper 2-0 another surging Polworth run sees the ball finding Ali Sutherland who squares for Calum Ferguson to net

You're not joking - 'Big Granny B**bs' is lightening fast this morning!

We might be at home to Dundee United though, the same midweek, in a re-arranged game! Both clubs are 'free' that midweek, so I wouldn't be surprised! It could even be a dress-rehearsal for a Hampden showdown against United a few days later! Hey, we could 'antagonise' Ciftci and he may just get himself sent-off and banned for the Semi-final!! But, in all seriousness, we could do that! Actually, I expect Celtic to beat them in the replay... And if it is Celtic, it'll be the 6th time we've met them in the cup in our 21 campaigns.