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If James Vincent (Terry's publically declared first choice) is to be out injured for a while, who should assume the mantle of our spot-kick taker? I don't see why Aaron Doran couldn't step up! I think he'd be excellent - a wee 'faint' on the run-up, then effortlessly guiding it passed the already commited 'keeper! Anyway, for the record, here's the list of our current squad's players' records from 12 yards. (in chronological order order from left to right, i.e. Billy has missed his most recent 3) - still not too shabby, 7 from 10, but I agree with Terry, 3 misses in-a-row means it's time to step aside. But I'd have no qualms about Billy stepping-up and taking one if we had a shoot-out against Dundee United in the League Cup quarter-final! Richie Foran X X Y Graeme Shinnie Y Y Y X Aoran Doran Y Ross Draper Y Billy McKay Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X X X James Vincent Y

I can understand the 'lateness' - must have taken ages to edit out all your swearing!

^^^ IHE... You are the: PC KING OF YES!! (cracked the 'code')!

Yeah, good to see Billy getting on for another international cap. Hope he gets a start in their last qualifier against Israel. It's a 'dead' game and Northern Ireland have had some dreadful recent results, so why not throw him in from kick-off? Israel also have nothing to play for - it's effectively a friendly, so why not! Good on Switzerland qualifying, Rainbow. They've done well winning their group so comfortably, unbeaten. Some cynics may say it was an easy group on paper, but I was looking at it and thinking how Scotland would have performed. I mean, Norway are a decent national side and they've come up well short.

Stuart Armstrong netted for Scotland U21s last night.

First spell with us, Brewster was good. But he made the mistake of returning! Or rather the board did, in re-employing him!...after his dreadful time at Tannadice! All our managers have had success in different ways. Brewster's 2nd spell didn't work and I think he lost the faith of the players. Apart from Proctor. Brewster had no trouble inserting him at weekends. On the team sheet. Butcher then arrived and almost saved us from relegation.

8th October Aberdeenshire Shield 1st Round Martin Bavidge (Inverurie Loco Works 3-1(aet) Buckie Thistle Lewis MacKinnon (Inverurie Loco Works 3-1(aet) Buckie Thistle

My first impression is that the draw could have been kinder to the non-league clubs!

Albion Rovers v. Linlithgow Rose or Deveronvale Alloa Athletic v. Inverurie Loco Works Arbroath v. Brechin City Ayr United v. Preston Athletic or Queen's Park Clyde v. Cove Rangers or Brora Rangers Culter v. Berwick Rangers Dumbarton v. Cowdenbeath East Stirlingshire v. Raith Rovers Elgin City v. Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic v. East Fife Fraserburgh or Edinburgh City v. Montrose Queen of the South v. Hamilton Accies Rangers v. Airdrieonians Stenhousemuir v. Annan Athletic or Buckie Thistle Stranraer v. Auchinleck Talbot Turriff United v. Whitehill Welfare or Stirling Albion

The 3rd round draw takes place tomorrow (Monday) at 1pm. Here's a list of the clubs involved (forthcoming replays in italics) There are 3 Highland League teams definitely competing at this stage but potentially 6. Plus, there's Culter from the North Juniors! Elgin City are also still involved. Slightly disappointed that Steve Paterson's Formartine and Barry Wilson's Wick are absent due to defeats yesterday. However they both lost to Highland League sides, so not too bad. Top junior outfit Auchinleck Talbot are the other non-league side in the hat. Byes Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Falkirk, Hearts, Hibernian, Inverness Caley Thistle, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Morton, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Ross County, St. Mirren, St. Johnstone. Championship Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Hamilton Accies Queen of the South Raith Rovers League One Airdrieonians Arbroath Ayr United Brechin City Dunfermline Athletic East Fife Forfar Athletic Rangers Stenhousemuir Stranraer League Two Albion Rovers Berwick Rangers Clyde East Stirlingshire Elgin City Montrose Annan Athletic v Buckie Thistle Preston Athletic v Queen’s Park Whitehill Welfare v Stirling Albion Highland League Inverurie Loco Works Turrif United Annan Athletic v Buckie Thistle Cove Rangers v Brora Rangers Fraserburgh v Edinburgh City Linlithgow Rose v Deveronvale Lowland League Fraserburgh v Edinburgh City Whitehill Welfare v Stirling Albion Preston Athletic v Queen’s Park Juniors Auchinleck Talbot Culter Linlithgow Rose v Deveronvale

Regarding Curtis Allen's fitness, I suppose that's where the U20 games come in. I believe Terry was at a managers' meeting recently where the general consensus was looking at reinstating a reserve league for next season. That would give the fringe players more games. St. Johnstone certainly seem to be a real thorn in our side. I think we've only scored once against them in the last eight meetings! It was a result I didn't see coming - a bit like the 1-5 hiding we took against Motherwell last year. That was written off as a bad day and we recovered straight away.

Sadly not! Not sure how, but we play them in the league again next month!

The players were obviously still thinking about today's 'Terry's teaser'... "give me 3 consecutive days of the week, but don't say either Wednesday, Friday or Sunday in your reply!" No idea what answer to that is, but the players today didn't look like they'd have scored in this game...yesterday, today or tomorrow!

League One Bryan Prunty TWO GOALS (Dumbarton 2-4 Raith Rovers) English League 2 Sam Winnall (Scunthorpe United 2-0 Cheltenham Town) Scottish Cup - 2nd Round Rory McAllister (Berwick 2-1 Peterhead) Gavin Morrison (Brora Rangers 1-1 Cove Rangers) Roy McBain (Brora Rangers 1-1 Cove Rangers) Martin Bavidge (Formartine United 0-2 Inverurie Loco Works)

First change in personnel this season in the league. Good to see young Polworth getting a start.

I wasn't aware of this at all! I don't read the Daily Record, so missed it. Surely an over reaction to an obviously flippant article. The line, "Admittedly, I’ve not seen a lot of women’s football - just a few little snatches" is typical Tam Cowan! It's his irreverent style. Always nudge, nudge, wink, wink humour. I used to love his "Take-It-Away-Jock-the-****" 'Offside' program! It's good to have journalists of a different ilk and not all PC correct scribes like Graham Spiers! It's incredible how guarded you've got to be in what you say anywhere nowadays.... But what he said was correct. Nobody has any interest in women's football aside from those directly involved. There are plenty of female ICT supporters who regularly attend games but few, if any, will have gone to watch Inverness City Ladies FC. I've watched a few games on TV - the most exciting it got was when a wee pushing fight developed. But it was just handbags...and the elementary mistakes that were being made..honestly, I've never seen so many boobs!

Our game against Ross County's U20's has been confirmed as a 6pm kick-off on Tuesday 8th October at the stadium.

^^^ Na, a different Jason Brown! Our version is a young outfield player!

Premiership - WIN Scottish Cup - WIN League Cup - WIN World darts - Ross Draper will beat Phil Taylor World Snooker - Billy McKay to edge Ronnie O' Sullivan 18-17 Commonwealth Games 100 metres - Richie Foran to out-dip Usain Bolt in 9.65 seconds There, I've had my 'bit of fun'! Reality: Premiership - 4th place Scottish Cup - Semi-finals League Cup - Semi-finals

Just to add to my previous post....I would be very surprised if Terry was looking to leave his idyllic Ness-side paradise. Besides, he'll want to see how far he can take this team. A look at where Barnsley are currently placed (bottom of their league with 4 points from 27), and it's clear he made the correct decision to stay with us. And it wasn't for the short term, I don't think. Butcher knows what he's doing... I envisage a new contract of 2 years for the management team being offered and accepted!

We literally couldn't be doing any better at this stage. Top of the league after almost a quarter of the season, and in the quarter-finals of the League Cup. There's also a Scottish Cup campaign coming up, where we're automatically in the last 32. All good! But, yeah, I suppose there may be some concern that as it stands Terry, Mo and Steve Marsella are in their last year unless they get extended contracts sorted out. The current situation sees only Doran on a long-term deal. Signed up till the end of season 2015-16: • Aaron Doran Signed up until the end of next season: • Josh Meekings • Nick Ross • Gary Warren • Graeme Shinnie • Billy McKay • Daniel Devine • David Raven • Liam Polworth • Ryan Christie Signed up until the end of this season: • Ross Draper • Ryan Esson • Richie Foran • Conor Pepper • Matthew Cooper • Jay Cheyne • Calum Ferguson • Ben Greenhalgh • Danny Williams • Adam Evans • James Vincent • Marley Watkins • Curtis Allen • Joe Gorman • Nick Draper • Calum Howarth • Cameron Mackay • Jason Brown • Alasdair Sutherland • Carl Tremarco (Butcher and Malpas and Marsella are also in this category) Signed until January: • Torbjørn Agdestein On loan until January: • Dean Brill

Found out it's Sunday 20th October! http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=1986&newsCategoryID=4&newsID=12545

I hadn't heard about his 59!! WOW. I'm sure that equals the lowest ever round in golf.

Don't think we had a game. It's Queen's Park (away) for ICT in the last 32 but I'm not sure of the date...

I've looked through the previous seasons results and indeed, you're right - it's the first time we've won 4 home games in a row! (in the top tier). I was pleasantly surprised that we'd won 3 in a row on a number of occasions. But never 4! Looking back, our best run of top flight results at home was probably this: December 2006 - Inverness 2-1 Rangers (last gasp goal from Rankin eluded Alan McGregor - great Xmas present!) January 2007 - Inverness 2-1 St. Mirren (Bayne and Wyness notch for us) January 2007 - Inverness 3-0 Hibernian (I remember being hung-over at this in the North stand...might have been a Sunday game!) January 2007 - Inverness 1-2 Celtic (venegoor of Hesselink grabbed a last minute winner as Celtic rob us!) March 2007 Inverness 1-0 Dundee United (Barry Wilson goal) Great memories typing that but we're even better placed now!