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Premiership Stuart Armstrong (Dundee United 4-0 St. Johnstone) Championship Dougie Imrie (penalty) (Dumbarton 3-1 Morton) League Two Bryan Gilfillan (Peterhead 2-2 Elgin City) Dennis Wyness (Peterhead 2-2 Elgin City) Highland League Gary Farquhar (Huntly 3-2 Fort William)

2013/14 - 24th August (4 games) ------------------------------------------------- 2012/13 - 5th October (9 games) 2011/12 - 5th November (14 games) 2010/11 - 3rd October (7 games) Also, I make it that we went 400 minutes without conceding a goal in the league since the Dundee United game at the end of last season. A club record? County scored against us in the final game of last season.

Terry Butcher formerly managed at Griffin Park - the home of Brentford FC. I'm just glad he prefers glasses of red wine in the hills above Loch Ness rather than the pints of bitter easily afforded nearby the London club.... Brentford's ground literally has a pub at each corner, something no other club can 'boast'! I'm glad I don't support them as I'd never make it to the game! There's also advertising on TOP of its stands?!? Apparently, it's under the flightpath of Heathrow airport! (We need to get an ICT scarf around nessie's long neck!) Here's a good 'clickable' link showing the location of the pubs relative to the stadium. I bet loads of punters drink in all 4 before and then after the game! http://www.theguardian.com/travel/interactive/2013/mar/15/brentford-football-club-pub-each-corner-interactive

Quarter-final draw is today (Thursday) at 2pm. Some big Championship clubs await - Dundee, Raith Rovers, Queen of the South and Falkirk. But they'll likely be hoping for Rangers (assuming they come through against Berwick)! The other remaining clubs are Stenhousemuir and Annan Athletic.

Ramsdens Cup - 2nd Round Liam Fox scored a penalty for new club Raith Rovers. (Dunfermline Athletic 0-2 Raith Rovers)

They've got to install a running track. Big job. Hampden will be out of commission for ages.

Ross Tokely and Grant Munro will always be ICT legends. That can't be taken away. I was one of the doubters when Munro was released but Butcher was spot on! Recruiting Warren and integrating a young Josh Meekings into central defence then merging them into a partnership has been a master-stroke! Munro/Dods were good but I reckon this pairing is even better.

^^^ Good response Yngwie...not to be sniffed at!

Yeah! There will be a few internet/telephone accounts getting urgently cancelled! And twitter photos of betting slips being suddenly removed! I was aware that wagering on games a player was directly involved in was banned but I didn't realise that they couldn't gamble on games they clearly had no influence on. Like the German Bundesliga for example. It is widespread amongst players and always has been. It's not match fixing but sheer naivety! He's unlucky to be caught and likely made an example of. Maybe a Celtic fan who works in Ladbrokes decided to land him in it by reporting his betting pattern to the football authorities. Pure conjecture on my part about the 'fan' but seemingly Ladbrokes did report him as they're entitled to do. Nowadays there are betting markets on everything - from number of corners to the number of throw ins. Indeed, there was an incident a while back that ex-Southampton legend, Matt Le Tissier openly revealed in his autobiography. It was a scam relating to time of first throw in. He had 'under 5 seconds' at 50/1. If they won the toss they would kick-off and implement the plan. If they lost, the chances are the opposition would choose 'ends' giving them the kick-off! It transpired that they did start the game, Le Tiss got the ball tapped to him at the centre-spot and he proceeded to launch it out of play...unfortunately for him, in an attempt to make it appear a mis-placed pass, he under hit his kick and the bet was ruined!

Just reading the Highland League results - noticed Kyle Whyte scored for Clach! ( Lossiemouth 1-1 Clachnacuddin)

Ex ICT reserve player, Paul McMullan scored an OG playing for Elgin City today! (East Stirling 3-0 Elgin)

Antigua & Barbuda Zaine Francis-Angol for Motherwell today!

This forum is for 'other football.' The ICT discussion takes place in the 'ICT' forum. GET A GRIP

Tuesday 13th August North of Scotland Cup - Quarter Final Dale Gillespie TWO GOALS, Andrew Greig and Zander Sutherland all on target (Thurso 0-5 Brora Rangers)

Agree with you lukemackay regarding Auchinleck and Linlithgow but the North Junior League is of an inferior standard. Culter are well below the quality of the top junior sides outside of the North. They would struggle in the top East and West Junior superleagues! The reason, in my opinion, is that Aberdeen has an abundance of teams and therefore the playing standard is diluted. It's not that the players aren't good enough, just that they're too evenly spread. A bit like how Inverness amateur teams (before they went Welfare) didn't do very well in the Highland Amateur Cup - it would ordinarily be 'expected' for the City team to produce a contender but it rarely materialised. The likes of Wick, with 3 or so teams had stronger line-ups due to the Inverness talent being spread over around 30+ teams.

Once the pyramid system gets going next season, hopefully some of the Junior sides will be attracted to the Lowland league. Time will tell. In 10 years time, the make-up of the SPFL could look very different!

Saturday 10th August Championship Bryan Prunty (Dumbarton 1-1 Falkirk) League One Ian Black (Rangers 4-1 Brechin City). Scored the rebound from his own missed penalty! League Two Bryan Gilfillan (Peterhead 2-2 Annan Athletic) Highland League Graeme Stewart (Buckie Thistle 2-1 Fraserburgh) Andrew Greig (Nairn County 0-2 Brora Rangers) Zander Sutherland (Nairn County 0-2 Brora Rangers). Penalty kick

A guy I know who knew someone at the game (!) thought it was Calum Ferguson who scored for us! But that's just word of mouth!

I was curious as to how Gala Fairydean came to have "Rovers" at the end of their name, but it seems that they merged with amateur side Gala Rovers this summer. Just out of interest, did anyone else here make it to Netherdale for any of old Caley's Scottish Cup ties? Must have been around 1984 that we won 2-0 there after Gala missed the chance to go in front when their penalty hit the post, and then around 1990 it was 2-2 before Caley comfortably won the replay. I was at the reply game vs Gala Fairydean and seem to remember the Gala 'keeper making an absolute howler at a Caley goal by completely miss-kicking a clearance! Yeah, as you correctly state, Fairydean merged with local amateur side Gala Rovers just a few weeks ago. Rovers are/were the current Borders amateur champions and defeated Fairydean in a 'bounce' game recently. With Gala Fairydean about to embark on the Lowland League - effectively a promotion of 2 divisions - they realised they needed to be stronger. I believe it was decided by the Galashiels footballing community that the 'best way forward' for the town would be to merge the clubs. Fairydean's manager resigned after this decision! The article I read suggested that John Collins (ex-Scotland international and proud son of Galashiels) was 'instumental' in suggesting/implementing/forcing the merger through. And I can't for the life of me find the said article! Anyway, come time, I think they could become one of the stronger sides in the Lowland League although it will be difficult as Gala will always be predominately a rugby town.

Yeah, Wick reckon they'll lose around £5,000 playing the tie! They'll have to stay overnight on the Friday, maybe in Edinburgh, (or maybe not if the Festival's still on!) Nairn have a real tough one away to Linlithgow Rose, but Brora will be pleased with a home game and a very winnable one vs. Vale of Leithen. Lossie v Culter is interesting as it pits the North's top Junior club against a struggling Highland League side. Was looking for Cove but then remembered they've got a bye! (Along with Formartine, Dalbeattie and Whitehill Welfare*) *Mantis's favourite team!

Has anybody got BT Sport? If so, would you recommend it. I'm thinking of changing my ISP and I understand that if you're a BT broadband subscriber, then you can access the new sports channel for free. It may sway me!

I still don't think we'll be in that draw! I started a thread on this topic last month.

Filipe Morais netted a penalty for Stevenage in their 2-0 win over Ipswich in the League Cup.

Inverness City's new home ground, within the Bught, will be called Lister Park. Named after the club's former President, Ian Lister.

As widely speculated yesterday, Walter Smith has stepped down from his role as chairman at Rangers. It seems that the return of Charles Green has triggered a catalogue of events at Ibrox culminating in In-fighted and disharmony at boardroom (and pitch!) level. There are rumours abound that Ally McCoist may follow and indeed will 'walk away'!! If that were to be the case, then obviously Terry would inevitably be linked with the job. I genuinely believe that the only Scottish team that could turn Butcher's head are Rangers so I'm firmly hoping McCoist stays! I can't go through another 'Barnsley' episode!