Renegade

Brentford used to play that over the tannoy when he scored apparently!

Ricky Shakes - Ex-Brentford winger who'd received caps for both Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. Apparently, he was very fast and not much else and wanted to stay in England for personal reasons.

Chris De Wagt was a Dutch centre-half. I never saw him play but from what I remember of people saying, he was rather mediocre. Wasn't signed after Butcher reckoned he was no better than what we had already IIRC. The other one was a midfielder I think. Edit - According to some reports as the time, De Wagt was rubbish and that was against Buckie! Melvin was described as "Melvin the Mule".

I noticed that as well! Particularly the pronunciation of "Butcher"! Shows how little folk in the central belt/down south know about the Highlands though, when they think two Black Isle deer would talk with such a Glaswegian sounding twang! Does anyone else notice also, that the father and son seem to switch/change colour at one point as well?!

The fact of the matter is, Ross County have what must be the narrowest pitch in Scotland. Playing with two out and out wingers, is totally pointless. Players like Greenhalgh, Doran etc. need space to run into and they won't get much of that on Friday. From what I gather, if there's two things don't handle well this season, it's height and pace up-front. For this reason, I'd scrap the 4-2-3-1 for this game and go with an out and out 4-3-3. The three in the middle should be good enough to deal with what County have out there. With this in mind, I'd go with this - Brill Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Draper Ross Foran Doran Agdestein Mckay Subs - Esson, Devine, Tremarco, Greenhalgh, Watkins, Williams, Polworth Get Agdestein there up against Boyd with Doran and Mckay either side. Having three out-and out strikers on the field as well means constant pressure on the County backline and would mean that Kocavevic wouldn't be able to make his regular runs forward (a key attacking threat they pose) and if he does means that space would open up the could be exploited, which Doran could use to his advantage. None of this stand-off nonsense, get in their faces, take the game to them and put them under pressure. That's how to beat this Dingwall mob.

That's what he did against St Johnstone. He was like a headless chicken that day and seems to be more suited to a more defensive role. Personally, I thought Greenhalgh was okay, but Watkins is better for now. Wonder Greenhalgh would be better as more of an impact type of player to bring on in the second half.

Putting the appalling performance by the officials today aside for a moment, IMO there's a few things we could learn from Partick today. Slickness in Attack - When Partick went forward there seemed to options all over the pace and they attacked with a driving pace, as well as getting the full-backs (particularly O'Donnell) into dangerous positions. We seemed to keen to attempt to pass the ball into the net, especially in the first half. Pressuring the man in possession - We seemed too keen to try and intercept the ball, while they were very good at getting into our faces. We need to stop being so nicey nicey and play dirty once in a while. Possession - We seemed fine with the ball at the back, but seemed quite keen to launch it long for Mckay to chase. They seemed able to keep the ball on the deck throughout and attacking with it. We should be doing that too.

2209 is the first train back after FT. There's another one at 2255.

Callum Reidford - Ex-Rangers, Dunfermline and Dundee keeper, who came in on trial prior to the start of our season in Division 1 as a potential back-up to Esson. In the end he wasn't signed, despite playing a couple of friendly matches. Afterwards, he went to Clyde and then Stirling and is now at Stenhousemuir. Also, does anyone remember two Slovakians (or possibly Slovenians!) who came in on trial around the same time? I'm sure one of them or possibly both of them were strikers and one of them scored against Deveronvale or somewhere. Think he was called Oli or Ogi or something?

HT - ICT 0-0 PTFC FT - ICT 2-0 PTFC ICT 1st scorer - Warren PTFC 1st scorer - Doolan Time of 1st Goal - 62

One or maybe both of those two Nigerians were released I believe, one was also a con man or something as well apparently.

"Spectators always see more of the game" - Stephen Fry Foran can come out with anything he likes, doesn't mean he's right.

As I said on the matchday thread, Polworth was a headless chicken and should have been hooked in the first half. Nick Ross has also been poor on the wing for weeks and if he's going to be played anywhere, it's down the middle.

ICT winning something every time for me. I think the thing is though, the Scottish Cup isn't really that big an event in the sense that it isn't unwinnable and we've not been far off in the past, unlike all the competitions Scotland ever have competed in (apart from the Kirin Cup and other novelty events). If it were the Premiership or some kind of European competition we were talking about, I'd presume the consensus would be a bit more equally balanced.

Shame if true, I've been hearing he's looking way past it this season and I was looking forward to Mckay giving him the runaround in a couple of weeks!

Josh Meekings to rifle them in David Luiz style!

Remember a few years ago, Man United signed some Australian boy of about the same age? Never heard of him again so far.

I see Michael Fraser's in goal. That makes me about 100 times more confident of victory!

Means that while Meekings-Warren-Devine-Shinnie wouldn't be quite as strong as the regular Raven-Warren-Meekings-Shinnie set-up, but it certainly would have been stronger than what we put out and maybe we wouldn't have received such a tanking. Playing anyone out of position in any defence is usually a bad move.

That's fair enough, but I think the pairing of Warren and Devine would have been almost equally as strong and Meekings on the right would have made the whole defence stronger than the one we put out on Saturday. As I said before, if it was good enough to see out a win at Tannadice, it was strong enough to start at McDiarmid Park.

Nah that's 3-3-1-3! 3-3-3-1 is a Ricardo La Volpe formation!

Preferably Fijian!

Talking about offensive stuff at ICT games, has anyone else heard about this ultra-offensive 3-3-3-1 formation? Sounds way better than this 4-2-3-1 nonsense!

As others have alluded to, Devine in at right-back was a strange move, particularly when you consider Saints were playing the likes of Hasselbaink and the extremely dangerous Stevie May. As I mentioned previously, defensively he was alright, but his distribution of the ball was pretty poor and going forward he was as penetrative as a broken pencil! But here's the thing people; what was wrong with playing Meekings at right back? At Tannadice at the start of the reason, Raven went off towards the end and had to be replaced by Devine, where he went into centre-back and Meekings changed onto the right. Now, if it's a good enough set-up to see out a 1-0 win, then it's good enough to start a game against St Johnstone who were thumped 4-0 by Dundee United a few weeks ago. I can understand trying to keep the centre-back together but if we've got the strength-in-depth everyone keeps talking about, and what I believe we do have, then I do believe we would've had a stronger team set-up on the field with Devine and Meekings swapped round, and maybe wouldn't have received such a thrashing.

There's been an ICT/Terry Butcher George's Cross, and there was an Irish tricolour at the Semi-Final last year, as well as the aforementioned people wearing Rooney and Hayes Eire kits in 2010, as well as a Romania flag when Marius Niculae was here. If the problem is all "national flags" and even ones that have "INVERNESS" written across them, then what about ICT-related saltires such as the red and blue one that's at games from time to time and the blue one with "Thistle" written across it, which belonged to the fellow that died recently? I don't see a similar outcry over those. Also, the question in the poll is "Are you offended by it", not "do you think it should be there". If people are offended by a piece of cloth with colours on it in such a design and is representative of the country we are in (whether you like it or not) and has the name of our town written across it, then these people really are quite sad and rather pathetic.