Renegade

Well at least he's not as bad as Mahonio's previous suggestions - Steve Lomas and Ally McCoist!

Mr Useless sounds like an Estonian DJ from 1995.

I was under the impression he was back in Portugal.

From the few things that I have heard about the Latapy saga and also from while he was still at the club, the conclusion I have come to is much the same as yours. The success of last season and the failings of this have nothing to do with him.

Did Latapy ever get that new job he was looking for? Still find that bizarre. When have you ever heard of anyone leaving one job to try and find a new one? Aside from people who are moving abroad, I don't think I ever have.

This is something that's been on my mind lately as well. In fact, after the game on Wednesday, I pondered whether his inclusion is simply a symbolic gesture. If Foran wasn't going to come on with five minutes to go and chasing the game on Wednesday after we went behind, then he won't be coming on at all.

HT - ICT 0-0 Accies FT - ICT 0-0 Accies ICT 1st scorer - Tansey Accies 1st scorer - Imrie Time of 1st Goal - 17

Presuming Storey and Mutombo are still bed-bound and Meekings and Vincent aren't back - Fon Williams Horner Devine Wedderburn D.Williams Tansey Draper Polworth Foran Hughes Roberts Subs - Esson, Vigurs, Brown, McLennan, R.Williams, MacRae, Howarth Presumably Accies will go with a back 5 so 3 strikers to keep the pressure on, with Vigurs dropped after his hopeless display on Wednesday. Filled the bench with youngsters really, but why not.

I was at the Lanarkshire Derby last week and some of Accies' tactics were just strange. They started the game with a 4-2-3-1 before switching early on to 4-4-2 diamond. After going 1-0 in the first half, they switched again for the second half to a 5-3-2! Yes, they tried to get back into the game by switching to 5 at the back. Bizarre! Also, the big tall striker, Morris, who's on loan from Norwich was absolutely dreadful.

What about Craig Gunn from Elgin? Now I know it's a different level of football, but the guy seems to score every week! I happened to see him play recently and is the type of player we need - fast, direct and a good finisher. He might need time to bed to full time football, but as a natural finisher it could come good. Worked for Greg Stewart.

I see Joe Gorman has signed a pre-contract with Airdrie. Doubt his 'Blow away the Orangemen' Twitter comments went down well with some of the locals though...

HT - Perth 0-0 ICT FT - Perth 1-1 ICT Perth 1st scorer - MacLean ICT 1st scorer - Mutombo Time of 1st Goal - 54

Is that necessarily true? Sadly, the Historical Kits website doesn't give any information for the first five years, but seemingly between 1890 and 1894, they played in a rather fetching outfit of brown and white stripes and blue long shorts. This was then followed by six years of red and black pinstripes before they changed again to blue and white stripes and then a rather ICT-esque red and blue striped jersey. From then on they seemed to settle on red and black. Interesting to note though, that while most fans nowadays consider Thistle to be red and black stripes, it wasn't always like that with predominantly red and occasionally black kits throughout the years. One or two that caught my eye was red and black Blackburn style half and half kit in 1950 and the very smart 1969, black with red sleeves jersey. I also noted that they played in a Sunderland-esque red and white stripes for a while in the late seventies as well. The same site also reveals that while Caley did play in blue from the very start, it was originally a far lighter shade. It also seems to show that the last Caley kit had more red in it than the first ICT kit!

HT - Hibs 0-0 ICT FT - Hibs 2-1 ICT Hibs 1st scorer - Henderson ICT 1st scorer - Devine Time of 1st Goal - 47

Ahhh.....Inverness Caley Thistle - Inverness Castle. That's quite clever actually.

Some people will know this better than me, but at what point in the merger discussions were possible names put forward? I know Inverness United was for decades a working title, but seemingly was an official non-starter due to it already being used in the Welfare League at the time. Was Inverness Caledonian not once voted on as well (taking the Caley from Caley and the Inverness from Thistle!)? Any other names we could've ended up with?

Aberdeen are a merger of three clubs. An earlier club of the same name, Bon Accord and a team called Orion. Elgin and Motherwell are also mergers. It's pretty common worldwide as well.

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Behind-The-Headlines/Sheep-grazed-on-Inverness-nursery-of-the-beautiful-game-2444.htm This article here suggests that I was wrong. It was Thistle that played in the Millburn Academy site and a merger with Crown allowed them to move to Kingsmills. Presumably that means that Needlefield Park (where Wikipedia says they played) was somewhere up the Crown then and not on the railway line site...unless that was classed as the Crown at that time. I don't think Thistle were a merger of Union and Crown as apparently Union was formed in 1883 and didn't merge with Thistle until 95 (ten years after Thistle formed). Thistle merged initially with Crown in 1889.

As was briefly mentioned on the 'No More Merger' thread, while quite rightly a lot of talk goes back to Inverness Thistle and Caledonian, what about the two 'forgotten' clubs within ICT's DNA? There'll be no doubt that a lot of ICT fans who are completely unaware of them, but what exactly do we know about them? Both merged with Thistle at different stages (though the Thistle name was retained). Now I may be wrong, but I'm under the impression Union played in red and their home ground was somewhere onto or close to the site that Millburn Academy now sits on. Crown FC didn't *really* play in the Crown at all apparently. Apparently they played at Needlefield Park which I presume is on where the railway runs through now, possibly across the road from where the Chieftain is now. Anyone else with any insight into either of these clubs?

I thought much the same upon seeing the replay. Even if Fon Williams comes out, fouls him and gets sent off, had he done it quick enough it could only have been a free kick. I'd have said our chances of getting a point would've been much stronger at 1-0 down with ten men, than at 2-0 with eleven.

The thing about Horner is that he actually isn't a right back at all, he's a central midfielder. It's no wonder he's getting roasted by better players in their natural position. The scariest thing though is Yogi seems to prefer him in there to Raven, who I don't even know if he has been offered a new deal yet or will be at all.

If that is the case I'd like to see Wedderburn get back in. Thought he did well on the whole replacing Draper a couple of months back. Hughes is another option.

HT - HMFC 1-1 ICT FT - HMFC 2-2 ICT HMFC 1st scorer - Juanma ICT 1st scorer - Storey Time of 1st goal - 10

Well it looks like it won't be Fon Williams, Brill or Esson playing tomorrow night. Daniel Hoban (along with ICT's retweet) has tweeted that he's making his debut against Hearts! Surely not?!