Renegade

The 3rd round games are due on the 23rd and 24th September. No date for the Rangers away game yet though - I've heard speculation that it maybe the week before (16th or 17th September). Oh jeez, they'll be Union Jack/Britain mad!

Been linked a couple of times but was only interviewed for it in 2004 I think. Does anyone else remember the ex-Millwall manager Willie Donachie wanting it when Brewster was sacked? The Highland News linked Henrik Larsson with it last time as well.

ICT U20s played Inverness City tonight apparently. Don't know the score and didn't know it was on!

Manager-wise Rudi Gutendorf has the record for the most international teams managed and signed Steve Paterson for some team in Japan! He's managed Blue Star Zurich, Luzern, US Monastir, Duisburg, Stuttgart, St Louis Stars, Bermuda, Schalke, Kickers Offenbach, Sporting Cristal, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, 1860 Munich, Real Vallodolid, Fortuna Koln, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana, Hamburg, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Nepal, Tonga, Tanzania, Hertha Berlin, Sao Tome and Principe, Yomiuri (now known as Tokyo Verdy), Ghana, Nepal, Fiji (was so good they brought him back!), China, Iran U23s, China (again!), Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Mauritius (again!), Rwanda and Samoa! Bizarrely, in his playing career he was a one club man and played for TuS Neuendorf for nine years!

James Vincent has been capped for England C and I think Raven has some English youth caps as well. Seem to remember talk of Vincent switching to Northern Ireland but he wasn't eligible.

There was a thing about Pfannenstiel in FourFourTwo a couple of years back. I see he'd played in New Zealand, Canada and even at the Maracana! This one of the best ones/fall from graces I've come across is Trevor Benjamin. He's even played for two different national teams! Apparently, he was also on trial at Clyde in 2009! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Benjamin Ten points for anyone who can spot his one foreign club!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/i/inverness_ct/3978561.stm Here's an article from 2004, talking about Richard Gough wanting the job. Interestingly at the bottom, it says that Eric Black was being considered and there was even talk of Pele coming back!

Kevin MacDonald would be a good for us I reckon. The other two don't seem very exciting though. From what I remember as well, Csaba Laszlow was the first to apply for the job when Butcher went. I think he'd have done a reasonable job, but the football would've been as boring as anything to watch.

Free agents can be signed at any time. There's also a different loan transfer window as well I believe.

There's probably a lot of truth in that. The baggage that seems to attract some people won't help either. Obviously not all fans of these clubs are like that, but for some reason there does seem to be a nastier element to their undesirables for some reason.

Does anyone remember who else was linked when Baltacha left? I believe Pele was on the radar for a while, but was anyone else linked?

Bobby Williamson's a bit of hoof merchant. His record isn't bad, but would he have suited the players we had at that time? Arguably not. Done quite well in Africa I'm led to believe. Archie Knox took his name out of the running after deciding he didn't want to move to the Highlands I think. He might have been quite an astute choice. Was Alan Kernaghan not offered it as well at point? I seem to recollect he was, as was Paul Hegarty with Malpas as assistant I think as well.

Was Gough not interviewed for it once? Think he expressed an interest last time as well.

Nevio Scala. Applies for a lot of jobs over here, but I don't remember him ever being linked with us. Bobby "Blobby" Williamson was interviewed for it once I think. Probably wouldn't have been much good. Paul Telfer came second in the running when Yogi got it (ahead of Paul Hartley). A surprise from the outside that he was even interviewed, but apparently came with some glowing references. He was player/coach of Sutton United in the Conference South at the time, but has since become one of the assistant managers of American side Indy Eleven in Indianapolis!

Does anyone else remember the Austrian/German manager Bernd Krauss (formerly manager of Borussia Dortmund, Real Sociedad and Tenerife amongst others) applying when Brewster was sacked? Only seems to have managed one club since - Etoile du Sahel in the Tunisian league. I remember Ossie Ardiles was the favourite for a short time and in that STV interview AJS mentions said that the only thing he knew about Inverness was that it was "very cold"!

I'm sure the sort list after Christie left was Brewster, Warnock and Owen Coyle. Coyle probably would've been quite good actually. Wasn't Donald Park offered once (and maybe twice) and turned it down. Duncan Shearer was offered it once as well apparently. Both know their stuff but I'm not sure how good they'd have been. I've always wondered as well that had Shearer wanted it when Butcher left, he'd have gotten it, at least until the end of last season.

If it was say Falkirk or Kilmarnock or somebody then non-segregation would be do-able. The problem with teams like Celtic, Rangers and at times Aberdeen, is that they seem to have a far higher of scum than every other club. It just takes one neanderthal to ruin it for anyone and it's because of these cave men that we can't take a no barriers approach. I know people will probably think "well if they're causing a scene, tell the stewards and they'll get rid of them", but we all know and have seen many times that when it comes to the Old Firm, the police and stewards are spineless cowards who don't want to get involved. In an ideal world, we could have barrierless games, but because of some of the fans of clubs like Celtic, it is a must.

Presume Marsella had some engagement up here. Used to play for Elgin I believe, maybe he was seeing someone from there.

He was offered it before Charlie Christie got it. A lucky escape if there ever was one! He's been interviewed on the last two occasions I believe. Never fancied him getting it at all and he wasn't much good at Lincoln apparently. From what I remember he said something about moving to Inverness when he retires and possibly taking over here. Think he said something about the job "not being big enough for him at the minute".

Did anyone else spot some of the neanderthals in the wee stand near the North Stand? Most seem to spend more time watching the stand and sending us wee messages than watching the game.

Why are we going into matches with only six on the bench by the way? Surely there'd be no harm including Ferguson (who I was very impressed with in pre-season) or Brown or Sutherland? Even putting MacKay as a second keeper on there would be better than nothing I'd have thought.

Are you sure you're plugging the microphone into the correct socket? If it's the same type of cameras I've used, there's two sockets kinda on the top. Plugging into the wrong one is maybe the problem?

Anyway, I'm sure as everyone who could be bothered going today will know, that was a wonderful performance. The defence and attacking play were both excellent and it is testament to the work being done on the training field. Draper and Brill amongst others were excellent, as was Marley Watkins who I think is our best winger since Barry Robson. Carry on like this, and we could well get into Europe.

Happy clappers that said naysayers wanted ICT to fail as it was 'personal' against Yogi A great result like this and the usual suspect tried to make it 'them' and 'us'. Everyone wants ICT to win! Everyone wants Yogi to succeed! As many did with Butcher, all naysayers want to hold their hands up and say their wrong. Amazing this still needs said.... Absolutely right. This is the poster of course who constantly attacks other posters no-matter what. Sad that somebody just can't enjoy the win but has to make it all about them as well. Negative and tiresome in the extreme. Think we'll find as well that almost all the prominent "Yogi Naysayers" were at the game today, while this superfan was not.