Kind of Blue

Re the St Johnstone game, yeap it true that many away supporters were locked out. Yes this was a fantastic turnout but a sizeable number of the support could not be classed as "regular or even Caley fans . They attended because the home tie had captured the Inverness public attention and they wanted to see the return game. ICT has managed to tap into some of this support over the years and we all know they will come out when it matters. The challenge is to another get 700+ of these supporters to attend home games on a regular basis.

Are these confirmed? For the Motherwell game on the 19th I hope the players will have recovered from the cup victory celebrations

A day on since our fantastic glorious win and I still feel elated and so proud of the team who gave absolutely everything. Everone played their part but Nick Ross does deserve special mention as he must have been gutted not to be in the starting line up. He did make an impact when he came on and he could so easily have gone down for a penalty (I wonder if Beaton would have given it). The team showed a tremendous never say die attitude and I just wonder if our name is written on the cup - that's two games in a row in this competition where we have scored in the last minute. I also think our fans were brilliant yesterday and made much more noise than Hearts for the whole match. I didn't see any of our fans leaving early despite things looking bleak. As for Hamill, poetic justice was done when he missed the penalty - served him right for all the time wasting etc.

Well done to Davie and CTJ for this brilliant effort.

The defence picks itself unless there's a problem with Meekings head injury; and if Shinnie is moved back to left back, which I don't will happen. So for Hughes, the midfield will present the biggest selection problem. I think Draper must go back in because of his physical presence, drive and determination. Is Watkins fit enough to play from the start? The manager has some massive selection decisions to make and if he gets it right a place in the cup final could be ours and this could be the springboard to a strong finish in the league.

How many of the original band are in the Stranglers? is it just Hugh Cornwell that's left? Hugh's not in the band now but the three other original members are: JJ Burnel, Dave Greenfield and Jet Black (who is about 74, as Borncaley mentions above).

Why do folk seem to think that Hughes was a cheap option compared to Hartley or other candidates? The only realistic "expensive" option would have been Levine and I don't think he ever was really that interested. All the other candidates would have been offered a similiar salary package to Hughes. The Board appointed Hughes because they considered him to be man for the job. I back them on that and will be giving the manager and the team my loud and full support next Sunday and beyond.

There would be no need for a rematch if they had floodlights that worked properly. It's all gone quiet with Roy M's investigation to find out what went wrong with lights. The reason being, rather than the floodlight failure due to some external force, it was actually due to a transformer fault which they previously knew about but did not spend the money to replace it at the time.

They're playing the Ironworks, should be a great night on their 40th anniversary tour.

Same team as last Saturday, except Warren in for Devine. A hard decision but Warren is the MAN. Draper for the bench.

Tremarco must be close to picking up a suspension, so that will free up a midfield space as Shinnie will slot back into defence (not that i'm wishing this to happen because he's doing a good job).

They may succeed in making Stevenson available but they risk getting players injured before the cup tie. Not too bothered about this.

After last season's semi cup tie, I certaintly won't be taking anything for granted and I'm sure the team will be of the same mind. But I do think the team we will be highly motivated and determined to get to the final. If they play to their potential then Hearts will need to play out of their skins.

According to John Robertson, some of the Dutch players, signed in the summer, are are being frozen out and are training with the under 20's. Some of these players are on 3 year contracts, so a very expensive failed experiment by Mr Adams. And so much for County being a community club and bringing on its own players through its overhyped "academy". Not much evidence of home grown players in the current first team. It will be very interesting to County's financial accounts because if these very expensive new signings are being financed by County then they will be facing a substantial loss this season. However it may be their sugar daddy is financing it himself. One thing is for sure, County are not living withing their own means.

A day on since this superb result and It still feels great to put one over our "high flying" northern neighbours. It was a great team performance with star performances from Wlliams, Shinnie and the defence, in particular. Now that we have the addition of Tansey and Vincent on the comeback, we have a squad that is capable of competing strongly for the rest of the season.

The rumour is true. Agree with what Kingmills says above, that the sponsorship is on the low side and i've heard that the club are very confident that they will get a much improved sponsorship deal next time around.

Very pleased with this addition to the squad. I always rated Tansey as a player and I think he will add some quality to the team.

This could describe another very successful assistant manager ie John Robertson (assistant to Martin O'neil).

It's more likely that Vincent will be a genuine target for Hibs.

The link is still in place.

Is he going to be a spiritual adviser?

I was looking through an old Inverness book today and there was an interesting picture (sorry no link) of a Highland youth select team in 1980 going to play in Canada. The team had the likes of Martin Lisle, Billy Wilson and Steven Maclaren etc. My question is did Steven Maclaren go on to play at a higher level I seem to remember he went to play in England. Anybody remember who he played for?

I'm going to trust the Board's judgement on this appointment. I will be giving Yogi my full support and hope that the majority do the same and give him a fair crack of the whip.

That's because the Heathmount punters don't have the same access to inside info anymore.

But County will ony have an "official" crowd of 800 if previous cup ties are anything to go by, so the police should be able to handle it.