KirkieRobRoy

Wish I could be there. Nothing to fear from this mob. They have, as someone stated above, 'a wealthy budget' but it's all on tick and they've wasted much of it. Have every confidence the team can dish out a lesson to this unloved new club and send the away end back to the Portland Club (is that place still going?) in disgust.

Share your concerns but let's not go overboard on demanding spending. The way Celtic are spending, and Rangers are back to spending money they don't have - do we really want to be part of a Scottish Football that repeats all the mistakes of the past?

It's early days and things may yet change - but I do fear an onslaught of 'WHY THE NEGATIVITY?????? GET BEHIND THE TEAM AND BELIEEEEEVE!!!!!' posts.

Only been at Cowdenbeath for Stock Car Racing. Which was rubbish.

Remember back in what's now League 1 (I think) away to Arbroath being distracted by the sunset.

It's a gamble which might be inspired and the start of something remarkable or might be something else entirely but the main thing is the uncertainty ends and the club can plan for the new season. Hopefully RF has demonstrated qualities that show he can be a terrific manager (and, in due course, probably move on somewhere else).

Hopefully he has told the board that there are certain players he wants to see added and expects to have them funded. Next I hope he looks at the youth set-up. And third, organises a pre-season friendly v Kirkie Rob Roy.

Just pointing out Gus McPherson has got Queen's Park up to League 1 playing some terrific football for their level. Player budget, of course, zero. Slightly below ours.

Well, it was a better game than our final but I think our supporters (and Falkirk's) should be applauded for the right way to respond at the end.

English Cup Final just looked boring when I tuned in.

Was never a big fan of Hughes but didn't at any stage want him to leave as change and uncertainty are, well, changey and lacking in certainty. Dunno who is likely to be interested or if the board has anyone in view. Dunno anything actually, as others have suggested above. But change, uncertainty, gaaah!

I suppose there's no chance but it would be awfy nice if Celtic fans got hyped up about the possibility of Brendan Rodgers and ended up with Yogi...

C'mon, Yogi, send a team down to Guy's Meadow for a pre-season v the Kirkie Rob Roy. Caley can have some Roy subs if the transfer window is proving unfortunate.

Remember his first outing, a 3-4 defeat at Ice Station Broadwood (those were the days...). Some great memories of his better performances, but we should really have had a recorded message saying 'keep yer mouth shut Robson!' to save wear-and-tear on supporter vocal chords.

IIRC he was on loan at Forfar for the 3-1 at Sellick Park.

There's a lad from Leicester on loan at Raith Rovers.

Can we have some next season please?

Delighted to see this. Will be there as I'm working nearby and I had feared that I might be there myself (home stand included).

What's the latest with Inverness City? I gather that, for no obvious reason, they are being evicted from their latest pitch by the cooncil, by no means for the first time.

What, exactly, is it with cooncils?

Anyway, back on topic or nearly so, the best pies available at any fitba ground on the planet (or probably any planet) are the ones at Largs Thistle in the Juniors, And they also do chili and rice as a matchday feed. In July the club should send the second string doon for a friendly, You'll see what I mean.

'All kick-offs are 3.00pm unless stated ' should probably read 'Your match probably isn't at 3pm or even on a Saturday unless it says so and it serves you right for not being a corporate sponsor or TV company you unwelcome non-OF supporting little oik - signed, Neil Doncaster'

Keep on playing, keep on attracting supporters (though I fear the return of the union jack mob will bring even more of the Invernessian Loyal back out of the shadows), hopefully be able to field more local youngsters, win the odd cup, stay as much as possible in Spiffle 1 and get as high up as possible. Can't really hope for more. But there will be good days and bad days and its the former we live by.

It'll be like a Challenge Cup final.

Tom Parratt - only ever saw him once, in a pre-season game at Grant Street.

Now plays, apparently, for the splendidly-named Wilmington Hammerheads in the Yooo Ess of Ay. A team-mate is long-forgotten Celtic 'n' Hibs never-was, Liam Miller.

http://www.wilmingtonhammerheads.com/roster/

And per the P&J today he's left already.

And now Neil Doncaster, who did his best in all sorts of ways to destroy Scottish football, 'welcomes' the arrival of the Taxdodgers in Spiffle 1. Had Falkirk or Queen of the South won the league I suspect Mr Armageddon would have made no such announcement.

Presumably they won't have to pay the £250,000 fine they owe the SPFL to be allowed to play in the top league.

I am usually ferociously plague-on-baith-their-hooses with regard to the Old Squirm but I hope the Taxdodgers get hammered in their semi-final. Given that in their three games prior to last night they had shipped three goals to, consecutively, Falkirk, Queen of the South and Raith Rovers, I'm very hopeful.

Oh, and Challenge Cup Final humiliation with Rory McCallister scoring a hat-trick wouldn't go amiss either.

Better get yon photie taken quickly. After Wednesday night we might not be defending oor trophy any more...

And don't County only get their cup for a few months, now that the League Cup is set for a final in November?

As I came to ICT by marriage not birth or residence I can say I'm delighted to see County get the wee cup. The spreading around of major trophies since the old Taxdodgers club went bust has been brilliant for the game, a complete change from the tired Old Firm narrative.

Sadly, I expect it'll all change next season now that yon Hibs team have let said Taxdodgers off the hook in the league. The unrestrained joy of Chic Young et al when the gruesome twosome were drawn against each other in the big cup semi was nauseating, bit there will be plenty more of it to come.

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Did anyone else briefly go "Aaaargh!" when Mutombo took a touch instead of taking it first time?

Oh, yes. Yes indeed.

Like everyone else, disappointed, but if we need a replay to dispose of Stirling Albion, not surprising that we need the same with Hibs. Hopefully they'll either be depressed, or have overcelebrated, after the LC Final when the replay comes around.

Hopefully we can then dodge the Billy McKay banana-skin, and in the final face an ordinary Celtic team (who will surely dump the taxdodgers in the lesser semi-final) and make up for the recent loss at Celtic Park.

It may well have been, Charles. As I recall I tried to avoid looking at it.

There is no Glasgow bias. It's Old Firm bias. People in the Greater Glasgow area who support Thistle, St Mirren, Morton, Motherwell, Albion Rovers, Pollok, and, er, Kirkie Rob Roy detest the Old Firm as much as anyone in the Highlands.

Ah, the Highlands - I remember when we played Rangers at TCS the big banner among the visiting hordes was from 'Lewis RSC'. There are probably more Old Firm supporters (albeit many of them watching all their fitba on the telly) in Inverness than support ICT. Whether you're an ICT supporter, Ross county, St Johnstone, Montrose, Raith, Hamilton Accies, Ayr United, whatever, you'll see local folk wandering about in rangers and Celtic jerseys, or buses piling off to Parkhead or Aye Broke on match days.

I don't think most journos are necessarily from Glasgow. Deffo many of them don't live there. But they love the Old Firm. Not because they are based in Glasgow. But because they're so BIIIIIIG.

Sadly, yer Scottish fitba 'writers' are unanimously of the view that things are much more interesting when the same two teams win everything.