Not a nightmare draw for County or Elgin I would have thought. And inevitably on the likes of last Saturday there will be a poor gate when the visitors are a minor outfit from the lower leagues and therefore a pretty weak crowd puller, rather than the kind of SPL club to which Inverness has become used.
I would be really disappointed if this kind of stuff was typical of The Herald which I thought had higher apsirations than being West Central Scotland's answer to the Nairnshire Telegraph.
This is an incredibly arrogant reply from a man, who has at least in the past (maybe still does) work for Radio Scotland (a national broadcaster). Thistle are not a "minor outfit from the lower leagues" but are in fact the team that are three places below Caley on current standings. Given current form it will be interesting to see the gap in league places in 8 months time.
So Caley away wouldn't be a nightmare draw for perhaps 2 or 3 of the SFL clubs? For the other 90% of SFL clubs it is the worst draw apart from being drawn against someone in your own division.
Of course Wick would be better, the fact they had a 700+ mile return trip for their game against St Cuthberts in front of a couple of hundred and then a 500+ mile trip to Edinburgh City for a draw a month later really puts your pathetic arument in perspective. It's a game and if you want to compete you enter the competition if you wan't to moan about it you follow the only team in Glasgow.
I don't know the general standards of Wick, St Cuthberts and Edinburgh City. In the cup getting a team from far away, from a higher league, with few fans is a "nightmare draw". I'm sure Wick wouldn't have seen Stranraer away as a fantastic draw.