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Just checking back on highlights, and I think I see the selection change made for this match that has changed our fortunes. Dean Brill's choice of jersey, it is something I commented on to my brother and daughter at the last few games. Including and since the win over St Johnstone the game before Yogi took over, Deano wore the grey top against St J, St Mirren, Partick, a win and 2 draws, all clean sheets. In the other games he wore the yellow jersey, and we either lost or Deano had a nightmare game and no clean sheets. Grey top yesterday, win and clean sheet. I say, Deano, bin the yellow jersey.

Were the clues here ?

English Championship Andy Shinnie (Bournemouth 0 - 2 Birmingham)

I don't know if he done his badges, but if he has then surely goalkeeping coach is Ryan Esson's job to claim. I haven't been to many games this season, but at all of them Esson was doing some of the goalkeeping workouts, even before Marsella left, and he has been the man passing the ball back to the players doing the shooting practice, hence the reason I think he either has some badges or is at least working towards them.

The Hearts fans, who said they were very happy with the venue last year and would like more of the same please

Is your exchange one of those with a specific BDUK contract that BT have tendered for and won ? If not then BT have not received any public money to upgrade *your* line at all. If it is then that money is ring-fenced for that purpose and cannot be used for any of the sport deals.

I don't know if I am going blind, mad or both, but I cannot find these tickets on the Eticketing site. Anyone had any luck finding them ?

According to the Beeb, Vincent has a knee injury that he needs to see a specialist about so it would seem to me that Greenhalgh in for Vincent, with Nick Ross moving inside as per the change against Hibs would be the way to go. A chance for Pepper to get on the bench maybe ?

He wants tonight. Dundee 0-1 ICT Billy McKay

Didn't we have a player like that before in Andy Barrowman ? No wait, he was worthless

We had him for about three games before he threw the toys out of the pram when was informed he wasn't going to start the next match. This was made even worse when he was then told he was going to travel to Brora to play in a North of Scotland Cup match with the U20 team! He wasn't really missed. Brora, he probably would have been happy with Brora. That game was all the way up in Wick, against Halkirk. I went, ICT got through 1-0 as I remember, and I was surprised to see him as I was just expecting the U20s. He did get to skipper the side, but the story was he was on the phone to his agent on the bus home asking him for a move.

...and Doran would be beyond outstanding if he had an eye for goal. Ahem.....

Is it me or is rule 23 poorly worded ? It basically says if you do anything in a match which you know may influence the result, and someone wins a bet, then you are in breach. In that case surely all goal scorers and goalkeepers or defenders who save or block a shot on target in any game that has had a bet placed on it are in danger of being in breach. I know the intention is to get the cases such as the Le Tissier example, and vagueness can be the prosecutor's friend, but it seems to be too much of a catch all to me.

Later on in that BBC Scotland documentary, the same guy who couldn't recognise a pineapple, even with hefty clues, was shown a turnip and thought it was a cabbage. I love the reporters reaction to applepine at about 47 seconds.

I must get my hearing checked. I could have sworn you said that Mark Brown saved a penalty.... I was confused too, but the full line from the BBC feed was, "Wotherspoon steps up but Mark Brown dives to his left to save a poor spot-kick." I suppose with the words "Mark Brown" and "save" in the sentence, the description of the kick is redundant.

Mark Brown saves a penalty for RC ????

Listening to the BBC commentary, I feel that was a game that would have been a draw last season.Great result, and even the BBC are taking notice of us. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23646096 <quote> 1655: What about Inverness CT then? Two games, two wins and sitting top of the new Scottish Premiership table. Not too shabby... </quote>

How is that scenario any different to games being played in the afternoon midweek? You could play the game at 10am and they'd still need to take a whole day off. The point about floodlights is spot on. It is likely to be the other way round, in that to allow those who have college/school to play after classes. Of course this only benefits the central belt teams playing each other, but then isn't the rationale of the SPFL to be for the benefit of the central belt teams ?

From the horse's mouth so to speak http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/scottish-league-cup-2nd-round-draw/

I do watch them on YouTube, (the sitename that was an insult when I was younger), but the point is the national highlights and discussion show seems to want to gloss over the game, the highest scoring by a single team. I know it is to be expected, but that doesn't mean we should be happy about it.

As has been predicted, the league leaders get less than 2 minutes of highlights on Sportscene. I had to laugh at the little banner across the screen in the further 2 minutes of talk about St Mirren stating that longer highlights were available online. Well they could hardly be shorter.

note to Mr Bannerman .... to hear any cheer through the radio you would need to be covering the game more than once every 25 minutes or so ! New league, same ****** coverage. and - it would appear - MFR have abandoned coverage too ? And it continues. Currently on the BBC Scotland football page, the lead 3 stories are about the games involving the teams in joint second place in the league, and the League Cup game where one League One team beat another in extra time. The report on the game involving the current leaders of the top tier is just in the list of other headlines.

In fact we will be the only game of the first weekend of the SPFL Premiership that doesn't have a live commentary on the BBC.

The traditionalist in me says go for a starting XI of; Esson Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Draper Vincent Foran Doran Ross McKay Although I would like to see this at some point in the season, I don't think it will happen on Saturday.

Yeah. Terry has tended to step out of the dugout, leaving it to Mo & Dunc to manage the games where we've had a primarily U20's squad out on the park. The only exception to that was Arbroath as he was out of the country (he's back now). Scott Kellacher was up last night with Mo. Didn't see Duncan Shearer about.