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and a much needed boost to confidence as well as the club's coffers.

I have to say that Vancouver has to be my favourite city in the world but I could never contemplate leaving Scotland forever.

Probably a good move to get someone who's only going to be a bit player off the currently inflated wage bill.

barrowman has played at SPL level with killie, so i dont see how wood and him are on the same level. Wood is young and this is his first taste for SPL football, he has alot to learn and alot to give the club Rooney,Wood and Barrowman have almost identicall SPL records Wood 18 SPL appearances incl as sub with 2 goals Barrowman 24 SPL appearances incl as sub(incl 3 as sub with killie) with 2 goals Rooney 22 SPL appearances incl as sub with 5 goals They are all fairly close on the stats but I see Rooney as the one that gives us more of a threat and a harder worker for the team. TB seems to be happy with Imrie and Odhiambo so far but I'm sure Rooney will be an important player in the run in. Given that Rooney has scored more goals than the other two combined how can you say that they're " all fairly close in stats" ?

If that's true I'll eat my black and white hat !

I'd happily settele for another semi final meeting with the Pars just as long as the result is different this time.

I think we are capable of getting more than a draw at Aberdeen... Definitely should have taken 3 points off United on Saturday. We're gradually starting to gain a wee bit of confidence now and have become a very tough side to beat again... Aberdenn's home form has been impressive of late. I'd settle for a point.

The Court is trating the matter as a commercial action and it's clearly still in it's very early stages. Typically, these sort of cases can take six months or more to come to a head.

I don't know the man but, on the face of it, it seems a good appointment. Someone with the interests of the club at heart.

I agree Imrie should have scored from that position. Not sure he's a natural striker.

Fact of the matter is that what looked like an unpromising round of fixtures this wekend saw us lose no ground on any of our relegation rivals and gain a point on Hamilton. Esson was at fault for he goal but I'm sure he's experienced enough not to let it dent his confidence.

By the end of that run I expect us to be ahead of Falkirk and a lot closer to many of our other relegation rivals.

Looked to me that the ref got it right.

i think this saturday could be crucial if st mirren win then it could be straight fight between us and falkirk ideal scenario mght actually be both bottom teams winning and trying to drag saints killi and hamilton back into it The more the merrier !

Robbo, Falkirk apart, which of the other clubs towards the foot of the table do you think we're capable of catching and overtaking ?

I doubt if there's too much left in the pot to pay additional wages.

I tend to agree with Mantis. I'd prefer to see this match end in a draw especially if we can take anything from Tannadice.

For what it's worth I think that Camara will be a decent aquisition for one of our main rivals in the battle to escape the drop.

So am I alone then in still finding the Scottsh Cup more exciting than the league ?

You can't beat a blanket of snow to prevent a pitch from becoiming completely frozen.

Here we are again in the quarter finals of the nation's premier knockout tournament. A great achievement especially set against our terrible season in the league so far. Yet, despite that fact that ticket prices have been set well below league levels, it looks as though the crowd will be around the 4,000 mark with at least a quarter of those supporting the opposition. Contrast that to a number of years ago when more than twice as many turned up to watch us play Kilmarnock than attended to watch the same opposition last week or the 6,000 or so of us who eagerly travelled to Tannadice to watch our first quarter final after Telford Street was deemed unsuitable to host Rangers despite Caley entertaining them in front of a full house without incident only a few seasons before. I can think of Caley playing host to the likes of Airdrie and St Johnstone and the Jags entertaining Kilmarnock in earlier round of the tournament all in front of larger crowds than we are expecting for the Falkirk game. I bet if any of the three Inverness teams had made the quarter finals back in the Highland League days there would have been a full house with tickets like gold dust no matter what the opposition. Why is it do you think that we now seem to take this tournament that many of us thought so glamorous before for granted ?

I doubt that the game is in srious jeapordy.

As far as the financial benefits of reaching the semis are concerned my understanding is that the club received in excess of ?250,000 for each of our two previous appearances at that stage and can expect a similar, if not slightly greater, sum should we manage to dispose of Falkirk in the quarter finals.

Credit to the club for doing the decent thing.

I tend to agree with Caley D that he should be given a fair chance under the new management team.