DoofersDad

No! The league cup is the lesser of the 3 competitions we are in. Both because we are still in with a chance of winning the main cup competition and because there will be significant financial benefit in progressing against Dundee Utd, this Sunday's game is actually more important. Wednesday's game against Hibs is also more important as defeat there could have a serious impact in our bid for a top 3 place. Winning the final on Sunday would be a landmark for the club and obviously very nice but we need our strongest teams possible for the two games ahead of it.

Dougal, a rocking chair for the composer and an electric chair for you.

Spot on. I think it's a really good effort and could be something which could be worked up as an anthem for the club. In the context of a match you are only ever going to have a couple of verses at most being sung so it is the right length. The words are straightforward and easy to remember and therefore more liklely to be sung. The problem is the chorus. for a song sung at games, you can't have any instrumental break before the chorus. I also don't like just using "Caley" over and over again. Apart from the fact it is not very inspiring it is bound to jar with a certain section of the fan base. Something along the lines of... Caledonian Thistle Caledonian Thistle Caledonian Thistle We love you just might fit the meter of the song. I think we could be on to something here. Certainly far better than "Bring it on home" and other suggestions. In judging the suitability you have to ask your self, can you imagine belting out the song, standing shoulder to shoulder, holding your scarf above your head and gently swaying to the rhythm of the tune? With this song the answer for me is a resounding "yes".

I think the difference between the Dons supporters and the Hearts supporters is that the Dons supporters will make a noise. As there are going to twice as many of them than there were Hearts supporters in the semi-final, I suspect they will make quite a lot of noise. Should be a cracking atmosphere and we just have to do our best in contributing to that. It will be a great occasion and I just hope we can shift a few more tickets and give the team the support they deserve.

Ask yourself just how much you enjoyed the 3 - 0 win in Dingwall the other day. No brainer!

Was the semi-final not televised? We did OK in that.

I can understand their hunger. After all, a league game against us is a bit like a cup final for them.

Probably suffered from the reaction to Aberdeen's victory midweek. Never mind - win our games in hand and we will still be 3rd.

I don't know the reasons for Lifescan stopping being our main sponsers but they would seem to me to be an ideal company as Inverness's largest private empolyer and because of the name of their "one touch" product. Given the style of football we play I really liked it when the boys has "one touch" emblazoned on their shirts.

Molesworth now plays in Division 2 of the Midland Football Combination for Bromsgrove Sporting. I also see that his boastful and exaggerated Wikipedia page is now gone altogether. In fact, when you put his name into the Wikipedia search box, it helpfully asks "Did you mean Liam Polworth?" I'm a Bromsgrove lad myself and keep abreast of what's going on with the club there. I'll have you know that far from playing in the depths of Divsion 2, Bromsgrove Sporting are currently 2nd in the Premier Division. Liam returned to his home town side in November and as far as I am aware just played a couple of games. He is not listed in the current first team squad so I don't know what has happened to him. Sounds to me as if he is someone who hasn't got the right attitude and isn't prepared to work hard enough to play football at even a half decent level.

The Famous Five go to Europe Gordon Strachen. "Well chaps, what do you think of the jumpers Granny's knitted? Scott Brown. "Super, Sir. Frightfully gay." Team mates. "I say! Rather!"

Not only is Shinnie deserving of a call up for Scotland but so is Doran for the Republic of Ireland. Now wouldn't it be something if the 2 of them were up against each other in the Euro qualifiers?

Would've been watching from the stands IMO.

Well, it's the day after the night before and I'm still in shock. It's incredible, mind boggling - but true.......... ..... County's pitch is better than ours

Agree with comments above. With the performance yesterday he didn't need to make any substitutions. I thought it was great how he separately took off our leading goals scorer and then our two best players on the night so that they could all get standing ovations. At the same time it was a bit of a "fingers to you" gesture to County to say we don't need those three on the park.

Already got the highlights of the Aberdeen Celtic game on the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25892139 What a goal from Jonny Hayes! Nearly as good as David Raven's for us.

They are probably referring to "Adams, Adams, What's the score?"

They were in bad taste. If there was a down side to the evening, it was that.

Brilliant all round performance. We clearly wanted it more than them and we clearly have better players than them. Foran led by example and was superb. Match stats show things pretty even but the reality was that we always looked more threatening and had the ball ran a bit more kindly at times it could have been more. I don't recall ever seeing so many home supporters leave before the end of the match and that probably reflects just how dominant we were. Well done guys - just terrific!

What's with the 13th June fixture?

If you give any credence to the FIFA rankings, Scotland are in one of the easier groups. The republic, ranked at 67 are the third ranked team in that group and no other group has a 3rd ranked team ranked so low. Toughest group would seem to be the small Group I with 4 teams in the top 30 with the 5th and final team, Albania being ranked 12 places above the 3rd ranked team in Scotland's group. Poland and the Republic sound like tough oponents but neither are anything like as good as they used to be. To be honest, I think Scotland haven't had as a good a chance to qualify for a major finals for a long time. England are in one of only 2 groups with 3 teams ranked in the top 30 but then there is a big gap to the 4th place team which is ranked well below the 4th ranked team in Scotland's group. The high ranking of Switzerland and Slovenia probably flatters them and I would expect England to qualify easily - although they will probably leave it to the last game. Mind you, I see the Cape Verde Islands are ranked 27th in the world. I think perhaps the bookies odds might be a more accurate guide than the FIFA rankings.

Interesting to look at the recent league form (see tables under "team info" above). Yes, we may be bottom 6 on this basis with 8 points from the last 6 games but we are only 2 points behind the team in 2nd. Actually there is not much to choose between all the teams other than Celtic and clearly every team is perfectly capable of beating any other team on the day. It's all to play for IMO. Interesting to see the recent form of the big club in Edinburgh (5 points from last 6 games) since the new management team went in to sort them out

Song sheets on the seats and rehersals on the coaches and trains going down?

A good set of results for us this weekend. It was huge to beat st Johnstone because that now opens up a very big 9 point gap between 5th and 6th and we have games in hand. That means there should ne no worries at all of not making top 6. I can't see 2 teams putting together a run which would overhaul us. What may be significant is that the bottom half of the league is now looking very interesting. There are less points beween 6th and 11th than there are between 5th and 6th. That means that none of those 6 teams are out of the running for a top 6 place and none are safe from being in the play off place. That means they will all be battling for every point so it will be important that we go into every game with the correct mindset. Every match up to the break will be very tough and I guess Aberdeen learnt that lesson yesterday.

Very clever comments from Yogi IMO. He puts the pressure on Aberdeen and Motherwell by not going overboard with public expectations, whilst at the same time casually referring to being in one cup final, still in the other cup and being in "the mix" for 2nd place in the league. He is saying in a beautifully understated way that we have ( in Yogi speak) a right good team.