Yngwie

Trying to figure out why the deal has been done this way rather than Dunfermline just doing a pre-contract with Bray? Same outcome for them ie they get him in the summer. Same outcome for ICT as we still have him this season. I suppose difference is that this way we get paid now, as opposed to a development fee paid in the summer?

All true, but I think what people are querying is why he has moved to the bottom half of the championship when he is better than that.

It’s not impossible but would require our form to improve and/or several teams above us to all get worse. This is pretty simplistic I know but if every team keeps racking up the same points per game as they have done so far, you end up with Kelty, Queens and Alloa bunched together for 4th, 5th and 6th on 51, 50 and 50 points. We would be some way back but safely in 7th place on 43. If I refine this by factoring in our improvement since Kellacher took over and assume we continue with Kellacher’s 1.92 points per game rather than our season to date average of 1.6, we still only get to 47 points, so still 7th and 4 points off 4th spot. If however we win all our remaining games, we get to 61 points which will not just get us into the playoffs but could actually be enough to win the league!

Keith Bray has been sold to Dunfermline, but loaned back to us for the rest of the season.

Administration penalty - 15 points Administration bonus - getting shot of Ferguson!

Excluding the administration penalty, we’d be 2 points clear at the top.

FT 1-0. That’ll do nicely.

Billy King has joined Arbroath (from “Northern Colorado Hailstorm”)

Great team goal. Nice football.

After pretty much grinding to a halt a couple of months ago, the ICT Go Fund Me got a £20,000 donation last week, the second one for that value. Many thanks, Anonymous!

Brooks scored another 2 for QotS on Saturday, so that’s 4 in 2 games for him ahead of facing us again this Saturday.

Remarkably, Brooks has actually scored more goals FOR ICT this season than Billy has, 3 v 2.

More remarkably, without our 15 point penalty we’d be level on points with Arbroath at the top, compared to the end of October when we were bottom of the league on merit ie even without the deduction. What an impact the change of manager has had. Well done SK.

It’s more the case that this ref was incredibly card happy, the card seemed to be coming out even for simple fouls, as well as for some great tackles (which is what Billy’s seemed to be). On the subject of tackles, that was one of our strengths today, we were tenacious in winning the ball and dispossessing the Alloa players.

Second half much more even than the first, but it would have been a bit of a travesty if we hadn’t won that match.

We are playing really nice football and dominating, but without creating many clear cut chances. Need another goal I think.

Longstaff still out then.

FT, lost 3-2. Disappointing.

So long as we score 100% of the game’s goals, we’ll be happy!

When he was embarking on his career in journalism, he was a lurker and regular contributor to this forum, sniffing out stories and passing back the odd titbit of info that he’d heard from other sources. In fact I think he stayed in Inverness for a while and I got the impression that he would hang around in the bars frequented by directors and players. Good article, definitely worth a read.

Noticed that Jamie McCart played for Hearts last week, after signing for them from Rotherham.

But that’s Scottish Cup 4th Rou... oh wait, fine, carry on.

If I am remembering correctly, the tie at Airdrie ended 2-2 and I think the home side needed a late equaliser. Airdrie were close to the top of the second flight at the time, highlighting what a remarkable performance (x2) this was by Caley.

Barry Robson became Raith manager this week, and started off with a 3-0 defeat.

So that makes it three consecutive generations of Bavidges who have played up front for Caley/ICT (Mitch, Martin, Alfie).