Yngwie

Amongst all this doom and gloom, let's balance it out by considering the positives from tonight's performance.

That. Was. Grim.

Just heading out to the game, and I can't say I'm confident given the number of players out - the lack of pace and creativity upfront looks like being it's worst ever. But you never know....

Sacked today, alas. At least it'll allow him to "focus" on his main job as an optician.

Did anyone else briefly go "Aaaargh!" when Mutombo took a touch instead of taking it first time?

So at this moment in time we are the 2nd highest ranked team by league position, but the 2nd lowest by player wage bill.

There appears to be a bit of a gulf in class between the top of the Championship and the middle of the Premier, but let's hope we can buck that trend.

Shortened of course to ICTC, which when you say it fast sounds just like AC/DC! Could the team have run out to Back in Black (and red)? Whole Lotta Tokely?

For me, Brill 2014/15 > Fon Williams 2015/16. Brill was brill, but is Brill still brill?

It's free these days (companies house documents, not shares!)

Just for the record, the Annual Return filed at Companies House this week confirms that it was indeed the Scotlog/Catto shares that were transferred to the Highland Hospice.

It's an interesting approach that definitely has some merit.....but when was the last time we were gubbing a team with 20 minutes to go?!

You mean televise the County v Utd game instead?!

The aggregate score from our last 6 trips to Celtic is 24-2 - and the 2 came when we were already 4-0 down! I can't imagine any other team has done so badly there in recent times.

Nice thought, but if and when he moves to another Scottish club it'll be Aberdeen, surely.

He has 1 goal in his last 12 games, and none in the last 7. Even Dani Lopez was more prolific than that! Storey's still been a big asset to the team in that time, but really, no other team would persist so long with something that wasn't working - yet we find ourselves with no credible alternative. Very unlucky that Fisher got injured so soon after signing. At least we have been getting a decent number of goals from midfield.

To be honest I'm more disappointed that County, St J and Utd all snatched late wins in games where draws might have been better for us. Utd, by the way have taken 7 points from their last 4 games which is considerably better than any of the teams in 4th to 11th place.

Me thinks you miss the point.

Just got 16/1 on Betfair. What could possibly go wrong?

Same as it was one night 16 years ago?!

Speaking of cup formats, a couple of matters have made the news today. The League Cup final will be held in November from next season. I like the idea of this tournament being done and dusted before the proper Cup starts There is talk of scrapping replays in cups. I'd be against this Thoughts? Personally I like the idea of this tournament being done and dusted before the proper Cup starts. But I think cup replays still have an awful lot of merit, as the home side has already had a clear advantage without extending that for another 30 minutes and denying the visitors any chance to then balance it out with home advantage for themselves. Plus, replays have a fair chance of being televised, bringing much needed income to clubs like ICT.

I'd expect Hibs v ICT and Rangers v Dundee to be the televised fixtures.

Something like "high feet" in itself would certainly be an indirect free kick as you describe. I might be wrong but I always thought that if the only reason there was no contact was that the victim took evasive action, then a penalty can be given. I'm sure there's a ref out there who can clarify. It's like when a forward is rounding the keeper, if he jumps over the oncoming keeper's lunge and falls down as a result, then even with no contact it can rightly be a penalty (even though fans go mental about it being a dive). Successfully getting out of the way of an offence doesn't mean the offence never happened.

Regarding Draper's "dive", remember that there doesn't have to be contact for a penalty to be awarded. Watch it again, in slow-mo, with this in mind. Having got to the ball and flicked it past Taylor, Draper then saw the defender's high studs heading straight for his leg. He took evasive action, a quick retraction of the lower leg, to prevent contact. This results in him losing balance and crashing to the ground. Note that he doesn't roll around at all pretending that there had been contact. In that scenario, I believe a penalty can rightly be awarded.

Updating a stat I showed a few weeks ago, we have taken a remarkable 60% of the available points against Top 6 sides, but only 33% of points against the bottom 6. We are actually unbeaten against the sides in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, winning 5 of those 8 games. We've done very poorly against the weakest sides, though, with only 3 wins from 14 games against the bottom 6, including a mere 1 home win from 7.