Caley Mad In Berks

I agree with OCG. Cork, or for that matter, any other Irish club would be just great.

As Warren retaliated, won't his red card stand anyway? I hope I'm wrong on this!

Yes DD, I woke up at 4am and checked the score. Afghanistan were 100 for 7 at that stage so I went back to sleep quite happy that our 1st World Cup victory was just an hour or so away. I couldn't believe it when I saw the score this morning.

I was out all evening and not able to sneak a look at my phone at all. My first reaction on seeing the score just now was, "I'll take that". But despite maintaining our 7 point lead over Utd, this thread seems full of doom and gloom. Ok it is disappointing to lose Warren, and it is another game where we haven't capitalised on our possession. But, lighten up folks, we're still unbeaten this year. Wouldn't we all have settled for this position at the start of the season? It is still in our own hands. Believe!

I'm not saying we don't need a replacement striker, but I have noticed that our goals per game average is exactly 2, without Billy, which is higher than for the rest of the season! Also, the quality of some of our recent goals has been outstanding, Williams on Saturday , Tansey against Partick, and Christie against Midden come immediately to mind. I repeat, these are merely observations, not a case for not replacing Billy.

Very fair analysis by DD. The opening stand turned out to be the difference between the sides. I hope Scotland can go on and get a win or two in their remaining group games.

I like this. Playing 16 players should give us the edge in most games!

All our expectations are naturally high as a result of our great season. So disappointment at 'only drawing' with Kilmarnock is a natural first reaction. However don't forget Killie have been playing really well recently and have beaten other top six sides.. They may surprise one or two others before the end of the season. Even County who we also dropped points to seem to have found some form. So there is no such thing as an easy game and we will have to concentrate hard for the rest of the season to maintain 3rd place and have a chance of Europe. I'm still confident that we can do it, barring significant injuries. So lets do our bit and get behind the team without calling for players to be dropped if they have one poorish game. We are still unbeaten this year! Its in our hands. Believe!

Other scorers today (Sat 21 Feb) were Scottish Premiership Adam Rooney (2) Aberdeen 3 - St. Mirren 0 Welsh Premier Jason Oswell Newtown 1 - Bala 1 Highland League Zander Sutherland Clach 0 - Brora 6 Andrew Greig Clach 0 - Brora 6 Martin Laing Huntly 2 - Inverurie 3 Also, one missed from a couple of nights ago :- Stuart Armstrong for Celtic v Inter

I remember Jimmy Smith too. He took over goalkeeping duties from the legendary Willie Bruce sometime in the 50s. I seem to recall that he then went to Stirling (quite a useful side at that time). As previous poster has said, I seem to remember someone saying that he did indeed emigrate to Canada in the 60s. I have no recollection of the 8-2 hammering by Elgin. It could well have been around 62/63 or 63/64 seasons when I lived in Canada. At that time all I heard about Caley was when my Mum sent me the Sunday Post occasionally.

Just got back from watching Reading v Wigan. Truly one of the worst matches I've seen in years. Billy got on for the last 10 minutes, which coincided with Wigan's best spell of the match when they improved from poor to mediocre. Reading were dire all night. Billy was actually on the pitch for nearly 25 minutes as added time was announced as 11 minutes, but lasted nearly 15, due to a couple of injuries and a staggering amount of time wasting by Wigan. Billy actually played well, with lots of good touches, and his usual effort. He fired narrowly over the bar from a half chance in normal time, but right at the death of injury time he was right through and fired well over the bar from a good chance. His namesake, Malky, looked none too pleased at that. Had Billy slotted it, I think he would have secured a place in the starting line up next time. He may have done enough anyway. Time will tell. At least he has pocketed his first win bonus. There won't be many more of them this season, as surely no team can play as badly as Reading did tonight, and I would think Wigan will surely go down. Attendance of 14601. I must have been the 1. Fewer than 100 Wigan fans, making some of our ICT Away day crowds look positively gargantuan!

I only saw Watkins up front, live, at Partick last week, and just the highlights this week. But I really like his strength there. Yes, he has missed a few chances, but who doesn't? Billy's 'one on one' record was not great. At least Watkins showed he can get in goal scoring positions. The goals will come. I only hope we can hang on to him.

Just enjoyed the highlights again. Some of those passes from Tansey were just exquisite. We're going to give some team a right thumping soon.

Wed 11 Feb SPL Stuart Armstrong (Partick 0 - Celtic 3) Sat 14 Feb SL1 Andy Barrowman (two) (Dunfermline 3 - Stenhousemuir 2) Bryan Prunty (Airdrieonians 3 - Forfar 1) Conf North Robert Eagle ( Oxford City 2 - Lowestoft 1) Highland League Zander Sutherland (two) ( Brora 4 - Strathspey 0) Martin Bavidge (Inverurie 2 - Deveronvale 4) Stuart Leslie (Inverurie 2 - Deveronvale 4)

Tom Aldred gave away a penalty and got sent off in Blackpool's thrilling 4-4 draw with Nottingham Forest today.

Well done lads. Clean sheet would have been nice, but another good 3 points. Nervy finish by the sound of it, just like last week. Nice favour by Killie too!. Onwards and upwards.

Great start. Tansey just seems to get better and better. Long may it continue.

Wow, apart from Tremarco and Devine, a very inexperienced bench. Where is Doran?

I agree with this 100%. I've today just picked up a pal's Reading season ticket to go and see them against Wigan on Tuesday night (17th). I don't expect to see Billy on the pitch for many minutes. I said, tongue in cheek, on another thread, that I'd go and see Billy when they play Wycombe Wanderers in EL1 next season. I'm sure both Wycombe and Wigan will in deed be in EL1 then, but by then, I wonder whether Billy will feature at all for Wigan.

Hoodoo me erse. Let's put it firmly to bed by winning all our remaining Feb fixtures too.

Wow, what did I start when i had a peak in my crystal ball? At least it got the Dundee Utd v Celtic tie spot on, probably the most important one of the lot for us, ensuring that one major rival is knocked out!

Yes, I'm convinced now that 1 in 1680, as PerfICT said from the start, is correct. Well done to him for getting it right so quickly, and to others who confirmed it. Btw, I thought you taught history CB! You weren't Leslie Frewin in an earlier life were you? Sorry to those of you who found it boring, pi*h or off topic. I didn't realise what I was starting when I originally raised the question.

It was actually PerfICT not me PerthICT ! Yes, apologies PerthICT. First time I've noticed there were two such similarly named posters.

1 in 56 is correct for say ICT v Berwick/Spartans coming out of the draw. But to get my other predictions correct too it must be much more. However I'm not convinced about PerthICT's 1 in 1680.

Don't put any money on that, mate. The odds of your draw occurring are considerably more than just 100/1! With 8 balls in the draw, there are 56 possible permutations available, therefore the odds are 55-1 against any specific draw when randomly selected. That said, I still wouldn't put any money on it, and I wouldn't put money on Celtic getting a home tie to a Championship side either. That was my logic too, Rasczak, one chance in 56 for 8 balls. Then there would be 6 balls left where the odds reduce to 1 in 30, then 4 balls left when it would be 1 in 12. and finally only 2 balls left when it would be 1 in 2. I added these together to get 1 in 100. Maybe they should be multiplied together to give 40320 or Factorial 8 ? As I said, its a long time since I did this sort of stuff.