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Bobby's from Buenos Aires? http://www.worldisround.com/articles/10732/photo20.html

Defintely raised hands at Ross, I thought - aye, he made a bit of a meal of it until he realised the cards were staying in, but I guess he's learnt a bit these last two seasons. At least he didn't wait ten seconds before falling over clutching some unrelated bit of himself (Hi Neil!). Ritchie should have been sent off too - the foul about three minutes after his first yellow was twice as bad as the one which earned him the card, but Tumilty bottled it. Back-pass? Mmm, possibly. Near-side linesman was on the mushrooms IMO. If anyone knows which he was please post here so we can all find out where he gets fungi of such a high quality.

Do you remember... (dancing in stilettos in the snow? Don?) ... Tormod, whose screen name was 'Liam Keogh Makes Us Tick'? Pretty fair assessment at the time, I thought. Plenty of people have forgotten it, blinded by Black's rise and rise, but Liam used to be the beating heart of that midfield. I've said time and again, when the wheels fall off it's in the middle, and having the guy who used to stop that happening back on the pitch can only be a good thing.

and finish ahead of Aberdeen - typically we raise our game against the 'bigger' teams so to finish an unofficial sixth playing games against sides scrapping for survival would be very sweet.

250,000 spread throughout over 10,000 square miles with some pretty dodgy transport links (for instance, there isn't a bus that gets me closer to home than Dingwall after a game). Not really a fair comparison..?

Bit of a no-brainer, but the longer we stay in the SPL the better our chance of establishing ourselves, surely? The fan base has already benefited from SPL status and will probably continue to do so, as top flight football won't do any harm in attracting a new generation of post-merger support and Inverness is growing fast. But if we drop out any time in the next three or four years I think it could be pretty bleak - First Division isn't exactly a walk in the park, if you remember.

What's all what about Brown?

Can we just shave all their heads? Seemed to work for Collina. In fact, can we just shave their heads anyway? At least then the linesmen could claim they were blinded by the sun reflecting off the ref's scalp and we'd have to believe them.

Not sure that Caff's a shoo-in to replace Dods (hence Dods keeping his place at Caff's expense) and I couldn't agree less that Brown's been off-form recently. If any of them go it'll be CC's first major test as a manager other than winning games - interesting times...

The counter-argument to professional referees has been for some time now that the game in Scotland can't afford them. I don't know how they're financed south of the border but with the SFA grubbing around for a sponsor at the same time as the SFL and SRU there won't be that much money kicking around. Now, between them you'd expect twelve SPL outfits to be able to fund a pool of, say, 18 professional refs, giving 50% slack for holidays and sickness etc: but if you want the linesmen and fourth officials on the list as well you're looking at every club shelling out for six officials apiece - £150K per year, minimum? Whilst that'd disappear into the Old Firm wage bill it'd be a bit more significant to ours, I'd imagine. If we can afford professionals then, fantastic, let's have them. I can't think of many areas of business where a company's fate, its profits and possibly its solvency is decided in a split second by an amateur in a situation, in the case of some offside decisions, where it's been proven that it's physically impossible for the individual to see what he needs to in order to make the call. However, if pro's aren't something we can afford then I think we could do worse than league tables. Yes managers will inevitably be biased but, equally inevitably, those officials who make the least number of crap decisions will end up towards the top. I'm also a big fan of instant replay, but that's a horse of a different colour.