Strong Like Ox

Inverness CT winning the Scottish Cup a few weeks after my wedding. When people talk about the 'greatest day of your life' I have to make sure the wife isn't within earshot, before waxing lyrical about the win! The semi final against Celtic was also bonkers!

Dorrans called up to replace McDonald.

Anya FGS and Griffiths LGS bets going on...

Germany. Two cautions - the latter for 'delaying the restart of play' when we were 2-1 down.

Was Mulgrew's two cautions not in the same game as his sending off?

Which of our players are a booking away from suspension?

Painfully naive from Whittaker.

It might have been mentioned elsewhere, but I'd imagine Naismith will get a start v Barnsley in the cup tonight (televised btw). 90+ mins and some goals/assists would be lovely.

The three 'laughable' players have all played sitting midfielder, with McDonald pretty much playing that role 100% of the time - here's his position at the weekend http://www.skysports.com/football/cardiff-vs-wolves/teams/339571 By limiting Jack to only being a sitting midfielder, you are kind of talking yourself out of the argument... as there's no need to bring him in with Brown, Mulgrew, Dorrans, McCarthur, Fletcher all vying for the 2 spots in DM, with many of them also able to play elsewhere on the field. The only way Jack would be worthwhile calling up was if he was a better player than any of them, which he isn't. If he moves to a bigger club and plays against a better standard week in, week out, then yes he'll deserve a call up. Until that happens, he'll struggle to get anywhere near the pitch in a Scotland top.

Hmm... I'd love to know what position you think Tom Cairney and Kevin McDonald play then.

More like Jack getting left out for Fletcher, McCarthur, Morrison, Brown, Dorrans... with the likes of Arfield, Cairney, McDonald n'co left out too, but who are all also better than Jack. McGregor was part of this 'blood youngsters with potential into the squad' routine with them not actually getting a cap - see Gauld, Paterson, McLeod. No issue with that at all. McGregor's been rubbish since then and won't be anywhere near a squad until he turns his form around, but no harm in giving him a taste early in his career.

The only thing certain about Scotland Squad announcements are Dons fans going into meltdown when whatever player they are talking up (Langfield, Pawlett, Jack etc) gets left out for an established player, often already with caps, who is playing at a higher level.

Kevin McDonald scores for Wolves v QPR (who also have Phillips starting). Andy Robertson gets an assist for Hull

I went along as a neutral tonight after wangling a free ticket. It wasn't a foul throw I'm afraid, but like you said the Dons gave possession away regardless. Pawlett had two horrific dives last night - I'm disappointed to see that side of his game hasn't disappeared.

Add in Polworth, Ross and McKay to Shinnie and Christie and you get 5 homegrown players in our cup final squad. It's also worth pointing out that the highlands doesn't have a Scotland Performance school, unlike Dundee, Aberdeen and the central belt.

Nerves are starting to kick in now that our reserve team's game against Celtic is out of the way!

Here are all the ticket links should any neutrals fancy heading along to swell the numbers: Inverness CT https://www.eticketing.co.uk/ictfc/ Falkirk http://falkirkfc.info/login.php?redirect=%2Fbuyaway%2Findex.php%3FsMode%3DSELL_MODE_BLOCKS%26iProductId%3D428&sReason=MustBeLoggedIn:%20%2Fbuyaway%2Findex.php Neutral stand (!?) http://www.scottishfa.talent-sport.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/productHome.aspx?ProductSubType=CUP

Here's the link for General Sale tickets which went on sale today - https://www.eticketing.co.uk/ictfc/details/event.aspx?itemref=786

That's a pisser min. It got a wee applause from us elginites watching the game in Aberdeen today when it appeared on screen. Hope it turns up!

https://twitter.com/rossp_ict/status/522667446709522432

Looking at the stadium seat availability map suggests we'll be lucky to get over 10,000 for the N.Ireland game!

Scheisse?

I'm going on the assumption that he's works for that football statistics website he keeps name dropping in almost every post.

It's quite funny how Rangers fans give Naismith and Whittaker pelters for leaving and held Wallace and McCulloch in high esteem for staying. 3 seasons on and Naismith is one of Everton's best players, Whittaker is playing at the top end of the English Championship - both are still in Scotland set up. Meanwhile at Ibrox... Rangers fans are desperate to get McCulloch punted and Wallace is a shadow of the player he was. I wish there was a German word for situations like this...

Looking at the staium ticket availability online doesn't give much of an accurate ticket sale unfortunately - since the whole east stand looks sold out, but I expect is ring fenced for the 10,000 free tickets to youth group offer here: http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=2986&newsID=14455&newsCategoryID=1 . There will probably only be a couple of thousand of those tickets snapped up I reckon. South Stand Upper won't be used, so that 'sold out' section will be empty. If only the SFA didn't persist with this 'season ticket' idea, then a bit more foresight could have moved the match to somewhere like Pittodrie or Easter Road where you don't have to rely on dishing out 10k of free tickets to push up the attendance.