Nothing Changes For Dundee
By Ed_ScottishFitba
Updated Saturday, 26th December 2009
Inverness Caledonian Thistle will want to halt Dundee's good run of form while also gaining revenge for losing the Challenge Cup final to today's opponents.
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Inverness will face table topping Dundee today without Stuart Golabek and Ross Tokely. Golabek has been ruled out for between two and three weeks with a hamstring injury, while Tokely is still out with a broken hand. Thistle failed to find the back of the net for only the second time this season in the 0-0 draw with the Pars last weekend. Manager Terry Butcher knows his men can score and they must rediscover the skill if they are to inflict what would be a rare defeat on First Division leaders Dundee. He said: "We always believe that we will create chance and convert them. On another day we could have scored two or three goals at Dunfermline. Frustration set in, not for the first time and probably not the last this season. We are on a three-match unbeaten run just now and normally you would say two away points at Queen of the South and Dunfermline is not bad going. But with Dundee winning we have dropped four points".
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Home
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Away
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1
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Dundee
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18
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8
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2
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0
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18
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6
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3
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4
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1
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10
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8
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14
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39
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2
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Ross County
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18
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6
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2
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2
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19
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13
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3
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3
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2
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9
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9
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6
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32
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3
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Queen of South
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17
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5
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2
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2
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15
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7
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4
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2
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2
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13
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8
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13
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31
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4
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Partick Thistle
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17
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5
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1
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2
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14
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5
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3
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3
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3
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15
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14
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10
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28
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5
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Inverness CT
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18
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3
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2
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3
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12
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11
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4
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4
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2
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16
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9
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8
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27
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6
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Dunfermline
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18
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4
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3
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3
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16
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14
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3
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2
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3
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7
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7
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2
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26
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7
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Raith Rovers
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17
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2
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4
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2
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9
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7
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4
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1
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4
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9
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12
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-1
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23
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8
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Morton
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18
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2
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0
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6
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7
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11
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3
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0
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7
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13
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26
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-17
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15
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9
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Ayr United
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17
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2
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4
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3
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8
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13
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0
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2
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6
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4
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15
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-16
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12
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10
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Airdrie Utd
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18
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1
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3
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4
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11
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16
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0
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2
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8
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7
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21
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-19
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8
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 Dundee boss Jocky Scott may, yet again, name an unchanged side today. The Dark Blues are on a five-game winning run which stretches back to the Alba Challenge Cup win over Caley at McDiarmid Park last month. During the run the side has remained virtually unaltered as the Dens men have broken clear of the pack. Scott said: "We've played more or less the same starting XI. since winning in the cup in Perth. I think the only change we've had to make during that period was bringing Darren Young in for the Partick game after Leigh Griffiths dropped out. The players who have been in have done very well, so there is the option of going with the same team on Saturday, but we'll have to wait and see."
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