Travelling Inverness Caledonian Thistle fans are showing their support for the club today after a difficult week, during which they entered administration.

It's not going well for the Highlanders, who are on -3 points following a 15-point penalty, with James Hilton giving the Sons an early lead.

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County thought they were in for as Jordan White nodded a loose ball towards goal, but Ronan Hale had already clattered Robby McCrorie and the play was stopped by referee Matthew MacDermid quickly.

This game has yet to get going, shall we say.

St Johnstone players Nicky Clark and Adama Sidibeh end up clashing heads after a throw-in. Play has restarted, though, and both players are fine.

With Motherwell not playing until tomorrow's game with Celtic, manager Stuart Kettlewell is taking the opportunity to check out Dundee and St Johnstone this afternoon.

Well meet Saints next month and Dundee in December.

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Ouch!published at 15:09 British Summer Time 26 October

15:09 BST 26 October

Ross County 0-0 Kilmarnock

A slow start in Dingwall as both sides adjust to the rain bucketing down.

There'll be a further delay as Brad Lyons receives medical treatment. It appears to be a knee injury, as he punches in the turf in pain. Looks a nasty one.

St Johnstone have been guilty of putting themselves under pressure at the back, but despite having territorial advantage Dundee have yet to threaten the Saints goal.

New St Johnstone left-back Barry Douglas is taking in today's match with Dundee after joining the club this week.

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Games getting under way...

A dramatic game in the Scottish Cup second round last night as Stranraer came from two goals down to beat hosts Threave Rovers.

Here's the pick of the goals from Stranraer's Deryn Lang.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle play their first match since the club entered administration this week, away to Dumbarton.

With manager Duncan Ferguson among those leaving the club this week, Scott Kellacher is in charge this afternoon.

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It's heating up nicely in the Scottish Championship and promoted Falkirk are sitting pretty at the top with a four-point lead.

At the other end, Airdrieonians, Dunfermline Athletic and Raith Rovers - three sides more likely to be pushing for promotion - are struggling for form.

Game of the day is Falkirk v Dunfermline Athletic - a second meeting of the season between these two rivals, with the Bairns having the upper hand last time.

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It’s a chilly and breezy day at Dens Park for St Johnstones visit to Dundee. There really should be no excuses, though, for either team given both had victories last week and confidence in both camps should be high.

Those wins for both came on the back of a run of poor results and the way the table sits at the moment, every point could make the difference between a top or bottom six place.

Both teams have attacking line-ups - so it may be the defence that is stronger that ends up being the victors on Tayside.

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Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes tells BBC Scotland: "We're worked hard to put ourselves in that position - two wins in a row and being unbeaten in six. If you're feeling good about yourself, you've got to try and maintain that.

"The aim for any club in this league is to try and get as many of those little unbeaten runs as possible. We're enjoying it, we take the positives from last week, more so the clean sheet.

"The team illustrates how happy we were with last week, but this is a different challenge today. This will be hard to win. We need to be resolute and not give the home team too much encouragement."

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Ross County manager Don Cowie tells BBC Scotland: "We were disappointed with the performance and result [last week], but had we won that game, I might have made the same amount of changes. It's just how I work.

"Everything that we could've done wrong [last week], we did. Conceding a goal early, went down to 10 men and after that we conceded right on half-time. It was a mountain to climb.

"It's about responding to that, getting back to what we're good at and putting on a strong performance at home. The performance levels have been really strong at home. As a group, we feel comfortable here."

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St Johnstone manager Simo Valakari tells Sportsound he's relieved to be finally in the dugout after visa issues.

"It has been frustrating but it's all behind us now," he said. "It's good to be here with the players, feel the atmosphere, smell the grass, so I'm happy to be here.

"I know how difficult this league is and how difficult it is to manage here. Over the last 10 years maybe I wasn't ready. I needed to learn my trade in different places and when this opportunity came, it all made sense.

"We are very realistic and know what we need to do. It's the start of the process.

"St Johnstone has been a successful club and we want to bring back those days. I know this game means a lot to our fans - it's as local a derby as it can be. It's a big challenge but a big opportunity."

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Dundee manager Tony Docherty: "It was an important win [against Motherwell]. It's all about the squad improving and we worked hard during the international break to try to get that clean sheet - and we did that.

"But once we did the analysis it's gone and we move on to this game.

"There will be a really good atmosphere in the ground today. St Johnstone had a really good result and performance last week. So it's two good teams on form.

"But I want it to be about us today."

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It's rarely dull on Sportsound...

You can listen to Sportsound commentary of Dundee v St Johnstone and Aberdeen v Dundee United on BBC Radio Scotland. The tail end of the Dons-United game will be covered on BBC Radio Scotland Extra.

Tune in here, on 92-95FM, 810MW, DAB or via BBC Sounds.

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