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As I write this, Butcher is probably sitting in some poncy Edinburgh wine bar with Petrie picking over the bones of a dismal defeat. What he should be doing is celebrating a great victory with a great bunch of lads by picking the bones out of a fish supper.

That is a truly disgraceful thing for the ICT manager to say at an ICT game. Just GTF right now Butcher.

I would have thought that either at the point that the Board gave permision for Butcher to talk with Hibs or when Butcher and Hibs agreed terms and informed our Board, the Board would effectively have put Butcher's contract on hold. At that point he is not doing the job he is contracted to do and therefore should not be paid. If that was the case then it would be reasonable for him to state that he is a neutral for the game. But what I find distasteful is the fact that he was at the ground with the Hibs Board and yet still there is no announcement. The very fact that he was there in those circumstances was a clear statement of what the position is, so why not just make a verbal statement? All that needed to be said is that personal terms have been agreed and that a further statement will be made following discussion between the clubs regarding compensation. If he didn't want to say that, he should simply have stayed away. Inverness fans and the Board have been very supportive to Butcher over the years but his antics this week show him in a very bad light. He's a big boy at a big club now so he thinks he can treat those at the little club who have been supportive of him with disdain. Complete lack of class.

Give the job to Mo

Shocking behaviour from Butcher today: he should have been nowhere near the ground. Disappointed in him. So delighted that our thoroughly professional players put Hibs to the sword in very difficult circumstances. Butcher is welcome to them: a sad end to a successful partnership. Bring on the new man and let's put this sorry episode behind us. Onwards and upwards!

Terry, Terry on the wall Thou art about to have a fall. Two years, your dream will be truly shattered To us it's problematical to wonder if it ever mattered To tell you the truth, methinks upon the wall of discontent your spirit will be truly splattered Thus upon your face you will feel as if you have been truly clattered. Think again , oh Terence , Lad The Ides of March are pointing to all that's bad Tickle my tonsils, frankly speaking, that's altogether rather sad Terry! Going to Hibs? Are you .....MAD? The Green and whites will help your pay cheque , but only a tad. Truth is that you will yearn for the salad days at Inverness There is no doubt, at Easter Road, your joy will be less Tardy? No matter , just come to Daddy and now confess That a mistake you may be making, no less Tinkerville would be a lot better Totally! "Cos when you beg to come back it's a lot closer!!

It's a very strange one and I wonder if Hibs didn't happen to be put opponents today would it all have been sorted out by now? Afraid I don't take any comfort from those that say he is staying, he is off and I just wish it was all over now and we could move forward

If he has so little ambition as to move to a club where he'll spend another couple of years just trying to make Hibs a top six team (and probably fail like everone else, whilst being hated because he played for their arch-rivals, Rangers - cementing the Celtic Reserves title), get him out as quickly as possible. He was good for us but if he wants to leave, then the quicker the better. Certainly don't want someone that's looking at the opposition as a nice little earner to be in charge of ICT.

Like it Good luck tomorrow guys whatever the manager situation brings. Suspect it's us who will need the luck tomorrow tho

In that context, "dog" certainly sounds a lot better than "schnauzer".

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Me too. In fact I thought it was Butcher himself.

We really should've won that game 4 or 5-0. I thinkif the deflection from the defender that hit the post not long after we went 2-0 up had gone in we'd have probably scored six. Richie Foran was magnificent, after a display like that I don't think it'd be a bad idea to make him player-manager for the rest of the season. Dominant in the park, good on the ball and utterly committed. I love the man. Graeme Shinnie had one of his best games I've seen him, he defended dilligently, didn't get caught out of position and was a huge attacking threat. He runs so directly with the ball but from right back he can cut inside and cause problems. I can't think of another attacking full back who plays on his opposite side, it must be unusual for opposition players to deal with. Nick Ross also had a magnificent game. I've often thought that Nick Ross looked as though he kept threatening to up his game to another level but never really delivered. Today he arrived, perhaps the goal gave him confidence but he seemed to find space, he used the ball brilliantly and attacked Hibs aggressively and directly. On another day he could well have bagged a couple of assists, the little dinks and through balls for McKay almost came off several times. I'm really pleased for him, if he keeps that going he'll be a replacement for Andy Shinnie. I also enjoyed Dean Brill falling over every time he moved more than five yards.

I don't get Terry's sudden, and disloyal, decision to jump ship at a time when the season holds so much promise. Some silverware and a place in Europe to play for, a settled team playing good football. For what? More money, sure, but a poisoned chalice of a job if ever there was one, one where he likely won't have the total control and freedom he enjoyed here, with a team playing some woeful football. Maybe he retrospectively regretted turning down Barnsley, given the dip we had after that, but if so, Hibs is surely no comparison. Barnsley was a vastly superior offer for him. If he had determined to go, then surely he would have been in a far better position if he had finished the season with us, as per contract, taking us to perhaps our finest season and a place in Europe. Then he could have left with dignity, his stock high and had his pick from no doubt plenty of good offers, all with time for us to replace him. As it is, suddenly dropping the reins with no, as yet, explanation, and not taking us for his last game, is rank and very disillusioning. IMHO, he will regret it, but I hope the board choose wisely and are very firm in saying to him "Keep your fecking hands off our players! Find your own" I hope, in particular, that they write into any agreement, that he cannot take any in January. On the positive side, we must be a very attractive position for aspiring and established managers.

Pleasing! Men against boys today - I'm struggling to remember watching a worse Hibs side. The home end emptied itself with 10 minutes left.

Now 2-1 Hearts

he's gone, lets get over it .... move on. #biggerthanbutcher

Cheers Bught................. my point being that the extended managerial issues are taking the headlines away from what should have been another great away day at Easter Road, usually a happy hunting ground, but this may well be overshadowed by the decision of one man, whichever way his pendulum swings. I'm certain the guys on the park will be doing their utmost, but where is their leader and mentor when they need him....................out walking his dog when he should be cracking his whip

Judging by that top, he's seen a lot of biological action.

It would be so funny if that article from Record turned out to be wrong but i somehow doubt it, have Papers been wrong on something like that before as I can't think of any time?

As Stevie Wonder once said to me "Johndo, listen to the lyrics, feel the vibes and never go train spotting "

If you're going to have 2 seasons like his first two here, then good luck with that.TB has a wildly varying track record, and will be under pressure pretty quickly, which he doesn't respond well to. He may not be the messiah you think he is, although he is definitely a very naughty boy. But sod him, no-one is irreplaceable.

Great win for ICT, after a difficult week...if TB is going, let's hope it is done and dusted and we can move on...nothing worse than a long drawn out to-do (and don't want TB's standing amongst ICT fans to be too tainted). Great to hear Ross getting a goal and playing well, (I am not necessarily his biggest fan), also good to hear Billy back on the scoresheet...if my other team could stick it in the net we would be celebrating more than a well earned point...all in all though a good football weekend (Didn't see that Aberdeen result coming!)

We don't hate Hibs. Far from it. We wish we could play them every week.

What is 25 - 15 ? What is +9 take away -5 ? Answers on a methadone script by Xmas please

An awesome display from us for most of the 90. A great day all round. Lots of great attacking from the team but also strong defending and no bookings for us which is great considering the pace of the game. Bring on saints in 2 weeks!!

To be fair, Hibs were very good at passing sideways

Like the post about picking the bones from a fish supper, in my experience TB will not get a decent fish supper down Leith Walk Where will he take Hibs boys when they win a match

Brilliant result after the disruption this week. In saying that Hibs were woeful and 2-0 flattered them. Like the home game, we should have scored a barrow load.

Does anyone else get the impression there could have been some sort of fall-out in the higher echelons of the club? I know for a fact that it wasn't the money on offer that made him turn down Barnsley, it was the fact that he wouldn't go without Malpas, and Barnsley didn't want him. All of a sudden, he's leaving the club in essentially the position as it was at that time last season, if not better, as we are higher up the league and closer to the top this time round and arguably have an even better chance of getting to a final, and with Celtic already out of the way, a tremendous chance of winning the League Cup. Up until last Sunday, he was on a crest of a wave of popularity, built the club to what he had always wanted it to be and was seeming looking forward to the rest of the season. Remember, after Barnsley he said he'd see out his contract, and after the last County game at the end of last season he said we were going for Europe this year, while constantly praising ICT, the fans and the Highlands in the process. Yet, out of the blue, he leaves. Why? Why would he have put so much in over the last few years, to just throw it all away all of a sudden? It doesn't make any sense. There's been rumblings in the past, that he didn't get on with certain un-named people at the club, and I wonder if something has boiled over. Has there been a fall-out higher up and for him, it was the final straw?

Please tell me this is either Grant Munro or Ross Tokely.

Oh My! "Oh, what a tangled web we weave others to deceive." Terry could not come back now after all this mayhem even if he wanted to. His credibility is now forever shattered. Just sitting in the stand alongside Mr Petrie before the ink is dry on his new contract and, officially, all is not yet done and dusted is a major faux-pas IMHO. He's crossed the Rubicon and I only hope the Board of our club sock it to Hibs with a hefty transfer fee being demanded. . What an altogether ,hasty, messy business this has proved to be.

Yes his behaviour today has left a very bad taste. He is in danger of setting himself up as a hate figure which is a shame after the work he has done. He could potentially have unsettled the players who fortunately showed great professionalism. No one is bigger than the club. Good riddance.

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Great win lads - a lot of character shown to completely turn HIbs over...

now 3-1 to Hearts over the Dons ... so up to 2nd as Hibs remain in 7th. Huge task there Terry ..... have fun .... onwards ICT #biggerthanbutcher

Looking pretty good in 1st half. Shinnie playng a blinder. TV keep cutting to some old guy in stand in a flat cap!

Which dugout ?

Many reasons why Barry Ferguson shouldn't be considered not least the contempt shown to the national team and the Tartan Army.

Our season will be far from over. Butcher has proved to be a decent manager but our success is down to more than one man.

At least we can sell McKay as Levein won't need a striker.

It certainly vill

Probably Hibees planning to jump off bridges in 2014 and seething gypos

Chris Hogg is apparently going to be in hospitality tomorrow. Will OTJ be on the park? Will Terry (and/or IHE) have a half and half Hibs/ICT scarf? So many questions, I have to be there for the answers.

Good preview tm4tj....... BUT ............ I feel you do our team an injustice with your prediction.......ICT DO NOT DO COULDN'T CARE LESS ATTITUDES. THESE LADS WILL BE OUT THERE WINNING THAT GAME AND WILL GIVE THE HIBS THE THRASHING THEY DESERVE. The attitude will be lets just show these beggars up.

The one where the grass looks greener.

@TyroneSTV: Its set to be M&M - Malpas and Marsella in the ICT dugout tmrw - Instead of sweet, expect a surreal atmosphere at Easter Road tmrw

Butcher is going to the slaughterhouse ? could be tripe...........I know that is an offal joke but I wont mince my words as many managers have had the chop there and it may not be long before he gets a roasting from their fans too!

If the compensation is high enough can we get this man?