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I'm going to trust the Board's judgement on this appointment. I will be giving Yogi my full support and hope that the majority do the same and give him a fair crack of the whip.

Don't mistake disappointment for disloyalty. Of course I'll be at the next game and of course I'll get behind the team as much as ever. I sincerely hope Hughes makes me eat my words! I just can't hide my disappointment at the decision, which I find uninspiring. Over to you, Yogi!

Absolutely awful appointment. He did OK at Falkirk but succeeded with a bigger budget than his First Division rivals and he left them with a squad of raw kids and past-it old pros. Then at Hibs he had a good start, mainly due to signing Anthony Stokes, but followed that up with a horror run towards the end. If Yogi's last 38 games were taken as a full season then they'd probably have been relegated (they got 33 points). Since then it's been Livingston and Hartlepool, doing nothing. He's one of these managers who "tries to play football the right way" which is code for playing tippy-tappy garbage with no cutting edge, passing the ball back and forth in your own centre circle then either losing possession or knocking it long. He's from the Alex Smith school of Scottish football management, no doubt we'll hear that SMith singing his praises in the press soon enough. I can also see him making unnecessary changes to our team with the justification that he "has confidence in his own methods" and wants to "put his own stamp on things". This is one of the things you get with an 'experienced' manager - managers who have failed yet have the arrogance to persist with the methods that have seen them fail. We didn't/don't need an experienced manager, we are the perfect job for a young new fresh manager. As it is we've joined the Scottish football merry-go-round of pish managers. Terrible, terrible move from the board.

Going to nail my colours to the mast (again). I think I said it somewhere else in a distant or exceedingly long thread in the last couple of weeks, but I dont have an issue with Hughes. Liked him as a player, liked him when he was in the away dugout on his visits to the TCS, and despite sounding somewhat inarticulate in interviews due to his accent, he's not a stupid man if you actually listen to what he is saying rather than being swayed by the accent. As to his record? Butcher had a stellar record before coming here did he not? no, thought not!!! I dont give a crap about his past record, its what he does at ICT that matters.

4 weeks since Butcher agreed to join Hibs, an attractive vacancy at a team 2nd in the league and still in all cups, 100 applications from all over the world, a serious of impressive interviews and presentations from high calibre candidates, And now it's John Hughes. Really?

An absolutely inexplicable appointment from our esteemed board. In some ways you've got to take your hat off to them for managing to assemble an international array of stellar managerial talent (their words not mine) and then contrive to appoint the hapless Yogi. Way to go guys. Let's be brutally frank here, Yogi has done absolutely NOTHING in his career to warrant making even the short list for a club sitting second in the SPFL. Undeniable fact of the matter - anyone suggesting otherwise is deluding themselves. I personally await tomorrow's press conference with the excitement of my kids on Christmas Eve. I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more; Yogi's oratorial master class or Kenny Cameron's attempts to roll this turd of an appointment in glitter. Good times..........

I'll give him a chance but if we lose to St MIrren he should be sacked.

Jeez, the end is nigh!!! The board of ICT have interviewed the applicants they wished to talk too, they have decided for the way ahead for ICT to select John Hughes, they knew best to pick Butcher, Yogi obviously came across as the one with all the right answers, and if that's what they wanted that's ok by me. Will you have a coffee and suck in some fresh air and calm down!

I wanted Hartley (made no secret of that) and whoever passed on the information for todays Courier needs fired...quickly. Whether we like it or not Yogi will be our new gaffer. Ive had my time to contemplate it and as a fan I feel the right thing to do is to put aside who I wanted and what I think and back him as our new boss. Im pretty baffled that the board have gone for him and can only conclude to some extent that they are settling for him. He would have been a decent appointment if we were still an aspiring mid-table side but we are that no longer. I wouldnt be surprised if he had a decent season with us on this team, its what follows that I will watch with great interest, when he makes his own signings and tries to stamp his own authority into the side. If he tries to change too much too quickly he will be gone before he begins, he will need to be patient. To some extent he has suffered from bad luck. Falkirk was his first job and he did well bringing them up and developing players like Scott Arfield, Darren Barr and to an extent the likes of Anthony Stokes, all of whom have become good players, as well as getting them to a final and keeping them in the SPL. Hartlepool was a sinking ship and he was perhaps given a raw deal at Hibs in the end (open to interpretation). If it goes well then fine, we can look back on this and laugh, if it goes wrong then the board will remember the reception this news got when it first broke out...

CaleyThistle fans?? I can't believe what I am reading on here. A professional team selected him but of course the arm chair know alls are sure the team is incompetent . I agree that he will not have the name to attract some English players up here but... In my opinion, he will have a team of players prepared to run onto the park through shut doors for him. My only concern is the FORAN factor - let's hope they see eye to eye.

Actually sitting and thinking about it maybe it isn't as bad as it seems. Craig Levein was first name that was tipped favourite to get the job. Although that would have been a great signing in terms of the name and profile of Levein his wage demands would have been far too high for us. Henrik Larsson or John Hartson again would have been great signings for the name and profile of these individuals but again wage demands would have been high for us. Realistically this left us with Paul Hartley, Kenny Shiels and John Hughes. Now, the personal reasons that Paul has declined us for seem pretty straightforward and I can only sympathise with him as sometimes life is more important than football. So this left us with Kenny Shiels and John Hughes. Both of these men are very good at motavation and that's something that Terry Butcher did apply to us and we've raised to the top with this outlook on football. Kenny Sheils although he has a great work ethic, he comes across a loudmouth pr*ck to the media like we heard on Sportsound last night. So that's left us with John Hughes. His recent CV hasn't done him any justice but he does tick all the boxes that the club needs. He took Falkirk to a Scottish cup final and took Hibs to Europe. Sometimes when managers get sacked or leave clubs we tend to forget the positives. I'm ready to give John his dues and I welcome him aboard at TCS.

Agreed, we can't even get the KO time in a cup semi final moved with reasoned argument, but Celtic seem to be able to move a whole league fixture to another calendar date altogether. Disgusted.

That's really harsh. Hughes is a Leither and speaks like a Leither. If he does get the job then I hope we're not going to be snobby about that. It doesn't mean he's not intelligent or indeed articulate.

Perhaps we should postpone our game that weekend and play a glamour friendly against Brora.

FFS give the man a chance. I seem to remember Butcher getting huge negative comments from fans on here but eventually got plaudits for turning the team around although that took 2 to 3 years. While he may not be the man many wanted, at least it appears he wanted to come here unlike some others. Truly saddened by some of the negative posts and comments on this appointment.

The RETURN of the dark glasses brigade...............I thought it was too good to be true. The Cub have a history of choosing the right people, have a bit of faith. To whom it may concern................... Have you thought, if the club could choose it's supporters would you be selected ?........................ Just thought I'd ask !!

As many others have said at least it's not Brewster!!! Not over the moon with Yogi but it could've been worse. Hope he's not reading this thread! Hope he is reading this thread and sets out to prove us all wrong...

No wonder Grassa resigned. This is the most indefensible clusterf*ck in the history of the club. Absolutely gutted by this decision.

This makes me feel very warm inside.

I agree Yngwie. I've been dipping into various fans' forums and have been pleasantly surprised at how the consensus is we're 'better' than appointing him as manager. I mean even Jimmy Nicholl had more backing than Hughes with our fans and he's gone off to Cowdenbeath! For many Scottish football followers, with John Hughes as our manager, we're now just another St Mirren, Hamilton, Dunfermline or Partick with a journeyman manager. The high profile has certainly gone. Henrik Larsson would have grabbed attention and got bums on seats. How things change in football. A month ago we still thought the sun shined out of Terry's backside and were on for a memorable, historic season. Now, I'm not so sure. The squad already at ICT might paper-over-the-cracks until he has to start building his own team with his inevitable Scottish journeymen. Can he convince our soon to be out of contract players to stay? Time will tell.

Well everyone knows you wife ran off with the scaffy but time heals and you're getting over it- even getting quite excited about all the gorgeous exotic beauties you're going to be going out with. BANG you wake up with some old dog and you're stuck with her. Surely we can do better than this. I would have thought that our current standing would have merited a better shortlist but I was coming round to the idea of Hartley being a decent gamble. This is just depressing.

Hopefully the fans will be getting Trains, Planes and Automobiles to the games and not staying Home Alone, listening to the radio! I trust you're all not planning staying Home Alone 2? Joking aside, it might turn out to be Somekind of Wonderful appointment. I just wonder what kind of Weird Science the board were using to come out with this appointment. Forget Ferris Bueller - clearly, today must have been Kenny Cameron's Day Off!! Yeah, some great films from the director, John Hughes. I really liked The Breakfast Club - but this outcome surely is a dogs dinner!!!

Or bonfire night when your expecting one last massive boom as you know its coming to the end and then.... is that it? Or when you strike up an online relationship with the girl of your dreams, for weeks you spend every waking moment looking forward to the time when you can actually meet up and fulfil your relationship, then when the time comes it actually turns out to be a fat middle aged man called Nigel with a combover and poor personal hygiene, but you kind of feel obliged to go along with it and make the best of the situation. No wait.....

It's like seeing your xmas present sitting, wrapped under the tree for a month and wondering with anticipation what is in the box. Your folks have assured you they were impressed with the quality of 'wants' you presented them with in your xmas list. Xmas morning, you tear open the package only to find a run-of-the-mill jumper and socks set that wasn't even on your wish list!

Signings by Hughes at Hibs: Darryl Duffy Edwin de Graaf Jonathan Grounds Francis Dickoh Valdas Trakys Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hibernian/9057294.stm

Not denying I liked the sound of Hartley better, but I don't see any point in prejudging Hughes. Most people seem to think he was treated pretty harshly at Hartlepool, and his record in Scotland was excellent until that long slump towards the end of his Hibs tenure - and we've had a couple of similar spells under Butcher, tbf, but our board stuck by him. In the short term, I can't imagine a manager who is going to be more motivated to be Hearts in the League Cup semi and get us to our first final; in the long term, once he's won us a couple of trophies and got us into Europe twice in a row, he'll return to his beloved Hibs to replace the disastrously-appointed Terry Butcher, just in time for Richie Foran to step up to the manager's job at ICT that Yogi has been keeping warm for him.

If County appointed Hughes I'd have a wee chuckle and think that the only place they are heading is down the way.

Would rather Kenny Shiels.

Not saying Hughes would be a disaster, but he simply doesn't get the pulse racing. Would the crowd be up or down for his debut? Down without a doubt. And for Hartley (or even Hartson) - up, I'd wager! We still need somebody to inspire sufficient confidence in the squad to inspire them to turn down offers in Jan and Hughes is not it. Would be delighted to be proved wrong, but if it is Hughes, his appointment would be unjustifiable, given the alleged competition.

John Hughes for somehow still being in the running despite a woeful managerial CV.

I said in the beginning (offline to friends) that I would put my faith in the board to make the right choice on behalf of the (long term) future of the club and I'm sticking by it. Did we maybe get carried away with the pro-Hartley bandwagon, maybe? I was totally behind him for the job, but ultimately he has no experience at this level (though I was 100% up for giving him the opportunity here, seemed like a good match) and have to trust that the board made the best call given what they saw at interview. I always said that we needed someone who wanted the job, rather than needed it, and it's important that the role goes to someone who sees it as a passion and commitment rather than a job or a stepping stone. If it's true that Hartley was hesitant in commiting for family reasons then kudos to either him and/or the board for recognising it and stepping back. For me, one of the top priorities in appointing a manager was someone who is in it for the long term, and I can see Hughes being up for that. I don't see him as a gloryhunter or looking for a stepping stone, I think he is a genuine football man, with a passion level which is almost unbeatable. With the right team behind him and backing from the board, it could be a beautiful combination. Let's just hope that we are prepared to invest in a top support team, that element is a mystery at present. Obviously Yogi convinced the board that he was the man for the job, and having spoken to one of the senior players, he certainly convinced them too. I hope he doesn't read this board, whilst nothing bears any malice towards him it shows disappointment and that's not how I'd want any new member of staff to our club to feel. Two cup finals (and subsequent wins) and a minimum of second place in the league will certainly justify his appointment!

Just on the radio Barry Wilson said John Hughes would be a good appointment as ICT manager! Would not have been my first choice but will give him my support if he is appointed tomorrow.

Too much happening but Top Six will be happy, the thread is back at the top, and Inverness beat Dundee United 2-3 today. One Inverness goal was an og, the rest is sketchy at the mo. Calum Ferguson scored one.

Of course he'll get a chance. It's the club I support not a here today gone tomorrow manager but for the sake of the team I'll be behind him once the sicky feeling in my stomach goes. A good run over the next few weeks will help.

Like everyone else, I didn't want Yogi but some of the negativity and comments on here is ridiculous. You'd think we had appointed Goofy for goodness sake. Give big Yogi a chance, after all he's smarter than the average bear. But in all seriousness all you negative folks take that energy your wasting and fire it behind the team.

Gutted. So disappointed for the lads. We had to see Butcher's departure as an opportunity for bringing in real quality and/or a man who would instantly command the respect of the players and we get....Yogi! The risk is an exodus in Jan and failure to turn this year of exceptional promise into mush. Please prove me wrong - humble pie is at the ready - but he'd better get off to a cracking start because December-Feb will define our season.

Seem to remember that in the straight choice between Robbo and Butcher, Tel was the fans choice. Different scenario here.

Saturday is massive for him: lose or draw and he'll be on the back foot from the off. Whilst this fixture was by no means a given, Hughes cannot afford to start his reign with the end of a winning streak (others would have been cut some slack). We've got a tough Christmas/January and there is simply no time for him to f@nny around. Next 7 games will shape our league season and then the cup games....yikes!

Hughes was never someone I thought of, but said at the start that I would support whoever the board decided to hire. This appointment if/when confirmed doesn't change that view. My first choice was Hartley but for whatever reason thats not happening, so looks like time to get behing Yogi, and the team. He deserves time to show he is up for the job.

As we all know, ICT have a terrible habit of getting really close to something and then blowing it. This seems like another one of those times. We're a team well and truly on the up, yet it seems like the board are afraid of success. That can't be right though can it? No, that can not be right at all.

This! Well put Rene AJS and i had a catch up about the whole thing recently. We both felt out of the final 5 only Levein and Hartley were credible for final 2. We also felt Levein would split the fans to much whereas Hartley was the only person who would grt full backing from the fans. This would create an all round positive feeling around the club which would propell us forward. Also we would no doubt forget about terry in no time. Now however we have a chap who noone wants! I for one havnt felt this deflated since brew came back. You know this i would take Robbo back in a heartbeat before this loon. I'll always support the club, but as a paying member we deserve better!

Do we have to have a poll before there's even an announcement, if it's true give the man a chance FFS

I'd have thought it kind of goes without saying that everyone will "give him a chance".

This appointment is likely what Kenny Shiels was alluding to last night in his downbeat appearance on Sportsound when he hinted that ex-Old Firm players seem to get the managerial posts ahead of other candidates. He was obviously aware he’d been over-looked in favour of Hartley or Hughes. Jimmy Calderwood has a superior record in management than John Hughes. I can't understand why he's still out of football - maybe he's been 'away' too long and it's a vicious circle....and maybe Shiels has a valid point.

Hughes went through 3 clubs during Butchers time at ICT. But an interesting stat, that can't happen very often is that in September 2010, Terry took his Inverness team to Easter Road to face John Hughes' Hibs side. Nobody would have expected in the future, those managers would be in opposition again managing the other team!

http://www.nononsensefootball.com/hughes-leaves-hartlepool/ Who cares about the Hartlepool job, They were doing rubbish when he took over and he couldn't manager to steer them away from relegation. Butcher took over half way through the season and got us relegated, why give a manager 6 months? Its clubs like that who will always struggle to be as stable as teams like ICT.

I heard Buster Keeton , Chergar and Rin Tin Tin were in the running Only one winner there Lord Lucan turned the job down Maybe after yesterdays sackings three more hopefuls may apear

At least it's not Brewster again. Would have preferred Hartley but will support Hughes the same.

The Courier still seem pretty sure it'll be Hartley - http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/ICT-very-close-in-appointing-new-manager-02122013.htm

Ewan Murray of Guardian saying that strong rumours it's John Hughes. So, Paul Hartley it is then!