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Pleased Raven's signed a one year extension. Would've liked it to be slightly longer though to be honest.

Call me biased, but for me....Yogi wins hands down for me. He steered his team to a National Final, hopefully a 3rd place finish and potentially taken the team into Europe, all with extremly limited resources

Plus Points Given time to build his own team, can be successful while playing passing-based attacking football. Can motivate given the right players. Will bring attention to the club and the area given his status and will also attract players. Seems to have a good knowledge/contacts within the lower Football League and non-league. He has charisma and can be a real showman. I kinda miss his end of game away match routine. Will get rid of deadwood, players not pulling their weight and he anyone he perceives as a threat to his 'I'm the boss' attitude, even if they're your better players or club legends. Will attempt to talk the club, the area and the fans up as much as possible. Can work well on a tight budget. Negative Points Rules with an iron fist. Some players simply won't take to his tough love approach. He's by no means a tactical maestro. If his set-up/line-up/formation works, then he's fine. If it's not working or a team have found a way to counteract it, he hasn't a clue what to do. Hasn't a clue about substitutions and often makes them after the 85th minute, where they can make no impact at all. Prior to building his own team, expect about two seasons of a long ball borefest. Seems to have favourites, who he'll pick no-matter what. His record without Maurice Malpas is very very poor. If he can bring Malpas with him and/or Steve Marsella though, it might counteract this. Doesn't take well to criticism at all. Expect a few shouting matches with supporters. Blows must win matches. His record in England is appalling. Brentford in particular was an absolute disaster. His time in Australia at Sydney was also pretty poor. Hibernian out did them all though! Things to be wary of As mentioned, Butcher will talk up the club and the area as much as possible but he doesn't mean it. He can play the fans and the press like an piano and can come across as a lovely bloke in the press. Behind the scenes though, it's a different story. I saw a few times him act absolutely appallingly. In short, he's not a nice man. Expect him as well, as soon as a bigger job comes up as well, to be down the road to take over elsewhere as fast as you can spell Valley Parade. As mentioned elsewhere, on the whole, Butcher was a good manager for ICT. That doesn't change the fact though that his antics at the end were absolutely dreadful. Turning up in the Hibs end and being introduced in hospitality as the 'new Hibs manager' said more about the man than any interview ever could and led to our former chairman David Sutherland to refer to him on TV as 'disgusting'! Butcher felt he doing us a favour the whole and that we should be grateful for it (expect him to think of himself as the King of Newport). There was a time when Butcher could do no wrong, but he's got no-one to blame but himself. He could've had a job here for life but the fact he threw it all away says it all. If he does get the Newport job, get ready for either a big success (if given time) or a dreadful failure. Be wary of him at all times though. His ego's as big as Wembley.

"Ken". Wasn't aware Thurso was on the east coast.

Meet up in the Muirton Suite at St Johnstone - stovies are excellent and its a great way to meet up with other fans.

Pleased he's signed. Disappointed it's not three years.

You'd get a 1-1 draw away to Forfar Athletic. (google them)

A fresh start in English football with a side that came close to league two playoffs so foundations there What standard do you think league two football would be in Scottish leagues This is a question which we often ask ourselves in reverse. The present state of Scottish Football is dreadful and getting worse as the EPL and lower leagues get richer. As far as playing standards go I think the teams at the bottom of the SPL are as poor as English League 2. We have had players from League 2 who haven't been good enough and even some from Lge 1 who weren't. The real argument is about size of club. If Scottish clubs were able to access the same sponsorship as down south, I think we would have: 2 Premiership clubs (no prizes for guessing) 3 Championship clubs (Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen) Some lge 1 clubs (Dundee Utd, poss Motherwell, Dundee, Killie) Some lge 2 clubs (Ourselves, St Mirren, County, Falkirk, St Johnstone etc) It's distorted all to hell in this country which has too many clubs. The bigot brothers are far bigger clubs than the likes of Hull, etc who get into the Premiership and get more dosh just from telly than any of them can raise. But because the two of them are there, the rest of us just wither. However you could argue we reach a higher standard playing against the OF just as they always argue that their weak league holds them back. They also argue that the likes of Chelsea are not big clubs, they're just rich clubs. What was your question again

Tickets are comparable with any league game home or away for pay at the gate with the addition of reduced concession rates, so in my opinion its a fair level. There may be a wider debate over the pricing of football overall and whether its just to expensive full stop, but in comparison to the current pricing levels for a national final to cost no more than a league game is sensible. As for the number of fans, whether its 3k each side brings or 30k, all that matter is both teams deserve to be there and their loyal fans get opportunity to attend and enjoy the day/experience - which I believe the pricing allows.

Agreed! Definitely in the minority.

You need to contact Peter McCallum at the club and he can arrange for you to get into stadium car park. You can then walk?

I think a case could be made for not including Deila and McInnes as they have done what's expected of them. Personally I would have Paul Hartley in there, I think he's done a great job.

He is an ideal manager for a club with a tight budget, where the players are not superstars, and have something to prove. He will bring out the best in them, so long as they remain subordinate to him. His way is the only way. He does not have such a great record in bigger clubs where the players are less likely to look up to him. I think he requires complete subservience from his players, which is consistent with IHE's cut-and-paste (above), to succeed. Any rebellion or revolt and he will fail.

Coming from Midlothian. Just as important, actually coming at all. Had a good feeling about this away back in the winter so told Mrs Mantis I was keeping Cup Final day free and booked holidays to Iceland the day after.

Reich enuff

I will be coming from oversea to get there. All the way from the Black Isle.

Deepest rural Norfolk... weekend shift swapped - flight from Stansted booked - hotel booked - we is coming!!!!!!

At this rate the folk coming from Inverness will be outnumbered