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As usual, CB's arguments are at least half a century out of date and wholly irrelevant to the present day.

Good to see Markey Watkins being a fixture in the Barnsley side that is the form team in League 1, now being in a play off place after being in the relegation places only a few months ago..

The last upgrade last night you mean ? Yes - We noticed (and were told by a few folk) that we had some slowness on this and other sites we host over the last few weeks. We worked with our provider to rule out issues on our side and tweaked a few things but in the end, after a couple of additional events where they had to replace hardware components and then admitted to us that another VPS hosted on the same node was suffering from issues after their site suffered a DDoS attack which was causing some residual slowness on the node we requested to be moved to a different server. They attempted this on Sunday night / Monday morning and it took several hours. In the end an error meant they could not make the final switch so we reverted back to the original yesterday. Last night they tried again, and it looks like it worked this time, and with significantly less downtime. The site does seem quite perky today ! We will continue to monitor the site and make sure its running as quick as we can make it run. Please keep telling us when you notice any issues. we do take heed and look into them.

I have got a mobile proctoscope with its own tripod, clamp and Duracell batteries. It is great for streaming and I would be only too happy to use it with Hibs supporters.

I heard that Arsenal had to specifically apply to UEFA for 'permission'! Apparently, there's a rule that replays can be televised, but it very rarely happens. If Hull v Arsenal had been a 'first attempt' game, then there'd simply be no chance of it being allowed on TV. However, it seems it's got 'special dispensation' to be televised!

Maybe he needs a better song ?

Agree, Miles is a very committed player with great potential who has not been used effectively and may be lacking a wee bit in confidence. I sincerely hope we manage to sign him up for at least a couple of years in the Summer.

Thought Celtic and Rangers would have been apart so hoping for them to meet in the final they must have heated the wrong ball before the draw

Dreadful from Inverness today. That 3 at the back did not suit us especially with Tremarco charging out at every opportunity to go after the ball. Defensively we were poor as exemplified by that free kick in the first half when we didn't even bother to mark Mcgeouch. How Hibs never scored from that I don't know. As with recent games we had started not too bad but quickly regressed into our now familiar pass it sideways, don't go forward style which is tedious to watch. Great play from Hibs to open the scoring but I can't help but feel that, having quickly watched the game back, that we should have been tracking Keatings. It looked like Tansey just ran away from him having followed him into the box. It wasn't until Horner came on and he decided to try and overlap a team mate to try and give us a wee bit more drive down the flanks that we came back into it. Horner did really well to get to the ball and dig out a cross, lovely touch from Roberts to lay it off to Mutumbo who seemed to take an eternity to get his shot away. Great scenes in the Inverness end when that went in. Scarcely deserved but still celebrated like it won us the cup. Storey should have scored with his chance not long after but it was a poor scuffed effort. Pleased to somehow be in the competition but I am very concerned about how the team is playing right now. After a bright start we were shambolic for the next 60 minutes. Only a rare piece of direct, pacey attacking play got us back in it and that's maybe a message for Hughes given his apparent love for this pedestrian style of football which is at times dire to watch. Thought we had an excellent away support down for the game. Meant to be around 800 - 900 which was far in excess what I thought we would have taken. Hopefully the replay is on TV as there's no way I'll get up for it. Shout out to for Crawford Allan who was garbage and the main stand linesman who somehow missed a Hibs player leathering Roberts with a kick in the second half. Some laughable decisions in that game. Also getting pretty fed up with some of the antics of our players. I'm probably blinkered but I don't remember seeing us being so niggly as we have been in recent weeks and throwing ourselves to the floor at times. Don't like seeing that from ICT.

Our first instinct always seems to be pass backwards and we keep gifting the opposition opportunities. Fair enough if we had players capable of possession football, but we don't, and that's why they're playing for us and not at a much higher level. When we play more direct we look a far better team, as proved with the equaliser.

I am here in defence of Miles Storey who is not having the best of times. However I am still convinced he is a class act but we have managed to destroy him as a footballer with our tactics. I pray he will still want to be here in the summer, if signing him remains a possibility? Quite frankly IMHO we have dragged him down to our level.......

Sounds awful. Who would want to go to a game to spend the whole time filming it on their phone.

Don't really care about who wins, it's just the wee cup anyway