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And the 'Most Predictable Post of the Night Award' goes to....

Calm down buttercup. When you became a member....is that your current username or the Mahonio one....or the Caley Shaun one on P&B? By the way, I never said you were wrong, just that your post was very predictable. It's been the same for years. Butcher Out - I'm backing Butcher - Butcher Out - I'm backing Butcher - Yogi Out - I'm backing Yogi - Yogi Out! You were wanting him to stay and claimed you were backing him 100% for the rest of the season, less than a fortnight ago. And you've changed your mind.....again. What a surprise... http://caleythistleonline.com/topic/29927-yogis-contract/?page=9#comment-445812

Just back from the game and that was a brutal watch for 75 mins. Yogi said after Saturday that we lacked creativity up front, did we address that? - No. Yet again we pissed about with ball and done nothing with it. Tonight I noticed that we gifted county a lot of time and space with the ball and if County were more resilient, it would have been a cricket score. I thought our passing tonight was abysmal, the passing has been nowhere near as good since Latapy left the club. I understand that our injury list isn't great but IMO the team that was set out tonight was strong enough to win, if we are hiding behind the injury excuse then that's an embarrassment in itself. I'm not really arsed that we were put out of the cup,it's more the manner of our exit that gets me. Questions need to be asked of management IMO.

Too little too late - shocking display

I may be too pessimistic but I don't expect anything from the team this season, I just hope we can stay up. We have lost or sold our best players, we may lose Christie and Storey in January, I honestly don't understand having a player on loan for only six months, though I understand the desperation when these players are strikers, every goal is priceless. We have a stack of players with what appear to be long term injuries who will need 3/4 games just to get match fit and its extremely difficult for JH to find a settled side and some rhythm when he has to chop and change constantly. We were very fortunate last season re injuries but its possible that playing so many games with the same 12/13 players has taken its toll on some of them. I yearn for the days when almost every top team had their regular top players and you could enjoy watching them for a number of seasons, now it seems every team is scrambling in the basement bin trying to replace those who have left for one reason or another. I also disagree with the handsome chap in the article Scottish football is rubbish but if clubs keep selling their best players there is no chance of building a side to consistently play decent football, Dundee Utd being a case in point.Even Celtic with all their resources are toiling to live with the standard in the Europa cup and yet they are beating the rest at a canter, when non league players from the south can get a regular starting slot in a Scottish premier team and become a star that says it all about the standard.(I'm not knocking the non league guys, i used to play with some of the boys in what was called the Gola league many years ago but most would never have got near a Scottish 1st div (Premier) side) At the current rate of decline I can foresee many clubs becoming part time unless there are changes. Frankly, I hope Dundee Utd get relegated, its what their chairman deserves after treating their fans with utter contempt midway through a season, absolutely disgraceful. Those players are now warming the Celtic bench. End of rant.

And they, the Board, are all we've really got to keep the club stable, afloat and ticking over. They are the fulcrum upon which all activities spin. Managers come and managers go and if Mr. So and So can't stay for two years without upsetting the apple cart and not necessarily feeling that the best course of action is to meet his or her obligations, do his best for the club and then see what develops towards the end of his contracted tenure, then what security does the club have, never mind the manager and his future? It's a two-way street and our loyalty as fans is to the club, not to the manager. If he is on board with all that the management (i.e the Board) is trying to achieve and maintain then he should have our full support in his decisions until it is plain as a pikestaff that his way is not working. I repeat, he was basically an out of work coach when we intervened to hire him and give him his chance but what is being suggested seems to indicate that maybe some folks think that the coach is in charge of the club, not the Upper level Management. --which is a very dangerous precedent to even think about let alone consider implementing. Did we hire the Manager just to allow him to fail or not? ..Meaning, if he succeeds is that NOT what we hired him to do? Last season was a very good club performance but it must be stated that he also had a settled team with good players. Now we find the other side of the coin is showing and what has he achieved to date in this season? This season is the real challenge for the new manager to prove how good he really is because one swallow does not make a summer. If he feels that the player resources are not to his liking and the season may therefore be a failure, thus ruining his chances of future glory elsewhere, then the options for him are :- 1.Play on MacDuff and do your best .....or..... 2.Resign and again enter the relative obscurity from whence you came.

Agree. Spot On. While our start to the season sucks and is a real downer from the end of last season (still smiling :) ) there is still a lot of football to be played. I don't feel we can really criticise Hughes too much at this stage and he deserves a bit of leeway in my mind anyway now. Outside of Celtic and maybe Aberdeen no other squad in the SPL could cope with the amount of injuries we have and done any better. If once we have some players available again we are still not scoring goals and the defence still looks shaky when we have more than 2 defenders on the park then I'll begin to worry and question but for now there is supporting to be done to help the team through it. Happy Clapper? maybe but who cares. We are a wee club and I am always proud of how well we have done considering that fact. Supporting the underdog is more fun anyway.

Renegade is as entitled to an opinion as anyone else and I also think he expressed it rather well, because somebody shouting "Hughes must go" after tonight's result was well in there alongside Death and Taxes. (Life's accepted certainties.) Maybe it's just that Shaun has Irish relatives who set the trend for him by equally vacuously calling for the departure of Ronny Deila last Thursday night. What Shaun seems to be doing is creating a specious cause and effect relationship, where the link is merely conjectural. Football - especially where a club has historically performed above the kind of level predicted by its budget - is a very up and down game and it does strike me that SOME fans (mainly the ones who seem to know how to run the boardroom better than the directors and the dressing room better than the manager) are really expecting too much. It's not long since a six game unbeaten run, culminating in victories against the league leaders and the local rivals, was being shouted from the rooftops. Time for a reality check and a more supportive and positive approach which might actually help to make things better.

May as well finish where I started - 5 subs on the bench in a Cup Quarter Final - embarrassing. How much did we save ?

create it, and we can pin it ....

looking at the squad list .... Foran - injured (or unfit?) Doran - injured Warren - injured Draper - injured Ferguson -- not sure ? would have him on bench if fit Brill - injured Lopez - not sure ? would have him on bench if fit Mutombo - injured Sho-Silva - injured Roberts - injured the rest are all young lads who may or may not be registered (not sure how registration works for LC) WHO else would you have on the bench ?

It is the manager that should have the vision for the future. It is the manager who should set out the playing system to follow and come up with a blueprint for the future and set up what type of player that he wants and a list of potentials. A manager stays with a club when he feels that he is being supported in this role. A manager stays at a club when he feels that he has been appropriately rewarded for his performance, especially success, and that the Board are making as frenetic an attempt as possible to assist the vision. A manager may get frustrated when he feels that he is being undermined and unsupported. A manager begins to have doubts when he is unsupported and is being wrongly chastised in the eyes of fans and the media. That must particularly frustrate a manager who is honest and professional enuff not to show his displeasure in public when that stance goes against him. Has anyone ever stopped to think that it is Yogi who chose to take Storey on loan after watching him in training. Anyone can make recommendations - even me, even you. And has anyone ever considered that not employing a full substitution bench may be a money saving method. And a manager hardly would want to stay at a club who appear to put thriftiness and overly cautious economics first and apply the redundancy threat or action to keep employees under control. Seems to me that there is a mini-dictatorship in existence at the TCS - "A gentlemans club" who put the Heathmount Fraternity to shame.

Narcissist.

While using my computer machine earlier, I see the writer of the article in the original post has given an interview with Ladbrokes about ICT - http://ow.ly/TIAeO . As well as being a particularly handsome chap, he's bang on about County fans and the imperfections of Scottish football as well as being quite taken with Bobby Mann (who wouldn't be of course!).

Those people you criticise who you say 'don't really understand the football business have overseen an amalgamation of two former Highland League clubs consolidating, bar one season, in the top division for more than a decade now, under a number of managers whilst living within our means and achieving the balancing act of keeping the club both solvent and increasingly successful. With respect, in my opinion, those running our club know a fair bit about the business of football and a great deal about the business of running Inverness Caledonian Thistle in particular.

Charles, in this whole sorry discussion there's only one w****r and you see him each time you look in the mirror.

Oh come on all you doubters.Yogi is the BEST thing ever to happen to this Club - FACT. What the do you really expect from the man? He has the smallest budget in the league and he works for people who don't really understand the football business. If they did, they would have given him a new contract immediately the Scottish Cup was won. OK, we are not doing too well right now but what do you really expect? If this club can stay in this division without needing a play off GREAT if we make top 6 BRILLIANT and anything better is a MIRACLE. Long may he reign!!

Foran would be an unknown quantity as a manager. He has taken us for a ride and a considerable pay packet over the last 2 years. His contribution to ICT has not been obvious and if he is supposed to be a leader it is not clear just what he has led. I suppose that is the downside of signing an aging but enthusiastic player. I am not sure that his style of punt it, run and muscle in fits in with the passing game we now play. Is it time to release him?

I feared Jackson Irvine. No one listened .

Can we fluke this ?

There is something wrong inside the club at the moment and it is clearly manifesting itself on the park. We are so very predictable with a continuous stream of sideways and back passing. Hugely disappointed with tonights efforts, County bullied us and we just rolled over. Saturday against Dundee is a must win or we will be in freefall all the way to League 1.