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That's his record as a manager without Butcher. It would be interesting to see how he gets on assisting Foran. I think there will be a steep learning curve for management next season so any expectations fans have would need to be suitably tempered.

I would have liked OFW and Brill to stay and have Esson remain as a coach but I don't think that would have appealed to any of them! OFW and Brill would both want first team games and Esson would potentially fancy his chances to have a run in goals if the opportunity arose. A tough decision to release either OFW or Brill who I think are very closely matched in terms of their ability. I'd be happy with whichever one stayed and sad with whichever one left.

Really hope Roberts has been offered a new deal. He's shown some really good attacking play when he's been in the side, scored some good goals and hasn't been afraid to get stuck in and put in a few tackles to win the ball back (see the Partick game for example). A rare bright spark in terms of the signings Hughes made.

Here's a Rangers fan showing 'restraint under severe provocation' .

http://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/club-statement-60/ Rangers

God forbid that fans of a football team have an opinion on what they think was good / bad about a game.

When was he denied funds? When the squad was stretched they gave him more money but they can't give him extra money when they, erm, don't have any to give. Unless you want the club living beyond its means and running the risk of going into administration. Not that I think the board have been perfect here either but your 'denying him funds' point is ill founded.

Please, this is a family forum.

Interestingly it seemed that it was the Raven stuff that seemed to turn a lot of fans against him. Despite a lot of folk mentioning tactics, performances and signings as reasons why they wanted him to leave it wasn't until Raven was told he was getting released that the majority seemed to want him to leave.

The comments on the club Facebook page suggest a lot of people there are disappointed with this decision.

Doesn't explicitly state he has left although I assume that is what it is getting at. I wonder why it's stopped short of saying exactly that.

Smashing post there from Kingsmills. Also, Calderwood is a terrible shout although I suspect the suggestion was in jest. We're looking like we're getting rid of someone who is trying to bully the club. We don't need another bully coming in.

One negative thing about Hughes leaving is that our guaranteed 3 points in Dingwall will be under threat.

Agree however the fatal mistake that Hughes made was going public. I'm almost certain that Butcher and Cameron and other managers before will have had arguments but they were kept in house. For some reason Hughes chose to berate the club in public and I can't imagine that will have gone down well.

They were?

I would be stunned if any Wigan player in League 1 is earning £30,000! Anyway, I see De Vita was released by Ross County the other day. He's probably within our budget (free) but he barely played last season although he did have a good start to his County career when he first signed. Worth a punt?

The novelty of those games have long since worn off. We used to get something like 4,500 for games v Killie. Unfortunately those games are a bit stale now for both supporters of the home and away side.

There's absolutely nothing in the release from ICT to suggest that this was a stumbling block. If we weren't able to agree any kind of fee we wouldn't have been able to talk to him (which we allegedly were based on what they club are saying).

It was confirmed on the club site ages ago (see bottom of this link). http://ictfc.com/news/team-news/1757-fan-update-player-contracts

He scored one goal v Aberdeen. The rest of his goals, with the exception of one goal against Celtic, came against teams below them in the league (or 'lesser' teams). The kids only 22 or 23 and showed enormous promise in his first season up here. He might not start every week but I would be stunned if he is on the bench 'a lot of the time' given he can play up front or on the flanks. To be honest it seems some ICT fans are going into "Ah well he wasn't that good anyway" mode when a player leaves them for another team.

As per the Aberdeen article his contract expires at the end of June this year.

Makes our decision not to offer him a contract earlier look even more ridiculous.