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ICT will do exactly as they did with Butcher. Refuse the initial approach, speak to the manager and talk about offering them a new deal but are told that the manager wants to talk to the club who has made the approach, ICT 'reluctantly' accept, manager agrees terms with approaching club who then agree compensation with ICT to release manager from contract. When you look back at these articles on the BBC website ever get the feeling we've seen this all before? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24809195 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24827043

Tommy Wright has signed a new deal at Saint Johnstone. I think we all know where this is going...

What on earth is the point calling up players in exceptional form like Shinnie, being four or five up against Gibraltar in a meaningless game then throwing on the likes of Naismith? This was a perfect chance to see how players like Shinnie were shaping up to break onto the international scene but no. Strachan yet again goes with the players we've all seen a million times before and know what they can do so we don't get to learn anything ahead of the next campaign.

Can't be long now until we hear the immortal line "After John indicated his desire to speak with Dundee United the club reluctantly gave permission for John to travel to meet with Dundee United to discuss terms."

Paterson / United I remembered but I had clean forgotten about Butcher / Barnsley. Good call.

When has an ICT manager turned down the chance to move on when another team has come calling? Why are people so confident that Hughes will be any different?

Stopped reading.

Erm, didn't we reject the initial approaches for Butcher before we 'reluctantly' agreed to let Hibs speak to him? I'm certainly not getting my hopes up despite this apparent good news. I suspect this has a bit to play out yet.

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Could just be a load of puff lads. Keep calm etc.

Betting suspended on Hughes to become the new United manager. Number of people saying that he is likely to leave and join the Arabs.

Due to Celtic's participation in the Europa League the game on 28th November has been moved to 29th November with a 12:15pm KO.

To be fair he looks like he was spot on about Lopez.

Seems that United are going for Tommy Wright at this moment but I wonder if they can't snare him would they look again at Hughes? In the meantime why don't we offer the guy (and some of the players) contracts instead of running the risk of losing players and managers for buttons like we have done in the past.

Fon Williams Raven Devine Meekings Williams Draper Polworth Vincent Tansey Vigurs Storey

What was our initial allocation?

#WeeTeam

I suspect that there will be more to buy on the day but good to hear we've sold out whatever initial allocation we've been given.

Confirmed as 27th October live on BBC with a 7.05 pm kick off.

Would not have mattered who was manager, RC would have ended up there anyway given his Dad's connection to them, his own fondness for them, and their history of snapping up any decent young players in Scotland only to have (most of) them sit on the bench for a few years before rekindling their careers elsewhere. Hughes' achievements at ICT are worthy of an extended contract, but as noted earlier in the thread, how do we know that's not on the table already? Just because its not on the internet doesn't mean it does not exist. He also sounds happy with his lot right now ... and the autonomy that he gets to do his own thing at ICT ... something that more than one manager who has left us for so-called greener pastures has found is not the case elsewhere. He would do well to look at what happened to Paterson, Robbo, Brewster, and Butcher when they left us. There is more to life than money (although it is nice) and a happy work environment where you can always be looking to achieve something more is almost certainly better than the various toxic cesspits with unrealistic expectations and deep rooted 'office politics' that our former managers have found themselves in ...... Sadly the fans are seldom told anything about things going on at the club who aren't exactly forthcoming with information so I doubt we would ever find out anyway (that said offering a contract wouldn't be the kind of thing a club would announce unless it was signed). I would certainly like to think that we are more proactive in offering new deals than we seem to be but given how often we lose talented players for free or cut price transfers because their contracts are winding down it's hard to believe that we are. Anyway, we've apparently said that there has been no approach which, mindful of the above, is welcome news: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inverness-caley-insist-theres-been-6548541

No I agree with you it's just your earlier post sounded like that the fact that he sold a good player to Celtic was (part of) the reason he should be considered an ICT legend which I wouldn't agree with. I also agree with your point about him being offered a new deal and that this should have been done after the Cup Final win. However as we all know the club doesn't seem to be overly proactive when handing out new contracts save for a short period a couple of years back when the likes of Warren and Doran (I think) signed up on new long-ish deals.

Sorry, why is helping one of our players secure a move to Celtic seen as a reason for considering Hughes as a club legend?

Right midfield. Later seemed to come into the middle alongside Draper and Tansey.

It's pretty a standard red top story but it is a bit galling to read it at face value and assume that he has only been playing at this level since he went to Aberdeen. Apart from maybe a wee dip in form around the start of this year Shinnie has been a consistently outstanding performer for about two seasons now. He is playing no better at Aberdeen than he was with us. He has deserved a call up for a long time now and whilst I am disappointed he never got that chance with us it's great to see that he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

I thought we were very poor last night. Luckily we got an early goal capitalising on a defensive error and after surviving some pretty sustained pressure from Livi got another one to give us a bit more of a cushion. Good to see Storey get on the score sheet again. He's obviously not the finished product but he shows real promise and he did well to seize on a slack back pass although he struggled to actually finish it off when he seemed to get the ball stuck beneath his beet on the line Good header from Devine for the second which you could see coming a mile off. As soon as Tansey was lining up the free kick Devine was gesturing for the ball to be played to the back post where he was lurking unnoticed. Good free kick from Tansey to pick him out and it was a pretty easy header. Between the goals Livi really dominated the game and should probably have equalised. Someone for ICT cleared a header off the line and Tremarco made a goal saving challenge to block a shot before Fon Williams pulled off a decent save to stop Gary Goal-en. In the second half, as if we weren't already finding things a bit of a slog, we tried to score for Livi when Raven headed the ball onto the bar (or just over) from a free kick. One of the Livi defenders then had a great chance to score with a brilliant turn and volley which went just wide. With Livi pressing we were able to create a wee bit more on the break and Tansey curled an effort just wide before Williams burst into the box and looked to be hacked down but Alan Muir gave nothing. Subs Mutumbo and Lopez then combined to set up another great chance to kill the game off but as usual Lopez Hibs'd it up before Mutumbo hit the post with another late effort. Good to get the win but again we weren't very good however we took our chances when they came and although Livi might feel a wee bit hard done by that was the difference between the sides. We'll need to improve a lot before Saturday if we want to take anything from the game. Plus points were Storey again looked promising and Mutumbo showed that when he's not trying to murder people on the pitch he can actually be a decent creative player for us.