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Hughes should be sacked if he tries to force the 4-1-4-1 formation on the team again. Now is not the time to make that change. Maybe using a pre season but right now we are geared towards reaping the rewards of our style under Butcher and again it showed today. Credit to him for changing things back today. #SayNoTo4-1-4-1

Hopefully that will be the last time we are subjected to trying to force 4-1-4-1 on the players. The difference when we went back to 4-2-3-1 was like night and day.

Hibs

They should have come to my house to tell me about the deals in person

In the league Butcher oversaw a total of 11 games 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. 22 points from 33. Hughes has taken charge for 15 games league which have resulted in 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses. 17 points from 45.

Or could we be sitting her out of the top 6 and having been beaten by Hearts? If, buts and maybes. We were poor before Yogi took over and it has sadly continued. There have been glimpses of some fine football but serious lack of cutting edge is killing us. We need one of these free transfers he spoke about, preferably a striker to take the weight for Billy's shoulders. At the end of the day it is a results game. If you don't get them then you are out. We have a history of giving managers time and Yogi will be no different. Just think, we could easily have sacked Butcher at least twice! We had just won five games in a row before he took over.

*bans Doofers Dad*

I wonder if they still got 40,000 along to those games?

Tell them that only one can have a contract and they must battle each other with pugil sticks on top of the Kessock Bridge. Winner gets a contract. Loser signs for Fort William.

Oh aye made top 6 and a final this season! Defo time to sack him .......(sarcastim) Under Hughes we have amassed 17 points in 15 games, an average of 1.13 points / game. If that had been our form for the whole of this season we would have had ~ 30 points from our 27 games and fighting to avoid the play off spot. I am very concerned about what is happening to the team.

The canteen / dining area of Culloden Academy to be precise.

I still have my ticket from the final. if anyone wants it to get cheap tickets then send me a PM and I will mail it on to you.

They have:

You can have mine if you want? PM me your address and I will post it off to you.

Sadly this is one midweek game too far for me. Along with taking time off work going to this game would have cost upwards of £75 and after the last few weeks I just can't afford that. EDIT: Obviously I am coming from Aberdeen which doesn't help. All these midweek home ties are essentially "away" matches for me.

Good offer but... ...wouldn't it have made more sense to announce it before the game? I bet there's a fair few fans who dispensed with their tickets straight after Sundays game.

It's something I've mentioned to a few folk now but we don't really have much pace in this team. No players like a Wilson or, more recently, a Hayes type who could really surge forward on a rapid counter or drift past players like they weren't there like Andrew Shinnie.

I am absolutely heartbroken at the result. It's nearly 24 hours later and I am still downbeat at what happened yesterday. I've been through break ups that have been easier to stomach than the loss yesterday. When I heard that Pawlett was out and then when Hayes went off injured I thought that we would have a real chance to have a go at Aberdeen. Instead we retained the 4-1-4-1 that we used v Hibs which created almost nothing in 90 minutes and bettered it by creating nothing in 120 minutes yesterday. I think Hughes was right to stifle Aberdeen the way we did but in doing so we essentially conceded any attacking ability. Vincent was solid defensively on the left with Shinnie but seldom got forward. On the right the highlight of the day, if you can all it that, was Watkins drifting infield before falling over himself trying to shoot. Mckay got absolutely no service aside from hooked balls and lumps towards the corner.In the middle Draper, Foran and Tansey shielded the back line well and just let Aberdeen have the ball as much as they wanted and challenged them to create chances which they, more often than not, failed to do. I thought our best players were Shinnie, Meekings and Devine. Raven was decent enough and Brill less shakey than he has been recently but the other three were our best performers by far. We've gone from one of the most creative and attacking teams in the league to one that is struggling to get anywhere near the goal now. I can barely remember a chance we had in the match and whilst Aberdeen didn't create a number of clear cut chances they definitely came closer to scoring than we did with the chance for Anderson perhaps being their best opportunity along with McGinn I think getting a nice break of the ball in the box but luckily he missed. I thought that, especially towards the end, Aberdeen were there for the taking if we wanted to have a go but we lacked the guile to create anything of note to see us nick it. Not sure about this supposed stone wall penalty that Foran has been talking about. Wasn't convinced at the time about the claim by Rooney for his shout but I haven't seen a replay so I could be wrong. Langfield had clearly done his homework on how Mckay takes his spot kicks. Low and left every time (except from a couple at the end of last season when he went high and right and missed). It was a good save. Tansey - oh dear. What else can you say? Ross and Doran finished well under pressure but every one of Aberdeens spot kicks were unstoppable. Sickening when I saw Rooneys strike hit the back of the net. Whilst all the Dons celebrated Scott Vernon was straight over to the ICT guys shaking their hands. Fair play to him because I can't say I would have been doing that if I was in his boots. Congratulations to Aberdeen then and I hope they enjoyed their day. Can't say I will be anywhere near the city centre next weekend though when they have the cup procession. I will be sitting in my flat sobbing into my ICT top wondering what could have been if we were a bit more positive and tried to test Aberdeen a bit more. EDIT: Just had a thought. In the Semi Final our kids beat the Hearts kids in the half time shoot out. ICT of course went on to win at penalties. Yesterday, the Aberdeen kids won the shoot out and went on to win on penalties. It's a sign.

Bitter central belt journalist writes bitter article for a paper designed to cater for massaging the egos of Rangers and Celtic fans. Aside from Michael Gannon the Record is a piss poor publication in terms of its non Old Firm coverage.

Yesterdays game took place on a day when the majority of people were not at work. The game on Wednesday will require people to take time off work in the afternoon and, depending on how they are when they get home, take the morning of Thursday off as well. Hopefully the next home game will see a few more bums on seats.

Out of interest, who is to be considered the poorer ICT fan from these two scenarios: An ICT fan who attends their teams match but leaves before the end of the game / sees the players pick up their medals; or An ICT fan who doesn't attend their teams games but instead goes and watches their local rivals instead?

His comments all week have bemused me! To be honest I agree in part with Dougal however I also think that, despite my firm belief that 4 - 1 - 4 - 1 is not great for us in attacking sense, the tactics we employed yesterday stifled Aberdeen successfully. So I am somewhere in between. Meekings, Shinnie and Devine were all superb. We didn't really press any of the opposition players instead letting them have the ball and defended as two banks of four with Tansey in between. Whilst we defended well and Devine handled Rooney fantastically we offered very little going forward and conceded a lot of possession to Aberdeen though they seldom did anything with it. I think the bugbear is that we have the players to damage Aberdeen but in our attempts to stifle the Dons we pretty much reduced ourselves to aimless hoofs, hooked balls and lumps up the park for Mckay to chase down. Going forward we offered almost nothing for large parts of the game and that was very frustrating. Aberdeen were there for the taking but we never seemed like we believed we could do enough to get a winner and instead concentrated on defending and throttling the Aberdeen attacks.

What does the flag look like?

I feel horrendous. Barely slept. Incredibly nervous. I feel like I am going to have a prostate exam.

Hibs