Renegade

Yogi won't get the Celtic job in a month of Sundays. Had it not been for his playing career, Keane wouldn't be being talking about, let alone for a second time. His record is very patchy at best. The same could be said for Henrik Larsson, who I see is being mentioned once again. Fantastic player, Celtic legend but what's his managerial record like? Very very mediocre.

I know United have been garbage all season, but one player I wouldn't mind seeing should he become available would be John Rankin. He played under Yogi at Hibs as well and seemingly rated him as a manager quite highly. I'd have Mckay back as well but I presume his wage demands would still be too much for us, even on loan.

As has been mentioned quite a few times, the whole scouting network stuff was rather overstated. From what I've been told in the past, Marsella was a good judge of talent (so much so that Butcher was sign players simply on his recommendation), but it was a bit over-romanticised. The way some were going on about it, it was being made to sound like he was going to random games in public parks down south and finding these 'gems' and bringing them back. It wasn't quite like that. Something I always wondered during his time at the club about Marsella was for a guy who was seemingly always away watching players in lower league English football, he didn't seem to miss many ICT games!

I see our former U20s keeper and former England U19 international Ed Baldy is now playing for Frome Town. He was previously at Woking after leaving us.

I've wondered, with Foran seemingly being readied for the hot seat, if they'd follow the Hearts model, moving Yogi upstairs with Rice staying where he is.

A good result on the whole. I don't like the way we've become so predictable though. It was the exact same line-up and the exact same changes as Saturday, both times for players who are already leaving in the summer anyway. And what has happened to Richie Foran? Surely bringing him on for Storey instead of playing the soon departing Danny Williams out of position up front would make more sense? And where has Jordan Roberts disappeared to? Is he injured? There can't be any other reason for him to totally fall out of the side. I can't help to shake off an ongoing 'end of days' feeling around the club at the moment. I honestly have a feeling Yogi will be saying cheerio at the end of the season, as the manager anyway.

Was anyone aware we were playing three at the back on the Saturday? Certainly didn't look like it to me.

I reckon even if we were winning games, in terms of entertainment it wouldn't matter. People simply don't want to watch all-out possession football.

Doubt people in Montreal will like being classed as American!

HT - ICT 0-0 Hearts FT - ICT ICT 2-2 Hearts ICT 1st scorer - Storey Hearts 1st scorer - Juanma Time of 1st Goal - 51

Stuart Cosgrove was saying on Off The Ball the other week that due to McDiarmid Park's proximity to the biggest crematorium in Tayside, it's not unknown for St Johnstone to make more in a single day of holding funeral meals etc. than it is from a St Johnstone home game!

Can someone who wants Foran installed as manager answer these questions - what management/coaching experience does he have? What does he know about training? What does he know about tactics? What does he know about contract deals and scouting? If the answer for any of these is 'He doesn't' then he's not qualified to be the manager, not yet anyway.

Not a chance we should be considering dropping Tremarco. He's been excellent the last few games.

Benjamin Omerovic has signed for Norwegian side Honefoss BK in Norway. They play in 2.Divisjon which is the third tier and last played in the top flight (Tippeligaen) in 2013. I also see the club's manager is named Rene Skovdahl. No idea if he's related to the former Aberdeen manager though.

He went onto play for Hamilton Accies after us along with a couple of other Scottish clubs. I'm sure he was an Invernesian American though, as he was from here but grew up in Iowa or somewhere.

He was at Elgin for quite a while after he left us if I remember right.

HT - DU 0-0 ICT FT - DU 2-1 ICT DUFC -Mckay ICT - Tansey Time of 1st goal - 54

If the scenario did come up, I would undoubtedly prefer Kevin MacDonald as manager with Foran as assistant than the other way (that's if MacDonald would want to move back up here anyway). I must admit, the whole Foran-for-manager stuff has never sat right with me. Now don't get me wrong, Foran's been our captain for years now and he's been a great player but just parachuting him doesn't sit with me. Yes, he's been a talismanic player and a great leader but that doesn't mean he's going to be a great manager. Tony Adams was a great captain but he was a rubbish manager. Many fans of other clubs would also point out Terry Butcher as falling into the same bracket. And it's not just that. What coaching experience does Foran have? What contacts does he have? What does he know about scouting and training and tactics? There's also the case as well is that in any job, it's not always a good idea to promote someone from being 'one of the lads' to the boss. Now that's not to say I'm writing him off forever and saying I wouldn't want him ever, but before he takes the top job here, I'd rather he even left the club and made his way up the leagues in his own right like Paul Hartley did. It's a no from me, for now.

We know Fon Williams, Polworth and Devine have been offered new deals but I also recollect talk that a new contract was being offered to Tansey after the Aberdeen saga. I also wouldn't be surprised to see Horner retained. Can't help but shake the feeling though that Roberts and Raven will not be offered deals. If that turns out to be true, I for one will not be pleased, especially if they're replaced in dross and in the case of the latter, replaced by playing our best centre-back out of position.

The cup game is immaterial to our league position. Swings and roundabouts? Rubbish. That would we true had the ones we'd scored late on and the ones we'd conceded evened up. They don't.

Discarding the Roberts one as that's a cup competition. Going by that table we've gained.....three points! Two again Hamilton and one against Dundee United. I'm not counting Hearts because we were winning the game anyway. Well those goals we scored in the last minutes have really made up for the ones we've lost...

Fon Williams Raven Warren Meekings D.Williams Doran Draper Tansey Roberts Foran Storey Subs - Brill, Devine, Mutombo, Tremarco, Polworth, Vigurs, Fisher

Raven has been one of the first names on the teamsheet since he signed and is undoubtedly one of the most solid, reliable players in the squad. He was offered a deal last season (very late as I recall) and was only offered a year despite saying he wanted it to be longer. This season he's says again he wants a new deal yet seemingly has yet to be offered anything and referred was very scathing of the negotiations that took place last year. To me it sounds like things behind the scenes are in no way fine and dandy.

Surely some of their U17 squad could be drafted in at least to make up the numbers. Seems a bit pathetic to be honest.

Someone on STV saying that they understand that the game will be called off. CONFIRMED - Game OFF.