Kind of Blue

A day on since this superb result and It still feels great to put one over our "high flying" northern neighbours. It was a great team performance with star performances from Wlliams, Shinnie and the defence, in particular. Now that we have the addition of Tansey and Vincent on the comeback, we have a squad that is capable of competing strongly for the rest of the season.

Very pleased with this addition to the squad. I always rated Tansey as a player and I think he will add some quality to the team.

This could describe another very successful assistant manager ie John Robertson (assistant to Martin O'neil).

The link is still in place.

I'm going to trust the Board's judgement on this appointment. I will be giving Yogi my full support and hope that the majority do the same and give him a fair crack of the whip.

That's because the Heathmount punters don't have the same access to inside info anymore.

But County will ony have an "official" crowd of 800 if previous cup ties are anything to go by, so the police should be able to handle it.

I just hope the new manager rates him But seriously, this is a superb bit of buisness by the Board and sends a marker out that our strong squad will not be broken up without a fight.

Still waiting to see the full list of genuine candidates but so far it is beteween Shiels and Hartley, for me. I did also think Levein would be good for us but apparently we can't get near the money he's looking for and so will not be considered for the job, unless he gets serious about getting back to work and is prepared to accept a more realistic salary.

Our excellent Chaiman, Kenny Cameron has been named chief executive of the year for the Scottish premiership. The award has been made by FCBusiness website and magazie. I don't know how infuentential this website is bt I do think the award is very well deserved - well done.

His dad's the manager is't he?

Never one to hold back, our David

Great news and well done to the Board.

He is outspoken, and as I said earlier, a pain in the neck at times. But he was also a good manager who won the league cup so he must be doing something right. If you look the links at the bottom of the Retard's article you will see that the fans didn't want him to go and even on Saturday they were singing his name. I suspect if he was given the job it would be much less vocal Mr Shiels but no less effective for it.

My understanding is that he staying until the end of the season and will then be moving to another club (not Hibs). This may have changed in the last 24 hours and I stand to be corrected.

It will be interesting to hear who will be genuine candidates and I'm sure there will be the usual suspects among them. At the moment I think Kenny Shields would be good fit for us. He is very community minded, tries to give young players a chance in the 1st team and likes to see football played on the deck. I know he can be an outspoken pain in the neck at times but I think he may be a bit more reserved afer his experience at Killie. I also would have no problem with Craig Leivein, if he's interested. Paul Hartley may also be worth a go if the Board is going down the young and upcoming manager route.

Top 5: Foran, Foran, Foran, Foran & Foran

Heard from a very reliable source that Marcella is going to stay until the end of the season and then will move to another club (not Hibs). This outcome will be the same regardless if Butcher goes or stays. As for Mo taking on the manager's job, I'm coming round to the idea but it will be interesting to see the other candidates.

Evans took his second goal really well - he looks a decent player. Christie impressed me as well. The second half was dominated by ICT.

I'm longing for the glory days of scrapping about in a relegation dogfight. No other teams are interested in your manager or players and ambition is to get the first win of the season before September is out. Oh yes those were the days

I don't make it to many away games but I'm planning this one.

I wonder how long it will be before Uncle Roy presses the panic button.

I have a faint memory of it but I could be wrong. Nothing wrong with Hissy, BTW. a much under-rated player, in my opinion.

Did Scott Macdonald come on trial with ICT for a few days before he went to Motherwell?

A very well deserved award to our fantastic captain. His form this season has inspired the rest of the team to perform so well.