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Well there you go. Thats what weve been waiting about 3 weeks and 1020 posts to here. Who needs an anouncement from the club if someone you know has been at the ticket office. That's a bit unfair. If anyone else knew any better we wouldn't have had 1020 posts.

That's good and bad news. Good for us and bad for him.

Was it not just that he was the sort of committed, no nonsense player that you hate when he's playing against you but love when he's playing for you. Those that hurled abuse at him when playing for Heart's would cheer him on when playing for Scotland.

Darren Fergusson? Perhaps looking to move on before he gets the sack? He's had Peterborough playing a good attacking game but works under a chairman who is not easily pleased and is expecting an immediate return to the Championship. With a bit of support from the old man he could be looking to emulate Sir Alex by delivering success with an unfashionable North of Scotland club. Just a thought.

I haven't read today's document yet, but from the reports and clips of Salmond and Sturgeon I've seen, I am hugely disappointed. A lot of what they aspire to do in a first term of Independent Scottish Government sounds like the sort of stuff I would vote for but the referendum is not about electing a Government and voting for policies, it is about the structure of Government. The argument needs to be about how Scotland would benefit irrespective of which party was in power. Today's antics was a bit like buying the curtains when you don't yet know how many windows your new house will have and what size and shape they will be. I'm afraid I don't buy a new house just because I like the curtains.

Conference Eric Odhiambo for Hereford v Halifax

Hopefully an appointment before the weekend and presentation of the new manager at the Morton game will help to get the gate up to a decent level.

George Best was a box to box midfielder - although in his case the term did not refer to what he did on the football pitch.

I like the idea of Hartley, but if we appoint him we would have to recognise that if he did well he would be head hunted by much bigger clubs than us. He would be seen as a young manager with very bright prospects indeed. We'd be lucky if he stayed 2 years. Personally I would be more than happy with that if he was able to lift a trophy in that time.

Good question. Mind you, this might have been a one off. Given the glum expressions and the white shirts it looks as though they've gone to the match straight after a funeral.

Elvis! Dead? OMG

Good topic. Difficult to stop at 3 so I will go for one about the way the game is played, one about grounds and one about the wider influence on the game. Players being allowed to shepherd the ball out of play when they are clearly guilty of obstruction All seater stadiums which have destroyed an important social element of the game The obscence structure for the distribution of wealth in the game - which has just got worse today.

It really isn't that long ago that for an Inverness side to beat Morton in the cup would have been a memorable bit of giant killing. I'll be happy for us to win ugly but I think we will win pretty. I predict Billy being subbed in the 67th minute so we can salute his hat-trick.

Whilst only 8-1 it is interesting that Robertson is back in the odds after apparently saying that he had been told he was not on the short list. However, what he said on the BBC prior to the game on Saturday was interesting. He said he had heard absolutely nothing from the club and made the point that this was the sort of job you didn't apply for but waited till the club invites you to talk to them. I know, it sounds very naive but that is what he said. It came across as if he was almost begging the club to get in touch. Maybe he was not on the short list because he hadn't written to express an interest in the club. Now the club know he wants the job, maybe they have been in touch. I'd prefer Robbo to Sutton and Levein but would prefer Hartley or Shiels. I'll guess we will know soon enough but it would not surprise me if it was somebody nobody has yet mentioned.

Nothing wrong with the tactic. If the opposition don't put a player on the wide winger then they are asking for trouble as otherwise it is a regular outball that can be guaranteed to turn defence into attack. If you've got players with pace in the team the width this gives you is a distinct advantage. It can be a useful way of getting messages from the bench as well!

Just brilliant- now wondering how Raven would do at left back - interesting??!! What is really effective is how he will sometimes cut in with pace rather than go for width and the cross. With Billy then doing a diagonal run to the right in front of him it creates a few options. I can see goals coming from this.

Best to blame an ageing Talisker

They may have drawn at Celtic Park earlier in the year but Morton were thrashed at home by Livi today and even Barrowman got on the score sheet. We should be able to put a few past them without reply. By the time we play them in the cup next week we should have a new manager in place and I wonder how they will play it. Do they look at the "normal" starting XI with a view to starting with a comfortable win under their belt, or do they take the opportunity to look at a few more players who maybe haven't had a first team start. For instance they might start with Toby up front and Billy on the bench. I'm normally in favour of playing your strongest team because it is, after all, important to make sure you win and the teams from lower leagues are always "up for it". No messing for me. Start with the strongest team and tell them to play as if they were playing County. Early subs regardless of the score - if they are winning comfortably then there is no risk. If they are not then they are not doing well enough and others should be given the chance to do better.

That was an important win and the player's reaction at the end showed they knew it. We have often struggled against St J and they needed to get something out of the game to close the gap on us. They looked a pretty decent, well motivated side but were closed down well with their main threats well marshalled. They had more possession but the fact that Deano did not have a single save to make speaks volumes of how solid we were defensively At the end we won ugly but we started pretty brightly. We had a lovely passage of passing football early on before great work from Tremarco down the left allowed him to cross and Billy did well to get on the end of it to score. We managed to create the better chances and it was perhaps disappointing that others, Draper in particular, did not have their shooting boots on. But just as our defence closed them down well, theirs did the same. There was some great tackling and covering by both sides and St J will play a lot worse and win this season. I thought both Tremarco and Watkins played well. Doran was a bit disappointring by his usual standards but for me it was Nick Ross who was the weak link. He started off really well and had some great touches but as the game got more competetive he was far less effective and was regularly bullied off the ball and pressurised into errors. He was subbed because of a knock but in my view he should have been off earlier. No doubt those potential managers on the short list will have been watching and I wonder what they made of the team. It might be a difficult choice between Tremarco and Raven but I would be surprised if Ross will be in a new manager's first XI. The rest should be safe. I would bring Vincent back in when fit with Watkins in place of Ross. Today was a no nonsense win against a good side. I think any incoming manager will be well pleased by what they saw today.

Calm down! Better to have one match without a manager than the rest of the season with the wrong manager. We are not like some clubs who have a deal stitched up before there is a vacancy. There is a process to go through and that is what the Board is doing as quickly as it reasonably can.

Ah! You were in the tunnel of love when it all came to a shuddering end? I suppose the twin towers was another "JFK" event. Hopefully you were doing something different then because as I remember, it was a weekday afternoon and not a Sunday morning.

In these days of equality, aren't we obliged to have 3? One that swings left, one that swings right and one that swings both ways!

We'll need it to put towards Richie's new contract

I doubt they will be putting in realistic bids in January but might try to lure one or two when out of contract. I am sure Petrie's strategy in signing Butcher and his team is for them to sign players for Hibs in the same way they have for us. It's a low cost strategy because there is no money to throw around. Hibs is a bigger club and is not so far away for most folk and therefore there would be a realistic expectation of finding it a little easier to attract players to Hibs than it was here. Any money Hibs have needs to be spent on keeping the players they want to keep and not on transfer fees.

Well that plan worked. 0-0 FT Should have known the underdog would do well. I seem to remember the Faroes came onto the scene and beat Austria in their first senior game. Still, at least I backed Scotland at 6/1 when they were getting an absolute doing in Norway, just 2 minutes before Brown scored. You should've known their defence would be as firm as a rock.