Yngwie

Well why the hell not, it's only a friendly and you've got more experience than the 7 year old who applied.

I see, though, that Boyce made it into the NI squad in the Panini sticker album, which I suppose is a bit of an achievement in itself.

I've spent the last few days looking for a "pelters" smiley. This one'll have to do.

As expected, Billy Mckay has missed out on a place in the NI squad. If you rewind the clock a couple of years, it's staggering to think that he's now behind the likes of Josh Magennis (in squad) and Liam Boyce (very narrowly missed out) in the pecking order. Perhap's he'll take a moment to reflect that if he'd stayed at ICT, he would very likely be fulfilling a once in a lifetime opportunity to play international football in a major tournament. And that maybe a move back to us might help resurrrect his career!

Away to Fraserburgh for a testimonial, Sat 2nd July.

Craig Brewster (Dundee Utd) Come to think about it, there's not been a great deal of managerial success amongst the names mentioned. I suspect though that the list will be somewhat more impressive in 10 or 20 years time.

Unlikely, the vast majority of footballers' decisions are driven by money. And anyway, I'm sure he will fully expect that Colchester also have fans forums where his mistakes will be criticised.

We'll just bring in someone else, though, hopefully someone better!

Compared to what we could have had, we have the nearest thing there is to the "Group of Death!" Actual fixtures are not announced until next week, it seems. They aren't half dragging this out. Group A Dundee Dumbarton Peterhead Forfar Athletic East Fife Group B St Johnstone Falkirk Brechin City Stirling Albion Elgin City Group C Inverness Caley Thistle Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Arbroath Cowdenbeath Group D Ross County Raith Rovers Alloa Athletic Cove Rangers Montrose Group E Partick Thistle Queen of the South Stenhousemuir Queen's Park Airdrieonians Group F Motherwell Rangers Stranraer East Stirlingshire Annan Athletic Group G Hamilton Accies St Mirren Edinburgh City Livingston Ayr United Group H Kilmarnock Morton Berwick Rangers Albion Rovers Clyde

Are you referring to him coaching at the Ipswich Academy? That's all I can see he's done (so far, at least).

Paul Ritchie had a couple of years at junior side Lochee Utd (in Dundee).

This week Les Fridge quit as Nairn manager, whilst Liam Fox became head coach at Cowdenbeath. Got me wondering, how many ex-ICT players are there who have gone on to be managers?

And in the League Cup, we also got knocked out by the eventual winners.

As far as I can see there's been nothing to suggest that he has left or is leaving. Not yet, anyway.....

A commission is indeed looking into what happened. I fully expect them to conclude that despite the misdemeanours, the result should stand as a 3-2 win for Dundee Utd!

None of the Hibs fans had ever seen their team win the Cup, but nor had any of the ICT fans last year or the St Johnstone fans in 2014. The latter two behaved impeccably. And even if they had been inclined to go onto the pitch through sheer joy, I just can't imagine that they would have assaulted players of the opposing team.

All the more amazing given that they were 11 points down with just 30 seconds left! The final is available to watch here, with it all turning around from 30:00 mins.

With Hibs now winning the cup, Hughes has had one of the best weeks of his life!

I'd rather get some of his players!

In fairness this lunchtime on radio Scotland it was pointed out that there was loads of sectarian singing, and flares were set off, which they acknowledged had barely been mentioned because the post-match events overshadowed those other crimes.

The conduct of both sets of fans was so bad that the result should be annulled and the trophy retained by the 2015 winners, along with the prize money and European place. Wishful thinking, of course, but it wouldn't be any worse a decision than various others made by our football authorities!

One of the many things missing from the club statement is something along the lines of "We will now begin the search for a new manager", which I'm pretty sure has been standard in previous announcemnents of managerial departures.

My guess is that he's still on the payroll (until he gets another job) so he hasn't actually left the club yet - but is no longer carrying out the role of manager.

Who do I want as manager? Someone who wants to be here!

The right winner IMO, he made a big contribution and was one of our most consistent and reliable performers across the season.