Yngwie

BBC match report says it should have been a penalty. "Pictures revealed that Reguero had indeed clipped Watkins and he struggled to retain his balance before tumbling."

That's 4 points dropped in our 2 home games against the worst team in the league.

I suspect very much we'll see a loanee coming in from England in the next couple of days. We won't pay transfer fees and there are so few free agents of good quality kicking around at this time of year that they tend to be in high demand. I'm not criticising the decision to selly Billy or release Sekajja, but it must be an extremely rare situation that a team in contention for a European place and not far off the top off the league finds itself going into a big game without any strikers - not because of bad luck or injuries, but because it effectively decided to put itself in that position!

ICTFC Official Twitter: "Pitch passed as playable at 9:00am, however we will continue to monitor conditions as weather passes through during the morning."

I read that Billy's been handed Shaun Maloney's no. 10 shirt. Should be a good fit!

Time to start a new chant. "He leaves when he wants, he leaves when he waaaaaants...."

If you take last Saturday's starting line-up and assume we've seen the last of Billy, then none of our top 4 league goalscorers would be in the team! (Mckay 10, Wakins 6, Doran 5, Christie 3).

It doesn't help ICT to publicly state Brill's condition, but it might help the opposition with their gameplan.

This medical seems to be taking a long time. Maybe Wigan are concerned about Mckays small "k"?

If this was the first time it has come to this, could the beneficiaries be described as Guinea pigs?

I think I'm right in saying that since Billy's arrival at the start of season 2011/12, and despite his lack of goals in that first season, nobody has scored as many goals in our top flight. A quick bit of addition suggests he has 54 in that time, whilst Commons has 43, Michael Higdon 40 and Niall McGinn 36.

I've been getting all misty eyed watching Billy's goals from 2012/13 and 2013/14. If I were a Wigan fan watching those, I'd be absolutely wetting myself with excitement.

Ched Evans is still available - actually best not, cos 60,000 of our 3,000 fans would be in uproar!

Souns like your missus did you a favour.

Can you imagine being left without any credible, proven strikers? It would be like.......Ross County.

That's according to journalist Pete O Rourke at least, who tweeted within the last hour: "Wigan are closing in on the signing of Inverness striker Billy McKay" Can't tell from that if he is suggesting PCA or immediate transfer.

Option a)

And not just Saturday. Shinnie decided several months ago that he would be moving on, and has probably known for a good few weeks (at least) that Aberdeen was his preferred destination. One of our very best and most consistent players throughout that timeframe.

Interesting you should mention the Hamilton game. Entrance was only 10p as a tribute to the service departing manager Alex Neil and his assistant Frankie McAvoy had given to the club. The vice-chairman was quoted by the BBC as saying "We look forward to welcoming all our loyal supporters, and perhaps some new ones, to send Frankie, and Alex, off with the acclaim they deserve." Clearly they didn't want 2 great servants of their club to leave but they understood the guys wanted to develop their careers. Rather than being branded as traitors they were lauded for the service given over the years. Yes BUT Hamilton would not have taken that approach if the move was to Motherwell rather than Norwich, no way. It's also easy for a club to be gracious (and generous) when receiving a very hefty sum of compensation.

He had no choice but to sign for Aberdeen after the Richard Donald Stand displayed this chilling banner for him. (For those that don't know, it was actually Standard Liege fans that did this to welcome a club legend who signed for rivals Anderlecht)

Can't blame him for doubling his wages (apparently) but somewhat puzzling that he had a more lucrative offer to play at a higher level down south (also apparently) but opted to join our rivals instead.

A pox on him. (to be contracted in June)

JH's interview also suggests that 48 less 39 is 11. (For the record, we were 5 points ahead of Hamilton this morning, so the gap is now 8.) Edit to add: but who cares if his arithmetic is a bit dodgy if he can turn a game at half time like that!

The first half was p1sh, and I was wondering if this was a case of "you get what you pay for". Credit to Hughes, we came out in the 2nd half having dispensed with the patient, possession approach which hadn't been working due to Hamilton pressing us all over the pitch. Pacier, much more direct approach paid dividends and Mckay spurned a couple of good chances before we deservedly (but flukily) went ahead. The second goal was so well worked - I think it was Mckay who turned down the chance to shoot from a tight angle and played it across the goal to Draper, who had a good shooting opportunity but played it back to Nicky who side footed it into the net with ease. Lovely. Did anyone else think, though, that Warren was going to get a 2nd yellow when he appeared to be a tiny bit late in a challenge? I thought there were quite a few tight calls that all went in ICT's favour, and the Hamilton fans would appear to agree.

The best course of action would have been to draw a steward's attention to it during the game. The stewards kept a very low profile (a rarity in itself), but there were some down at the front of our stand.