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OrJohn Beaton! although I hear he's the 4th official.. Yeah you're correct: http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/officials-named-for-league-cup-final/ He'll be hiding in the dugout. (touch wood Steven McLean doesn't get injured cause John Beaton would replace him)

I have no worries over the referee this weekend because his name isn't Willie Gollum.

Did you even watch the game yesterday. Williams was superb. ??? Care to elaborate your point? I assume it is your statement that Williams was superb. He wasn't! He was better than most but he was far from superb. Had he been superb I think we would have had rather more that just 4 attempts on goal. Collectively our attacking midfied was very poor last night. Williams was simply the best of a bad bunch. On an individual performance I thought Danny Williams was ICT man of the match. He was bursting with so much energy and put in a decent shift. Fair enough, superb was probably over exaggerating it but certainly no way I would have him miss out the final. Sure Ryan Christie done well when he came on but I'd rather see Danny Williams on the bench or even starting - remember our last game vs Aberdeen. I don't disagree regarding Williams being more deserving (if this is the correct description) than Ryan of a place. Bursting with energy perhaps but in the middle of the park he tends to run around a lot and achieve very little. Definately not superb last night - adequate perhaps (just?). For what its worth I would start with him wide left. The unfortunate thing about League Cup is that you can only have 5 subs and one of them has to be a goalkeeper. In an ideal world we should have both Williams and Christie on the bench at least. Don't get me wrong, it would be a tremendous achievement for Ryan to be on the bench on Sunday but due to the lack of spaces it may come a bit short. I think the way the game panned out last night, the team as a whole failed to achieve anything - maybe cup final on the minds. Left wing is going to be between Watkins, Ross and Williams and I personally think Yogi will go with Nick Ross. Recalling last night, Nick put in a good shift too.

Did you even watch the game yesterday. Williams was superb. ??? Care to elaborate your point? I assume it is your statement that Williams was superb. He wasn't! He was better than most but he was far from superb. Had he been superb I think we would have had rather more that just 4 attempts on goal. Collectively our attacking midfied was very poor last night. Williams was simply the best of a bad bunch. On an individual performance I thought Danny Williams was ICT man of the match. He was bursting with so much energy and put in a decent shift. Fair enough, superb was probably over exaggerating it but certainly no way I would have him miss out the final. Sure Ryan Christie done well when he came on but I'd rather see Danny Williams on the bench or even starting - remember our last game vs Aberdeen.

Did you even watch the game yesterday. Williams was superb. ??? Care to elaborate your point?

Did you even watch the game yesterday. Williams was superb.

Next home U20 game vs Rangers Tuesday 18th at the Highland Football Academy in Dingwall 2pm KO.

http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20140313/league-cup-final-ticket-update_2212158_3711128 Any updates on how we are doing with our allocation?

Brill Raven Meekings Devine Shinnie Foran Draper Watkins Tansey Williams Mckay Subs: Esson, Tremarco, Vincent, Christie, Ross If Aaron Doran is fit to play then instead of Watkins and drop Watkins to the bench. It may be easy to say start a fresh Marley Watkins but I feel if we bring him on as an impact sub like we did at Ross County it would be good!

Well that had much more positives and it was a nice warm up for Sunday. Last Sunday I was seething at the performance and tonight was a massive improvement (Least we didn't ship 5 goals ) I thought that both teams didn't really create much but for ICT I thought it wasn't for the lack of trying. I thought that despite what people say about Hibs, I thought they had a good defensive performance and luckily for us they lacked fire power up front. On the match thread last Sunday I made the point about the direction on touchline, well the lack of direction on the touchline and let me just say what a difference tonight. John Hughes got ripped into them and got the boys motivated and got them working harder. At no point tonight I thought individually a player was slacking and they gave it their best shot. I have to point out even wee Russell Latapy was getting involved with the instructions - it was pleasing. Another point I made on the United thread was about the 4-4-2 formation and I was really pleased that we went back to "business as usual" and reverted to 4-2-3-1 and again what a difference already. Last Sunday I thought that Richie Foran up front with Billy Mckay wasn't the answer and to see him back holding the midfield again was really good. I find Liam Polworth just a bit too lightweight for the top league and if we played Richie Foran upfront I think we would have exposed the midfield and they would have walked all over us. I take my hat off to you John for making a change and getting the confidence back. My man of the match tonight was Danny Williams. He gave it 110% tonight and I really hope is at least on the bench on Sunday - Superb performance. Carl Tremarco had a good game running down the left wing, getting in tackles and finding himself in space. Defensively I thought we were much better tonight and Gary Warren was superb just gutted he isn't playing on Sunday however I am not writing off Danny Devine who had a solid game. Ryan Christie and Adam Evans. They were really good when they came on and they brought a spark and freshness to the game really pleased for them. Gutted for Ben Greenhalgh and Conor Pepper not getting a game - doesn't look good for the lads with contracts up in June. The only negative I can take from tonight is Billy Mckay's lack of goals. I really hope he finds his shooting boots on Sunday. Now with Hibs out of the way, thus begins the run in to the cup final! C'Mon the Caley Jags!

Cheers for that pal, answers the Chris and Jamie mystery. Fully expecting a rotated squad tonight now.

If that's the case, I am expecting the likes of Greenhalgh, Pepper, Polworth, Tremarco playing tonight.

Sounds like they're St Mirren youth players. St Mirren aren't providing a live feed. Cheers anyways! I'm actually fairly confident it was icts strikers that they were shouting at. Must of got the names wrong because I don't think we have a Jamie nor Chris in our U20

Sounds like they're St Mirren youth players. St Mirren aren't providing a live feed. Cheers anyways!

Any idea on what the starting line up is mate?

We usually swap Goalkeepers away from home and Esson plays home games so I wouldn't read into it too much.

Just because we have released a cup final song doesn't have any affect on the atmosphere on Sunday. The atmosphere on Sunday is going to be phenomenal - I can gaurantee that.

Possibility because they were called in for extra training? As unfortunate as it is for the players not to attend the schools etc I am very glad if this is true that they have been called in for extra training.

I agree that it is a shame that some Aberdeen fans may miss out on a ticket however I feel like they made a good decision which could have a bad affect. I am glad that Aberdeen fans are not housed above our support because of the possible issues that may have arised but with this decision it's seeing Aberdeen fans attempting to buy tickets in our end which depending on how they conduct themselves could be fine or might not be. We've seen Celtic fans be in the north stand which they'd been ejected so with this being higher profile it will be more interesting to say the least.

For me I hope we do what Yogi said when he joined the club - "Business as usual" Brill Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Foran Vincent Doran Ross Williams Mckay Siege Menatality etc.

I let my post match frustrations out yesterday on the match thread and having to sleep over it, I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. I think we should take the Ross County approach and say our season is starting this week. Wednesday night is a massive opportunity of firstly cementing our place in the top 6 and getting one over on the ex manager. Sunday is going to be a great day out for one and all, regardless of what the result is going to be we have to give massive credit to our players and management staff (past and present) for getting ICT there in the first place who fought tooth and nail vs Dundee United and Hearts to get there. A couple weeks back I was annoyed at the fact that we are playing 4 days before a cup final but after yesterday I am really glad because it's a chance to get yesterday out of the systems and gain that bit of confidence for Sunday.

Not trying to incinerate anything - but isn't this tally a bit suspicious? Last November alone he dished out around 20 yellow and 7 reds !! Perhaps he had toothache that month... There was another stat going about that 2 referees had given 2 red cards between them in 46 games. What I don't understand is why isn't the SPFL commenting on this, there's too much of an imbalance.

Just found this link on Willie Collum. Adding today's Red Cards that takes him to 14 Red cards! http://www.soccerbase.com/referees/referee.sd?referee_id=966

I was one of the fans that was crying out for Butcher to make it a 4-4-2 formation because of the players we had at our disposal and they weren't getting used. Things were made harder for Yogi admittedly with the departure of Toby Agdestein and Curtis Allen but we haven't replaced them which has left us in the lurch of strikers and this is part of the consequences. During the Butcher reign I thought Billy Mckay kept getting isolated up front on his own a fair bit and credit to Yogi for seeing that and amending it but for me Richie Foran up front with Billy Mckay isn't the answer and unfortunately Yogi got the tactics wrong today which is seeing him get stick. Richie Foran's best postition is holding the midfield, fighting for every ball and driving the team forward and we missed that today.