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I fully agree that we need another striker coming in. I'd be most interested to see who John Hughes would bring in because I assume he would have a few decent contacts.

Was it Kenny Shiels that signed Toni or Allan Johnstone? Either way it's not worked out for him so I hope he does get a move to Tenerife.

Brill Shinnie Meekings Warren Tremarco Polworth Williams Doran Ross Greenhalgh* Mckay * Watkins instead if fit to play.

Garry O'Connor has signed for Greenock Morton. Could be a good signing for them.

He got one in the abandoned game v County which counts so he has six. As mentioned above this suspension kicks in two weeks after the 6th yellow card so he misses the Aberdeen (A) match. Do cup yellow cards count?

Our previous manager abandoned us and our most influential player decides to give the fans stability and signs a three year deal to commit to the club - yeah totally stinks.

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Do you consider regressing 18months + in 5 games a success then? We are regressing? - I despair. I don't know if you're being short sighted but last season we went on a 'slump' where we got one win in eight games. The Ross County game was disappointing but we are certainly not regressing!

Motherwell have extended Lionel Ainsworth loan.

Tidser was one of the best players in the 1st Division last season. Obviously not quite worked out down south. Interesting to see what kind of an impact he makes in the top flight here. I can see Ross County climbing up the table unfortunately. Flip Kiss meant to have joined aswell.

lol If hughes had recently won the second tier european trophy with Aberdeen, I think we'd be prepared to give him a decade to get it right. Man United were not Second when Ferguson took over. What exactly is this John Hughes stamp youre waiting for? Stop trotting utter garbbage, the people will soon be voting with thier feet and Cameron is the one who should pay the price, not Hughes.Cameron has to take full responsibility for this .He had the chance to take on Telfor or Hartley but both carried baggage ie assistants that would need paid and compo . Unfortunately Cameron's decision in appointing John Hughes has been an absolute car crash : you can take cally out of inverness but you can't take inverness out of cally !!! IMHO IIRC one of the newspapers during the managerial saga said essentially that. Hartley was all ready to go, but Cameron changed his mind and switched to Hughes at the eleventh hour.Cheaper option with Cameron telling yogi to appoint an assistant from within the club . Now that he's bombed they might let him bring in an experienced number 2 to try and keep the fans happy . How has he "bombed"? I will let you work that one out mate :-) So after 6 games, you've decided that he's failed - ridiculous thinking.

Ross County have resigned Evangelos Oikonomou on a six month deal and also Michael Tidser on loan from Rotherham.

Supposedly he split with his wife but I don't know when that happened but you're right. His family were still in Scotland when Paul was at Bristol City.

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lol If hughes had recently won the second tier european trophy with Aberdeen, I think we'd be prepared to give him a decade to get it right. Man United were not Second when Ferguson took over. What exactly is this John Hughes stamp youre waiting for? Stop trotting utter garbbage, the people will soon be voting with thier feet and Cameron is the one who should pay the price, not Hughes. Cameron has to take full responsibility for this .He had the chance to take on Telfor or Hartley but both carried baggage ie assistants that would need paid and compo . Unfortunately Cameron's decision in appointing John Hughes has been an absolute car crash : you can take cally out of inverness but you can't take inverness out of cally !!! IMHO IIRC one of the newspapers during the managerial saga said essentially that. Hartley was all ready to go, but Cameron changed his mind and switched to Hughes at the eleventh hour. Cheaper option with Cameron telling yogi to appoint an assistant from within the club . Now that he's bombed they might let him bring in an experienced number 2 to try and keep the fans happy . How has he "bombed"?

lol If hughes had recently won the second tier european trophy with Aberdeen, I think we'd be prepared to give him a decade to get it right. Man United were not Second when Ferguson took over. What exactly is this John Hughes stamp youre waiting for? Stop trotting utter garbbage, the people will soon be voting with thier feet and Cameron is the one who should pay the price, not Hughes. Cameron has to take full responsibility for this .He had the chance to take on Telfor or Hartley but both carried baggage ie assistants that would need paid and compo . Unfortunately Cameron's decision in appointing John Hughes has been an absolute car crash : you can take cally out of inverness but you can't take inverness out of cally !!! IMHO IIRC one of the newspapers during the managerial saga said essentially that. Hartley was all ready to go, but Cameron changed his mind and switched to Hughes at the eleventh hour. There was a lot talk of Paul Hartley having a lot of domestic issues and that's one of the reason that both parties pulled out and I am not sure if the assistant stories are true. I would believe that if Paul Hartley wanted to take his management team with him, he would have got them. John Hughes had been out of the Scottish game for a wee bit. Maybe John Collins wasn't committal to come here and who knows the current state of Brian Rice but I am sure John Hughes will take time and appoint someone who he is happy with and that may be Duncan Shearer.

To say that John Hughes doesn't fit here only after about 4 weeks in charge is really harsh. So, who would have been a better option than John Hughes (Paul Hartley excluded due to reason he declined) that mouthpiece Kenny Shiels or the very inexperienced Paul Telfer. In no way am I happy clapping by being supportive of John Hughes. John Hughes was never my first choice and probably never made my top 10 choices of managers but he is the manager of our football club and as a supporter of the club I am putting aside my thoughts and giving the manager time to bed in with the team and get an understanding with each other. Sure results haven't been pretty on the eyes but give the man time to get his own ideas implemented in the team. The injuries that we currently have are playing a massive part in the results aswell. We really need Richie Foran driving the team forward, we need David Raven at RB because we are conceding a lot of goals from the right hand side and I wouldn't put it past other managers taking heed and getting advantage out of it. We are badly needing James Vincent playing behind Billy Mckay and getting Nick Ross back on the wings where at the start of the season played the best I had seen in a long time. Success won't happen overnight but jesus let John Hughes get in the door first and give him time. Look what happened when we gave Terry Butcher time to gel a team together.

Having a lack of leadership on the park is one thing, but it's the job of the management to motivate the players, whether Foran's in there or not. His absence is no excuse. Richie always ran the show on the pitch. Of course, as I said in my post that I have yet to to see John actually motivate the players from the dugout (only when things went tits up vs County and Aberdeen) Foran's being missed, there's no doubt about that, but not having him there is no reason for the players to be so unmotivated though. They didn't particularly up for it yesterday and haven't really done so since the second half of the Aberdeen game. I haven't seen the heads drop after going a goal down yesterday like that since the Brewster days. Of course, I totally agree but as I said Butcher's departure will have played a massive part of it and maybe leaving it nearly 4 weeks to appoint a manager was too long but I well and truly hope this is a wake up call to players and to management team. You could see how gutted some of the players were to lose the game, with some looking like they lost a major cup final. Regarding Duncan Shearer being assistant, I'm not too sure to be honest. Don't get me wrong he's a decent guy but I just don't think it suits him and John Hughes needs a more experienced No. 2 like Maurice Malpas is to Butcher.

Having a lack of leadership on the park is one thing, but it's the job of the management to motivate the players, whether Foran's in there or not. His absence is no excuse. Richie always ran the show on the pitch. Of course, as I said in my post that I have yet to to see John actually motivate the players from the dugout (only when things went tits up vs County and Aberdeen)

I can tell you what's gone wrong, the players will feel abandoned. The way that Terry left our club would have had a negative effect on the players. Terry rejected Barnsley because he didn't think it was right to leave the club cause of how special it is. The situation with Hibs is identical to the one last January with Barnsley but with the opposite outcome. The players will have felt that when Hibs came calling that he would have had the same thought process. I feel that the unecessary comments towards John Hughes are unjustified - the man has only just got through the door. I can take a defeat and I thought the game vs Celtic we played a positive game and we should have got something out of the game. Yesterday's game and first half vs Aberdeen really hurt me to watch but none of it has been John Hughes' fault. Sure tactically we could have done better but as time goes on John Hughes will gel with the players and vice versa and we can easily get back to winning ways. Things obviously have been made more difficult for John Hughes with the absence of Richie Foran leading and motivating the team. I think John Hughes should look to be a more interactive and motaviting on the dugout as I've yet to see that happening but again I'm positive that will come over time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Rutherford Good at jumping and also sprints! Sounds like a good winger

I don't think he underestimated the Highland Derby, he may have underestimated Ross County - I know I did. I think what yesterday did was prove that form definitely goes out of the window when it comes to derby matches.

I think you might be right but I'm sure we will find out tomorrow in Yogi's pre match interview.

None of them have the strength to be unfortunately. Once James Vincent comes back then things might look a bit more rosier.

Brill Raven Devine* Meekings Shinnie Polworth Williams Doran Ross Greenhalgh** Mckay * if Gary Warren is suspended ** if Marley Watkins can't make it due to injury