Laurence

Team Awards my Team is in the Play offs Won 13 out of the 14 match ups http://fantasy.nfl.com/1532065/league

England will definitely lose to Italy The goal difference will be a major factor A win and a draw in the other two matches may not be enough. If Italy and Uruguay draw England are out/

Got to be Boo Boo Or the Park Ranger

I spoke to my daughter yesterday on the phone.( she lives in Brighton) I mentioned ICT had signed Hughes as the new manager. She said that's a surprise, he hasn't been at Stoke long" I had to smile

Well we have Yogi now who will be Boo Boo?

Ender - I was down your way this week end gone - Ormskirk Southport ( To see the 60s bands The Searchers and Jerry and the Pacemakers amongst others ) , glad to get home though, It's nice down there , but not as nice as here.

The Internet being down ( not able to process my Xmas sales) , I decided to play my football manager game The first headline I saw was Hughes sacked by Torquay , I hope it is not an Omen My wife says a 70 year old should not be playing games. But I love it Who cares I think Hughes is as good a choice as we could get. I don't suppose we pay the big wages. needed to get a really big star. In the game Aston Villa are paying me £49,000 a week. ( If only ) I bet that's fairly standard in the Premier League down there. Hughes will be lucky to get that for a year. The Celtic match at the end of the year will be a big test for John I am sure he will rise to the occasion. I am sure we will all be helping the team from the stands.

Or bonfire night when your expecting one last massive boom as you know its coming to the end and then.... is that it? Or when you strike up an online relationship with the girl of your dreams, for weeks you spend every waking moment looking forward to the time when you can actually meet up and fulfil your relationship, then when the time comes it actually turns out to be a fat middle aged man called Nigel with a combover and poor personal hygiene, but you kind of feel obliged to go along with it and make the best of the situation. No wait..... Fantastic post ( Ronnie Barker will never die )

http://www.nononsensefootball.com/hughes-leaves-hartlepool/ Who cares about the Hartlepool job, They were doing rubbish when he took over and he couldn't manager to steer them away from relegation. Butcher took over half way through the season and got us relegated, why give a manager 6 months? Its clubs like that who will always struggle to be as stable as teams like ICT Jeff cares.

http://www.nononsensefootball.com/hughes-leaves-hartlepool/

I thought his assistant was Boo-boo ? If he's smarter than the average coach he'll do

JOHN HUGHES is among the names being linked with the Inverness Caley Thistle hotseat. The former Falkirk and Hibs manager has been out of work since leaving Hartlepool in May after failing to prevent relegation to League Two. It is understood there has been communication between the two parties as the Highlanders seek to piece together a shortlist of candidates for interviews next week. But with so many names linked with the post Inverness don’t expect to reveal Terry Butcher’s successor soon. In fact they have revealed that youth coaches Duncan Shearer and Scott Kellachar are being primed to take charge of first-team matters next weekend. Hughes aside, Kenny Shiels, Csaba Laszlo, George Burley, Craig Levein, John Robertson and Paul Hartley have all been linked with the post, while the club revealed yesterday that applications had been received from as far afield as Italy, Spain and South America. Inverness chairman Kenny Cameron said: “We’ve been inundated with applications for the job. Contrary to suggestions, there is no deadline for applying. “The board has decided to take its time and no one has been contacted yet about the vacancy. We will focus on drawing up a shortlist at some point next week before setting about conducting interviews. *** Not good enough for Hartlepool United yet our best shot. Blinkin eck **

I heard Buster Keeton , Chergar and Rin Tin Tin were in the running Only one winner there Lord Lucan turned the job down Maybe after yesterdays sackings three more hopefuls may apear

Regarding the comments on Watkins I have which is "my wont to be", controversial. I have watch wing play since 1949 and I was a winger myself many,many, moons ago. Not keen on touch line hugging wingers. It's very old fashioned concept The modern idea is to have right or left sided midfielders who work in support and defence. ( known as box to box midfielders ) The idea is to have overlapping fullbacks or wing backs . I feel that wingers that hang around waiting for a pass is a very specialised job. These players need good positional sense and extreme pace. . So unless you have a Valencia, Giggs, Lennon or Wallcott. I feel we should stick to a working right or left midfielders working with overlapping fullbacks. Sometimes a winger doing little defensive work is a bit like playing with 10 men.

Nick Ross took a smack to the face which resulted in a broken tooth and a burst lip, but he was in good spirits after the game and a dentist somewhere's about to make a few quid. Completely off Topic I see the incomparable Carl Froch did a bit of mouth thumping tonight

Did you not think Foran was running the show ? I felt he went over to sort out the substitution, Foran in his anchor man role is getting more and more like Vinny Jones every match Tremendous performance from the skipper

Not a bad result though for a rudderless ship ;-) I think the understatement of the financial year I see Foran had to go over and sort out the substitution. he was definitely the man at the wheel

Tomorrow we play one of our greatest rivals, without a rudder on the ship. It will not do.

A new managers will have to improve the bench , We cant expect the first 11 to play the whole of the season.

For goodness sake Will the board pull their finger out and appoint a manager The Queen Mother in her castle once sang " Why are we waiting " when her dinner was not on time Time we got a manager, all this phissing about is getting me down for one

phonetic bad spelling is my middle name, I am old

I won't boo Butcher Returning heroes don't always get booed. When Strachan returned to Man U with Leeds he was booed off the ground, I felt was a bit harsh. When Sammy McElroy returned to Old Trafford with Bury in a cup match he got a standing ovation. When Dave Beasant took the field at Wimbledon for Southampton the ground rose as one man and cheered him all the way to the Southampton goal. Mind you he did win the FA cup for them with his penalty save against Liverpool. Personal choice at the end of the day.

I suppose his scouting notes are the intellectual property of ICT but it depends on his contract. Scouts I suppose are on some sort of retainer.

Nail on the head. Managers are expensive. On top of that we are far north not everybody's cup of tea if you live in the south. Being 2 and a hafts hours drive north of Edinburgh must put a lot off. I think we are just a stepping stone. Low wage and poor facilities to quote Butcher, will not attract the likes of Levine . I really think we have to look locally, maybe not too far away. I have no animosity to Terry and Maurice they have served Inverness well. they deserve a chance at a more fashionable club.

Hartley Robertson who next? Chivas