AlexJones

Thought we outplayed Celtic for long spells in the game but didn't get the breaks in front of goal. We were also on the end of some dodgy decisions, in particular Story being wrongly flagged for offside when clean through on the keeper. Good performances all round. Polworth continues to impress. Meekings did pretty well at right back, can see him having a wee run there. Vincent looks back to form. Celtic were rubbish bar an outstanding opener from McGregor. I reckon even the Barnes era Celtic team would drub this one. Definitely going backwards under Delia and Collins. Usually anything you take from them is a bonus, not anymore. One minor complaint. How much had the matchday sponsor had to drink when they picked their MOTM?

Fon Williams Horner Warren Meekings Williams Tansey Draper Polworth Vincent Sutherland Storey

Agree that it would be very cynical of the club to terminate his contract over this, especially after the man has uprooted his family and moved over from Spain to sign for us. There is a precedent with Richie Hart's contract termination, but IIRC the club were excessively 'trigger happy' at that time, punting club legends left, right and centre as part of the Brewster project. We failed to replace Hart and co adequately and were relegated shortly thereafter - karma perhaps. We didn't rip up Owain Tudor Jones contract after he threw a punch at a Killie player, or Tokely's when he chinned Steven McGarry. Butcher even joked that ICT would avoid relegation if we racked up as many league points as Tokely's disciplinary points. Can't speak for anyone else, but if I had to choose between being punched in the face by Ross Tokely or spat on by Dani Lopez, I would choose the latter every time. It's hard to fathom how spitting can be deemed a more serious offence than assault. I'm hoping the club show a bit of human decency, and give the man a chance to redeem himself.

Did he miss the target? In all seriousness, if true, this is pretty poor craic. Would be interested to hear the context also, i.e. had the opponent just assaulted him in some way? This wouldn't be the first time an Inverness player has been pulled up for this offence. I remember Paul Cherry getting sent off for doing the same thing to a Cowdenbeath player many moons ago.

Is this one of those petty battle of wills that businessmen often engage in, whereby they refuse to be the one who initiates contact for fear of appearing lower status than / beholden to - the other party? Sounds like both sides are playing hardball and waiting for the other to pick up the phone. Very poor craic! Everyone should sit down with a bottle of single malt and get this deal done ASAP.

The referee got the penalty re-take spot on (no pun intended). When Tansey strikes the ball a Motherwell player has encroached so far into the box he's in line with the penalty spot. What a mug. Certainly fortunate from Tanseys perspective getting a second bite of the cherry. But Well have no-one to blame but themselves for gifting it to him. McGhee up to his usual clown routine post match I see. Makes the result even sweeter. Shame we seem to have picked up 3 injuries. Seems to be a recurring theme playing against Motherwell. Thought they looked a dirty team last time out, breaking Warrens leg and putting in some shocking challenges on Mutombo. Good time for an international break. Vigurs goal was world class. Reminds us what he's capable of.

It's not often you see Charlie Christie towering above someone. Have to come to the defence of the cult hero that is 'Deano'. For a diminutive guy, he got absolutely stuck in and gave 100% every time he was on the pitch. It's not his fault a manager signed him then never gave him a chance. Imagine uprooting a guy, bringing him all the way up to the Highlands, seeing him impress in pre-season - then completely freezing him out without so much as a run of competitive games. He didn't put a foot wrong. If anything his run here reflects worse on the club than it does on the player.

Typical Daily Record Story - made up on the back of a cigarette packet. What have either of those managers done to be linked to bigger jobs? If anything, you'd have to say Stubbs is on a shoogly peg after last seasons embarrassing capitulations in the play-offs and SC semis. Warburton has a massive club at the top of a league which contains the likes of Alloa, Dumbarton and Livi. His nearest challengers include Falkirk and Raith Rovers. In their only meeting with an SPL side they were comprehensively drubbed at home. At best you could call Warburton competent relative to his predecessor.

Polworth has been one of our best performers recently IMO. Vigurs I agree hasn't contributed much but he's been played out of position. Would like to see him more involved in the final phase where he's at his best.

Thought we were miles ahead of Dundee before the red card. For all their spending in the transfer market they actually look a worse team this season. Good to see the referee awarding us a ridiculously soft penalty to level things up after giving one to Dundee at the other end. Hard lines for Dave the Rave who was basically sent off for standing his ground when a ball came into the box. Some very weak officiating on display today. When Dundee appealed for a decision loud enough, they got it. Good to see Warren back! Gaining some man points for returning from a broken leg faster than most players come back from a pulled muscle. Soccer Am should send 'hard man' expert Danny Dyer up to do a feature on him.

The Caldwell brothers performance against Norway was so calamitous it inspired a 'chuckle brothers' meme on social media.

A bit harsh that. Wedderburn is a crisp passer when I've seen him. He tends to keep it simple and has a pretty decent PSP, something that couldn't be said of many of our lads for the first 75 minutes last night. He's also only 24 and inexperienced so playing him is an investment in the future, as we've seen with Polworth who's coming on leaps and bounds with a run of first team games.

Disagree with those who are unconcerned about the League Cup. That might have been the case in the 1st round, but if we'd won last night we'd be only 1 game away from another major final. I know technically the League Cup is the 'wee' cup, but seeing as we've already got the 'big' cup in the trophy cabinet, I'd rather we won something we haven't had before to complete the set (1 Challenge Cup, 1 Scottish Cup, 1 League Cup).

Tonight we pretty much carried on where we'd left off against Saints. We had no width, no runners, no overloads, no space and low energy. Our game consisted of easy, negative passes around our own half and we were extremely slow to adapt when County's pressing kept resulting in turnovers of possession in dangerous areas. In fact we only adapted when we were 2-0 down. At that point the rigid, negative, predictable, unproductive tactics went out the window and the players started to play with much more freedom, resulting in more attacking moves and chances than we'd created in the previous 4 hours of football. With Aberdeen and Sevco already out, and either Hearts or Celtic to follow, this was a golden opportunity to reach another final. What a waste. Hopefully lessons learned tonight. Vigurs and Tansey sit far too deep in possession and need to push up the park when we have the ball. Neither one of them is defensively good enough to play the Draper role. Our back 4 were exposed again and again. Our midfield is unbalanced when both of them play. This was our undoing (along with our negativity in possession) tonight. It was a carbon copy of the Hamilton game in this respect. County were winning too many 50-50s and second balls.

Some harsh words spoken on this thread. Emotions obviously running high, not surprising after a mugging like that. Basically we played Saints off the pitch for the majority of the match and came away with nothing. We could and should have 6 points against them this season, as it is we have 1. That's football sometimes. The only criticism that I agree with was our inability to translate an extra man and 70% possession into any decent efforts at goal. Our build up play was unnecessarily intricate and long winded. When your opponents are camped in their own half and playing for a draw - they're happy for you to dominate possession and knock the ball around in your own half. Instead of trying to score the perfect goal we should have shown much more urgency and directness. The more balls you play into the box, even bad ones, the better odds of one finally breaking your way and ending up in the net. As it was, we never asked any questions of an underperforming Saints defence. Ironically, the closest we came was from a long ball over the top to Story, who easily outpaced Shaughnessy and Anderson only to lob over the bar.

So Thompson has gone for the cheap option? In retrospect, this should have been the obvious outcome all along!

Galling that he wasn't even on the bench for the Poland game. Just shows you what a closed shop the Scotland team is. In contrast, Northern Ireland regularly pick lads from clubs like ICT, Kilmarnock and Hamilton Accies. They won their group comfortably. Scotland finished a distant fourth.

If he was serious about being a manager why hasn't he been in the dugout during his injury spell? You would also expect him to have done his coaching certificates already. He's had virtually a year off. If he hasn't used that time productively, that should rule him out of the running straight off the bat.

United may have the third highest budget in the league but they also have one of the worst squads in the league, so a new manager will have to wait a couple of years to get the duds off the wagebill before the rebuilding can start in earnest. By then Sevco and Hibs will be back into the SPL, other clubs will have progressed, and the landscape will have changed. This is an inauspicious time to move there.

Marius Șumudică. (FC Astra manager)

Seems that United are going for Tommy Wright at this moment but I wonder if they can't snare him would they look again at Hughes? In the meantime why don't we offer the guy (and some of the players) contracts instead of running the risk of losing players and managers for buttons like we have done in the past. You're going to feel pretty foolish when Scotland leaves the pound and buttons become our de facto currency.

As good as Yogi's results have been for us, let's not forget that the team was already assembled before he got here. If he'd had to build from scratch, would he have been so successful? There's no doubt that we have improved under his stewardship, but how much of that improvement would have come no matter who was in charge? Young players generally get better with age and experience and most of our players were in their early and mid twenties and yet to peak. Those players were already competing at the top of the league and getting to the later stages of cups under Butcher. The absence of Rangers, Hearts and Hibs, and auspiciously timed collapse of United and Motherwell also worked in our favour. There are so many factors behind success and failure in football. Simply crediting or blaming the manager is too simplistic. This isn't an attempt to discredit Yogi Hughes achievements. His record speaks for itself. But credit must be shared. Butcher, Malpas, Marsella and the mythical 'talent agency' built the squad. Duncan Shearer and Scott Kellacher steadied the ship. The board sifted through a wad of applications and bravely picked the unfashionable Yogi Hughes against prevailing opinion, then Russell Latapy. The players grafted hard to a man and did the business on the pitch when it mattered. It's a team game at the end of the day and everyone at the club has played their part. To me the clearest reason for Yogi to stay is purely for football reasons. All the foundations are in place now and his work is baring fruit. His philosophy / blueprint has finally been achieved. Previous clubs didn't give him the time, previous players didn't take it on board. Fans laughed when he spoke about emulating Barcelona. Not anymore. Last year Yogi Hughes finally reached the Guardiola-esque football Utopia he's always been striving for. The question shouldn't be whether he can go back to square 1, start again, and repeat it in a radically different environment with another clubs players. The question should be, now that his philosophy has been successfully bedded in at a club - how far can he take it? There's plenty of time to go and start over somewhere else further down the line. He's onto something special at Inverness. These could be the best years of his career. If he walked away now, he might look back and wonder what might have been.

I reckon Newport is probably his last chance saloon. If he bombs there I can't see him being offered a job at that level again. You can't even call his managerial record 'chequered' anymore. The best you could say is 'one hit wonder'. Why is it that so many apparently dismal managers seem to excel in Inverness? Pele, Robbo, Brewster #1, Butcher, and you could even include Yogi given how low his stock had fallen before he was appointed. It's baffling. Anyways, would love to see our former 'leader' back in Scottish football as a media personality. Can see him rustling plenty of jimmies and shaking things up in contrast to the obsequious wet blankets who currently occupy the mic. Come home Terry!

Butcher started all this tosh about Foran taking over as manager. I understand why, dangling a carrot to keep a (then) key player at the club, and also talking up his buddy (or 'co-dependant' as our resident psychologist would say). But from the clubs point of view, it's a terrible idea. He has zero managerial experience of any kind at any level. It's a recipe for disaster. Jobs for the boys might be business as usual at Highland League level, but we're a Premier League club now.