Yngwie

36 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

When you are forced to shop at Poundland

Not even that. We rake in the bins round the back of Poundland these days!

3 hours ago, STFU said:

There are very few options available to fans to hold the decision makers accountable and by few I mean one...direct action.

Tell us more.

I’m struggling to think of many direct free kicks we’ve scored in recent years. Having to go back as far as Barry Robson for the last player I can recall who you could trust to either score or at least make the keeper work hard.

I see we now have the 2nd best defensive record in the league, after Utd. But we have also the 2nd worst goal scoring record too, just above Arbroath. And it won’t surprise anyone at all that our games have had fewer goals than any other team in the league.

I didn’t see today as a ‘must win’ but it was absolutely a ‘must not lose’. Brilliant result.

59 minutes ago, dougal said:

This might not be a popular opinion with some but i feel it needs to be said I don’t think anyone in a sane mind would set up a monthly direct debit to a  football club that has been a financial catastrophe for years. 
This is the same club that still owns  numerous local businesses money after the concert fiasco if I’m not mistaken. Will this extra income go to paying off the debt?

Maybe the trust need to expand further where this extra money should go or be directed towards? 

There is no DD to the club. My understanding is that the ST would build up funds that it can then give to the club at it’s discretion, which could be linked to conditions on the use of the funds or on better fan representation.

The club doesn’t owe anyone anything for the concerts as far as I know.

As for the Trust getting a board member, it’s all about being represented having a say in the boardroom. To say it’s pointless is like saying it’s pointless having opposition MPs/MSPs because they can’t change anything on their own, but it is still a good thing to be able to have a say and apply pressure.

I see Neil McCann has lost an appeal against HMRC regarding a tax bill of £190,000. It all related to him working as a pundit for Sky for a few years before his time with us, where he was being paid up to £130,000 a year but through his own company rather than as an employee of Sky. Lots of people in the media have been challenged by HMRC on this sort of arrangement and in simple terms I think McCann lost because he was working exclusively for Sky rather than being a true freelancer.

26 minutes ago, Bridge_Ender said:

Doubt that there are many, if any, football clubs that operate successfully purely on football activities. Be it retail, sponsorship, leasing, alternative investments or whatever. All are used to feed the football operation. In the absence of those, property makes sense.

They talk elsewhere about Conferencing facilities. I’d imagine that there is plenty scope for these sort of activities (done properly) to potentially drive significant revenue. 

I was told recently that St Johnstone make half a million a year from their function suites because they are next door to the only crematorium in the region. There was a time in years gone by when they would rent the stadium our for a week every summer for a national convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses which would have been pretty lucrative too but they eventually went elsewhere.

The bit that troubled me most from the ICTST update is that because of the delays caused by the battery farm having to go to appeal, the £3.4m seems to be off the table even if planning permission is obtained and a new buyer will have to be found, no doubt for a lower sum. 

Notable that McGregor was overlooked again, Longstaff and Doran being preferred from the bench.

Attempts on goal 14-1 is a pretty impressive stat. Have we improved or was it because we were playing a really poor side?

FT 2-1. Phew!

We are better than Arbroath, we can win this and set our sights on 8th place.

For context, Dodds averaged 1.50 in his time with us.

18 hours ago, old caley girl said:

Suspect we didn't appeal when reviewed? 

Appeal successful!

34 minutes ago, Robert said:

There have been rumours about Billy Mckay wanting to move on at the end of the season, but I’ve no idea if there is any substance to them, hopefully not.

Interesting. I had actually been wondering if Billy’s contract could be a bit of a millstone around our neck next season, with him presumably being our highest paid player by a long way, but not really providing us with the goals that we would have expected when we gave him that contract.

On 3/28/2024 at 9:28 PM, Yngwie said:

Cameron Ferguson has signed for Forres, who thanked ICT for making this possible - not exactly sure what we did other than have him on trial for a few weeks.

Had a look to see how Ferguson got on for Forres today but he wasn’t in the squad after getting injured in training yesterday. Where it gets interesting is that it happened when training with ICT despite having signed for Forres and having nothing to do with us officially.

The stats aren’t actually bad for a match away to the side in 3rd place, and with us a man down for half an hour!

A goal down and now Kerr sent off.  

Hoping, more than expecting, was the impression I got. Does bar work for income these days.

We are so unpredictable this season, losing when you expect us to win but then getting points when you wouldn’t expect us to.

3-1 to us.

Not unexpected after he went off last week, but very bad news all the same. I guess we’ve seen the last of him. 

The press are describing it as a little known technicality (if he had played for a Scottish U21 side it would not have counted towards the 2 senior club limit), but yes it was a waste of everyone’s time having him here if the hope was that he could be part of the squad this season.

It might turn out though that next season he is the best striker we can afford.

Ah OK. He can’t sign for a senior club this season because he has already played for 2 senior clubs this season - Forfar and a 10 minute sub appearance for Newcastle U21s who are classed as a senior club under English FA rules.

On 3/8/2024 at 10:15 AM, RiG said:

He struggled to get game time because he was, according to some Forfar fans, one of the worst players they have ever seen and described as a "dumpling" by others. This is a very bizarre move. 

Cameron Ferguson has signed for Forres, who thanked ICT for making this possible - not exactly sure what we did other than have him on trial for a few weeks.