You mean Azad Video.

But it has to be the correct right-hand man. I don't know if he was pals with SG before he appointed him, or if SG just talked a really good game at the interview process, but a quick google search, even back then would have provided a ton of info from his time in Dundee and at Hearts. That should have given pause for thought and/or a sense that he would give the guy a chance but there had to be oversight .... Clearly we do not need a CEO in the current league, and certainly not this CEO. We need someone who will go in, get their hands dirty, listen to opinions and ideas from all sides, be able to evaluate and implement them where they prove to be good, be open to fan engagement and ideas, and capable of working with a team of excellent ICT staff and hopefully volunteers who I believe will be chapping at the door if we reverse the Kelty cock-up and divest ourselves of the CEO. This is in my opinion the only (and the cheapest) way to get us back on the right track. We have great supporters, many of whom have a diverse and under-utilised skill set because they have been regarded with suspicion and derision for so long. Recognise the talent, pull together and get us back up where we can be. A bag of balls and a sack of half-time oranges?

Iain Vigurs (now 36) released by Cove, having played just 29 minutes this season.

They have to take responsibility for our club as custodians surely.

I'm intrigued as to what input the board have had in the decision making process over the last few years - have they gone along willingly, were they sold 'a pup' too or are they part of the problem? Chairman & CEO are after all acting on behalf of the board.

I'd ask for the bicycle from their trophy room ... after all success comes in cycles .. and they can have all our unsold orange strips from the club shop + Gardiner

Some how I think we’d have to pay them to take him off our hands

I,ll respond in a minute.....once Ive sharpened my quill

I see that a vacancy arose today at Rangers for a CEO. Just imagine if they want our very own Scot Gardiner. What should the transfer fee be?!

I agree it's sickening that Gardiner & Morrison, in progressing the move south are effectively enabling a vanity project for Ferguson next season with promises of a group of as yet unknown footballing mercenaries who can lead Caledonian Thistle Wanderers to the promised land. The alternative, the prioritising of home grown talent alongside league one status for a number of seasons if necessary until a winning team is formulated on a budget will not satisfy Ferguson, Morrison or Gardiner the short term outcomes they individually crave. After listening to Morrison it'a clear he has been sold a pup & has allowed stronger personalities to bulldoze their ideas through. Personalities who care nothing about the area, the people or lets be honest the club which is just a convenient vehicle to underpin their career ambitions.

The podcast was very good. The Chairman is in many respects sincere in supporting ICT FC as you would expect. However, he is absolutely bogged down with fingers in many pies. On the Club website they write ' ROSS MORRISON CHAIRMAN Ross has a background working in the financial sector prior to setting up a property development company. He has interests in the whisky industry as well as owning several public houses, offices, shops and residential properties. Ross has a very deep and longstanding devotion to Inverness Caley Thistle, through thick and thin, having supporting Inverness Thistle from 1974 with his allegiance shifting to ICTFC in 1994. Ross is passionate about his cars, plays five a side football and has a gym membership which he uses sometimes!' If you Google him you discover that he has multiple active Directorships. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/IzQsY6lLw0n4CPAvlJPtNe0iR80/appointments To me that explains why he has become dependent on a day to day Chief Executive. Am not sure he could operate without his right hand man.

I think I was in the same pub lol. I too thought that was as far as we could go. And so it proved. That great team went it's separate ways in search of a better wage and who wouldn't to be fair. We lost the momentum of the Cup win and entered the downward spiral with no brakes. I listened to the latest pod. Those guys do a fantastic job and I'm sorry I haven't listened to them more during the season. I congratulate them on the RM interview. I think you have to feel for the guy [RM]. A true Invernesian who's pride must be in tatters. However, surely he has the power to get rid of those that are dragging this club down..no? As for DF - I am 100% certain we will not get out of League 1 with him in charge. No chance. He hasn't got a clue. So, DF, prove me wrong.

Sounds like a Scot Gardiner quote circa 2012

I remember sitting in a Glasgow bar that night feeling quite depressed despite what we’d just achieved - I thought this was it, the pinnacle of our achievements, the best we could probably ever be and it would never be quite as good again. It would have been no surprise to anyone if we didn’t win a major trophy for another decade, or flirt with relegation to the Championship a few times like County, however, I could never have dreamed that we could fall from grace so far, so quickly and so easily. In essence eventually ruined by one selfish, inept and incompetent idiot while others we trusted with the safe running of our club turned their heads the other way. Ross Morrison has to accept responsibility for his part in allowing Gardiner the freedom to cause so much pain and damage. The evidence is overwhelming, you have an opportunity Ross to take the first steps in putting things right, sack Gardiner now! No further delays or excuses, just get on with it and maybe you’ll find you come out of this in a far better place than where you find yourself today.

P&J https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/inverness-caledonian-thistle/6487264/ex-caley-thistle-chairman-alan-savage-provides-key-cash-for-academy/

Where is the confirmed news about Savage?

I love Alan Savage

Who’d have thought on this day 9 years ago where we would be and what we’d be discussing today! How we’ve fallen in that time.

Alan Savage saves the youth academy.

I totally agree but as as mod you should put in a few ****

Just been doing a wee simple arithmetic exercise. Ross Morrison says we will save £300k by going to Kelty. Given what I spend on season ticket, cup game tickets, sponsorship etc a season multiplied by , say, 700 who are not going to renew season tickets gives approx £500k. Throw in a £100k salary which we don’t need. Problem solved. Just saying…..

Find out where Gardiner gets his hair cut & stick a poster outside calling for his head. That should make him think twice about going in ..

what about 8-Track and phonograph?

Not fair enough. He's trying to prove he's not a complete failure so he can get another job. So far, he's unemployable after two relegations. A promotion might make him saleable again. We've seen enough. Any decent manager would have got us well out of relegation by not playing 5 at the back and a midfield made up of another defender and our leading striker, whilst sidelining Samuels and Rory. Ferguson was our biggest problem.

And the video is available on betamax from blockbuster