The chairman writes of 'unity' and 'continued and valued support', yet the club constantly conducts itself in a secretive manner and withholds simple information, such as JR's gardening leave - which we later find out about anyway via an Edinburgh news article!?! What is shocking in every action/inaction/decisions the club takes is the complete disdain it has for its own fans! We're mugs!!

It’s a statement that has more questions than answers sadly. I really hope this restructure is going to benefit the club and secure our future and not just benefit certain individuals. Youth is the way forward.

The current management team did not want a sporting director making decisions about the signing of players etc, so he was removed so DF and GB could make those decisions themselves.

Gardiner et al clearly have a degree of business kudos. Pity it's all about lining the pockets of his mates like Robbo!! Shame none of it is in the interests of 'standard' ICT employees or for the good of ICT. Pure poisonous ideology on his / their behalf.

When you terminate someone’s employment, you absolutely do not want them hanging around like a bad smell. The duration of it shocks me though, 7 months to the day. This seems unlikely to have been his contractual notice period, so either it was higher and they negotiated a compromise, or the club offered more than the contractual minimum, but I can’t think why they would do that when the club was short of money. All very odd and a question that should be asked at the next opportunity.

An abortion of a statement which easily could have gone out right after the game. Puting this nonsense out stalls them time and they hope the unrest will simply go away. Staying full time I guess is still a positive but we will be in the third tier so wages will be very low safe to expect a fresh group of loans and jobbers incoming. The route we are going down is not sustainable. Dougal

Be careful. Quite a few people came at me for boycotting spending my money with the club over the past season.

The big question is why did the club put him on gardening leave? We were constantly told he was doing important work with various things including the new football development up by the IRA. Even if he wasn't doing that then even if he was just answering phones or serving in the shop we could/would have got some value out of him. And to think that some people were using his departure to defend the current regime for sensible cost cutting.

It beggars belief that he is still on the payroll. You got to wonder what other unknown secrets lie in between the walls of the dump? Dougal

So you realised that your actions were counter productive and you and all the neds should not have entered the field of play? We got there in the end Dougal

Bannerman and his ilk would allow us to merge with anyone if they saw personal gain on the horizon. He’s already put it out there in the local press but back tracked immediately when he realised the outraged backlash he got from same article. Morale of the story Do not trust the weasel!!! Dougal

A phoenix club playing in the HL is necessary and look at rebuilding sustainably. Merging 2 clubs with constant debts and being financed by others (with one fully funded by a single aging individual) doesnt look like a master stroke either.

Yes, but you should see their gardens!

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/inverness-caledonian-thistle/6477269/caley-thistle-chairman-confirms-relegated-club-will-remain-full-time/ "It’s understood a meeting took place on Tuesday to discuss with non-playing staff the impact of relegation on their roles" That maybe explains why we haven't heard anything regarding the dud CEO and managers so hopefully we get information on them very soon . I also understand that we can't make any knee jerk decisions but tbh the feeling of fans should be a telling factor for Ross Morrison, especially the fact lots will refuse to renew season tickets if these duds aren't removed!

The club has never been very forthcoming about ST sales although I think Scott Young may have given a figure recently at a Supporters Trust meeting. I think it was somewhere in the region of 1300 but hopefully someone can give a more accurate figure. Inevitably there will be some who will not renew in any case, simply because we are slipping down a level . Also, I assume there will be a price reduction at the lower level. So, for the sake of argument, if the average ticket price was £250 and 1000 people bought season tickets, there would be an income of £250k from season tickets. I have always been in the camp of saying that a boycott would harm the club. I'm really not so sure now. There are clearly a lot of people saying they will not renew whilst the CEO remains in post. Collectively we have the power to withhold his wages till he is gone. Hopefully the Board will come to their senses before a boycott is necessary but if not, a season ticket boycott could be a powerful tool to knock some sense into them.

I expect the restructuring to consist of getting rid of things and people who are good for the club and retaining those responsible for getting us into this mess. It's time for the other directors to make a stand and prove me wrong.

I am not chased or woo-ed by anything. I've lived in the London area for 45 years, and I still support my home town club. And I hope that I can continue to do so for many years to come. But faced with the choice of progress, as happened 30 years ago, or survival/oblivion, as could happen soon, which would you choose?

Not that long ago I was loyal to my own team and then it merged with one of its oldest rivals to produce a team which eventually did very well in a higher league and so to get my football fix I ****d off to the Longman to enjoy the Caley Thistle project. With your flaky logic I suppose that makes me a glory hunter!

Have we stopped paying Hughes and Foran yet?!

Yes

The reality is that (I imagine) we currently cannot pay Ferguson off. Unless he agrees to go he is staying and we have to build next season and like it or not. I think we go for it next season to win league one and if he isn’t producing after 6-8 games he will walk. Gardner on the other hand… who knows how, what and how long he is being paid for…

What a pathetic statement and it took a whole 72 hours to come up with all that dribble .Great about staying full time Thats a plus but unless the useless failure of the CEO gets away from our club there is going to be a very empty stadium and following . Not hearing any support for Gardiner . He is the core of all that is wrong with our club and has to be pushed. Failure after Failure with him at the helm . What’s the next failure coming from him . Rumoured to be on 100k a year . At 10k a year it would be too much . Are fans going to renew season tickets knowing some of that money is going towards paying his wages ? Won’t be my money that’s for sure .

Daft question perhaps given ghe lack of financial transparency in recent times but do we have any insight on ST sales projection vs actuals within the clubs budget for full time status during 23/24 ? Irrespective of whether we do or don't that is one imperative, along with boycotting official club merchandise, we as a collective can utilise to drive home the demand for change at the top highlighted in the excellent trust statement. The fan base need to consider rallying to make the club sit up and take note how many long term supporters do not intend to renew (or if ex ST holders return) unless they agree to fall on their swords (metaphorically of course) A list if it could somehow be collated would have more impact than individual emails. To those who say this is harming the club I would contest do we shock the patient in the hope of a positive response or await the inevitable. I purchased a ticket for the covid season to support the club because I was lucky enough to be able to & never saw a ball kicked in anger whilst it is now apparent Gardiner bedded in his authoritarian regime back stage. Those at the top have subsequently taken the goodwill of the dwindling fan base post covid as a given whilst completely taking it for granted. They have fixated on vanity projects, disappeared repeatedly down rabbit holes, mis representing OUR club in the process and completely taking their eye of the nuts and bolts of running OUR football club. Now they issue this statement after 72 hours of radio silence. Talk about not reading the room. Renew our hope & we'll renew our commitment.. Rant ends

Aye Robert we are all in the same boat and it looks like it will be the same Captain and crew sailing the same course unfortunately. I will wait and see what further announcements are made later in the week.

Of course he is, jobs for the boys. Milk the club for all they can. We supported him through a difficult time and he repayed us by stealing a wage and hopping over to Victoria Park every chance he could, even if we were playing. Apparently great at cutting the grass by the IRA though