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  2. Douglas Mackenzie
    Finally from me,what will Gardiner &co come up with next.Do you think they might change the name of the team to Kelty Thistle. We support Inverness because it's our local team,otherwise I would and could support any team.I thought we were proud to be one of two Highland teams to play in the top Scottish leagues,accepting that our mantle has now slipped a fair bit as we enter division 1
  3. STFU
    Even by Gardiner standards this is off the scale. As someone who doesn't live locally I'm not surprised to see Yngwie trying to justify the club's position. There's been a lot of talk about community and how the club have been alienating themselves in that regard for a few years now. Community is about identity and belonging and a few other things which are hard to quantify in any directly measurable way. However there is also the economic contribution that comes from being part of a community and that to has now been removed. Fans, sponsors, advertisers etc. who are all based locally will now see a sizeable chunk of that money being spent elsewhere by players and staff who are no longer living or spending time here. It's not just another 2 fingers up at the fans, it's another f*ck you to local businesses. The same local businesses they were begging to renew advertising boards early just a few weeks ago as a favour. Way to go ICTFC, f*cking way to go. Now get to f*ck the lot of you.
  4. Stephen Malkmus
    I remember players coming to my school when I was younger and it being really exciting for everyone. And even seeing a player strolling round town was an exciting experience. These sorts of micro experiences that increase the connection between a club and its city over time are important, especially for a relatively young club, and will be lost here.
  5. Yngwie
    I’m sure I’m not the only person hoping to wake up and find that the last 7 days was just a nightmare.
  6. bughtmaster
    I will not support a Central belt football team.
  7. robbylad
    Football is an emotional sport. I'm emotionally invested in the club. It's probably naive to expect all of the players to feel the same as I do but, you can't feel that same connection as me from 130 miles away.
  8. tm4tj
    More information about "Kelty Hearts Training Statement"
    What a farce we have become Did you hear the one about the footbal team from the Highlands of Scotland that want to train at Cowdenbeath? Unfortunately, unlike our board, this is not a joke. Our board are trying to rip our identity from the Highlands and replace it with shared training at Kelty Hearts. I kid you not, this is not a drill and the clowns that run our club appear to be delighted at this coup. “As one major part of our planned strategic restructure of the club, ICTFC are delighted to announce an innovative agreement with League 1 side Kelty Hearts which will see the club move our training base to the Fife club’s New Central Park Stadium. This creative partnership will mean that we will hire their excellent facilities which include a 3g pitch, onsite grass pitches and offices for our coaching staff, as our training base during the week starting from this coming pre-season in June. FULL STATEMENT Once again nobody has listened to the fans, nobody has yet resigned and at this rate nobody will be attending games at the Caledonian Stadium. Do these people take us for fools. Well, obviously the answer is yes. From CTO "I think this has wound me up even more than getting relegated, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. What makes us ICT now? Where's the link to being a community club and getting a better relationship back with the supporters. So now we are a central belt team that visits Inverness to play. Absolute madness!! "Whilst I see an element of sense about this (there are other teams who have similar set ups), I feel for the youth players, who grow up in Inverness and the area and now have to figure out how to travel to Fife for training. "I am struggling to actually compute this, it's simply crazy. But highlights perfectly why change is needed at the top of this club. Think I'll be watching Clach next season. "This is not a result of relegation, it must have been planned for some time. What message does it send to local youngsters, who we should be developing to be our future first team players? Another sad day. "Clach will be looking forward to selling a lot more tickets. Lowest crowds ever at the Caledonian Stadium next season. The beginning of the end. "TBH I think that's me decided - I'll not be renewing my ticket for next season! They've killed the club! "If we move the entire club to Glasgow we might not get relegated ever again. Doesn't mean we should do it. Some things should simply be off the table. The literal point of a football club is to provide a focus for the community it resides in. "This cannot be allowed to happen. Time to empty the club of these clowns and start again. If that means part-time in the Highland League then so be it. Sack the board. "Over the last couple of weeks, my favourite expletive seems to have become the word 'Horsesh*t" and this falls into the biggest pile of it I have seen. ever. How do we get enough people or voting percentage together to force an EGM? This cannot be allowed to happen. It will kill the club completely. Supporters Trust? I thought Gardiner could not top his previous debacles .. Pixellot, the Concert, alienating staff, players and supporters, not to mention relegation but deary me, I underestimated the man. This puts a cherry on top of the whole bloody lot, a really huge bloody cherry! "I still can't believe what I have just read from the chairman. Is he living in different world from the rest of us? I have been a season ticket holder for many years but if this farcical situation is allowed to go ahead then I will definitely not be renewing This could be an interesting meeting. If you have not already done so, pay your fiver and support the Trust. Given the significant concerns voiced by fans about relegation and events within the club, the Supporters Trust is holding a Fans Meeting at 7pm on Tuesday 4 June at the Caley Club. All fans are welcome to attend the meeting, where members of the Supporters Trust Board will lead a discussion on the serious issues facing the club, update on recent activity by the Trust and hear your views on steps the Trust can take at this time. The image contains details of the meeting, including QR codes where you can register to attend the meeting (this is optional), join the Supporters Trust, or make a donation to our Stronger Together initiative.
  9. STFU
    I did (quietly) join the trust a few weeks back. Admittedly it was more out of nosiness and £5 to get any comms from them wasn't a big investment. My hope is that they will now step up to the plate in a more direct manner as they're probably the last hope for fans.
  10. Fraz
    Probably along the lines of "Thanks ICT for financially supporting us this coming season. We're delighted you've never once invested in any facilities yourself in 30 years".
  11. robbylad
    One sure way to kill the club is totally alienate the supporters.
  12. Dan Clark
    I am in utter shock at this statement. What has gone wrong with this club ?. This used to be a club that I was proud of. I think we as fans need to force a change at the helm of this football club. There is no logic or common sense coming from the clueless clowns that are running this club. Maybe the Board should be sent to Kelty for training and not the players.
  13. forresjags
    My thoughts exactly, just seems to bizarre to be just a footballing decision. Has to be more to this than we are being told. Wonder if Kelty Hearts have released a statement yet.
  14. IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER
    Surely the main issue is betrayal as this "plan" was going to go ahead, irrespective of whether we stayed up or not ? No wonder they had shackled the communication links. This may have been able to swallow if there was a consultation period and the reasoning explained and any contingency plans on how to incorporate the Academy and locally based players into the plan. And was the plan to include jettisoning central belt based players like Carson, Welsh and co. Is this in knowledge that Ridgers was leaving and to give Billy a swan song season. Was this the reason for not playing Roddy and loaning out youngsters to Highland League clubs ? Is this another reason for falling out with local businesses. I have heard a rumour that we may become a feeder club for Everton and Rangers - another reason to be based in the central belt. Next season we will probably have a much improved squad and we may well get automatic promotion BUT it will be with a squad of loanees and probably 2-3 central belt journeyman. I suspect that the ploy of the Evil pair is to let all this become public one by one and slowly. The bottom line is that Inverness should be based in Inverness and the fan base should be an integral part of any forward planning. I never thought that Caley would die before I did !! At least when we go to heaven we can shelter in the Howden End, the Shed or the North Stand.
  15. ClickbaitProponent
    Funny because that is how I read it as well. As will many others.
  16. robbylad
    I'm no financial whizz but, would anyone benefit, money wise from the club going bust? Are any club assets there to be stripped?
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  18. Scotty
    Thats parochial and insular bullshit. We have signed plenty of players from outwith the HL and local area who have done loads in the community because they have embedded themselves in the community. Carl Tremarco is a great example that jumps to mind but there are a load of others I could come up with depending on what you class as being "embedded in the community". Carl went on to stay in the local area long after his ICT days were over and them being over was a decision made for him not by him. You can represent the city and be present and active in the community even if you come from somewhere else, and even if you go somewhere else after your ICT career is over. Where you come from is irrelevant. Wanting to play for ICT, who are based in Inverness, Scotland, is the minimum requirement. I would agree however that the club has become less "community" focused over the last 5 years. Prior to COVID it was all about #TogetherNESS and working together to try and make sure the club could function properly. Fast forward 5 years, and after one commercial disaster after another and dragging the club name through the mud with the battery farm, we get a statement 3 days after relegation asking for "UNITY" then another statement today that completes rips out any semblance of COMM-UNITY from our club. There is no unity without comm-unity. Moving training to Fife because it will make recruitment of players - who do not want to move to Inverness - will, in my opinion, have a far greater long-term impact on us than relegation. I actually just 'liked' a tweet by "Jailender" calling County the only team in the Highlands. I liked it, not because I will change loyalties, but because, right now, he is correct. We cant let this happen. Central to our success over the years has always been community and a sense of team spirit fostered by our distance from the central belt, which even led to the use of a bunch of hashtags a few years ago like #TogetherNESS . The current regime seem to be trying to reverse all that progress at an astonishingly rapid pace and for many fans, any move outside of Inverness, even for training, will be seen as the final straw.
  19. IcyT
    I have - it's identity. You clearly don't agree that that's a consideration when supporting a team. I don't support Hibs because they have nothing to do with Inverness. I could ask, why are you so accepting of this bizarre arrangement? You might toe the line and say it's about attracting better players who can't be bothered committing to the area. Great if you can get behind a team full of such players - guys who don't want the inconvenience of travelling to Inverness, which the club would be part of in name only. On that basis, I would be as well to support Partick - it's got "Thistle" in it.
  20. Douglas Mackenzie
    This hairbrained scheme reeks of Gardiner all over it. It stinks and with such a momentus decision, would you not think a consultation period would have taken place to allow them to guage the fans views. That fact that there was no consultation, evidences what they really think of us and our opinions,even though we are paying to watch the team all season and most have invested even emotionally in the club. Shocking,bujt not unexpected.
  21. forresjags
    The reason we are where are is nothing to do with players not wanting to re locate , housing etc it's down to abysmal football tactics and even worse off field management. All this talk of central belt players is just a smokescreen, to mask their incompetencies This **** show has to stop now.
  22. lightwelter
    My thoughts exactly. The fact they've clearly been planning this for a while and gave no mention to it at previous fan meetings stinks. No doubt it wasn't mentioned because they knew there'd be a negative reaction, which only emphasises how little they care.
  23. Douglas Mackenzie
    Well that is the final straw I am off after 14 years. I could say so much about the club being in the Highlands to attract all the young up and coming generations to play football locally and inspire them. That ICT is supposed to be a truly local community club, that it was the focal point for local (and not so local) fans to come together and feel it was their home. Now we will see the entire playing operation move to Fife,any young person from up here wanting a chance with ICT will have to travel just for training, never mind every second week. Does this mean all the academy boys are also going? How is ICT now going to be a local club if we only see the first team every other week,because the rest of the time they are training and working down in Fife. Imagine for example if Glasgow Rangers or Glasgow Celtic said we are moving all our training to Newcastle,but we will be at Ibrox and Celtic Park every second week for games- Unthinkable. if players don't want to move to Inverness, we don't want them. We want players who are proud to train,play and live in the Highlands. How do Ross County (albeit they are in Premier League) manage to run a decent football operation taking young players in from the Highland league and other leagues including the Western isles. Okay the jury is currently out on their Premier status until Sunday, but either way there can be no disputing that the club is ran like a club shoud be. We are a total embarrassment virtually in all we as a club do off the field and frankly,I think it is a long shot to expect us to get promotion back to the championship in one year,especially if all the incumbants that are currently in post remain. Hasta la Vista
  24. Fraz
    Considering the recent statement contains: "the club's First Team Management feel we give ourselves the best possible chance to attract the highest quality players" I would assume that Ferguson is staying.
  25. Achfary
    There are so many knock on effects/unanswered questions/unintended consequences What player looks at this scenario and thinks, "That's the club for me" (and reliance on loan players is what caused this mess, so no benefit there). Sends the message of being inferior. What happens when there is adverse weather in Inverness for a 'home' game, and a ground inspection in the morning? Will there be a desire from the 'home' side to travel? Every game will be an away game, for the players and coaching staff In cup games, the players will be crossing fingers for an 'away' tie (hardly the mindset) and eventually come to resent the trips to Inverness Kelty will be able to know everything about the club, the players, the tactics What happens if Kelty have more injuries, or their manager suddenly doubles training sessions - will ICT be sidelined? What happens when there are postponements, call offs, replays, bad weather, etc - who gets priority for the best facilities when there's clashes? Any goodwill for the 'battery farm' idea is finished - the argument is lost in terms of "community". All the coaches, physios, and other auxiliary staff related to players will (likely) need to be based in central belt - will there be any need for full-time staff at the stadium (or will they share Kelty's staff?) Given the planning 'issues', how well thought through is the contractual agreement- what happens if Kelty terminate the agreement? And how long is it for? Will players sign contracts that commit to moving to Inverness if needed? But the main one is that County will now have complete legitimacy to be seen as the only destination for all up and coming youth in the Highlands and Islands. And Inverness's image and identity as a Highland club is just thrown away literally overnight, "delightedly".
  26. Satan
    I remember there was a bit of an uproar a few years back as County were signing players who refused to relocate...its so much better now-they all live in inverness, pushing up house prices with Roys big wages
  27. bdu98196
    You havent listed a single reason how or why you consider it affects you - just why you are annoyed? A modern football club is a place players come to play, that doesnt change. Just because wont see Billy wandering in Tesco or Ridgers filling his car up with petrol doesnt change a thing come 3pm on a Saturday. Acting offended because the club is looking to recruit from outwith (which we normally do) and mitigate costs associated with relocation seems odd. There is a question around those already rooted locally but given where we are there are very few signed up next year with a permanent base in the Inverness area so that the only part that is unclear and being concerned by. ICT as a club stopped being embedded in the community or representing the city as soon as we started signing players from outwith the HL or local area and that isnt from this regimes watch. Suggesting its ok to recruit and fill our team with nobody players from elsewhere when its successful but not when we are struggling is hypocritical.
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