This! Plus don't forget we have a cluster of major shareholders who's ego's prevent them talking to each other, Thus, As you stated very well above Chris we cannot look forward and we have the current board scuttling about trying to raise a few grand here and there to keep us afloat! sad times.

I don't think you can pinpoint an exact moment where it all went wrong but I think it's somewhere around 2012. We got relegated in 2009, maybe slightly unfortunately with a record points total at that time, and then we gave Butcher leeway to rebuild and he did a great job. He then built more and created the cup winning squad that Yogi inherited, the zenith of the club up to this point. However, during those years when we had regular SPL football, a manageable financial situation (easily recoverable losses, external investment, cup runs, Europe money, transfer fees, money for managers etc) what investments did we make off the park? What improvements were made to the infrastructure of the club, both in terms of facilities for the fans and players? None. We still train at Fort George as far as I can see, the ground hasn't been touched or improved in years, and is now starting to fall apart. We don't have any facilities at our ground like a proper bar or decent food or excellent hospitality. You can extend this to off the pitch too and this is one reason why I don't entirely blame Morrison and Gardiner for what's happened to the club. We generally operated OK in the top flight, the losses were coverable when they happened and some years we made money. However, we didn't do anything to generate off the pitch revenue, something that coudl safeguard the clubs future. Gardiner and Morrison have taken a lot of stick for the concerts and the battery farm but they've had to do this because there was nothing there before. We didn't even control the land that the stadium is on, IIRC, and were paying money to another company for it. Eventually every club of our size gets relegated and we completely failed to plan for that in any sense - on the pitch, financially, from a business standpoint. If people remember the summer after we went down it was chaos, we had three different Chairmen, we were releasing players via social media, putting our press releases every day (Twitter account liked porn - statement, Duncan Shearer released by text - statement). It was clear no-one know what to do and really no-one has known what to do since. Everything that's happened to the club since stems from that failure. The Chairman and the CEO are trying to do positive things but failing because they are hamstrung by issues out of their control as well as their own incompetence. In the meantime the club throws huge money on players and managers, makes massive losses but is at the same time massively penny pinching. Watching the Montrose game via their stream I recall the Covid season where we had one of the worst streaming offerings in the entire league. other clubs have kept streaming and probably make a trickle of cash from it but we huffily insisted ours was fine and now don't do it at all. The only way I can see this improving is if an outside party buys the club and is willing to invest proper money in it, which I can't see happening or the current backers underwrite another few million quid and we finally manage to claw our way out of the situation we are in, we flukily get a managerial appointment spot on. I can't see either happening to be honest - I fully expect to be relegated and to spend a few years in League One.

I still can’t comprehend that if we lose on Saturday we will be relegated! How has it come to this? Even if we win another two tough games will follow. Surely if we go down those making decisions and managing the club will go? Even if we stay up the changes have got to be deeper and wider than the Chairman recently stated,for sake of this Club!

Garry Wood has been appointed as Deveronvale’s Manager. Josh Meekings rumoured to be joining Clach.

If we were relegated I’d happily see a team from the youth setup in the first team. Journeymen and loanees in League 1 wouldn’t interest me much, especially if we had a mediocre league finish.

HT: 1 - 0 FT: 3 - 1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy McKay 1st Scorer Mon: Michael Gardyne Crowd: 2445

Gash awful! Thank goodness I'm playing bowls this Saturday.

Or cry...

We'll laugh about it one day...

Aye but it was Montrose not Monaco!

Really?? I have been to quite a number of away matches over the past few seasons: win, draw or lose, I can't remember a match when a decent standard of football was on offer.

My first time too and will definitely look forward to next season. Dropped like a stone in the second half and even forgot to get a bet on last weekend

As has been the case for years, no entertainment. Until there is a complete change in mindset, nothing is going to change. The great work and results over the first 20 years of our history us a distant distant memory. Ferguson seems to be clueless.

We were down last night and we all reckon its part of a secret - even to Duncan- masterplan - pretend we are crap then score four on Saturday. Toughest watch in a long long time.

Yep, He sure did well with Clach!

Dunc is no "yes man" but he has lost his mojo and his style of football. He has become more of a coaching manual manager. I have been at games and watched on TV where I was happy with the performance when you have a team of mercenaries and a gun with only one bullet to fire and nobody wanting to pull the trigger. I rather see Dunc visioning the opposition and some of his own players as feckin burglars. I can only suggest that he has had some sort of therapy. As for Montrose I would not be surprised if the plan was to defend in depth and nick a winner. That may work with a drilled team in the Bernabeau but not with a team of loanees at Links Park. As with most loanees signings I suspect there are clauses about playing time and that has to be a reason to limit wee Roddy's time on the park. With McAllister injured surely Roddy would be shoe-in rather than Lawal. Wait for another completely different performance on Saturday OR

Imagine if we had a former Scotland U21 midfielder who had played for the club on over 100 occasions, born and bred in Inverness and brought through our youth system. Imagine he’d been available since January. I doubt he’d be as good as the loanees though so no point imagining anything apart from life in League 1

With a bit of help from some Partick fans in the top corner!

Aye some game and atmosphere! Dunno how many but we had filled one stand. That was some team, they would rattle this lot.

20 years ago today, Clyde 1 ICT 2. Scorers Keogh and Hislop. SPL football beckons.

Awful game. Caley were outplayed and outfought all over the pitch. As others have said, only Lawal gets pass marks - the only one to show a bit of urgency and desire. (perhaps Samuel, too, but he was just so isolated). Lawal's run down the left with a great little turn gave us the only thing to cheer about, and then his shot off the bar, of course. That was it. It was pass, pass, pass along the back, followed by a punt up to Samuel. Savage absolutely killed the game and atmosphere. He'd roll the ball a yard with his studs, stop, maybe take another step, and then pass to the left, or up to Anderson, who'd pass it straight back to Savage, and repeat. It was enough to send anyone to sleep. That flatness just rubbed off on everyone - nobody could be bothered to change gear out of that lethargy. Fighting for survival? What a laugh.

Aye, the Montrose tactics against the "bigger" club Don't lose the first leg, then hit them at home where their form is abysmal. 1-0 is all that's needed.

2nd leg incoming folks!!! Clean sheet, still in the tie and heading to the home leg - if this was in Europe everyone would be raving about tactics being spot on. Clearly Caley playing like a big team which is showing our and Duncs ambitions

Lawal looked like the only player who could cause problems on the ball and also got stuck in and competed well off the ball.

Ferguson's thoughts. Looks like a rabbit in the headlights to me.