Nothing has been heard from Muirfield Mills, or the club for that matter regarding the proposed 6 figure investment for quite a while now, and i have been wondering why!

Was all the posturing and so called positive vibes coming from DS just a piece of ' P R ' and did he really encourage new investment? anyway look like the deal is dead and although Orions further sponsorship is welcome it will be used for the day day to day running of the club, not in any way to develop the club from its in reality, poor state.

When i say poor state i can see us no further forward than when we first gained promotion to the SPL and returned to Inverness for our home games, the catering is amateur, the shop is an eyesore, the training ground is a rough field next to the sea 14 miles away from the stadium, whilst it is very prudent to live within our means and not to fall into financial meltdown like some other teams surely we need to create a more professional club and try to increase our fan base.

The crowd on saturday scraped over 3000 which is the lowest league game crowd i have seen there, fair enough the weather played a part in this, and January is always a tough month for most of us, however the trend is decreasing attendances for us and i'm sure the club have seen this.

This season has seen our squad hit by injuries like no other team in the SPL has ever had, long term, short term, recurring injuries its must be so frustrating for the management to plan round this, we will be putting out a pretty makeshift team against Celtic on saturday with Williams not available, Billy Mackay out, Dorran out as well add to this our other players out, Golobart, Shinnie, Hogg, its a crazy situation.

It made me wonder if our poor training set up has anything to do with this problem, we train on a pretty rough field at Fort George with no showering or toilet facilities whatsoever, does this cause an extra strain on the players?

One would think with our chairman being the main land developer in the highlands he might provide some land slightly nearer the stadium to give the team a more professional training set-up, or is the club in the middle of an ego battle and further investment for ICT is not in the plan?

Edited February 2, 201213 yr by caley100

I think the £250k will be used to pick the tab up for this season.every season we seem to have to sell something just to break even.dont think these guys are going to throw money at us I think the money got them a seat on the board and what they will bring is there business knowledge which isn't a bad thing.

I hope they are ready to hit the road running because the current ICT Board have resigned en masse this morning.

I hope they are ready to hit the road running because the current ICT Board have resigned en masse this morning.

Shocking news, especially at this time of year.

I hope they are ready to hit the road running because the current ICT Board have resigned en masse this morning.

I wondered why a few expensive looking cars left the stadium in a hurry this morning when I drove by. You should have seen the dust cloud they left.

Spokesman for the resignee's Mr Graeme Bennett told News International this morning, "1st of April 2012 will be remembered for many years to come as the day the fools won out and changed the face of ICT forever".

We should spend the money on something for the future. I suggest a solid gold statue of Ross Tokely.

Taking our statuesque defending to a new level?

Good try Caley D..................will we have a statement after 12 o' clock?????

Yes, Mr Catto has left the building...

Really?????

Mr Catto is the most recent in the long list of individuals who have tried to influence change at the club and stated so publically. Would it be so surprising that he is the latest to be ostracised. After all the building belongs to Tullochs !!

I#ve just been reading the information about the St Mirren director who got sacked for talking to the rangers secretary and I find it slightly worrying that our dealings with this mystery investment group fall into a similar timescale. Perhaps a bit crazy, but what's to say we're not being set up as the possible direct route back to the spl for rangers following liquidation? Is it just coincidence that the timescales match up and the delays in finalising seem to coincide with delays on the outcome of rangers situation?

:lol: I've just read this post for the first time after Kenny Cameron, who spotted it earlier, flagged it up to me! In fact Kenny was quite amused that I was able inadvertently to scupper the above fantastic conspiracy theory by mentioning in my Highland News column this week that I had actually been at school with these guys and played rugby/ done athletics with them - so they are genuine Inverness gentlemen - ex Jaggies if I remember correctly - who I think would recoil in horror at the thought of being thought of as Rangers in disguise!

Edited April 5, 201213 yr by Charles Bannerman

Good honest ex Jaggies it is then!!!

Charles, I am shocked to learn that you are/have been withholding information sought by the readership and public who pay your fees and/or provide you with your platform as a reporter/journalist.

Looks like that recent TV documentary about the control that football clubs have over the Scottish Media runs deeper than we might have wanted to believe!!!

OK Charles if you went to school with these mysterious, "exiled Invernessian entrepeneurs" you'll have no problem naming names in your journalistic capacity. The fact that they've been "outed" by your good self as ex-jaggies would possibly account for their apparent reluctance to broadcast their names - I'd be keeping quiet too

Joking aside we could do with a degree of transparency from these guys.

OK Charles if you went to school with these mysterious, "exiled Invernessian entrepeneurs" you'll have no problem naming names in your journalistic capacity. The fact that they've been "outed" by your good self as ex-jaggies would possibly account for their apparent reluctance to broadcast their names - I'd be keeping quiet too

Joking aside we could do with a degree of transparency from these guys.

No can do. Fair enough the name "Muirfield Mills" enabled me to work out who they probably were on the basis of stuff I knew from the past. However I then had to rely on a contact to confirm my suspicions so I feel obliged to respect their wishes for anonymity and regard that as privileged off the record information which I am not prepared to place in the public domain - unless the names appear anywhere else in the media in which case I would then feel entitled to broadcast the information within the hour.

Not Just the Rangers/Glasgow Media then?

OK Charles if you went to school with these mysterious, "exiled Invernessian entrepeneurs" you'll have no problem naming names in your journalistic capacity. The fact that they've been "outed" by your good self as ex-jaggies would possibly account for their apparent reluctance to broadcast their names - I'd be keeping quiet too

Joking aside we could do with a degree of transparency from these guys.

No can do. Fair enough the name "Muirfield Mills" enabled me to work out who they probably were on the basis of stuff I knew from the past. However I then had to rely on a contact to confirm my suspicions so I feel obliged to respect their wishes for anonymity and regard that as privileged off the record information which I am not prepared to place in the public domain - unless the names appear anywhere else in the media in which case I would then feel entitled to broadcast the information within the hour.

Are you sure you could wait that long.

Is the name to do with an Edinburgh glof club and Bridgemill direct.

Perhaps they were born in a windmill next to a field in Muir of Ord.

Edited April 6, 201213 yr by 12th Man

Smell of power struggle going on here. Word has it that Sandy Catto invested a further £250k last year to keep these people out but has now been shafted big style!

Dearie me Charles. Your reluctance to name names is akin to the journalistic vacuum that surrounded the Murray/White/HMRC debacle. The conventional media (papers/tv/radio) have been totally usurped by unofficial bloggers (i.e. rangers tax case, scots law thoughts, etc.) due to the former's reluctance to rock the establishment's boat. It's a sad state of affairs.

I really struggle to understand the need for such anonymity from these guys. Once again I'm not knocking their investment but we should know who they are and what their plans are.

Smell of power struggle going on here. Word has it that Sandy Catto invested a further £250k last year to keep these people out but has now been shafted big style!

Word is wrong.

CD is spot on. Urban (semi urban to be fair, pretend city) myth!

Could the supposed "ex Jeggies" be a Trojan horse for a white elephant ? Can we postulate on the names as long as we dont really know the identities ? Perhaps a look at Charlie's year book will unearth clues to the others who certainly were not all Jeggies !!

Perhaps a look at Charlie's year book will unearth clues to the others who certainly were not all Jeggies !!

Jeeezis Johndo... you have completely lost track of how old I and (subtract 3ish) you actually are!!

Year Book! Fer Gawd sake mun, Year Books hadn't been invented when I was a kid nor probably when you also were (still are ?)

But even if we had Year Books back in them days (cue Horlicks music), even with who were still left by Sixth Year you would still have about 120 to choose from.

Maybe a better guide might be for you to think of which Sixth Years in 1971 gave you a right good kicking for being the little Third Year irritant most deserving of the privilege.

On second thoughts forget that... there would be far too many to choose from!

Oh and by the way... you ARE going to Dungwall next season!!!!

Edited April 6, 201213 yr by Charles Bannerman

Smell of power struggle going on here. Word has it that Sandy Catto invested a further £250k last year to keep these people out but has now been shafted big style!

Word is wrong.

So tell us more CD

Nothing more to tell...you made a statement, that statement is wrong.