It's heading to that time again for the contracts to be signed up and the anticipation and trepidation starts as to who will be sign up and who might be offski.

 

As far I'm aware, the following players are signed up for next season:

 

Signed up till the end of season 2013-14:

• Ryan Esson
• Billy McKay
• Richie Foran

(Butcher and Malpas are also in this category)

 

Signed up till the end of season 2014-15:

• Josh Meekings 
• Nick Ross  
• Gary Warren
• Graeme Shinnie

Joining next season:

• Ben Greenhalgh

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The following players are out of contract at the end of this season:

• Andrew Shinnie
• David Raven
• Owain Tudur Jones
• Ross Draper
• Antonio Reguero
• Simon King
• Daniel Devine
• Aaron Doran
• Shane Sutherland
• Gavin Morrison
• Chris Hogg

Loan deals expire at the end of this season:

• Charlie Taylor
• Philip Roberts
• Jordan Gibbons

Deals unknown:

• Scott Mathieson
• Martin Laing
• Liam Polworth
• Conor Pepper
• Matthew Cooper

Not really that many players signed up so far.  Hopefully some people will be able to shed more light to those that are unknown and I'll update the list accordingly, and also when new deals and decisions are announced.

 

Besides that though, who would you keep and who would you punt?

Edited March 4, 201313 yr by Renegade

It's funny isn't it?  When Raven first started, almost everyone (myself included) thought he was trash!  Now he's one of our most consistent players!

i always backed him i said he would get an England call up, you just wait

Im still here, i didnt hate Hastings, i had one Corkies fueled rant at his inability to run and pass at the same time and politely asked him to return from where he came

Feck off back to Canada, aye those were the days.........

It's funny isn't it?  When Raven first started, almost everyone (myself included) thought he was trash!  Now he's one of our most consistent players!

i always backed him i said he would get an England call up, you just wait

Hes still trash

Im still here, i didnt hate Hastings, i had one Corkies fueled rant at his inability to run and pass at the same time and politely asked him to return from where he came

Feck off back to Canada, aye those were the days.........

 

Indeed, a classic moment.

 

But can you imagine the uproar if the player in question had been from, say, Pakistan? 

Why would you tell a player from Pakistan to feck off back to Canada?

 A moment i have come to regret in my advancing years

Id like this to be the squad for next season.....

Goalkeepers.............Esson, Reguero, Mathieson

Defenders.............Raven, Meekings, Warren, Devine, Hogg, Cooper, Shinnie, (resign Taylor if not another left back)

 

Central Midfielders......................Tudur Jones, Draper, Shinnie, Laing, Ross and Polworth 

 

Wingers.............Doran, Foran and Greenlaigh (Ross can play there as well)

 

Strikers..........McKay, Sutherland, Pepper and sign a top quality striker

Edited March 6, 201313 yr by DanielICT

Really want to sign up Devine! Looks a brilliant player

Really want to sign up Devine! Looks a brilliant player

 

Watch this space

Ross Draper and Billy McKay have signed new deals! 

 

Edited March 7, 201313 yr by Renegade

So as things stand:

 

 

Signed up till the end of season 2013-14:

• Ryan Esson
• Richie Foran
• Ross Draper
• Conor Pepper

(Butcher and Malpas are also in this category)

 

Signed up till the end of season 2014-15:

• Josh Meekings 
• Nick Ross  
• Gary Warren
• Graeme Shinnie
• Billy McKay

Joining next season:

• Ben Greenhalgh

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

The following players are out of contract at the end of this season:

• Andrew Shinnie
• David Raven
• Owain Tudur Jones
• Antonio Reguero
• Simon King
• Daniel Devine
• Aaron Doran
• Shane Sutherland
• Gavin Morrison
• Chris Hogg

Loan deals expire at the end of this season:

• Charlie Taylor
• Philip Roberts
• Jordan Gibbons

Deals unknown:

• Scott Mathieson
• Martin Laing
• Liam Polworth
• Matthew Cooper

 

*Butcher confirms in his interview about Draper and McKay signing new deals that Pepper is also signed up for next season.

Edited March 7, 201313 yr by Renegade

Ross Draper and Billy McKay have signed new deals! 

 

Renegade speaks the truth! Confirmed here.

 

http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/832-double-tonic

Draper and McKay signed up!!!!!!!

And pepper is signed up for next season as well, it said on the website!!! Happy days :)

Really want to sign up Devine! Looks a brilliant player

 

Watch this space

Do you know something I don't!

Yaaaasssss!!

Great news, not many more to go now. Delighted that this business is getting concluded sooner rather than later.

I wonder who'll be next then?  Nothing much from Reguero since he said he wanted to stay in December and I haven't really heard anything about the likes of OTJ, Hogg or King.  I wonder actually if Butcher will look to keep King due to the fact he's a left sided centre back (like him!) and there's not many of them around.  I also have read that Andrew Shinnie will decide at the end of the season.

 

I reckon Doran will probably be the next one signed up after he was saying in the media that he was wanting to stick around.

And pepper is signed up for next season as well, it said on the website!!! Happy days :)

I know a man who'll be very happy about this! 

If we get Raven and Doran to sign now that'll be me very, very chuffed indeed.

Oh yes.

Yip - meester Doran next me tinks

Yes, great players are signing up to stay longer. But...football seems to run differently from any other normal business. Any 'contract' a player signs can easily be 'broken' by another employer coming in and taking them. This euphoria, celebrating players/managers signing deals is ill informed. Just because a certain player has signed until 2015 doesn't mean he'll be playing for the club until then. Money talks, it's that simple. The days of having the same guy at right-back for 6 seasons are long gone. Nowadays its one season mercenaries or loanees. If, Billy McKay got offered the chance to treble his salary at say, Huddersfield, he would go, contracted to Inverness or not. Sorry if this comes over as negative, but I get constantly annoyed at people thinking that footballers' 'contracts' actually mean anything, other than to themselves.

They can only leave early if the club lets them.

Jones,Reguero and possible shinnie are likely to go if decent offers are there

Yes, great players are signing up to stay longer. But...football seems to run differently from any other normal business. Any 'contract' a player signs can easily be 'broken' by another employer coming in and taking them. This euphoria, celebrating players/managers signing deals is ill informed. Just because a certain player has signed until 2015 doesn't mean he'll be playing for the club until then. Money talks, it's that simple. The days of having the same guy at right-back for 6 seasons are long gone. Nowadays its one season mercenaries or loanees. If, Billy McKay got offered the chance to treble his salary at say, Huddersfield, he would go, contracted to Inverness or not. Sorry if this comes over as negative, but I get constantly annoyed at people thinking that footballers' 'contracts' actually mean anything, other than to themselves.

I've got some chips if you want to widdle on them?

You seem to be ignoring the fact that when they are under contract, if they are going to go then the contract holders have the right of getting some money for relinquishing it early. We are not so daft that we think they are bound inexorably into the club until the end of the contract period, but we are more relieved that they have stated a commitment towards ICT for now and that they are not just going to up and disappear immediately should an offer be touted or be actively looking for a new club to ply their trade.