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Getting pissed off yet? Where's the money? Hughes was used as a scapegoat for the lack of investment and ineptitude from the board... you only have to look around the SPFL to see it is littered with players that should still be wearing an ICT shirt if we had been proactive with contracts or offered a competitive salary. We don't know what was going on behind closed doors but I imagine it was a constant argument between Hughes and the board whilst he tried to get something off them.. when he got nowhere he tried to force the clubs hands through the media (not very classy). I don't blame him and still maintain he is the best manager we have ever had at the club and we paid his severance package the next season after he won us the Scottish Cup and got the club in Europe.. madness! We now have Foran, who wouldn't have been my choice but you can't doubt his commitment to the club.. understandable considering he must be one of our highest ever paid players and was given a 4 year contract which he was injured throughout (not his fault though). I have been impressed with his interviews and would love him to become the manager the board expects him to be ... but he is being hung out to dry here and NEEDS money to sign players or it's only a matter of time before the fans turn on him and it is not his fault. We hare going backwards.. not only on the pitch but off it. I was looking after my daughter today so couldn't make the match .. been struggling a lot over the last few seasons to get to games but don't care any less about our future. This isn't an overreaction to the 5-1 .. it's been on the cards for a long time. 5 subs on the bench today, none of them that you could argue should start (maybe Doran) ... there is no competition for places and although I do think there is quality in the 11 that were picked today complacency is inevitable. Some of our fans need to wake up and see that we can't keep letting players leave the club for nothing and I hold the board solely responsible for the situation we are in at the moment. Might only be the start of the season but we are almost nailed on for relegation due to lack of investment and planning.

You have a replacement Board lined up? One that will guarantee that the team on the pitch wins? Let's hear it, then.

Regardless of the Hughes/board and press issues which led to his sacking/resigining there was a strong voice from many fans before then, that they wanted Hughes out as he had huge budgets and reverted to boring football. While at times it was tepid, negative and often lacked entertainment perhaps what we really are seeing is that the squad isnt as good as we (the fans) think it was and perhaps he played this way beacuse we kept gradually getting weaker loosing players like McKay, Christie, Watkins, Ofere where the goals and creativity came from - maybe Hughes had no choice and keeping us at the level we were and the success we had was a bigger achievement than some would ever like to acknowledge. I'm all for giving time to a new manager, but calls for increased budgets are not practical, we have had number for key players (OFW, Draper, tansey, Warren, meekings, raven, tremarco, vigurs, polly) all sign up on longer deals - do people not think these will be on increased wages over previous contracts these guys had? Our 'core' wage will will have increased thus leaving less for the other players - sadly this is the price of success a trying to keep players and ward off other interested parties. We failed with top 6 last season, no cup finals and no increased foot fall - there is nowhere for extra cash to come from. People may cite the Christie transfer fee, how much has been paid is unclear or the terms, but with the horrendous injuries last year extra players had to be brought in and the Storey loan had a fee - its likely there is nothing of this left. Foran will need to work with what we have and adopt tactics that play to what we have, the signs arent good but we still have time. The next 3 games are very hard and I worry that after 6 games we could be still on zero points and been giving another couple of heavy defeats against the Dons & Celtic. Those who say its not Forans fault, if it was Hughes fault the tactics we played last year then it has to be Forans now - he picks the team and decides on how to play. Lets hope the learning curve is not too steep.

Right guys - who else thinks we are being classed as second class citizens by Jd Sports? Who's up for pestering them to donate their profits from our money

You seem to be absolving the manager of responsibility for the most awful, embarrasing month in our history (and it's not over yet!). Was it lack of money that made us lose to part-time Alloa? Or to be well beaten by Partick and County, whose budgets can't be significantly different to ours? Was it lack of money that has caused our experienced, established defenders and keeper to suddenly leak soft goals all over the place, with some seriously amateur defending? Was it the board that chose the summer signings, who, so far at least, seem to have very little to offer? I feel sorry for Foran just now and hope it is just a case of a rookie manager finding his feet, working out the best way for the team to play, and learning from his mistakes along the way.

This is just disgrace. The board should take a lot of flak for this, if they chose this manager they should at least provide funds to aid his position. Cant imagine the bus home is going to be fun.

Mulraney just tweeted that hes fine and not on injury list. Some good news at least...

Yup just need to formulate a plan.

Sat 20 Aug 2016 Scot Premier M Storey (Aberdeen 2 - Partick 1) D Cowie (2) (Hearts 5 - ICT 1) R Christie (St Johnstone 2 - Celtic 4) SL 2 R McAllister (Peterhead 2 - Albion 2) R Babtie (Peterhead 2 - Albion 2) Highland League Z Sutherland (2) (Brora R 5 - Rothes 0) Dafabet Welsh League J Oswell (2) (Newtown 4 - Carmarthen 2)

At least it won't be £25/£30 to get in when we're in the Championship next season.

Aye John Hughes was crap wasn't he but I sincerely hope Foran is up to this job and gets immediate financial support to sort what needs sorted. Good luck RF.

So much for Richies 'get tough in defence' approach- jeez! And only 5 subs, this is a shambles. Can we score? even a draw would be welcome!

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I don't think your being very fair. They are only trying to make a Bob or two after all their share price has only gone up by 1300% over the last 7 years.

But have you got and Pride of the Highlands Tartan? https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanLargeImage.aspx?ref=5586

Also I see Andre Blackman has joined Jordan Roberts at Crawley Town. This is his sixth club since his bizarre spell with us. He's only made 13 first team appearances in that time.

We are relying on some second place players from last season that never had the quality for the first team. Absolutely dire! Raven was well below par against Forres Mechanics. We're a joke just now. Hughes would attract players up here due to his pedigree, who will want to come and take a chance on a rookie manager. That team would struggle in the tier below them. I expect some mouthy comments, but I'm not really fussed. Foran needs to go, a more experienced manager needs brought in sooner than later and budgets need to be realigned and some quality found. Damage limitation. That teams never going to work in a million years, rubbish! I'm out if here.

ICT struggle for some sort of identity as it is, changing the badge so radically as the above would only dilute it even further especially when the content probably relates more to County than ourselves Kessock Bridge is in Ross-shire hence the name, dolphins are off Fortrose/Rosemarkie Ross-shire, and there are numerous castles in ross-shire as well as Inverness shire Dougal

Probably got something to do with changing our badge to the crap version somebody decided to introduce.

Sorry but the buck stops with the Board of Directors. It is their responsibility to raise the funds required to compete at the level we are playing at.Please lets not hear more of our limited budget - it's the board that sets it! If they can't raise the funds needed to compete at this level then they need to GO! The longer this continues, the LESS chance Foran has of digging us out because he doesn't have the experience. I hope he can but he needs HELP!

Get rid of the Pride of the Highlands bit and all will be well.