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I'm not sure I want to pay extortionate prices to watch a team managed by Gus McPherson or Maurice Malpas. The fact of the matter is, as I alluded to on the other thread - we might all care about the club but the club cares for us not a jot. We aren't valued fans, we're just a number and a customer. Your club doesn't care about you, they only care for your cash.

Absolutely pathetic. We've got ten outfield players and no manager. We haven't announced anything about players to be released or retained or anything. But we put out a press release saying that we are keeping Premiership prices in the Championship with a line like that in it. We aren't in a position to be arrogant. I understand that we probably need to keep those prices but FFS, at least sugar coat it with some sort of positive announcement.

I too am horrified at the lack of consideration by the Board in setting these prices. What a cheek they have asking for Premier League season ticket prices to watch a lower league product. This is nothing to do with fans loyalty and lots to do with the Board's total disregard for the paying public. They fail completely to understand that fans do not have a endless supply of funds to allocate to their Saturday fix. I have now decided to give up one of my two tickets which I have held since the stadium opened, and was effectively a donation. No manager, no team, no football presence on the Board and a crass statement accompanying the price sheet does not equate to a rush to buy tickets.

Where the hell are CJT to stand up for the fans in this? Clearly going by many Facebook posts on the official fb page, many others are also outraged, and rightly so. I really feel the fans need to pull together and show our feelings to the board. The prices went up last year and the club said it was to ensure we could compete for top 6.......we got relegated. And so the board keep the same prices. We are being treated as a cash cow and I'm fed up with it! Sorry for the rant but I couldn't buy a season ticket last year because I couldn't afford one and same applies with these prices. I want to support the club, and they're making it impossible. Where is the logic in that? Disgusted, truly disgusted and embarrassed at my club today :(

We dont have much power as fans but please think before rushing to renew straight away. A point needs to be made here. Plenty time before 23rd to assess how things are going.

We will have one fewer home game next season too - so the cost per game will actually be higher even though we've been relegated. In contrast, we dropped season ticket prices by £100 following relegation in 2009!!! Basically, this is a thinly disguised attempt at fleecing loyal fans, or 'mugs' as the rest of the world would call us.

Everyone makes their own choice. I have to buy 3 tickets. Last season I missed about 6 games due to work. Never bothered me before but I do feel fans being taken for granted here. So I will wait for a bit and consider my options. Talking to others it seems a lot taking this view.

Much like "pride of the highlands" crap on the badge. Who the hell is responsible for issuing this statement?

It's ok everyone, calm down, he's not on holiday, he's in Burghead....

Its been this way for a few years now unfortunately. The only time the club communicates with us fans is when they are wanting money off us. Am sorry but until i know what am getting for my money in terms of managers and players etc. I wont be parting with any season ticket money.

Nothing to do with being progressive and forward looking, everything to do with a benefactor funding their losses of around £1.5m a year.

I had an opportunity to meet most of the current players on our recent trip and I do have to say that Simon took an instant liking to two players ... David Raven and Jake. If it hadnt been for the fact he was on the bench for the final day, Simon may have chosen him over David Raven to walk out onto the pitch as mascot !!! From what I hear, Jake is a pretty decent guy off the park too and when we were down at the stadium a couple of times he recognised Simon and stopped to have a chat. To a 3 year old (and his Dad), that's really impressive. I would seriously doubt him - or most of our players - should be tagged as bad apples As a postscript - before our trip I had asked Simon who his favourite players were .... his answer was instant ..... Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco ! I asked him again yesterday and he said David Raven and Jake Mulraney !!!

You have to admire everything Uncle Roy does in his propaganda war against ICT which he finally seems to have won after 23 years. But the only reductions are in the Jail End which is half empty and like a library these days, which I predicted back in the days before it was seated. It's probably the worst stand to watch football in the top league. Having said all that, our board could do something similar with the West Stand by making it dirt cheap. It only takes 400 anyway so it shouldn't bankrupt the club to try it, and there's always the chance that people will spend the rest on merchandising & catering.

These kind of comments really make me cringe.......they almost always come back to bit you on the bum !!

Club needs the income if we are to stand any chance of bouncing back up. On the bright side, you are almost guaranteed more entertainment and more wins than last season!

The drivel spouted on this thread is more depressing than the entire Foran era.

It's been all downhill for Chris since CountyAir.

This is a massive gamble by the board. I can sort of see the strategy which is to minimise loss of income: If we had 2,000 season ticket holders last season @ £300 = £600,000 If 25% don't renew we generate (1,500 x £300) £450,000 If the club had reduced prices to average £250 the club would need 1,800 season ticket sales to generate £450,000. I assume they felt that retaining 90% of season ticket holders was unlikely, hence the pricing.That said the communication has been shocking and releasing two statements today sums things up. Having been a season ticket holder for 16 years I was going to renew and purchase a ticket for my daughter in the main stand (on the basis that prices would be lower and I would probably pay the same as last year but have an extra ticket). Now I'm looking at £400 to watch 18 Championship games! I never thought I would say this but I'll be one of those not renewing and I will pick and choose which games to go to.

The whole announcement of season ticket prices is shambolic. Why would I pay the same price to see us draw with Queen of the South as I did to watch us do the same to Celtic? The club already recognises the value of the "bigger and better" teams by raising prices for tickets for these games. If you could be sure that the money would go on improving the playing staff, this might be reasonable. At the back of my mind is the sneaking suspicion that we might just be bankrolling Richie's pay-off! As for the suggestion that there will be 5% off tickets for 2018/19 on the occasion of our promotion back up where we belong - well the cynical might guess the prices would go up by at least 5% anyway. And if we are not promoted, will we get money off for sticking with them through another lean year? I don't think so. As always, the fans are the least considered part of football in this country.

It's pretty basic but here are how our prices compare against others in the Championship. There are a number of caveats to this mainly that I just went for whatever clubs termed Adults and Concessions. Other categories like U16s or U12s I didn't bother with and some clubs separate out students from Concessions. It would have gotten quite messy to have so many categories so I stuck with just the 'main' two'. Also, these are the cheapest tickets available to purchase so these are likely to be for stands or areas behind the goals. No family package offers are included either. Main point is that ICT have easily the most expensive tickets in the league. Maybe not surprising but compared to clubs like Falkirk who probably boast much better stadia and facilities I can't help but think some of our fans will be left wondering why there hasn't been at least a few quid taken off the prices. ETA: The Falkirk prices are wrong. Should be about £20 - £25 higher. Those are last years prices.

Agree with that. That is why I never understood why Hughes would often play him at right back where he wasn't nearly as effective. Unless it was that Hughes had fallen out with Raven by then? But as central defenders, at their best, he and Warren were as good a combination as any in the league.

New bookie favourite, Lives local, Knows the club, has experience managing a Premiership club. Richard MacForan.

Remember when the club used to laud the fact they were apparently the cheapest matchday experience in the top flight...?

What price loyalty?

I once tried to setup the same type of arrangement, with the ("Pay-A-Player") scheme even getting a mention in Ian Broadfoot's book. The short version of the story is that hundreds of people thought it a good idea, a great one even, but very few were prepared at the time to commit to a monthly direct debit. Since then I have always believed that the best way to get people to put their hands in pockets and support the club is to buy merchandise, buy some of the unissued shares (if available), or do things like sponsoring players, their kit or something like that. In fact, the sponsorship route is probably the best because the club get all the money from that and you as the sponsor also get something out of it. I made sure to stop by the Errea truck on my way out of town the other week for some merchandise, and the player sponsorship thread will be up and running as soon as I have time. If anyone needs a platform for other (legitimate) fund raising schemes or to promote it then we are happy to provide or promote that ... just fire off a message ;)

No idea where they get these rumours from. Highly placed secretive sources IMO.

Good positivity and common sense imho. Under-12s going free remains a big concession that I doubt other clubs all do. I would have renewed even if there was an increase because I want the club to get through this ... it is already delicate financially without talk of fans not coming along any more. I'm going to try to persuade my wife and daughter to start coming along as well. They made it to a few of last season's games which in truth wasn't the best encouragement for non-ICT/football die-hards to return. I'm not a happy clapper but I love my club.

Delay selling season tickets until we have some positive news? Don't think so.

This is an excellent point. The facilities for the North Stand are a disgrace (the PA is barely audible and the mens toilets don't even have seats!). The club have tried desperately to get new fans in but have forgotten the ones already there. I can point to seats around me of people who've just stopped going altogether. Is it any surprise when the club clearly doesn't value the fans they have and believe they deserve the bare minimum? I'm sure it's nice and warm in the hospitality suits though...

Now there's one good reason to pay £100 more to go to Inverness!!

Good.

Can we please get an adult to write these club statements? One player's name is even spelled incorrectly in that latest one!

Anyone got stats on how many other clubs offer season tickets to TWO under-12s for every season ticket adult? A strategy that is probably in effect subsidised by other seat prices tbf ... but which tries to build a decent fan base for generations to come for a young, small city club with controversial birth ... That's provided we don't shoot ourselves in the foot before then by starving money from a club that is quite possibly staring down the barrel of an insolvency event in the not too distant future.

Chris has failed to get Sergio Markarian linked in the press despite 10 years of trying. I think Stevie Aitken's a good shout, mainly because he looks like Spud from Trainspotting.

Yes, I think we've got it now Charles...

Meekings when fit can walk into any top 6 premiership side, not surprised he's rejected a contract with us.

So the club appear to have confirmed that Meekings is away despite the player seemingly being unaware of this yesterday. What the hell is going on!?

The decrease from 19 to 18 home games for the same money represents a 5.6% increase in prices for a lower standard of football. I'm actually not hugely fazed by dropping to the Championship but if you move from Next to Primark you don't expect to have to pay the same money for a pack of in-house Y-fronts with one fewer in it. What is it about football and the laws of economics that the rest of the world observes?

Remember what I was saying about how the club doesn't value it's supporters...?

Exactly. Even this season in the Premier I came up and got tickets at short notice. Even for County and Rangers I could easily sit next to my mates although I wasn't in the allocated seat. Apart from Celtic and Aberdeen the stand is barely half full. Let's be honest, next season we won't even remotely have that problem. If we get a sell-out game in the Cup surely the club has the facility to allocate a ticket to a voucher holder who rings up. I would gladly pay for a 5 or 10 game voucher as the days of me coming up using a season ticket are gone, for various reasons. So the club has lost my £300 but would at least get more of it back than it currently does.

Has Robbo done his Q and A yet?

Surely some contractor could donate a barrow full of concrete to eradicate the "puddle in the pie queue" problem? We have a building company with naming rights to the main stand...and a civils contractor on the training kit...surely between the two of them we can do something with the existing infrastructure in and around the stadium? I'd rather see solid investment in the ground(or a new one) and proper, modern training facilities than pay over-rated underachievers over the odds. i don't know where the extra money is coming from, but if there was an outside investor, that's where I'd rather see the money going. as a multiple player sponsor, a family of season tickets and a regular #caleyaway 'er I would grudge parting with yet another £100 for no return, when there are plenty of business around the area who would be happy to right off some money for tax purposes! I'm sure AuldyBoy does a great job getting money in the door, but maybe free services could be an avenue that is explored too...

In this world of global connectivity, that is no reason at all to delay getting on with the decision that is so vital to the club's future.

Assuming that his salary demand was reasonable, I would be very happy with Malpas replacing Brian Rice as assistant, his track record as an assistant or as a senior coach is good but never please in the role of manager or DofF. His track record when managing in his own right is abysmal.

TopSix, i applaud you for offering solutions to the problem. It is very easy to criticise others as some posters do here, but if we all had your philosophy of positive thinking then it can only help progressive thinking. Green dot for you Sir.

And Malpas. He was offered the job when Butcher went and turned it down. We should leave his 'come and get me' plea unheeded.

The selection of candidates named on STV news is not exactly inspirational, Barry Wilson seems to be touting for Sheerin and is implying that the appointment should be made sooner rather than later. Without having anyone on the board with any depth of football knowledge I do not think this appointment should be rushed, It is in no way imperative that a decision should be taken now, players will still be available in a week or two. Neither was I impressed that the Chairman is currently on holiday doesn't really smack of commitment does it.

I wish people would stop touting Butcher for the job - he's had his time & we need to look forward & leave previous managers out of it. Think the GM/D of F post would have to be filled 1st, as wouldn't this have a bearing on the sort of manager/head coach we would be appointing? No point hiring a manager who then falls out with the gm/d of f-or vice versa!!

I already give over £300 per season for my season ticket with arguably limited value for money - why would I just give a charitable donation to a business? Giving hand-outs doesn't do anything other than encourage spending outwith your means which means in the future another hand out is needed. If my business cant run at a profit then it will fail - nobody will just donate me money, this whole idea that football clubs should be exempt from normal business practices including balancing of the books is a bizarre one.

Would we even be considering Sheerin if he hadn't played for the club?