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Hi there guys , although I'm a hearts fan I'm not in here to to talk about my own club or troll this forum. I'm only here to congratulate your club on there resent statement, it was not only well worded but it said everything about the dishonestly of the SPFL. Your club has proper morals, dignity and sporting integrity, this is what the majority of our 42 clubs don't have. You are a very proud club and looks to me like very proud supporters reading this thread and rightly so. Although we will be competing in the same league next season (if any) if hearts don't win it I very much hope ICT do and hope we both are promoted. I will be up for the away game against you gays as this will be my only away game as I would not give any of my hard earned cash to any of the gutless clubs. Stay safe and all the best for the future.

Great statement. Of course we had more to gain than other clubs. But the facts remain the same regardless. And its dependent on clubs like ourselves to speak up when others would stay quiet.

A excellent statement from the club. Hopefully most clubs will stick their heads up above the parapet and back it. It's quite amusing to see the Sellick trolls on Twitter thinking it's part of the conspiracy to stop them winning 9 in a row. 😴

That statement did not miss and hit the wall !!! Read it in full folks !! The chairman and CEO continue to speak eloquently about this farcical and corrupt debacle that makes Scottish football even more of a laughing stock than it was before and that - to be frank - is saying something ! A few folk slagging off 'Rangers' or 'The Rangers' (call them what you want, not going to get into that argument). However, what is clear from this statement is that the power brokers had an agenda to reach a certain end point, and based on that letter, the team from Govan are right to say that when that didnt happen they bullied their way through things, changed the rules, and, worse still, made things up to manipulate things to get the result they wanted. They continue to bully clubs and denigrate individuals and each and every one of them from doncaster down need to resign NOW. There is no better time to put (radical) change into motion than now. The SFA/SPFL should support all its members and right now this nonsense will unfairly penalise Hearts, Partick, Stranraer as well as Kelty and Brora. In fact, the only club to really benefit from all this is Brechin and I am sure this is just a happy coincidence for them. The teams awarded each division would likely have won it anyway but there was plenty to play for in the relegation stakes and to a lesser extent the playoffs. 14-14-14 or 14-14-16 or 14-10-10-10 or some re-org that allows us to not penalise the clubs currently being expelled from their divisions whilst also not adversely affecting others like Brora or Kelty who have earned their right to league play would be the sensible solution.

Just caught up on last three editions. Loved them all and great to hear the views from players past and present. Brilliant, well done all. Polly hates the County - that works for me.

I am disappointed in Ross County, but not surprised. I presume their vote would have been different if they were not in the Premier League - ie Uncle Roy’s views in 2012 compared to now.

Lack of money is a problem, lack of honesty & integrity of the governing league body is the issue...if we had faith/confidence in them we could begin to work out real solutions to the problem.

On again BBC Scotland at 19.45 tonight - enjoy again, why not?

We are not without an element of self interest in this, league reconstruction would have been hugely to our advantage. However, unlike a cabel of Premiership clubs, including, by all accounts, our neighbours up the road we also have regard for fairness and the wider football community. I am glad that a statement was not immediately fired off in anger, but that we clearly took our time to make a clear, considered and open statement. I am sure that more than one person would have had imput in drafting it. Well done to all concerned.

Club site seems to be having issues in the last few minutes (pounded hard by doncaster no doubt). have posted it in full on our front page too.

Indeed. Maybe one of the local journalists in the Highland area can pull him up on these comments from 2012 when he seemed quite happy to expand the top division. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ross-county-chief-roy-macgregor-1412188 Obviously we shouldn't just vote for any form of reconstruction.

Very well written statement. Didn't pull any punches. A credit to our chairman and board.

The cup tie against Aberdeen from 2000:

The basic issue here is the lack of money within the Scottish game. The premiership league teams are unwilling to dilute the available funds in any way and that's the bottom line : everything else is a side issue. The game up here is going backwards and has been for years. It needs completely freshened up but there are to many interests who are unwilling to let that happen.

I see that the final section of today's statement confirms the new Puma deal. It doesn't make reference to them specifically but rather a new technical partner as well as related improved online offerings. I'm glad to see this happening as in the current climate with no revenue coming in we need to try and find revenue from somewhere. A new shirt, more merchandise and some additional 25th anniversary goodies is one way to do this and encourage fans to spend some cash on the club if they can.

First class statement. It's just a pity some of the Premiership clubs don't have the same sense of responsibility as ICT

Excellent statement ....... please read it

Statement from club released!

Yes. If three dimensional social distancing of 2 metres is enforced then our ground capacity is likely to be no more than about a thousand even if the South Stand was made available to home fans and the wee roofless stand opened. Due to my distance from Inverness and family commitments I have not bought a season ticket for years but would be prepared to pay full price or maybe a bit more for a 'Non Attending' season ticket. Maybe attending season ticket holders would be prepared to pay full price to attend every second game with their seat being rotated with another named individual and we could sell 'None Attending' match day tickets and even hospitality as well. I appreciate that far from everyone could afford to participate in such a plan even for the single season it is likely to be in place, especially given the economic devastation wroght by the virus, and we may lose some of our commercial backers as well but it might be one way to survive the 2020/2021 season in some viable form should social distancing continue to be enforced. We certainly could not manage with league crowds in the high hundreds without a bit of lateral thinking. Those effectively paying for nothing could be rewarded with certificates and vouchers to be redeemed eventually when some semblance of normality returns.

listen to this one guys! Liam was great to interview and I'm sure he will change peoples perceptions of him

Bah, whoever it is then. All a bunch of crooks anyway.

Spot feckin on. There was no point in debating. Same old feckin story.

It's not early 2000's and it's not ICT either, but here's Caley's last ever Cup Final. Anybody remember it? A magazine article from around the time said that some Caley fans organised a swearing campaign in protest at the merger aimed at disrupting television coverage of the game.

What else do you expect from the Self Presevation league

A club from Inverness playing in the national league system was once a remote prospect, reaching the top tier was an even more remote prospect, reaching the League Cup final was even more remote and winning the Scottish Cuo and playing in Europe was once the remotest prospect of all. I will just be happy for our club to survive and vie for promotion next season no matter how remote that prospect might be.

Just wrapped the Polworth one. He was brilliant to chat with and I think people will think twice about some of the stuff that has been said about him in the past. And yes we asked him about that photo!

If there's one sure way of never getting change, it is to stop debating.

In some aspects, I can understand why the revamp of the leagues was denied, but they could at least work on League Two. Set that up as a Two Up, Two Down system, or at least make a League Three. Another thing they could potentially do is add the NCFA as a feeder league to the Highland League. The whole thing is a shambles, and is disgraceful how the Ugly Sisters and Co. are so focused on getting money into their already well lined pockets, that there are other, smaller clubs that could go bust if they get relegated. Time to unfurl a banner on the opening day that reads "F*ck the SFA"