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I am raffling the ICTFC Scottish Cup Pitch Flag from our 2015 Cup Win. I'm taking part in Strictly Inverness 2023 and the proceeds will go towards my fundraising to aid Highland Hospice and Inverness Ice Centre. Tickets can be purchased online from https://raffall.com/334535/enter-raffle-to-win-ictfc-scottish-cup-flag-hosted-by-donald-johnstone The draw will close on 22nd April or when all tickets have been sold....whichever is sooner. Me and my dance partner are also holding a bingo night on 11th March at Cafe V8 - £10 per person. Tickets from - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prize-bingo-cafe-v8-strictly-inverness-2023-tickets-567034785307

I wonder if any shareholder on here has had formal notification of the Club's AGM yet? I've received nothing and there is nothing on the Club's website. In his recent statement, the Chairman stated that the AGM would be held on 28th March. That being the case, the deadline to receive formal notification was yesterday as shareholders should be receiving formal notification at least 21 days prior to the meeting. The AGM is already long overdue, so I hope this does not mean that the Club is delaying the AGM even more. One can't help feel that if there was substance to the optimism expressed in the Chairman's recent statement and in the Accounts submitted to Companies House, the Club would be keen to make their plans public as soon as possible. These constant delays suggest that they are experiencing some difficulty in finding anyone willing to put the kind of money into the club which is required in order to prevent swingeing cuts to management and player budgets. Hopefully, the failure to get the paperwork out in time is just an administrative glitch and we will receive details by the end of the week. If not, some serious questions will need to asked.

Not a great new amenity or public facility, but a personal favourite is the Black Isle Brewery bar on Church Street. Great selection of beers - when we are in Inverness we usually visit the brewery shop to load up the car - and the pizzas are really good! We've also had some interesting and fun conversations when sharing a table with strangers. You'll probably all say that it's a tourist trap. Well, when I am in Inverness, I am a tourist

Ayr have won 3-1 at Morton so we are now 7 points off the play offs with 9 games to play. It will be a tall order and we will need a good run in to have any chance.

They seem to have done a good job with the town house so fingers crossed the removal of scaffolding will show some good work.

Yes, don't eat the yellow snow!

Agree with the road and the UHI comments but for me the biggest improvement was opening up the castle viewpoint. When you can get a view like this, its amazing to see how beautiful the locale is. I really hope that with the courts gone they take the opportunity to double-down on the improvements made to the Town House to create an area that is appealing to tourists and locals alike with the Castle, Town House, Museum and perhaps some green space if they ever tear down Upper Bridge St. It would be amazing.

I won't name them as I'm not sure it's public knowledge, but one of ICTFCs greatest (non playing) legends is currently a resident of the Highland Hospice, so the cause could not be better

Done. Good luck Don

Have you completed the Supporters Trust Matchday Survey? There are free text boxes in the survey to allow responders to expand on the basic yes/no and ratings questions. This provides the opportunity to give some examples such as you have outlined here. If the survey shows that people in general are unhappy with the food and drink availability, this kind if detailed feedback will allow us to put into the survey report that not only are people unhappy, but it is something the club could act on because other clubs are successfully doing it. The more people who complete the survey the more valid the answers will become. I really would urge anyone who has not yet completed the survey to take a few minutes to do it as every survey completed gives the fan base a louder voice.

Considering the amount of empty car park space and number of aimlessly wandering stewards, never understood why we can put up a few outdoor benches, some barrier chain and a few speakers to do this. Since covid, it's never been easier for hospitality to have outdoor space for patrons. Our matchday experience has so much room for improvement.

And a 2-1 win.

What you mean that he has failed as a coach, a tactician and a feckin physiotherapist

The key message from Scot Gardiner’s appearance was that times are tough financially but there is “no danger” of us going bust. He stated that he is more concerned about performances on the pitch.

Spot on NJ. I find the minimalism associated with this whole affair very unacceptable. The excerpts from the accounts don’t even give profit and loss and to find the loss you have to scour the notes. This also means that there’s no indication of the vital parameter of turnover, which hence also prevents anyone from working out what the loss is as a percentage of expenditure or turnover which I think is quite important. Then there’s today’s verbose statement which is most notable for its attempts to create a smokescreen obscuring what really matters. I am absolutely astonished that a statement made on behalf of the Chairman 24 hours after the account details have leaked out via parties unconnected with the club should fail even to have an acknowledgement of how big the loss is. The statement failed to take ownership of extremely adverse circumstances which, as I write, the club itself has not yet acknowledged. And then there’s the first revelation of the date of the overdue AGM which appears incidentally to something else, and half way through this wordy statement. This doesn’t exactly make it very easy to obtain information about what’s clearly a critical situation.

Cheers DD. Post edited accordingly. I must have missed that in the statement …. not difficult in 800 words where a revelation of what is one of the key, urgent club issues of the day - the date of its very overdue AGM - appears about 400 words in and in a context which is incidental to an arrangement with a land management concern. I therefore look forward as a shareholder to receiving notification of this meeting and attendant documentation by Tuesday 7th March. I’ve got to say that I find this statement a slightly baffling way of communicating. As I see it, there are two items of information needing urgently and clearly communicated - the club’s financial details and a date for a very overdue AGM - but one is omitted completely while the other is obscured in the bowels of an extremely wordy statement.

Welcome back, Charles! Re the AGM, the Chairman’s statement states it will take place on 28th March.

Yes, I know it’s been a very long time since I’ve posted on here…life has taken a few different directions, but I did remember my password! What’s prompted me to post now is this extremely articulate and very well informed thread on a topic I’ve followed with great interest since even before the club existed as a supporter, a journalist and for the last 26 years, a shareholder as well - its finances. Moving on from that rather lengthy reintroduction, I must say that I’m rather astonished that today’s lengthy club statement of around 800 words makes no admission whatsoever of the specifics of what’s looking like an ever deepening financial crisis, as revealed yesterday by external parties. Headline items here include losses increasing 3.5 fold to £835K… deeper in hock to HMRC and trade creditors… 64% fall in net assets, large increase in staff to 92 and the auditors slapping a “going concern” notice on the accounts. These details were only revealed through Companies House yesterday, the company’s deadline for filing there, and picked up by the media… all before shareholders and supporters have been told by the club. And this information vacuum, given the absence of any financial detail in that statement, remains the case unless a calling notice is on its way for an AGM which, according to the company’s articles of association, became overdue on 21st December last year.(EDIT - AGM now called for 28.3.22.) There has been such a delay with these accounts that the information they contain is now nine months out of date, which is a long time when financial fortunes are in freefall. Has the situation got even worse? In 2021 we were told that concerts were going to be the financial Messiah… and then the concert company collapsed. What are the implications of that, because even though the Concertco was a legally separate company from the FC, although both its directors were also FC directors, there must be reputational and other issues to consider and other apsects to scrutinise. And what are the specifics of these “land” arrangements and “battery farm”? Someone in an earlier post (and it’s great to see so many of the “usual suspects” of years gone by still contributing magnificently on this forum!) suggested that ICT hasn’t had a boost from benefactors like Ross County. I’m not sure if I totally agree with that and would start with Ian Fraser’s £330K in 1996 and continue through a multi-faceted £3-ish million from Tullochs, several hundred thousand from Muirfield Mills, part of a million in new capital that appeared during 2018-19 etc etc. Then there’s goodness know a how much in loans and donations just to keep the club solvent and it’s all gone simply to sustain a long term underlying loss situation. This club has therefore had substantial external assistance but still finds itself in the financial plight described in these nine month old accounts…. or possibly worse. However any insight provided to fans, shareholders etc has been very limited. Meanwhile one major current issue is why (EDIT now called for 28.3.23.) is why the deadline was so lengthily missed for an AGM where shareholders can require the board to shed some light on what appears to be an increasingly alarming situation?

Could you make yourself look like any more of a sanctimonious *****?