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Agree with most of that except the SLO / CEO thing. CEO needs to go and is the root of much of the rot. Also, everything about ICT doesn't say Championship. It says First Division.

Can you expand on that BC...

ICT were formed for the businessmen, the businesswomen and the ego trippers. It comes as no surprise to me that the so called guardians of this club treat the trust or any fan for that matter with utter contempt. I’m afraid it won’t matter if the trust has five members or five thousand members they will be looked upon and treated the same. Rumours are rife regarding the clubs poor finances are we closing in on part time football? Are we heading for liquidation? I see parallels with ICT and the Orcs there certainly seems to be the same deluded mentality from board level and a large section of our support. I actually feel sorry for Billy Dodds let’s be honest no one in their right mind would want his job while the club is in this state. Even some of the most deluded happy clappers are now seemingly seeing it as it is shame it took them 30 years but hey ho. Dougal

I agree the lack of communication and engagement from the club is the biggest disappointment in this whole sorry saga .... And ironically the silence only amplifies the fans frustrations related to what is happening on the pitch right now. Hopefully the Supporters Trust board announce details of a meeting imminently .....

Given the shareholding of the Trust, can they demand / request a seat on the Board? That would get a fan’s representative involved in the key discussions and decisions and, subject to the usual confidentiality constraints, able to give fans updates and (hopefully) reassurances. The Trust nominee on the Board can also hold the club’s staff, including the CEO and SLO, to account. It would also raise the profile of the Trust and perhaps allay some of the concerns voiced by BC and others

It seems to me that there are competing and unnecessary demands at large within the ICT community. The elephant in the room is communication or lack thereof. Communication will only succeed if it is horizontal. Vertical communication always fails in other words if communication is always from the top to the rest,without listening to opposing, or different views then it is doomed to failure. The Chairman and board don't speak to the fans.The Trust has tried to engage, but the club say they are not representative of the majority of the support. The SLO is a Director, nice man maybe , but dumping this role on him so that we meet UEFA guidelines is not good enough,or fair on him. We need a root and branch review of the ICT staffing structure. We need a visible,approachable, determined and dynamic SLO who is a passionate fan and well able to negotiate stormy waters to get answers.The role should be P/T or indeed full time. Chairmen/Chairwoman and boards come and go as do Managers and players,but one constant is the supporter who mainly comes from the community and is in part of a generational line of supporters. We need to get back to basics and link in with schools, churches, youth clubs and other groups and sell them a vision which they can follow. Maybe a breakthrough would be if a restricted number on this forum asked the Chairman and board for a fair hearing and the meeting was designed to address the one issue of repairing communication, we would start to get somewhere.We should not try and eat the whole elephant,but do so in bite sizes.(Not wishing harm or real elephants ) We should maybe use our voice to start addressing issues,but we should do so in small steps and not try and address all issues in one go.

‘And the band continued to play on the Titanic’! bc