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A big thank you for everyone who came along to yesterday's meeting in the Caley Club, and particular thanks to Board Member George Moodie who led the Q&A Session. Thanks also to Ross Morrison, who joined for the first hour, and to Scott Young, who was present for the full meeting. It is encouraging to see the Chairman and Board wishing to engage with the Supporters Trust and with fans in general. A full update will appear on the Supporters Trust website in due course, but some highlights from the discussion. Ross Morrison provided an update on the Battery Park, and the implications for the club. The planning decision will be made by the Council at Wednesday's South Area Planning Committee. The club has overcome three of the four grounds for refusal, with the loss of open space being the remaining issue. With the work that has been put in since the previous Planning Meeting, Ross is confident that the application will be approved. If it is, the club will quickly receive a seven figure sum which will stabilise finances, allow debt to be cleared, and allow investment to start in areas which will secure future income streams for the club. The club will not get an ongoing income stream from the Battery Park. Areas which may see investment include the North Car Park. However, the position is very bleak if the application is refused. An appeal will be submitted, but the delay will cause significant cash flow issues for the club, as it cannot continue to sustain the level of losses that have been prevalent in recent years. This will have a serious negative impact as the club will not be able to support all its current activities. Fans received an update on the activities of the Community Trust, and in particular the good progress that has been made on the Sports Hub. The future progress on this is one of many issues which are dependent on the planning decision on Wednesday. Scott Young advised that, at the club's Board Meeting on Friday, he was confirmed as the Supporters Liaison Officer. Scott indicated his commitment to making this role work, and to ensuring that the club responds to contact from fans and takes action where it is required. The Supporters Trust has been pushing for the club to make the SLO work properly, and this is a welcome step forward. We look forward to working closely with Scott to ensure that fans' issues are understood and addressed. Scott advised that there are 1459 season tickets, and a further 50 half season tickets were sold. The club intends to be more proactive when it comes to season ticket renewals this year. The meeting between the Trusts Disability Group and the club remains outstanding, but a date should be fixed soon. Options for Hospitality Days that are aimed at fans rather than businesses are being explored. The club recognises that the attractiveness of player sponsorship has reduced, and intends to address this for the coming season. It has been great to see some new members join the Trust in recent weeks: welcome to you all! The Trust exists to represent fans of the club, and to be a bridge between the club and its supporters. Membership is only £5 (£1 for under 16s) and joining is easy. Just follow this link: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/join-us If anyone has any comments for the Supporters Trust, we can be contacted through this link: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/contact or through the Trust Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ICTSupportersTrust Thank you again for everyone who attended yesterday's meeting. Robert Andrew (please note that the above is my personal summary of the key issues and not a formal Trust report on the meeting).

That was a hard watch. Players getting used to each other was probably a factor as was the gusty wind, but in truth, Queens showed more energy and desire and were better organised. The stats say we had 17 shots on goal (which is encouraging) but none of them made the keeper work. I'm not too despondent though. I think we do have the talent to make progress once the team gels and I think the new signings give us options we didn't have before. Savage looks decent at centre back, McAllister looked lively and Pepple looked strong and could be a good target man. Pick of the new signings at this stage would appear to be Samuel. He probably should have score again today but he holds the ball up very well and has a great work rate. At the moment there is a pretty obvious lack of confidence in front of goal, exemplified by two awful efforts by Gilmour towards the end, but with options up front, we need to be more positive going forward. If we do that we will create more and we will score more. We also need the fans to get behind the guys on the pitch more. It means a lot to them and yet for many of our so called support, the most noise they ever make is when they are shouting abuse at their own players. It is a significant reason why the team seems to play so much better away from home. We call ourselves supporters, so let's give a bit support to the team.

Many thanks for the feedback Robert. It sounds as though granting of the planning permission would be a significant one off boost to the club, but refusal would be a disaster. I wonder if the in-between scenario of an appeal against whatever the decision might be was discussed? Appeals processes can be rather drawn out and this would leave the club needing to find further ways of keeping the current set-up going for what could be a fairly uncertain time frame. It is positive that the Chairman was prepared to come to the meeting to talk about this. It is also positive that Scott Young has formally been appointed SLO and has expressed a willingness to engage with the Supporters Trust moving forward. However, this is just a very small step in what will be a long journey. We know and the club knows that the SLO should not be a Director of the club. We also know there are a host of issues which the club should be dealing with and are not. We need to see a massive change in attitude from the club in the way it relates to the fan base. Coming along to a few meetings to update the fans on a few issues simply doesn't cut it. The outcome of the planning application will be crucial is shaping the the strategy and priorities for the club for the next few years. Regardless of which way the planning decision goes, the club should be looking to involve the fans in developing future plans. The fans are the lifeblood of the club and if the club had engaged more constructively with them in the last several years, the club might not be in quite the precarious position it now finds itself in.

It’s a pity we didn’t do some business to strengthen the defence during the transfer window 😕

This. There was a lot of frustration about lack of shots in the first half given the amount of ball we had around their box, but apart from the shot/backpass (Anderson?) we didn’t really get a look at goal, so no chance to shoot. Game was begging for the ball to go out wide and stretch them out a bit, but we just let them pack the middle. Can we get last season’s Nathan Shaw back, please?

I did think Motorbikes was a strange one, but you may be a full on Harley Chick for all I know...lol

I did make the meeting and while I do appreciate the chairman and a director turning up, I came away from the meeting feeling very disheartened. While there may be some small sound bites being said to try and make out they are listening, most suggestions were being dismissed. To see no progress with the disability group is also very disappointing and for the club to now say they are waiting for potential names to allow for due diligence before the meeting feels like they are just stalling on a very important issue. They were also very dismissive of the issues that happened in the North stand at the Dundee United game. They did not seem prepared to listen to season ticket holders that were affected. Homophobic abuse and unacceptable behaviour by a small majority of supporters were brushed under the carpet. I know a lot of the focus is currently on the battery farm but does that have to be to the detriment of the day to day running of the club.

Fair enough, but flip side of this is they need to man up and give us something to cheer. Forking out hard earned money week in week out has been halted by me this season and I'm not prepared to pay anymore money until there is something worth watching.

Hibs would have had someone watching our game today and we will have had them thinking that they will come up here and win but the pressure is all on them and we seem to play better against the bigger clubs. Even after the game today I think we can win this game!

Quite. If you didn't laugh you'd cry. Seriously though, the SLO should be the main contact person between the club and the fans. Any club that values communication with the fans would ensure that the appointment of the SLO received maximum possibly publicity. Not to publicise it at all is contemptible. Not only has the club not announced this, they haven't even bothered to change the website. It still lists Gordon Fyffe as SLO. It is great that Scott Young has been attending the Supporters Trust's open meetings and I wish him all the best in the role. I do wonder though, what the club has told him his role is. The SLO is a role that Supporters Direct Scotland and the SFA have worked closely together on in order to provide guidance to clubs. Scott, just in case you haven't been provided with a copy, you can find one here.

That was a tough watch, as has been the case so often. I thought we started poorly but then largely dominated the first half but couldn’t score. We were too tippy tappy yet again in the final third when shots were on. We came out strongly in the second half but conceded against the run of play and never looked like getting back in it after then. We could look at some poor refereeing decisions or play acting and time wasting by Queens Park but, in truth, we were just not capable of getting anything today. Our home form and results are shocking and it’s needs sorted very quickly.

Is Duncan Ferguson immune from criticism? That was another shocking display, every bit as poor as any under Dodds. I'm not convinced he has a clue what he's doing.

I suppose we have to accept its a new half team and a number of players have never played together. It's simple I suppose put the ball in the net to have any chance and if you cannot do that don't give away a goal. First half we had so many chances but tried to score the perfect goal.Queens first shot on target and they score.You couldn't make it up. Not despondent as Savage looked good,as did McAllister and Kerr. Samuel holds the ball up well and has show he can score,so sometimes we have to take a sore one,whilst we regroup and build a new. Next week will be the test and a time to show what we can do. Some of these boys met only two days ago so it is far to early to be overly critical.I didn't read much criticism last week when we beat second in the league,or when we were pipped by the top team before that. Why not give the team time to gel and get to know each other before slaughtering them. If we were to somehow beat Hibs next week will all those down on the team still be doom and gloom. We are far better than we were at the start of the season that's for sure and I'd have big Dunc anyday before the previous incumbent.

When we did get it wide the ball just ended up being recycled backwards and across their defence rather than fizzing the ball early into the near or back post areas. QP were by no means the Land of Giants first XI and we could have looked to exploit that a bit more. One ball swung across their 6 yard box at pace late in game had their defence turned and just needed a touch, but just too predictable overall. This was Ferguson 0 Davidson 1 on the day.

Well said!

Yet again it would seem that inferences made by the CEO are having to be corrected by the Chairman. This time it's the Battery Storage being a one off windfall and not the ongoing income stream we were lead to believe it would be. What happens when that money (assuming it happens) has been swallowed up by debt and operating costs that are beyond our means? Do we just keep running up debt in the hope that another windfall arrives from somewhere? The most recent accounts show a hole in excess of £800k in required annual income. There's no hope of Premiership football on the horizon, the club are doing nothing to improve the fans experience or relationship with fans, so numbers will likely continue to fall and the pie in the sky ventures are alienating local businesses, damaging the support we get from there. It's an absolute shitshow and if they think fans can be placated and brought back by filling a few holes in the north car park, then it's just another example of how out of touch with reality they really are. Get these clowns to **** away from the club.

I'd like to see you drive one of these MHs into Rise Street car park lol Sorry just realised predictive text changed Motorhome to motorbike lol

A big thank you for everyone who came along to yesterday's meeting in the Caley Club, and particular thanks to Board Member George Moodie who led the Q&A Session. Thanks also to Ross Morrison, who joined for the first hour, and to Scott Young, who was present for the full meeting. It is encouraging to see the Chairman and Board wishing to engage with the Supporters Trust and with fans in general. A full update will appear on the Supporters Trust website in due course, but some highlights from the discussion. Ross Morrison provided an update on the Battery Park, and the implications for the club. The planning decision will be made by the Council at Wednesday's South Area Planning Committee. The club has overcome three of the four grounds for refusal, with the loss of open space being the remaining issue. With the work that has been put in since the previous Planning Meeting, Ross is confident that the application will be approved. If it is, the club will quickly receive a seven figure sum which will stabilise finances, allow debt to be cleared, and allow investment to start in areas which will secure future income streams for the club. The club will not get an ongoing income stream from the Battery Park. Areas which may see investment include the North Car Park. However, the position is very bleak if the application is refused. An appeal will be submitted, but the delay will cause significant cash flow issues for the club, as it cannot continue to sustain the level of losses that have been prevalent in recent years. This will have a serious negative impact as the club will not be able to support all its current activities. Fans received an update on the activities of the Community Trust, and in particular the good progress that has been made on the Sports Hub. The future progress on this is one of many issues which are dependent on the planning decision on Wednesday. Scott Young advised that, at the club's Board Meeting on Friday, he was confirmed as the Supporters Liaison Officer. Scott indicated his commitment to making this role work, and to ensuring that the club responds to contact from fans and takes action where it is required. The Supporters Trust has been pushing for the club to make the SLO work properly, and this is a welcome step forward. We look forward to working closely with Scott to ensure that fans' issues are understood and addressed. Scott advised that there are 1459 season tickets, and a further 50 half season tickets were sold. The club intends to be more proactive when it comes to season ticket renewals this year. The meeting between the Trusts Disability Group and the club remains outstanding, but a date should be fixed soon. Options for Hospitality Days that are aimed at fans rather than businesses are being explored. The club recognises that the attractiveness of player sponsorship has reduced, and intends to address this for the coming season. It has been great to see some new members join the Trust in recent weeks: welcome to you all! The Trust exists to represent fans of the club, and to be a bridge between the club and its supporters. Membership is only £5 (£1 for under 16s) and joining is easy. Just follow this link: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/join-us If anyone has any comments for the Supporters Trust, we can be contacted through this link: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/contact or through the Trust Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ICTSupportersTrust Thank you again for everyone who attended yesterday's meeting. Robert Andrew (please note that the above is my personal summary of the key issues and not a formal Trust report on the meeting).

Yeah I thought initially that would be the case too, it just seems very odd that our tactics remain largely the same as under dodds. Looking at QP, and to be honest any other team in the cship no matter which position in the league they are in, they take spells where they quickly 1 or 2 pass their way into a scoring opportunity and as in yesterday's case, take the opportunity. We however, seem happy to pass the ball to death across the park and backwards until we get dispossessed. Obviously not every week as was evident against raith but worryingly most weeks even with these new players. Harper for one seems incapable of running at the opposing defence in any way shape or form and prefers the safe pass, but to be honest they are guilty of dithering

I can never understand why more fans don't direct the criticism at the one person who's been at the club longer than the last 4 or 5 managers and who is clearly behind the on field tactics, Scott Kellacher. No team ever changes manager and assistant but keeps the same coaching staff. It's just bonkers that he's still on the training field with the players when clearly this tippy tappy passing across the face of goal dosent work. Until we address what the players are being told to do midweek by the coaching staff and yes I include DF in that too, we are going to continue to struggle. Not once did we look like creating a good enough chance to result in a goal yesterday, far too slow and ponderous and simply no real awareness or quality from anyone in front of goal

Gutsiest call was to stand there in just a jumper for 90 minutes

Sounds like they are running around like headless chickens

Having listened to Ferguson's post match interview I wonder if I was at the same game? This was an inept display against a very poor opposition and despite plenty of possession we never looked like scoring. Queens Park had one shot at goal and scored whereas we couldn't manage one attempt on target as we seemed to think that passing the ball across the penalty area was better than having a go. I just don't understand the tactics

I have given up hope for this season. Just hope we can muster enough points to avoid the play offs : really can't believe I am saying that. It'll soon be 10 years since we won the cup and finished 3rd in the Premiership.... Utterly depressing.

The fact that Snot Gardening is gambling our club with such big risks does my nut in. Could easily pressure the Council into an "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine" situation if we get the car park revamped to be a Park and Ride and they get rid of that ruddy stupid bus lane on the roundabout. Helps the council with emissons issues within the city center, gives more parking in already open spaces rather than tearing down iconic buildings à la the Drill Hall and gives us a desperately needed P&R, and on our end, it gives us a massively improved car park thats been sorely needed, a hourly/half hourly shuttle service to the stadium (so again, less emissions from local/city based fans) and a stable income even if we go down the middle on earnings, with a possible extra with a parking pass option for Season Ticket holders. All entirely with minimal risk, or do the boards of ICT and the Coonsil go hand and hand with ineptitude? I'm aware I've brought the P&R issue up before, and been told nothing can be done because there's no access to the A9 north due to the bus lane at the roundabout. But that shouldn't become a brick wall and should only be a thorn in the side ready to be pulled out. If Snot wants to bring fans on his side r.e. investments, he needs to start with reasonably sized, no/minimal risk investments that the Council are likely back, rather than going the whole hog with a massive investment that can either be massive for us or kill us off entirely...

I think I would have been better going shopping

Tbh, kinda willing to let it slide considering the new boys are still finding their feet in the scottish game, as all they've really played youth football down south, and the Hibs game is effectively a lost cause. Ref on the other hand, was absolutely hoaching, could sneeze in the general direction of a Queen's player and he'd give a foul... Just fortunate that Dunfermline and Ayr fumbled horridly which keeps us within touching distance of the playoffs

Unbelievable we couldn't put a really poor QP under any sustained pressure after going behind. We had 40 minutes but yet again huffed and puffed and created next to nothing. IMO need to go back basics and ditch the 5 at the back. Playing one up at home with Billy McKay playing deep in midfield is not working.

I wouldn't be looking forward to this if I was a Hibs fan.

Ironically we moved up to 7th despite losing. Dunfermline look to be in free fall at the moment.

Hibs are on a bad run and got thumped 3-0 at home by St Mirren today. They’ve 2 points out of 18 in the league and scraped past Forfar 1-0 on the last round. We need to approach it positively and believing we can win it. We’ve caused bigger cup upsets and it will do confidence a power of good if we can get a positive result.

Agree with previous comments. A difficult watch, especially the 2nd half. And when QP scored we just fell apart. I console myself by believing it'll take a game or 2 for the new recruits to gel. Then we'll be unbeatable!

I didn't follow his career as an assistant manager, nor his brief tenure at FGR. (And I note that FGR have already gone through two other managers since he departed.) But that is a valid question, and one which I have been asking myself recently. Yes, he must still be learning, but we could just be finding out that he's simply not a good manager. I sincerely hope not!

Not sure that's the case. He clearly identified there were weaknesses in the squad which he has looked to address, however we need to wait and see if the recruitment he has undertaken is better than those jettisoned where he felt they had levels of culpability. In patches we moved the ball well but it was too infrequent and in areas that offered little forward threat. Latter chasing the game was reverting back to high ball, hit and hope which agreed is verging close to Doddsball. Overall we have gone from rock bottom with a solitary point and looking like loosing every week to sitting above relegation with remote possibility of pushing up the table although promotion play-offs are highly unlikely. Is that progess, a little I guess.

Home record and many home performances are dreadful. Can't expect to stay up based on away games. Too many new faces = not enough cohesion.

Controversial and early days but I'm not convinced some of these guys are going to be better than Carson or Welsh. Although others have improved positions. However I do expect given how deep visiting teams set up against us we will get more success away from home.

17 shots to 4 but 0-1 FT. Awful result.

Well it's 1-0 now...

Whoa - Rome wasn't built in a day - we have a team that has NEVER all played together+ players getting used to the system+ little knowledge of the opposition. I would take 1-0 today.

So the club have borrowed money and given security against income they don't have yet. Was there not one of the Glasgow teams, who our CEO used to work for, that did something similar? Anyone recall how that worked out?

Okay thanks. Well all we need to do now is find out who is this weeks Communication Officer & let him know

So our total business in the window: IN: Remi Savage (Newcastle United), James Carragher (Wigan Athletic, loan), Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen (Leeds United, loan), Cammy Kerr (Dundee, loan), Sean McAllister (Everton, loan), Aribim Pepple (Luton Town, loan), Alex Samuel (Ross County, loan) OUT: David Carson (Livingston), Zak Delaney (Arbroath), Sean Welsh (Queen's Park), David Wotherspoon (Dundee United), Keith Bray (Elgin City, loan), Ethan Cairns (Banks o' Dee, loan), Jake Davidson (Hamilton Academical, loan), Lewis Hyde (Brora Rangers, loan), Robbie Thompson (The Spartans, loan), Cillian Sheridan Regarding the players who have left, obviously we'd have all loved to keep hold of Wotherspoon. Welsh was a great player for us but his fitness has always been an issue and it seems that Dunc prefers Gilmour and Anderson as his starting central midfielders. Moving Welsh on will have freed a significant wage, and he was surely going to leave in the summer anyway. Ditto Carson, who has probably been usurped at right wing-back by Kerr but would have been another option in the middle od the park. Again, Dunc seems happy with his options there, with McAllister brought in as another alternative to the current starting trio of Gilmour, Anderson and Shaw (hopefully Roddy MacGregor stays fit as another option here). Meanwhile Delaney and Davidson have rarely looked of Championship standard and have shown precious little signs of progressing towards that level so we've done well to move them on (Davidson only temporarily, mind - Dodds gave him a two year deal!). It's nice to see us coming up with SPFL loans for youngsters rather than Highland League ones for a change. As for the newbies, McAllister and Pepple are obviously unknowns, but the three centre-backs all look like they have something about them and Kerr and Samuel should do very well for us. In the short-term we seem to have enough quality and depth to stay up (famous last words) though we'll need a pretty decent run to get to the promotion playoffs. The long-term picture is murkier. That's eight loan players we have now. We don't have many folk under contract for next year - Davidson, Nicolson, Savage, Ujdur, Gilmour, Longstaff, Brooks and Mckay plus a few youngsters I think? Ideally we need to get ourselves safe quickly so there is plenty of time to decide who to try and keep and to try and convince them to stay...

Should we get rid of the admin and accounts staff because the club's a shamble off the pitch? After all, many of them have been there longer than the last few Chairmen/CEOs.

I doubt he has much say under DF. I'm told it's very close knit between him and Bolan

For comparison Dodds in the Championship averaged 1.5 points per game, Ferguson is on 1.35.

Fecking abysmal.

Went to the game with optimistism, Anticipation and confidence... left with a feeling of De ja vu. What pysh.

Home games against the bottom 2 sides: P3 L3

Most of them have. 3 newcomers today? 4 if you count Samuel. BBC says we have had 15 shots, and Queens have had 3

I’m feeling very confident about this. 🙂 We never win when I feel this confident. ☹️