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Money for nothing

Pursuing other sources of income is fine, it's this thing with whoring out the clubs name and reputation to the highest bidder and greedy projects that's unacceptable. They could have rented the stadium to an experienced concert operator and taken a nice wee rental income every year. Instead they go all Johnny Big Baws, attach the club name to an unaffiliated (yeah right!) company, **** it up, and are now unlikely to see any promoter come near us in future. Not to mention the reputational damage and money lost by local companies. If the battery storage was such a winner, then it could have been done by ILI without need to attach the club name and they then make a major donation, or do a big sponsorship deal to pass on the proceeds. The developers knew it would need the 'community benefit' leverage to have any chance, so the club are all over it like a cheap suit and the clubs name, reputation and.possibly even it's existence, are again on the line. Meanwhile, the club have totally taken the eye off the ball with fan engagement, matchday experience, and the product on the park. There's **** all for fans to be proud of when it comes to Caley Thistle at the moment.

Highland Council covering themselves in glory yet again. If I understand it correctly certain people were asked to recuse themselves due to potentially having a conflict of interest (e.g. having been to a match in the home end). The council are now calling it in due to not enough inverness people voting. Pretty shambolic and bordering on shady. Regardless, I'm utterly fed up of our chairman and CEO and these projects. I wish they would just concentrate on the nuts and bolts of running a football club rather than than these expensive and time consuming schemes. The concert company was a fiasco and this is potentially heading the same way.

The hotel development needed planning permission, and this was decided by the south planning committee. If permission had been refused, there would likely still be a cultural use at the site. That is beside the point anyway - the Chair of the commitee is claiming that the battery decision isn't valid because not enough Councillors from Inverness voted on it. Yet he represents Fort William, and has been happy to vote in favour of the hotel development at the Ironworks and against the battery farm last week. I hope the club embarrass the Council over this, it's a shambles.

What a refreshing thread

Right, funnily enough this is usually the sort of thread that I would start so it really tells a story that I haven't started one, I am now realising that it's not always the manager to blame for failures and sorry to bring up Rugby again but, that's exactly why I have stuck by Gregor Townsend for as long as I have, and will likely afford Duncan at least the rest of this season and perhaps even next season because even I realise that he was left a poor quality of squad that were conceding goals galore and not really scoring goals yet this manager has sorted out our defensive issues by signing good quality players like Carragher from England and also a striker that we can rely on in the shape of Alex Samuel so the key to survival this season may well be keeping Alex Samuel fit for a long period of time. As I have said previously (I'm not sure of I've said it on this forum or on the Facebook posts with the weekly results) this summer is going to be crucial for Duncan as we are likely to be rebuilding the squad majorly no matter what league we're in so we need to back him to get it right. In regards to Dougie Imrie, I really don't think that he was seriously in contention mainly due to the issue of compensation, I would have accepted him as manager and probably would in future too if he was ever given our job but for the moment I'm going to back Ferguson until it's clear that he has lost the dressing room which imho is a long way off!

Doran is class. He hasn’t played many minutes this season but he and new loanee Samuel are way ahead of anybody else in the minutes per goal stats. We need him on the pitch looking to shoot on sight and the likes of Billy and Samuel primed to pounce on the loose balls from blocks, saves etc. Dunc has spoken highly of the ever present Gilmour, but I think I’m right in saying he has scored just once and has no assists. For someone in his role it is not good enough. Shaw may not be playing as well as last season but he has as many goals and assists as the rest of the regular midfield put together. Football is about scoring more goals than your opponents. It is not about how many safe passes you can make.

So Boyzone are going to back Chorley FC !! Who do you think would be the most appropriate band to fill the finance breach at ICT ?

Disturbed

Freeport Convention?

Savage Gardiner?

My main concern is our very, very poor home form (it's been like that for a number of seasons). Until we sort that out, we'll continue our downward trend. I'd like to feel more positive......................

Sure, it’s too early to think of Dunc getting sacked but it’s fair enough to question what we’re seeing. There was a terrific new manager bounce after an awful start with Dodds, but it’s gone very flat. Hopefully the team will gel a bit more and become more positive going forward as a result. To be fair, Dunc inherited a mess. As far as I’m concerned, avoiding relegation is the main target. Assuming that is achieved then I will be looking for improvement both in terms of results and entertainment next season. If we don’t get that, then it would be time for someone else.

I suspect my knees are in better shape. Great player and great servant. But he is past his sell by date and is the ideal 20 - 30 minutes substitute.

The inevitable Ferguson witch-hunt gathers pace. This forum must be a leader in the propensity of whingers and armchair manager assassins. Has Ferguson been afforded any cash to splash or is he part of the cull to save money ? Have we ever seen such changes mid season and who is at fault there ? Do you think that Ferguson made that decision on his own or perhaps maybe the decisions were made for him ? Is Ferguson being set up as the Messiah or the fall guy - and who would do that ? Fraid the off field element of our club has become a real self preservation society - and finally (The Rock has come back to Inverness) did anyone actually think that we would beat Hibs

Looks like that rabbit might have myxomatosis.

If I had a quid for every time the coonsil's made a right arse of themselves, I'd have Sheikh Mansour'd this club into the Champions League...