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Where are you guys hearing that that it’s good news and when can we expect this news? I wish people would stop vaguely hinting at things. It just gets people’s hopes up for no reason.

I would imagine that the insolvency practitioner will be heavily reliant on SG for knowledge of the club’s current state of affairs and for information needed by potential investors too. The chairman bailed out, and the rest of the board seem even less hands-on than he was, and every single one of them declined the opportunity to take temporary charge. There’s a lot of work needed to save the club and it helps to have someone with a bit of knowledge and experience than to have an even bigger void than there already is. So long as SG’s presence is a very short term arrangement, it’s surely better than the alternative, like it or not.

Steady on. Plenty of other clubs have treated their fans like this. As most have alluded to, Gardiner probably has responsibilities that can't just be passed over, whether by design or by accident. He is also, as an employee of the club, within his rights to work his notice period, unless the club want to pay him off. Which, if he has duties and responsibilites that can't just be handed off over night means that he needs to stay to properly hand them over. I'd rather an actual responsible exchange of power over someone walking away and us getting caught out with all sorts of nonsense.

Another great podcast. If we do get a rescue, hopefully the incoming group is willing to work with Wyness Shuffle, Supporters Trust, Travel Club, CTO etc. and not against as there's no negatives, and only positives (unless you're charlatans like Crook and Gardiner, or have something to hide like the accounts - "if you've nothing to hide, hide nothing" as the man said) Anyway - very interesting what Ridgers said about how much the supporters (not only in stadium but on social media) influence the players. All the more reason for the executives to facilitate multiple ways to build affinity and connection between the city and fans and the club - not just for the fans, but for the players, results and ongoing success!

Could do a job for us...we need a 'keeper.

Lots of talk of being embarrassed at being an #ICTFC fan on other threads but it is things like this that still make me proud to be one. We rose as a COMMUNITY of fans, current and former team-mates, club staff (past and present), families of all of the above, and, it has to be said, also several football journalists to donate to this cause initiated by a former team-mate who himself went through injury hell and didn't get the support he needed and should have received from the club. £7K in less than 24 hours is great. Aaron will get his op and whether or not he plays football again, he should at least be able to play with his kids, which the article said he couldn't even do right now. That's the least he should expect after almost a decade and a half of loyal service. Look at the list of names in there and you will see many folks whose names you recognise but you may also notice - unless donating anonymously - the glaring lack of any names you might hope had developed a conscience and personally donated to the cause even if the club couldn't or wouldn't. I AM proud to be an ICT supporter because it means i can stand with and mingle with people like our supporters and others in our team's COMMUNITY. The ineptitude, inefficiency and seemingly utter disregard for our club from those who should be speaking now will not deter me from that. THEY are not the club. WE are the club, whether we have been here for 30 minutes or 30 years.

And may god have mercy on the poor sods that bring him on board

I wouldn't trust the very people that have run the club into the ground to hand anything over in a professional and business like manner. They are all failures and have failed the club that they should have seen prosper, why should they be any different now?

That was my first thought too but given the history of damning silence from this board I don’t think the usual adage applies to ICT.

I hope that whatever the "good news" is, it includes an end date for Gardiner.

Dougal will be raging

Absolutely! If the club survives then there simply must be fan representation on any new board, otherwise nothing changes and the secret society continues!

What happened, could you not get your legal team to complete the deal quickly enough?!

On top of all the incompetent, ignorant and disrespectful acts committed by the custodians of our club , they leave us hanging and anxious about the future of our club at a time we should be carefree and looking forward to Scotland at the euros. I’m trying to focus on Scotland but my mind is continually wandering back to whether I have a team to come back to. Thank you to the board, you’re ruining this for me as well.

Reluctantly, I think I have to agree with you. A competent Board would have sufficient business knowledge for a situation like this and a competent CEO would have made sure that relevant information about the club's affairs were accessible and understood both by the Board and by relevant staff who should be sufficiently trained to allow them to routinely cover in the CEO's absence. Unfortunately we have a Board that appears to have adopted a blind faith in Gardiner and have left him to it with little scrutiny over the years. The CEO himself clearly likes the power his position gives him. Knowledge is power and keeping knowledge from others makes his position more powerful. Sadly, the combination of the 2 probably makes him indispensable just now. Gardiner has resigned and will be leaving the club. He will need to find work elsewhere and it will be in his interests to be as helpful as he possibly can in assisting the club to achieve the best outcome possible from the unholy mess he and the board have created.

No doubt ICT will time the release of any statements to tomorrow around 8PM UK time so that we are all suitably distracted ... but f*** it, time to shift focus to what is hopefully Ryan Christie's 50th cap for Scotland and dare I say it, with things so bleak at ICT, a better chance of a positivity coming out of Munich than the Longman!!! Currently sitting in the office with a Spotify playlist blasting Scotland/football related tunes in my ear. Not getting much work done as I am watching the videos all over Twitter of the Tartan Army in Munich and wishing I was there. (in my defence - it is lunchtime here). Have also been scouring Toronto for some car flags, and this week have had my son belting out the Tartan Specials "We'll Be Coming" in the car and now he knows all the words Job Done - heard him tell his pals "We play Germany on Friday" and extolling how well we might do. The Tartan Army ethos and optimism has been indoctrinated into him now Even the guy who does the pixellot stuff at his football team said to me last night he has Ryan in his FC24 video game team. Apparently if we win, Ryan gets an instant skill boost of +20 to 93, whatever that means!

And on it goes yet again Gardiner still running the s**t show so no point releasing season tickets whilst majority want him well shot of beforehand . Resigned means Resigned au revoir, chow , good riddance. Would an employee and yes just an employee in any other job continue as before after failure after failure and not be told to just go now ? Unbelievable silence yet again and getting boring . Would any other club in the uk treat fans in this way ? NO ICT board , Playing fans like fools where the biggest fools are the current board. Embarrassing .

Would be very surprised if ICT doesn't own the legal rights to the name and the badge. And Caley's too. Unless they have let them lapse.

Are we not?Have I missed something ??

Nothing doing. Courier clickbait .

In this case I would say that it isn't for the SFA to mandate for. The Players Union should absolutely be advocating for it, and should possibly even be looking into a collective agreement with medical providers that covers all the players it represents.

Well I would say the fact we aren’t going bust is good news. At this point, anything more is a bonus.

No news usually is.

We have to wait for Mr Resigned to issue the statement .

Up to £8400 now, which is really good news for Aaron and no less than he deserves. It’s simply shameful that he has been put in his position and I hope this shows him how much the ICT support, and wider football community, value his contribution.

Exceptionally well-put. Send a copy to the papers and news websites.

More than the required £5k raised by Shane. Some big names in amongst those making donations. I wonder if our club is now suitably embarrassed enough? It makes me pig sick and the longer this goes on the more what's left of our reputation lies in tatters. At this rate it will take more than a few years, decades in fact, to repair links with fans and the community. Never in my life, 30 years of professional working life, have I seen such total mismanagement within an organisation. Gardiner needs to leave the club now!

So, give or take an apostrophe, does my old Dalneigh schoolmate and former player of this parish Brian Mcbey, now in South Africa, know something about a possible rescue bid?

The pies.

There's certainly enough doughnuts at the club but I wouldn't necessarily trust throwing hundreds and thousands at them We're crumbling quicker than an empire biscuit

Whilst it is appalling, especially for such a long-serving player, let’s not forget that the that the club has no money, it is bust, it needs a begging bowl every month to pay the wages and meet other legal obligations. It’s the sad reality that businesses in our desperate situation will put off any non-essential payments in order to stay alive a bit longer. Not justifying the club’s actions (or inactions) here, but it’s just the sort of unpleasant thing that I’ve seen happen in struggling businesses.

Chicken / Egg

The accounts being late is almost certainly because of the lack of certainty as to whether the club is a going concern. It seems increasingly certain that we are NOT a going concern. As for the AGM, I think everyone at the club has more important things to deal with over the next few weeks - yes it is supposed to happen in a prescribed timescale, but asking about the AGM right now feels like a a passenger on the Titanic heading to the lifeboats and asking what time breakfast will be served!

I spoke to someone earlier this evening who phoned the stadium this afternoon, hoping to book the Kingsmills Suite for a function in August, but whoever answered was unwilling to accept the booking, apparently because they couldn’t be certain of what was going to happen. Apart from anything that anyone might want to infer there about prospects of survival, if the club is going to continue, there’s clearly an ongoing paralysis in terms of taking opportunities to raise cash.

Yeah...birdie was sure the tweets were happening tonight.

All I can imagine is that we'd probably be sound as a pound right now, but instead Gardiner is being a stubborn whatnot and is choosing to raze the club to the ground to prove a point

You may not be trying to justify the club's actions but you are trying to excuse them in the same way you have done constantly every time they have screwed up.