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With all the turmoil the club is going through it's a time to remember the good times. From the P&J today Mike Teasdale with Ann Nicoll after our Scottish Cup victory over Celtic in February 2000.

The Supporters Trust is delighted to be able to assist the ICT Community Development Trust as it prepares for a busy festive period. We have arranged for Bar 94 to be a drop off point for donations for their Festive Hampers before Saturday's game against Alloa Athletic. The bar is open from 12 noon and donations can be dropped off from then until 2.30 pm. Items that will be very helpful are long life foods, festive treats and warm clothing. If anyone wishes to make a financial donation, that will be very welcome too. Full details are available here: https://www.ictsupporterstrust.org/post/ict-community-trust-festive-activities We invite everyone attending Saturday's match to bring along donations that will enable the Community Development Trust to maximise the number of vulnerable and elderly fans who will be able to benefit from their valuable activities in the lead up to Christmas.

As a reminder, these were the Club's assets as declared on the accounts to 30 May 2023 Fixed assets £2,043,272 being mainly the stands and stadium and some plant and equipment Investments £1 being the Battery Farm project I assume - described as group interests Current assets - Stocks, debtors and cash £1,093,349 Ross Morrison can certainly be offered some of the stock (anyone for a shirt?) but we know there is no real debtors money or cash left. Having a second hand lawn mover could be useful if he has a large lawn. I have a view on the stands and stadium which is not necessarily shared by others. We can only speculate what are Ross's revised rights and options as a creditor. Does he have the Club over a barrel or are the Administrators in a stronger position?

The right decision and outcome for the City. I fully support the determination of the DPEA. As mentioned elsewhere, ICTFC should concentrate on football matters and stay clear of risk-leaden, half baked business ventures. The clubs reputation has suffered badly in the last few years as a consequence of such decisions. Hopefully we can turn the corner after Administation and build on the early shoots already done by AS and team of engagement with local businesses.

Adam Brooks has signed for Queen of the South Flynn Duffy joined Airdrie Wallace Duffy 3 year deal at Strathspey Thistle

I have said before that I thought the council had made the right decision but the process by which they had arrived at it was an utter shambles. In saying that I don't think this decision leaves the club in a great position. Morrison would have been more inclined to forgive what he claims he's owed by the club had he made his money back from the battery storage and that's not going to happen now. That will make it harder for the administrators to do a deal with any potential investors if Morrison wants paid or equity in return.

I can’t say I’ve ever had much faith in this battery farm from the very start. Certainly the “£3.4 million” seemed to be a huge carrot but, given what’s emerged over the last few months about the club’s governance, I do wonder if that should have been taken with as big a pinch of salt and dose of scepticism as a lot else that’s happened. I think that ever since that figure of £3.4 million - and I suppose I’d have to take the “credit” ?? for winkling it out of Morrison at that meeting back in the spring - emerged, its sheer enormity has possibly eclipsed a lot of rational thinking. In particular, I think there’s been the delusion that “this is such a massive panacea for the club that there can’t possibly be anything wrong with it”. And now that the Scottish Government, notwithstanding its enthusiasm for green projects, has rejected the appeal, I think we need to accept the initial 2-1 vote in favour of it as something of an unrepresentative anomaly, which tends to fly in the face of the combined verdicts of the full council and the Scottish Government who must probably be accepted as having made the “right” decision in planning terms. I do accept that HC’s second vote happened on the strength of a “technicality”, but equally it seems that the original three councillors made a wrong planning decision. I think we must therefore consign the battery farm to the list of other catastrophic money making wheezes that sent the club off on a wild goose chase for several years that ended with the current administration problem. This is probably also further justification of Alan Savage’s view that we need to return focus to football-related activities.