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This seems to me to have been an issue at the club since day 1. A battle of too many egos, d#ck measuring contests, and wallet weighing competitions. Like toddlers fighting over a toy . . . . . and now they've finally broken the toy!

Well said, Charles. Morrison has been spectacularly incompetent over his time as Chairman and now wants others to dig deep into their pockets to pay back his loan. Has the man absolutely no shame at all? He is not the only one to blame though. There would have been no secured loan unless his colleagues on the Board agreed to it. They, surely also have some moral responsibility to dig deep into their pockets to get the club out of the mess that they helped to create. There are a lot of people at the club, from Alan Savage to matchday volunteers who are doing a brilliant job trying to save the club. It is heartbreaking to think that all their efforts could be for nothing at the end of the day. The club certainly can still be saved as there are people who would be keen to put money into the club. The thing is, they are not prepared to pay £1.5M to the man who got the club into this mess. Nobody should loan money that they can't afford to lose. It is time that Morrison accepted that the money is gone. In accepting that, he could make sure the club does not disappear as well. Come on, man. A city is waiting for you to finally do the decent thing.

I think it’s morally incumbent upon Ross Morrison to take a look at his role in all of this and perhaps concede that he “owes the club one”. It has been abundantly clear since at least 2019 that the club had become fundamentally and chronically loss making, as demonstrated by £1M in share capital having to be raised for cash flow across the 18 months or so up to October 2019. However that difficulty simply never seemed to be addressed and the hat kept getting passed round during the years that followed, drawing the club more and more deeply into debt. This, on Ross Morrison’s watch, seemed to be justified by a series of catastrophic attempts to raise money through non-football activities that came outrageously unstuck, as one “jam tomorrow” scheme after another nosedived in a manner which the board seemed completely unable to foresee. The biggest component is Ross Morrison’s £1.6M loan which - uniquely as far as I am aware - carried security with it. Quite frankly, I have always been very uncomfortable with this scenario where the man in charge of an obviously failing business makes an enormous loan which is exclusively secured against the assets of that business. In so doing, at a time when the business was already failing badly and non-football activities had begun to fall apart, Ross Morrison was arguably putting the already ailing club’s assets at risk in a scenario he had created himself, with no risk to himself. As a result, given his role (and Gardiner’s) in the club getting into the state it did, I hope that Mr Morrison’s better nature and sense of his own legacy will lead him to make substantial concessions with respect to what he allowed himself to be owed here, and that he will begin to act quickly. Just one slightly unrelated post script here. The car park situation is actually a legacy of the previous crisis of 1999-2000 from which Tullochs extricated the club with an input of £5M, most of which was eventually written off.

Paid 7.5K for longstaff hernia op with no Aron dorran issues. That was news to me. well done that man.

IF the club does go to the wall, then Alan Savage will be able to hold his head up high at his efforts. They are and will be appreciated. The club has been a pissing contest for too many people over the years, including - it has to be said - AS first time around. However, he has absolutely stepped up to the plate since admin raised its head all those months ago and has been trying to drive things forward as far as we can see. Egos and squabbles seem to have been the order of the day over the years with the average fan simply having to watch from the sidelines because we can't afford to be in this particular game. I really hope that something can be done, that some miracle can be worked, that some of this cold reality brings some people around. The idea of ICT not being around after 30 years is unthinkable for all of us. It is a community, a family, a link back to our hometown for many of us, and important to us all. If those who own the shares, and who profess to love ICT can get around a table then FFS, put those dam egos aside and get it done! The money in your wallet may have been real, but the longer this goes on, the more it resembles and is worth as much as, monopoly money.

Loving the heads gone stuff when fans question the manager or club (again). Its reminiscent of when criticism wasnt welcomed of Dodds or the last regime - see how that all panned out!!! Certainly IMO entitled to question whether the manager is a strong enough character to drop his AM as clearly Billy is not playing based on contribution or ability anymore its clearly nepotism. I stand by my point that BIlly should be nowhere near starting in that team - this season he has systematically demonstrated an inability to lead the line, hold up play, turn a man or even score any goals. Why SK is not seeing this, its unclear and before anyone states 'we have no other options' - give Cairns 90 mins and see what he does while Alfie is out, he cant be any less dynamic. If we never brought in Bavidge we would be fighting Dumbarton for the drop its clear we now revert back to pre-xmas with dominating games, creating a bucket load of chances and seeing our central striker spurn great opportunities. Having scored 100+ goals for the club, its not just a dip in form, he's fallen off a cliff!! Without Alfie if the midfield dont score, we wont get goals - and dont start me on our corners and set piece play - lets try some variation rather than 8 players in the 6 yard box standing still!!!

A good win for the women today sees them climb the league again well done.

Excellent summary Charles, well put. Only we have a couple of tough vices to abate and deal with, self-interest and greed! bc

Club just sent out a notice for Alan Savage hosting a press conference at 3PM today.

A disappointing result, how much did both the Dumbarton game [a heavy pitch] and the Stennie game, empty the tank? And obviously not having Bavidge may have taken a slight wind out of the sails, although we scored three goals after he went off in midweek. Longstaff a loss, and now Macleod. That said it sounds a fluky win for Annan That faint hope of promotion play-off place perhaps extingushed. But no way Dumbarton will catch us, and if we end up in the wrong play-off hopefully Bavidge and Longstaff will be back Obviously the news today over a lack of buyer hardly helps the mood But the 'fat lady' singing isn't even on the horizon. Obviously one of those weekends, as I was at a freezing Sutton United on Saturday and they lost terrible 0-3 at home

Hopefully Ross "Superpri...fan" Morrison does the right thing and cuts his losses, but rest assured he officially NEVER show his daft mug or tattoo at an ICT game for as long as he lives. But if we do go under, and have to start in the North Caley, I desperately hope he, Cameron and Gardiner all qualify for an automatic banning order

As I had said previously, the only realistic way to start with a clean sheet is liquidation and starting again from the very bottom. The handing over of shares will likely be a problem connected to who would be handing over shares to who, and the loans issue about who would be taking control "on the cheap". I genuinely believe the club will continue, and the best hope of unpicking all the personality related issues is the liquidation route...but that relies on none of them being highest bidder on any assets. The Just Giving campaign showed how deep fans pockets were, so I don't see fan ownership as a realistic option unless there's an Ann Budge type person willing to fund it in the interim. We may see one or two of the interested parties break silence if looking for support in a liquidation buy out scenario.

The optimist in me thinks this might be an attempt to put public pressure on those who are holding out over the surrounding land and having loans repaid to back down. The (much bigger) pessimist in me is now far more worried that we are Donald Ducked.

Went along to Saturday's game fully aware there might be a negative reaction after Tuesday's 4-star performance and boy, was I right! We were just so slow and many an advantage lost by pratting around with the ball where a strong run up the park may have been more effective. At our current level I can't help thinking a Mark Ridgers style hoof up the park might offer better scoring opportunities than tippy-tappy. Well we are where we are and the team have done a great job getting us to a position where we will probably survive in Div.1, but just can't help thinking that, as a full-time team among mainly part-timers, we should be pretty much setting the pace!

Typical over the top and loud reaction to fans who are just posting their own points of view. After all this is not what football is all about the highs of Tuesday and the very lows of Saturday. Of course supporters are going to be gutted that was a f***ing sore one,not helped by the way Annan conducted themselves.

My heart says this is a statement to put pressure on Morrison & Cameron and Alan Savage will buy the club. My head says this is a desperate plea for help and it’s last chance saloon! Edit - I notice the club haven’t issued a statement on social media

Yes… it was my story on RS local news bulletins this morning. BDO have written to “material” (presumably larger) shareholders (and I have seen the letter) asking if they would be prepared to give up their holding at no charge to club or any buyer. There is apparently at least one prospective buyer who would want 75% (effectively total) control and the proposed move would “assist” the CVA which may now be fairly imminent. (In other words they presumably don’t want to pay up to the £20 million that would cost if current shareholders retained their interest. Oh for goodness sake! As I write, BDO have just issued a statement saying that there have been NO offers, quoting the “disparate” shareholding and problems over surrounding land. This suddenly doesn’t look good!