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I am glad we've strengthened at the back.

Did we not beat Ayr and Airdrieonians at home? Anyway don't worry...I'm flying up for the Dunfermline match, so it'll definitely be sunny and we will win.

Make your mind up! Are you going or not going.....

Ach, he's an interviewer, not a boxer

No. The defense cost us the goals. Lets not go full Doddsball and drop Ridgers to the weans to "prove a point". When you've Ujdur, who has proven he is more than capable, sitting on the bench for 90+ minutes, with a defence full of kids who've done sweet sod all, its stupid to try and blame anyone but the defense and the management...

FFS totally gutted. thought we were lucky to go in at half time 1 up. Got lucky again when we got the second, goalkeeper misjudged the cross and savage easily headed in to go 2 up. said to myself hope Dunc doesn’t do his norm when we are ahead and go into survival mode. Can hear him now in his post match comfy interview say they came at us second half. Truth is we stopped doing what we had been doing and invited them to come at us. So they did. best form of defence is attack, we blew it today. highlight of first half was a pass back to Ridgers, I think he hit his clearance into their player and ball spun into air on our bye line. Ridgers is now facing the north stand and attempts a hoof of the ball over the stand. Total fresh air kick resulting in him then heading the ball out for a corner. You couldn’t make it up. anderson red card was straight out of the ref pocket, no second to think. Anderson first touch for a pro footballer was so poor today, the ball rising into the air as he tried to control it many times. That was what happened for the sending off as he raised his boot into the players head to get the ball. The Partick guy we down clutching his head. Once the red was shown he miraculously recovered and didn’t require hospital treatment. I was firmly seated on the fence re Dunc the manager, starting to slide off a bit now after today.

That was more like an exciting game and certainly was not flat. I thought we were better first half, Partick took second half. I thought we had some nice touches and there was some good play.We have to remember that this team is work in progress and half the squad are new.We gave away soft goals and could have won it if pebble had just passed to Cammy running up his inside. That was never a red card when you consider kerr being poleaxed and no cards shown. At least we never lost,which looked highly possible the way things were going . Positive signs althoughI must admit some of the substitution were a bit strange.

They're usually dumbstruck!!

I think he was brought in because the board were starstruck!

First half did ok 3 central defenders solid, made changes again as last week and the whole dynamics of the game changed. At 2 nil down they should have been gone ,as it was they looked more likely to score the fourth. Positives today though, first in a long while.

It was an inevitability that Graham would score against us, it was just a question of whether we could score more than them. In fairness 3 would normally be enough to win and is the encouraging thing we can take from today, if we want to be positive.

-Play OK -Lead or level into the 2nd half -Make the same subs every week that unsettle us/sub Billy Mckay -concede goal(s) -RINSE AND REPEAT. It would be nice if we could show that we're learning week on week but we're not. That goes for the players and the manager.

I've always assumed that that was partly why Big Dunc was brought in - for his knowledge of and contacts in English football. Possibly easier to get inexpensive or loan players from there than from the Central Belt of Scotland. Let's face it - he wasn't hired on the basis of his managerial record!

We don't need to sign anyone to replace Spoony, we have Roddy MacGregor who isn't being given much of chance by Ferguson which baffles me.

I'm going 3-1 PT. We won't handle Graham and our goal would likely be a penalty. Plus I'm not going as I can't stand our insipid and boring tactics.

Possibly, but they need to start the process without undue delay as it could take months to identify who might be preparedto break the news to him

Sadly, he's sounding more and more like Robbo with every interview. It would be good if the interviewer could ask something like "Do you think the tactics were right?", or even prompt an explanation for substitutions.

Once again defence was shoddy, Now really think Ridgers needs dropped, he was very shakey on a few occasions and so slow react to first and third goals. Once again the long suffering home fans wait and wait for a win. Hax any team ever gone a season without a home win? Scary! Oh Apart from his first goal of the season I thought Shaw was pysh.

I’m very disappointed with the result, particularly after leading 2-0 and 3-2 but what an enjoyable game that was. We started on the front foot, with none of the back and fro passing that’s dominated our recent performances. Kerr’s goal was a cracker, calmly taken after a great pass by McAllister, and we deservedly led at the break although we had some nervous moments. Partick came out flying in the second half and our second was against the run of play, and we were then let down by poor defending for their first and getting caught napping at a free kick and conceding the penalty. I thought we were done for then, but credit to the players for lifting themselves and taking the lead again, and we should have gone 4-2 up but Pepple went alone when he should have played Harper in. We then conceded, meaning its twelve points we’ve lost late in games. It was the best I’ve seen from Harper and Shaw for some time, whilst Kerr had a good game, but the pick for me was McAllister. I’ve no idea why we took him off so early in the second half. Anderson should not have been sent off. Maybe a booking would have been deserved but many refs would not have produced a card. Overall, much better, encouraging signs, but we need to cut out silly errors. Two massive games ahead now.

From the BBC website, I don't think it was insipid and boring today!

His ankles are made of poppadoms, needs to toughen up a bit otherwise he'll just go straight back to the broken pile.

If you don't shoot you don't score. Here's the goal that won the game 2-1 for Raith Rovers last night. Some strike: Boom! Thank you to all 7,923 of you, our highest attendance in 27 years.

Well done to Kayleigh

Club are also forgetting thousands of people and of which I am sure loads are fans of the club , live around the area earmarked and do not want this near themselves or their children and schools alike . It’s funny how our chairman ( who funnily does not live in Inverness ) is making such a loud noise when he wants to . When you’re looking for a football voice of him or his CEO they go back in to their shell . I was beginning to think he couldn’t speak or didn’t understand our highland twang. Run the club in a football manner like it used to be . Stop paying excessive wages to Gardiner would be a start . Jobs for boys becoming tiresome and wasting so much money no wonder the club is in a mess . It’s been run by amateurs .

Yup. Classic crybully. Like I said earlier in the thread, folk are being very quick to play the man and not the ball (to use another sporting metaphor).

I’m not convinced that the quite aggressive approach taken by the Chairman on the front page of today’s Courier is the best way to win friends and influence people when there’s another, much bigger, Council vote to be negotiated next month.

I think this is a reasonable and understandable metaphor to deploy in the cicumstances. However, let’s not kid ourselves - the club are being hypocrites on this. They have made it quite clear all along in public that they intend to appeal if/when things don’t go their way.

Agree. Big high risk projects whilst forgetting their core business which is football

None of which is unique to just this regime though, as the club has systematically over the years failed to develop a sustainable model and create alternate revenue streams.

Exactly .The land is green open space which Inverness is vastly running out of . Messrs Cameron and Sutherland knew when buying this land the restrictions of which the land had . But no they think they are bigger and better than anyone else and can do as they please .Not seeing them donating it to the community for parks , walks etc . Putting a battery project near hundreds of houses and schools is Insane . if our chairman and CEO did a fraction of work in promoting our club instead of trying to do a quick fix . Like I have said many times SG is so unpopular in our football community that it’s near impossible to gain much support by public and businesses alike . Are the rest of the board blind into what’s going on . We are an Inverness club representing the Highlands not bloody Tayside or Glasgow

This is a wild post. What appeal meeting? The application was heard at the routine South planning committee (16 councilors). The committee includes representives from all across the South of the Highlands and Inverness. At Novembers meeting there were more councillors than at last weeks meet. But several of them voted for the deferrment so they could visit the site. Many who voted for the visit then didn't turn up for the site meeting, which immediately excluded them from the vote - as they said on Wednesday, a member has to be at all the meetings for them to be allowed to participate in the vote. IMHO what happened on Monday is asking searching questions of the Inverness councillors on the committee and beyond. Where the f*ck were you? Why did you shy away from this? Why did you wilfully chose to skip the site visit knowing full well you would be excluded from the vote? Only 1 of the 5 who could vote was from an Inverness ward and not a ward close to the project. Now it will be heard by the full council (assuming they don't all hide from it again).

Planning permission has been sought and plans are in the docs. Would be awesome if it comes to fruition and as someone who was an IRA pupil and used to play on these pitches back in the 90s, I'd love to see them in use again. https://wam.highland.gov.uk/wam/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=S7D0JUIHGU500

The reason for pursuing additional sources of income is so that we actually have a full-time, competitive club for them to run.

Freeport Convention?

What a refreshing thread

There are problems and concerns, but come on, you seem to have forgotten that only last season we beat 2 Premiership sides on our way to the final where we put in a very competitive performance against Celtic.

Joke thread . . . . surely?

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.

It appears the damaged flooring culprit has been identified. Advised against doing the 'bouncy' until further notice.

2 games in a row we change the defence when it looks comfortable. 2 weeks in a row we ship 3 goals after that change.

I’m no expert in this, but does our club licensing not also have SFA requirements to meet about the timely filing of financial statements, and that they show the club to be a going concern? Last year’s accounts were only approved by the Auditors due to the potential revenue from the Battery Park. That is now at risk and the Auditors may not feel able to provide the necessary sign off to the accounts: that was my concern when I highlighted the risk of administration or something worse. The Chairman made it clear at the Fans’ Meeting that the Board members were not going to continue to plough money in and, indeed, the two recent payments made to the club, including one from the Chairman, came with protection to the lenders. Events over the next few weeks will determine if we have a future, and how positive any future can look. Getting back to on pitch maters, to make matters worse, with Dunfermline hosting Arbroath tomorrow, there is every chance that we will find ourselves second bottom after tomorrow’s game.

I suspect they would have offered to swap the venue to forfeit any chance of sporting success on return for increased revenue and a day out in corporate areas of 'the big house'

Doubt those in charge would agree but I'm now totally unbothered we lost yesterday lol

Good reminder about the accounts filing deadline, but I don’t see that in itself as a problem. One option would be to delay signing the accounts until the matter is resolved, which leads to a very small penalty from Companies House. The other is that the accounts disclose the need for additional funding which is what we did last year, possibly worsening to the extent that the auditors have to state that there is fundamental uncertainty as to whether the club can continue as a going concern. The accounts aspect of this isn’t ideal but it’s the least of our worries!

There will doubtless be a few other old buffers on here who will remember the ghastly, clusterboorach that the Council got itself into on a previous occasion when it was involved in a decision that had existential implications for Caley Thistle - namely the £900K grant towards the stadium road in 1995-96. There’s no need to detail the Town Hall obstructiveness,, QCs’ opinions, scandalous rearguard action by Council officials and nitpicking about Dave Stewart’s use of the word “payable” in a motion to the Council that eventually saw IDC go out of existence under an ignominious cloud before the money was paid from the Common Good Fund… but it was desperate stuff. Unfortunately, we now already have a bid to contest a quorate planning decision - which the club manager yesterday, deploying delightful metaphor, eloquently described as trying to keep replaying the game until they get the result they want - and that rearguard action already looks ominous. But what really worries me is that if we thought that the Council back in the 90s was bad…. the current local governance of Inverness is a whole lot worse. History is making me very uneasy about this one.

Unfortunately, in a situation like this, tough tits. The club have every right to be pissed off at the current situation. They did everything the Council had asked to bring the project up to scratch, and it got approved, sealing a future for the club for however many years/decades to come. But now, because the council haven't done their job properly, the club's back creeping towards deaths door. It's like if you won EuroMillions and when you go to cash it in, they start babbling incoherently about how you didn't win because the machine that was giving out the numbers started playing up. You're not joing to stand there and say "oh, okay then" and periodically check in and say "hey guys, hows it coming along then?", you'd be kicking up an absolute storm demanding your winnings and readying up for a legal battle against them. Have to remember it's not just football thats at stake here, it's people's jobs, before and after school activities for kids, leisure for seniors and this, that and the other that the Council are ready to send down the Ganges then sit on their hands when people start complaining.