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25 minutes ago, Scotty said:

Intelligent Land Investments, or ILI is a green energy group, based in Hamilton, with a history of successful renewable developments. It is currently planning the £600 million Red John pumped storage hydro scheme at Dores, just south of Inverness.

Should perhaps be changed to say "the controversial Red John pumped hydro storage scheme". At least conroversy fits in with our recent exploits

Just now, Yngwie said:

Intelligent Land Investments Group, anyone know who they are?

Group behind proposed Red John Hydro At Duntelchaig

https://ictfc.com/end-of-season-2019-20-squad-update

Announcement on players leaving and staying

3 minutes ago, Hiro said:

 Club statement from 10/05/20 states that the club would be announcing news this month- with only 1 day left I'm fairly sure that they're going to miss that deadline.

The same statement also states new on season tickets would be out within a week- also hasn't happened.

Our CEO has also disappeared from the face of the earth....

What are you expecting any statement to say? There may or may not be any games next year. In the meantime give us £350 of your money (I know that you may be about to lose your job but it’s better in our bank than yours).

The silence is because the whole of Scottish football is in a mess and don’t have a good way ahead which everyone can agree on

Devine was always an accident waiting to happen. We have benefitted from a couple of ricks since he left when we played both Partick and Dunfermline

2 minutes ago, GogglesWalter said:

I'm truly astonished that more of our fans are not concerned with the backing our seemingly nice but very naive chairman has given SG. If our club genuinely worried about other clubs being affected and hurt by this situation over our own club please close the doors now. It's a dog eat dog world, you look after your own interests first and foremost! We have lost trust from fellow clubs, The SFA and potential sponsors. The club need to regroup and try to build for the future which I'm afraid looks very bleak for us! The current regime running the club certainly dont fill me with confidence. 

Yawn. Oh sorry, think I fell asleep  

Rumour is circulating that this time the appeal will not be heard by the Three Blind Mice!

It’s been pretty obvious that we have lacked firepower up front since the start of this season.

Jordan is a very honest player but is not a goal scorer and is not a target man in the traditional sense either.

If we had a Shankland up front we would be a shoe-in for 2nd and possibly be able to challenge for 1st.

Game is off

8 minutes ago, Fraz said:

Credit where it's due. Sounds like we had a great day, well donr lads aand management. Had actually hoped to make it until I realised that I had the Panto to go to lol. 

Oh no you didn’t!

What a manager says to the press always has to be taken with a pinch of salt so I don't read too much into Robo'scomments.

I could copy and paste much of what I said after the last home game against Alloa however and Robo seems to be watching a different game in not recognising our limitations.

Whilst Jordan is clearly an 'honest' player and puts a shift in it is clear that the manner in which we play is heavily affected/constrained when he is on the park and we become one dimension and not a particularly great dimension at that. The first game against Alloa with Curry up front was a different style (even though much of our play was sloppy).

When we play Jordan we effectively operate with a player who lacks mobility and will only play in front of the defense. This works fine for a target man such as Higdon or Brewster who will hold up play bring others in, etc. Jordan is not capable of this and it is made worse by the number on times he is on his heals and reacts slowly to balls coming his way.

Whilst the standard of ball forward to him was not great (wind had a part possibly), he will either not connect with the ball or if he does none of our players know where the ball is going hence why it breaks down.

Against better defenders the physical presence is nullified and we effectively end up playing with 10 men. We also end up with the ball coming back very quickly and midfielders lack options and therefore have to play sideways or backwards.

Others can be criticised from yesterday however when I saw the team before the game it was demoralising in that the game went the way I expected. I employ three Arabs in one of my offices down south and they all were hoping we would play him as they think we are an easier team to play when he is up front as we are predictable and can be stopped playing without much effort.

25 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

I beg that White gets dropped entirely. He's pure gash.

How about that guy from the Main Stand? He had a better header than any of the players on the field...

Gave my son a hard time for not challenging him and leaving him with a free header

A non story and some unnecessary personal insults!

Playing Jordan changes the way in which we play the game and this was clear from the two Alloa matches.

Having movement from Curry gave the midfield and wide players options and forced the defenders to cover both in front and behind.

With White there is less movement as a front unit and as a result we change to a direct long ball. Jordan is not Higdon or Brewster however and invariably we lose possession when the ball goes forward. He will not run in general behind the defence and therefore it become easier to defend in front only with a deep midfielder closing down the space and we lose possession.

We lack edge up front both in terms of general play and goal threat.

If we stop the errors at the back this will help but without a true goal threat it is hard to see how anything other than a playoff place is achievable. Should add that I don’t think Todorov is the answer and I don’t think the manager does either!

White’s goal unfortunately does not mask the fact that we were considerably worse up front than last week with Curry.

Some of this is due to the early goal which allowed Alloa to park the bus for much of the game.

We definitely lack edge in this position and have limited alternative options however with more movement we are likely to create more. For too much of the game the Alloa defence was able to keep the game in front of them.

We are a weaker team this week!

So how does Duncan suggest the club pays for 5 f/t coaches (the 6th is a paid player) required by Project Brave from less than £100k?

Three poor goals to lose however the game showed up our likely Achilles Heel in lack of cutting edge up front.

Whilst Jordan scored one he also missed three other decent chances including the last kick (or sclaff) of the game. Others missed chances of course.

24 minutes ago, MrCaleyjag said:

I'm not up to speed with the SFA's Project Brave programme so if anyone is in the know then info would be appreciated but in the meantime do we not receive subsidies from the SFA towards youth development? I'm pretty sure it's not much of anything even if we do.

The  negative impact of Project Brave was well trailed prior to its introduction and whilst worthy in what it is trying to achieve the requirement for clubs to have in effect six full-time employees as a minimum requirement is not sustainable in relation to the income levels in the Scottish game (as well as Academy Director and access to various facilities, etc). We have mitigated this effect to an extent, e.g.by using Carlo as one of the coaches for example, however there has also been a significant number of casulaties along the way due to background politics.

A number of clubs have taken the view to in effect pull the plug on youth development.

A proposal was made a year ago to try and move the development side into a Foundation however things have gone silent on progress towards this (though if the rumours about the Club under our departed CE requiring the Devlopment Foundation to pay the club for use of IP, training facilities, etc were true then this would partly explain why this has not got off the ground).

Brave also does not provide a path for players over the age of 18. This is why we have looked to use Fort William as a vehicle for players.

If Alan Savage is to get involved I suspect that youth will be part of the equation as he is passionate about this side of things (obviously bankrolling in effect the Clach Youth side).

30 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Legend- Alan Hercher or Richard Hastings, maybe Pele, but I don't think Pele would come under the rules...

Memorable Moment(s)- David Raven Semi Final, SuperCaleyGoBallistic, Europa League Debut

Richard Hastings????

31 minutes ago, Sean93 said:

They are driven on a bus to fort william and back and aren't having to utilise own transport.

 

Are you suggesting that in spite of the histrionics above the club are actually on top of things and this is a non-story 

56 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Sod knows where I heard it, but apparently Alan Savage is making a return as a shareholder...

He already is a shareholder so doesn't have to return 

Shouldn't be an issue but the fact is that there was an issue!

48 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

The Supporters Trust has taken this matter up with the club.  CEO Scot Gardiner was very aware of and concerned about the problems with the Morton "fans" and explained the very specific circumstances of this incident.  Because of the game being on TV with an early KO time as a result, and given the distance Morton fans would have to travel, Morton supporter groups told Morton that they were asking fans to adopt a 100% boycott of the game.  The club gave its support to that stance and informed ICT of the situation.

Opening the South stand involves significant extra expense with a separate servery, extra cleaning etc., and the decision was taken not to open the South Stand.  However, recognising that despite the boycott, some people may still come to the game, the club set aside the South end of the main stand to accommodate any who turned up.  In the event, more than expected turned up and unfortunately, amongst these was a group of around 20 whose behaviour was very poor. Scot recognises that the situation must not be allowed to happen again and therefore they have taken the decision that, despite the financial implications, the South Stand will be open for away fans for all future games this season.  This includes the game on Saturday when it is anticipated that the crowd will be even smaller than last Friday.

As Fraz rightly says above, this is the sort of issue you might expect an SLO to deal with, but the club does not currently have an SLO.  Scot has agreed that it would be useful to have a separate meeting with the Trust to discuss what elements of the SLO role, as defined by the SFA and Supporters Direct Scotland, need to be carried out and to identify how that might be done within the financial constraints faced by the club.  We'll update you with progress on that in due course.

 

Thanks for feedback DD.

Interesting that Away fans are paying less than ICT fans for the same stand!