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P and J says we're signing Greg Morrison from County. Young lad who apparently plays up front or on the wing. Couldn't make out if it's a loan or permanent deal.

Ridgers has cost us a goal a game almost over the last few weeks. He's been exceptionally poor.

I'm expecting 352 tomorrow. Ridgers Mckay Warren Chalmers Seedorf Polworth Vigurs Trafford Calder Baird Oakley

I'm sure we'll get an announcement from the club in the coming weeks...

I'm expecting something similar to the line up CJ posted for the game tomorrow. No Raven though with Polworth taking his place in a 3-5-2 line up.

Interesting to see no sign of Fon Williams in the team photos. Looks like he has been well and truly exiled from the squad.

Yeah the SPFL gives the club some cash to help with costs.

According to this piece in the Courier we're not looking to sign Donaldson: http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/John-Robertson-Its-up-to-us-to-lift-the-mood-of-Caley-Thistle-supporters-17082017.htm Has he just rocked up and stuck on an ICT kit to appear in the team photo?!

Good point. It would be useful if someone or a group could act as a conduit for remote fans to raise issues at the meeting.

Largely agree with Charles here. Plenty of folk have been on here moaning, myself included about things at the club in recent weeks and months. Surely we can muster up 120 people to head along to this event and express their concerns despite the short notice? if not it will only serve to strengthen the notion that a lot of people are happy to piss and moan about stuff they don't like but not do anything about it when afforded the opportunity. So if you're annoyed about season ticket prices, the Pride of the Highlands badge, the poor communication through Twitter and Facebook or whatever it may be this is your chance to speak up about it. If you can't be bothered to do so then don't bother complaining about these things in the future.

Obviously that's not what I'm saying. The manager will be set a budget by the Chairman and then he is largely free to do with that what he wishes. Hughes, Foran etc. will have been given £X for signings/wages etc and then it's up to them to use that money as they saw fit. Why would Cameron get involved and say no to signing whoever it was Hughes or Foran wanted in. That would surely indicate he didn't trust them and I can't imagine either would have liked that. In the case of those two managers it is hard to argue, with hindsight, that the vast majority of signings that made was money spent wisely. I'm obviously not saying that our managers had free reign to offer whatever they wanted to players. If some utterly ludicrous offer is put forward by the manager then someone like Cameron might say hold on a minute and query whether signing player X on daft cash per week is a good move but by and large the managers at ICT have generally worked with little interference from the Chairman. Again, what exactly is it you are wanting Cameron to be saying no to? If you are saying that he should have stepped in to veto some of the signings that were made then that would led to outcry amongst supporters that the Chairman is dictating who should or shouldn't be signed and essentially undermine the manager which is not something I think should happen and I don't think that would sit well with fans of ICT.

Has it been confirmed that it's in Peterhead? They played their previous round at Brechin but some folk have said that the Aberdeen U20s move their games about. ETA: Given Peterhead are also at home in this same competition I would be surprised if it is at Balmoor.

The power to say no to what exactly? The managers signing targets? I think we'd all be a little concerned if the chairman of the club was involving himself in our transfer dealings and making decisions above the manager as to who was coming in or going out.

Absolutely agree. The banter pre match was superb. I believe the following photo should be captioned #SquadGoals

I don't see how Cameron is to blame for Hughes and Foran spunking the clubs cash on utter jobbers. Per the list ICTChris posted the other day we've barely made a good signing in something like two years. The quality in the squad dropped dramatically under our last two managers. That said I do (partly) blame Cameron for our relegation for not binning Foran earlier but overall I think he did a good job.

Hard to argue he really had a good impact on the team though.

Interesting way of looking at things. I've said before if he ever became our manager I would not attend ICT games for as long as he was in charge. That said, despite my dislike of the guy, I wouldn't wish an illness like this on him so hopefully he battles through it as best he can with the support of his family and friends.

It worked for Foran last season. Actually...

Good start on the improved communication front by, erm, apparently not informing fans of this friendly v Nairn tonight.

Coll Donaldson on trial tonight?

Wee piece in the IC on Polworth: http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Sport/Football/Liam-Polworth-hurt-by-how-far-Caley-Thistle-have-fallen-in-two-years-14082017.htm

It's not just one bad game though. We were okay against a depleted Brechin (missing five or six first team players), very poor against Stirling, easy dispatched by Falkirk and laboured against Forfar. Yes we were better against United but after they scored they sat back and invited us on to them so we were obviously going to dominate possession but we proceeded to create little of note. Not much else you can say about Dunfermline. I agree that it is early days yet but the first six competitive games have not been encouraging and some games have been downright shocking. There's absolutely no reason to try and pretend otherwise.

Big update from the club posted online: http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/1974-board-statement-14-08-17 ETA: Slowly working my way through this and to give them some credit there are a fair few answers to questions we've been asking.

No idea where to put this really but I read on Twitter that Willie Finlayson is stepping down at the end of the month. Graham Rae is replacing him.