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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.

I'm sure I saw Tremarco mention on Twitter he was a couple of weeks away from a return but perhaps that is a return to training.

I think we need to accept that anything to do with the website and social media is not a priority for the club at the moment.

The defence and goal keeper should have been made to walk back up the A9 after that performance yesterday.

Calder has played as a LW the last couple of games so Robbo does appear to have cottoned on to that at least though it does mean that Chalmers steps in at left back where he has looked really poor so far.

See above post from ICTChris which sums things up really well.

Only two games in but still... ...

Mulraney is nowhere near as good as he thinks he is.

An utterly disgraceful performance. Quite possibly one of the worst I've seen in the last few years of watching Inverness. Hard to disagree with anything Chris has posted. Just an utter shambles all over the pitch.

Aye maybe. For me, the main thing is that it's another sorry episode in a summer of face palms and all round minters.

I obviously don't know for 100% certain no however... ...my take on it is simply Draper gets told about the improved County offer and says he would like to go if the club are happy to let him leave and the club tell him he can go but only if he puts in a transfer request hoping that this will take the heat off them and make it look like Draper wanted to go all along and forced the move whilst the club fought valiantly to keep him. I don't feel at any point Draper has instigated the move especially given that the club had already accepted the offer from County anyway. By doing that they made it clear that they were content for him to leave but perhaps to save themselves from some flack they tried to shift the "blame! for the move onto Draper. Draper, having now seen the ICT staement savages the club in his interview after joining County and twists the knife a bit with some other comments which are also partly true. He's been pretty vocal about it all on Twitter, unusual given that he is pretty quiet on social media, whereas ICT have stuck out that statement and then, in line with their current approach to everything, gone silent on all fronts. I feel they've been found out (again) and are just keeping quiet until it blows over (unlike porngate when they stuck out that laughable statement).