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I'm not even sure we are. These stories have probably just lifted names off this forum. It's surprisingly easy to get a made up rumour into the press.

Good blog by @hislopsoffsideagain on why it was the right thing to remove Foran from the managers post. http://nareystoepoker.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/richie-foran-leaves-inverness-horse.html

Cheers Chris. I see Barry Wilson getting stuck into ICT and yesterdays statement. Not much I disagree with here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40088740?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_sportsound&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=scotland

If Calderwood got anywhere near the front door of the stadium I'd be more than likely not to go to a game. His disgraceful bullying of a young lad at Aberdeen (maybe Killie I can't recall at this time) was utterly shameful.

We won 3 out of the 5 games we had left when Malpas returned but two of those were against teams that had nothing to play for so I'd be wary about trying to link his return with an apparent upturn in our fortunes.

Not the first time a quite ambiguous statement has been released regarding our manager...

Agree he should have left after that Hamilton game but I don't think we can read too much into the last few games. We were playing against sides with nothing to play for. Maybe this seasons experience could have helped for a season in the Championship but we simply have to get back to the Premiership. Within reason I don't care who is in charge so long as we get back up but I can't say with certainty that it Foran would have delivered promotion. Good point. It wasn't just his time as a manager coming to an end, it could well have been the end of his time at ICT and he barely got any real acknowledgement of that. Shame. As sad as it is to see him go it's the right choice.

Other clubs are making signings, getting season ticket info out or have folk renewing and where are we? No idea of the manager is staying or going, no info about season ticket info and players futures seemingly in the balance. Bizarre!

Quick rating of those games from a #CaleyAway perspective Dundee United - meh. Done it loads of times previously. Will be good to get a pint with Bobby Mann again though. Brechin - might not be the easiest to get to but probably a 'classic' away fixture. Should be fun. Livingston - gads. St Mirren - easy enough to get to but nothing special. Quite like their wee ground. Falkirk - gads. Queen of the South - ooft. Some journey even from the central belt. Fair play to any ICT fans coming from further afield. Morton - Should be good. A relic of a ground but that's part of the charm I guess. Dunfermline - meh. Not too far too travel I guess and some reasonable pubs nearby. Still not a classic away game. Dumbarton - I thought for years that Dumbarton was between Edinburgh and Glasgow Quite looking forward to going there*. *But of course I'd rather we stayed up. As nice as it will be to go to some different grounds it's not worth the pain of relegation.

Anyone know if the shop is open tomorrow? I'm tempted to head down to grab one of the new strips before heading back to Edinburgh but as time is tight I don't want to head along only to find it closed. Cheers!

This is a fair point. Two of our wins from seven this season were against teams who were barely trying.

Ah well I didn't see that. Not saying it didn't happen obviously. I was too busy staring blankly off into the distance of the Moray Firth to really notice anything

I've seen some mention of this on Twitter but I think some of the YT who were protesting outside were seeing some of the supporters in hospitality after the game not directors or anyone like that. That said I was quite surprised at the mood of some people in hospitality. There were a lot of sad faces but a surprising number of folk laughing and joking. I suppose everyone reacts to things differently in fairness.

It was announced on Twitter. I think it was Section K, Row N but the seat I don't know. I think it's in the family section.

Sportscene is muck so that's a good thing that we don't need to watch that mess to see our highlights however the wider issue of lack of exposure is a greater concern as I have said before. The only good things about going down if / when we do is more games at 3pm on a Saturday and more football during international breaks however these do not outweigh the significant negatives from relegation.

Foran went into the stand and sat with the fans, chatted to them, posed for photographs and signed programmes for supporters.

What a post that is. *stands up and starts to clap*

This was one of my biggest bugbears with Foran. Good performances against Dundee and Saint Johnstone earlier int he season and later against Hearts and Rangers and instead of keeping that same approach to games he changed it and results faltered thereafter. I know you can't play the same way every single week and you need wee tweaks here and there but it seemed bizarre to have these good games and see players like Tansey coming to the fray after looking lost for weeks only to change the set up again and then the likes of Tansey went back to being completely ill effective. He never seemed to want to build on good results and changed things around again, results again became poor but then he strangely started to stick with defensive and narrow setups.

Unfortunately winning just once in our last 23 games counts for more. Taking points off the likes of Rangers and Celtic is always great but our season is largely defined on points taken against the likes of Kilmarnock, Hamilton, Dundee and so on and this is something that we haven't done this season for a long time.

The point is that your bold claims about being some kind of soothsayer who foresaw this demise and rubbished claims of our new style of play at the time are simply garbage. I don't disagree that if Hughes was still in charge we probably wouldn't be on the cusp of being relegated however his time at the club was clearly at an end for reasons that have been discussed to death on this forum and he had to go. What he did with us was fantastic, taking a team we all thought was at its peak under Butcher and somehow got them playing even better. It was incredible. But after players started leaving, Hughes yet again showed his failings in the transfer market and couldn't replace those who left. Foran was clearly the cheap option but given the club have let Hughes spunk a mental amount of cash on the squad, gave him a new contract and then had to pay him off (and some allege are still paying him now), I am not sure what folk expected the club to do? That said I do think that the board should have acted back in January or whenever it was that we lost to Hamilton and, as much as I love Foran, sent him packing. It was clear by this point his tactical setups and team selections were questionable and we were already sliding down a very slippery slope. The fact is, blame can be apportioned on all parties here. Hughes for leaving a bloated, unbalanced squad in need of a serious overhaul with little cash for the incoming coach to work with, Foran for his largely poor signings, questionable selections and odd tactical setups and the board for sitting back and allowing this mess to develop.

Really? Let's take a look at what you said just before Hughes left and Foran came in. Hmm, so far it looks like you're pretty non plussed about Hughes leaving recognising that his style of play has it's limitations. Nothing obviously at this stage of anything suggesting that you had called out the new exciting brand of football as nonsense. Some pretty fair comments here, reservations about the lack of experience which was echoed by a number of ICT fans on here at the time and, with hindsight, a very accurate comment about needing an experienced number two. Still nothing about calling out the style of play as rubbish. Again, repeating the reservations concerning lack of experience but again nothing about calling out the new style of football as you claim. More doubts but ultimately comments hoping that Foran does well. I sense a pattern here. This is the last post of yours I could find close enough to the time of Forans appointment which talked about your thoughts on him taking charge. Yet again, no comments whatsoever about the style of play and indeed you thought we might even get into the top six! That's definitely setting your expectations quite low especially given your concerns about his lack of experience... You almost seem pleased that Foran has failed so you can tell everyone "I told you so!" yet it's also clear that some of the bold claims you are making now about being some kind of prophecy regarding calling out the style of football that was going to be on show are a load of bollocks.

Don't forget loss of TV money, potential loss of sponsorship, hospitality income etc. Relegation, financially, as an utterly horrendous issue for the club to have to deal with. There's talk of a significantly improved TV deal from BT in the very near future as well which we stand to miss out on if we don't get back up at the first time of asking. We're going to find it harder to recruit players and there is almost zero coverage of the Championship now that Rangers are in the Premiership (we've all seen how quickly BBC, BT and Sky dropped any kind of live games or highlights). As much as I love Foran there is absolutely no way that he should have been allowed to continue to oversee this shocking decline in the clubs fortunes. We absolutely had to stay in the Premiership and it shouldn't have mattered who was in charge we simply could not afford to allow relegation to happen. He should have walked after the 3 - 0 defeat to Accies instead we stuck whilst others twisted and we look set to pay a very heavy price.

Has he been told he is free to go? I recall he signed a six month extension to take up to the end of December 2017. He had a good season for Hearts in the Championship a couple of seasons back. Maybe it's his level. ETA: I see he has been told he has no future at Hearts: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/hearts-will-allow-billy-king-to-leave-on-free-transfer-1-4433554

Wouldn't be upset to see that line up TBH. I was wondering about possibly playing Fisher wide left and the reason for that is we used to do that with Foran when Mckay played up front. Foran was there for the long diagonal ball which he would often win and knock down to Mckay. Maybe Fisher could work playing there?