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Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Opp: Macpherson Crowd: 1599 CDN Girl: HT: 2-0 FT: 4-1 1st Scorer ICT: Sheridan 1st Scorer Opp: Jack Crowd: 1455 SOS: HT: 2-1 FT: 3-1 1st Scorer ICT: Wotherspoon 1st Scorer Opp: Docherty Crowd: 1812

So long as they make a positive contribution and bring energy to the site it all good. Dont want things to go flat

With the club coming out strong last week, and the weekend missive from the chairman urging all fans to contact their local councilors, I can't help feeling that all our eggs are in this one basket. That scares me a lot.

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Pars: Wighton Crowd: 5312 CDN Girl HT: 0-1 FT: 1-2 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw 1st Scorer Pars: Moffat Crowd: 4895 SOS HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Wotherspoon 1st Scorer Pars: McCann Crowd: 5115

Twitter post Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC @ICTFC Many fans will have read the story running in today’s Inverness Courier re the ICT battery farm planning application and the subsequent negative recommendation from the Highland Council Planning Dept. Some of our fans will also have heard our chairman Ross Morrison talk about the battery farm application at the ICT Supporters Trust open meeting and how vitally important it is to us as a club going forward and how enormously positive a contribution it would make to Inverness and the Highlands in general as we are as a nation, crying out for such developments. Thanks to our partnership with Intelligent Land Investments who specialise in such things, we are on the cusp of securing our long term financial stability and making a huge contribution to our Highland community with one of the most significant recent Highland contributors towards achieving Highland Council, Scottish Govt and UK net zero targets with over 20,000 tonnes of CO, the equivalent of planting 1 million trees. Further to the above and during this last two hand a half year planning process, we also identified that the fantastic Inverness Kartway Raceway, a Queen’s Award winner and one of the finest examples of pro-active community charities in our region, was working hard towards meeting the challenge of replacing their existing fleet of Karts with electric ones. This would help their CEO Corrin Henderson and his team future proof the charity and continue to provide huge benefit to vulnerable youngsters in our area and reduce the noise from the Kartway centre, and the club was delighted to confirm that on receiving planning approval for our plan, a £25,000 payment would be made to IKR from ICTFC. The full video of the Chairman's statement which he makes in advance of next Wednesday's planning committee meeting can be viewed now

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer Ayr: Dowds Crowd: 2312 CDN Girl HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw 1st Scorer Ayr: Chalmers Crowd: 2275 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 3-2 1st Scorer ICT: Wotherspoon 1st Scorer Ayr: Murphy Crowd: 2388

scotty: Airdrie @ 2.15 CDN Girl: ICT @ 2.25 SOS: Partick @ 1.80

Club Press release 15 mins ago: Statement Begins The club can confirm our Sporting Director John Robertson is leaving the club to pursue other opportunities in the game. Chairman Ross Morrison said “John has served the club incredibly well over a number of years, both as a successful Manager and more recently as Sporting Director. His football achievements here in the Highlands are outlined below and his astute transfer dealings brought in significant funds across his time in charge and throughout that period he was always a brilliant ambassador for the club. His drive to establish the new 10-acre Hub for the ICT Community Trust working with Highland Council, Sport Scotland and the SFA and his input into accessing six figure grants for our Community Trust in particular has gone unseen by almost everyone out with the football club. We wish him well in his future endeavours and he will always be welcome at the Caledonian Stadium.” John first joined the club in December 2002 as he was appointed the club's manager following Steve Paterson's departure to Aberdeen. He then led the team to a 4th place finish in 2002/03 and beat Celtic 1-0 in the Scottish Cup Quarter Finals to set up the club's first ever trip to Hampden. The following season the team went on to win the First Division (now the Championship) title and Challenge Cup double during a remarkable 2003/04 season. In November 2004 Robbo left the club to join Hearts. Upon the club's relegation to the Championship, Robertson would return in June 2017 when he was appointed Manager for a second time and John had to totally rebuild the squad, winning the Challenge Cup against Dumbarton at McDiarmid Park. The following season saw him lead the team to a 3rd place finish and into the play-off places and once again lead the team to Hampden for a Scottish Cup Semi-Final against Hearts, losing 3-0. Caley Thistle were beaten in the Premiership Play-Off semi finals by Dundee United. John had the team sitting in 2nd place during 2019/20 and in the Challenge Cup final when the season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season would be ended with us in 2nd place and Caley Thistle and Raith Rovers would be confirmed as joint winners of the Challenge Cup. The 2020/21 cinch Championship season would begin at the later start of October and only with major restrictions. John was granted compassionate leave following a family bereavement in February 2021. Robertson returned back to the club in June 2021 as the club's first ever Sporting Director. Honours/Achievements at ICTFC Scottish First Division title - 2003/04 Scottish Challenge Cup - 2003/04, 2017/18, 2019/20 (joint with Raith Rovers) Scottish Cup Semi Finals 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2018/19 Statement Ends

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Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Billy Mckay 1st Scorer DU: Holt Crowd: 7155 CDN Girl HT: 2-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Wotherspoon 1st Scorer DU: Moult Crowd: 8255 SOS HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st Scorer ICT: Sheridan 1st Scorer DU: Fotheringham Crowd: 7584

Scotty: Partick @ 2.20 CDN Girl: DUFC / ICT draw @ 4.75 SOS: Raith @ 1.85

Scotty: Ayr @ 2.05 CDN Girl: ICT @ 2.50 SOS: Kelty @ 2.10

Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer Opp: Todorov Crowd: 2155 CDN Girl HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Sheridan 1st Scorer Opp: C. Gallagher Crowd: 1899 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 3-2 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw 1st Scorer Opp: Mcgeregor Crowd: 2001

Director of Football was originally setup to be a direct link from the boardroom to the dugout not to scout and sign all the players without the manager consent. He may work on negotiations on contract terms, length and other details, and may have to liaise with the board to get approvals and make the occasional case to sign a player if (when) there is no budget, but recruitment falls squarely on the manager (or should). Renewal of contracts would be the same. Cant see Big Dunc agreeing to a situation where anyone else has power of veto over him on purely footballing squad decisions unless it is a monetary issue affecting the club. Sporting Director on the other hand is less clear. The club's own press release in 2021 and the BBC article naming Robbo simply said "The club say Robertson will work on a "number of specific projects. Chief executive Scot Gardiner added that he would be "a great help to the board and myself and his love of the club and the city will help drive us on"." Thats murky to say the least. After Dodds was given the job he further muddied the waters by noting he would be mad not to speak to Robbo about signings: "Dodds says he will have the "final say" over new signings, adding: "But I would crazy not to go and ask John Robertson, who is a football man, and we will be working together to look at players and come up with targets."

A Google search is less than encouraging with his stats!