Scotty

Will Gardiner allow it

But not the main two we are asking to be removed. Personally, I want Gardiner and Ferguson gone as they manage the day-to-day activities on and off the field. They have no loyalty to the club beyond that of employer and employee (and that's both fine and fair). The chairman on the other hand has 'skin in the game'. He was an ICT supporter long before he was chairman and is one of those dipping his hand in his pocket. Both of those facts complicate any call for his head ... However, he himself may feel he has to fall on his sword as the head of the board that employed the aforementioned pair in the same way that Kenny Cameron did when we were relegated from the Premiership.

The short answer is yes, it does affect players. I don't know the sports science behind it, although I think it may be due to the infill material where soil under grass, even when hard and compacted, is still softer than the infill then cement/concrete under turf. Hate that we have to play on it and we absolutely need to be factoring this into training if we are not to have an even more horrendous injury list this coming season. Artificial turf has come a long way since the carpet burn Astroturf like they have/had at the Bught, and some of it is now FIFA approved and woven into real grass and such like, but with all due respect, I don't think we are encountering the top of the range stuff in League 1. It's too expensive to maintain and very few clubs could afford it including most Premiership clubs. Went down a bit of a rabbit hole with this page but seems to have been a lot of research, mostly on American Football, done in US universities that do correlate turf and increased injury risk. https://www.sportsfieldmanagement.org/knowledge_center/synthetic-turf/#accordion_injury_research

You are a professional at it though.

Indeed. We have a core of good staff at the sharp end and they will almost certainly be the ones that suffer either by losing jobs or by being expected to do more with or for less ... it is at the top end where the skills are blunt and fingernails will cling to power as long as they can. Anything less than an announcement that the first two people to go are Gardiner and Ferguson will be utterly wrong. I am not sure we can afford to pay them off as I don't know their contracts, but for the sake of the club, its ethos, its community, or what is left of it, I am not sure we can afford NOT to do it.

That non-statement statement is utter shi*e and says NOTHING except a desire to buy time to see what they can say, or to see emotions die down. Gentlemen - that emotion and sentiment will NOT die down.

I thought about putting out a "statement" on behalf of CTO on Saturday but personally, I think that's counterproductive as the Trust statement kind of said it all. Personally, as a member of the Trust that's all I need. We have been around for 30 years here on CTO, and I think providing a platform for the users on here to express themselves independently, as well as the contents of many of our personal social media posts say it all without any press release. Check my twitter feed @highlanderict if you are at all uncertain of my feelings. In case anyone wants a statement on where we stand ... The CTO version is short and simple. We support the Trust statement and get behind it fully. We ask that the club "Get Gardiner Gone" We ask that the club "Get Ferguson Gone" Lets get talking about how to rebuild from whatever shambles is left behind and with who at the helm, both on the field and off the field. We need good leadership in both areas. We also need immediate improvement in communication, fan representation as well as community and fan engagement. Bring back #TogetherNESS

the one on the left definitely reminds me of someone.

had our service provider check this out. turns out we were under attack from a couple of IP addresses in the far east. These are known bad IP addresses so the host is now blocking them at the server level. At the time of checking, each one had made more than 80,000 requests to the server causing our server load to spike above 40 . Typically our server load is under 1.00 or at busy times between 1 and 2 which is fine as we have a multi-core server. I will check things in (my) morning and if the load is back to normal will re-enable the currently disabled features.

Has to be the correct heads (plural) though and not just scapegoats ... One man is most culpable and central to all the fiascos of the past few years. We went viral with the pixalot fiasco, and not for the right reasons, the concert 'failure' ruined a lot of trust and goodwill in the area (and yes it was not 'technically' the club but try telling that to small businesses who are out thousands they can barely afford, and the cherry on top seems to be the battery farm ... Whether or not these are his fault or not is irrelevant IMHO, he was the one person who demanded he had to sign off on everything at the club, including speaking to the media or fans, and was also the one person who suggestions and ideas had to go through, with many promising ideas being cast aside because they weren't his regardless of their merit.

Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Mckay 1st Ham: O'Hara Crowd: 2315 Yellow Card: Gilmour CDN Girl HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st ICT: Samuel 1st Ham: Henderson Crowd: 2102 Yellow Card: Carragher SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 3-1 1st ICT: Pepple 1st Ham: Owens Crowd: 2222 Yellow Card: Barjonas

Sorry to be a pedant but Ryan Gauld is playing in Canada for Vancouver. MLS is North America not just the states. He has been their lynchpin and made what was a notoriously and consistently underperforming team look pretty good. Similarly, Lewis Morgan is one of those who just goes about things under the radar. Messi and the circus in Miami might get all the headlines, but Morgan has been consistently good for New York for a few seasons now.

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Mckay 1st Ham: O'Hara Crowd: 1402 Yellow Card: Duffy CDN Girl HT: 1-1 FT: 1-1 1st ICT: Samuel 1st Ham: Henderson Crowd: 1205 Yellow Card: Carragher SOS HT: 0-1 FT: 0-1 1st ICT: Brooks 1st Ham: Tumilty Crowd: 1314 Yellow Card: Longridge

Would not argue with the first bit. Definitely needed in the Premiership but once elsewhere in the league structure then it's debatable IMHO. For me it's all about added value. I have no idea what the current wage is, but if we have a CEO who for sake of argument is costing £100K in wages and generating additional extra costs in hotel bills or car hire or anything else because he/she is not locally based, then a cost/benefit analysis is warranted. If that person brings in more than their cost and can help others to work more efficiently, and therefore more cost effectively, promote the club in a positive light and engage with fans, then that to me justifies the position regardless of what we might think of the person. If, however, the plans to generate sustainable revenue never materialise, or they alienate others in the organisation due to autocratic methods, cause lower efficiency because of this, ignore local and fan relationships that took nigh on 30 years to develop and establish, and make no overt contribution to the bottom line then its a no-brainer! We don't need the latter. I have my own opinion on this regarding our current CEO, but I can't back that up with hard data showing which camp he falls in. I want him to be in the first one because that would be a revenue generating situation and god knows we need that right now, but with high profile failures like the concert and the ongoing saga of the battery farm, and numerous examples of lack of engagement with individual fans or groups, my fear is that is not the case. We have had only 3 official CEOs I believe. MS, YC, and SG. That speaks volumes if we look at their records and fan opinion on each of their tenures. Prior to that we had a team manager and a stadium manager reporting to the board. John Sutherland may not have had the title but was a defacto CEO in my opinion, and was the epitome of what was needed at the time. I have no idea about his leadership style, but he ran the stadium, managed the staff, also did security and other matchday duties so wore many hats over the course of a typical week. Hospitality was left to those who could sell it, similarly with marketing, and other areas. There are also plenty of other people around the club who do, or have, worn many hats over the years - mostly successfully, with only the odd exception. Even though some of the faces change from time to time, we have always had a core of good people. We have been lucky in the past with directors or chairmen being local and putting in - in some cases - more hours at ICT than they did in their own companies. If we have competent businesspeople on our board, then should the unthinkable happen and we drop to the 3rd tier, I personally would be hoping some of them would step up to get us back on track organisationally, thus reducing the need for some senior personnel who may be drawing a wage we simply can't afford now and definitely not in the lower tier. We will still need the day-to-day staff that make the place tick over and do so much of the heavy lifting, but we may not need a CEO or any other 'executive' roles. If the existing staff don't have capacity to take on additional duties if we were to drop down, then supplement (not replace - that would be foolish) the existing day-to-day staff with volunteers as we did in past. However, for that, you do have to communicate, engage, build trust, and not look down your nose at them as if you stepped in horse***t or are suspicious as to why they volunteered.

Scotty HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer Mon: Hester Crowd: 2155 CDN Girl HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer Mon: Gardyne Crowd: 2501 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 3-2 1st Scorer ICT: Harper 1st Scorer Mon: Lyons Crowd: 2294

Scotty HT: 0-1 FT: 1-3 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer Mon: Hester Crowd: 845 CDN Girl HT: 0-0 FT: 0-2 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer Mon: Lyons Crowd: 912 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 1-2 1st Scorer ICT: Harper 1st Scorer Mon: Gardyne Crowd: 887

Davide Xausa just got elected to the board of directors of “Canada Soccer”. With the 2026 World Cup prep happening and a new national team manager to find after John Herdman took the Toronto FC job at the end of last season he may be a busy man.

Prediction: We will win but so will QP.

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer GM: Oakley Crowd: 2435 CDN Girl HT: 1-0 FT: 2-0 1st Scorer ICT: Pepple 1st Scorer GM: Muirhead Crowd: 1966 SOS HT: 1-1 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer GM: McCann Crowd: 2012 Think they are all used up but if any **JOKER** is eligible for this game for any of the 3 above, play them for this game please.

Scotty: ICT @ 2.00 CDN Girl: ICT @ 2.00 SOS: ICT @ 2.00

Scotty: QOS @ 2.1 CDN Girl: Hamilton @ 1.73 SOS: Clyde @ 1.73

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 0-1 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer Pars: McCann Crowd: 4855 CDN Girl HT: 1-1 FT: 1-2 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer Pars: Wighton Crowd: 5115 SOS HT: 0-1 FT: 0-1 1st Scorer ICT: Duffy 1st Scorer Pars:Kane Crowd: 5022

Piss-Up and Brewery are random words that spring to mind when thinking of the powers-that-be at the SPFL. I have no idea whether Buckie are content to stay in the HL or not for financial reasons, and the statement doesn't sound like they will fight this decision too rigorously. However, it seems unfair that they will even be excluded from playoffs when others have until July to be compliant. It's all very reminiscent of the stadium criteria issue that kept us down and kyboshed Falkirk as well.

A very long time to read the manual .... https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/9978/sfa-club-licensing-manual-2023.pdf

Scotty HT: 0-0 FT: 1-0 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay 1st Scorer RR: Easton Crowd: 2012 *** JOKER *** CDN Girl HT: 1-1 FT: 2-1 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel 1st Scorer RR: Rudden Crowd: 1875 *** JOKER *** SOS HT: 1-0 FT: 1-1 1st Scorer ICT: Duffy 1st Scorer RR: Vaughan Crowd: 2055 *** JOKER ***