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    Game 42 - Raith Rovers (H) Fri 19 Apr

    in Gringo's NPL

    Posted

    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 ***

    Site errors

    in Technical Support

    Posted

    stats and predictions are all on subdomains so on occasion the embedded pages give trouble as our certificate covers the main domain as well as the subdomains. Its a little convoluted to explain but bottom line, if you cant get to a specific page on the prediction league or the stats pages just go to predictions.caleythistleonline.com or stats.caleythistleonline.com. Its not as pretty and doesnt have the proper menus but it works 🙂

     

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    Stronger Together

    in Caley Thistle

    Posted

    On 4/7/2024 at 6:59 AM, ICT Supporters Trust said:

    The subject of a target was asked at yesterday's meeting.

    At this stage, as it is very early days, we have not set a specific target, but we aim to raise as much as possible on an ongoing basis.

    As examples of how similar schemes have worked in other Scottish clubs, the scheme at Morton raises £10k per month to assist the club, whilst the scheme at Falkirk has bought players for the club.

    The key thing is to increase fan influence on how the club is run.

    Remember, the Supporters Trust is independent of the club. We will hold the funds raised, and we will seek commitments from the club when we decide the time is right to purchase shares.

    As will hopefully be apparent when we post a summary of yesterday's discussion, it is clear that the hard work put in this season by the Supporters Trust is starting to have an impact, with the club now listening to feedback and starting to act on it.

    I hope this initiative goes well and I have often called for shareholders to offer their proxies to the trust in recent times which is a little different to the current call. With 10% of their own voting rights and potentially a bunch of other small shareholdings proxied to the trust on an official basis, the voting right of the trust could be significantly increased to the point where, like it or not, a fan supported rep could be elected if not amicably agreed to be added (co-opted) to the board. As alluded to above, many power brokers at the club have not had significant personal shareholdings and in one case our chairman at the time had only 250 shares under his name like many of the most basic ICTFC shareholders!  

    HOWEVER, I do have to say - as someone who tried this before - that the proof of the pudding will be when asking people to dip their hands in their pockets regularly. You reference Falkirk and Morton above and I think others have had similar schemes in place at one time or another. In Ian Broadfoot's first book, there is reference to a scheme I tried to start many years ago which was dubbed "Pay a Player" scheme. The general idea was to fund additional budget for Steve Paterson through supporter direct debits each month that went straight to the club, and to the manager's budget in a transparent fashion. This was at a time when we were in serious danger of bankruptcy due to stadium building costs and other debts. I got great feedback from everyone concerned, fans and club alike, I got accosted for more info almost every night I was out, but when it came to filling out those DD forms ... a lot less success. The scheme never officially got started in the end as while we were trying to make sure there would be transparency and SP would get the funds directly, David Sutherland came along and squirrelled away and reorganised all the debt. In a way I am happy it did not take off as I can never be sure if it would have worked spectacularly or have been a cluster**** of epic proportions!  History at this point says I tried to do something, which is preferable to it saying I failed! 

     

    From the info supplied, the focus seems to be on buying shares as far as I can see ... but I am not clear from the post above if another aim is to raise a specific amount for the club, potentially on a monthly basis, and have a say in how it is used. The two aims are separate and different, and the waters seem a little muddy in that post. A lack of clear goals is a surefire way for any project to drift from its initial focus and become messy and confusing. Are you saying the aim is to raise £10K per month from fans to buy shares and the club then get that £10K to go to playing budget?  If so, how can you dictate those sorts of terms? It would be more likely to go towards the next hair-brained scheme if no framework for this entire plan was in place. 

     

    • Well Said 1

    Game 40 - Arbroath (H) Sat 06 Apr

    in Gringo's NPL

    Posted

    Scotty

    • HT: 0-0
    • FT: 1-0
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay
    • 1st Scorer Arb: McKenna
    • Crowd: 2112

    CDN Girl

    • HT: 1-0
    • FT: 2-0
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel
    • 1st Scorer Arb: Dow
    • Crowd: 2225

    SOS

    • HT: 1-1
    • FT: 2-1
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Lawal
    • 1st Scorer Arb: McIntosh
    • Crowd: 1988

    In Dunc I TRUST

    in Caley Thistle

    Posted

    Sorry IHE, cant agree. I am sure there are lots of nuances, and blame for things can be spread around in multiple directions past and present, but the sad reality is that our club is in the worst situation it has ever been in. 

    In the first 10 years or so we trended upwards, so-called "punching above our weight for a club of our size", reaching the Premiership almost in line with the timescale in the 10-year plan outlined by Dougie McGillvray and followed through by others who came along after him. In the next 10 we continued to trend mostly upwards with the odd blip as we reached our highest ever league position, won the cup, and qualified for Europe. Now we find ourselves literally falling off the edge of a cliff and headed for the third tier in the 9 years that have followed those highs. I hope we reach 30 but there has to be some serious doubt about that. If we go down, I don't see how we come back.   

    DF may be a club man, and a legend to Evertonians or indeed to Tannadice and perhaps even Ibrox dwellers for his "fighting spirit" but there seems little of that in evidence at ICT recently. He inherited a shambles, tried to fix it with the aforementioned cheap loanees as the budget doesn't allow anything else, and its not working. Anyone earning a wage has been shipped out permanently or on loan and there is little to no team spirit that can create that "Dunkirk Spirit" you talk about. The buck for that stops with the manager even if the situation is not entirely of his own making. 

    Off the field, it is impossible to like what we see there either. We seem arrogant and entitled in the extreme when it comes to dealing with everything, from fans to football, especially the concert debacle and, whether you support it or not, also the battery farm. We have done that debate to death, but the concert really hurt our reputation in the local business community. Trust is something you earn and we well and truly burnt that particular bridge regardless of who or what entity legally owned the concert company. As for the battery farm, it seems naive that we would slap our name on it, let ILI try to do the legwork and assume it would be passed simply because it had the ICT name. I can't criticise the club for trying to generate income streams or look for ways to supplement dwindling matchday revenues which have almost always fallen short of breaking even or making a profit unless we had an extended cup run, but we seem to lurch from one hair-brained eggs-in-one-basket scheme to another these days. The buck for that stops with the person in charge of the day to day running of ICT and that would be our CEO.

    The board do not get a pass either, but I do have to give them credit for constantly dipping into their pockets to keep us afloat ... none of us could do that, and in the absence of a sugar daddy like Uncle Roy, we do have to give them some credit for putting finances into the club. It would be easy to walk away if they didn't care. Perhaps someone there cares enough to do some straight talking to all these points and try to revive the #TogetherNess that we once felt in the ICT family. 

     

              

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    • Well Said 7

    Game 37 - Ayr United (H) Sat 16 Mar

    in Gringo's NPL

    Posted

    Scotty

    • HT: 0-0
    • FT: 1-0
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay
    • 1st Scorer Ayr: Chalmers
    • Crowd: 2024

    CDN Girl

    • HT: 1-0
    • FT: 3-2
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel
    • 1st Scorer Ayr: Murphy
    • Crowd: 2112

    SOS

    • HT: 1-1
    • FT: 2-1
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw
    • 1st Scorer Ayr: Dowds
    • Crowd: 1977

    Game 36 - Airdrie (H) Sat 09 Mar

    in Gringo's NPL

    Posted

    Scotty:

    • HT: 0-0
    • FT: 1-0
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Samuel
    • 1st Scorer Air: Todorov
    • Crowd: 1899

    CDN Girl

    • HT: 1-0
    • FT: 2-1
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw
    • 1st Scorer Air: Gallagher
    • Crowd: 2102

    SOS

    • HT: 1-1
    • FT: 3-1
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Mckay
    • 1st Scorer Air: McCabe
    • Crowd: 1955

    Abusing Players Family

    in Caley Thistle

    Posted

    There's a fine line between banter and abuse. By all means give a player stick on the field if a performance isn't up to scratch, or have some banter with opposition players and officials, but, like the players, leave it all on the pitch. Once the game is done, its done. There is no reason to abuse/harass players off the field and especially not when they are with their family and/or children. That is wrong on so many fronts. We seem to manage this a lot with players who give it all for ICT at times ... Russell Duncan, Iain Vigurs, Liam Polworth, now Billy ...  

     

    Billy is and has been a great servant to the club, and his record speaks for itself. He should not have to post the below tweet.  

     

     

     

    • Well Said 3

    Game 33 - Arbroath (A) Sat 24 Feb

    in Gringo's NPL

    Posted

    Scotty

    • HT: 0-0
    • FT: 0-1
    • 1st Scorer ICT: McKay
    • 1st Scorer Arb: Hylton
    • Crowd: 1552

    CDN Girl

    • HT: 1-1
    • FT: 1-2
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Shaw
    • 1st Scorer Arb: McIntosh
    • Crowd: 1402

    SOS

    • HT: 0-1
    • FT: 2-3
    • 1st Scorer ICT: Gilmour
    • 1st Scorer Arb: O'Brien
    • Crowd: 1601
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