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57 minutes ago, Yngwie said:
Another key point, which someone briefly mentioned here yesterday but which merits more attention in case anybody missed it, is that Charlie Christie is now interim CEO. That seems a very sensible move.
Yes, that would be a sensible move. I wonder if this is just temporary, however? Is there anyone better to be the go-to guy at the stadium right now as we rebuild. AS can't be there every minute of the day but few other people can understand ICT the way Charlie does, he has seen it all as a player, as a manager, as a commercial employee, and as the head of youth development. ICT runs through his veins and whether he gets a decision right or wrong, he will make based on his perception of what is good for ICT and IMHO we have not been able to say that for many years.
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6 hours ago, ICT Supporters Trust said:
We are happy to, and to provide some comments that may assist non members in particular.
The Supporters Trust Board currently comprises eight members, who all voluntarily give their time and effort due to a shared passion for the club and for ensuring that fans' voices are heard by those running the club. The Board covers a wide range of ages, skills and experience. For example, the youngest member is 19, whilst others have significant business experience.
One Board member leads on media activity, but all Board members have the opportunity to comment on draft Press Statements, and they are only issued once the Board agrees them.
We make no apologies for the content of yesterday's statement, and we are grateful for the significant positive feedback on it from members. We had seen the club's announcement on Tuesday, and knew that the media would be speaking to Alan Savage. We therefore wanted to have a different emphasis and put our message across from the perspective of fans, linking back to key outputs from the Fans Meeting in May:
Walking away from the Kelty plan.
Securing the future of the Academy.
Having a change in the leadership of the club, particularly the departure of the CEO.
We wanted to recognise the significant role of all fans in these outputs being achieved.
Our release had to be founded on facts, rather than rumour, speculation or opinions. That is why we did not explicitly refer to Seventy7 Ventures, but it was implicit in our welcoming of Alan Savage.
There have been comments that the Trust was in some way endorsing the Seventy7 Ventures attempt to take control of the club. That is simply not the case. We did welcome the announcement that new investment had been found but we were clear that we needed to understand their vision, motives and plan. We were promised a meeting, but we received none of the details that we had sought.
The fireworks were intended to bring some welcome light relief, and reflect the joy and relief fans are feeling with the confirmed departure of the former CEO, and the relief that Alan Savage has become involved.
Now the former CEO has departed, it is time to move on, and that is what the Trust Board has been doing since his resignation was originally announced.
Board members have been having significant engagement and dialogue with other key stakeholders, including Alan Savage.
We recognise that there is a long road ahead, and there will be many challenges and twists along the way, but we are ready to play our part in that.
As mentioned in our Press Statement, we are about to issue a survey to allow fans to show how they can play their part and join the Trust in working more closely with the club. This has been ready to be issued for some time, just waiting for confirmation of the departure of the former CEO, but we did not want to bombard members yesterday. We know that many fans are ready and willing to give their support.
We also intend to continue with Fans Meetings this season, and details will be provided once the first date is set.
The reality is that you can't please everyone all the time. I used to try that on here and it was a nightmare that had you tied up in knots and running around in circles. Once I accepted that there are those who like the site (and/or me) or did not like the site (and/or me) for whatever reason and learned to live with it and not give a **** then it all got easier. I do my best, and if you don't like it, or have a fundamental disagreement on the site ethos and views then P&B awaits if you so desire. since we stopped trying to be everything to everybody, we just get on with things. I think the only people we have banned in the last couple of years are bonafide spammers who get through our security from time to time.
I have been on the supporters' club committee back in the day as well as others including the local Pool league and the amateur Football league, and know that it doesn't matter the organisation, there are always the same few faces on each who do things year in and year out, and many of the same faces doing the complaining about what you do but not willing to get involved. It is easy to criticise, not so easy to be criticised when you are doing your best.
For my part, no-one has been perfect through this. Our (former) CEO is apparently litigious according to sources who warned me early on about saying too much online and I have been very careful to try and state only opinion and fact, not slander or defamation. I keep those particular opinions to myself. I could have said a lot more but I am happy to have been consistently against recent developments from the start as my somewhat dull social media will attest to. Similarly, over the years, I built up relationships with various board members and chairmen, and these relationships were built on trust. Sometimes I could and would say things, more than I should sometimes, and at other times, I had additional info or background that gave me more context but was not for sharing. It takes a long time to get to that trust level with ICT and it should not be taken lightly as it can be of great benefit in getting info to fans. I currently don't have any of that inside track since Rae/Crook/Gardiner et all, so it is somewhat refreshing to be able to shoot from the hip and say what I think rather than what I think I am allowed to say.
Might I have worded some of what has been said by the ST differently? Perhaps. However, they do have to walk a fine line based on trying to keep 3 sets of masters mollified. first and foremost are the members and like any organisation you are never going to please all of them so you do your best. Second is their own rules and articles which mean they do things in a certain manner for the good and benefit of the supporters and the club, and that might include watering down statements or being party to privileged info that you can't share so that you don't burn bridges for future revelations from the same source, and finally the club itself. Its a complicated balancing act.
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It's time for Player Sponsorship for the 2024/2025 season.
For 20+ years we sponsored one or more ICT players each season. We were proud to have been the main shirt sponsor of Grant Munro through his entire ICT career from a youth breaking into the team to his final season with the club, then we moved onto sponsorship of Liam Polworth. We have also sponsored other players over the years for boots, gloves or other items including record appearance holder Ross Tokely and most recently Cameron Harper for four years, until the end of the 2022/23 season.
Like many others, we took a hard decision and paused our sponsorship at the end of the 2022/23 season due to a lack of confidence in our (now former) CEO. It was a hard thing to do, as we all love the club, but it had to be done. We remain proud to have sponsored so many players over the years and as Alan Savage appears to be coming in to right the ship, ably assisted by club legend Charlie Christie slotting into the CEO role (for now?), then it is time for us to also re-commit to the club and play our own meagre part in helping with the rebuild of ICTFC so we can once again become the 'Pride of the Highlands'.
With our former sponsored player - Cammy Harper - gone, and the other player we were able to sponsor in 2022/23 (Lewis Hyde) also gone, it is time to choose a new player, or hopefully multiple players. I have been in contact with the club yesterday and have been told that many people withheld sponsorship in the way that we did so there are a lot of opportunities. Typically, we have chosen one of the young local lads with a view to maintaining that sponsorship throughout their entire ICT careers, but the field is very open right now. I have my own thoughts on who it should be but want to gauge everyone else's ideas so have added a poll to this thread to get an initial set of opinions and go from there. I will take the names from the club website where the main shirt is not showing a sponsor name. Whoever finishes the 'winner' can be who we look to sponsor and if we raise more than the cost of one sponsorship we will go to the next player on the list. All very democratic and open
[UPDATE] After a week of polling we have now settled on our chosen player(s) and will initially sponsor the home top of Matthew Strachan. Should we raise enough money we will then sponsor an item from Ethan Cairns and the others listed below.
The format will be the same as previous years - all monies raised will go to the sponsorship. We will focus on getting enough for player home shirts, which will be randomly given to one of our sponsors at the end of the season, and if we raise enough, we will sponsor other player items up to the level of cash received.
(INITIAL) PLAYER TO BE SPONSORED: We will try to raise enough to sponsor more than one player in some fashion, but based on the poll results, the order is as shown below.
- MATTHEW STRACHAN
- ETHAN CAIRNS
- ADAM MACKINNON
- SHAE KEOGH
- ROBBIE THOMPSON
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Home Shirt - £450 inc vat [to be confirmed]. Other costs as shown below. [We will not be aiming to do any sponsorship on the manager.]
HOW TO TAKE PART
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For now, answer the poll so we can figure out who to sponsor. Feel free to add any additional comments in the thread below, especially if the player you want to include is not listed. I took the names form the ICTFC website and did not add any players who already had a main shirt sponsor. I will delete the comments when we are ready to start accepting memberships to clean up the thread so if your post is a different point for discussion please use a different thread.
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Join the "Player Sponsor" group. We will use the money received from these memberships (minus PayPal fees) to purchase player sponsorship(s) from the club. We will set all memberships - regardless of when ordered - to end on June 1st of each year. This allows us time each year to gauge the interest in continuing for the following season. The cost to join this group remains the same as before at £16.00 (this amounts to £15.00 joining fee plus £1 to cover the PayPal fees). You may purchase multiple memberships if you wish, just amend the total in your shopping cart and add a note when placing the order if it is to cover family members who may not officially be site members!
- To join the group simply go to this page http://caleythistleonline.com/store/ or access the CTO Store from the main menu at the top. All our site membership upgrades are handled securely via PayPal's platform which will accept direct payment from most credit/debit cards so it should be easy enough to upgrade your membership whether you live in Sneck or somewhere thousands of miles from there. Unfortunately, we do not accept cash payments.
Once we know how many members have joined the group, we will decide on who/what gets sponsored. The first item will be the selected player's Home Kit ... but the more members who upgrade to "Player Sponsor" membership, the more we can sponsor. At the end of the season, members of our sponsor group will be selected at random to receive any gifts we may receive from the club. For any events that occur during the season (like sponsors nights or meet and greets etc.) we will offer first refusal to members of the sponsor group to attend as our representative.
If you are interested, please add your name to this thread or go ahead and join the sponsor group. You will be marked as
once we confirm payment received via membership upgrade .... (once we have enabled it)
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Its all getting a little bit messy. I see some sense in what Charles is saying, perhaps AS had to be a current director to make initial changes - such as binning the former CEO - and now that he has done this, he can revert to a more 'independent consultant' role. If his forensic investigation of things shows board culpability in anything, and given the laundry list of complaints from the last several years my opinion is that this is bound to be the case, and he was a (current) member of the board, then he may have to be hoisted by his own petard, which would be counterproductive.
If on the other hand this is yet another hail-mary by either KM/77V or our former CEO then what could they possibly hope to achieve? One is the single most reviled person in the history of ICTFC, and the other has all the history of grand schemes failing that you could ever see (in fact that could also be a description of our former CEO also).
To keep myself right, I have this handy guide
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1 hour ago, Naelifts said:
I cant find out if the service can be watched online but I will set my watch and pay my own private respects at 1.30. Goodbye old friend.
Doesnt look like it. Shame, as we tend to take that for granted these days since COVID and like you I thought I would be able to tune in.
Doing some googling and the funeral directors have a page here for Johndo: https://johnmackenzie.muchloved.com/ and their main presence seems to be Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bliveseyltd/?checkpoint_src=any which lists a website that appears to be 'under maintenance'. https://bliveseyltd.co.uk/ .
Its morning for me so no Voddie and Coke but will raise a cup of coffee with a hint of Espresso to Johndo around 8:30am my time. Not sure I would get away with starting a conga around the office though.
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10 minutes ago, TheNorthStander said:
However on behalf of all fans - can all the drama please just end?
Amen to that please.
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Great article in the Courier now:
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40 minutes ago, forthefanssubstack said:
I did.
Makwana wouldn't have it though.
He actually got quite confrontational with me towards the end.
I've asked him what went wrong, but not holding my breath for a reply.
If he did reply to you then I think Karen Dunbar would likely sum it up best ....
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59 minutes ago, IBM said:
I purchased my season ticket this morning over the phone and the girl said that they had been busy with renewals which is good news.
I have also reached out to them about our sponsorship this morning. Watch for the thread once I get details ....
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5 hours ago, Fraz said:
Anyone check the boot of Gardiner's car as he left?
Don't you mean his wife's car? Apparently, he had to leave 'his' car behind as it belonged to the club. Dont know if true or not, just something someone else posted.
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4 hours ago, big cherly said:
Having said that, let’s not quibble here. AS was the only prominent person with hard money to raise his head above the parapet and publicly question the Board since Morrison jumped boat. He saved the youth structure from folding (C Christie deserves a big mention here), called out Gardener for what he is/was (a repeated failed businessman), and finally had the ‘balls’ and courage to put aside any grudges and approach probable lifelong business and personal adversaries and strike a deal that would form a group with the money and experience to see though and kick out that charlatan Kahwana.
Paraphrasing what someone else says mentioned earlier, businessmen are on the whole not nice people and mostly look at ‘what’s in it for them’ (that’s how the best succeed).I for one will be probably forever grateful for AS saving ICTFC. What form or shape in the future I don’t know, but I feel a lot better it’s people that work and live their lives here that for the next few years are in control!!
This has all the hallmarks of a watershed club moment for me. In 2000/2001 we were massively in debt due to lingering costs of building the very infrastructure that now makes the land around us so enticing to
7778 ventures and no doubt others. DFS came in, squirrelled away the debt and put us on the path to fiscal responsibility that ultimately led us eventually to our greatest achievements of finishing high up in the SPFL as well as winning the cup and getting into Europe.The last 7 years have been brutal, first with Rae/Crook and then with Gardiner. Alan Savage is a successful local businessman, a football person and hopefully the man we can trust in the same way as we did DFS to work on making us successful (or at least sustainable) again. He will be motivated to make sure the club returns to its community roots, as damage to his reputation locally would also damage his local business and I think we can see that he is community focused by the fact that he was willing to plough money into the youth setup regardless of the shitstorm going on around him. He also was not shy in saying publicly he did not want to work with our former CEO (man that feels good to say) in any way. the comment he made early on, that I am still using in my signature line resonated with me and I think it sums up how he feels about ICTFC.
2 hours ago, STFU said:I think we need to manage our excitement and expectations a little. Savage won't know exactly what the situation is until he's completed his audit and it's not only the financials that are a total mess. He might look at it all and realise that the cost of turning things around is too great for anyone to take on without having to go the administration route or whatever. There may be no money for further signings or worse we have to let one or two go before the window closes. As I said before I am willing to support his efforts by purchasing a season ticket but I still fear we may be in a situation where a further step or two backwards will happen before we can move forward again.
You are probably right. There may need to be some hard decisions to be made and some backward steps taken to go around obstacles from a different angle and facilitate further forward movement, but as noted by Lynne in the P&J article, the grown-ups are now in charge and that feels a lot better. I hope AS takes a leaf out of the Kenny Cameron book. Kenny was open and spoke truthfully to the fans whether that news was good, or a harsh reality. We were not treated like mushrooms, and it brought about that camaraderie and siege mentality that players and fans alike have commented on. We didn't get to hear everything that went on behind closed doors, but some things are, and need to be, confidential, and must remain so even now, but back then, absolutely everything was not shrouded in secrecy which is where we got to over the last 7 years.
1 hour ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:To me there is a big question mark over the battery farm proposal. One minute we believe the club own the land, they stand to make over £3m which would have paid off liabilities with cash in hand,supporters were mobilised to write to councillors. The club appear to have sold these rights for £250K initially to three people - Morrison, Munro and Cameron. Who signed that off given that Munro became a shareholder? Given the fact that David Cameron resigned as a director of the club well before the submission to the Council what was his role in a company believed to be for the benefit of the football club?
I think if we get anything from this it will be a bonus, but I am sure, or I hope, it will now be subject to more scrutiny than before in terms of the 'forensic' examination of everything mentioned.
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25 minutes ago, Yngwie said:
We are not out of the woods yet and there are still lots of unanswered questions, but I feel more confident about the future now that an ICT-minded businessman has (finally) stepped up to the plate.
You are right, we are not out of the woods, but at least now we have someone with a feckin map of the area!
KM couldn't even find us on google
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20 minutes ago, RednBlackComeback said:
Thank you for the last 5 years, Mr Gardiner !
Goodbye.
its been a while since we saw that emoji
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13 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:
Yes, of course there is still a mountain to climb for the club and team. But with a local, genuine businessman in charge, who has always cared for the club, things are infinitely better than having an absentee fantasist whose interests were solely in making money.
I look forward to AS and whoever else is involved (if anyone else is involved) looking over our books, trying to make sense of what has occurred over the last few years and trying to create a viable plan for the next few.
I will be wary of the current members of the board for some time to come given their apparent complicity in what has happened over the last few years, but for now, based on what he has done before, and his unwavering commitments to our youth setup which he reiterated just recently, I will put my personal trust - which lets face it is the only skin any of us have in the game - in Alan Savage to review people's roles in the debacles of the last few years and encourage them to jump ship where they are not up to scratch!
As a supporter, I am not expecting miracles, just forward progress in all our rebuilding efforts ... on the field, off the field, in the town, with fans, staff, players, and other clubs.
@IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER is up there looking down, large voddie and coke in hand, knowing that there is a chance that HMS Sneck may not be headed for the rocks after all.
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2 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:
Looks as though the Board is staying. But does saying that Savage has been appointed "to take charge of" the club mean that he's Chairman?
Reading the statement it sounds as though
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Savage offering to use his business skills to try and sort out the mess - on condition that Gardiner leaves the building immediately
- No indication he will be chairman, and the wording is "appointed to take charge of" . I guess time will tell, or maybe someone can ask.
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Forensic review of everything. GOOD.
- Still looking for "new owners" long term.
- Looking to rally round community and get back the community feel.
Overall, pretty positive but still la few questions to be addressed. I certainly feel happier with Savage at the helm steering the ship than Makwana and Gardiner.
Once the dust settles over the next day or two I think we will definitely be more positively minded in renewing our player sponsorship that we lapsed last year because of the CEO.
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1 minute ago, Scotty said:
I just read that ... sounds legit but cant figure out where the statement is from though ...
nothing on the club Twitter feed, website or in email (we normally get sent the press releases when they go out)
Press release just came through .....
On behalf of the Board of Directors, Interim Chairman Panos Thomas:After months of uncertainty surrounding the future of Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, the Board of Directors have appointed local businessman Alan Savage to take charge of the struggling Highland Club to put the team in a firm financial position.Working alongside the Club's Board of Directors, Savage has taken the initiative to oversee the organisational restructure of the Club as they seek to remedy their financial issues, with Chief Executive Officer Scot Gardiner leaving his role with immediate effect.The Club have also suspended negotiations with Seventy7 Ventures, who had been seeking to acquire a majority shareholding, with Savage beginning immediate work carrying out an internal forensic review of the Club's financial position to establish plans for the Club's future and setting the team into a viable position for new ownership.Savage and the Board are now looking to rejuvenate the connection between Inverness Caley Thistle and the community which will be integral to the long-term future of the Club and are seeking support from local businesses to address the immediate financial shortfall until further long-term investment can be secured.The Club are now working with Scottish sports marketing agency GRM Marketing to engage with a number of investment leads and commercially drive the club forward.Inverness Caley Thistle is hopeful that the community will once again rally around the team and come together to support the new foundations being established.ends -
Just now, snorbens_caleyman said:
More from the Sun:
"A club statement read: "After months of uncertainty surrounding the future of Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, the board of directors have appointed local businessman Alan Savage to take charge of the struggling Highland club to put the team in a firm financial position.
Working alongside the directors, Savage has taken the initiative to oversee the organisational restructure of the club as they seek to remedy their financial issues, with chief executive officer Scot Gardiner leaving his role with immediate effect.
The club have also suspended negotiations with Seventy7 Ventures, who had been seeking to acquire a majority shareholding, with Savage beginning immediate work carrying out an internal forensic review of the club's financial position to establish plans for the club's future and setting the team into a viable position for new ownership.
Savage and the board are now looking to rejuvenate the connection between Inverness
Caley Thistle and the community which will be integral to the long-term future of the club and are seeking support from local businesses to address the immediate financial shortfall until further long-term investment can be secured.
The club are now working with Scottish sports marketing agency GRM Marketing to engage with a number of investment leads and commercially drive the club forward.
Inverness Caley Thistle is hopeful that the community will once again rally around the team and come together to support the new foundations being established."
I just read that ... sounds legit but cant figure out where the statement is from though ...
nothing on the club Twitter feed, website or in email (we normally get sent the press releases when they go out)
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5 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:
If Makwana really is on his way back from Dubai, as his earlier post suggested, then perhaps they are doing him the courtesy of waiting to inform him first when he touches down. Though I'd have thought he would be travelling in ultra-exclusive-platinum class, with the best immersive digital experience - internet to you and me - on the planet.
He has phygital wi-fi on the jet.
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2 minutes ago, Charles Bannerman said:
To be fair, the media have had virtually no opportunities to ask questions about this since the manager has been the only person the club has put up to speak and this is very much not within his remit. However very many questions have been submitted in writing by several journalists but no reply has ever been received. My own reporting of this has very much reflected the same scepticism as the supporters and has been articulated by highlighting Mr Makwana’s business record and the magnitude of his task if he were ever to achieve his 50.48%. As a matter of policy, I have never referred to Mr Makwana as the “owner” or “majority shareholder” or to a “take over” since there has never been any evidence that he owns a single share.
My reference to reporters who had been around the block, and maybe not scared to ask harder questions (even if not answered) was specifically aimed at you and Paul Chalk! Most others fawned or gushed over this character.
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I think we had the wrong acronym ... He went from ICT to QE2 when in reality he should have been saying FU to CEO SG.
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11 minutes ago, RiG said:
Yeah fair point that the fans saw through his mince quickly. Same definitely couldn't be said for many at the club and some of the local press who were quick to let him spout nothings about his plans without any pushback.
Yes, many in the press did not ask any hard questions, they never seem to do so these days locally or even nationally. Seems they were either scared of losing access to the club from the man who should have been answering these questions or realistically just filling space. The older journos that have been around the block may be less intimidated, but it seemed to work on the Courier and elsewhere who were gushing about this new owner and falling all over themselves to give him column inches.
I have to say, in all honesty, I was also a little surprised at the Podcast lads too. In the episode just after the 77 ventures "takeover", I felt they let him off the hook a bit too easily with the 'wait and see' approach. I get it that they perhaps had to be a little circumspect and watch their words as certain listeners may want to see if they cross that slander/defamation line, and that private thoughts may not have aligned completely with the podcast content, or perhaps I was just too cynical about the whole thing and was only seeing one side?
either way, I think, if we do get a local consortium of concerned business people to right the ship, we will all have played a part in preserving the life of our club in its 30th year. #OnwardsAndUpwards
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did they ceremoniously take a pair of scissors to his club tie? and also remove his AAA pass? It's all in the details!
Seriously though, if he has indeed left the building then the real work now begins. Lets hope the rumours floating around social media are true and the finally legacy of this era is Ketan sailing off into the Dubai sunset on the QE2 with SG for the 78th venture.
It won't be easy rebuilding, and we won't have bucketloads of cash if this is true, but hopefully what we will have is a solid core of local business people who actually care about the club, can find them without the aid of google, and are of a mindset to right the wrongs of the last 7 years. That should get all of us back behind the club with the same vigour as we were against this 'takeover'.
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Its from the Sun so I will believe it when its actually true and he has handed in his keys. Positive start to my day though
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1 hour ago, RiG said:
This guy is an absolute fantasist. How has it taken so long for folk to see through him?
To be fair - the fans saw right through him immediately. We are all Marge Simpson (monorail reference).
55 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:If true, then surely the Board has to resign en masse, to take responsibility for the recent fiascos and in particular for accepting the "offer" from the Windsor Walter Mitty.
100% agree. The current board should hang their heads in shame, not just over this last scheme but every single fuc**** nonsensical hail-mary scheme that went before it. It is like a Las Vegas gambler trying desperately to get back to break even and failing at each turn. They have no right to be there. They are elected (or co-opted) to do what is right for the club, to be custodians of the club, to make sure everything that is done is for the good and benefit of the club. They have failed at that single task miserably.
Individually, there are ones on the board who I know, and who I trust(ed) but in true parent fashion, I am not angry at them, just deeply disappointed. They should have walked or raised their voice when all this shi* was going down.
If some combination of MM, Savage, Sutherland, McGilvray Jr etc is going to come in and save us, then hopefully egos can remain in check and they can work together for the greater good. McGilvray Sr got us on the path to Premier League in the first place (and did it in 10 years just as his vision document stated). Sutherland and those that followed who were associated with him or Tulloch steadied the ship and made us fiscally responsible. Savage was always there or thereabouts, and I certainly trust him a lot further than who is there now, and even MM had the right idea but what they lacked was the right representative IMHO. There is plenty of credit to go around if they can raise ICT FC from the ashes, rebuild the community and local business support, rebuild fan trust, rebuild the trust of other clubs (ie. paying for our loan contracts), and rebuild the morale and trust of players and staff alike. This is something that has taken the current board and management a very short time to erode and destroy. Rebuilding it will take a lot longer.
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Gardiner out the door permanently (appears to be in progress)
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An under-performing manager out the door replaced with a hungry young coach eager to prove his/her worth and able to work with scant resources we have and will have in the foreseeable future. Ryan Esson springs to mind but that may be sentiment on my part. I will leave others to suggest who might fit the bill.
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A complete rebuild in the boardroom with representatives from all the major shareholder camps working together and remembering the ethos is to do what is right "for the good and benefit of ICTFC".
- A public acknowledgement from the incoming board/club management of the hideous actions of the last few years and an apology to the likes of Shane Sutherland, Aaron Doran, Ryan Esson and others. You simply don't treat people like that, least of all those who have given almost their entire carers to ICTFC. Those that earned testimonials should also get them as a way to try and build bridges in the support again and show we are back to being a community focused club.
Its going to be a long road back, but if the right people are at the helm and are open and transparent with us, where business confidentiality does not preclude it, then we can get there.
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