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We need to beat Kelty and Montrose.

Hopefully we are bought by some insane oligarch from a tinpot dictatorship who has access to infinite money because he won the Gibrovian potash wars in the 1990s.

Another amazing meeting, which we seem to have had many of recently. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/inverness-caledonian-thistle/6716456/transformational-ict-shareholders-summit-lessens-liquidation-fear/

I heard a rumour that there's a statement coming today btw.

We can just build the stadium where the battery farm was going to go, we own that land anyway, or David Cameron does, and all the goodwill we've built up with the people around there and the council we'll sail through the planning process.

Reading stuff about building a new stadium really makes me worry about what is going on. We need a buyer for the club but haven't had a bid, now we are talking about a new ground? That will cost millions and would put any buyer off. I think things are very bad and liquidation is probably the most likely outcome at this point.

At the end of it, these guys are owed £3m by a lower league Scottish football club. They aren't getting their money back.

Courier reports that we have lost our Bronze license.

Any update at all on progress to find a buyer? Hasn't even been any rumours of buyers.

All we need now is for the other eight teams to follow them and we're back in the game!

Someone who might know about this sort of thing told me that Brooks was one of our highest earners.

Interview with Adam Brooks about being made redundant. I feel really sorry for Brooks, think he could have had more of run in the team. HOpefully he gets a new club soon. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/exclusive-30-seconds-and-i-was-gone-adam-brooks-on-a-h-364921/

I'll echo what's been said by others about the game. We played really well for an hour, moved the ball well, looked threatening and were the better team. A couple of bad errors, losing a ball in themiddle of the pitch for the secondgoal and leaving a man at the back post for the third goal, saw us go down. It'll be a lesson learned and I think that we'll benefit from having Danny Devine back in the middle. Positives are that I thought Longstaff and Bray had good games, particularly in the first half. It's probably the best I've seen Longstaff play for us. Both faded when they were switched in the second half though. In midfield, the structure was good with Allan dropping deep and MacKinnon and Thompson ahead of him. Think Thompson might have been a bit match rusty. The negatives were that we might have had a lot of the play but we didn't score when we were on top, we didn't press home our advantage. We also didn't force their keeper to do much - he had one save I think in the second half that you thought we might have scored but nothing beyond that. We really are lacking in attacking over - our only centre forward is Billy Mckay who is getting on. We don't even have anyone to play up front from the bench. Chatter before thegame was that Adam Brooks was one of our highest earners, up to £1000/week, so from that viewpoint I get why he was made redundant but it leaves us very thin up top. Thought our fans were great, good to see a healthy travelling support who mainly stayed to the end.

We would have been in administration within the 12 months. We'd have had massively reduced income from supporters and sponsors if the move had gone ahead, the situation would have been unsustainable. That little spiel from Ferguson actually makes me think far less of Ross Morrison. He was prepared to fund the club for twelve months if we moved to Kelty but people didn't want to move to Kelty so no funding? I don't blame him for not funding the club anymore, it's burning money really, but he would ONLY fund it if we moved football operations 140 miles away? Seems a bit of a tantrum.

Another question I had - why are our current chairman and our former chairman both telling the media that the club has never been profitable, or has only been profitable once in the last twenty years? This is proveably untrue - the club has made profits in 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Those are only the years that I can find figures for. In addition, during those years that we made losses we didn't have any debt and didn't rely on bailouts. In addition to this, when we were relegated in 2009, we 'wrote off' a year to try and get back into the top flight, gave out one year deals so if we didn't go up we would be able to rebudget.