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March 15

The Inverness Caledonian Thistle Trust Limited shares - who controls that? I assume it is the Trust that was set up when Sutherland was chairman in the early 2000s, do they have a board? As for the old Caledonian and Inverness Thistle shareholdings, again, who controls that? My memory is that these shares reflected the membership of the pre-merger clubs.

Companies house listing for the Trust Ltd - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC211723/officers

March 15

One question I have is who owns our club? Scott Gardiner is the CEO, Ross Morrison is the chairman but who controls the club?

Basically, we are able to carry on operating as a full time club because directors and benefactors write off debt or loan us money on favourable terms. Who are the directors who are doing this, have they said they'll stop doing it?

Since we've been relegated David Sutherland and Tulloch's seem to have stepped back from the day-to-day running of the club but they still own the club. Sutherland is involved in the battery farm deal from what I understand.

March 14

We can appeal to the Scottish government and we might well have a case. That will take a lot longer and cost money though.

In the short run, I think we are highly likely to go into administration. We make massive losses every year that are written off by directors. Reading between the lines, it's obvious that these benefactors have said they won't continue doing that so we've pinned our hopes on this project, which was risky due to the potential rejection by the council.

One thing that I'm a bit puzzled about is that this money was earmarked for other projects to make the club sustainable - I'm not sure if it was ever made clear what these projects are and why they are so dependent on the battery farm. Do we just need a revenue source? Is the battery farm somehow linked to the other projects? Are we confident in our useless board and adminisrators to invest millions of pounds in a sustainable way?

February 1

Surely enough time for a few more centre backs?

February 1

He's got the same agent as Remi Savage and Alex Samuel.

January 19

We've signed Alex Samuel on loan from County until the end of the season.

January 18

Last round we changed the team to play Cowdenbeath and needed late interventions from Mckay and Wotherspoon to take us through. We need to play a full strength team or we could easily lose.

January 17

I don't think the podcast has ever been overly critical of the club or the team. If anything they've been reluctant to criticise as stridently as some of our fans have.

January 12

He's confirmed as having been released

https://ictfc.com/sean-welsh-leaves-ictfc/

January 3

2 hours ago, Hiro said:

Hopefully Lodivica and Sheridan are on the way out.

The more I think about the Lodivica signing the more bizarre I find it. I'd be suspicious that it's part of some kind of fraudulent scheme. He was hopeless on trial and had just signed for a new club yet we persevered with it anyway. Truly odd.

I think he's much like the signings we made in the summer of 2017 (Ellsdon, Zschuschan et al), just signed to fill a spot in the squad. Our recruitment this summer was rushed, probably because our budgets weren't set until very late and there was uncertainty around the manager. It's obvious that if we hadn't made the cup final then Dodds wouldn't have been given a new deal and even though he was he was on a shoogly peg.

The recruitment in the last few years has been really poor, espeically permanent signings. Since 2021 here are all the players we've signed permanently:

Anthony MacDonald, Michael Gardyne, Tom Walsh, Manny Duku, Billy Mckay, Kirk Broadfoot, Austin Samuels, Max Ram, Steven Boyd, Nathan Shaw, George Oakley, Zak Delaney, Ryan Barrett, Jake Davidson, Charlie Gilmour, Adam Brooks, Luis Longstaff, David Wotherspoon, Harry Lodovica, Cillian Sheridan.

Of those how many have been our best players? How many have even been regular starters? Billy Mckay and Nathan Shaw are probably the only two who fit both criteria. Wotherspoon as well but he's on a very short term deal and will be away soon. I think Gilmour looks pretty good but none of the others we've signed who are still at the club look like the sort of guys who are first on the team sheet.

We have had some success in the loan market - Max Anderson and Morgan Boyes seem like good additions this year and Jay Henderson, Daniel Mckay, Logan Chalmers and Sam pearson were all decent.

Overall we need a complete reset in how we bring in players.

November 20, 2023

I spoke to someone at the game on Saturday who knows about council planning applications in general, no special knowledge of this one specifically, and their opinion was that this will 100% be rejected. It fails it on noise grounds alone due to being too close to houses.

September 27, 2023

September 27, 2023

People talking about him being appointed for 'staunchness' are being silly. The guy played about ten games for Rangers thirty years ago. I don't think he's particularly renowned as a Rangers guy at all, Everton are the club he's identified with. He was really considered a big disappointment by Rangers fans

September 27, 2023

Positives and negatives about appointing Ferguson.

POSITIVES

He has coaching and assistant manager experience at the highest level. He was a first team coach at Everton from 2014 to 2022, caretaker manager a couple of times. He worked with Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva, Carlo Ancelloti, Rafa Benetiz. That has to be worth something. He seems to have been highly regarded by those he worked with. He has a reputation as a motivator, a positive guy who is passionate as a coach, not someone who is more analytical and measured.

NEGATIVES

He hasn't been involved in Scottish football for decades, he's never coached here at all. You can be certain he'll have zero knowledge of players at this level. He was interviewed by Tony Bellew for a podcast earlier this year and he said that he hasn't really paid much attention to Scottish football for years - which is understandable as he was coaching a Premier league club so knowledge of lower leagues in Scotland isn't required.

He had a poor record as manager of Forest Green Rovers, who were in a similar position to us when he took over - bottom of their league. There are obviously reasons behind every failure (and success) and from what I've read about it there were underlying things wrong at the club that meant he wasn't in a position to succeed.

September 18, 2023

2 hours ago, ictbob said:

John Robertson has wanted back in the hot seat for a long time. Watch this space he'll get it full time now.

This is my understanding also. I might be wrong but I would expect him to take over as manager until the end of the season and, unless we get relegated, permanently after that.

August 31, 2023

We are linked with Jack Sanders, Killie centre half on loan. Played the first half of last season on loan at Cove Rangers.

August 29, 2023

RUmours that we will be signing a defender before the deadline.

August 28, 2023

It was obvious for more than a year that Robbie Deas would be leaving but we haven't signed a central defender to replace him. Now we are bottom of the league making horrendous defensive errors in every game and are scrambling about trying to sign someone for that position before the deadline.

It's appalling management and planning.

August 25, 2023

Our squad is much weaker this season than last. Of the regulars from last season we've lost Deas, Allardice, Henderson and Mckay and none of them have really been replaced. Deas hasn't been replaced at all, we've just not signed anyone in his position. We have signed Charlie Gilmour in the middle where Allardice played but I'm not sure he is a similar player and isn't someone who is going to dominate in there the way Allardice did. Henderson and MacKay both had pace and the ability to deliver a great ball in and while it's early days I'm not sure Brooks or Longstaff look comparable.

We are weaker in ever area and unless we make some excellent signings in the next few days I honestly think 8th is about the limit of our ambitions this season. We've done well on loan in the last few years - Jamieson, McAlear, Chalmers, Pearson and the aforementioned Henderson and MacKay were all good contributors - so maybe we can use that market.

August 23, 2023

Inverness Cup champions after a 17 season hiatus

You'll never sing that.

July 26, 2023

All three goals came from us giving the ball away in our own half. Really poor.

I hope that this is just the pre-season affect.

June 9, 2023

Glad the feel good factor from the cup final lasted a whole five days.

June 7, 2023

How many grounds have you seen Caley Thistle play at? Saw this discussed on P&B, thought it was an interesting question.

I have seen us play at 40 different grounds.

Premiership - PIttodrie, Celtic Park, Dens Park, Tynecastle, Easter Road, Rugby Park, Almondvale, Fir Park, Ibrox, Victoria Park, McDairmid Park, St Mirren Park.

Championship - Excelsior, Somerset Park, Tannadice, East End, Cappielow, Caledonian Stadium, Firhill, Stark's Park

League One - Recreation Park, Falkikr Stadium, New Douglas Park, Palmerston Park, Forthbank

League Two - New Bayview, Borough Briggs, Ochilview.

Non-league - Station Park (Nairn County), Christie Park (Huntly), Mosset Park (Forres Mechanics), Grant Street Park (Clach), Princess Royal Park (deveronvale), Grant Park (Lossiemouth), New Victoria Park (Newtongrange Star) and Cliftonhill (Albion Rovers).

Neutral - Hampden Park (cup semis and finals)

Grounds that no longer exist - Telford Street, Brockville and Love Street.

I've also seen us play as the home team at five different grounds - Telford Street and Caledonian Stadium, as well as Pittodrie (2004/05 ground share), Tannadice (1996 cup tie v Rangers) and Victoria Park (January 2005 cup tie v St Johnstone).