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16 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Technically we are not out of administration and whilst Paul has agreed a 12 month extension we do not what constraints the Club is still under for signing players. If anyone is more up to date than me please advise.

We will agree it and then sign when we are officially out of admin.  It's all been agreed, it's just waiting for it to pass through the legal process.

Pre-season training restarts today, any new faces at Fort George?

That agent must get paid by the word, what a windbag.

Hamilton have a few dodgy characters associated with them in terms of ownership.  I feel very sorry for their fans, can't be easy supporting a non-OF team in that part of the world.

Press conference is soley to announce return of Lionel Nessi.  Nothing else will be discussed.

Oh great, more early round Challenge cup games, it's just what everyone has been crying out for!

We have the same kit as Palace, this basically counts as a trophy win for us.

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It is vital that the joint-administrators can present a clear proposal to creditors. In particular, the purchase of the lease in respect of the land surrounding the stadium, which involves a splitting of the lease, requires a legal agreement involving the club, current leaseholders and Highland Council as head Landlord.

All parties are fully engaged and the joint-administrators thank Highland Council for their swift and pragmatic approach to this.

“As a result, and to ensure a proposal is presented to the creditors without unfulfilled conditions, the CVA meeting will now be held on June 5. The relevant documents have been sent to creditors today [Monday 19 May].

“The joint-administrators would stress that they are confident that a successful outcome is achievable.

 

Probably worth keeping an eye on players that are represented by AJ100, through whom we obtained Musa and who all the trialists in March were with.

When Dundee went into admin in 2010 they were deducted 25 points and were bottom of the then First Division by twenty points.  They managed to finish sixth after going on a 23 game unbeaten run, including winning eleven of their twelve games after the deduction.

45 is no age, what a terrible thing.

I'm sure he was our youngest ever player for a few years.  I remember him making his debut in a derby game, although I might be wrong about that.

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.