dougiedanger

This is exactly it, the only logical reason for such an illogical course of action. An extended job application. Let's just see where Cooper the dug is going for a pish in a year or two.

The club is being used as a vehicle to further the agenda of another club. The fans are being taken for nice-but-glaikit teuchters, and tbf, he may have a point with that. The damage already done to the club's reputation is considerable, and if this is not addressed quickly it could be irreparable.

Come on TF now guys, if we can't see what's going on here and the damage being inflicted on the club then really it will be dragged down with the dregs of Scottish football.

Well I am shocked, sevco found to be lying about Brechin’s actions at the original vote. No good can come from aligning the club with that rotten mob.

Time will tell I guess.

The good folk of ICT are being played like a fiddle, for obvious ends. A fatal mistake to align the club with that rotten institution at Ibrox and undo 25 years of goodwill across the decent clubs in Scotland. Dunfermline's chairman's words should be taken seriously: "Since the SPFL director’s resolution was first issued, a number of clubs in the Championship would confirm it is the behaviour of Inverness that has continually been aggressive and confrontational. However, no one felt it necessary to win points in public, as robust conversations take place in the normal course of a competitive business like football."

SFA don't run the league mate.

From the BBC, Cooper the Incontinent Dug again centre stage: Leaked Whatsapps pour fuel on fire - Saturday Would we get clarity? No chance. First, photographs emerged of signed ballot papers showing Championship trio Partick Thistle, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Dundee all voting 'no' - which would have been enough to defeat the motion. However, Dundee's was not registered by the SPFL, with the Dens Park club apparently reconsidering their stance. Cue bedlam. Had they just changed their mind? Had someone 'got' to them? Did they sent it to the wrong place? Enter Scot Gardiner, the Inverness chief executive. He joined BBC Scotland's Sportsound to try to clear up some of the confusion and instead doused the flames with fuel by disclosing the contents of a Whatsapp group containing the Championship clubs. Dundee's voting slip, signed by managing director John Nelms, though the SPFL say they only received it after being told to ignore any Dundee submission Gardiner said Inverness, Thistle and Dundee had agreed to vote the same way and to share their ballot papers in the chat to confirm they had done so. Thistle's was posted just after 14:52. Dundee's followed at 16:24. Then Inverness' around 15 minutes later. At 16:52, Dundee secretary Eric Drysdale reiterated "DFC vote submitted". Then the SPFL statement appeared, highlighting the discrepancy, followed by another message to the group from Dundee saying the vote had not been received but giving their "solemn word" that it had been sent. After a slew of panicked responses, Drysdale then disclosed that he'd been told by chief executive John Nelms "to hold off on resubmitting their vote" before the Dens Park club went silent. Inside the SPFL vote Whatsapp group View the voting slips amid Dundee confusion Rangers call for suspension of SPFL chief No sooner had Gardiner relayed this - and excused himself from the broadcast so he could take his dog out to relieve itself - than Rangers issued a statement. And it was a big one.

Seems like wee Cooper the Incontinent Dug is the brains of the outfit here. "Get aff the phone big man," it's statement time.

It was awful, very sad, and there was a big travelling support, a wee rammy with the Huntly fans, a protest on the pitch at the end but overall a sense of defeat and of something very special coming to an end.

From the Daily Record: As for Scot Gardiner, the Caley Thistle chief executive who had his day in the limelight during that Sportsound bunfight? He’s been hailed for “offering the fans clarity”, but in truth he cleared up nothing. All he did was klype on Dundee for ticking ‘No’ on their ballot paper then failing to get it in on time. Great radio and a story that filled acres of space in every Sunday paper, but a contribution that seemed more than a tad stage-managed, particularly when the former Rangers employee and lifelong fan had to take his dog Cooper for a pee just as Douglas Park was making his “we will not be silenced” statement. For the record, this is also the same Scot Gardiner who, as chief executive of Dundee, accepted the SPL’s 2012 offer of a promotion they hadn’t earned after Rangers were relegated over their financial implosion. It’s also the same Scot Gardiner who left a similar role at Hearts at the height of the fiasco over their new Main Stand project — remember when they forgot to order seats for it? — and the same Scot Gardiner who went to Caley Thistle just in time for their main investors to walk away and the wolf to start scrabbling at the door. That he’s now been held up as a hero in one of Scottish football’s darkest hours just about says it all.

Odd that such a principled stance by the ICT CEO should be cited and used as back up by TRFC, a club not exactly known for being driven by any principle other than self interest.

Crikey, that wee Westie needed a slash at an inopportune moment.

It's not like The Rangers to act in a completely unprofessional, dishonest way, and to make such an utter fool of themselves, so unlike them.

Even more "interesting" comments in SPFL's response. What an embarrassment that club is.

Crikey, nae luck AD, both yer teams died.

The Better Together mob would say that, shameless as the UK falls apart, dragging Scotland down with it.

I'll set them up mate.

Not seeing any dangling mate...

Why are people so convinced he wants to leave?

Do people really think a club going for a historic 9 or 10 in a row is looking to offload a key player at a crucial time in the season? Or that even if that very happy and settled player was looking to leave, his club would spend precious time renegotiating an agreed contractual arrangement? There is one club here that is desperate for cash, which makes Buster's post above the most credible. He also has a long way to go to justify any 20m transfer fee.

This should get the crowds flooding back.

Inverness has always been a football town, and has/had some of the oldest clubs in the world. For more than a century, the town supported 3 or 4 thriving clubs. So, whatever the problems ICT have, it is not that the town has no football culture or history. Quite the opposite.

Won't someone please spare a thought and a penny for the poor middle-class people who can't play football.?