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Scott Gardiner being no longer required saves the club a reported 100k a year . It’s not rocket science to anyone that he needs to go . It’s been one disaster after another for our much disliked  CEO . How can the club expect any sponsor to inject cash into the club when money like this is squandered on paying his wage . Has he actually achieved anything significant since his appointment or was it just jobs for the boys act with Ross Morrison ? Seems to be more clowns about the club than Billy Smarts Circus . 

4 hours ago, Duke of Inverness said:

New bins arrived this week from Highland Council. 

I'm going to struggle to fit Ferguson, Gardiner and the 23/24 season in the new grey rubbish bin. 

Please at least make sure Gardiner goes in first ! Certainly not in the recycle bin just common trash .

Let’s just all get behind the team on Friday and act as the 12th man . More important we all keep the positives for now and put this play off spot to bed . 

That will probably be the end of that friendship then ! Too little too late . 
Get SG has left the club and I’ll donate a fiver . 

9 minutes ago, Charles Bannerman said:

It should maybe be added that Duncan Ferguson must be working on a rock bottom budget and up here it does seem that clubs have to pay players a premium for geographical reasons recruiting at a decent standard must be very difficult.

Was anyone else at the September meeting of the Football Memories group where Scot Gardiner took the floor and detailed how he personally had recruited Duncan? I understand that the appointment was confirmed after Scot Gardiner and the Chairman voted for Duncan and Grassa voted for Dougie Imrie.

Scot Gardiner Ross Morrison 2 of a kind and not good for the club . Grassa at least has a bit of love for the club 

4 minutes ago, ICTPaisley said:

Turns out sacking Foran probably wouldn’t have helped.

As poor as Dodds was this season I never felt we’d be in this position with him here. We’ve still got a chance, starting with an absolute must next week v Arbroath and then against Queens Park.

Ferguson was a big name ( nice guy ) but Not a manager . Yet Another Scot Gardiner disaster as his recommendation . And man has he had a few .  Everything this guy has anything to do with the club is a disaster and about time he is shown the door .

Club is in a very precarious position financially so why are we still paying this clown ? ( Reportedly well over 90k a year when we should immediately have been looking to save money ?   Far too many loan players ,It rarely  works and clearly hasn’t worked . I’d have Charlie take the last few games with some fresh ideas as obviously Ferguson is way out of his depth . 

57 minutes ago, old caley girl said:

Because they wouldn't be allowed to sing such ditties at home? 

Even more reason to really ramp it all up full volume . Ross Morrison and Scot Gardiner have a hell of a lot to answer for .

1 hour ago, STFU said:

And it's an event being run by our CEO.

Using the club for his financial gain ?

2 hours ago, STFU said:

They don't need a legal case for appeal, it is their right to do.  Just as it was the Highland Council's right to call the decision in to full committee.

The 'side case' of taking legal action for corruption (which seems to be the jist of Gardiner's allegations) may actually delay any appeal if Scottish Government don't want to get involved while that's going on.

2 hours ago, STFU said:

They don't need a legal case for appeal, it is their right to do.  Just as it was the Highland Council's right to call the decision in to full committee.

The 'side case' of taking legal action for corruption (which seems to be the jist of Gardiner's allegations) may actually delay any appeal if Scottish Government don't want to get involved while that's going on.

2 hours ago, STFU said:

They don't need a legal case for appeal, it is their right to do.  Just as it was the Highland Council's right to call the decision in to full committee.

The 'side case' of taking legal action for corruption (which seems to be the jist of Gardiner's allegations) may actually delay any appeal if Scottish Government don't want to get involved while that's going on.

2 hours ago, STFU said:

They don't need a legal case for appeal, it is their right to do.  Just as it was the Highland Council's right to call the decision in to full committee.

The 'side case' of taking legal action for corruption (which seems to be the jist of Gardiner's allegations) may actually delay any appeal if Scottish Government don't want to get involved while that's going on.

Someone corrupting and it’s nothing to do with  SG ?  Having this guy at the club until any appeal would be heard is disaster itself . The club and fans cannot continue association with this guy any longer than is necessary . Waiting a year or even months with this clown running things down will just finish the club totally . Things are as low as they need to be and we all  need a lift . Getting rid should be  the start of the way forward . Should never have been employed in the first place . 

7 hours ago, wilsywilsy said:

The opening presentation set the tone as expected. Big pitch on the upsides of BESS, dismissed all concerns with some odd and weak examples, made the council the villains and implied there is a vendetta behind why this has faced some resistance. I was surprised at how personal they made that. The club want to stick with this tactic, stay on the attack, and have everyone pepper councillors mailboxes.

The early drop of the £3.4M number certainly wooed the crowd. From then on, I thought the room was surprisingly partisan. Case in point being the boo'ing and heckling of the councillor which was embarrasing. 

When Caley and Thistle were going through  the merger big numbers like this 3.4 million were repeatedly mentioned to woo the fans to get what they required . Funny how these promises fade once the chairman gets what’s needed . Sack S.G and that annually will save a hell of a lot of money.Funny how the club can continuously pay huge wages to someone that has been nothing but a disaster for the club. Or am I missing something ? Surely if you’re running on losses you look at where you can save money . So what does the club benefit having this CEO ?  

Wonder what the next failed plan will be from Scot Gardiner ? Soon  be looking at plan C then plan D as we already have had plan A and more likely Plan B nonsense . Trying to involve fans to save your bacon is laughable . Tonight is going to be very interesting 

Standing room only tonight if Scot Gardiner was organising the seats . Couldn’t organise a **** up in a brewery let alone a concert .

43 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

He’s not a board director. He is just an employee and is answerable to the board.

Sorry My mistake . 

22 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

The core issue is that the club has been mismanaged off field to the worrying extent that our mere existence is at risk. I suspect that Dunc was CEO showboating and always short term in nature or basically deflect the fan attention to the footballing aspect and allow the real clowns to feck things up. Feels like we are on a Traitor type game and the majority of the fan contestants have been duped and can't recognise who they are. Can you not imagine them in the turret laughing at us and planning more self-preservation plans.

They need pushed out , One especially who has done hehaw for the club but cause financial problems and leaves a trail of destruction behind him . Board need to waken up and get rid . SG you’re not worth a minimum wage to this club . Never seen such a hated board director which in itself says it all . Majority of fans surely cannot be wrong . He’s holding on hoping the Battery project goes through and even if it did , Majority of that money will be sucked up pretty quickly lining his pockets . You won’t see him out of pocket that’s for sure . 

8 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

Gardiner needs shot out of a cannon back to Weegieville

Most problems at the club have come via Gardiner .  He is the root of the problems at the club and if Morrison keeps backing this guy then afraid he needs to go too as between them are ruining the club and only pulling it backwards . 

5 minutes ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Sounds like on a par (no pun intended) with the Morton new year 0-0 draw. Which was the worst game of football I can remember. 

Been so many bad games lot of nominees for worst game lately 

How bad a watch was that ?? Embarrassing  game of football .If anything it’s getting worse .

So not good enough if we cannot pick up a win playing a part time bottom of the league team it says it all . Where are the points going to come from unless Ferguson changes tact. 

Gardiner killing our club through his **** management and decisions. What a wonderful appointment he has made to manage the club . Sooner this unpopular Hearts reject is shown the door the better . A lot of turmoil this club is in has a hell of a lot to do with him . Enough is enough GTF 

16 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

Yup. Classic crybully. Like I said earlier in the thread, folk are being very quick to play the man and not the ball (to use another sporting metaphor).

Club are also forgetting thousands of people and of which I am sure loads are fans of the club , live around the area earmarked and do not want this near themselves or their children and schools alike . It’s funny how our chairman ( who funnily does not live in Inverness ) is making such a loud noise when he wants to . When you’re looking for a football voice of him or his CEO they go back in to their shell . I was beginning to think he couldn’t speak or didn’t understand our highland twang. Run the club in a football manner like it used to be . Stop paying excessive wages to Gardiner would be a start . Jobs for boys becoming tiresome and wasting so much money no wonder the club is in a mess . It’s been run by amateurs . 

59 minutes ago, STFU said:

ICTFC is NOT a community organisation, they undertake zero community activity and despite their claims in the most recent rant, they have almost zero fan engagement.  They can't even organise a kids Christmas party.

ICT Community Trust is a seperate, self funded, self staffed and independently operated organisation.  It is they who do the community work the club are taking credit for.

Likewise with the ICT Women.

Given how the club has operated the last few years, it clear that they have taken way more from the community than they have given, and until we know the figures we can't know how much, if anything, might find it's way to good causes.  We're only taking the word of people who have shown time and again that their word is worthless.

It baffles me that people think that football clubs should be allowed to just hoover up and **** away money as they please.  Any other business wouldn't last 2 minutes if they operated in this manner.

The council planning committee aren't doing much for their image, but given the circumstances I think it's right that this goes to full council.  Full council should also be kicking the ass of the planning dept.

It should never have gone to a vote once they realised only 5 were eligible to do so and should have been redirected to full council at that stage.  The meeting may have been quorate, but 5 people should never have been considered representative.

It's as if the planning committee and club are having a competition to see who is the least competent.

Exactly .The land is green open space which Inverness is vastly running out of . Messrs Cameron and Sutherland knew when buying this land the restrictions of which the land had . But no they think they are bigger and better than anyone else and can do as they please .Not seeing them donating it to the community for parks , walks etc .  Putting a battery project near hundreds of houses and schools is Insane . if our chairman and CEO did a fraction of work in promoting our club instead of trying to do a quick fix . Like I have said many times SG is so unpopular in our football community that it’s near impossible to gain much support by public and businesses alike . Are the rest of the board blind into what’s going on . We are an Inverness club representing the Highlands not bloody Tayside or Glasgow 

Only 5 councillors voted . Why would u abstain from a vote of great importance?
something smells so bad about all this .  
Another great SG flop maybe which we are getting so used to it shouldn’t surprise us .  

1 hour ago, RiG said:

Imrie applied for the job.

But as SG would have said Dougie Imrie has no connection to Rangers so canna happen . 

32 minutes ago, Hiro said:

Our January transfer dealings looking more and more bizarre by the match.  So much focus spent on bringing in new defenders when that clearly wasn't the problem.  We have one of the best defensive records in the division and the players brought in are no improvement on what we had. We still have no creativity with the likes of Roddy Mcgregor not getting a kick.  You have to question what on earth the actual plan is.

Most teams in our division would love to have a Roddy McGregor. Why would you not play him ? Been on that bench apparently fit so why is he not getting a game ? 

Just now, ymip said:

Fecking abysmal again. Ferguson is not the answer.

This will be where the money goes again shortly . Paying off another flop taken in by a dodgy money grabbing CEO

17 hours ago, STFU said:

On the topic of Scot Gardiner as per the thread title.  Does anyone else think he exhibits the behaviours of a dictator?

Certainly not liked by many a supporter . I certainly would not invest money that would benefit towards him getting  a fat wage . Maybe the club wouldn’t have been in such a precarious position by paying folk like this .  Also stops a few bums on seats for sure as many have said he’s so not good for the club .