DoofersDad

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ICT. Devine

Cove. Megginson

Crowd 491

Only one game still surviving in each of the bottom three divisions.

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ICT. Mckay

QOS. Doherty

Crowd. 889

Another excellent and entertaining performance from the lads today.  They are playing well as a team and playing a style of football which not only is more entertaining to watch, it seems to be much better suited to the strengths of the players. RiG sums it up brilliantly with his post.

I hope Davidson's injury is not as bad as it looked.  He was playing very well prior to that.  It says a lot about the change in approach that he got injured when trying to block a clearance by the opposition keeper.

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ICT. MacKinnon

Opps. Sammon

Crowd. 1582

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ICT. Mckay

Cove. Megginson

Crowd. 621

The letter is addressed to "ALL KNOWN MEMBERS AND CREDITORS".  I assume that shareholders are "members" for the purpose of the letter although the letter nowhere refers either to shareholders or shares.  I expect that this is a pretty standard letter for these circumstances, but I would have thought it would be helpful to simply state whether or not shareholders are considered to be creditors for this purpose.  

The letter specifically asks recipients to write to the administrators if they do not consider themselves as creditors. So if shareholders are not considered as creditors, that would seem to suggest that they want shareholders to write to them just to confirm that they are not creditors.  That would be patently absurd.

I have asked a member of the Supporters Trust Board if they can get clarification on issues surround shareholding.  And clearly, the status of the 10%+ voting right of the Trust is also something on which clarity is required.  Hopefully the administrators can provide the necessary info in the near future.

Manny Duku for Hednesford Town  in the FA Cup 1st round at the weekend.  Any you can watch it here!

Quite a game too!  Hednesford were the lowest ranked team in the first round and Manny opened the scoring after just 4 minutes.  Hednesford went into a 3 goal lead only to be pegged back to 3-3 after 90 minutes.  With no replays this year, it went to extra time.  Hednesford got a 4th only for Gainsborough to draw level again and take it to penalties.  Hednesford got another early advantage only to finally lose the tie after missing the target 3 times and having 2 other penalties saved.

Manny was subbed in the 71st minute when Hednesford were leading 3-1 and was therefore blameless in the debacle that followed.

A proper game of football broke out at the Caledonian Stadium today!  The lads must be absolutely gutted not to have won the game, but I was thoroughly entertained.  Well done guys! A little bit of luck and and a half decent referee and you would have won.

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Johnston

Crowd. 1688

1 hour ago, ictchris said:

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 think a lot were surprised that Adam was one of the few to be sent packing.  It is clear that he wasn't in Ferguson's plans, but he does seem to be the sort of player more suited to the more attacking style of play that the club seem to want to go with and we are not exactly overrun with attacking options.  It begs the question of who the administrators consulted about who to keep and who to release.  It is true that Adam never lived up to early promise while he was here but the style of play of the 2 managers he played under didn't give him much chance to show what he could do.  I'm sure we all wish him well in finding a new club soon.  I think there will be several happy to take him on.

It is such a tight league with just 5 points separating the other 9 teams.  It doesn't look as though any other team is going to get detached from the pack and therefore we are likely to need to reach a decent points total if we are to avoid ending up bottom. Averaging a point a game usually has teams in the relegation mix so we are likely to need at least 36 points on the board, or in practice as we are at minus 3, to get 39 points from our remaining 25 games.  That could be, for example, 11 wins, 6 draws and 8 defeats.   I think that is difficult but achievable.  But we do need to start winning games soon.  Another 3 or 4 defeats before the New Year and will need to show title winning form for the rest of the season just to avoid relegation.

It was great to hear of the good support from our fans today.  It will be crucial that we get better home support than we have been getting recently.  It is not the fault of the current playing and coaching staff that we are where we are and they really need us to get behind them.

It will be a huge relief to all the lads to have escaped the cuts.  I am sure they will be hugely motivated and I am also sure that following on from Charlie's comments last week, there will be a more attacking approach to the game.  Dumbarton have the poorest defensive record in the league so taking a few risks going forward should bring rewards.  Interestingly, they have also scored more than the top 2 in the league so we still need to keep it reasonably tight at the back.  I'm sure the away support will be a good bit louder than the home support and will be much appreciated.  I've got a good feeling about this one.

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ICT. MacKinnon

Opps. Niang

Crowd. 681

14 minutes ago, STFU said:

Anyone else confused by the comment about no sideshows and then talk about bringing in a restaurant franchise?

Restaurants etc are failing across the whole of the uk just now on almost an hourly basis. The idea that anyone is going to open one at the stadium with those existing risks and in an untested location is up there with running our own concerts, battery farms and the like.

Surely it is more in line with hiring the stadium out for concerts (which worked well) rather than setting up your own company to run them?  The restaurant franchise would pay the club a rent and take the profits.  Potential opportunities too for vastly improving the hospitality options on match days.  Certainly worth exploring, I would have thought, as part of a strategy of making best use of the assets of the stadium?

2 minutes ago, IBM said:

Good point there Charles you never know who might be looking on here. 

I definitely agree that discretion is the better part of valour, particularly when the person who is threatening you has more money to spend on lawyers than you do.  Threats of legal action are often made to intimidate people and to stop others from making information public which shows the person up in a bad light.  Such behaviour therefore often reflects a recognition by the person making the threats that there is plenty of such information which could be revealed.  Of course, it is also true that some people are subject to malicious and unfounded allegations.  In those cases, legal action is more likely to be taken without being preceded by the threat of it. 

I thought James Stephen spoke extremely well.  He comes across as a very competent individual who genuinely wants to do what is best for the football club.  I was quite heartened by what I heard.  Good to get confirmation that assets of the stadium are firmly in the control of the administrators and not with Ross Morrison.  Ownership of the land surrounding the stadium is not so clear, but one way or another, the process should provide clarity on that soon.

Excellent Summary!

1 hour ago, Huisdean said:

No it isn't.  ICT are the only professional senior football team in Inverness so if the good people of Inverness,  if they want to save their team, then they do need to get off their arses to support ICT. Even in the Championship, Dunfermline,  and now Falkirk get much bigger attendances than us and both these clubs have had similar problems to us. Why should that be the case?, cue the usual comments on poor this and poor that. You either support your team or you don't.  To late to support your team once it's gone. We seem to have a large element of "support " who are never satisfied with the club and always have an excuse for not attending games.

I'm afraid I agree with STFU on this one.  The reality is that there are varying degrees of support for the club ranging from those who go to all the games they can, who buy a lot of merchandise and help behind the scenes, to those who want the team to do well but who rarely, if ever go to a game or buy any merchandise.  There is absolutely no reason why somebody at the bottom end of this range of support should be expected to pay good money to watch poor quality football when they would rather be doing something else, or to buy merchandise they don't really want.  To imply they have some sort of civic duty to do so will only alienate people and make it less likely they will spend money in the future.

The challenge for those of us who put our hands in our pockets and support the team regularly is to persuade others that it is worth spending a bit more money on the club.  We can't directly do much about the quality of the product on the pitch, but we can help to make the matchday experience a little better. An example of this is the work the Supporters Trust has done in making improvements to the bar.  Having a bar which is open for longer hours, serves better beer and and is generally more welcoming will perhaps persuade a few more people to come to matches and those who already do, to spend a little more. 

A big thank you too to all the Trust Board members for organising the meeting and for working so hard recently on our behalf.  It is great to see the improvements to the bar and to have locally brewed draught beer available.  There has also been a lot of less visible work going on behind the scenes in developing the rapport between the Trust and the Club and this was reflected in the fact that both the acting Chairman and acting CEO spent so much time prior to the game in discussing some of the issues the club is facing.  It is important to note that both Charlie and Scott appeared to be supportive of a fans' representative on the Club's Board of Directors going forward.

If there is to be a fans' representative on the Club Board at some point soon, it is important that they can be seen to be as representative  as possible. Whoever is going to take over at the helm of the club in the future may need convincing of the benefit of a supporters' representative.  In order  to convince them, the Trust needs to have a high membership and to be seen to be actively supporting the club in various ways.  So, if you haven't joined the Trust yet, now would be a good time to do it!  

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ICT. Gilmour

Opp. J Todd

Crowd. 1641

2 hours ago, Robert said:

According to Reporting Scotland just now, the Cullen guy has until 1200 tomorrow to make a formal bid and the Board Meeting is at 1500.

That would seem to suggest they don’t have any other offers and maybe no meaningful potential interest for a post administration situation. It’s looking grim. 

2 hours ago, Yngwie said:

Head office is arguably better than Makanwa’s! 

Cullen skint or Cullen stink by the looks of it. 

Gardiner "I take no interest in the views of disgruntled people who ultimately failed at their jobs.  So why are you threatening lawyers' letters left, right and centre then, Scot?  

I agree. Nobody is going to want to shell out millions simply to bail out the people who got the club into this mess and who, it would appear, would rather see the club go to the wall and people lose their jobs than write off their loans.  The club will be a far more attractive proposition after the administrators have wielded their axe and we can only hope that someone emerges who wants to run a football club rather than a speculative business enterprise with a football team tagged onto it.