DoofersDad

Today is the deadline to complete the Supporters Trust Matchday Survey.  Whether you think the matchday experience is brilliant or awful or anything in between, the Supporters Trust wants to know.  From tomorrow, detailed work will start on collating all the data and preparing a report which will be presented to the Club and made publicly available.  This is an opportunity to make recommendations about potential improvements to the matchday experience which will be backed up by firm evidence of the supporters' views.  This is your chance to give your views about what is good and not so good about the matchday experience.  Help the Trust to help you.  CLICK HERE NOW to get your voice heard.

Many thanks to all of you who have already completed the survey.  

Brilliant day out and a great performance from players and fans alike.  We were helped by an early intervention from our first experience of VAR.  Without it there would have been no goal, but under the present ridiculous handball rules it was probably the right decision.  One of Billy's better penalties gave us an early cushion and probably settled a few nerves.  One balance, we deserved our win.  Falkirk had periods of possession but never created much.  We were more incisive with our attacks and scored 2 excellent goals as a result with Shaw being desperately unlucky not to score with 2 excellent efforts.  We also created 2 excellent chances for Falkirk who failed to capitalise on our defensive howlers.  

With the enjoyable and profitable distraction of the semi-final, the team now needs to put the final to the back of their minds and focus on the more important task of trying to get back into the premiership.  Following yesterday's league results, our game on Friday is now a must win just to get into the play-offs.  Hopefully the excitement of yesterday's game will encourage a large and vocal support on Friday for the most important game of the season so far.

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Falkirk  Kennedy

Yellow. Duffy

Time of 1st goal. 36 mins

Crowd. 13,741

Charles has just beaten me to it!

Quite a low turnout last night. 30 or so shareholders I guess.   I felt the mood was generally one of the shareholders tolerating the Board for the time being but not being at all impressed with the way the club is being run at the moment.  With regard to the Concert fiasco, Scot Gardiner was at pains to separate the Club from the Concert Company.  He reported that the Concert Company had paid the Club an unspecified 6 figure sum for the hire of the stadium to include the use of the Club's staff in performing relevant functions.  He stated that making such payments up front was standard procedure in the entertainments business.  He then went on to say that as the ticketing agency for the Concert Company, the Club collected a booking fee for every ticket sold and that this amounted to another 6 figure sum.  In other words, the Club made a profit of at least £200,000 whilst local business were left out of pocket and people who had a dreadful concert experience received no compensation.  Meanwhile, the Chairman, who was a Director of the Concert Company which went into liquidation last year, said nothing.  I have to say, that as a fan and shareholder of the Club who wants the best for the Club, this situation makes me feel very uncomfortable. 

On the wider financial front, it is clear that the club continues to meet its financial obligations courtesy of the Directors meeting the shortfall.  This year, in addition to the 6 figure profit from the concerts, there will be the unexpected windfall of reaching the Cup SF. The CEO explained that gate money from the 2 semi-finals is shared between the 4 clubs and as a result, this promises to be the largest ever gate receipts for the club.  Prize money will also be significant.  Other than that, plans for future funding are somewhat vague with the CEO talking about prospects for commercial developments on the land associated with the ground as part of the Cromarty Firth Freeport zone.  

There was also a rather complicated motion which has the effect of increasing the maximum holding of shares available in the Club from £5M to £7.5M.  It was pointed out that as the full 5M shares have not been taken up at the moment, a large investor could, in theory, buy the additional 2.5M shares and the current unsold shares and perhaps take a majority shareholding.  Scot Gardiner clarified that most of the 5M shares have been taken up and that anybody buying the balance plus the new allocation would be some way off a majority holder.

On behalf of the Supporters Trust, Laura asked if the Club had any thoughts on how they could capitalise on the current run of form and the interest in the Cup to bring additional support back into the fold to attend games more regularly.  She referred to the disconnect between the club and the supporters.  The Chairman and other Board members looked almost incredulous that there was perceived to be a disconnect!  Clearly no thought has been given to this and there were comments about how all clubs fail to capitalise on the bigger crowds that cup success brings.  The CEO accepted that it was a good idea but took the opportunity to say he has been used to much more active Supporters Trusts at other clubs.  The Trust would be more active if only the Club engaged with and encouraged the Trust.  Hopefully the Club will start to engage properly when presented with the results of the matchday experience survey which the Trust is carrying out.

I know others attending who are on this forum, so please correct me if I have picked up anything wrong or if I've missed anything significant.

Young Dan MacKay has come in for a bit of stick this year and it is disappointing that he hasn't fulfilled his early promise.  But it was great work from him to drive into the Dundee defence and get the ball across to Austin Samuels.  Hopefully this will give him a bit of confidence and allow him to make a positive contribution.  Great to see Austin Samuels back in the goals too.  The ball bounced very awkwardly for him and he did really well to control it and quickly poke it past the keeper.  Absolutely agree with RiG about Shaw being played in a number 10 role.  He is so much more effective playing wide.  Don't understand the logic of this.  Missed Sean Welsh and hope he is not going to be missing for the SF.  

Bill's reports were often more entertaining than the games he reported on.  We'll not see his like again.

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ICT. Allardice

Opp. Jakubiak

Crowd 3419

This has gone quiet.  I thought the SFA were to make a decision last week.  Or is this a case of the SFA doing SFA again?

In their notification on their website https://ictfc.com/agm-2023 they said shareholders would receive the formal documentation via their stated preferential route (email or post).  I subsequently received an email which I've copied below.

The Directors of ITCFC Ltd cordially invite you to attend the Company Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the financial years ending 31 May 2021 and 31 May 2022 at the Highlander Lounge, Caledonian Stadium, Stadium Road, East Longman, Inverness, IV1 1FF at 7.00pm on Wednesday 26 April, 2023. 

For your information and reference, please find online from the link below: 

• Notice of Annual General Meeting, 
• Copy of Annual Accounts
• Proxy Forms. 

The documentation is available on our website www.ictfc.com/agm-2023-documentation 

Please use the Password: @ICTAGM2023 to access the information. 

We thank you for your continued support for the Club, which is much appreciated by the Board of Directors, Management, players and staff.  

We did indeed!  

On 4/14/2023 at 10:07 PM, Robert said:

Graeme Shinnie sent off tonight for the second time in three games, but as he was suspended last week he has been sent off in each of the last two games he has played in!

Aberdeen appealed but the appeal was thrown out with the result that Shinnie's 3 game ban has been increased to 4.  

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp Ashley-Seal

Crowd. 841

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ICT. Allardice

opp. Megginson

Crowd. 998. 

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. McKenna

2011

Queens Park have lost their last 3 games.  If they continue to play like they did against Partick then they could lose out on a playoff place.  It is still possible for us to finish 6 points ahead of them.  Having said that, whilst it is no longer possible for us to finish bottom, it is still possible for us to be relegated.

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ICT. Shaw

Opp.  Connolly

Crowd. 2011

8 hours ago, ICTPAISLEY said:

Have you seen Rossvales badge? This might have something to do with the Thistle.

 

Thank you. I stand corrected.  It seems strange then that they would choose not to use the thistle on their new badge.  Surely if you are going to call yourself "Thistle" you put a thistle on your badge.  They are using a picture of an old locomotive instead.  Lots of opportunities to use names which better reflect the local heritage of where the club is now located.  There seems to be a general mocking of the club for this idiotic suggestion and I can't see it will get approval from the SFA.

2 hours ago, Satan said:

On one of their tweets they actually thank the partick thistle charitable trust for their support. Same colours, thistle on the badge.

It seems that the Partick Thistle Charitable Trust are being overly Charitable.

I can understand why they would want to use "Caledonian" but there is no good reason for tagging on "Thistle".  I doubt that will go down to well with Partick either.  Surely one Thistle in Glasgow is quite enough.  If they want to to focus on the Railway  theme, why not Caledonian Locos or Caledonian Sleepers.  There's only one Caley Thistle.

18 minutes ago, caleyboy said:

still no letter here

https://ictfc.com/agm-2023

Finally there is confirmation of an AGM.  Wednesday 26th April.

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ICT. Allardice

Opp. Muirhead

Crowd 2174

5 minutes ago, IBM said:

I initially thought it was Dooofers Dad 

I can confirm that the Club is not speaking to me - but I'm open to offers!

The Supporters Trust has also written to the Club asking for an update re the AGM and is awaiting a response. 

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ICT. Billy Mckay

Opp. Graham

Crowd. 2148

3 hours ago, Yngwie said:

The Chairman announced the AGM date, and shortly afterwards SG was on Radio Scotland encouraging shareholders to ask any questions they want about the club’s finances at the forthcoming AGM. So it seems there was a genuine intention to hold the AGM on the specified date.

It looks very poor though. I would hope that there is a good reason for it being delayed and that they will explain themselves soon. 

In the meantime there’s not a lot anyone can do in practice other than wait. An AGM is not a legal requirement, it’s a just an internal matter between the club and its shareholders.

There may well be a good reason for delaying the AGM and there may well be a good reason for not explaining what the reason is at this time.  There is, however, no good reason for not informing shareholders that the meeting is not now going ahead next Tuesday.  That is just plain rude.

I know nothing about business law or the legality of holding AGMs, but the Club itself is committed to holding an AGM by its own Articles of Association which are required (presumably by law) to be lodged at Companies House.  And by those same Articles of Association, the AGM is now over 3 months overdue.  

Yes, shareholders can wait, but they've been waiting for a while now and many are getting rather fed up of waiting.