Yngwie

Dunc’s son of course. 6’5” target man, was on loan at Forfar but struggled to get game time there. 

We’ve had Cameron Ferguson on trial for the last month, 20yo recently released by Newcastle. Well done to our scouting network for finding him! 

Was there anything that changed your mind or will you still be voting against it next week?

4 minutes ago, old caley girl said:

Wasn't asked but a,good question. 

It is, but worrying about where the money will come from in 4 years time compared to worrying about how we will pay the wages and suppliers this month?! 
I guess the idea is that we get 4 more attempts at getting back to the only league where we are viable as a full time club, and in the absence of a major new investment in that time, we then have to cut costs accordingly.

7 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

How about the other claim in the planning docs:

“As a community owned project, the development will directly contribute to the local Highland economy over its life"

Ok. Now we know it’s to be sold immediately - this claim is also misleading.

I can apply for planning permission for an extension to my house with the intention of selling it at a profit. I don’t need to disclose that in the application and I’m not being misleading. In the case of this project, the highland economy will still benefit from the project over its life, both from the facility itself and from the club and its offshoots spending the proceeds. It’s all just well written in a way to talk up the benefits, what else would you expect an applicant to do?

4 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

Deliberately vague and couched in language aimed at clearly giving the impression that the community trust will benefit quite directly and in a significant and non-trivial way.

And all the indications are that they will, even if the actual amount is at the club’s discretion.

8 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:This is in the same planning document where they stated categorically that the club owned the land (they admitted tonight they do not).

I don’t know what they said in the document or tonight, but the beneficial rights to and control over land can come in the form of full ownership, a lease, or another contractual arrangement so is it possible that you are making inconsequential technicalities that have no impact on the merits of the case?

3 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

Yes. They said: “A significant proportion of the financial benefits accrued from the development will be managed through the ICTFC Community Development Trust. "

No, as you have quoted they said a proportion of the benefits would go there. Not all of it. Not even the majority of it. They used a deliberately vague term rather than specifying a number.

13 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

I was surprised no one followed through on this. The planning application was all about the trust getting the cash

Was it? Haven’t read it in full but I thought it said the project would allow investment in such community things rather than saying all of the cash would go there.

8 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

Very rarely used, but still used occassionally (confirmed by a councillor after the meeting). Bizarre seeing David Stewart of all people riffing on this myth implyingh there is some ICT vendetta here (politician and fibbing ehh). For example from a few months back: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/breaking-council-orders-work-on-academy-street-plans-to-be-324788/.

The example you give of Academy Street is one where there is a huge amount of public interest, being one of the main streets of the highland capital.
5% of a former golf course on the outskirts isn’t really of the same strategic importance to the council, is it?

10 minutes ago, lightlamp2 said:

If it gets approved we get approximately £3.4 Million lump sum.

Yeah but the board shouldn’t be pursuing this and should be focusing instead on traditional football matters and cutting the wage bill further. Wait what, £3.4m?!  

Anyone got a match report from tonight? Were ICT’s tactics defensive or attack minded? Any own goals or red cards?

Am I correctly remembering that both Roman Golobart and David Davies were on loan and both won our player of the year award?

I was also at that Clyde game and also remember it for being the only time I saw Glancy score. Wikipedia tells me he got 6 in 3 seasons and was a really poor investment by Pele.

Don’t think Glancy was a loan, I thought we paid about £25k for him, one of our highest transfer fees!

Wyness is another one who initially came in on loan. I don’t recall that he (or Doran for that matter) were standouts during their loan spells but they were obviously good enough to get permanent deals with us and both kicked on from there.

We’ve currently got more loan players in than we’ve ever had before, but we’ve been making use of loans to boost the squad since the club’s early days.

Who do you think was the best loan player we’ve had, in terms of the contribution they made whilst on loan to us?

Regarding the meeting the club are holding tomorrow, I’m struggling to think of any reason why they would hold a session like this if they thought the project was going to get the green light.

42 minutes ago, wilsywilsy said:

Does that also include the community where this controversial proposal is planned, who had raised legitimate unanswered questions about it, and had zero councillors representing their ward at the last vote? 

 

Of course it does. 

Genuinely interested to know if you will be going along to hear the club’s perspective on all this - or do you not want to hear it?!

14 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

Frankly, I rather doubt that anything I might say to any councillor is going to make them change their mind now. 

All fans can really do there is make councillors aware that if they vote to overturn the decision and give our club a very bleak future, it will be remembered by ICT fans at the next council elections. Councillors are there to represent their communities and at the moment the main voices heard by councillors are from a few disgruntled residents.

And first time this season we’ve managed consecutive clean sheets.

So have we now got the longest unbeaten run in the league?

One of our very best results of the season, a battle well won.

1 hour ago, bdu98196 said:

Would rather we still had Oakley and his 8 goals this season. Quite glad to hear he may be out injured though.

There was a time when we’d look down and laugh at a team whose top striker had a mere 8 goals! Meanwhile our star striker hasn’t scored in our last 8 games, and if he was handed another penalty would you wouldn’t bet on him to put it away.

10 minutes ago, caley100 said:

F**kin Arbroath...  expected them to get beat.  Now look!  

Was watching it, absolute sickener for us. 0-2 going on 0-5, so one sided until Arbroath get one back out of nowhere, then Raith are rattled for 10 minutes including their keeper misjudging a cross.