Yngwie

SG will be a guest on Sportsound this afternoon, discussing the financial pressures being faced by Scottish clubs and the loss of income the game is suffering due to illegal streaming services. Hopefully there will be some insightful comment on ICT’s specific predicament too.

Well, 8 league matches in 2023 and only Hamilton could beat us, and we have progressed to the Cup QFs. Performances could and should be better but could also be much worse.

Yes it is often just simpler/cheaper to use an existing, dormant company and use it for a new purpose with a new name, rather than to set up a new company.

Eh? I don’t know anyone who thinks that. Surely our wage budget puts us mid table with a realistic aim of reaching the play-offs.

Idiots guide to the going concern stuff in the accounts: - The directors believe the club can survive for at least 12 months from now and have prepared cash flow forecasts that support that view. - The auditors reviewed those projections and the assumptions within them, and agree that the club can be considered a going concern. - However, they caveat this by drawing attention to ‘material uncertainty’ on this, because there is doubt as to whether the club will achieve its projections. This uncertainty could be, for example, because anticipated new income streams might be delayed or not materialise at all, or any of the other assumptions in the forecasts might fall a bit short and that could be sufficient to leave the club without enough money to meet its liabilities. This material uncertainty matter was in last years accounts too. - The auditors also noted that they understand that the directors will continue to provide financial support to the club when necessary. There is nothing to suggest that there are any binding commitments/guarantees from the directors though, but the directors would have to be very brave or stupid to do so, so that’s hardly a surprise.

No real surprises in the accounts - like walking into a hospital and not being surprised that it is full of people in poor health.

Utd have had 2 former ICT players as managers. Brewster won 3 from 30, Fox was less bad with 7 from 24. Oh, and in 2006 Billy Dodds was briefly caretaker manager and had 100% win rate!

Looking increasingly likely that Dundee Utd will be in the Championship next season, and decreasingly likely that Liam Fox will be their manager much longer.

It’s not a bad result in isolation. The Hamilton games are the ones that seem to have put the (promotion) play-offs out of realistic reach.

If Dodds doesn’t turn things around really quickly he might not retain his Manager of the Month award.

Not to excuse the manager altogether, but both these games against Hamilton have been characterised by numerous individual errors which caused goals to be conceded and good scoring opportunities to be missed.

94’ Mckay - off! 95’ Shoes - off!

FFS that is another terrible result. What is it about Hamilton though? They have been the worst team team in the league but have won all 3 league matches against us. If we had won them we’d be 3rd in the league and just 3 points off top!

Ryan Barrett signed for Blyth Spartans last month.

Abysmal result. Defeat was fairly predictable as we usually struggle against Hamilton - 3 wins for them in their last 4 trips here - but the margin of this defeat is an absolute shocker.

“Austin I love you, but we only have 13 matches left to save our season!”

Not an ICT ex-player himself, but I noticed that Martin Bavidge’s son Alfie has been scoring for Scotland U17s. He is with Aberdeen.

4,5

Could be worse. Not the money spinner that we desperately need, but maybe we’ll get that in the semis!

I guess he’ll have to live off Jobbyseeker’s Allowance for a while.

Hopefully our team sheet was triple checked for eligibility!

Livi haven’t reached the Scottish cup QFs in the last 18 years. ICT have made it that far in 6 of the last 10 seasons.

Probably a less likely result than Darvel beating Aberdeen 1-0!

As I was saying! Although to be honest I really wasn’t expecting that, nobody was. Amazing result!

Pleasantly surprised to see Deas back in the squad so soon. We’ve really missed him.