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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. 

The thing about us this season is that we lose when I expect us to win and win when I expect us to lose. So on that basis I am expecting us to win because I expect us to lose. Or does that mean we will lose because, oh forget it!

20 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Even there we see that Uncle Roy is keeping them going to the tune of more than £500K a year.  I suspect that when he pulls out - he's 71 now, so who knows what his plans are - then if there are no similar sugar daddies for either club, then a merger/takeover will follow soon after.

I was wondering how long it would be til someone suggested the M word!

I’d be open to a merger but my terms would be ICT’s name, colours, stadium and history, merging with Roy’s money.

Nah, we’ve definitely had more than our fair of injuries in the last few seasons. 

We’ve signed midfielder Samson Laval on loan. He’s a 5’8”, 19yo Nigerian who Livi signed in the summer but has only played 24 minutes for them.

Bad to worse, unbelievable. 

If you are saying we should live within our means then you are effectively saying we should have gone part time years ago after getting relegated and we would likely have been relegated again by now. Can you confirm that if we had, you’d be applauding the board for their financial prudence?! 

Instead, they tried to get us back to the top flight by maintaining a very competitive (expensive) squad and our impressive youth set up, and got close to promotion a couple of times. In doing so the club racked up huge losses every season and some generous individuals dug deep into their own pockets to keep us going.

They have said for years this business model doesn’t work and needs supplemented by non-football income so they pursued concerts and, very innovatively, the battery farm.

It’s easy to criticise, especially when we are in such a poor position both financially and in the league, and mistakes have been made, but what specifically should have been done different that would make a 7 figure difference to us now?

Should’ve slashed the wage bill, giving up on Premiership aspirations? Go part time, and end up as a League 1 side?

Should’ve shut down the youth set up?

Should not have loaned us their own money to keep us going?

Should not have sought non-football income sources?

Those are the only realistic options I can think of. Rather than criticise all the time I just try putting myself in their position and wonder what in terms of the business model I would have done differently over the years. It’s not easy.

2 hours ago, Charles Bannerman said:

Around 4pm today, which should have been deadline day for the club’s accounts, a notification appeared on Companies House that IT and C’s accounting period had been shortened by a day to May 30th 2023. This apparently entitles a company to an extension of their deadline for publishing accounts by three months, and is apparently an established device for achieving this.

It’s a smart move by the club under the circumstances, but obviously it isn’t at all good that we have these circumstances.

24 minutes ago, caley1 said:

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 . 

Can you back that up with anything?

20 minutes ago, caley1 said:

 SG you’re not worth a minimum wage to this club . Never seen such a hated board director which in itself says it all . 

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

2 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

Who are the absolute cretins within our support that forced Billy Mckay to post this on X

"Not big on social media, obviously gutted I’ve cost the boys 3 points tonight hold my hands up! 
And listen I’m happy to take abuse or criticism at me no problem had it plenty of times in my career. 
But to shout my son then abuse me to him I don’t think is acceptable.

Wow, just wow.

44 minutes ago, FrontRow said:

We are in a real dog fight with a bunch of loanees who will be leaving in April.

I’m hoping they’ll be here until May when the league season ends!

0-0 FT. Rather disappointing. But when you consider how poor we are at home and this time we had so many players missing, was a draw the best we could hope for? I thought we still had enough quality on the pitch to be able to win. And we might have won if we had converted the penalty. Is that no goals in 8 matches for Billy now?

Start 6-2-2 and if we need goals later on bring the entire bench on and then it’s 2-2-6!

I would say we were denied a pretty clear penalty for handball when it was 0-0, and in saying that I am not saying officials are out to get us nor am I trying to deflect from the team’s deficiencies, I’m just telling it like it is, as are others. Is that allowed?!

47 minutes ago, STFU said:

Do some people really think that we are the only team on the receiving end of inept officiating and that we find ourselves where we are as a result?

Don’t think anybody has said that, have they?

Is this why Dougal wants an affiliation with FC Augsburg?