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Andrew Shinnie has signed for League 2 Luton ... is that the best he can do and are we such a bad option that Luton is preferable?

John Baird from Falkirk 

Wonder if the new reduction applies to people who had stepped up to the plate and already bought their 17-18 season tickets. 

4 hours ago, jingsmonty said:

Yes, but sure the compensation for that wouldn't break the bank..

Exactly ... likely less than Sheerin.

Would we consider him if not ICT? I reckon yes because he has taken a very unfashionable club up to our division, it would be upward progression for him and he is defensively minded for our sieve-like defence.

Darren Dodds ... seemples

The new directors are now registered at Companies House. Done later today.

Just now, Yngwie said:

Well spotted. A very curious turn of events.

 

I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation. Would be interesting to hear. 

Looking at the club's publicly available filing record at Companies House today (web-link below), it says that Willie Finlayson resigned as a director on 22 May, the day before the club announcement of his appointment as chairman. A bit odd maybe. His statement the next day did refer to his fellow directors although he did say in his statement that he will not be chief executive officer. I see also that the new director appointments are not officially registered at Companies House yet although that may just be a form-filling delay.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC149117/filing-history

14 minutes ago, dougal said:

only an utter moron would buy a season ticket at the moment at that sort of cost without knowing who the manager and the playing staff were 

 

 

 

... Or a loyal fan who doesn't want to see the club die and remembers (even if in the Championship) how far things have come since pre-1994.

6 minutes ago, TopSix said:

Cheapest adult season ticket prices:

Falkirk £225

QOS £256

Livingston £12 per match (can't find information on season ticket prices) 

Dundee United £279

Morton - unavailable (was £270 last season) 

Dunfermline £240

Dumbarton £200

St Mirren £275

Brechin - unavailable 

Interesting statement from Dunfermline - chalk and cheese springs to mind... http://www.dafc.co.uk/story.php?t=2017/2018_Season_Tickets&ID=9985

 

 

 

Cheapest adult + 1 child combo in family stand at Dunfermline is £2 cheaper than ICT. If a second child, Dunfermline becomes considerably more. 

5 minutes ago, 12th Man said:

Reputedly the sunniest place in the UK.

Must be getting accommodation organized for the summer training camp.

Not so sunny today ... so I've put the jetski to one side and have put more effort into the search for our new manager 

Good luck with this initiative then, brianm6261 ... given the apparent outrage over frozen season ticket prices, perish the thought. 

Is there ever a good time for a Chairman to go on holiday? It's not like he's human like the rest of us or anything.

What on earth possessed him to book a holiday just after the season ends? He really should have had the perfect fore-knowledge to appreciate that, by the time it came around, we'd be relegated and he'd be the new focus of chairman-directed fan angst.  

http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/1933-statement-from-ictfc-board

8 hours ago, ictchris said:

Absolutely pathetic.  We've got ten outfield players and no manager.  We haven't announced anything about players to be released or retained or anything.  But we put out a press release saying that we are keeping Premiership prices in the Championship with a line like that in it.  We aren't in a position to be arrogant.

I understand that we probably need to keep those prices but FFS, at least sugar coat it with some sort of positive announcement.  

Club announcement today ...

http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/1933-statement-from-ictfc-board

Anyone got stats on how many other clubs offer season tickets to TWO under-12s for every season ticket adult?

A strategy that is probably in effect subsidised by other seat prices tbf ... but which tries to build a decent fan base for generations to come for a young, small city club with controversial birth  ...  That's provided we don't shoot ourselves in the foot before then by starving money from a club that is quite possibly staring down the barrel of an insolvency event in the not too distant future.

2 hours ago, old caley girl said:

We dont have much power as fans but please think before rushing to renew straight away. A point needs to be made here. Plenty time before 23rd to assess how things are going. 

The board has already made big calls post-relegation that weren't guaranteed but were being demanded by many fans (Richie, Kenny both out). It's easy to criticise from the outside, not so easy to lead while on the inside. Playing staff and general staff budgets need sorted for next year. I'm not going to help breed uncertainty by artificially delaying my money no matter how relatively little it is on its own. 

3 hours ago, Yngwie said:

Club needs the income if we are to stand any chance of bouncing back up.

On the bright side, you are almost guaranteed more entertainment and more wins than last season!

Good positivity and common sense imho. Under-12s going free remains a big concession that I doubt other clubs all do. 

I would have renewed even if there was an increase because I want the club to get through this ... it is already delicate financially without talk of fans not coming along any more.

I'm going to try to persuade my wife and daughter to start coming along as well. They made it to a few of last season's games which in truth wasn't the best encouragement for non-ICT/football die-hards to return. 

I'm not a happy clapper but I love my club.

I suppose Alex Neil would be out of the question? Nice to dream ...

I like the idea of Paul Sheerin for his previous managerial success (albeit lower league), youth coaching experience (currently Aberdeen) and history with ICT set-up ... but would you not expect Scotland's current 2nd club to have a higher achieving Development team than the table below suggests?

http://spfl.co.uk/development-league/

Hamilton ... purely because I suspect they'd be less of a threat next season. 

I've taken a bit of a pasting elsewhere for suggesting that RF might be through the worst of it and could be worth persevering with ... but this apparent insider stuff, on top of everything else and KC now gone, must make it difficult for him to stay. Death by a thousand cuts as the saying goes. 

36 minutes ago, CaleyMax said:

You write "I care deeply about the club (as most ICT fans do, your point).....one of the few (Me too, oh and 140 other ICT fans) to brave a trip to Dens (it's Dundee not the Gaza strip) despite a busy work schedule (what like most people).

Then later "your ridiculous personal attack on  me here shocking!!" Behave yourself it was not a personal attack, I said your post was insensitive & tasteless, I did not say YOU were insensitive or tasteless!. But calling me ridiculous is personal but don't worry I won't be calling the lawyers just yet!!!

And imagine having an opinion and expressing it on a forum, what was I thinking!. To have the audacity to criticize a club legend (Foran) am I bad or what.             Please  please please take off your rose tinted spectacles and live in the present!

Michael Stuart on Sportscene tonight summed up Foran pretty well tonight. If you missed it it's worth a look. Michael Stewart says it how it is!         

Read your initial reply to my post. You suggested that I must find relegation and financial loss "entertaining" ... hence my response indicating that I actually care for the club. I was not forming opinions of others, I was defending myself.

Would you like the "entertaining" comment said of yourself purely for expressing a different opinion? Would you consider it personal? 

8 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

I get where you are coming from cif. 

In football we have seen many brilliant managers who started on a very rocky road and have learnt from their mistakes and gone on to be a success .  Some have often come within a game of dismissal, such as Fergie!

However, I don't think that Ritchie has what it takes to become a manager and as for his bad apples comment you can help yourself to the following list which I think applies to that remark:- Staggering; stupid; hurtful; harmful; unwise; unhelpful; puzzling (very) & naive. And the list could go on......

Alright, fair enough. Yes Foran certainly isn't Fergie. A fair point though... before Aberdeen, Fergus was sacked by St Mirren. After Aberdeen, he was famously a game away from the sack before beating Nott Forest on way to 1990 FA Cup. After that, the rest is history.

Regarding player criticism in the media, it maybe shouldn't happen but yesterday emotions probably running high. Foran is by no means the first. Since you mention Fergie, he slaughtered the Aberdeen team saying he was ashamed of their performance in the post-match interview after 1983 Scottish Cup Final extra-time 1-0 victory over Rangers. I'd say the players had a right to be tired ... just days earlier they had beaten Real Madrid after extra time to win a European trophy. This is probably for another thread ... sorry. 

47 minutes ago, CaleyMax said:

I find your post incredibly insensitive & tasteless! You obviously find that getting our club being relegated and the consequences for e.g. loss of jobs and revenue entertaining in some way. Richie and his ego is all that seems to matter to him. He was  offered plenty of advice from inside the club from the beginning, but being the BIG man he refused and wanted to do it his way. 

You seem to disagree with ICT Legend Barry Wilson who said "You do not reward failure"

You think i find our situation entertaining? How dare you! ... I care deeply about the club ... one of the few to brave the trip to Dens despite a busy work schedule ... and followed ardently since its entry into the Scottish League ... bemused by your claim alleging insensitivity on my part given your ridiculous personal attack on me here  (shocking!!) and the widespread insensivity to a club legend on here who has certainly disappointed yes but is effectively a fan himself ... sounds like he had issues behind the scenes to deal with which we probably shouldn't automatically rule out as having no grounds in fact.

I appreciate only too well the spectre of job losses and it pains me but I also understand what the accounts say ... that we don't as a club live comfortably from year to year ... anything but! There is no big rock candy mountain from cup runs or player sales so our manager alternatives are sadly very limited.