Robert

We need to follow Morton’s example. They’ve beaten Motherwell tonight.

I went with 2-1 on Gringo’s NPL….

Luis Longstaff is out and Alex Samuel is a doubt for tomorrow. We are inconsistent and Hibs are on a bad run but seemed to play well against Celtic in midweek. My head says an away win, my heart says we will have another cup upset.

HT 1-0 FT 2-1 ICT Billy Mckay Hibs Youan Crowd 3975 Yellow Chilokoa-Mullen

Sorry to hear that MrCaleyJag. Stranraer @ 2.10 please.

Don Cowie in interim charge. Poor guy!

Sam Nixon scored for Forres last night. I didn’t realise he’d gone there on loan.

Marley Watkins for Kilmarnock and Sam Nixon for Forres tonight. I didn’t know Nixon was there on loan.

Adams has resigned.

We don’t know the detail of the transaction. The land was gifted to the club so it may be that the cash coming to the club is due to it being sold on to those developing the scheme (that is my guess though) so there has never been any scope to maintain an ongoing income stream. The Chairman did say on Saturday that the delay in planning did result in the club receiving less than it would have, as it took the deal beyond a critical milestone. We don’t know what the scale of the seven figure sum is as I don’t believe that has ever been made public. Now the challenge for the Board and CEO is to use the money wisely to secure the long term future of the club, securing the ongoing income streams (no indication to my knowledge as to what they are other than the Red John Park and Ride), making the match day experience more appealing to fans, and allowing the club to be in promotion contention next season (in the Championship, not League 1).

The Chairman said at the Supporters Trust Meeting on Saturday that the club will get a one off seven figure cash injection very quickly (I think he said in 10 days). There is no ongoing income stream from this. The cash injection will pay off debts and allow investment which will secure future income streams (such as the use of the North Car Park as a Park and Ride for the Red John construction workers. I agree that we need transparency as to what it means, what the plans are, what it means in the long term etc. It has to be good news though, as the consequences of rejection would have been significant and far reaching.

Richard Hastings has been appointed as Manager of Rothes.

No, this is a different scheme. The North Car Park will be used for a Park and Ride for construction staff when work starts on the Red John facility. Its referred to in the “Scot Gardiner” thread as starting in 2026.

Which I assume is where the statement in the Battery Park Planning Application comes in, as referred to in HighlandExile’s post above.

The Community Trust has issued an update on the Hub project. Within the article is this: “We are busy identifying other sources of funding to ensure we can realise our goal of providing our city with a first class community asset.” A link to the update: https://www.icttrust.org.uk/community-hub/

A reporter was at the meeting and has reported this in the Courier: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/chairman-fears-caley-thistle-cant-carry-on-as-normal-withou-341334/

That’s correct. I’m not sure what the timescale is for work starting on the Red John scheme.

Rory McAllister for Peterhead and Harry Hennem for Nairn today.

Ironically we moved up to 7th despite losing. Dunfermline look to be in free fall at the moment.

Hibs are on a bad run and got thumped 3-0 at home by St Mirren today. They’ve 2 points out of 18 in the league and scraped past Forfar 1-0 on the last round. We need to approach it positively and believing we can win it. We’ve caused bigger cup upsets and it will do confidence a power of good if we can get a positive result.

That was a tough watch, as has been the case so often. I thought we started poorly but then largely dominated the first half but couldn’t score. We were too tippy tappy yet again in the final third when shots were on. We came out strongly in the second half but conceded against the run of play and never looked like getting back in it after then. We could look at some poor refereeing decisions or play acting and time wasting by Queens Park but, in truth, we were just not capable of getting anything today. Our home form and results are shocking and it’s needs sorted very quickly.

I hope it’s calmer at the ground by 1500 as it’s pretty blowy again this morning. I hope the wind doesn’t spoil the game.

Toddy with the only goal for Airdrie tonight to get them to the Challenge Cup final (or whatever it’s called nowadays).

Stenhousemuir @ 1.75 please.