Council Juice

So the Whitecaps have been up for sale for a couple of years now. Owners want out. They play in a provincially owned ground. Its a 50000 seater and will host world cup games this summer. They rent so dont make all the money from the ground, nor benefit from its side uses (gigs etc). This puts them at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the MLS. Despite this they got to the MLS cup final last year and are frontrunners again this year. They are also one of the best supported teams in the MLS. Regularly pulling in 24000 at home games (they use the bottom tier only most games. Unless Messi is coming to town) The MLS commissioner Don Garber, doesnt like the Whitecaps at BC Place as there's issues for a team who have to share with Canadian Football (like American Football but different) and gigs etc. Nor do they like one of their "franchises" not owning their ground (league actually "own" all the clubs, owners own the rights to that. Yeah.) Plus its an artificial surface (changing for World Cup of course). There's a memorandum with the city to have a new Whitecaps ground and complex built at the recently closed racecourse. Be a great spot but the team needs new owners who want to STAY in Vancouver. That is the BIG issue. Any prospective owners buying the MLS franchise rights would have to want to keep the Whitecaps in Vancouver. They could come in and buy the franchise and the rumours are Vegas and Arizona (like please 🙄). So here is the crunch to my lengthy post. A plea. A simple request to sign this board and also to share and spread the word. Keep the Whitecaps in Vancouver. https://savethecaps.com Thanks for reading!

Championees championees oh eh oh eh oh eh!!!! Never in doubt eh! 😜 Get in!

Hey everyone, Been a moment. I had a look via search and couldnt see anything so thought I'd come out and ask. Is anyone a member of any Caley Thistle discords (the app)? Is there a caleythistle online discord? Would anyone else be interested in getting one going/being part of one? For anyone who's not aware of discord - Google AI summary - "Discord is a free communication platform used for talking to friends, family, and communities through text, voice, and video calls. It originated with gamers but is now used by a wide variety of groups for hobbies, clubs, and social gatherings, allowing users to create and join servers organized around specific topics." Wiki - "Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media. Communication can be private or in virtual communities called "servers". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels accessed by invitation links. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, and in web browsers." I'm part of a North American Everton one and its great for live matchday discussion (works more like a chatroom/chat group) or transfer rumours etc etc. Generally lots of bantering. Good fun environment. Anyway. Leaving hear to see what people think and if people would be interested in starting one. This also goes out to the site mods to see if they'd be keen.

Having attending the 4-1 loss to NYRB there a couple of years back at the start of that season, one area they need to improve is the South stand supporters section and that big open window facing the ungodly cold wind from the lake. Sitting in the East stand and just dying. 😄 Put up a wind breaker for goodness sakes! 😭🥶 Otherwise BMO is a proper no frills football stadium. Hopefully the Whitecaps can move to something similar in the near future.

Congratulations to former ICT star Graeme Shinnie! Winning the Scottish cup today for the 2nd time (previously with Inverness). Has now captained Aberdeen to the cup with a victory over Celtic.

All in all a very decent season given the turmoil and to have a record that would otherwise have us 2nd in the table without the deduction is very good going.

Yeah it's weird how at one point it seemed like there were a bunch of prospective owners and things were going well to then a long period of silence. No preferred buyer and then the statement from BDO on the 17th stressing that liquidation was a real risk. Is the fog finally clearing and we can find our way forward. Fingers crossed but still cautiously optimistic at best for now.

Think we need to find out if ICT will still be a club next season at this rate. The squad will have to wait at this point. Hopefully we come out the other side and the nucleus of the squad stick around and we can get back to focusing on the pitch.

While it's disappointing not to win and essentially rule us out the Play off spot and virtually secure survival I hope we continue to keep looking up the table and finish as high as possible. Could certainly aim for 6th or 7th. Even push for 5th (though unlikely in 6 games). This season was all about survival after going into admin and the point deduction. (We'd have been title challengers until recently without it so form has been solid) and that's so nearly within reach. Let's get it done.

This is so depressing. Particularly given how well the team have performed on the pitch in spite of all of this. Cmon Polvsen show us the money! Pocket change for you lad.

Touching my wooden forehead as I type this tobavoid jinxing it but if we carry on like this we'll be finishing midtable. Keep the good results coming and hope everything off the pitch takes care of itself in due course. 🤞

Great win! That's 3 wins in 5 and only 1 defeat. Let's hope we can keep that form up. Gives us a chance to stay in the division.

Is there any new news? Last I saw we had an abundance of potential suitors according to the administrators and it went quiet since.

Not the first to express this either. Rab Douglas got dingied by him too. Not only dislikeable in general but arrogant. He's probably a proper suck up to his bosses so all they see is sunshine. Everyone else has to suffer though. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-fc/1268923/rab-douglas-scot-gardiner-dundee-fc-inverness-spfl/

Can the claim libel based on someone's "gut feeling of something say going on"? Be a stretch that. The club hasn't been well run. Well run businesses do not accrue this much debt needing hair brained get rich schemes to bail them out.