STFU

I don't think anyone is questioning footballing ability. Did we learn nothing from the Gardyne situation and the dangers of signing players with a disruptive history?

Agreed. This is also disgusting and shows a total lack of respect.

Please don't, not even in jest!

More like Leith Utd.

He's too busy setting up shell companies for unscrupulous former bankrupts who have an interest it taking over football clubs with other people's money.

There's a significant number of posts on this forum from fans whom have tried to communicate with the club and got zero response. Are some now suggesting we have to pay to join the trust to have any chance of receiving such a courtesy?

If Billy goes, I look forward to the highest paid, least valuable person at the club releasing a statement about wage caps and not letting players hold the club to ransom, blah, blah, blah.

A couple of newspapers now confirming that Ayr are set to sign Billy, so it's more than just Twitter Talk.

How does it encourage new members if they don't tell anyone outside the organisation what they're doing?

We get flurries of communication every now and then, but it often tells us nothing and is just noise. Proper fan engagement, unless you're a pet podcaster or kindergarten 94, is non existent, and the fan experience is the worst it has ever been. Where's the kids meet and greets, the big game they were promised, the xmas party, end of season awards night? These are the very basics. Customer service is also poor, as already documented by others. They rely too much on fan loyalty, but everyone is losing patience and that is diminishing. Complain and you get the 'poor us' we're a small team and doing our best. We have more employees than we ever had, and are somehow struggling to a greater extent?

Hopefully whatever 11 year old Scot Gardiner gets to write his statements will have more time when the schools break up for the summer and Information will get out a bit quicker.

Taking a chance on another player who is recovering/just back from an injury? Did we learn nothing from last season?

Sounds like Billy has an option of another season if HE wants it, but is maybe trying to negotiate for a longer contract? Given where we are, I'd have thought the club would be biting his hand off to get two years out of him. He's got at least that left in him at Championship level, and if by some miracle we go up, he'd be a handy player to have in the squad for our first year in the top league whether a regular starter/90 minute player or not.

To get money for players, you actually need to have players who are worth anything, and they have been in very short supply at ICTFC the last few years.

Some people seem to have forgotten we just finished in the bottom half of one of the weakest Championship leagues in a long time! The fact some are trying to spin it as a successful season shows the current level of our ambition!

The last figure we have for the club's financial performance is an £800k loss. The money mentioned that Robbo had a hand in securing was for the academy thing. They are a separate entity to the club, so it adds zero financial benefit to us. The club were quick to distance themselves from the liabilities of the concert company set up in our name, so they can't have it both ways. If Robbo is working for the new academy project, he should be employed and paid by them. The result if which would be a huge chunk out of that income. This constant blurring of the lines by our CEO means that we don't have anything approaching a clear picture of what's going on. It's all just noise which is designed to distract.

Whatever it is, it can't be worse than the concert fiasco....can it?!

We'll have rented the carparks to some construction company for £50 a week.

We're clearly not, but it has nothing to do with lack of resources and everything to do with how they're being used.

You've taken that too far

What gibberish. John Hughes was part of our premiership era, arguably the peak, and as you say our finances were healthier then. We still have generous donors who are covering the eye watering loses from the last couple of seasons. We are still working on a premier league budget in the championship. It's not the amount of money we're spending, it's the fact we're spending it on huge numbers of coaching staff, sporting directors, sports scientists, video analysts etc. and seeing zero benefit. It's bizarrely amusing that we have had so many injuries since introducing a dedicated sports scientist, played some of the dullest football since introducing more coaches, have been found lacking on player recruitment since bringing in a sporting director and put out the shodiest highlights since employing a video analyst!

Are all the fans who were against replacing Dodds because there are no better options out there of the same opinion when it comes to our CEO? If not, who would they suggest?

NFICT (Normal For ICT)

The clubs statement reeks of talking around the issue. Lots of this is the procedure, we know how it should be done etc, but very little about what they actually did. Legally, they may feel like they've ticked all the boxes, but once again they are found wanting morally and it's another massive blow to ICTFCs reputation.

Do people need reminded of concertgate? Given the propensity of the current club guardians to screw people over and then spin the legalities to make it look like they're the injured party, it's maybe a bit quick to be coming down on their side in this matter