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Thing is, as far as I’m aware, RM may be well off but I don’t think he’s exactly a multi-millionaire. He’s invested a huge amount of his personal wealth to keep the club afloat over the last few years. Perhaps he’s not in a position to simply cut a deal where he loses huge amounts of wealth? Perhaps it’s his contributions to the club that has stopped it from going bust in the first place.

As others have said, it’s far too early to place Scott, but he’s had a great start. If in 2 or 3 years time we can say he’s greater than Butcher, Yogi, Pele, Robbo etc ….. then he will have done something spectacular! And I wish him absolute legendary total success!

I think we were destined to get relegated at some point. We could have got another manager instead of Foran but who’s to say we would have stayed up? Maybe we would have still got related 2, 3 years later. So for me, it’s the response to relegation. Robbo coming back as manager. We didn’t do that well under him on his return (missing out on promotion play offs in his first season). So maybe another manager would have got us promoted. However, it was Robbo that helped get Scot Gardner his job as CEO. Knock on effect there. Another manager might have got us back up to Prem by now and probably wouldn’t have brought SG to the club.

It’s such a shame the Board didn’t accept an offer to buy the club. The club wouldn’t be in administration, jobs would have been kept and the club would be looking up. Of course if the new owners didn’t work out, then there would be an option of admin down the line, but instead of giving it a chance to see if it works, with the worst case end scenario being administration…. The club decided to jump straight to that. Almost as if they wanted it. Strange.

Let’s assume that Dundee Utd are paying his wage. They have a lot to gain by getting him starting 11 experience. There’s no money to spend on players. I assume that Dundee Utd are covering the costs and we gain an up and coming hungry goalkeeper and save a wage. A win win! Could be seen as a cracking piece of business. Welcome to ICT Jack!

I won’t dignify that post by keeping it in the quote, but nah these kind of comments wishing death on someone should get in the f*cking bin.

Fair enough then, let’s at least have some positivity… Welcome to the Club Cameron Ferguson. I hope he proves all the doubters wrong.

Most of our fans sit in silence the entire match anyway at home so I don’t think they’d notice any difference. With the exception of utter outrage if the referee makes a perceived mistake or A slight cheer followed by 6 seconds of clapping if we score a goal.

There is another option Johndo. Nobody (on here anyway) seems to be considering a scenario where it all works out. There is a good chance that with our new pool of player recruitment, we gain promotion in the same season where we also win the battery farm appeal. Credit will then be due. So, as I have said previously, let’s give this plan a chance and for goodness sake let’s WELCOME the new players and give them our backing!

Me?! what am I supposed to resign from?! I’m just expressing my view as a season ticket paying supporter.

I understand your view and your commitment and support to the club through the years is obvious. But if everyone takes your current view, it won’t just be the near future that you won’t be spending a penny, it will be forever, as the club will go bust. Are you genuinely content to risk that? Board members, coaches and players come and go. The current board won’t be here forever. Big Dunc won’t be here forever. But the fans will be…. Unless the club goes bust due to literally a lack of fans buying tickets. Worrying.

Whether you’re a fan of training in central Scotland or not, the alarming issue is if enough supporters boycott, then there won’t be a club left. I feel strongly that we should support the team through thick and thin. If you really don’t like the training idea or if you really want certain figures gone, then perhaps try something else. Maybe protest at the matches. But the danger here is if enough regular season ticket holders boycott, then once the boycott ends there won’t be an ICT left. Depriving the club of money risking it going bust is certainly a bold move to get rid of the current CEO / Chairman / Manager / whoever else. They will be gone, but at this rate so will ICT. I think everyone really needs to take stock here.

Excuse me, I have been a Season Ticket holder since 1994. I won't be going anywhere! We all have our opinions on this matter, and i am expressing mine. Just because you have a different opinion to me, i'm not going to tell you to stop supporting the club!

"tell us all that the club are right in everything they do" I've only commented on this specific topic as you clearly point out as well. So your statement makes no sense. I just want what's best for the club, and that is the club going back up the leagues again. This is a clearly a positive step to help with recruitment. If fans however, en mass want to challenge it and demand that the club just carries on what they are doing for the sake of some sort of Highland togetherness feeling and if the fans are content that this approach will most likely lead to staying in the lower leagues then so be it. It appears that the majority on here would rather we stayed in the seaside leagues and try and patch together the youth. We have had few good youth players but nowhere near enough to build a winning team right now. We have such an unambitious support. At home games it's weird. Surreal. Fans are vocal. They are very VERY vocal at voicing criticism of the referee for example if he makes a mistake. Or if they are unhappy with a substitution etc. So there is clearly some sort of passion there. But we score a goal and its a small cheer, maybe 15 seconds of clapping and everyone sits down again. The club make a positive approach to sign players and there's utter meltdown. I've seen comments on Twitter with fans saying they'd rather be in the Highland League etc etc. Crazy. Is there any other club in the entire country with such an unambitious support?!

I hate to break it to you that many Caley Thistle fans don't post on here at all. Many will read, many won't even bother. But times like this will make more quiet fans like me want to say something. I have no idea who the other two names are that you mention but i supported Caley and I have supported Caley Thistle since the merger. My opinion is not less worth than people who type words on a keyboard more often than me.

We went Full time at the start of the 1997/98 season. Our first season in 2nd Division / League 1. The seasons before that in 3rd Division / League 2 we may have been part time but there was some serious cash being splashed. We were even in the position to pay transfer fees. The quality of the Highland League was much higher then as well. We could sign the likes of Ian Stewart, Brian Thompson, Mike Teasdale etc etc and they could all do a great job in the bottom two leagues. Now, the Highland League just isn't producing these types of players. But yes, I believe we were able to pay higher wages in the early years than we are currently able to do in 2024. Less wages, less appeal, higher logistical costs for moving, worse economy and less talent in the Highland League in 2024. Our competitors have the pick of the best and biggest proportion of the population and can even offer less money and they will still have the upper hand in signing them. The point is the club aren't moving lock stock and barrel to Glasgow. Nor, are they offering stupidly high wages. This isn't about money. It's about getting the right players in to WIN.

Much bigger budgets and cash flow than we have now. Bigger attendances. Better economy. Whilst in the Premier we could lure players North with the incentive of playing in the Premier. That's how we won the Cup and got Europe. The recruitment playing fields have never been equal, but the appeal of Premier football on decent wages was. Pre-2004, we were spending a lot of money on wages. Attendances were higher than now as well. Now, the money is not great, yes it's full time wage but still not a great wage, and to get someone to up root and come North for it is just not going to happen. The realities are that we are not on an equal playing field with most League 1 rivals in terms of recruitment. If we offer a player a wage of say £1200 per week, and another team in the same league offer £800 there's a high chance the player will pick the smaller wage for logistical, family and even financial reasons. The cost of uprooting North, finding somewhere to rent etc etc is clearly going to be more expensive than the £400 difference in this scenario.

I am just not seeing it like that. Yes, literally the first team will be training in Fife. But youth teams are all still training in Inverness. Every other department will still be in Inverness. For logistical and recruitment reasons having the first team train out of the City really doesn't bother me if it helps improve recruitment. The Club is still in Inverness. I appreciate this is completely different but I have the exact same feeling towards this as I do about Scotland international players playing elsewhere such as England. John McGinn is based in England and pops up to Scotland every now and again to represent Scotland. I really don't care. Similarly, I really don't care where our first team meet up to train either. They'll come together elsewhere but every Saturday home and away they will be representing us the fans.

Where the first team players train and where they come from is irrelevant. They are still playing and representing Inverness. They will still play all their home games in Inverness. They will be wearing Inverness jerseys. The youth squad will train in inverness. The operations will be based in Inverness. If most fans are content with having local club for local boys only then cracking. Maybe the club should listen and then put this in place. But fans have to realise this Highland utopia dream of having Highland only youngsters will lead us to either stagnation in the seaside leagues or worse. We cannot attract the main pool of the population North. So they either don't come and we never see the Championship or Premier again, or we try and do something radical.

The Highlands and Islands may be big, but population wise it is far too small. If we limit ourselves to only using players from a very very small population pool, then yeah maybe we will feel some sort of Highland identity... but we can carry that on all the way to the Highland League.

This is exactly why the move will help. Big Dunc wasn't able to get the players in. Previous managers as well will have experienced it. How can he get good players to come in on loans or short deals when we don't have the money to pay as well as not being a desirable location for Southern footballers. Statistically due to population most footballers play and want to play South of Inverness. It was so difficult to get players to come up and train here. This will solve the location problem.

Wow! Talk about an over reaction from some of our fans! We can finally attract any Central Scotland based player that we can afford. There have been season after season so many players within our budget that will have said no due to location. Why would a player move himself and his family up here on a semi decent wage but they have to find accommodation etc for family. We are losing out to teams in Central Scotland with lower budgets than us! This is a MASSIVE game changer. I agree it's a shame we have had to do this. But we no longer have the finances and the appeal of the Premier League to entice players North. County can still do this due to the fact they are in the Prem (at the time of typing) and have a reasonable amount of financial backing. We have been propped up financially for years by various folk but the money is dry and the lack of the Premier league means we are losing out. The lack of fans coming through the gate as well has not helped. Hopefully in a few years the club can relocate to Inverness, but if we have this small team mentality being shown on here and don't go for this, then who will sign for us? January transfer was a disaster. If we are to rely only on youth players coming up then we won't get out of this league never mind back to the Prem. We'd probably be in a relegation scrap down to League 2. So, the way I see it is, that yes this is an unfortunate but necessary move. There's 2 options: Option 1: The fans get their way. The club stays. By remaining Full time and on semi decent wages and based fully in Inverness we get hardly any quality signings and we are on a race to the bottom of no return. We are patched up by random loan signings, youth and short contracts and all togetherness is lost anyway. Then part time and bust. Option 2: The move goes ahead. We remain full time, give semi decent wages and based in central Scotland. A fair amount of quality players sign. Players that would never have considered us before. Even players from our fellow League 1 rivals will look at it as a bigger move without even moving! We mount a title challenge and hopefully go up. Players stay around for longer due to location and we actually get togetherness back! Eventually promotion back to the Prem and a full relocation to Inverness where quality players will once again be lured North for the chance of playing in the Premier League. I fully support this as a way to secure the long term future of the club. As for the youth teams, they can still train and be developed in inverness! I believe that if we had made this move sooner, we would not be in league 1. We have missed out on so many signings over the years that it's possible that we'd be back in the Premier League by now if we had done this in 2017. Time will tell if this works, but I say give it a chance and get behind Dunc and the team!

Alan Kernaghan has applied. Interesting.