Announcement re Managerial Situation

 

Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC regret to announce that, despite every effort to persade them to stay, Terry Butcher and Maurice Malpas have indicated their wish to relinquish their posts as manager and assistant manager of Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

 

Compensation has been agreed with Hibernian FC.

 

Chairman Kenny Cameron said: ”It is a major disappointment to the club and its supporters that they have taken this decision. I'd like to put on record our appreciation of the excellent job they have done at Inverness since Caley Thistle provided them with the opportunity to join the club in January 2009.

 

"Maurice was offered the manager's role but declined. We would, however, like to record our sincere appreciation to him for taking the team on Saturday in what was a resounding victory. 

 

"On the field, skipper Richie Foran and the players showed great heart and character. We have a special group of players here and we intend to keep them at this club. Our supporters were excellent, as usual, and we now ask for their patience regarding the team management scenario.

 

"This is the fourth time that Caley Thistle have found themselves in the situation of having their manager head hunted by another Scottish Premier club, with Steve Paterson, John Robertson and Craig Brewster being the other instances.

"What it does show is that Caley Thistle have a tradition of getting their selection process right and the club has continued to progress. It is our aspiration to maintain this sequence."

 

Mr Cameron added: "In the past couple of days we have been inundated with indications of interest from potential candidates or their representatives and we are positive this interest will now escalate.

 

"The supporters can be assured that the board will work its way through the options for a manager, arrive at a short list and proceed to interview. There will be no knee-jerk reaction and we are confident of appointing a manager of the calibre we require."

 

Link to Original Article on ictfc.com : http://ictfc.com/news/club-news/1094-ictfc-statement

For the first time in my life I might actually support Ross County when the play Hibs in the Scottish Cup later this month. While we're getting through to the next round Hibs will hopefully come a cropper.

Steady! I think supporting Ross County is taking things a bit to far.

Agree - everybody seemed to be in the know except ICT. I'm sure Butcher was tapped up many moons ago...

Agree - everybody seemed to be in the know except ICT. I'm sure Butcher was tapped up many moons ago...

 

Of course he was - especially when it involved Malpas and Varsella.

Agree with bdu98196 in the success TB and MM brought to Caley but very disappointed on the way their departure has been dealt with especially Butchers alleged neutral appearance in Hibs main stand on Sat ....may have redeemed himself if he had made some kind of acknowledement to the Loyal ICT fans who have been there in good times and bad...At least Mo saw it out to the end .

I wish the team and whoever takes over great success for future .[/quote

Agree totally. I don't think some of the folk not there on Saturday understand how awful his behaviour was. It leaves a very sour taste tbh and shows TB wasn't the man we thought he was. However I thank him for what he has done and we all have great memories. Excited to sed who comes in now!

 

Terry and Mon did well for us nd I had respect for both

did not aprecieate the way it ended "as a netureal" in his last game as ICT manager

 

saw tv interviews tonight and at least Terry was not disrespectful to ITC in his comments

 

as for our x chairman say it as it was spot on

You need a recipe to bake a cake but useles unless you have the ingredients....and ICT have the ingredients.

Lets put the icing on the cake with a cup win !!!!

Only if your just a simple cook. If your a master baker you create the cake without the recipe and using what ingredients are available.

David Sutherland said, on tv tonight, exactly what we have all been thinking. It was not appropriate for the then current ICT Manager to be taking his wages from ICT whilst sitting in the Hibs Main Stand at the game Hibs v ICT, saying he was "neutral". ICT will continue to flourish without TB and MM and, although I thank them for their input over the past years, will support each and every Manager/Coach in the future, come what may. Onwards and upwards as others have said - despite the Cup Semi Final being played at Easter Road at 12.15 on a Sunday - who said there was not a Central Belt bias? Oh dear, another early start down the A.9, maybe in snow and ice.

One clue about whether Butcher and Hibs had colluded previously and privately over this is in the timing. If Butcher was offered and agreed to the Hibs job sometime in the last month, then what would be the best way of accomplishing it? Well of course the international break, when you have 2 weeks to settle in, is ideal. So with that in mind, you hatch a plan to approach ICT the week before the break, with the objective of getting your man in place at the start of the break. It worked like clockwork, and you have to ask how much Malpas was party to this, given his relationship to Butcher. And now Marsella as well? It does look like, in retrospect, a carefully planned coup, one hatched in the previous weeks, and goes a long way to explaining Terry's joviality in the Hibs hospitality area, when many ICT fans were deludedly thinking there was still a chance he could stay. He, of course, was buzzing because it all worked out as planned. And now, we're just a 'little club' who should be grateful to the great man and his Boy Wonder for patronising us on his incredible career path. History rewritten as the myth is burnished. The whole thing is too neat for coincidence. Kind of makes you want to gag.

Edited November 12, 201311 yr by The Long Man

It all seems to fall into place now .........why TB hadn't accepted his new contract offer, Foran hasn't agreed a new contract either (fully expect he'll be off come January too).......I'm guessing that contact had been made quite some time ago, possibly for TB to take over at the start of next season? However Fenlon walked and the move had to be rushed through?

It all seems to fall into place now .........why TB hadn't accepted his new contract offer, Foran hasn't agreed a new contract either (fully expect he'll be off come January too).......I'm guessing that contact had been made quite some time ago, possibly for TB to take over at the start of next season? However Fenlon walked and the move had to be rushed through?

 

Did you see Fenlon's interview on his departure?  Quite bizarre.  He was enjoying it and had sorted out a lot of problems that had existed when he arrived but just somehow felt it was time to step aside.  Not one single thing that sounded like a half decent reason for going.  It looked as though everything he was saying was almost tongue in cheek. 

 

It all seems to fall into place now .........why TB hadn't accepted his new contract offer, Foran hasn't agreed a new contract either (fully expect he'll be off come January too).......I'm guessing that contact had been made quite some time ago, possibly for TB to take over at the start of next season? However Fenlon walked and the move had to be rushed through?

 

Did you see Fenlon's interview on his departure?  Quite bizarre.  He was enjoying it and had sorted out a lot of problems that had existed when he arrived but just somehow felt it was time to step aside.  Not one single thing that sounded like a half decent reason for going.  It looked as though everything he was saying was almost tongue in cheek. 

 

Likely he got wind of TB being lined up to take over? So he decided to throw a spanner in the works and chose his time to go, immediately before both teams were due to play each other, to cause maximum effect?

Thanks to Butcher and Malpas. They did well and had some good times. They're history now. Steve Paterson's and Grant Munro's departures felt more to me that the club was losing something more intrinsic than simply success on the football field. A club like ours needs that connection to its local community in order to thrive. Without it there remains simply a team that happens to play in the area but in reality could be located anywhere. Always my worry when League status was attained that this may be only way to gain success. Maybe being naive but there must be a middle ground of signings from outwith the area coupled with more and better opportunities given to promising local players.Kevin MacDonald for me.

Their first job will be to train everyone at Hibs how to make good use of the fantastic facilities

at Easter Road because it certainly didn't look like they are well used by their display on Sat.

I thought it was very disrespectful how he was rubbing in about how the marvellous set up

they have compared to whats at Caley Thistle helped to persuade him to take the job .

Well you know what they say about a poor workman......

Yeah , he blames his tools. . And, for the way this deceit has been handled, that's what T B, M and M are---TOOLS

Interesting to note that our dip in form (St.J and PT) or "blip" as MM put it came straight after our 3-0 home win over Hibs.

 

Is this where the deal was struck?

 

Did the players get a whiff? 

Malpas in the press stating that he had already made up his mind to go to Hibs as number 2 mid last week.

He was a number 2 at Easter Road then ?

If Marsella is going to Hibs, which is likely, is the intel on players he has scouted as an ICT employee belong to ICT or Marsella? It would be yet another kick in the teeth to ICT if all that information gained at ICT expense goes to Hibs.

Legally it belongs to ICT, but in reality all the benefit of it will go with Marsella.

Malpas in the press stating that he had already made up his mind to go to Hibs as number 2 mid last week.

What a lovely welcome these two will receive on their return on February 1st 2014.............oh wait a minute, are we not playing in a cup semi final that week-end............at Easter Road of all places...........love it, have a day off, there's a couple of good boys now.............

 

Malpas in the press stating that he had already made up his mind to go to Hibs as number 2 mid last week.

What a lovely welcome these two will receive on their return on February 1st 2014.............oh wait a minute, are we not playing in a cup semi final that week-end............at Easter Road of all places...........love it, have a day off, there's a couple of good boys now.............

 

 

 

It's absolutely galling that Malpas stated on Saturday in his interview that he had a decision to make about his Inverness future.  Then on Tuesday evening he stated that it was an easy decision because he had already made up his mind mid last week to follow Butcher to Hibs as his number 2.  

 

Maurice is not even hiding the fact that he has lied to the club and the fans.  His contempt for us is a disgrace.  To think it ended like this.  Feck em both. 

Edited November 13, 201311 yr by CapitalCaley

Malpas appeared to displayed no emotion of joy/pleasure after Billy MacKay scored that wonderful goal on Saturday judging by what we saw of him on TV.  Maybe he had already taken a neutral or even worse stance by then.

I wonder if the players had got wind of what was happening with the ex assistant. Then went out and put on a brilliant performance as a "gerrit upya" Of course maybe its no coincidence that the ex manager wasn't involved when that performance happened. Players had freedom to play without fear of a bawling at.

I suppose, like everyone else I'm just glad this is over. The longer it dragged on, the more Terry and Maurice's achievements would have been soured by the nature of their departure and they achieved too much at this club for that to happen. I'm glad the club offered Mo the chance to take over the reins and minimise the fallout from Terry's departure and  I know how desperately disappointed Kenny Cameron will be right now, but he and his board have conducted business the way that Caley Thistle always do - the right way and they are to be congratulated on that. Like every Caley Thistle fan, I am now anxious about what comes next but I'm heartened by the statement tonight but I'm at least thankful for this international break as we draw breath.

As Kenny says, we have a fantastic pedigree of appointing bosses and I look forward to seeing who emerges as candidates. In amongst all of this, don't forget the team who have got us this far in our best seaon to date and please get along to the Saints game in numbers to give them your loud, clear and unconditional support. They deserve it.

Davie Balfour

I know you've probably had this before, but, did your uncle ever arrange to have you kidnapped?

Legally it belongs to ICT, but in reality all the benefit of it will go with Marsella.

 

 

 

I suppose his scouting notes are the intellectual  property of ICT but it depends on his contract. Scouts I suppose are on some sort of retainer.

I won't boo Butcher

Returning heroes don't always get booed. When Strachan returned to Man U with Leeds he was booed off the ground, I felt was a bit harsh. When Sammy McElroy returned to Old Trafford with Bury in a cup match he got a standing ovation.

When Dave Beasant took the field at Wimbledon for Southampton the ground rose as one man and cheered him all the way to the Southampton goal.

Mind you he did win the FA cup for them with his penalty save against Liverpool.

Personal choice at the end of the day.