Investment

[Bridge_Ender]

Brilliant news that the absolute nonsense of Seventy7 / Makwana has been kicked into touch. It’s mind boggling how it got to the stage it did.

Also very positive that Gardiner has gone.

Definitely a sense of ‘the grown ups have entered the room’ with this news.

It doesn’t look like Savage/Orion will be taking control of the club. But they will be assisting in getting it on the right footing and getting new long term partners onboard. That seems to be the remit of the marketing agency mentioned. 

The green shoots of recovery are there. But there is a long way to go to get ICT back to a stable footing.

It looks like the first steps have been taken though  

[Scotty]

13 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Yes, of course there is still a mountain to climb for the club and team.  But with a local, genuine businessman in charge, who has always cared for the club, things are infinitely better than having an absentee fantasist whose interests were solely in making money.

I look forward to AS and whoever else is involved (if anyone else is involved) looking over our books, trying to make sense of what has occurred over the last few years and trying to create a viable plan for the next few. 

I will be wary of the current members of the board for some time to come given their apparent complicity in what has happened over the last few years, but for now, based on what he has done before, and his unwavering commitments to our youth setup which he reiterated just recently, I will put my personal trust - which lets face it is the only skin any of us have in the game - in Alan Savage to review people's roles in the debacles of the last few years and encourage them to jump ship where they are not up to scratch! 

As a supporter, I am not expecting miracles, just forward progress in all our rebuilding efforts ... on the field, off the field, in the town, with fans, staff, players, and other clubs. 

@IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER is up there looking down, large voddie and coke in hand, knowing that there is a chance that HMS Sneck may not be headed for the rocks after all.  

 

 

 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

5 minutes ago, Scotty said:

As a supporter, I am not expecting miracles, just forward progress in all our rebuilding efforts ... on the field, off the field, in the town, with fans, staff, players, and other clubs.

That's all that anyone can ask for

[ictchris]

They should replace the entire board - they all signed off on the Kelty move, they all signed off on the Makwana takeover, they all signed off on a massive deal for Ferguson, they all signed off on continuing to employ Gardiner, they have all stood there as the club withers while we try and pull off strange property deals to make a quick buck.

 

[RednBlackComeback]

Thank you for the last 5 years, Mr Gardiner !

Goodbye.

[Leaky Blinder]

2 hours ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

He could of course be rearranging the letters in his surname into two words of 2 and 5 letters and laughing at the fun he has had .

Physcrabble ? 

[Scotty]

20 minutes ago, RednBlackComeback said:

Thank you for the last 5 years, Mr Gardiner !

Goodbye.

its been a while since we saw that emoji

[IBM]

Good news as others have said but still a mountain to climb it's our best chance of keeping the club going and Jack and his mates can come back into the ground now 

[TheNorthStander]

It's been far too long since I've felt somewhat optimistic about the future of our football club. Delighted Alan is now at the helm and agree that there is now a sense that the adults have entered the room.

We all now need to rally and back the club by buying our season tickets. The club needs us still more than ever.

My final thoughts in reflection are that I wish our recently departed friend Johndo was still with us to see and hear the news of today The Caley are back IHE!

[robbylad]

Just renewed my season ticket.  More optimistic about the future of the club than I've been in a while. It was time to put my money where my mouth is. 

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Just now, Leaky Blinder said:

Physcrabble ? 

Close but the first word was Am. Now rearrange kwana!!

[Leaky Blinder]

4 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Close but the first word was Am. Now rearrange kwana!!

I was referring to his version of the game, not his hobbies

[buckett]

Better news.

I'm cautiously optimistic this time.

[Dan Clark]

I went to buy a season ticket tonight for the main stand for myself and my son but there is no option to buy an under 12 season ticket for my son. Can under 12 tickets not be bought online ?

[+old caley girl]

13 minutes ago, Dan Clark said:

I went to buy a season ticket tonight for the main stand for myself and my son but there is no option to buy an under 12 season ticket for my son. Can under 12 tickets not be bought online ?

No. You need to go in to do it or phone 

[Yngwie]

It’s an exciting, encouraging development and I think it is fair to say we all trust Savage more than we trust the recent regime or would have trusted Makanwa.

But if I’m following this correctly, he isn’t buying the club, just restarting the search for fresh external investment.  And there’s no statement that he or anyone else will be putting any immediate funds in to prevent administration, just mention of local businesses being asked for money to keep us going. But surely, if Makanwa felt it necessary to guarantee the August wages, someone else will have to do similar? 

We are not out of the woods yet and there are still lots of unanswered questions, but I feel more confident about the future now that an ICT-minded businessman has (finally) stepped up to the plate.

Edited August 13, 2024 by Yngwie

[Robert]

Buying season tickets at the club shop or over the phone will improve the club’s cash flow faster than using the on line facility as that goes through someone like Ticketmaster so payments will be delayed getting to the club.

[+Gringo]

Best news to come out of the club in a good while. Happy Gringo tonight. As rightly mentioned by others in this thread, its a start and we have long way to go in the rebuilding process now only at club level but also local business and community level too. Hopefully the seeds to a great future take hold. Oh, and thank you Mr Savage. 

[Scotty]

25 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

We are not out of the woods yet and there are still lots of unanswered questions, but I feel more confident about the future now that an ICT-minded businessman has (finally) stepped up to the plate.

You are right, we are not out of the woods, but at least now we have someone with a feckin map of the area!  

KM couldn't even find us on google  

 

[+CaleyHedgehog]

Fantastic news! 

I can't believe it.

We will be home from our hols by the weekend. First stop is for season tickets. I've missed it.

Who knows what the road ahead will be like, but it feels like it's our club again.

So happy.

[+Hiro]

11 hours ago, Hiro said:

To the shock of nobody look out for news in the next few days that this has fallen through. 

 

 

Didn't expect it to be today but glad that enough people have finally seen sense and we have someone with the club at heart making a start on mending it.

All who were idiotic enough to back the chancer Makwana need fired into the Moray Firth. 

[Jack Waddington]

1 hour ago, IBM said:

Good news as others have said but still a mountain to climb it's our best chance of keeping the club going and Jack and his mates can come back into the ground now 

Hooray

[Jack Waddington]

9 hours ago, Jack Waddington said:

Someone on Pie n Bov is saying the Seventy7 deal is off apparently.

Mere minutes away from launching my head through a wall if true...

Nevermind

[vinnie87]

41 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

It’s an exciting, encouraging development and I think it is fair to say we all trust Savage more than we trust the recent regime or would have trusted Makanwa.

But if I’m following this correctly, he isn’t buying the club, just restarting the search for fresh external investment.  And there’s no statement that he or anyone else will be putting any immediate funds in to prevent administration, just mention of local businesses being asked for money to keep us going. But surely, if Makanwa felt it necessary to guarantee the August wages, someone else will have to do similar? 

We are not out of the woods yet and there are still lots of unanswered questions, but I feel more confident about the future now that an ICT-minded businessman has (finally) stepped up to the plate.

From what I’ve heard Makwana hasn’t contributed anything yet and Savage will be keeping things going financially for the time being. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

51 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

But if I’m following this correctly, he isn’t buying the club, just restarting the search for fresh external investment.  And there’s no statement that he or anyone else will be putting any immediate funds in to prevent administration

You are following this correctly. But I am also sure that Mr Savage is realistic enough to realise that first priority will be an injection of cash to ward off "insolvency events".