BREAKING: Scot Gardiner resigns from Caley Thistle as board member Graeme Bennett confirms the chief executive is ‘doing everything he can for Caley Thistle’
The chief executive of Inverness Caley Thistle, Scot Gardiner, has resigned but remains with the club for the time being to work his notice period, according to board member Graeme Bennett.
The CEO has come in for some significant criticism since the relegation to League One but Mr Bennett told The Inverness Courier that in the present crisis Mr Gardiner “is doing everything he can for Caley Thistle.”
Yesterday, it was confirmed the move to Kelty is off and that given the financial problems the board feel it is “prudent to approach a suitably qualified insolvency practitioner to advise on how we may proceed should our efforts to find new investment fall short.”
Earlier in the week, The Inverness Courier revealed that Ross Morrison had resigned as chairman as direct result of the Kelty move, saying fans preferring administration sent a “shiver down my spine”.
Mr Bennett said the chief executive has been under considerable “grief and stress” while calling on those involved with the club “to stick together and find a way out of this – everybody has to pull together for the sake of the club.”
Mr Bennet said: “Listen, Scot has had a fair bit of grief and stress through the relegation process but we need to stick together and find a way out of this – everybody has to pull together for the sake of the club.
“Scot Gardiner has resigned but I have asked to help us out and he was good today at a meeting of the staff, he is working his notice and doing everything he can for Caley Thistle.”
He added that no interim-chairman has yet been appointed either because given the current predicament nobody wants the job while it is not one he seeks for himself.
“Nobody really wants that mantle,” he said. “I am a director, ex-player, etc – I just want to do my best for the club and it is very hard to entice people to join the hierarchy given the predicament we are in. It is not my forte.”
