Inverness Caley Thistle fans overwhelmingly prefer putting the club into administration over moving first team training to Kelty at Supporters’ Trust meeting
Inverness Caledonian Thistle fans who attended the Supporters’ Trust meeting overwhelmingly said they would prefer administration over seeing the club move to Kelty.
More than 200 people crammed into the Caley Thistle Social Club to air their views on what has been a turbulent few weeks for the club – suffering relegation to League One leading to speculation over the future of the board of directors, chief executive and of Caley Thistle as a whole, and then announcing that first team training would be relocating 135 miles away to Fife.
There was plenty of passion as Caley Jags supporters voiced their frustration at the move, and overall situation ICT found themselves in.
When asked for a show of hands, not a single person in the room said they supported the decision to move training to Kelty.
The vast majority of the people in attendance also said that they planned to boycott season ticket purchases, although that was not something that the Supporters’ Trust could endorse.
Multiple commenters said that they would prefer to start all over again at the bottom of the Scottish football pyramid rather than go through with the move to Fife.
Others said they would rather play young players out of the club’s academy as a part time team, rather than take such a seismic decision.
As a result, the Supporters’ Trust have once again appealed to the Caley Thistle board to reverse their decision.
“In the original statement from the chairman, there was no apology for the club’s relegation, no update on the manager’s position and no reply to the demands raised by the Supporters’ Trust,” spokesman George Moodie said at the meeting.
“However, the chairman did call for unity. To me, that means the club and the fans working together for mutually desired outcomes.
“The club then announced plans for a restructure that did not involved liaising with the club’s supporters.
“When the club announced the first part of that plan to restructure, in what was an exceptionally poorly worded statement, the club were ‘delighted’ to announce that they would be moving the club’s training base 135 miles away to Kelty.
“The deal appears to have been signed and sealed before we knew what league we were going to be playing in.
“It is a deal that gives ICT income to a rival club to staff their squad to compete against ICT. It is a deal that effectively moves the footballing side of our club away from Inverness, ripping the heart and soul away from our club.
“The chairman asked in the Inverness Courier ‘is it really that bad’? Yes Mr Chairman, it is that bad.”
