Charlie Christie - Time for differences to be put aside to save Inverness Caledonian Thistle as administrators say talks have reopened with potential buyers
I was delighted to see many of Inverness Caledonian Thistle’s major shareholders get together in the stadium recently to discuss the well documented stumbling blocks to a potential sale of the club.
Make no mistake, every one of these gents have contributed significantly to the club over many years and they should be applauded for it but now is the time to put differences aside to find a way forward for ICT in this most critical of times.
There have been issues surrounding the club where resolution has seemed very difficult to achieve but I believe the meeting was successful and, whilst the devil will be in the detail, it does look as if the uncertainty could be lifting.
It is now over to the administrators to follow up from the goodwill of that meeting, get the necessary paperwork in order and see what new or renewed interest there may be in our club.
In the meantime, we must put all our efforts into maintaining our place above the relegation play-off spot starting with a very difficult match at Queen of the South tomorrow.
Having dominated our last two home games and having had 31 efforts on goal over those games it has been incredibly disappointing to only collect one point from six and it leaves us with significant work still to do to achieve our goal.
Last Sunday’s disappointing performance from Scotland at a full Hampden Park re-enforced my belief that we look better as a team when we do not have to take the game to our opponents. Notwithstanding Sunday’s match our showing in the top level of the Nations League has been decent and most of our good results have been achieved when we stay compact, don’t leave ourselves open to the counterattack and are very structured as a unit.
Look at the Portugal and Croatia home matches where both matches were extremely tight affairs with our opponent’s dictating possession without creating a huge amount.
Yes, the sending off just before half-time in that Croatia game helped us immensely but even then, we had to be patient, and it took an 86 th minute John McGinn goal to win it for us.
The first leg in Greece was also a good example of us achieving an excellent result whilst giving up both territory and possession especially in the second half although we did have to ride our luck as the game progressed.
Scotland fans, me included, love to see us drive forward in numbers and create chances but at the top level of European football, we need to realise the risk involved in that strategy.
The speed in transition of the top nations is there for all to see and it is a huge part of their coaching and playing philosophy.
Greece are a very good side as they showed last October when winning against England at Wembley and their speed of forward play and movement was impressive but we need to dust ourselves down and look at what we can do to improve prior to those crucial World Cup qualifiers in September.