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  1. Far from unusual. I can look at the lower three divisions in England, and in each I can see teams that were in the top tier in the recent past. Not saying that it's good, or acceptable - just that it's not unusual.
  2. I've never seen much about the Orphanage anywhere, although I've only ever spent the odd five minutes looking on the internet. Nowadays we would probably say that there is very little information about somewhere like that because we were respecting their privacy. But I suspect that back then - probably right up until it closed - there would also have been a element of shame about the place. It would not have been somewhere to publicise. I visited the Archive Centre a few years ago. I was trying to find out more about the Inverness silversmith's marks on a spoon which I have, and my wife, who had been researching my mother's family, wanted to look at things like police service records from the Fort Augustus area. The staff seemed to be genuinely interested in what we we were doing, and couldn't have been more helpful.
  3. He could tell them that unless they do something, they will be playing the Warriors next season!
  4. It really isn't. More like "attempting to influence one or more decision makers". Far more likely nowadays to involve backhanders or freebies than "intimidation".
  5. From "The Knowledge" column in today's Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/13/the-knowledge-have-any-footballers-refused-to-play-second-half If you were going to buy it, you'd have done so by now, so I don't think this will deprive them of any money "“Have there been any situations where a player has refused to come out for the second half?” asks Peter Clarke. “If so, what retribution was taken by the club or country?” There are plenty of examples of entire teams refusing to play the second half, the majority in response to racism, but it’s quite rare for an individual player to do so. Let’s start with a famous night in Glasgow: “Back in February 2000, with John Barnes’s Celtic trailing Caley Thistle 2-1 in a Scottish Cup tie, striker Mark Viduka refused to play the second half,” begins Stephen Toal. “Viduka took offence when he was asked by Barnes’s assistant Eric Black: ‘Is it too cold tonight? Do you not fancy it?’ “Celtic went on to lose 3-1, and within 48 hours Barnes and Black were sacked (Viduka kept his job). Perhaps more significantly, the match spawned the greatest newspaper headline of all time: Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Atrocious." Click on the link above to read the rest of the column.
  6. Dougal seems to be carrying a long term grievance
  7. At a superficial level, it's actually very easy for me, in a densely populated and cultivated area 20 miles from the centre of London, to be amused at concerns about "loss of green space". It's the Highlands of Scotland, FFS But, yes, I do understand - it's loss of readily accessible green space.
  8. 4 players booked on each side. That plus the injuries would suggest that the referee didn't have much control of the game.
  9. Just tell Big Dunc not to disrupt the team by bringing on subs....
  10. Yes, but the problem, as CB states, is that there are two such clubs. Very close to each other - Bing maps says it's 13.7 miles between the postcodes of the two grounds. And the roads are half-decent. Long gone are the days of my childhood when it was a slow trek round by Beauly and Muir-of-Ord. In terms of pulling power, ignoring those of us who have history before 1994 - and who are inevitably becoming a smaller proportion of the support - then I don't think it's unreasonable for someone, especially an incomer, to choose which of these local teams to support. In which case County, at the moment, will win out. And Dougal has already pointed out the differences in the companies that support the two clubs. Even there we see that Uncle Roy is keeping them going to the tune of more than £500K a year. I suspect that when he pulls out - he's 71 now, so who knows what his plans are - then if there are no similar sugar daddies for either club, then a merger/takeover will follow soon after. And that's before we look at the problems of attracting the best players and coaching staff to the north, where, unlike the Central Belt, there are no other top clubs within 100 miles. I wish it were otherwise, but it's difficult to argue with geography!
  11. BBC stats say 12 shots in total - 6 each - in the game. And only 1 on target - presumably the missed penalty. Commiserations to those of you who were there.
  12. Have a scramble on the pitch at half-time tonight? Should be lucrative for the few spectators there, and will possibly be the best action on the pitch.
  13. What the **** do we do to them? Would be interesting to see stats comparing injuries across clubs. Full-time clubs - and also Championship clubs because they are who we compete against week in week out.
  14. Tony Soave, if Wikipedia is correct. Took over from Johnny Prosecco
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