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With respect Laurence if we are fortunate enough to qualify for Europe it will be an event whoever we play. A bit disrespectful to the Irish teams you mention in my view.

Perhaps a suitable replacement would be the pornographer and West Ham chairman David Gold. Then Rangers would complete the set of Green, Whyte and Gold.

Josh. And TB for signing him for two more years that early!

Well done to young mister Meekings http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22189526 Oops can mod sort out thread heading!!!

Bill, do you need a sub/ coach/ assistant with a proven ability to strip paint off a wall by shouting at it? Happy to oblige.

Massive achievement for a player who has really raised his game this year, congratulations.

The U20 are currently sitting in 4th place joined with St Johnstone. From the games I've seen we do have some good potential in the squad. Shane Sutherland has been scoring a lot of goals and Nick Ross has been put in 2 good shifts last week. In terms of actual youngsters, I have been impressed with Liam Polworth, Kyle Whyte, Ryan Watson and The Georgian Boy over the games I have seen. Ryan Christie's goal last week was definitely something to savour, chipped over the keeper. It's been good seeing Chris Hogg at centre back. Worth mentioning the keeper from last week vs St Johnstone, not sure on his name. He kept a clean sheet and saved 2 penalties. All in all it's very promising and hope we have some of these guys get longer contracts to make the step up to first team,

I'd be up for playing in this if it wasn't for the fact I'm injured. And unfit, overweight. Oh and sh*t at football.

Non event? I was in Derry last year and had a wonderful time. Are you not confusing it with Bury? I heard you went to Latvia last year but you've forgotten!

Sort of off topic but who in their right minds really want that new club that call themselves Rangers to walk straight into the SPL.. They have to earn that right and at this moment in time they are nowhere near attaining this. Already they have been spoon fed by the media with cash and coverage despite their lowly status and now there is a ploy by some of their well heeled supporters in influential positions to blackmail other Football Clubs into fast tracking them in to a new league set up. I am glad that the vote went against the first proposal, that split idea imo. would do nothing to bolster support by the fans, could have been detrimental to the honesty of the players in the game and farcical in it's outcome. Plenty better alternatives have been put forward on this thread and probably on the forums of every other Club in Scottish football so surely any Committee could find a set up which would be fair to all Clubs on present merit without showing favouritism to the poor imitation of a once great Club before it became adulterated. Leave the league as it stands next season, work on getting the right alternative, one that suits Fans, Players and Clubs, reach agreement then instigate it. 'Till then enjoy it as much as we have this season.

Wish I hadn't clicked on that.

Progress indeed. I have open in front of me Ian Broadfoot's ringbound volume of match reports for the first two years 1994-96. It is at the page "Saturday 20th August 1994 - Caledonian Thistle 0 Queens Park 4. Bell's Scottish League Third Division." which was CT's first league defeat. The crowd was1500 which by the turn of the year would drop to under 1000. The CT team that day was McRitchie, Brennan, McAllister, Hercher (MacMillan), Scott, Andrew, D. MacDonald, MacKenzie, Noble, Bennett (Hastings), Robertson. Unused - Gray. One week later there was a Third Division record crowd of 3157 in Dingwall for a scoreline of Ross County 1 Caledonian Thistle 3 which included nine yellow cards and two red (Gary Campbell of County and Mike Andrew of CT.)