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That's a really nice post. Quite surreal to read given it's about my old man. I'm sure my dad would be pleased to read it and would love to catch up with all the football legend back in the day.

Ive not been on for long enough but was prompted by a mate who knows my connections to Daisy. He was playing with Brora last season although he was trying to hang the boots up. Despite requests he hung his boots up for good in the Highland league at the end of last season for golf and other challenges. As a challenge for this year I trained with him with a view to running the Ben Nevis race in September and we practised by running up and down Ben Wyvis which incidentally he remembers doing 10 years previously in pre season training with County. He is clearly still extremely fit and completed the Ben Nevis race in approx 2 hours 18 minutes which is some effort. I can also confirm that despite his recent sighting in a county top, he is a Caley fan first and foremost and was actually at the County game with his daughters who support County. He is a supporter of Northern football though. I can also confirm he has never owned a Rolls Royce or Ferrari!! I just read all the threads and I will let him know but I'm sure he will appreciate the nice comments that have been posted.

As some of you will know i often bang the drum about having no complaints over a result as long as I get value for money entertainment-wise and 100% effort and commitment from the players. Now Daisy never let you down on that score. Never our most skillful player , he was nevertheless a deserved fans favourite. Good memories!

For my money, Daisy's finest hour was in the 1995 Inverness Cup Final against Ross County at Grant Street (2500 crowd in Grant Street!!!!) when he charged down the left wing again and again (only 12th Man seems to have mentioned the legendary "head down"!)creating havoc in the County defence. Iain Stewart got Man of the Match for a hat trick in a 5-2 ICT victory but many felt it was Daisy's game. Daisy's family own a fish business in Kinlochbervie but I don't know if that extends to Rollers. The Apocryphal tale was that he used to come to and from Inverness in a fish lorry. I remember one pulled into the layby on the A9 beside the stadium one night during extra time and some wag shouted "taxi for Ross". Daisy also made a big impact when he went to Clach and indeed - "gentleman" does not begin to describe. PS - I also have to empathise with Caley100's comment on the generation gap on this forum in his reference to the original question..."does anyone remember Daisy Ross?" :biggrin:

And sometimes he even took the ball with him

The good old Kinlochbervie steam train You knew when he was going to sprint down the park as the head would always go down first.

Daisy was a great crowd favourite, a real grafter and quite a fast runner. For some reason we were fascinated by the Kinlochbervie connection, and somehow also got the idea that he was a millionaire (no idea if there's any truth in that, if he was it certainly wasn't from football-related earnings!). We used to delight in the idea of him thundering down the long road from Kinlochbervie, presumably in a Rolls Royce, Ferrari, or some other millionaire-appropriate motor car, pulling on a Caley Thistle strip, sprinting down the wing and providing a duff pass or fluffed cross. Mind you, anyone's skills would be shown up when they had the great Wilsy on the other wing!

As I do He used to tear opposition full backs to shreads in the Highland League days , legend .

He was/is very fast. My abiding memory of Daisy is of him belting towards the corner flag leaving folk standing in his wake, and then running out of ideas when he got there. Great to watch.

The guy is an absolute legend, let's just say he was a grafter. I seen him eating a pie and watching the scores in the bar at half time during the Hamilton game recently, i wanted to go and say something to him but i was overwhelmingly starstruck.

Could someone please explain why the team never wore a poppy on there shirts for the Celtic game? an absolute disgrace &once again the club showing how out of touch it is with its fanbase i expect it from the Rats we were playing but expected more from ICT.