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I really don't know what to do, I am nor phased by relegation, In England I saw plenty with my boyhood team " Bury" , the other side there were plenty of promotions, what goes up sometimes goes down syndrome. The last time I saw Bury play was against Bournemouth in a league two play off match. Now look at Bournemouth?. Life goes on. My years watching Calley have not been all rosie but interesting. I have never seen a Scottish football match outside the top floght. I am not sure if to buy another season ticket. I will be 74 on the 1st of August , my fight against cancer I seem to have won, but my wife says I am not fit to drive up and down the A9 at night. On Saturdays my wife drives she drops me off at the ground and picks me up after the game. This last year I have not enjoyed the games much. I suspect we will hold our own in the lower league and the games will be less intense. Thinking back to my life watching football times have changed dramatically, my first game was an away game at Bramhall lane Sheffield in 1949, I only remember it because it was bonfire night, there were no motorways then and as the coach travelled over the Yorkshire moors to Bury, I remember fires all over the place, The coach was full ofr "old" men, no replica shirts in those days, but guys who worked 12 hour days In Cotton mills who moaned about the players conceding 4 goals, the match ended in a 4 4 draw. My next memory was Bury lacing Southampton 8.2 at Gigg lane. Bury was virtually the first club in the North of England to install floodlights, I can also remember an inaugural match against Vienna Rapid. Gates used to be getting on for 20,000 in those days. Disaster came around 1959 when the Shaker's dropped into the 3rd Division North. They were in the main much better than the other teams, but promotion was limited to one club. Bury did not get promotion that year as a formidable Scunthorpe team was far too powerful. The reorganisation of football and the emergence ot a national 3rd division did the trick, as Bury with an array of Scotsmen and the new manager " Bob Stokoe", swept all before the and they went back to the 2nd tier , with a record points win, with every member of the 5 man forward line scoring at least 20 goals. At this stage my hard drive failed I had to quickly save and rejoin, before I could check the spelling in my diatribe which I was writing because I cant sleep. My point is do I stop watching football >? , or do I risk life and Limb driving to a Inverness . The strange thing is it is easier to go to away games because I just catch the coach in Aviemore. Maybe I should just go to the airport and fly to Manchester and see my last game at my beloved Gigg Lane. and call it a day/ . I usually sell a lot of books over the week-end so I will be busy anyway. I am now signed up for walking football on Sunday mornings. I was surprised to find I still have a powerful shot in both right and left sides . I have a problem with balance though and I landed on my knees when I fell off the gazebo roof. recently some ex firefighter I am?

Although beating a part time team from the Highland League is a whole lot better than being humiliated by a bunch of similarly resourced part timers from Luxembourg!

I think you'll find they are. They have to be registered, by law, and ICT have always seemed very efficient at complying with this requirement. There are dozens of former and current directors on the record.

With a lifelong passion for the game and history what could we do to help. I spent years driving my father to games at caley as the little things became more important . He didnt go to every game but when he did it was the highlight of his month. Where you coming from?

What a waste of a post. Just like the nonsense you write for the highland news. I do not want any warnings for this as, if your happy to take a wage writing for the public you take the the praise or criticism publically

Still showing Oakley as a Trialist.... Sone new names on there, Alex Cooper.. Is that the son of ex county manager Neale? I see as reported last week too Riccardo Calder is here on trial too

After a lot of pressure was applied!

Unveiled suggests he's been in some kind of veil for perhaps 12 months!! Perhaps unwrapped is a better description. In the past he has scored goals against Wrexham for two different teams and that is probably why they have signed him. Normally we wish players well, but he never seemed to form a relationship with our supporters. The best that we can say is that his signing here proved to be a major error and credit to those who facilitated his exit.

Great suggestion moog. I seem to recall previously that Laurence mentioned Kingussie Newtonmore area but don't quote me on that #getlaurencetothegame

Well done on your battle hope you stay well.

Oh you are awful, I am the Captain1...but I like you.

The family home that was promised in the contract not living up to expectations perhaps...

Wonder how they will get on playing for 2 teams UK TRANSFER TALK‏ @DrpFootball Follow More Partick Thistle F.C. have announced a double signing today with the capture of keeper Mark Ridgers and striker George Oakley. 3:34 am - 3 Jul 2017

Our obsession with secrecy about such matters which are not commercially sensitive but of great interest to fans is as baffling as it is frustrating.

In the short time i saw McNaughton play I thought he was mach better footballer than most at the back. Read the games well

I thought I'd already posted these statistics from 2016-2017 but it seems I haven't - well, I can't find them anyway. So here they are...I just knew you'd like to see them NPL Stats – 2016-2017 Total individual entries: 1379 Total correct HT: 183 Total correct FT: 90 Total correct 1st Scorer ICT: 137 Total correct 1st Scorer Opp: 199 Crowd - 10 pts: 1 Crowd - 5 pts: 195 Highest individual points tally: 17 – DoofersDad [Game 12 – Dundee (h)] Most correct HT: 11 – caleyjag and DoofersDad Most correct FT: 8 – Mrs Gringo Most correct 1st Scorer ICT: 7 – Andrew Fraser, Tichy Black’s Back and Bughtmaster Most correct 1st Scorer Opp: 11 - DoofersDad Crowd - 10 pts: 1 – Mrs Bauhaus [(Game 6 – Alloa (a)] Crowd - 5 pts: 10 – Gringo, DoofersDad and RedCard The 100% club (entered all 45 games):- caleyjag DooferDad Gavroche Gringo lilmissictbabe MrCaleyjag Mrs Gringo Renegade Tichy Black's Back But there's only one stat' that really matters.... NPL CHAMPION 2016/17 DOOFERSDAD

Mulraney certainly has pace. Yet to see much evidence that he is particularly skilful. Wholly agree with what you say about Doran, if fit, he could be very effective for us this season.

There are just so many rumours flying about just now. I heard another one this morning, but because it's no more than a rumour and a well tried one at that, I'm not going to propagate it. Rumours tend to be like new manager predictions - 90%+ of them are wrong.

Like Boden did this time last year

These friendlies really mean nothing other than a means for the players to get fit. I wouldn't get too excited about beating Brora 4-1...

Are we talking about the same guy who knocked an extra 10% off of the season ticket prices, extend the early bird closure dates, included the first cup match for free and offered a monthly draw for boardroom hospitality. There's been a lot of changes and the club probably needs a bit of time to sort itself out.