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  1. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end... ...without doubt my favourite spell of footie ever!
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  2. As we pause to reflect on the events from 20 years ago today, and I am sure UK TV is as full of 'special programming' and documentaries about this date as Canadian TV is (but maybe not as much as USA TV) it got me thinking - where was I on the day? What do i recall from then? How did it change my life (if at al)? Well, it may not surprise too may folk, but I was in Toronto, as a visitor though, not a resident, visiting my then girlfriend, now wife. We had just come back the previous night from a weekend trip to Niagara Falls but - and this is where it gets spooky - we had scaled back what was supposed to be a longer trip to New York that weekend and into the early part of the week and decided instead just to go to Niagara Falls mainly because getting across the USA/Canada border with a British passport requires a few more hoops to jump through than a Canadian one and as we would be taking a train then it was just too much hassle ... if we had gone with the original plan, we would have been in New York that morning although likely to have been jumping on a return train in midtown later that day rather than near a plane or sightseeing in lower Manhattan. The apartment I had rented for my stay in Toronto had a direct view of the CN Tower and I recall looking out the window with one eye whilst watching TV with the other wondering if Toronto's tallest building was next. We had also arranged to meet up with my mum later that day in downtown Toronto for dinner. She was staying out of town with a relative and had to come in on the train. The city was deserted, and everyone was in shock, so it was a surreal meeting to say the least. For some bizarre reason I remember dinner was at the 'Loose Moose' near Union Station and we had Calamari and seafood! The flight back to Scotland a week or two later was also the scariest of my life ... not a bad flight, just everyone scared to get on a plane ... and of course, wasn't I seated next to a structural engineer who explained to me in great detail his theory of how and why the buildings collapsed rather than withstood the impact ... I guess it could have been worse, he didn't seem to be a conspiracy theorist! How did it change me? Well, I love to travel so that has obviously changed in terms of restrictions and precautions in place, but I can honestly say it changed my life entirely. I decided that day that life was too short, you didn't know what was around the corner (eerily accurate now too) so i then decided to pop the question .... that was 2001 and I moved to Canada in 2003 after going through 2 years of immigration paperwork and have been here ever since so that one event changed me completely ..... I also now work for an engineering company so encounter loads of structural engineers in my daily life! May post some pictures of a deserted Toronto that day if I can find them later ....
    1 point
  3. We all excelled ourselves in week 6 with @Jodie Carnie the only one who had a correct prediction, makes it a bit easier for me Week 7 Championship League 1 League 2
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  5. Those were the days. Romping up the lower divisions with Steve Paterson and his troops...
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  6. Graham has a history of incidents whenever he plays against us, basically he's just an nasty @rsehole. Great turnaround in the second half, fighting spirit was there to start the comeback...and after the 1st goal you could say it was a formality I admit I couldn't see it coming on the back of the first half, but that's why there are two I suppose. Another 3 points next week, and back to the clean sheets!
    1 point
  7. Credit to a very fit and professional team, who battled throughout for each other. We were fitter and stronger than Patrick. I don't know what Shane or Duku are on, but I need some! THEY WERE BOTH SUPERB
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  8. The proverbial game of two half’s ! The noise, atmosphere, singing, chanting, foot stamping in the North Stand today was absolutely great - everyone came away smiling. Today the North Stand sounded like our usual away crowd! Let’s have more of the same as the ICT players react to positive encouragement.
    1 point
  9. I keep thinking that, literally over and over in my head. Take the Semi Final in 2019, or hell, even the Irn Bru Final in 2018, obviously you've got the regulars who are at every single home game or whatever, then you've got dozens (or in 2019, probably hundreds or even thousands) of faces that never get seen again at any of our games. It's almost as if they don't actually care about the club unless it's a big event, and I can't think of a whole lot of solutions to get them into the games. Aside from giving out tickets at schools, I think another way could be a "sampler ticket", where at the start of the season a voucher gets sent out to every household in the Inverness-shire area as a "good for one free game" type of thing. Don't know how much it would cost, but it could give a decent shot at people deciding to stay on and get season tickets or whatever.
    1 point
  10. Thanks for asking @SMEE . So far so good. PSA tests all normal with another scheduled for later this month. Now on a six-monthly cycle of tests for the next year or two, then it goes to yearly if all remains normal. Rest of life is treading water due to COVID. Fully vaccinated but cant travel, still working from home, (not so) little guy has been in online school since March 2020 and will be until at least February of next year which is the next date we can transfer back .... and we will only do that when he is eligible to get his jabs. On the sports front, TFC have just returned to Toronto, with a 50% capacity set at the stadium after playing mostly in USA since March 2020, mainly because our borders were closed and they would have to quarantine for 14 days after each crossing. However, due to the vaccine situation for Simon, I have opted out of my tickets for the rest of the year and will resume them again next year ... probably an excellent choice as TFC have been terrible all season despite having the highest wage bill in the league and one of the strongest teams on paper (just not grass)! Glad to see that ICT are keeping my football sanity going for the most part. Hope you - and everyone else out there is bearing up and keeping fingers crossed that we get back to some form of normal too ....
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