The Mantis

It's OK, as I said earlier we're comfortable talking about it. As the big team in the Highlands we can take it.

Like comparing playing bridge and snap. :lol: :lol: I was kind of hoping for a bit more.......

Rejoin Pele at Formartine Utd! Seriously, could play div 1 or 2 for a while yet.

Surely Dougal is aware of the Caledonian FC thread on PandB which has been running for years - The OP started it with the best of intentions just as I started the CNP in 2000 - but I have to say the number of regulars on that thread is of 'phone-box' proportions.

I'm sure cricket's dangerous, hence all the pads and face guards. I'm sure there's loads of skill involved. But the usual pompous reply from Laurence because he can't get people to listen....... Laurence you should try teaching, it would be so easy for you! Anyway you can't have it both ways..... Surely the fact that people play cricket all day is because they don't need to be fit like in football or rugby?

Just out of interest, how would you compare the skills against the skills required for baseball?

That would be Dots then

I think it's a decent thread especially since the OP asked for it and we haven't had one for, er, a bit.... If the Labour Party, SNP and Church of Scotland can have internal debates it's good enough for us too! The Shadows are still The Shadows.

Whereas the other side played by the rules

Which is ironic as they have been "mongrels" far longer than we have (as my new signature suggests!). There is a fundamental difference though. Inverness Thistle (who are also a previous merger of themselves, Crown and Union) and Caledonian merged to form Caledonian Thistle in order to join the Scottish Football Leagues. Dingwall United Victoria and Dingwall Thistle were two tiny provincial clubs who had to merge together to a former another tiny provincial team in order to join the big fancy Highland League (they somehow managed to gain a license to play in it's inaugural season in 1893 but had to resign - how embarrassing!). They then merged proper in 1929, to form the glorified Muir of Ord Rovers that we all know today (they also had to change their original name from "Dingwall Victors" to "Ross County", probably to gather more support!). Rene, I think you have the distinction of being the first one to rise to the bait after about 2 weeks :lol: Their nickname for us hasn't exactly taken off even though they're SEETHING at their own nickname. Did Culbokie Comets not figure somewhere in the mix then?

Nah, it was on issue 2 (I think). Not the way it would be interpreted nowadays - something to do with Clach being the Mujahideen.....

They've got feck all else to talk about anyway.

Spot on. 3600 v Clyde and a 5500 sellout v St Johnstone suggests that, given the opportunity to boycott a Caley game, there were an awful lot of folks whose noses got the better of them!

Not a fact at all - just an opinion! And my opinion is that Caley, on their own could have done just as well as ICT have - possibly better because they wouldn't have had the merger baggage. As the only Scottish League team in Inverness they would have attracted just as much investment as ICT have and would have made it into the SPL in a similar timescale, attracting larger crowds as they progressed. Don't believe me? Look at Ross County!! No comparison. ICT have stayed, barring one blip, in the top league for near a decade. Compare when and if RC can do the same. That's not what you said though Alex...... Brechin, Montrose, East Stirling? Caley would have been good for Div 1 at least. Caley were a bigger club than those 3 even in the HL. Round about 1992 Caley had a wage bill of around £130 000.

If he wants a real challenge without leaving Abriachan he could try taking Cownty out of the shadows.

Aye The Peanut. Quiet car going home that night.....

I can attest to the fact that she was spotted in the North Stand when we rogered the cabbagemen in the league

The TV star has spoken.....

32 hrs????????

Down your way, what about Charles McHardy butcher in Stonehaven? Make their own pork pies. They look quite small so you buy two then realise your mistake!

Obvious penalty, trip or not, it's a clear penalty before that, without a SHADOW of a doubt. Anybody disputes that is still living in div 1!

It's not VP any longer so let's not call it that. The shadows are quick enough to slag us off about selling out 18 years ago so let's just remember they've just franchised their stadium!

Their sleepy wee forum's fair getting a boost with all you guys in the past fortnight....... To be fair I had a look myself and most of them accept they've got a limited squad and doing OK considering, but one or two roasters eh. Every ref and linesman in Scotland's got it in for their multi-talented squad and plotting to stop them winning a clean sweep this season. They don't hate us much though.

I remember being at a Bluejays v Yankees game at Toronto. There were about 6 Yankees fans who had made the trip and they put the camera on them andthe whole stadium applauded them.....