The Mantis

DR and Rendezvous were always a must for me any time I visited the Sneck. Especially when Caley/CT were still at the Caley Park. DR was good for fanzines too. Nothing to do with records, but I must confess to having a quick browse in Leakey's though I never spent anything. It was worth it to see the miserable bugger's face when you walked past him empty handed :015: :015: :015:

I think Raydale should be renamed - "New Grant Street" :015: :015: :015: :015:

Ended up meeting the brother and watching the egg chasing from Twickers Didn't look like much of a crowd at Rugby Park.

Ah, the mammaries! That kind of thing happened every week :015:

I don't know what 10cc was doing signing the wee man whose feet are too near his erse . I hope we can offload him. Wyness- had his chance at Hearts. ICT suits him. Sign now Denzil, there aint no queue of cheque book wavers. Russeldinho - ditto (probably). At a push he might get a grand a week at Falkirk or DUFC but he's better staying here. Live with it Russell. Rossco - prefer him to stay but if he goes it's his loss. Peterheid? What's the crack with him anyway? Does anybody know? In pre season it was rumoured CC was going to offload him but what now under Brew? Has Bambi nicked his no 2 jumper? Patti- has potential but for me he's still to cut the mustard in an ICT shirt. I'd keep him but does anybody have the lowdown on who fancies signing him?

Feck me. Signing players from the Ice Station tattie- howkers. O tempora, o mores :017:

That's not at all bad. :021: Remember the piper who used to play it at the away games at Gayfield and suchlike?

There you go Naelifts. Sorted.

Or electric seats?

I think it'll be like the football, but no as good.

Has Mitchie packed it in? Also how recently was Davie Brennan playing with the Clachers?

Naw, this one's called the Moray Firth :rotflmao:

The NE corner flag's got an even bigger puddle nearby.

Worth it even if you have!

I think TCF's ready for the next lesson now Sophia. Go on, explain rhetoric :023:

Aye you're spot on, we're better with Bayne.......

I hope you don't mean 'pin' as in 'pin the tail on......' :023:

I think you should pin this topic for CB.

Sophos........ pearls before swine! Oink.

Ach this is an old argument and I'm on my way out for the night and can hardly be ersed. But I seem to recall arguing that Caley have knocked out Scottish League clubs about 19 times while the nearest any other club gets is about 9. And amongst the 19 were some pretty strong sides, not just the occasional East Stirling or Alloa. And not knocking the jeggies at all, but let's be clear about their only significant Cup win. Kilmarnock may be a big club but they were at their lowest ebb and were in div 2, the lowest division at the time.

Can't reach P&B but I can tell you what happened. Elgin got their final fixture against Forres brought forward to Friday as they had a friendly against Dundee on the Sunday. They beat Forres 6-0 and clinched the trophy. Caley and Cove then played a meaningless draw on the Saturday. A few days later it transpired that John Teasdale and John McDonald would have been suspended for the Forres game if it had been on the Saturday. The League considered deducting the 3 points won by Elgin (but as Caley and Cove had drawn, Elgin had now won the championship by more than 3 points). So they decided to suspend the championship.

.... and beer of course.

Shame on you for outing sophia! One or two have hinted at it in the past though....... mind you it makes sense- anybody with the hots for RiG and all that :023:

I've always had sympathy for the ex-jaggies who, as Kingsmills said, probably gave up more. I think Inverness was always fated to succeed in the ballot though. The reason being that the big clubs who had no axe to grind got 4 votes, whereas the diddy clubs got only 1. So the self interest of clubs such as East Stirling, which kept Thistle out in 1973, was going to carry no weight trhis time. So the 68 votes gathered by CT must have been largely from the Premier clubs.

I don't really see where your line of argument is leading RBC. Maybe you just need to let off steam (BTW, as I remember it from my schooldays, chauvinism means "excessive devotion to a cause"). The term 'junior partner' is in common use and has nothing to do with age- you've just inferred it (as if a few months makes any difference anyway. It's been reported many times that the date of Caley's formation could be 1885 OR 1886). If you're going to come up with terms such as 'important' then you really have to define what it means, and in saying that I realise that the Jaggies were important to YOU! In the greater scheme of things neither club could be said to be important at all! At a more local level, I think you'd struggle to get an objective measure of either club which backed up your case. Evidence to the contrary is easy to find: In 1993 Caley reportedly paid Thistle ?8500 for the services of Billy Skinner. Caley's wage bill in (I think) 92-93 was ?130,000, larger than most clubs in the SFL div 2 at the time. Finally, in looking at the relative size of the merger partners, it's obvious that any residual hatred is one-way. Now just compare this to County - ICT (they hate us, we don't really care) and even Scotland - England. The hatred's always one way...... why would this be?