thejailender

Depends what position you want to finish in. Normally this league you need 36 points to avoid relegation, and around 76 points to win the league, although last season St. Johnstone won it on 65 points and Airdrie (through play off) were releaged on 42 points. (Clyde who finished last were on 39 points) Personally I think you'll be looking at aiming for 45 points !

So then, was today's defeat caused by Ross Tokely's red card ? Had he managed to stay on the park for the full game I am sure that Caley would have managed to record the 0-0 draw they needed... Don't blame Brewster, lets blame Tokely...

I must scroll back through the various threads, I thought when Brewster came back it was seen as the return of the King ??

Not a lot of fans turned up for the game, which was fairly entertaining. Full Time score was County 5-2 Caley/Thistle County Scorers were Barry Wilson, Billy Ferris, Gordon Connolly (2), Gary Ross Caley/Thistle scorers were Billy Urquhart, Wilson Robertson, Stevie Polson

Johnston Bellshaw is organising this event, and other than County providing the venue they have no other involvement with it. The reason Victoria (or shall we rename it Victory) Park is being used is firstly Bellshaw played for County and knows the people there, but also it is the day after our last home game of the season, whereas Caley have a couple of home games still to be played.... As said it's in aid of a good cause, and it'll be good to see some of the old players battling it out again. I can still remember some of the challenges Robbie Williamson would make on Charlie Christie... and vice versa. I'll be there , lets hope Jim Calder is up for a "ittle bit of banter"

No he doesn't... But then he isn't trying to weasel his way back into his job at County, because he knows the board at County were onto him after just a few months, so he spat the dummy big style when he didn't get it all his own way. I was just wondering now that there is no potential managerial position up for grabs at Caley (for the foreseable future anyway) if he was still trying to sook up to all the Caley fans. But I did have a few serious questions to ask him... Think I'll send an email to Radio Scotland and see if he answers them there..

Is John Robbertson still doing his Question and Answer sessions on here ?? A few questions I owuld like to ask him now.

Trying to find a way out of the club by the looks of it.. Maybe he's after Brewster's job.. You steal our players so why not our manager too ! Hearing tonight that Bullock has walked out of the club too.. Not confirmed anywhere yet though.. Just rumoured. Would you be interested in him too !!

Is that the "Vote of confidence" for the manager.... You know what usually follows the vote of confidence ! I see that proctor was in the paper today drumming up support for Brewster.

An on-line petition has been set-up requesting that the youth teams of the three teams involved be re-instated into this league. If you would kindly take a moment of your time to sign this it would be greatfully appreciated. On-line Petition Thanks

I have a look in this site most days, mainly just to see what County player Brewster has added to his shopping list, or to see which player he doesn't rate anymore that we could get for a knock down price. But for the last year or two there has been two groups established on this site - the pro-caley group who can't see anything bad about the club regardless of how bad things are, and the negative Caley group who can't see any good regardless of how good the club are doing... There are very few fans who have a realistic view on events.. so threads become either back patting exercise or a slagging match. So I just read (and sometimes laugh), but rarely post anymore. This week is an exception though, as we now have bragging rights until the two teams meet again !

Totally agree. 8-0 win will do nicely :004:

We did it last pre-season and the one before at County as part of the Save Our Staggies fundrasing. Both were great events, although the fans were hammered in both games. For the first game we charged it at ?100 for a full 90 minutes and ?20 per place on the bench, with the promise you'd only get on if someone failed to last the full 90 minutes. - It so turned out that we had six subs, and in order to keep the score down the fans team had 17 players on the pitch at one point ! For that ?100 though we also had an evenings training for the fans players with the coaches at County which was probably a better experience than the game it's self. We also go Davie Kirkwood (the youth coach) to be manager of the fans team for the evening. Also man of the match awards etc were handed out afterwards. To be honest though, the game was nothing more than a kick about. Save Our Staggies closed this year year though through lack of interest, but prior to it closing the plan for this pre-season was to have a "play with the team" where both teams had half and half of fans and players, that way we might have kept the game more competative..... Another Idea though.

I never seen the report myself, but it has been talked about on our site too. If you ask me it's a bit of poor journalism, basically trying to make up a story in the vacuum of the pre-season. Was it based on the fact we have scored 32 goals in five friendlies so far ?? But then they wouldn't have looked at our defence has leaked 6 goals in those five games against lower league opposition ! I'm under no illusions that we will have a very tough season this year. You could look at it an say we won the league last year easily. But we only finished 7 points ahead of Airdrie, who failed to beat Clyde (who finished 9th in the 1st) in the play-off final. And Clyde won both those games quite easily if reports are to be believed. Yes we have added to our squad, but then we have also lost a number of players, none more so than a player who netted 29 times for us last season :017: Above all that, you have to look at Dundee, St. Johnstone, Dunfermline, Partick, Queen of the South.. All these teams also have the ambitions to win the league and most of them have also added quality players to their squads. One thing about the first division is that a run of four wins will take you from bottom to top of the league, while four defeats on the trot could see the a fall in the opposite direction. With every team capable of beating each other the first division is a bit of a lottery as to who will win it. I for one would be happy with a 7th place finish next season. Tomorrow night will be a good bench mark for both teams.

A wee bit of glory hunting this weekend again Charles ? Your never seen around Dingwall until things are either going bad in Inverness or there is a chance of a party in Dingwall - See and plug your microphone in properly this weekend then, and not end up with the comical farce you had on your last visit !

Angus the stag, was originally made for Ross County - for obvious reasons -, but County were not happy with the standard of the outfit, and returned it to the supplier. The supplier in turn managed to flog it to Caley.

He cant sign for anyone unless terms are agreed with ICT. He's under contract for another 18 mths I appreciate that, but from from what I heard the two clubs had agreed terms, but he couldn't move until the transfer window opened. Then the tragic news of last weekend have delayed the dealings.

I hear he is going to Motherwell. I heard this before the tragic news of last Saturday, and believe he was due to sign this week for them, but I guess with all that has gone on there this week the signing may be delayed for a week or two.

Aye very good. But you actually beat us last year in Inverness 3-0 was it not.. Yeah it was only a friendly, and as I say the result doesn't matter - although bragging rights are yours once again ! It's more of a chance to see how the new players are gelling, and how the team are performing. I am sure if it had been a meaningful match, then yes there would have been fiercer tackles etc. but I would still imagine CC would not have been happy with Caley's first half performance today !

I posted that, but if you read what was really written, I said County play during the season as they did today we should be all right, but if Caley play as they did then we could well see a return of the Highland derby the follwoing season. By that I ment we are looking for promotion. And if we play as we did then we have a good chance of it. As for Caley I thought for the first 70 minutes you were awful - considering you are two divisions higher than us - you only had two or three shots on goal the whole first half. I know pre-season games are meaningless in terms of results, but if you defend next week against Rangers as you did today in the first half, then you may need your second hand to county the Rangers goals ! As for the game it wasn;t the usual pre-season glorified training session, which I assume was of benifit to both clubs. Same story from County though, wated chances and fell asleep for 10 minutes - happened every game last season !

He's actually been at County for 13 years, he joined the boys club at the age of 11. As for him signing before Wednesday night Caley would under UEFA rules have to pay County compensation, as Cowie does not turn 24 until March some point the new team would have to pay compensation for his training as a youth. So for that reason I think County would be keen to off load him before Wednesday night, but I think Caley would be less happy to sign him beofre this date.

I've missed laughing at you :015: :016: *Clicky clicky* Who's laughing at who ?? You are the lot that signed McSwegan ! :015: And as a player too :015: ohh my sides are getting sore... On a serious note, I believe he will be helping out with coaching too, he has been doing all his badges etc. while at County.. But at least it's a huge wage bill off our books.

Why has no one mentioned that Caley signed Gary McSwegan from County ? Is this the ostrich syndrome - burrying your head in the sand will not make it go away !!

I don't think you can really say that. Maybe his exclusion from the squad has something to do with him not doing very much in the Future game played in Inverness last season, and the fact he was sent off in that match. Afterall the coaching staff obviously do travel to watch players as Ross County's Craig Samson was included in the U21 squad.