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Never agreed with Charlies appointment so am relieved its now over. I am sorry for him, but saw this outcome from the off. Also dissapointed he didnt do it at end of last season so a new, more experienced manager could have come in and made the changes he wanted. Best of Luck Charlie, you were a Legend on the park, and you went at the right time before things went sour!

I think it takes a certain type of character to be a manager. I have never seen that quality from Charlie. No one can blame him for giving the big time a shot when presented with the opportunity, but i think his appointment was basically based on two things. First being the relative luck enjoyed by appointing the previous two rookie managers and secondly, and probably more importantly, appointing someone who wasnt going to leg it at the first opportunity. It was bound to come undone sooner or later and maybe that time is now.

If this rumour is true, which wouldnt suprise me, i would rather charlie moves aside asap before real damage is done and give any new appointment time a fair crack of the whip.

I felt at the time that both the Club and Charlie made errors in judgement in the appointment. Sadly, i can see the day when Charlie is long since forgotten for his on field contribution but castigated for his off field contributions

Let us not forget that Donald Park also has to shoulder some of the blame/take the plaudits. I havent seen too much dirt thrown his way as of yet! He was brought in to keep an eye on CC i thought?

Its good to debate tho Charles as long as things dont get heated. Bottom line is, I dont think al ever swallow the propoganda surrounding the merger and I dont think i will ever be convinced that a lone Caley scottish league team could not have flourished, taking aside the bully boy tactics. Charles, to your knowledge, why exactly did Clach pull out?

Dont you think that he is too lightweight for a full back?

I actually think Clach have won the HL most times. Elgin did have a very good side throught the years and were a bit behind the total number Caley won the HL. But it was the other trophies where Caley really racked up their honours. I rekon in history of HL, (and available competitions) the most sucsessfull teams are prob, in order 1. Caley 2. Clach 3. Thistle 4. Elgin Maybe touch and go between Thistle and Elgin tho now i think of it

its certainly not the rating for their onfield performances

And you base this on?????? lemme guess.........they once reached the Scottish Cup quarter finals :024: All 3 inverness teams were more sucsessful than Elgin, and by that I mean in the amount of actual honours won. Getting to a quarter final counts for diddly at the end of the day! The reason Elgin are struggling is because they have 2 more established Scottish League clubs ahead of them in the pecking order in the area and therfore are a far more attractive proposition

Maybe i am being thick here Charles........but your telling us that Had CAley been in their the Scottish League, supporters, businesses and funding athourities wouldnt have found them so appealing? My answer to that would be, they would have nothing else to compare it to so it would be every bit as appealing as any ICT setup. I can tell you now that, to this day, I personally know of more people boycotting ICT than I do new supporters picked up as ICT. And yes, I know more people go to ICT games than did Caley in HL, but i believe Caley alone would have attracted at least equivalent support if not more than ICT. At the end of the day....i really do not believe these extra ppl turned up just because it was a new team, its because they were intrested in seeing a higher quality of footbal.

I think I read elsewhere that it was Thistle.......must have been about 1974 ish as I think it was Meadowbank/Ferranti Thistle that got the place

Have to disagree with you Charles. CAley in the highland league had a far superior setup to most teams outside prob Scottish Div 1 (prob even many within that league) whilst they were still in the Highland League. For Example...........Aberdeen approached Caley to take notes on their very sucsessfull Centenary Club. I fail to see how the most sucsessful team from the HL on every level would have gone on to fail in the Scottish Leagues??

Sadly, I can see us being in bottom 4 for most of the season :019: I think our contemparies will be a tougher prospect this year. I mean, the players we bought, with Niclaue being the possible exception, are they any better than what was already there , or indeed better than those they were brought in to replace?

I wouldnt agree with that Alex....Amy MacDonalds latest sounds pretty good :blah01: :crazy07:

I hope you win the ?35m now just to see the corners of the stand filled in. Look quite smart that

Al do it for ?3000 a week

...........as the vicar said to the rent boy :crazy07:

Ad build ICT a 400 000 seat training ground. Then we be in the guiness book of records.

Isnt that part of the job of CC and DP and GB are paid to do?

On what grounds do you assume this?

Rangers are a different proposition this year. Motherwell and St Mirren arent!

Take rangers out of the equation and i think we now played two of the three teams i would rekon were our best hopes for points!

I wouldnt go as far to say that. A caley on their own (dare i say A thistle on their own) had the potential to emulate wat has been done. I can only talk from a Caley point of view but i believe had certain people stood up to the bullying going on, Caley would have easily gotten in on their own, ahead of County or anyone else, coz like it or not, they were the highest profile, best known, and probably most honoured non league team in UK!

Was going to say.........The fitness levels achieved under CB certainly have fallen by the wayside. Too many players blowin thro their arse for my liking. None of which will help the cause. I remember posting wen CB left that the one thing I hope we keep was the fitness regieme he installed.