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No replay - we have just won on penalties. I thought it would be tough against a confident team that is used to winning. But to lose a two goal lead is inexcusable.

With Raith beating Ayr and Cove drawing with Partick, the results have gone pretty well for us today. Back in the top four!

I'll be seeing the Peatbog Faeries in October

I understand you, and Dodds must take some of the blame. But - energy, pace, desire, leadership - there are 11 full-time pros on the pitch at any time. Surely they should be providing these qualities, regardless of what the manager does or says? Though maybe a call to Klopp to find out what he said to Liverpool would be a good idea!

Two blokes stranded on a desert island, with no way of contacting the outside world. "Caley Thistle got beaten again!" "How do you know?" "Back home, it's ten to five on Saturday".

There was certainly one point during the first half when I noticed that we simply had two lines of players across the pitch - 5 in defence and 5 up front. Nobody between them except quite a few Partick players.

Why did no one claim for the penalty just before they scored their 4th??? The ball clearly came off the Partick keeper and then struck a defender on his arm. McKay just shrugged his shoulders, and Partick went down the other end and scored. It wasn't a penalty against us either. Carson had his foot in front of the Partick forward's foot, and both missed the ball. The referee was absolutely terrible. Missed all the play-acting by Tiffoney, and the constant niggling by Graham. Right now I am so glad that I don't have to watch this every week.

Hyde should have ben replaced by Carson after the first minute, when it was clear that he was way out of his depth with Tiffoney. Might have made a big difference to the confidence of the entire defence. If he is still on for the second half, then I'll demand my money back

Had never heard of that place until I searched for it just now. Somewhere for me to visit next time I am up north!

A Mk1 VW Golf. Nope, never had a Golf. I did once work with someone who had a heavily customised VW Caddy pickup. Until I met him I never knew that such things existed

John Player and Sons (aka Player's) were the first commercial sponsors in F1, with Gold Leaf Team Lotus. You'll probably also remember the black "John Player Special" cars from the early 70s. I would have been about 11 or 12 at the time of Gold Leaf Team Lotus, and I wasn't a smoker then or now

Two power plants in Ford Sierra RS Cosworths. Completely mad cars - IIRC, many of them got wrecked. Here's one for those who remember Gold Leaf Team Lotus.

No prizes for guessing what cars these are in.

I like children, but I couldn't eat a whole one

Can't read too much into them, but the BBC stats would suggest that coming out of that with a draw was a good result. But we played there three times last season, and are still playing the ball in the air? Beyond belief.

I presume everyone in Sneck knows who that is? Sadly, I am long out of touch. The Harpenden show had stands from some of the local luxury car dealers, including Bentley. They had a white convertible, and were letting kids sit in it and have their photographs taken. You realise when you are close to one how big they are. I quite fancied it but my wife didn't, so we won't be getting one

Had been in the grounds a few times, but went inside for the first time only last year!

There were a few Mustangs of various vintages at the Harpenden show. They are not uncommon down here, so I don't have any photographs of them. So here's another four-legged beastie - a 1959 Jaguar XK150. I wonder which is worth more - the car or the number plate.

Google is your friend. See https://alvisarchive.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/td21-register-170921-.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_TD_21 Series II Alvis TDI Coupé, chassis number 26777, despatched (presumably just the chassis) 29 Dec 1961, body built by Swiss coachbuilder Graber, body number 757.

I'm sure he'll get a handle on it

That was, of course, a Renault 5 GT Turbo. This one appears to have been a special edition called a "Raider", though I don't remember that. My wife was on the right side of 35 at the time - as was I - and grew wearily used to boy racers catching up, having a look, seeing "a bird!", and cranking up their souped-up Novas and Fiestas to show her what they could do I was never keen on it - never felt totally safe. Tiny wheels, little suspension, low down - I always felt I was sitting on an uncontrollable rocket-powered rollerskate. Turbo lag was significant - you put your foot down and then had time for a shave or a look through the newspaper, before you were suddenly kicked in the back. A magnet for criminals in the station car park, too. Someone tried to nick the stereo, but couldn't get it out and also probably realised that it was custom built for this car and would be useless elsewhere, so they left all the parts very neatly on the passenger seat. Another time we were driving to the station in the morning when suddenly there was a hideous metallic clattering from under the back of the car. The spare wheel was on a cradle under the back, which you lowered from inside the boot. Someone had cut through the cradle from the outside, nicked the spare, and then tied the cradle back up, until their knots came apart this morning and the cradle fell down to be dragged along the road. Had the usual Renault electrical problems, an over-sensitive alarm, and I remember the clutch cable failing too. Good fun, if someone else was picking up the bills!

Lovely car. This, too, was known as a "boattail" - it's a 1972 Buick Riviera. By coincidence, I discovered the other day that the founder of Buick was born in Arbroath, with his family moving to Detroit when he was two - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dunbar_Buick And no prizes for guessing the car that is off the right hand side of the first picture

There was one of these at the show - a white one. The one below was my wife's company car in 1990, in the boom years after Big Bang (financial deregulation) in the City.

It's a 1978 Matra-Simca Bagheera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Bagheera

Here's a faster one, then.