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Sound now, but only on the right-hand channel. It's not your system

There was sound on an ad a few minutes ago. Wildly swinging camera eventually settling on the ball suggests Pixellot to me

No prizes for knowing this one, but I have always liked the light in it. Taken on a budget phone.

That's my birthday night sorted, then

I will be hearing all about it soon I'm in Falkirk and shortly to meet up with my wife's relatives. Cut them, and they bleed Warriors' blood.

Agree that it looks good, but y/e May 2020 takes us only into the start of the pandemic.

Alex Main's book "Caley All The Way" just mentions it in passing, as does Bill McAllister's "Highland Hundred". Though Bill does say that there was a rumour that the Wembley winners "were more relaxed than they might have been" by the time they reached Inverness. The Select team was: J Sutherland (Thistle); A Sutherland (Thistle), Mitchell (Caley); J Fraser (Caley), D Fraser (Caley), R Fraser (Thistle); Docherty (Caley), Robertson (Caley), Macdonald (Thistle), Mackenzie (Thistle), Lamb (Thistle). I love the half-back line of three Frasers! Scorers were Macdonald (2), Lamb (2), Mackenzie and Robertson.

That was a good game not to lose. Dunfermline were obviously determined not to lose, and were cynical in doing so. Can't remember when I last saw a team commit so many fouls. The referee was weak. The commentators were biassed idiots. They were surprised when Sutherland went off - it was because he had just been hacked down, you morons. I turned them off in the second half, after my wife booked me for swearing. Duku tries, but he is just not effective. And Billy will never score unless there is good service into the box. Thanks go to Ridgers for keeping us in the game. Mark that one down as experience, get the video analyst on the job (did I say the TV picture was rubbish?), and back to winning next week.

OK, I give up. Why does the number 4 have so much meaning to DAFC fans? (The only thing I can think of is that most holes on a golf course are par 4s. )

It did indeed make me curious about how much anti-doping testing takes place in the Championship!

Amazing turnaround in the second half. Billy Dodds must have been very eloquent at half-time. Did anyone see what happened in about the 80th minute when Graham and Carson clashed off the ball in front of the main stand? The TV missed it.

It was early afternoon in the UK. I was in my office just north of the West End of London. There were three or four of us in the office, but we didn't have a TV or radio, so were relying on the internet. However, it wasn't as robust then as it is now - or perhaps even today it would still be overloaded - so it was impossible to get a reliable connection to a news site. To any external website, in fact. I was on a mailing list comprising a bunch of fans of the rock group Deep Purple, which had been set up because the crazies had taken over the Usenet newsgroup (remember them?). One member of the group was sitting in a building in New York, and could see, thankfully at a distance, what was happening. Another of the members was a weather forecaster at a TV station in Sweden, so he was watching the newsfeeds. Both were keeping us up to date, by email, with what was happening. An interesting illustration of how information will propagate through the net, despite any difficulties. At the time, my wife worked for Citigroup in Canary Wharf. When you see pictures of the three tallest towers in Canary Wharf, one of the two smaller, flat-roofed ones is the Citigroup tower. My wife was on the umpteenth floor. Her colleagues knew lots of people in the World Trade Center. In fact, one of her colleagues, who was sitting close by, was talking to someone there when suddenly the line went dead.... If you have flown into Heathrow, you may know that the usual approach is westwards across the centre of London, along the line of the Thames. There is usually a continuous stream of low-flying planes passing close to Canary Wharf. So quite a few people started nervously eyeing the line of planes, waiting for one or more to veer off and start heading towards Canary Wharf. Eventually, it became obvious that no work was going to be done that afternoon, so she and her colleagues were told to go home if they wished. But to walk down the umpteen flights of stairs, and not risk the lifts.

Still hoping to see McKay and Duku on together, although I realise that this might not be the match in which to experiment. What's the news on Gardyne?

Well, if it's around 1968 or 1969, then I'm playing the records before the game and at half-time. The Dambusters' March, anyone?

Can't complain at 4-0, although I think it flattered us. Buckie just ran out of steam towards the end. One of things that impressed me most was Cammy Mackay's distribution of the ball. Better than Ridgers' - no aimless punts downfield (or off the field). Although I will accept that we were playing a different class of opposition today. He also had a few moments when he had to look sharp, so it's good to know that he's there. Hope McKay didn't injure himself scoring the last goal.

Doesn't look as though anyone else is helping. It's Burghead, where "Moby", constructed in Forres, was launched. Not sure I'd call that "east coast", but then again others might. I checked, and Burghead harbour still looks like that nowadays. BBC news article from 16 June about McLean - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-57482669

Not sure if by "east coast" you mean the same as me - and that could be a clue Have another go!

Early 1996. But what, and where?

Now there's a challenge! Took me a while, though. I guess you remembered that I was looking along the Dava Way trail when I was trying to identify what turned out to be Killiecranckie viaduct. It is Edinkillie Church and viaduct, from the A940 between Forres and Grantown. Wikipedia says that the viaduct is used as the symbol for the Dava Way, but it doesn't look like it from their website - https://davaway.org.uk/

Just to add my tuppence worth: Ridgers probably had more to do yesterday than he did in all three previous league matches combined. I do wish he could keep his goal kicks and clearances on the pitch. Just aim up the middle, Mark Walsh didn't have a good day, but in previous matches he and Carson have been very effective attacking down the right. Sutherland - well, I said earlier I'd like to see McKay and Duku on together. I still can't make up my mind about Duku. He runs his socks off and puts himself about - I think it's great how he challenges the opposition when they are in possession deep inside their own half. But he covers so much ground that sometimes he isn't where you'd want him. And, as Johndo says, he's not a physical player. I wonder how he'll do on heavy winter pitches.

I would like to see an experiment, of Billy McKay starting alongside Manny Duku, with Shane Sutherland on the bench. I don't think that Sutherland and Duku have established any sort of partnership, and I think that it's Sutherland who is usually the less adventurous of the two. Put McKay and Duku on together, and either they will click and score a barrowload of goals, or they will both go AWOL with no understanding of where the other is. The Buckie game is the best opportunity to try out something like that. Very pleased with the four 1-0s, of course. But some time soon we are going to have to score more than one goal!

In that case, I predict a 0-0. Oddly enough, I am sure that quite a few of us would take it.

One of the signs of a great player is that he can influence the game even when he's not on the pitch

It should be on Kilmarnock's streaming channel - https://ppv.kilmarnockfc.co.uk/ - but they haven't posted any information yet.

Looks like next week's game is our first "must-win" of the season I thought Sean Welsh looked really good when he was on. Another great shift from David Carson, too. Not convinced by the attack, though. Would like to see more people getting forward, quicker, and together - instead of a lonely figure trying to hold the ball up until support arrives. And it might just be because he was close to the camera for the second half, but I don't see Michael Gardyne doing much. He is the epitome of an older experienced pro - rarely running, but not making mistakes either. Usually playing safe balls - sideways. Would like to have seen Aaron Doran brought on much earlier to try to liven up the left-hand side of the attack, which was no comparison with Walsh and Carson on the right. But, hey - 3 points!