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With Queens currently 1 up on Partick, I would not accept anything other than a win!

With that team, I'd be praying for dense fog. I see that Raith have just scored. Did anyone see it?

Wow! Very different route, and it ends up at Liquid Web. No sign of Cloudflare. Have you moved the website, or was it always there but was "hidden" by Cloudflare?

Well that didn't tell me anything. Just had a very slow few minutes and then a 522, so I ran a traceroute. Hops 2,3 and 4 are at my ISP, Zen Internet. Hop 5 is to the London Internet Exchange, LINX. Hops 6 and 7 are to Cloudflare addresses. I actually got this at the very same time as my browser was unsuccessfully trying to refresh caleythistleonline - it eventually failed and gave me a 522. There is always a significant pause between hops 5 and 6, even when the website is loading quickly. Instead of a timeout error, I sometimes get an old version of the website - a few days old. Not sure why this should happen, because I would have thought that Cloudflare would have an up-to-date cache. Incidentally, I had to make three attempts to upload the image above - was getting "unknown server error", code -200. I have no idea if that is another symptom of the same problem. Sorry, but I don't think this will help much.

Yes, I too have been suffering long response times, and getting 522 errors. Do you see this behaviour too, Scotty, when coming in as a normal user? If not, that might suggest the problem is not actually the server, but something on the route to the UK. If I remember, next time it's bad I'll run a traceroute, and see if that tells us anything.

Virtually identical to Stirling. Both designed by an architect called James Miller.

The travellers' curse on the ground wasn't actually lifted, although they said it was....

And it certainly was a vital win - with Partick, Queen's and Dundee all winning, we needed that just to keep in touch.

Now 12-1 to Ayr after 25 minutes. Would be a good game to win

Just looked at BBC report. 9 corners in the first 10 minutes, with 8 of them to Ayr What is going on down there?

...on fourteen points.

See my post in the "Are we a Championship side then?" thread. With 27 places between ICT and Brechin, and 24 teams in each of the three lower English divisions, it's akin to a draw between two teams from adjacent English divisions. In other words, no great shock.

How many first-team players got injured?

I've cut the rest, but basically I agree with everything you have said. What I'd throw into the mix, however, would be my view that we'd be a yo-yo side because the divisions are too small in size. 12- and 10-team divisions are just ridiculous. I was thinking about this before the match with Brechin. Yes, we are in the Championship and they are in the Highland League, but if you look at the teams' positions and the size of the divisions, then we are only 27 places above them. That's only 3 more than the size of each of the lower divisions in England, where a draw between two teams from different divisions may be unexpected, but is hardly a great shock. And, harking back to what Mr Bannerman, late of this parish, once said, I find it difficult to believe that there is enough support and spare money in the Highlands to maintain two top-12 clubs less than 14 miles apart. Clearly, it would be different if the top tier had, say, 18 clubs in it. Now that we are past the fight for survival through the pandemic, it is surely time to look again at league reform.

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