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In 7 minutes, the possession stat has changed to 53-47 in Airdrie's favour.

If correct, which I doubt, Airdrie had the ball for just over 30 seconds in that 7 minutes

Anyway, it looks pretty even now.

Oh, hang on, incoming..... 1-0 (Wotherspoon) 

14 hours ago, robbo1985 said:

.... we apparently now play our home matches at 'Scalding Rock Stadium' ..... 

Yes, it has been discovered that the water in the aquifer under the pitch is now superheated beyond normal boiling temperature.  Possibly due to friction resulting from underground slippage along the Great Glen fault.

IHE is investigating.

2 hours ago, Robert said:

Towns to rival Dingwall in Scotland would surely include the likes of Wick, Falkirk, Alloa and Stranraer. 

My wife comes from Falkirk, so I've spent more time there than anyone should ever have to.

Looks its best in a rear-view mirror 

And now I have received an offer from the seller, so that I can buy it for 35 quid instead of 40

... closely followed by a note from the seller saying that he will change the eBay listing "when he has a chance".

...INVERNESS CALEDONIAN THISTLE F.C. ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1970s / 1980s CERAMIC FOOTBALL MUG

...ULTRA RARE & HARD TO FIND

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155817633923

Well yes, there's a reason for it being ultra rare

I have sent a note to the seller.

2-3, and 10+ minutes to go.

How would Alex Ferguson describe the situation?

BBC:  "Goal! Arbroath 0, Inverness CT 3. Billy Mckay (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mark Ridgers."

That will be the one time per season that the massive hoof upfield from Ridgers actualy comes off 

Don't let Big Dunc buy any lottery tickets today - or he won't need a job tomorrow

2 hours ago, dougal said:

Having said that Big Duncs appointment has put shock waves throughout the football world a lot further than just Scotland.

Whole episode of Football Focus devoted to it.  Major European Leagues deciding whether to postpone this weekend's fixtures. 

The game will never be the same again.

Here's one of my Dad's photos from 1980.  There's a bit of a giveaway in it!

I'm guessing that you might have been standing on that bridge, if it's still there?

15 hours ago, Yngwie said:

I was joking about Warnock, for the avoidance of doubt! He was never really interested in us, it just so happened he’d lost his job when we had a vacancy. As I recall, he said he loved Scotland and the Highlands, and he would speak to any club who wanted to offer him a job.

Fair enough.  But I wasn't joking when I said it was worth a phone call.

Who knows?  He might feel he's getting towards the end of his career - might fancy something a bit different near the end.  Away from the spotlight of English football.  Even if it was just until the end of the season.  Might just catch him at an opportune moment.

Make that phone call!

1 minute ago, Joonya said:

People may laugh, but I think worth a consideration 

I personally can't stand him.  But I can't deny his experience and reputation.

His name might put the club back on the map and attract players who wouldn't otherwise be interested, in much the same way as Terry Butcher did.  (Though we might not be able to afford them just now.)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.  Nothing to lose either.  Make that call to him!

2 minutes ago, caley1 said:

... he was happy picking up his wages and disappearing to anywhere but where the team were no match day ....

.... and thus can have no idea how we've been playing and what has been going wrong. 

Sure, there are probably videos to study, but that is no substitute for being there, watching and feeling events unfold in real time.

10 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Dodds feels that there was a significant improvement and another blunder on the pitch let us down but we are clearly on our way back

Was he at Ross County as well, then?

49 minutes ago, Robert said:

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Well, we could do with a new manager, centre back, big striker....

1 hour ago, STFU said:

Communication is two way, and unfortunately the club are standing with their fingers in their ears shouting lalalala at anyone who has tried to communicate with them.

What's the next step?

Keep plugging away at trying to establish a communication channel.  That has to be the first and only priority.

Eventually, though, it might have to be a formal complaint - to the SFA? to UEFA? - that the SLO is not doing his job.  Though that's probably irrelevant since we're unlikely to qualify for a UEFA competition in the near future ...

16 hours ago, IBM said:

I think you are 

No, honest I'm not!  I don't have any notebooks filled with loco numbers, or photos of old rolling stock...

But the stories of the railways in the Highlands are fascinating.  There are the engineering challenges which had to be overcome to build them.  Just as interesting are the commercial shenanigans between the companies competing to build the railways and link places, and the financing by large investments from businessmen and land owners.  Not to mention the operational problems enountered, especially in bad weather.

On a personal note, I discovered just a few years ago that one of my great-grandfathers used to work for Highland Railways, as a fitter's labourer in the engine shed which was just about where Morrison's is now on Millburn Road.  He was killed by a loco reversing into the station.  It looks as though they had to clock in and out in an office in the station, and the quickest way was to walk along the tracks.

The story is here - John Smith - great-grandfather.pdf  The Fatal Accident Inquiry would probably come to very different conclusions today!

I had never heard of this, and neither had my father's brother, who was the only surviving person in my family who might have known.  But at least it explains why my father and I were both named "John ... Smith"

BTW, I am not a railway enthusiast.  But during the summer I was at the Bo'ness and Kinneil railway.  The station at Bo'ness has a second-hand bookshop, where I picked up two different books about the development of the Highland Railway for the vast sum of three quid.

So, given the hints you had dropped, it was a case of checking where the "branch line" going past a castle south of Golspie was - the Dornoch Light Railway.  After that it was straightforward.

The ruined castle is Skelbo.

Your second shot is from the layby at the north end of the Mound, at the top of Loch Fleet.

Your house is a nice holiday cottage just north across the river from the layby, 7 nights from £599.  Might be a bit noisy since it's literally next to the A9.

But I don't think it was the station - that appears to be the building that is a couple of hundred yards past the cottage, along the unsurfaced track.

Am Baile has a postcard - https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/27972/ - which shows the railway and the road at that point, as well as a "station building", which looks like a cottage for the attendant for the level crossing there. I think that is the house in your photo. Unless I'm going crazy - always a possibility - the road nowadays follows the line of of the railway, pointed directly at the cottage, and the old road embankment has gone.

6 minutes ago, caley1 said:

Seriously why are we allowing this dud of a manager to sign players .

Won't it be our "director of football" making the signings?

And the B-side:

3 minutes ago, big cherly said:

Fully agree here, 

Doddsie must be swearing under his breath why the team don’t stick to his game plan and tactics. What more can the manager and coaches do to get these players to carry out his instructions and get the results he deserves? 
Bc

Go on then - tell us what his "game plan and tactics" are.  And also tell us how you are the only other person who knows that they are 

BBC stats now say that shots are 15-8 in our favour!  But that we've had only 4 on target....

The BBC stats reckon that possession is about 50-50, and that we have had 9 shots to their 4 

8 minutes ago, caley1 said:

1mim 1-0 down !! Bye bye Dodds gtf and take that  controversial Gardiner with u 

What?  Did Dodds score it?