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Agreed - I have that feeling too. Whether the break is the summer, a week, or even just half-time!

From the safety point of view, yes. It's dark, and the driver is more likely to make a mistake because of the time of day. Also more likely for conditions to deteriorate - e.g. ice forming - than improve, which they would normally do during daytime. Would you look forward to coming through Drumochter in the wee sma' hours of a freezing January night?

One of my first thoughts was the travel, too, but I was thinking of the team rather than the fans. Having to set out at about 10:30 on a winter's night for a journey home of 4 or more hours, every second week, would not be good for the teams from the Highlands. The alternative would be the additional expense of an overnight stay. You'd probably also have more postponed games as pitches froze after sundown. Both of which make me think that combining Friday night games with a move to summer football - often suggested here - could well be worth considering.

I'm not against it, but the obvious problem is that it puts us out of synch with club and national European and World competitions (except for Qatar 2022). Would also complicate things in the UK if Scotland and other home nations had different transfer windows. These are not insurmountable problems. But is there any demand for it in Scotland? Neither SP nor I are in the country...

Get the subs on now!!

Fake news!!! ? (You meant 21st.)

Okey-dokey - thanks for replying. I'll guess that the "well worded response" you reported last month was a more literary version of "Thanks - we'll get back to you".

Unless I am missing something, neither has IHE told us what he wrote to the Board, nor what the response was. If it was agreed that these communications would be private, then that's fair enough, but would be pointless.

Back row, 2nd from right, Murd Urquhart. Middle row, 2nd from left, looks like Kevin McDonald. So, first half of the 70s - 1974 or thereabouts? Hope no one walked on that floor with metal studs

Cheers, Scarlet. Another of John Gordon's stories was about a time he was refereeing an Old Firm game. The teams were warming up, when the pitch was suddently invaded by a large bunch of students. It was either Rag Week or some protest - I can't remember. They spread out and were running around all over the pitch, so that it was impossible for the police to catch them. There was no sign of them leaving the pitch, and, with the stadium crammed to capacity wih rabid OF fans ready for the match and/or a fight, it was potentially a very nasty situation. So John grabbed the nearest one, and asked him who the "heid bummer" was. (First time I'd ever heard that term.) Then he called the boss student across and said "I've got to get this game under way. Here's what'll happen. I introduce you to the two captains, and you get to shake their hands. Then you toss the coin. After that, you and your mates get off the pitch. Do we have a deal?". Deal!

Thanks, IBM! You had previously identified my Dad's bike as a BSA Bantam (being winched off the St Ola at Stromness). Now I know that it must have had a few miles on it before Dad acquired it.

Cheers, IBM. Does your book tell you that CST xxx was 1948, but CST xxy was 1949? That's what I am getting at - how you can be so precise. Not querying or arguing - just curious.

How can you tell? The reason I ask is that my Dad's motorbike, which I have seen only in photos from 1954 or 55, was CST 5xx (I don't have the exact number to hand). In the absence of a year ID as part of the number, how do you pin down a plate to a specific year?

Jessops in Sneck reporting a sudden run on binoculars and telescopes....

I still think that the Atlantic League, with the big clubs from the wee countries in W & NW Europe, could be a good idea. Celtic & Rangers were candidates for that. Don't know if that idea still has legs, or if it has died.

I understand your logic, but I don't think I agree with it. I think it contains great potential for public confusion about what is and what is not the views and positions of the Trust. At the very least, if an official of the Trust is posting here in a personal capacity, then they should make that explicitly clear. And maybe the Trust should discuss what their position about personal postings should be. If, God forbid, some serious disagreement should arise, you don't want to have a public slanging match about it! Enough already. As always, good luck with your difficult task!

You think? Are you not a member of the Board of the Trust? Your participation in this thread is evidence that the Trust has indeed taken notice...

Railway Terrace, leading to the old humpback bridge across the railway. I lived in a flat off to the left of the photo, at the corner of Rose Street and George Street. Our living room was what estate agents would describe as "double aspect", with windows onto both streets - and an excellent view of the bridge over the railway.

Yup. Just looked at a thread that I had started, and there is a "moderation actions" option at the top. Gives me the choice of "hide" or "delete".

Nope.

I'm not a moderator, so that's not for me to answer. I've just come across your crowdfunding page - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/solving-an-unsolved-murder The obvious question is whether your two suspects - whom you propose to name - are still alive. Likely legal problems there, I'd have thought. Even if they are dead, it's my personal opinion that airing all this in public before giving your information to the police isn't the best way to do it.

Is this you? https://www.express.co.uk/scotland/1004939/renee-macrae-disappearance-mystery-case-scotland http://ag.worldpronews.com/54302/3258/0/f8682cf4e205f230e1852993581ac70089c9d393

I lived at the top of George Street until 1961, and that doesn't look like it to me. It was a clear road - wasn't obstructed by a gasholder. Have a look at this photo. Rose Street runs diagonally from 8 o'clock towards the top right, and if you carry on through School Lane and the one beside the Old High, you eventually reach the Greig Street bridge in the top right quadrant. So running laterally across the photo, from bottom up, we have the railway, Innes Street (the white street), and then George Street. As you can see, it is quite clear. Looking at the relative positions of the chimney and gasholder in the original photo, it must have been taken between the river and the gasworks. It looks to me as though there may have been a lane running between Chapel Sreet and the gasworks - just to the left of of the graveyard in the photo, but I have no memory of it. Yet I think that's where the original photo must have been taken from.

Agreed, however he has now demonstrated how thin the squad is. In other circumstances, this would be followed by a demand for more money, to strengthen the squad. We all know that that's unrealistic. So I'm half expecting to hear "I've done all I can here. There's nothing more I can do.".

Bizarre thing to say. Presumably he's referring to players who were in the team last night? In which case one question is "Was it any worse than other recent games?", and another is "Is that how you encourage them?". If he's referring to players who aren't regularly in the team, then he's strengthening their case.