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Scarlet, roughly what time (year) are you thinking about? And was the car new or not?

The Vauxhall 10-4 and 14-6 from the 1940s - see below - have your "flat back", but I suspect the flutes on the bonnet are not your type.

38 minutes ago, CableGuy said:

 Always feel we come off the back of a break looking sluggish too

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

37 minutes ago, CaleyD said:

Is setting off at 10:30pm for a journey home really any worse than setting off at 8am for a journey there?  Swings and roundabouts. 

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?

5 minutes ago, Stirling Observer said:

I really like Friday night games but it needs to be a fixture where both sets of fans have less than an hour to travel.

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.

5 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

Caman is right. Summer football will save the team  and others. So what's stopping the Beaks from at least trying  the changeover?

Are they inflexible ? Are they stuck in the mud of their dotage.?

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!!

20 minutes ago, CaleyD said:

UPDATE : ICTFC : SLO

The ICT Supporters Trust met with the football club on Friday 31st September

Fake news!!!  

(You meant 21st.)

2 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Well the reason is that I have not as yet received a response. If the comments are being read I would suggest that it could take time to digest and it would be impossible to answer all the concerns. I will give it some more time but will let people know whatever the outcome.

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". 

50 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Nor had I but that is hardly surprising since the club communicate next to nothing these days.

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.

58 minutes ago, SMEE said:

This must have been before my time. I dont recognise any. Then again, for the most part, i only really recognise old Caley players, from about 1978 onwards

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.

2 minutes ago, IBM said:

I have always been interested in all road transport since I was a young boy including registration numbers and I have a book to confirm what I don't know which I have to check for older vehicles.

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. 

2 hours ago, IBM said:

An Austin K2 registered in 1948.  

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?

1 hour ago, Caman said:

If this goes viral, TCS will be sold out and wall to wall women today with the prospect of that happening. 

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!

3 hours ago, Glover said:

I think the Supporters Trust will have taken notice of this thread...

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.

18 minutes ago, RiG said:

I think that the thread author can also close / delete threads as well BTW.

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".

5 minutes ago, Stuart Goodacre said:

Did you know the MacKenzies or their son?

Nope.

4 minutes ago, Stuart Goodacre said:

Is it okay to post here asking for this?

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.

10 hours ago, DoofersDad said:

That is why I am just so disappointed to hear him making such unjustified criticism of his young players in order to deflect the blame from where it so clearly lies - with himself.

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.".