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It was 64 years ago today.     Were you there?

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One of my former golfing buddies was a junior in a law firm in London in the 1960s. The firm acted for Peter Sellers, who was madly protective and controlling over Britt Ekland. Sellers used to spend a fortune on international phone calls to the lawyers - not to her - asking what she was up to, and wanted her kept under surveillance at all time (the law firm refused).

Anyway, one day he had to deliver some legal papers to him. The door was answered, as in your wildest dreams, by Britt Ekland wearing a silk negligee and obviously little else. "Peter's away", she purred, "Would you like to come in?".

Reader, he said "No thanks!".  (And is still happily married to this day.)

Was in Orkney for a few days in the summer. Ferry from Gills Bay to St Margaret's Hope - lovely day on the way up, but wet and blustery coming back.

They really should tell people to leave the cars unlocked. You're not allowed near them during the voyage, but as soon as the ship clears the harbour and starts pitching and rolling, all the car alarms go off. And they keep sounding until you reach the other end.

Wish I had your confidence.

How many goals have we let in straight after the restart? 

And normally I would say that superior fitness should count as the game goes on. But from what I've read here...

Fingers crossed.

So how many are you Seeing today, o great Seer?

In Firefox, Tools > Options > Privacy takes you to a screen on which there is an option to remove individual cookies.  Selecting this presents you with a list of domain names from which you have received cookies - each of these "domains" is a folder which you can drill into to see all the cookies from that domain.

I'm using Firefox 55.0.3, but I'm pretty sure that this functionality has been around in FF in this form for quite a while.

47 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

We might as well call it Pittodrie then, isn't that the translation of what Pittodrie means? The hill of manure ?

I never knew that!

"Hills of dung are hardly unknown in football, at least in the metaphorical sense, but Aberdeen fans have a powerful affection for theirs. The name of the club's home at Pittodrie derives, evidently, from a Gaelic term for 'a place of manure'.

50 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

Obviously it will be whoever pays the most for the right to name it, but it's location at the Longman or the Firth could be used in the title.

Exactly.   "The Dump".

On 9/19/2017 at 12:57 PM, Caleytrue said:

As a kid between the ages of  ten and fourteen I did get to watch Ware Town FC who played in the Athenian League but that was hardly on the same level.  Their biggest day out was in the first round proper of the FA Cup having qualified and the result was a 6 - 1 defeat at Luton Town, but it still seemed glamorous at the time.

 I used to work with a guy - Steve King - who told me that he had been their Chairman for a while. Looking at their website, I see that he is still responsible for website admin.

He told me that one of the biggest hassles for a small club like Ware was a home tie in the FA Cup. The fans may have loved it, but  it was a lot of work and expense for the club. The FA published pages and pages of rules and regulations, all of which had to be adhered to. Proper turnstiles, a certain type of barrier round the pitch, a certain number of police in and around the ground, a match programme of at least <x> pages of a minimum size, with a specified number of pages having to be in colour. And so on, and so on....

Coming a bit late to this thread, because I was away last week.  My answer to the question is that it's in my blood.

My grandfather played for Citadel in the early 1920s, and was their trainer after that. He was also trainer for Thistle for some time in the early 50s.

My Dad was never a player, but was Thistle secretary for a couple of seasons at the end of the 60s, just before they won the league. Up until then, I had supported Caley, but no 12 year old kid is going to turn down the chance to see a football club from the inside. I used to play the records at Kingsmills, though they wouldn't let me do the announcements because my voice hadn't broken. I travelled to away games on the team bus. Two seasons of watching a free-scoring goal machine reach its peak.

After that I rejoined my mates, following Caley. Privileged to see a very fine team there, including of course the telepathic partnership of Chic Allan and Dave Johnston.

But, to tell the truth, I would watch any game of football. If Clach was the only game in town, Dad and I would be there. In the summer, we would wander around the Bught when the Welfare League games were on. My Dad seemed to knew everyone involved at all levels of Inverness football, so going round the Bught was a social event, as well as a chance for me to see past heroes from the Highland and indeed Scottish Leagues.

I left Inverness in 1978, and moved to north London. I used to watch Arsenal, since they were the nearest club to me. Liam Brady on his own was worth the price of admission, but somehow I couldn't get into it. I couldn't connect. This was simply not my team.

When the merger happened, of course I was disappointed that the two clubs, with their long histories and rivalry, were disappearing. But you often have to pay a price for progress. At the time, I promised my wife that I would take her to their first game in Europe - a promise that I was delighted to fulfill on a hot July night a couple of years ago. Let's be honest - most of the last 23 years have exceeded anyone's realistic expectations.

I don't get to many games. In fact I confess that the last two that I attended were the Cup Final and the Europa League match in Romania. So maybe some of you will write me off as a happy clapper.

I don't think I am. There is more chance of me growing another head than NOT supporting Caley Thistle - whatever league they are in. As I said, it's in my blood.

I see Trafford has been red-carded. Is it me, or is discipline worse this season? There seemed to be a lot of yellow cards in the previous games - even last week at Brechin.

2 hours ago, dougal said:

I've seen myself physically move from my seat to another if I'm unfortunate to have purchased a seat next to or in the close proximity of a jaggie 

Think if we are all being honest here we all know that the fools from up the hill should never have been included and deep down the jaggies know this too not they will ever admit it of course

I assume you don't sit in the Jock McDonald stand?

And ye're talkeen rubbeesh, mun!

54 minutes ago, Caman said:

Thoughts on above? 

Bit inconsistent to airbrush away the past, but retain the name and crest.

37 minutes ago, highlandexile said:

once the renewal process is completed we will open up again to new members.

Good news. Thank you!

28 minutes ago, highlandexile said:

If anyone who has been a member and wants to renew could you please DM me and I will sent out the forms if you ave not already received them.

What about taking on new members?  Are you able to do that?

16 hours ago, RedCard said:

If you have any ideas that would like to be pitched please let me know and i will pass them on to Graham. 

Not a directly commercial or marketing idea, but you could always ask if anyone knows what happened to Caley Jags Together and/or the Supporters Trust.  The Board really ought to know, because they wouldn't be able to have a proper shareholders' vote without knowing who could cast that 10% of the vote.

If it could be revived, an active supporters' club should surely be a positive asset to the football club - not least if they simply went out and brought more folk to the matches.

Edit:  Have just seen the post from a few minutes ago by highlandexile on the CJT thread.  Excellent news.  Make sure the Chairman knows - hope he can get together with CJT and make things happen!

1 hour ago, Charles Bannerman said:

who in practice would actually decide how the 10% would be cast in the event of a vote, and how representative would these persons (or person??) be of the parties whose interests they are meant to be serving?

Shouldn't someone, presumably the Chairman or the club secretary, know who is entitled to vote?  Would be interesting to know who they would recognise as being eligible to cast those 10% of all votes. Wouldn't surprise me if they don't know.

Note that I am NOT criticising any Board or official, past or present, for not knowing.  But if I didn't know, I'd sure as hell be trying to find out!

2 hours ago, johnnykanu12 said:

 Also talk off the concourse at the home end in the main stand to be made into a sportsbar type idea, toilets behind the west stand to be renovated, contracts with catering suppliers to be looked at and initiatives to re-engage with fans ie mailing lists etc to be looked at. 

So do OFW, Dave and Richie have any DIY, contract negotiation or communications skills?  Might as well them get them doing something while they are being paid!

1 hour ago, Charles Bannerman said:

I now realise that I should have amended these figures to allow for some of the shares, initially allocated to Caley, Thistle and HIE, being non-voting. That changes the percentages to (approx) Muirfield Mills 30, McGilvray family 14 and Savco 13.

Does the rule about having to make a mandatory offer for all of the issued shares, once you acquire 30% of the voting rights, apply to private limited companies, or just to public limited companies?

Anyway, as you say, it's approximate, so maybe they just have 29.9%.

I appreciate that it may be MM individuals who together own a total of approx 30%. But I see that Dave King was forced to make a takeover bid for all of Sevco's shares earlier this year, even though he personally didn't own 30%. It was adjudged that he and his mates , who together owned more than 30%, would act together as a "concert party".

Not "Milroy for manager" then 

29 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Are you referring to the bit about crisis management?!

In all seriousness, yes.  There is a fair amount of stuff there that could be useful, provided he learned it in a management situation and not in actual technical oil production. And provided he can carry those skills over into running a football club.

16 hours ago, Potandbrush said:

What does Graham Rae do and more to the point, who is he ?

He has potentially relevant stuff on his CV.  Hope he can apply it all to a football club.

https://www.nonexecutivedirectors.com/bio.php?transID=3192

11 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

I know that communication from the club has been poor of late but surely that high profile friendly should have been better advertised.

It was Sherwood Forest.   5-0 to the trees, whose pace and mobility we could not match.

Jeff MacDonald's millions?  Urquhart to pull on his boots again?  Milroy for manager?  Russell Cameron to pump in more from Muirfield Mills? 

7 hours ago, Scarlet Pimple said:

But at Tulloch it does appear as if the pot of gold has run out.

It very much looks like that. The fact that the Draper fee is not being made available to buy players speaks volumes.

Possibly over-extended the finances after the Cup and league success, maybe paying high wages and anticipating an upturn in income which never happened. Not to mention paying off one, maybe two managers, and so on.

However, if it were true, the board wouldn't say it in public, because that could reduce the likelihood of future investment in the club, and of new players coming to the club. Would unsettle the current players, and could encourage other clubs to start sniffing around.