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It's clearly a "seniors" team, and that isn't one of the trophies that a Highland League first team could win. It's still a substantial trophy, though. The photos to me suggest late 50s or early 60s. Before substitutes, anyway - only 11 players in the seated pic (and 10 in the other!). At first I thought the ground in the seated picture might be Telford Street before the Howden End enclosure was built (I don't know when that was) . But I am really not sure about the ground. I have a feeling this is not Thistle. Even if it was a senior team, I'd have expected to recognise some of the faces - of the officials if not the players. As I said, that's a serious trophy! Could this be a works team, with a strip based on or borrowed from Thistle, or that just happens to look like Thistle's in black and white?

That wouldn't make the statement bollox, though. There is nothing in it which says that they are NOT examining the situation. As I've already said, they can't come out with a credible "full confidence" statement, and they also (I hope) wouldn't say "we are considering the manager's future". But I would expect that they are investigating their options, possibly with a discussion on the agenda for the board meeting this week, which would more or less fit in with the Sun's timetable.

Indeed - that occurred to me when reading all the demands for Foran to go now. There are 6 games left. How many games would a new manager - unfamiliar with the squad - require to work out the best team and system? Cue someone to start shouting "Charlie Christie now!!"

And exactly what do you expect the board to say? They can either come out with the "full confidence in the manager and team" guff, and get laughed at. Or they can acknowledge that there are problems with the manager and the team, and thus pull out the last few threads of the rug from underneath them. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Not if they get sent off in the tunnel! I said this the other day, and nobody reacted. So I'll say it again. If our players are as good as some folks here make out, why haven't THEY done something to sort themselves out? Experienced pros, playing at the top level in the country, should be able to see where the problems are, and then try to address them. I agree that the manager and coaching staff should take a lot of the stick, but the players themselves are not blameless.

So why don't our captain and senior players do something about that? Either by talking with the manager - and I do mean "with" and not "to" - or even making their own adjustments on the field of play when they can see what the problems are. Maybe I am being incredibly naive. Or maybe they have already done these things - I am not close to the club and I don't see many matches. But to blame absolutely everything on the manager seems a bit much, when we still supposedly have "players who are better than our current position would suggest". Presumably they can think for themselves - although I accept that whether they are allowed to is a different matter.

You will get very tired of seeing this picture.

Thanks, weeman. That explains why semi-obscure German marques like Wartburg and Trabant had come to my mind...

But the cat is now out of the bag. The negotiations will now have to take into account the possibility - 50-50 at the moment, if anyone still believes pollsters - that Scotland will leave the UK in the near future. If the UK government ignores that during negotiations then that will boost the pro-independence argument. Key to the whole thing will be the EU's attitude towards an independent Scotland. I would expect the Scottish government to be trying to talk to the EU as much as possible - on and off the record - over the next couple of years. The question is whether the EU will talk to them. Or whether the EU will be willing to talk about Scotland during Brexit negotiations, even if the UK government is reluctant.

Great photographs, again. So much detail - especially when you click on them and get the slightly larger versions. What strikes me is how little traffic there is. Plenty of parked cars, but few actually on the move. If I had to guess, I'd say you took them on a Sunday morning when the churches were in! Plenty of gas in the gasometer - must have been expecting a cold spell. I used to live very close to it, at the top of George Street. About where the wall of the car park of Smyth's toy superstore - next to the roundabout - is now.

Well remembered! I fired a few bullets in there, but never really got into it. Living up the road, I cycled up that steep part of Castle Street many, many times. Though Hetty's shop was a frequent stop. A family friend lived in one of the houses in the second row (appropriate!) off Castle Street on the left. You went in off the street past Hetty's shop, then turned left. I had no idea that they were, until she moved in. Quite claustrophobic- Castle Street buildings on one side, and the slope up to Ardconnel Street on the other.

Used to be on Tomnahurich Street, IIRC. I always meant to take a photo, but never had a camera with me. There used to be a Chinese takeaway in Falkirk - where my wife comes from - called "The Family Way". And somewhere I have a photo of a sports shoe shop in Nicosia, called "Athlete's Foot".

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I can't remember anyone called Billy Hogg! What year was he in, relative to IHE and me?

John Gordon was a long time friend of my father, from 5th company BB days. He stayed with us in Inverness a few times, including when he refereed the exhibition match against Celtic which inaugurated the Jags' floodlights. He stayed in Newport-on-Tay and worked for Keillers in Dundee. Remember that this was long before the Internet, video and DVD. Whenever he refereed in Europe, he would take big bags of Keillers sweeties with him. Just before the match, he would go round the photographers, giving them bags of sweeties and his address, saying "If you get any good photographs of me, please send me a copy." He had a really good collection! Dave Williamson I knew through the Thistle and also through the golf club at Culcabock. Lovely man. He was a leftie, so you had to be careful where you stood when you were playing golf with him. And everyone knew Jackie Sutherland!

I was in the blue one - Abertarff. In the picture, 2nd-4th from front - Jeff McDonald, Bryan MacGregor, Mike McKinnon. Possibly Alex McEachern with the glasses?

Posted this yesterday under Olde Inverness > Picture of Heaven, but maybe this place would be more appropriate. I promise I won't post it anywhere else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRn2D-FMzYs Rory Gallagher plays the Howden End!! I was looking for something else, and stumbled across this. Just over 2 minutes of silent colour film of Taste playing at Telford Street in 1970. (Wrongly captioned as being at Clach's ground.) I have never seen this before. There are a couple of quick sweeps of the ground, but you won't recognise anyone. By coincidence, today, March 1st, is the 44th anniversary of his legendary show in the Caley Hotel - my first proper rock gig. I thought they were all going to be like that! And March 2nd would have been his 69th birthday. Still sorely missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRn2D-FMzYs Rory Gallagher plays the Howden End!! I was looking for something else, and stumbled across this. Just over 2 minutes of silent colour film of Taste playing at Telford Street in 1970. (Wrongly captioned as being at Clach's ground.) I have never seen this before. There are a couple of quick sweeps of the ground, but you won't recognise anyone. By coincidence, tomorrow, March 1st, is the 44th anniversary of his legendary show in the Caley Hotel - my first proper rock gig. I thought they were all going to be like that! And March 2nd would have been his 69th birthday. Still sorely missed.

Which was the one where the landlord was refusing to serve Campbells*? Was that the Haugh as well, or somewhere else? * ie refusing to serve drink to people called Campbell. Nothing to do with tins of condensed soup...

Haugh Road runs from the Ness Bank Church out towards Bellfield Park. NOT the riverside road - that's Ness Bank - but the main, two-way road on the other side of the church. I always thought of "the Haugh" as being the area on the left if you are going out of town. I don't think I was ever in the Haugh Bar, though I do remember an off-licence somewhere along Haugh Road! My parents used to be members of Clachnacuddin Small Bore Rifle Club. Back in the 60s or early 70s - before the Club moved to its current range at Kinmylies - they used to shoot in an attic somewhere down the Haugh. I'm not sure exactly where - I'd have to wander round and see if any memories came back. The club's website says "apparently shooting in an attic above a pub", but I'm not sure about that.

Astonishingly - or maybe not, given what it is - that Land Rover is still taxed and MOTd. It was first registered in March 1960. In fact, its MOT expires next Thursday, the 2nd. Good luck!

Same with me, using Edge, IE and Firefox on Win 10.

Wow - thank you! I was only hoping that someone else would say "Aye, I remember". Never expected anyone to tell me exactly where it was! I thought K16 was a Mini - partly because of its height relative to the Minx and Consul, but also because of the line of the windscreen and its general profile, ignoring the bumper and roll bar..

Great photographs again, Second Row! I don't seem to remember stock car racing at the Longman, even though I was still around in Inverness in 1973. Earlier than that, my father and I used to go to stock car racing somewhere in the Black Isle - between Conon Bridge and Muir of Ord? Anyone remember? I also remember motor cycle scrambling at Lochardil. I think it was where Lochardil Place is now - just across the road from the Lochardil Hotel. Not sure if it was regular or a one-off. And the only time I've ever been to Cowdenbeath's ground was to see stock car racing - not the Blue Brazil.

Could sign him now on a free, because he has resigned. Although I suppose he could be in for a suspension by the FA.