buckett

A lot of huns greetin!

Can we PLEASE stop going on about a few grumpy guys from 20 years ago, half of whom come to games anyway, half of whom have left Inverness, and a further half of whom are no longer with us - while the rest meet in a blue and white telephone box on Telford Street or a black and red one on Kingsmills Road!

 

Anyone out there who has chosen not to follow a route which has taken Inverness football from a century of going nowhere in the Highland League to Europe and the Scottish Cup Final in 21 years is perfectly entitled to take that view. But it's equally clear that their absence hasn't exactly been a handicap.

In fact you could almost argue that once that kind of Luddite mentality departed, the scene was suitably set for real progress to be made.

 

Now if we could perhaps set Dougal's wind-up aside and focus on Hampden Park in less than 48 hours' time.....

Hang on now, has anyone actually mentioned any of this??

Except, of course, one Mr Charles Bannerman who clearly revels in the old Merger debate!

Move on Mr. B., let it go!!!

And yes, it IS becoming entertaining!

But hang on. Let's not rise to Dougal's bait. 

Hmmm!!

Would you believe it - another merger thread!!??

Well, they never achieve much but at least they're entertaining!

Just hope we can afford to keep him!

Quite often.

So there you go, County1966, nothing to worry about!!!

He is an ideal manager for a club with a tight budget, where the players are not superstars, and have something to prove.

He will bring out the best in them, so long as they remain subordinate to him. His way is the only way.

He does not have such a great record in bigger clubs where the players are less likely to look up to him.

I think he requires complete subservience from his players, which is consistent with IHE's cut-and-paste (above), to succeed.

Any rebellion or revolt and he will fail.

It wasn't a miss, it was a save.

I spent a bit of time watching him yesterday to see how he fitted in with the rest of the team.

At the moment he doesn't, well, not very well anyway!

He can't yet match the intensity of the passing game that Yogi has championed, which is quite understandable as the rest of them have had a whole season to fine tune it.

He strikes me as lazy too, or maybe not fully match-fit.

He does seem to be getting more aware of what's expected of him though and yesterday there were wee flashes of teamwork from him, something I haven't really noticed previously.

Still, if he can bumble around for 90 minutes and score a goal a game, that's good enough for me.

Keep him!

 

I always had a soft spot for Celtic as they were my boyhood "Big Team".

Not any more!

That was about as low as they could get, and I can't see how I can now consider them with anything but contempt.

Fortunately justice was done today and a major embarrassment to Scottish football averted.

Ironic thread title! There are plenty Inverness fans who have never had any affiliation for either of that pair.

Your casual reference of supporting Celtic but have changed to ICT suggests too much time interchanging clubs on a PC game - rather than having to literally live out the reality of supporting a wee club like us versus the sickening institution that is Celtic. The religion, bigotry, self-righteousness, and many more unmentionables, make that club one of whom nobody can be proudly associated. There is simply a HUGE cultural divide!

It is inconceivable to me that one day, you support Celtic, but the next, Caley Thistle!

 

Damn - musta been sitting at the wrong end!

Although I've generally enjoyed your posts Sneckboy, I am aware the vitriol is not far below the surface! But hey, even vitriol is entertaining!

I assume from your rhetoric that you're young and weren't a fanatical Caley supporter in the mid 1960s, like what I was.

Like many from that era I now despise the Old Firm, but hate one just a little more than the other.

Eventually I'm sure you'll grow up and be a wise and pleasant gentleman like myself!!!

I always had a soft spot for Celtic as they were my boyhood "Big Team".

Not any more!

That was about as low as they could get, and I can't see how I can now consider them with anything but contempt.

Fortunately justice was done today and a major embarrassment to Scottish football averted.

Falkirk will be much happier to have us than Celtic in the Final.

We have a pitiful record against them and the Cup is by no means won yet!

I just hope we're not complacent.

He's no the first top-scoring Caley player called Billy to end up at Wigan!!

 

Not really as I've never been wrong.

 

           Wrong again!!!!

Not ironic but a big surprise that it is Caley D's comment that has brought the older fogies like Buckett  back to life and back on here. I miss these former  regular posters and the challenges they posed.   Ha! Ha!  Good to see you posting again and you won't return to OOR WULLIE's seat  too soon again.

 

Sometimes a bit of extreme audacity screams for a reply!

Old fogie indeed! Thanks Scarlet!!   

Come on people....there's no shame in admitting when you're wrong 

How ironic that CaleyD of all people should make a statement like that!!!

And the bonus is that this thread has actually become more serious and interactive and there have been a significant number of sensible, positive and realistic posts - apart from CB of course !!

This thread I believe was started by a County fan on a bit of a fishing trip - first to bite big style was the poster you mentioned there (as predicted at the time by yours truly!), followed by a few others.

It has certainly become interactive and there is a bit of seriousness about it too. And a hooruva lot of repetition - most of the content of the entire 30 odd pages is pretty much covered in pages 1 and 2!

When flinging around statistics regarding relative attendances pre- and pro-merger for comparison, nobody seems to have considered the huge increase in the population of Inverness and surrounding area during this period.

Not, of course, due to an increase in breeding ability, but to large-scale immigration.

Unfettered by previous allegiances, the football-oriented among them would be inclined to embrace the local senior team, whether it be Caley, Thistle, Clach, or a combination of these.

Don't forget that at the time of the merger, Clachnacuddin was the most famous of the Inverness teams, mainly because of its stupid long name!

20 YEAR OLD MERGER CONTROVERSY SHOCK

 

Now that's something nobody ever knew about until the Telegraph "revealed" it two decades later!

 

 

Ignoring the irony, people in the Press & Journal area were quite familiar with the "merger controversy".

Not so in the majority of the wider areas served by the Telegraph and so this might be seen as an informative article, probably without the "Banner" headlines.

I never fail to be amused by the extreme reaction by certain posters on here every time the M-word is mentioned. Most however see it as an essential part of the club's history and are able to discuss it sensibly without throwing their toys out of the pram!

MERGER!

Oops, here we go again!

I was trying  to explain the concept of schadenfreud to somebody the other day.

This thread sums it up beautifully!

Well, at least we don't have to worry about losing our manager on this occasion!

Just noticed a very young looking buckett celebrating the Caley goal in that clip!

I remember that game well - I was flying out to work in the Middle East the next day and was quite looking forward to a midweek derby before going away. Turned out to be a right disappointment of a game and a quite unsatisfactory win. A win nevertheless and a pleasant surprise to see my old mate Billy Urquhart being wheeled out of retirement to score the only goal.

The people behind the goal don't seem to appreciate what a great goal they're seeing!!!

We can only do so well.

If we start leading the table for any length of time, or even second, we'll soon be waving bye bye to yet another manager poached by a "bigger" club.

Hanging in the lower reaches of the table will at least mean we'll get to keep our manager, but by then, will we want him?

Mid-table mediocrity is probably a happy medium.

However, a stealthy way to succeed, i.e. to achieve something without drawing too much attention from bigger manager-poaching clubs, is to win a cup. Yes, that's what we must expect to do!

I understand the plods were from Dingwall!