buckett

The clue is in the name of the hotel!

Haha - good one!

You mean, there's ANOTHER Rooney???

I last saw him playing for Clach in a pre-season friendly in Portree. I think Clach were HL Champions then, so it must have been the year we first won promotion to the SPL (but it's just too late at night to remember which year)

Perhaps if the club had a different name at the very beginning, e.g Highland, it may have attracted a wider support - who knows? Changing it now certainly would not improve the support - it may even be detrimental if the new name is silly enough. Having said that though, I'd be quite keen on changing the name to Inverness Caledonian!

Very clever!

We seem to have a lot in common with Newcastle United, but I vaguely remember talk a few years ago about some sort of arrangement between Newcastle and the hated Elgin City! This was based on the rather flimsy common ground that both teams wore vertical black and white stripes. Wonder what happened to that arrangement. Aye, Newcastle United - great club, great support, but for years they've suffered from brigands, charlatans and chancers at the highest level and never seem to get the leadership they deserve - I'm talking about the Board here, not the team management. Yes, we have got a lot in common!

TB's riding on a wave of popularity at the moment after the success of the 1st Division campaign and I'd be really surprised if this is a genuine call for his resignation. More a heat of the moment thing. If we were well into the second half of the campaign and propping up the rest of the table, then maybe. But I believe, by the team choice, that he had perhaps written off this game as relatively unimportant and had decided to divert our limited resources to ensuring SPL survival. And although I don't like 6 goal drubbings, I'm inclined to agree. Don't judge him on diddy cup games - judge him on our league position at the end of the season.

Whilst walkeen down the street today in sanny Invarness I stambled on a baker's shop whose menu duhd ampress I wandered in and ordered, then the weetrass said to me "There's yer bah'ered scones, jawm donahts an' yer cap o' tea." Now had I crossed the ruhver and gone to the West End Chapper I could have bough' a con uv Coke and a fine Block Poodeen Sapper That is, of course if I could stond the teedyass strang of text "Ya wan'een sol' an' vanagar? Eny'heen else? Two-eigh'y! NEXT!" A wander over by the Haugh down to the Bellfield Pork Where local tennas players proctas strokes from dawn 'til dork These days, their treenurs cost the earth, the soles have rabber sackers In my day lads wore plamsoles, and the girls - punk, frully knuckers So there you go, my tale of woe it really is a putty That we should change what was 'the town' into a flameen sutty We should dispel that age-old rumour, source of endless anguish When people say we are "Best speakers of the Unglash longwudge".............Rite enufff

Inflammatory my arsh! Lighten up, mun. Ri' enough!

Or the bible!

Much better if he doesn't score!

What about a 20 team top division like we used to have and lump the rest into a second division of 24. That would be 38 games a season for the top division and losses from less games against the Old Firm would be partially offset by the possibility of more derby games. In our case there would be a half-decent chance of Ross County being in the same division so we'd have a couple of derby games in a season. There would have to be an opportunity for ambitious non-league teams to enter as well, at the expense of waste-of-spaces like Elgin City so we'd need to have promotion to and relegation from the second division annually.

A bit over-elaborate and in my opinion not a patch on Brian Thompson's sheep-sha**ing celebration of the umpteenth goal in a cup-tie in response to cheeky taunts from Annan Athletic supporters. Not bad though. :_thumbup:

Spot-on Scarlet, and I reckon the opening-day fixture is the best chance we'll have to beat Celtic - many of their players will have only just met and not fully gelled as a team. And although Lennon is indeed more intelligent than yer average footballer, and will i think become a very good manager, he's still a cheatin', diving, ginger wee nyaff!

Seem to remember Caley beating Hearts in a pre-season friendly in the 80's - although we enjoyed the result, I don't think we got too carried away with it. Don't think Hearts were too bothered either, being as it was just a friendly!

My warning was of course light-hearted but when you mention these athletes of very high body mass index, I wonder if these heavyweights doing the rounds of Highland Games at this time of year fit into this category - after all some of them are pretty heavy for their relative height, and isn't muscle heavier than fat? Shot-putters too, as an example.

Careful Mr. B. - bit of a 'fattist' remark there. You could be crucified for that slightly anti fat-b*****d comment!

Aye well - I suppose if the OP had been anyone else we might have! :)

Each player runs onto the pitch holding a child by the hand - what's that all about? Is it a way of mass-producing match mascots or is it supposed to signify something? Any ideas?

This is the sort of thing I like to see the club doing and shows we're looking to the future. Let's hope we see some of these lads playing for the first team in the SPL in the not-too-distant future!

Ross COUNTY

Perhaps they'll name the North Stand after him - the "Richie Hart stand" - got a nice ring to it! (In honour of the number of times he's blootered the ball into the upper rows of it)

Wouldn't have a problem with Hastings coming back - he was one of our most consistent and under-rated players.

Much as I hate the thought of Ross County achieving something that we haven't yet, I have to admit that it would be nice if a Highland team won the cup despite the fact we would never hear the last of it. However, if England won the World Cup we'd never hear the last of it cubed. Therefore, for me, England winning the World Cup is the worser of the two.