Scarlet Pimple

Was watching the Rangers on the T.V (yep,T.V!) yesterday. Such a poor, hesitant team; Maybe some bright, upwardly-mobile prospect might be willing to cut his salary to play for a much more talented and spirited team with a brighter future. NOT! Why? Because the Rangers mystique is still a potent force in the mind of young players who are living in the past. The financial debacle and the poor quality of their players indicates that thy are nothing like the teams of the past.

Donview All IHE needs to do now is to paint them two round things black and he's off to the races. Cheering girls are then a given.

1. http://pacificforestfoundation.org/glossary.html 2. https://www.google.ca/search?q=Old+logging+practices&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE- Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=&gfe_rd=cr&ei=XRPPVNzyDaarmAL4gYGQBg&gws_rd=ssl 3.https://www.google.ca/search?q=Old+logging+practices&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XRPPVIuLIdjVoAS7kYDQDg&ved=0CCMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=453&dpr=1.25 Plenty of meat here to inspire and fill you with awe. The modern method of removing the logs out from the forest edge with the water is by helicopter. This is a helicopter especially designed for this operation and is a very powerful beastie. I think they use Sikorskis. These pieces of felled trees are very valuable and the process of stripping and cutting them in the sawmill is intriguing. Each huge log is measured in different ways and it is determined by computer where to cut and how to cut in order to maximise the value of each log. Then the machine goes to work and does all the calculations with very little waste left over. Cheers S.P.

SKID ROW ? And slops? Nope I am afraid you are wrong Laurence. I am not saying it didn't happen but I have never heard of slops in roads in the last couple of hundred years .. Seattle is south of the B/C. border some 100 Kilometers from where I live and is on the west coast of America. Like Vancouver, it has always been a logger's town. Their wood came from the forests of the northern Cascadia Mountains close to Seattle in what is generally called the Pacific North West , Vancouver is, of course, also in this region but more often called the West coast of British Columbia. The town of Vancouver was started some 150 years ago at a point on the North Shore of the Burrard Inlet coming in from the Pacific Ocean. This was where the loggers dragged their huge logs out of the forests and to do this they used huge sleds harnessed to equally huge horses. In old documentaries I have also seen large carts heaped to the top and pulled by horses. Also what looked like open trains on rails also pulled by horses. Thus these 15 feet in diameter monster logs were "skidded" out on the skid roads down to the water's edge where they were prepared and locked into huge groups of logs called booms. There are still booms on the Inlets and also upstream on the Fraser river where they stand until ready for moving out.....either to the sawmills up country or exported. The name Skid Row is synonomous with Skid Road in the downtown Eastside and is usually now refers to down at heel, lower class areas of the city fairly close to the water as in olden times. It's also strongly associated with drug use and alcohol in Vancouver and everyone knows where it is, in the back areas and lanes behind the main drag called Hastings Street. . So I will see if I can find some old photos of the logging operations. These Western redwoods and cedar trees grow to tremendous heights due to the Pacific rains and they used to cut them down by inserting long metal strips into the base of the tree and the men stood on them on either side of the tree and held on to the huge long saw handles which needed two crews to move them --that was before the modern invention of the buzz saw.

J.Hughes is not alone in this! He has to also be in concert with the Club management at all levels. And what do we know about their plans? Virtually nothing, apparently.What we need, possibly, is a statement of intent from the club? But, on the OTHER hand, why would the club risk an expose of their intentions and plans for the immediate future just to satisfy a few fans? So far, where is the hullabaloo of a general outcry? Nowhere to be seen? Most folks are sitting patiently on the sidelines watching and waiting--not a bad policy is it? It's sitting tight and not rocking the boat, It's showing faith in the upper level team and the absence of outright negative criticism is as much as saying ''We have faith in you". The latter seems to me to be a good policy at this stage because anything else will only be knee-jerk reactions. Which could harm the club because it could be wrongly construed, cause dissent and more criticism and put the focus on NEGATIVETY, rather than positive, encouraging support,. And then what?

Bright agitator.

I understand your feelings IHE and I think that you are not entirely wrong about the club's attitude but it's a question, IMHO, that the club is faced with the idiom..."you are damned if you do and damned if you don't". As for John apparently being unusually uncomfortable, my opinion is that his attitude reflected more about his disappointment at Billy's leaving and the disruption in his plans and what he had hoped would be a very good outcome at the end of the season as a result of his intense planning and work. At the same time he now has to factor in the Shinnie situation so what can he do about that ?He can't include Billy in his plans really but he can't exclude him either. And what happens if that scenario changes and Shinnie does not actually go to Aberdeen? That's more tension and uncertainty in his mind as to what to do in the way of transfers. So you can hardly blame him for being somewhat nervous especially since it is not his fault that his good work leading up to these players becoming as good as they are is cruelly turned against him in a sense and giving him a lot to think about? Time to back him unequivocally IMHO. And see if he can work some more magic. What other course is there to take at this quoite crucial point in the season. Cheers

I hear the words Summer Football bandied about on this thread and current reports. I also saw these words mentioned in England on a report I was reading from the Wigan F.C. site. Hope it bears fruit for everybody connected with the game. Ryan Esson summed it all up in his interview about the conditions today. He was quite diplomatic but reading between the lines the word appalling springs to mind? Comments please?

IHE, don't you think that with the lack of available resources at the club for transfer fees for GOOD players, who also have to have a record of sufficient flexibility so that they can fi in to Mr. Hughes' scheme, then your commentary against his explanations is a tad harsh. Also, this has all happened very quickly for everybody to really grasp the significance of it and the club can't be expected to buy in players on the supposition that any player, no matter how good or allegedly relentlessly-sought- after , will automatically be transferred on any specific day? So John's hands are tied until he knows the circumstances that he is actually faced-with. It all boils down to money-- surprise, surprise. Isn't that right Oddquine? At least, to be fair, that's my uninformed insight.

Rumour has it that Billy has agreed to change his name to Ernie for an apartment and a free train ticket to Inverness. C.mon, You guys remember Ernie from Wigan. Surely! As charismatic as OOR WULLIE.

Fijians don't eat raisins Roarer? They only touch black currants, as you rightly point out. The reason is that the blue die that comes off in the process make them look fiercer. Like the auld Picts painting their faces with daub to scare the Romans away. The current information on file, however, does not point to the hiring of South Sea Islanders 'cos there would be a commotion of they turned up in grass skirts when Tartan has been ordered to brighten up the new strip. Mind you...thinks...the girl fans might like it. Maybe all the screaming and shouting would arouse too much of the Grapes of Wrath though?

John in full flight , that's what it was. But the man seems to actually know his stuff and is on top of things. The more I see of John the more I like him. Enthusiastically speaking, or speaking enthusiastically, he has few peers.

Of course not! Who would be stupid enough o do a thing like that in public..?

If I were to believe the story about Shinnie burning an ICT scarf I would be shocked. Even if it was done in a jubilant, jesting mood it would show immaturity, a lack of caution and tact and contempt for his club and paymaster. And who is to say that at another club he would have developed into the player fans say he is because no two clubs are the same. Conditions, player personalitie , training and so on may well be completely different leading to a different atmosphere altogether. He should at this stage be keeping quiet, watching what he does and lying a bit low--after all he is still on the books of ICT and he is not an Aberdeen player yet...otherwise, many a slip between cup and lip could unhinge his career big time. Just saying?

Tom English is the guy who writes columns and he is an educated type of bloke. Love his critiques.... Just the man to put Derek in his place. But at least paying homage at the shrine of ICT is proof positive that he has contrition in his heart and a secret admiration for our team....not! Let's face it, he was there with dad to run the rule over our team . Must have been quite a shock to see how successful we have become. If ICT give County a drubbing well, now, he doesn't need to feel as bad and can contain himself. I'm hearing from my Scottish Pimpernell man-on-the-ground that Neil Lennon would like to come back to Celtic ..or, at least, he is open to the suggestion. Never thought you would fit into an English team, anyway, Neil. so ...who knows?

You just never know where the next gem is coming from. Maybe under a stone....? Just because they play for a losing team or a disadvantaged one, does not mean that they don't have potential.

Nope. Now we are in the top tier it probably would now be called the European Bayeux Tapestry end.

Now he is wandering round Europe looking for tips on how to improve his abilities. Nothing wrong there . Claims the histrionics on the park were pre-calculated in concert with T B and were instituted to raise the angst level and interest among the fans to fever pitch. Now he has called in at David Moyes club, watched training and asked his advice. David M. gave him a half hour of his time and advised that he should keep trolling around,. So, Dick Whittington-like, he shouldered his red spotted handkerchief on his pole and went off to Germany and somewhere else. Clearly money for air and train fares is not an issue for him--lucky Jim. Perhaps if he divorced himself from his father's influence he might get going again and turn out just fine. Kinda sad really! Fortunes of a football manager I suppose?

If you spend the savings on beer, IHE ,you will need 5P's so you won't see much of the gemme ?

Interesting post C.B. I started going to the Caley park about 1953 or 1954. At that time there was definitely a nursery there because I do also remember the Italian prisoners of war that worked there, probably from about 1942 to 1945, to whom my mother would give the odd cup of tea over the hedge separating the nursery from my back garden on Dunain Road. I also remember the name as always being Howdens and nothing else. Now, maybe some other outfit did own the ground that stretched right up to Fairfield Road and bounded by the Bumbers lane but what their name was I really could not tell. I think quite a few of the prisoners (of which, frankly , there were not that many as I recall) remained residents of Inverness? A list of names would be great to see and what contribution they made to the town would also be very interesting to learn about.

ICT Roughi Quite an ambitious thought that you have there. Another Juanjo would please me . ...

A tipsy Slovak, a sailor boy, goes into a pub in Hamburg, Germany, sits down at the bar, looks at the guy sitting next to him and says... "My name's Vyshinski - Vyshinski, with a hyphen. What's yours?" The Scotsman, also a mariner, looks him up and down and replies " a whisky and a steiner of good beer, laddie."

That's not a seagull, Ten4--that's an Albatross.

Was Vettle Andersen a Swede? Here are two identical twins, the Sedin brothers. They come from Sweden and look quite like this lad, Vettle. They play ice hockey for the Vancouver Canucks and one is the captain. Very talented and skilled but now beginning to age... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sFegqbTk3zY/TulsHoKOX-I/AAAAAAAAM2s/ibTRfbp9j2c/s1600/sedins1.jpg