Scarlet Pimple

Onwhat?

Ironic really! I was watching the Vancouver Canucks last night. they were playing at home to the Edmonton Oilers. The game ended in a draw on a taut note with Hansen , the Canucks forward , being thrashed into the net at high speed. His forehead hit the top metal crossbar and he was laid low just like Fon with blood all over the place. Carted off with suspected concussion he re-appeared with his forehead glued up and proceeded to play in overtime (3 players each side on 3.) and scored the winning goal after skating the length of the ice very fast..........unbelievable. In ice hockey the first team to score in overtime wins the game. Apparently he did not suffer concussion which has been the subject of great controversy in the NHL over the pas 2-3 seasons with huge fines and suspensions now being given out if head knocks are considered to be deliberate.

So long as he's not a poxey Foxy...; or a doxey.

Imagine playing in these conditions? Disgraceful ! No wonder Miles was beat when he was subbed. How can any team play at their best and entertain the crowds in such conditions? By the end the players looked more like rugby participants than SPL figures. Summer football is a must --for the players and the fans. Attendances would go up also IMHO. Why do the Scottish Football authorities hang on to such outdated and primitive rites, such as Winter football? Nobody benefits without a major cost, so why? Their penalty was unmerited. The Caley player could never have avoided being hit by a very hard shot and the player says he was hit on the shoulder which was what I thought as well when I saw the highlights before I read what he said. Mind you, our penalty was a really soft one also and how it could be construed that our boy was in a scoring position facing away from the goalmouth and almost on the outer edge of the box is mind-blowing. Strange how you rarely if ever see the ref running to the linesman to seek his opinion? Since they are both wearing headsets then can we assume that a fair assessment has been made on the incident. Mr. Collum kept his whistle in his pants during the cup final and it was a good performance from him but , once again, he still seems to be controversial with the bread-and-butter stuff and this business of levelling up, either to appease the crowd or just because he feels he may have made a prior mistake, is not a great, or fair, way to go about his business. He is not the guy to decide the outcome of a match; that's up to the players and how they perform and/or react to incidents. If he makes a mistake he should stop there and move on and simply try to do better the next time.

I would not rely on fireworks from Ritchie after he comes back . A bad injury to the knee like that takes a long time to heal and it willpossibly....(depending on what was done in the operation of course) never be quite the same again. So...it will still take time for him to totally relax.

Any chance of getting a date for that edition, Charles ?

What a gig from the man who wears a coat of many colors. Especially red and blue Such a lot of work and a quite brilliant tale of derring do.

Boasting.

I read that Vigurs IS suspended.

Yes! The British version equivalent is 4.55 litres, Charlie, but the yanks are different. I think it is 4.30 litres or close to it.

C'mn, stop boasting Charlie.

Well, you sure know your stuff C.B. I recently read that there was one seaman that met and married an Inverness girl. If there actually was one American seaman, then it must have been my aunt that he married--my mother's sister, who went off to America and had 7 children and lived and worked on a farm in Missouri where I visited some years ago. Can you answer me question for me. Do you think that's accurate?

Damask curtains still adorning the windows and walls, like IBM? I think some of that stuff relates to old world charm which some visitors apparently like but slow service won't inspire I fear.

Gotcha, IBM. Thank you! Yep, I understand that the Grand Old Lady is showing her age a wee bit nowadays. What does it cost to stay there overnight nowadays?

Now where exactly was that hotel situated , IHE?

Incredible pictures there IHE. Just to imagine the death that all those mines could conceivably have dealt out is a sobering thought.

Now Chas. Work it out --in North America, when he visited, they called him 4.55 litres. But I think that was probably more the fact that he wore a ten-gallon Stetson hat to his functions.

Whee! Hiro is the hero of the moment unless his name ends in ....hito Check 2nd WW.

a million!

Cheer

Aye! There's a lot of hot air around, Charles.

On the SPL webpage the quote is that JH knew Horner in the past and states...."good kid who has patiently waited a long time for his chance...". Fair enough, but.... one swallow may not make a summer .Consistency and development needed perhaps and time will tell. Apparently, took his goal well, though, so,,,, ?

Crossdressers

Thanks, lads. When I retired in 2008 I was 70 years old and I think I came over in that Month and I was cold as anything. No snow, mind you but a few drops of rain which is par for the course here in the West Coast of B.C. anyway. But I contracted the 'flue on the plane over and that made me miserable and shivering as if I was in the Arctic. My sister is an older lady who was reluctant to put on the heaters and so I had to sneak around switching the heat on when she wasn't looking then off when I heard her approaching the front door. And, you know, I did take in two tight games at Tulloch (no alliteration intended). So it will be May, then, if I want to see games. Cheers.

Which month in Inverness is best for good weather for a Pimpley fella to visit? May, June, July?