Scarlet Pimple

Could be! I saw a video about the selection process by Celtic for bringing over young lads from Ireland and it was rigorous and challenging and there were a few tears when the final selections were announced. They had a fairly small group of, say, 6 or 7 young players and at least two, if not three, had to go back home after the testing and training had completed. Interesting though.

Renegade So do you think that Greenhalgh is not as fit as the other first team players?

It had to be a pigeon because the radio commentators said it was and it had toes that were turned in. Many North American Indians also have turned in toes...mostly because some of them only speak Pigeon English.

Anyone who seeks to injure an inoffending animal deserves the bird from the crowd. What happened to the pigeon eventually?

Laurence --I really did not anticipate such an ent-erprising post. Next time can we keep it in a football vein though and refer to Ernie ENTwhistle from Wigan?

http://www.google.ca/search?q=lake+monster+in+British+Columbia,+Canada.&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gws_rd=cr&ei=xNkHUrLrAcTuyQH3qoHoDw Bughtmaster: there is a Lake Monster in one of the Northern Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, named OGOPOGO. Has very similar phuysival features to the Loch Ness Monster and appears to actually exist.. But the one in Canada that I like best is "The LAKE GUARD" illustration on the website of www.destiniesinmotion.com (see under the heading Illustrations). What a fearsome beastie he is...

So, really, you are hinting at Inverness being a kind of backwater -- like Sleepy Hollow ? I think all the things mentioned are contributing factors and it's a nice place to live, albeit sometimes too cold for my liking, so maybe the inhabitants are just a bit too laid back and content with their lot or something.. Anyway, do the Dingwallian statistics include babies ("the population of Dingwall" ) by any chance? Whatever, they will always unavoidably remain Ding-A-Lings..

Biggin the Beguine. Ha!

Fraz....NOOO! You had me fooled for a moment.

Terry sounded really animated in his interview. Says Richie's "bad" tackle was not deliberate. He also said his goal for the end of the season was to "still be here." Should we read anything into that other than a spur -of- the- moment response, I wonder? Certainly, if this form continues for any length of time, there will be a few clubs from down south which will again be eyeing him up with serious intent. This season has started very well and could become very interesting indeed. Fully vindicates his hard pre-season training sessions , it seems.

Sudden death, like , eh, Renegade? Has its merits I must admit but it will probably never happen due to the influence of the Old Firm. What are the origins of the name Gala Fairydean? Nothing to do with defrocked priests has it by any chance.?

OCH!

The factor probably is a sense of isolation and independence borne out of the knowledge that being quite far North in the U.K. they will never be taken that seriously or even helped to any great extent by their southern neighbors. Relative remoteness develops sturdy and self-reliant independence like nothing else. e.g. Eskimo or, as they say in Northern Canada, the INUIT nation. Imagine Kirkwall having an SPL team and trying to make ends meet? I think that probably for any foreseeable future the football buck will now stop at Dingwall as far as any expansion is concerned. Which means that us northerners will always be reluctant to identify too closely with any one entity or team, even the home team. "Wha's like us? " has never resonated so well as in Inverness , the capital of the Highlands! Also, most football teams in the U.K.are related to, or based in, larger cities with a more concentrated population so don't need such a wide catchment area as Caley Thistle perhaps. Any thoughts on this ?

Fraz. Sorry, I disagree . Scottish Football needs a resurgence of interest and perhaps lower prices not a re-appearance of "The Rangers" who attracted incorrect decisions in their favour, too much money out of the pot and a host of other negative things. If they can crawl back into the top flight so be it but help them.? Heh, we have never had such an opportunity to get out from under the stupefying shadow of the big as we do at this juncture of the emergence and flowering of the new Scottish Football model "One for all and all for one. Without them we have more space to expand and grow stronger IMHO. The next big team will be the Pride of the Highlands ...ICT.

Desperation is a harsh taskmaster Draganict.

Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!

Alex "Daan Saff"? Do I hear a yankee drawl in there?

A Troll --Old Norse /Swedish.. Oxford Englandterre Dictionary states : From Scandinavian Folklore: Fabulous being, especially a giant or dwarf dwelling in a cave, OR To sing out carefree jovial manner . OR To Fish by drawing bait along in the water.. That's not so bad then, so we can now all relax.

The pavement in North America means the roadway whereas the sidewalk means exactly that , the pavement (if you get my drift). There are no streetcars there any more unless San Francisco still runs a few for the tourists but the word sounds much more exciting than trams doesn't it? I mean. Hollywood would never name a film "A tram named Desire" would they? Suspenders are almost out with hankies on heads on the Brighton beach but may be still worn in the Deep South where the residents' slow drawl matches the speed of their brains whilst they dive into muddy rivers to extract mighty mud -dwelling fish that only a navvy could lift on a good day after he has had a good sleep. or... eat countless buckets of Kentucky Fried chicken washed down with Budweiser in gallons. Oh, and men no longer wear hats in public, maybe the beautiful Stetson when on a hoss or on their ranch though and that's it. As for stadiums, the Americans never build small and some of them are beautiful and meant to hold up to a hundred thousand fans .When they do something (in Canada also) they do it in style and Yanks are outward -looking and not afraid to put their money where their mouth is and for this I have to admire them-- they sure have panache and drive, and money of course. Mind you, jazz emanated from that area so there is a lot of talent there, especially in N'Orleans. The American civil war which started at Fort Sumpter , just off the Southern coast of S. Carolina, was also a product of the intense inward -looking thinking of the Southerners, and ultimately took 600,000 lives which, at that time, was the most deaths ever suffered in any war ever fought up to that time. Needless to say, the carnage and misery wrought was "something else" and the South never recovered from it ,so unique prejudice still remains in much of that area even to this day. Believe it or not, there is a lot to be said for spelling words to reflect the way they are spoken but if you are a newbie from Great Britain you will have a hard time figuring it all out , especially when you have to decide which language to use when you write a book like www.destiniesinmotion.com because, with America being probably the largest market in the world one has to choose horses for courses and that is why the Americanised spelling is generally adopted for communication.

Donview-- dedication spelled "incredible".

BBC Blinking Biased Chums.

Oh My! I see Dougal - bashing is still a popular sport on here. Nasty like. Not civil. NOT COOL. If the poor lad doesn't have a thick skin by now then he soon will have. Gotta hand it to him though--he's a stickler and NOT a quitter. Funny how it's cool to target someone who gets kicked around a lot but rarely retaliates. C'mon, let's all grow up and allow him to speak his mind. As IHE says, we should listen to him and consider his words . And no, he is NOT a troll, anymore than the persons who accuse him of being one, are. That's abusive! If you want to target someone have a go at Scarlet because even I sometimes think he is a moron. Except when he is asleep when he looks angelic and deep down inside I really loooooove my little Scar-baby. O.K back to the pipe and slippers. Daddy Pimpernel. P.S. ICT spent a huge amount of money on injuries last season and have had to cut the budget right back this year. Advertising costs a lot of money to be effective-i.e. repeated several times a year, to be truly effective. We have a full roster with a large wage bill and no appreciable increase in the support it seems. So, where is all the advertising expenses going to come from I wonder?

I don't think even D Moyes, the new Manager of Manchester United , would be able to pull this chestnut out of the fire now. Sometimes lessons have to be learned the hard way and it's Rangers turn now and no mistake. It simply doesn't look as if it is sinking in yet that if there is much more of the baloney that is currently surrounding Ibrox these days and even the faithful will turn against them. All propriety and dignity seems to have exited the main gate along with integrity. And contempt must surely soon follow the sadness that dwelleth therein. Laurence, sorry, but if you think this charade of a team now will be welcome in the new SPL I am not at all sure of that my friend.

They should perhaps get used to it because the ownership/managership issues are settled there will be a lot more from the windbags.

Govan Jaggie's down to earth common sense enters with a breath of fresh air.