DJS

Went along tonight and it was good to be back.  It was quite remarkable how little has changed since I left in 1974 and even older people were saying the same thing - the same doors, blackboards, floor tiles, radiators, windows, cloak rooms etc etc.  Those who visited were given the freedom to more or less roam the building at will, and every corner you turned, or room you entered, brought back fresh memories.  Some wonderful old photos on display too and if one person mentioned MacLeod and his drinking, I think half a dozen did.

Several hours later, and back home now, I am struck how even after all this time I had a huge sense of belonging there when I went back today.  I must be getting soppy in my old age.  :003:

Two places my mind will travel this weekend

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St Manvieu War Cemetery in Normandy where my uncle is buried

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Gaza War Cemetery where my great uncle is buried

The trust are doing it because the club has asked us to help them in this way.  I have to say that by way of payment or incentives nothing specific as yet has been offered.

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Excellent news. 

I know this has been brought up before, and some of you may have seen requests about it recently, but do have a read and consider if you can help.

Inverness Caledonain Thistle is keen to put together a Ground Crew who would be able to help get the pitch, stadium and its surrounds ready should severe weather strike in the run up to any home game.  In the past, last minute calls for volunteers have gone over the internet and local radio, but the club is now keen to see a properly trained and equipped group who can be called out when the need arises.  If you would like to be involved please contact the ICT Supporters' Trust on info@ictsupporterstrust.co.uk or call 07879 221569.

Sounds like it could be worth a visit.

Buffy, just be glad he couldn't think of a suitable word to rhyme with Cowdenbeath.

Rankin didn't even travel to Ibrox yesterday.  I saw him out jogging at Inshes just before noon.

So does this perhaps suggest that Brew doesn't think he's fit or strong enough.

Even if he wasn't scheduled to be on the bench you would think he would be there as cover in case anyone got injured in the warm up. 

Seems like a scheme to try and keep Rangers at bay rather than try and be positive.  By 34 seconds past three it had backfired.

I think he's done pretty well thus far.  No points from our first six games followed by ten from the next five games shows progress.  I didn't really like the way he was appointed but I have no problem with the man himself or what he is achieving.

I agree.  Picking a goalkeeper based on which one is less of a worry is no way to go.

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The Maureen Mhor now known as Camara C and still plying the world's oceans.  Looks much the same as I remember.

Like Charles, I remember my regular trips for the old short back and sides at Diggars.

Perhaps my favourite memory was walking along Telford Street to a midweek evening game when I encountered Diggar outside the ground.  He walked past me and suggested a willingness to help me jupe into the ground.  I thought he was pulling my leg but in the end he insisted and gave me a leg up over the wall.

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the wheels have literally fallen off the ****y bandwagon  :sillywave:

Is that what they call a caravan through there now?  Or maybe a Transit van?  :015:

Wise words, MacBandy, wise words indeed.

In big games the atmosphere tends to be better as the crowd rises to the challenge.

Just as well they weren't bottom of the league, eh.

Charlie with Alex Bone - the new Viccy Park dream team.

that's what a curry hook is for, surely.

Oh yes, I remember the Maureen Mhor.  It wouldn't have looked out of place at Monte Carlo.  Other vessels that were regularly seen were the waterways work boats Wee Jean and Lochalsh.  Then there was the big lock lifter which was broken up latterly at South Kessock.

The 1969 Round Britain Powerboat Race is a vivid memory.  Muirtown was very exotic for a couple of days with all these speedboats sponsored by big companies like Bovril and Spam.  Believe some of them went aground around Fort George.  Funnily enough it's back in 2008.

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How bad must Preston Athletic be to have been beated by Golspie.  It will be a miserable week for Brora fans up there.

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Looking at The Mantis's photo it would appear that Fiat drivers are the ones to be avoided.  :023:

It certainly was just like watching Brazil - trememdous stuff.

Many memories for me reading all this as I spent the first 14 or so years of my life in one of the police houses just on the far side of the bridge.  I can still remember most of the people who lived in the prefabs there too.

Ross's shop was a regular haunt for sweeties and the like as was Donnie Matheson's filling station by the Muirtown Motel.

The aroma from any distillery I pass these days takes me back to the smells of growing up just across the canal from Glen Mhor and Glen Albyn.

I seem to remember MacBraynes had a depot up by the top locks at Muirtown where they kept their distinctive red and green buses.

Apparently you could ahve heard it on BBC Radio CUmbria who had a man there providing commentary.  :017:

Jealously is a terrible thing, Richard.  :023: