caleyboy

What a rip off. Why no nip down to Grantown - the Strathy Jags Pie and Tea is still only ?3!!!!

Let's face the facts folks. On our budget we will be doing VERY well to stay in the SPL and we should be happy with that.

Maybe but don't forget the Gypos got over ?100,000 for him. Dam good business I would say.

Just got a far better commercial dept than us.

The best interpretation is one where William Blake, who wrote the poem, is actually saying how totally crap England (well he should really have said Britain but under the circumstances we'll accept England) was with its "dark satanic mills" and all the other trappings of the Industrial Revolution. What Blake is asking is how much better the country might have been if Jesus had actually paid a visit? - which one myth claims he did do. Then in the latter stages of the poem Blake resolves to jump into his Chariot of Fire and sort England out himself. Clearly the Chariot of Fire must have had a mechanical problem during the current World Cup. Also, it's therefore a bit unforunate that the film Chariots of Fire should be about a Scottish athlete Eric Liddell. Probably the best thing about the poem is that it gave a composer called Hubert Parry the excuse to write the tune. It's actually not fair. England get all the best tunes but tag the most awful words on to them - Land of Hope and Glory is another case in point whilst all we get is an Anglophobic dirge by a beardie in an Arran jumper. William Blake was a member of what you might call the Nutcase School of English poetry. Another member was Samuel Taylor Coleridge who was a complete dopehead. In fact one day Coleridge was composing a poem called Kubla Khan whilst out of his face on some kind of concoction. There came a knock at the door and he spent some time speaking to a man from a place called Porlock. When he got back to his seat, the trip was wearing off and he couldn't remember any of the psychedelic nonsense that had been going on in his head previously. Hence (mercifully!) Kubla Khan is very short since it really is a load of meaingless rubbish so we have good reason to be grateful to the individual now known as The Man From Porlock. On the other hand Coleridge did manage to complete the almost equally barking Rime of the Ancient Mariner. There is also a connection between English poetry and ICT since Terry Butcher's English residence is in a village called Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. It was there that a poet called William Gray wrote what is known as the Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard - or Gray's Elegy - and Gray is also buried there. That's the one that begins "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." Sometimes these school holidays get a bit quiet...... :D Charles - you are supposed to be on your hols so you really should get out more!

Some on this site speak with forked tongue. One minute you blast the so called "sweettie rustlers" the next you want to ban the hooters! This bluddy stadium needs an atmosphere - let them hoot as much as and as loud as they want.:

But I remember Dougie Kay. He was a couple of years ahead of me in school and was the goalkeeper in one of the best ever Royal Academy 1st XIs in 1969 (despite what IHE will inevitably argue to the contrary!). The father may just have been a little too old to have played at Kingsmills with Murd Urquhart. Jock McDonald played his first game for Jags in 1952. I remember Dougie Kay, played with him in Inverness Juvenile League. Good keeper!

not sure what age davie will be mid 30,s? our captain and centre back is 36 so he might be same age as him lol Ur captain and CB is 39 sj

Maybe that fine idea could be reserved for one of the bars in the Caley Club. That is probably an even better idea Charles. A fitting tribute to a long standing supporter remembered by many, not just read about in the newspapers.

Hamish Munro's

Very good point OCG. I really feel this is being taken too far. This is very much a personal view but many many ICT supporters have passed away having contributed much more to the club without any suggestion of a charity walk, club tribute etc. OK, the guy climbed Everest and died in the process but he died doing what he enjoyed. Others have passed away in suffering, after a long illness or by tragic accident. Does anyone know how many times he watched ICT? Was he ever at a home game? IMPO I feel enough has been said and done about this unfortunate guy and we should let him and all the other supporters who have lost their lives rest in peace.

What position is this player from Israel? I hope we sign this Israeli boy and he is introduced to the fans by rappelling onto the pitch from a helicopter and then shooting a load of Turkish 'peace activists'. Aye very good, I'm sure our Turk community would love that! :huh:

In no way do I want to disrespect Peter's achievements but one of our longest serving supporters and I really do mean longest serving supporters, Hamish Munro passed away recently. Will the club be asked to honour Hamish in the same way? I know he didn't climb Everest but he was a supporter!

Two opposing viewpoints, but having known Kenny personally for a few years, I would have to say Don is correct as opposed to SMEE. My post wasnt a statement....it was a question....hence why it was punctuated with a question mark. I was exploring the possibility that he could be just another of sutherlands puppets, given his previous employment history! Agree with you SMEE. Knew him from another life so let's just give him a chance and wait and see before we build him up to be something he may not be.

1 big clue,iam on there forum? duh Quite right to support your local team Strathyjags. They are finding thier feet at SHFL level and they have some reasonable players. I have seen them play a few times and I feel the problem lies not with the players but with the inexperience of your management and coaches. They need direction, just the same as most ICT players. From the way Hearach blubbers his lips he MUST have played at a pretty high level of fitba so we better take what he says seriously. On the other hand, he probably wouldn't know what a fitba was if it fell in his soup! Keep supporting the Strathspey Jags - they deserve it!

When Pat Young moved in

I too relish the thought of TB dealing with the valuations of players in and out but will he be allowed to? If he does, what is the need for a DofF? OBTW valuation is now 2million pesetas because of new government. :D

You are spot on jaggie1994. I really do laugh when all the guessing starts and at the end of the day NOBODY on this board (probably even our FC Board) has the faintest idea on player valuations. Our record for selling players is dire and you can decide who is to blame for that. I really don't see it changing much unless TB does the business. Sorry but this is a nonsence thread so I would guess that our squad is worth 5 million pesetas.

Let's be happy with PL survival over the LONG term.

NO. Abotala Cola wouldn't move to that dump.

Oh Charles this has just revitalised some grey matter. Do you remember a Dalneigh dood by the name of Davy Denoon? He used to break into some army store in Raigmore and nick old tin helmets, daggers and much more. Many a time when I would be in my garden he would appear at the fence and try to flog his wares. I remember my mother chasing him off numerous times and we would later hear that he had been arrested yet again. From memory he had a brother Sandy who didn't give anyone any bother at all. We all felt sorry for his poor mother who didn't have much and wee Davy gave her so much grief. Some of the OLDER Dalneigh and Ferry boys are bound to remember the infamous DAVY DENOON! Where is he now? I saw him at the Dunfermline home game - in a camouflage jacket !!! No tin hat and sub machine gun then?

MOST DEFINATELY Our commercial department need to start thinking outside the box for a change.

A real Inverness celeb indeed. Before I went to Diggers, I used to go to Dunky Holmes "Salon" which I think was on the corner of Celt St or thereabouts. I would say he was more savage with the shears than Digger!

It's all very well saying these guys will have to take a pay cut but don't forget that they are not earning ANYTHING if they haven't been offered a new contract.

As did Craig McMillan and Xander Sutherland both ex-ict. As did Lewis MacKinnon another ICT reject :023: