Renegade

Liam Molesworth! Seemed a bit of a cocky wee lad who scored against Brora or somewhere from what I remember in a North of Scotland Cup match. Was looking him up the other day funnily enough and I see he was at The Cove SC in the South Australia State League after trials with Kilmarnock and Bouremouth. He's now at the wildly named Adelaide Blue Eagles in the South Australian Super League (probably a standard akin to the Highland League).

Ryan Harper - Scottish striker/winger who'd only played in Spain came on trial in 2009 after not winning a contract after a trial at Partick Thistle (then in the First Division) and after at deal at Hamilton Accies fell through. He later went onto play for the Real Betis B team and is currently at CF Fuenlabrada in the third tier of Spanish football. Seems his younger brother Jack is or was in the Real Madrid youth team.

I'm sure it was Dinning that was on trial, and they were both favourites of Malky Thompson from his time as assistant there. All fell through when him and Brewster were sacked. Seems his last club was Bridgnorth Town in the Midland Football Alliance in 2011. Butler (who was once capped for Ireland), seemingly never played again after his release from Chester. He's now a coach at Doncaster.

Who was that fellow that was on trial when Brewster got sacked? A midfielder if I recall from Chester City, who then reported us to the FA for illegal tapping? It was then thrown out when Chester went bust!

Callum Morris - Monster of a centre back, who was only about 18 or 19 at the time and played against Clach at Grant Street after being released by Newcastle United. I believe he's at Dunfermline now.

Sam Oji - Centre-back who came on trial in 2010, formerly of Arsenal and Birmingham. Never featured in a friendly match though (he might have gotten injured IIRC), and was never offered a deal. Went on to play in Sweden, as well as for Tamworth. He now plays for Limerick.

Airdrie United and former Real Mallorca midfielder Jamie Stevenson came on trial in 2011 and played in a few pre-season games, where IIRC he was rather mediocre. Seems he re-signed for Airdrie afterwards and now plays for Cowdenbeath.

From what I remember about Kerrea Gilbert (who looked alright actually, similar type of full back to Kenny Gillet), he was on trial and got injured and Butcher told him that when his injury had cleared up he would sign him. He then went down and played a game for MK Dons and Butcher cancelled the contract offer. After spells with Yeovil and Shamrock Rovers (who's fans gave him a terrible write up), his last club was Maidenhead United. It seems though he's no longer there and has since disappeared into the mists of time.

I had the ehm...."honour" of seeing him play! He played at the last pre-season friendly away to County (and had also away to Peterhead prior to that IIRC), a few weeks before Charlie Christie resigned. He was quite simply, horrendous. Andre Martins was indeed signed up and then released quite soon after. Strangely, his next team was Goais in the Brazilian top flight. He was released quite quickly again though. Apparently in South America, he has since been revealed as a con artist. Saw him play in an U20 match. He was also terrible. Dachi Khutsishvili was on trial all season with the U20s but from what I can see was never actually signed. Looked promising though when I saw him. Here's another one - Sean Evans - An English-born, former Welsh U21 left winger who came in on trial from Manchester United and was apparently highly rated by Alex Ferguson. Played against Clach and County in friendlies in 2008 and was rather unimpressive and thus not signed by Brewster. Seems after being released by Man U, he went to Aberystwyth Town, AFC Telford and a few other low league English clubs. He's now at Stourbridge in the Southern Premier League.

Trialists. We've had many of them of over the years and while some were signed up and were both great successes and tragic failures, others have disappeared into the mists of time. So aside from those who were signed up, who else have we had over the years? How many of them them were missed chances? And how many of them were lucky escapes? I think we should go one at a time, it's more fun that way! I'll start us off - Vladimirs Koļesņičenko - A Latvian international attacking midfielder who came on trial at the same time as Pavels Mihadjuks. Brewster decided not to sign him. Seems afterwards he played for clubs in Azerbaijan and the Ukraine as well as two spells at Skonto Riga, who he is now chairman of! They also have Nauris Bulvitis playing for them as well!

I could only get the Irish and Russian teams up. Ireland had John O'Shea and a couple of the Russian players seem to have alright at domestic level, but nothing spectacular.

I see some of the U16 European Championship which was held in Scotland, had matches played in Inverness (presumably at the Caley Stadium and some were also played in Dingwall), so potentially some major players might have been in those squads, as well as some of the other minor internationals played here over the years. Could this not be the same competition where a young Thierry Henry played at Victoria Park?

HT - KFC 1-2 ICT FT - KFC 1-4 ICT KFC 1st scorer - Boyd ICT 1st scorer - Warren Time of 1st goal - 6 minutes

This season they seem to be on Tuesday nights with KO usually at 6pm. There is no entry fee, they just open the gate between the Main Stand and the South Stand and you just wander in.

I wonder if the club will do anything big for the 20th anniversary. There wasn't much, if anything for the 10th IIRC.

Dods and Brown were in it as well. That's the regular protocol in these games, to get the local fans out.

Also, how are things going at Ross County by the way? Seem to be on a one way train trip on the Relegation Express from what I can see! Unlike a certain other Highland team!

Shouldn't have fed the troll...

Just out of interest NorthofInverness2, why did start an exact same thread a few months back?

Well the main obstacle I can think of, is that Josh Meekings...happens to English. He also happens not to be a left-back. Billy Mckay was on the bench for Northern Ireland just last night.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone from the Scotland set-up never came up here. For laziness reasons more than anything else.

So many Negative Nancys on this thread!

Treading carefully, but I see if you go onto YouTube's live section, you may find a match featuring a certain number 7...

I'm sure Craig Brown came once in our pre-SPL days about a decade ago. Don't know why though.

*Think I'll give this thread a wee bump...* Attacking, entertaining, effective football More strength in depth than last season, with essentially all positions covered and covered well A more settled, stable defence than Celtic A striker scoring for fun (which Celtic don't really have, and also scored more goals last season than the "wonderboy" who left them) Top of the league and flying No team outside the Old Firm has won the top division in Scotland since the 1980s, but someone else is going to have to win it eventually. Just because it hasn't been done for a long time, doesn't mean it can't be done. It CAN be done. Will it be done is one thing, but can we do it? In all honesty, I think we can.