Renegade

Ghosts aren't real.

Fully expect it to be off then.

This is increasingly my viewpoint. Seems to me, that some people joined the board, simply to say they were on the board and yet do none of the work. Also, I thought I was a life member (like everyone else). Now it turns it that I'm not a life member at all and in fact my membership has been taken off me along with everyone else. Sorry folks, but that doesn't really make me want to re-join.

I think one thing we saw in this game was something that I'd suspected for a while now and that is that Joe Chalmers can only play in a dominant team. If we're attacking, having lots of possession and generally in the ascendency, he's a useful player in the side. As we saw, he scored in the first half. In the second, when we were under the cosh and having less of the ball, he was useless and the game passed him by. I think against sides where we need to dig in - like St Mirren, Dundee United, Livingston etc. - starting Trafford in midfield is the better option if he's available.

I watched the interview with the Crusaders manager and he seemed very up for it. Claimed the match against us was one of the biggest in the team's history.

Someone told me a while back that it would be McDiarmid Park no-matter who was in it, but I don't know how true that is. Inverness to Perth is roughly two and quarter hours. Dumbarton to Perth is about an hour and a half I imagine. It's near enough centrally. Other options? I assume Greater Glasgow, Aberdeen, Livingston and Edinburgh are non-starters, so Tannadice and Dens would maybe be do-able but then you'd have everyone going east. East End Park would be a good tight venue for the final but it's far closer to Dumbarton than Inverness.

I know one - Claggan Park (it's officially a public park). The campaign starts here!

Now I haven't seen it back yet, but I see some fans on Twitter seem to think Mckay was hard done by for the red. I thought at the time he deserved it for gross stupidity.

It's only fair to have exactly between the two clubs - Claggan Park, Fort William!

Can I just say that Crusaders top is a cracker and I had forgotten Brian Jensen was still playing! Also, did anyone else spot the fire on the hillside during the first half? Wonder what that was. Oh yes, and in the second half we were mince.

Really? Belfast is a great place for a weekend.

Considering we weren't playing last weekend, I take it Robbo or Rice (or someone from the club) went to watch Crusaders' match against Glentoran.

I see the next Euros is being held as a pan-European competition which would be a bit of an anti-climax IMO.

Livingston went into administration a few years later. Gretna went bust!

So Alex McLeish it is. I don't necessarily think he's that bad, but it's such an uninspiring, dull appointment.

No thank you.

Claiming Yogi is our best manager ever is like saying one of Dundee United's best managers ever was Ivan Golac!

I understand what you mean with Baltacha (and unlike some of you old folks I never saw his ICT side!). But was he really any good? He was barely in the job to make that much of an impact. Also, whatever happened to Clacher_Holiday2?

I'm not opposed to imaginative public art but that River Ness Pier thing looked awful.

1. Steve Paterson - Took the club up through the leagues, playing attacking football and had a great eye for a player. Would we have ever played in the top flight had it not been for him? Maybe not. The backbone of his side lived on for about a decade. 2. Terry Butcher - Built two or three good sides. Played attractive for a fair chunk of the time and signed so many great players for nothing. He could be a little tactically inflexible and had a habit of blowing big games (like the 2009 relegation decider), but he advanced the profile of the club big time. 3. John Robertson - Promoted to the SPL in 2004, thanks in part to bringing in David Bingham who other managers wouldn't have been able to recruit. Played and continues to play attractive football and has a chance of the play-offs this year. 4. John Hughes - Won the Scottish Cup and a shoot-out away from a League Cup. Brought Greg Tansey back to the club that was a very shrewd move and played some fantastic football during that 2015 season. When it came to replacing players though, he didn't have the contacts that the likes of Butcher had and signed some absolute dross. 5. Charlie Christie - Certainly wasn't bad. Brought Don Cowie and John Rankin to the club and played decent football from what I remember. Had a terrible habit of talking the club down in the press though. 6. Craig Brewster - Was decent enough the first time around and *did* have an eye for a player...at times. Signed Ryan Esson and Adam Rooney who were fantastic signings, along with the likes of Felipe Morais and Pavels Mihadjuks though signed some dross too. Had the players fit but played boring long ball football and alienated the likes of Ian Black and John Rankin. Should never have been brought back for a second spell. 7. Richie Foran - Like having a fan in the dugout. Tactically clueless and signed some absolute rubbish like Henri Anier. Slightly unlucky in that some players like Scott Boden and Billy King didn't perform as expected, while I assume he had high hopes for Kevin McNaughton before he missed most of the season. Doesn't change the fact that he was a very poor manager though. 8. Sergei Baltacha - Only in the job for a year and played highly defensive football that finished 8th in what was then the bottom tier.

I remember reading a while back that the route was going to take the Clachnaharry route and then hook round where an Inverness South railway station was planned and then it head down the Great Glen from there, with stops planned at the aforementioned Dochgarroch and Lochend.

If you ever take a bus to Fort William, it still looks fairly intact. The route is now a cycle route I believe. Aspects of the Fort Augustus - Inverness line had already been developed before the proposal was shelved. When you're heading towards Dochgarroch Woods from Inverness and there's the turn-off to go up to Abriachan and Blackfold through the trees. There's a little house just off to the side that was apparently originally going to be a railway station. Just after that, as you head along the A82 and just before the woods, you can see where part had been built up for the line to run.

Funnily enough, I have no idea how true this is, but I was told a few weeks back that Transport Scotland are looking at a proper Inverness to Fort William line. The issue is where exactly the line would be. I know originally a line was proposed on the Lochend, Drum and Invermoriston side, though seemingly their preference would be the other side due to the need for less stops (probably one at Dores and another at Foyers). Another option is to instead have a line from Kingussie to Spean Bridge. I've often wondered in the past how viable a line between Inverness and Fort William would be. Surely it'd be really well used (especially in the tourist season), along with it being an alternative route to Glasgow and the west such as Oban. It could be another route for the London Sleeper too.

Nick Ross has signed for Romanian Liga I side ACS Sepsi OSK Sfantu Gheorghe.

Maybe we could play it and the Bus Driver Trophy as a weekend double-header!