dougiedanger

Sevco were not relegated, they are a new club for whom the rules were manipulated to ensure them a place in the SFL. Likewise they were not "banned" form playing in Europe--as a new entity they will have to wait three years to be eligible, as dictated by UEFA rules.

Sign of a good manager to bring young players through the ranks. Not sure if Butcher if it's really Butcher's thing, don't think he goes to youth games.

Don't forget the erse lickers.

What or who was Kinmylies House for? I remember in the 80s the residents there seemed quite harmless and contented older men.

No, I would not say that interpretation is accurate.

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but seems to be of direct interest to ICT. http://www.splfansunited.com Welcome to SPL Fans United. Posted on March 4, 2013 The purpose of this campaign is very straight forward. NO MORE NO MORE We believe that the Scottish Football Association is not fit for purpose and it is time for SPL fans to tell their clubs that the SFA as a sports regulator has failed totally. The SFA should be torn down and rebuilt or the SPL should ask the SFA for permission to merge with a league in another country. UEFA has intimated that it is willing to look at changing the footballing map of Europe and our clubs who comprise the top flight in Scotland must be alive to those possibilities. The way Rangers demise was handled by the SFA showed gross incompetence and not for the first time. Rangers were not the problem last year it was the way the SFA handled the situation. That club went bust, but the SFA lacked the courage and moral fibre to do the correct thing for the good of the Scottish game as a whole. Basically the SFA are incompetent! The SPL is dying on its feet because of the SFA’s failure to properly nurture and promote the Scottish game in general and its showcase league in particular. We are now in a position that Aberdeen the last Scottish club to win a European trophy-cannot financially compete with Bournemouth for Ryan Fraser’s signature. This position of the SPL in Scotland is now untenable. We as fans must also ask the question. What is the point of any league reconstruction when the game will still be under the mismanagement of the same SFA? Fans of many SPL clubs are angry not at the Nimmo Smith judgment but that the outcome was decided by the SFA’s evidence. A decade of “deliberately non-disclosed payments” did not mean players were ineligible according to the SFA. Stewart Regan has now asked for people to “move on” yet the SFA are the appellant body if the SPL would appeal that deliberation. So the Chief Executive of the SFA has already prejudiced that. We also have the problem of President Ogilvie. Any association worth their salt would have asked Mr Ogilvie to take gardening leave but the SFA did not. He is now seeking re-election with Mr Regan backing him. Mr Turnbull Hutton said on the steps of Hampden that the game in Scotland was corrupt it is also incompetently run. Many SPL fans feel-after the LNS judgement that the league was rigged for a decade and there has been no real justice, many fans may just walk away and take their money with them. The No To Newco campaign last year showed that the SPL clubs that they have to listen to their fans. We believe the SPL must now engage with their fans. The SPL clubs as a whole must state that they believe the SFA is not fit for purpose. The time for task force reports and reform is over. The SFA under Regan was the last chance and that opportunity was lost amid the Rangers shambles. The SPL for the good of the whole Scottish game must seek a new environment to play in. Sticking with the current SFA is the road to ruin. So help us push for change and be part of the future. The SPL need to look for a new home. SPL Fans United!

1) Who gives a f**k? 2) Who gives a flying f**k? 3) Why would anyone give a sh*t?

our not are FFS.

Not like the SFA to cover their sorry a*ses at any cost.

The telford street twins making a comeback.

Rangers were not "demoted". The club was liquidated and Green formed a new one, for which rules were bent to make sure it entered the Scottish League.

Could someone get the artist to PM me please.

Whichever way you look at it, to sell two prime sites in the centre of Inverness and only end up with a half-built stadium at the dump doesn't seem like that great a deal.

Seems like the real issue here is not so much the numbers of so-called refuseniks, but the far higher numbers of people who are completely indifferent to ICT, those who don't care either way about the club. Whatever spin is put on the attendances, it is rare to find in any footballing city such as Inverness such a high proportion of the population who could not give a toss for its football club.

BM I am virtually certain that the Serafinis had the West End Chip Shop opposite the Tarry Ile. I've been trying to pair Inverness-Italian families with their establishments with only partial success. Can anyone help? Serafinis - West End chipper. Salvadoris - Greig St cafe. Coffrinis - Ness Cafe. Pagliaris - wee blue ice cream van with the Harry Lime tune. ????? - Locarno Bernardis - shop at the bottom of Stephen's Brae. Turrianis - ?????? ????? - Rendezvous. Guibarellis - Bught then the Hilton chippie. Also, was the Locarno the one on Adacemy St that opened through into the market as well or was it the one up nearer the Phoenix? In that case, what was the "other" one? And who owned the Academy St chipper? Were the local branch of the Rizzas also active in the business in Inverness? As far as I am aware, the only Italian family still in the food retailing business is the Guibarellis at Hilton because after Mike died last year the son took it over. What a loss all these establishments are to Inverness culture and what a huge part they played in the middle years of the 20th century. When I was in the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden a few years ago I came across an audio interview of I THINK Scotty Bernardi describing playing football whilst in internment on the Isle of Man during WW2. In 1940 Churchill simply said "collar the lot" and every single British resident of Italian and German extraction was interned on the spot, including, one supposes much of the Inverness Italian community who had been here for years. Forgot this lot: The Bannermanis - various supermarket caffs, e.g. Lipton's, Coop (Montague Row), Presto's, Safeway (Academy Street--sadly missed). When ye think about it, the Italians introduced a whole lot of junk food to town--wonder what the Sneckites did for quick foods before that?

The page would be far better if you/they dropped the rabid bitter ex-hun content. Such tripe besmirches the name of Caledonian FC. And fair play to you for getting so up to speed with things, having spent the time of the merger in 'Nottingham'.

You should keep better company DC. Bit unfair, as there are many so-called refuseniks who grew up with a real attachment to the old clubs, and who are 100% football people and all round good c**ts.

Canyon ripping AD a new one.

Agree....would love to see that as a gif On the plus side, it's good to see wet look hair gel has arrived in Dingwall.

The excitement when the new club book came in and ye went straight to the toys section. Yer older mates thinking they're cool c**ts telling ye they're ain't no santy clause. Everyone's hoose done up like Santa's grotto--no tasteful decs in the 70s. Getting the Scotland home and away kits in 77, just in time fer Argentina. Raspberry cordial as a treat fer the bairns. Having absolutely no memories of Christmas dinner until ye were about 13 and ye had yer first few glasses of wine. Mild Christmas Days, no white Christmases in the 70s, except maybe 77. Yer parents no hitting the bevvy at Christmas, insisting it was "the bairns' time." Yer parents absolutely rat arsed at New Year. You absolutely rat arsed at New Year.

"Hank Marvin FC--always in the shadows."

Some amount of biggots on here.

"Rangers" don't exist any more, which is pretty nice.

That you Charles?