dougiedanger

If that Mr Goodall lived up the Leachkin he was a good friend of my granda (he offered to leave his house to my granda, who refused being a stubborn Merkincher).

The very same. I remember going to an old house about half way up Leachkin Brae to interview him for the BBC about 25 years ago and he was about 93 then. He must have been born about 1892 so probably played for the Clach team which my Highland League handbook tells me won the League in 1911-12 (three years after Citadel, to bring this thread back on topic!) Mind you, if I recollect the state of the house, I don't think your granda missed out on much!

Thanks Charles. My granda would cycle up the "Lachkeen" to visit DG, but must have been around 15 years younger than him, going by your dates. DG's house must have been like my granda's then! No B&Q back in those days.

My granda actually played for Citadel in the 30s, but is not in that photo.

By the way, it's hard to believe that IRA photo was taken in 1970. The swinging sixties must have by passed that lot.

Im not sure...but i think back row...second from left....might be Hitler

Nah.. it's John Cleese!! Hitler, chancing little Austrian git, was busy remilitarising the Rhineland in 1936... and bricking it at the black athlete Jesse Owens winning Olympic titles.

Intriguing tale though behind Citadel (aka The Sheepbags since their ground was right beside the slaughterhouse at the far end of Shore Street). They won their one and only Highland League title in 1909 but for a short time were one of no fewer than SIX Inverness teams in the Highland League - the others were Camerons and Union which I think eventually became part of Jags. (And we are now struggling to sustain one :irritated: )

Anyway... my dad was born in 37 Shore Street in 1920 and lived there and in No 7 until 1932. He had a clear recollection of Citadel which went defunct a few years later.

I just missed the bus in terms of getting an interview with an old Citadel player. I had been told that Dodo Sinclair's dad Butch - who eventually became a very senior Jags committee man - was an ex Citadel player but unfortunately Butch died before I could speak to him about it. Given that Citadel went out of existence over 70 years ago it is highly unlikely that there are any surviving players now.

The oldest ex player I ever spoke to was a guy called Davie Goodall who was in his 90s at the time around 1985. He had bee a member of a great Clach side just before the First World War. (Funny how many "Great Clach Sides of the Past" there have been but you could include 2003-04 in that.)

Maybe in terms of Caley and Jags we should be getting the recollections of Messrs Milroy and Urquhart etc recorded before they become too decrepit or senile to recount them. (Or maybe the Old Gits are past it already )

Mantis... I suspect you would empathise with around 50% of that suggestion! :biggrin:

If that Mr Goodall lived up the Leachkin he was a good friend of my granda (he offered to leave his house to my granda, who refused being a stubborn Merkincher).

I think you should get on to that project Charles, an oral history of Inverness football. It's too valuable a heritage to lose.

well Mrcaleyjag , now we know what you are,a hun who goes to Tulloch so you can wear a blue jersey,next you will want to sing the sash, billy boys and the famine song.

I moved up here 16yrs ago and started going to Caley matches 10years ago so my son could be brought up in a bigot free enviorment.

You have disspelled that idea, how many more of you are there hiding behind Caley colours, are you one of the ones i see at the Bridge End when Rangers are there not daring to cheer when any team scores??

Not sure how many times I need to post but don't need to try and prove to anyone that I support Inverness Caledonian Thistle, no I am not 'a hun' who sings the sash, billy boys or famine song nor will I be, obviously you didn't read my previous post!!!

For those who know me and sat beside me at Ibrox they'll know I was in the away end and was dancing about the stand when we equalised, unfortunately I can't make the home game against Rangers but if I could I would be sitting in the North stand cheering on TB and the boys like every other game if not more.

Does anyone else want to have a completely unprovoked pop at me and doubt my loyalties?

I didn't accuse you of being a hun. I just asked if you could explain the "Big Jock New Camp" reference. I don't know what it means. Care to elaborate?

Just getting the chance to post from being at the game and haven't read any one else's post so here goes:

Before the game it was just hope, my heart said we could take something my head said not so much but deep down I hoped we would, I couldn't think of a worst place personally to lose the run at but never did I think we'd keep it going in the way we did, it was awesome. I hate them and to go to the 'Big Jock New Camp' and get the result we did had me smiling all the way down London Road, it was possibly the only thing that could keep me warm.

Each to a man I thought everyone was immense and all stuck to the task, got stuck in and played the type of football that we should be proud of, for a while now I'd been shouting for Duncan and Cox to play in midfield together and I think I've been proved right as to why, we got the ball down from the start and passed it like a true footballing team only really lumping it long when we needed to. We mixed it about but clearly had the advantage on the left and Richie was brilliant at winning the ball from the air. Great credit for the comeback and to have kept going at them and not for the heads to drop is great credit to the management team for installing the belief in the players to just go out and play and keep playing their way.

For so long we've not been given any praise for our performances, a bit like last season really when we crept up the first division without notice, but hopefully now we'll start to get the praise we deserve.

For me this was right up there with Ayr, with a stepdad who supports Celtic and a brother who supports Rangers to take points from both games was immense but the way we did it today warranted a phone call home on the walk from the game which is usually a no no.

Congratulations boys, you deserve all the credit you get and long may it continue.

Thanks for the report. I don't get the reference to the "Big Jock New Camp." Could you please explain? Excuse my ignorance.

Sounds like an excellent initiative Johndo. I certainly plan ditching the ICT scarf for the day in favour of my old Caley one Would suggest all old Caley or Thistle fans don blue and white or red and black for the day.

Ye'll need three scarves--one for each wrist and one round the napper.

If you lot are doing this, the Thistle Young Ruffians will have to reassemble.

I did notice that no further copies of "Up Stephen's Brae" had been sold though

Having now recovered from the shock of the revelation that you appear to have been in a bookshop no less than twice in something like a week, I do appreciate your update. However I am not unduly concerned since the half dozen or so still on the shelf in Waterstones are the very final copies of the sixth print run which this book has enjoyed since it was first published 15 years ago.

Musta used up hoora lot of staples over the years.

Ok dougal I will give you the highland boy did well

But he is NOT a Caley Legend...did you see him play for us??

Probably not even a Clach legend.

Good post Wyness hopefully he'll get a good turn out and sell a fair number of copies

I certainly will be popping along to purchase my copy

Book looks like a hard back and off good quality which is always a bonus.

I was in said waterstones last Friday and stumbled upon " Up stephen's Brae" I kid you not it looked like it had been literally typed up on a pre war type writer and stapled together by primary kids

All the best big Dunc with the sales

A mere 46 posts, and already the best poster on here.

I payed my respects yesterday as i always do - by raising a dram to Willie McBride. In contrast to the tabloid driven worship of the "heroes who fight for our freedom" (and consequent support of those wars) that has characterised much of this past couple of weeks, the song pays tribute to the dead soldier but laments the futility of the war which killed him.

The display by the Green Ultras may he have been crude, but i think it's been positive to have voices of dissent during a period that has increasingly become a commercialised "month-long drum-roll of support for current wars", as a group of veterans expressed it in a letter to the Guardian last week. The letter ends like this:

"The public are being urged to wear a poppy in support of "our Heroes". There is nothing heroic about being blown up in a vehicle. There is nothing heroic about being shot in an ambush and there is nothing heroic about fighting in an unnecessary conflict. Remembrance should be marked with the sentiment "Never Again".

The only person talking sense on this thread. Wars are not computer games and should be remembered with sorrow and regret and the commitment to never let them happen again.

RIP Gordie, and respect to the family.

Fantastic win today for the under 19s - the first win of the season, 3-2 against top of the table Aberdeen today at Clach park. This would have given the players as well as Scott Kellacher and John Doc a huge lift after the poor result last Sunday against Keith.

Nice one. Care to give any more details?

Indeed it is me !!!!!

Funnily enough, I was in Florida last week when word of this picture reached me and when i got back yesterday there were several Facebook and email messages pointing it out to me ....

Its not in the online Courier but is on the Am Baile website here ... http://www.ambaile.o...?item_id=124892

lots of good pictures on there.

Nice idea to combine the Grease theme with the Rocky Horror Show.

Wow.....never ever thought I would be described as a "Voice of Reason"

Dougie D.....you couldn't have picked a worse site on the net to have a pop at those who went to Inverness High School. Probably more of us on here than anywhere else

Ach, ah was only jesting CD. Most of my mates are old high schoolers, just not the high-flying intellectual types ye get on here. So Merry Christmas to all the High School FPs, and to those "Kaddy Rats" that CB is on about.

Millburnicks can forget it though.

Fair enough I suppose, but then you shouldn't go crawling to government-funded doctors and hospitals for help when it all goes t**s up. The selfishness of any addict leads them to convince themselves that what they do is up to them, and as you say, doesnt "harm anyone else." What about their family, friends, the ones who do all the worrying and grieving and who are left to pick up the pieces of their lives?

I don't want the government worrying about my relationships with my family, friends or anyone else. Plenty of families are split up due to factors that aren't controlled by the state - do you want the government to legislate against everything that could cause a family breakdown? That's the logical conclusion of your argument. The fact is that the prohibition of drugs causes the problems of impoverished addicts, impure drugs and crime. If drugs were legal then the government would also presumably collect taxes on their sale which would contribute to paying for hospitals to treat people.

So people should take drugs to boost government coffers to pay for treatment of drug addicts? FFS. :(

Seriously, what?

Yes, make them legal, they become too expensive so traders make cheaper stuff so people can afford it, how does that solve the problem? Alcohol is legal and the problem is massive, making it legal will never solve the problem. It's a ridiculous idea.

If drugs were legal it would reduce massively many of the problems associated with drug use. Heroin is actually very cheap to produce, hence the massive profits involved in trafficking it illegally. The high cost of the drug is the result of it's illegality and the majority of the crime is a result of the cost - i.e. housebreaking etc.

Also, I don't think it's justifiable for the government to tell me, or any other sentient person, what I can and cannot do to my own body. If I want to spend every penny I have on getting wasted beyond belief I should be able to do so, so long as I don't harm anyone else.

Fair enough I suppose, but then you shouldn't go crawling to government-funded doctors and hospitals for help when it all goes t**s up. The selfishness of any addict leads them to convince themselves that what they do is up to them, and as you say, doesnt "harm anyone else." What about their family, friends, the ones who do all the worrying and grieving and who are left to pick up the pieces of their lives?

Did any High School lads actually make it to 6th year?

Dougie... let ths Kaddie Rat tell you (because you seem to be as utterly clueless about this as you are about Highland RFC and the Harriers)... a great number of Tecky boys and girls not only made it to 6th year but also went on to have distinguished university careers. Apart from that the IHS also produced two Chief Constables... Hugh MacMillan of Northern Constabulary and Sir William "Suds" Sutherland of Lothian and Borders.

Still on yer high horse CB. Think I'd rather be utterly clueless than utterly humourless and completely self important. Two Chief Constables, by feck eh?

Merry Christmas to all former High School pupils 1963-1969

:( :( :icon_ganja: :023: :love03: :love04: :love08:

Did any High School lads actually make it to 6th year?

Don't we already have enough problems with alcohol abuse in this country?

People should start to protest, come together as communities and insist the dealers are cleared out of their streets. Speak up about it.

I would suspect that Dougie d is a new poster cause all he is doing is reseructing OLD threads

That was very helpful, thanks. :angry:

Welcome to CTO DougieDangler!

Cheers mate. I'll try not to "reseruct" any other old threads.

I hope you checked that date BTW

Aye, I got the irony.

Oh come on Dougie, give it time!

This thread only started a few days ago

Right enough Mantis, but surely there must be someone with one bit of craic about going to Jags games. You never seem to hear it.

Pretty sure there was a thread on this subject a while ago...

Bruce Millars in the market in my day, Record rendezvous in church street( closed now) but Co Co has started up in the market hall again.

Who's Co Co?

It's been a while since there's been a decent record shop in town, so what are your memories of sadly defunct vinyl heavens such as TORS, Christies, etc.?

Bought my first singles (Union City Blue and Dreaming) in Christies, which was at the time a haunt of punks and skins and a pretty scary place.

How comes there's no threads on the rusty tin bit down the side at Kingsmills?