Charles Bannerman

[Judging by my facebook today, i dont think anyone slept thro it

Radio Scotland is now reporting that play is also suspended today until at least 2pm after heavy overnight rain flooded the course. This is extremely unfortunate.

Update... play has just been "temporarily" suspended.... more thunder. The players are marking their balls. That's the typical Highland summer because Inverness, eight miles away, has had no more than a sharp shower with not a hint of thunder. I'm now hearing that Tournament Director Mike Stewart(who is Gillian Stewart's brother) has a lightning meter and when it records a lightning strike within 5 miles of the course, play has to be suspended. There seems to be some doubt as to how quickly play could resume so Round 2 may well not be completed today.

Regular users of this site will know that I'm not really a golf fan at all. But I have to say I've quite got into this one, albeit with a fair degree of empathy with what Scotty has said. Indeed the TV coverage must be absolutely great for the Invernessian Disapora. The coverage of Inverness and the local area has been quite enormous and it was great to see "the town" buzzing last night with a huge crowd listening to the Gaelic Choir at the Castle with others watching Highland Dancing at the Town Hall and piping on the High Street. I also heard an anecdote from Cafe 1 that it had never been busier. I think I'll maybe make a foray out from the Social Club tonight and take a wander down town. Unfortunately, though, there have been the inevitable and predictable bloopers. Apart from Yngwie's Castle Douglas anecdote, one programme about the event was showing "local landmarks" and apparently these included the Glenfinnan Viaduct. The Culloden Viaduct would have done fine! Wednesday night's BBC weather forecast also unfortunately spelled the course StEWart.... and the dot locating it on the map was actually on the Black Isle round about Avoch or Munlochy. But the projection of the local area has been brilliant, although I just wonder how many more different ways the news pages will contrive to tell us "it's good for the local economy" (shock!) As I write, I'm listening to live commentary on Radio Scotland 810 Medium Wave where one of the commentators is Inverness's own Gillian Stewart. Unfortunately, an irish commentator keeps referring to Martin "Lard". Which reminds me....I'm just waiting to hear how impressive and imposing Colin Montgomerie's "backside" has been. :biggrin: A few months ago, I did (in jest I have to say) make the suggestion to the Head of Radio Scotland, that instead of commentary through the medium of the customary reverential whispering, we should do an Open All Mics with a reporter at each hole. Get Chic, Jim Spence and Sandra Brown on the job! "HOOOOOOOOOOOLLLE at the fifteenth!!!! A phenomenal drive from the tee... a neat chip to the green.... and a brilliant finish with a thirty foot putt for a phenomenal eagle. Paul Lawrie.... NINE under par!" Well it would certainly liven things up!

You'll need to tell me sometime how you swung that one! Happy Birthday though!

Depends on how desperate the woman who's paying really is.

Aye... the back bar of the Gelluns! I was in there on Friday night as it happens. You'll not get a pint for half a crown any more mind you! Back in 1970 or 71 you could get a pint of lager in the Lochgorm beside the old Mart for 2/4d. I never really took to Light. It was a culture shock when I went into a hotel in Bayswater in London in the summer of 1970 and it was 5/6d for lager!

It's a minute and a half long, about three times as long as your typical or even longish TV ad so I couldn't imagine a team of Partick's means affording to put in on TV. I'm sure they wouldn't have made it if they didn't have places to put it. For a start, if they have a screen, they could run it on Friday nights at Firhill when all these well heeled "Gavins and Melvilles" (Tam Cowan's terminology) are in watching the rugger.

no embargo ! neither Charles Bannerman, the BBC, the rest of the media, the clubs, or other sites who are licensed to display fixtures (eg. CTO) get sent them any more than an hour or two (if that) before they are allowed to be displayed ! As I recollect, that was certainly the case last season where the list went up on the SPL site at the appointed time and I'm not actually sure if they were sent out to the media in advance at all. It may even have been a few minutes after. However I do recollect some advance speculation in the days running up to the release. But realistically, is there not something of an over reaction to the release of the SPL fixtures? After all it's just the annual "who plays whom when" list. Everybody plays everybody else but to be realistic the "when" is of relatively minor interest. On the other hand the media have little else to report on football at this time and the fans are beginning to suffer from withdrawal symptoms so it always gets a bit overhyped. Maybe the appearance of the fixture list helps the deprived fans to visualise the forthcoming season though.

Yes I wouldn't know enough to comment on the generality of day to day club information. I just wanted to say that I think the club did as well as could be expected in this specific case of a story breaking very late on a Friday afternoon.

Not 100% sure but I think that may have something to do with Press Release exclusivity. I really don't see what all the fuss is about here. The Press Release went out round about 5:30 on Friday at which time it's possible for broadcasters to respond very quickly and get the news out in a timescale of a few minutes. Capital Caley appears to be claiming it went on the club site shortly after STV's bulletin at 6:20. What's the issue? 5:30 is also after normal closing time at the Stadium and I really think people down there, even of they are still working at that hour, have got better things to do with their time than hang around just in case there might be something to go on the website. At this time of day, if they had waited with the general Release until after they had got it on the official site, then it would have missed Friday night bulletins and there would have been several cross broadcasters - including myself. In general (and I suspect I speak for most journalists) I think that the best way IS for stuff to go out to the media first and then on to the club website maybe at the same time (which will be difficult to manage) or quite shortly after, which has happened here. Newsdesks, who convey news to far more people than a club website, are constantly across their emails but in terms of being across a single football club website, that reduces who gets it when to a complete lottery if it's on the official site first. However on odd occasions such as this, it will also mean that news can go out on air just before it goes on the official site. I am taking it that, in saying that this release went on to the official site shortly after it went out on STV, Capital Caley was on and off the official site sufficiently often to know exactly when it wasn't there and when it was?

Quite frankly.... I rather doubt that!

Em...Neros first name was Alex too but he was from the western Isles...not Skye...unless he moved...which is perfectly conceivable :) Nero was from Ness on the north tip of Lewis. In terms of the youngest player actually to take the field for ICT, I think that accolade is definitely Polworth's. In fact I'm sure Ian Broadfoot confirmed it after the Hibs game.

Not doing great so far. 99p as at 1900 Saturday. :irritated: Maybe it's the Thistle on it that's suppressing the value.

Am i right in thinking Ex ICT player Martin Bavidge is the son of (the rather gifted) Ex Caley player Mitch Bavidge? You are completely right SMEE. I had a funny feeling someone would come up with an example which would predate the Polworths!

I have to agree completely with SMEE here. As far as I am concerned Inverness Thistle FC, Caledonian FC and ICTFC are all part of one continuous history. The Mods may disagree but my own view is that it is completely appropriate to celebrate the history of the two merger partners on this ICT forum. In fact I think that such a practice is very much to be encouraged as long as it is done in a positive way which it more or less invariably is. It's a definite asset to be able to remember a past of which a lot of ICT's older fans are rightly proud and should remain so. I actually hesitated there for a moment as to whether I should use the word "older" and concluded that I had perhaps better since it is now 17 years since these Highland League teams actually played. In fact I noticed with interest when Liam Polworth came on for these few seconds against Hibs at the end of the season, at that point he became the first player to appear for ICT who had been born AFTER the club was founded. Then at the other end of the scale we have the question of the oldest person who has played for Caley Thistle. In terms of oldest at the time of playing, I've forgotten whether that accolade goes to Jimmy Calder or Craig Brewster. But what I actually mean is the oldest person at this moment in time who has pulled on an ICT strip, it has to be Billy Urquhart who will hit 55 later this year. 16-54... that's a fair range for a club which is only 17 years old! Also... are the Polworths perhaps also the first father and son to have played for the "Caledonian and Thistle Tradition" since ICT was founded? I have a feeling that someone will come up with another example here! Anyway... apologies for digressing there. I'll just conclude by saying that I think that the scarf in the OP does have that "70s" look about it and it also seems to be a generic blue football scarf on which the name "Caledonian" has been printed... beneath the Thistle!"

Is or was (I'm not sure if he is still alive) it not Rodwill's brother Bill who lived in St Fergus Drive? Bill worked with my dad in the Inland Revenue for years and there was also another younger brother Douglas who became a minister. Rod was also Captain of the 9th Hilton BBs for a while so my dad, who was Captain of the 1st Company, also knew Rod through that. But yes, Rod did do a fair bit of football reporting. In fact I think it was mainly for the Sunday Post along with Ross County legend Jack Lornie. The book is an excellent insight into playing in the Highland League in its golden era of the 50s and 60s.

I'm not sure what the point you are trying to make here is - unless it is simply that in Rodwill's day in the 50s and 60s a lot more people turned out to watch live football, including relatively local Highland League matches. On the other hand the "6000+ at some games" (pretty few I would hasten to add) would most recently include Caley v St Johnstone in the Cup in February 1992 which I believe may have been the last time any Highland League ground hosted a crowd of over 6000. In fact, courtesy of the Elfin Safety lobby, this may never be seen again. Aye, but since the merger, crowds at football matches in Inverness just aren't the same as they were in the good old days of the Highland League because everybody stays away in protest now....

That's a considerable saving and an amazing bargain! I am assuming that this was a "juvenile" one. I do know that in 1965 a juvenile paid 9d to get in (unless you jooped over the gate as we Dalneighers did!) I think there were 16 teams in the league at that time meaning 15 home games. So in 1965 it would have cost 11s 3d to get into all the home games so 7s 6d five years later for a season ticket seems like a brilliant bargain.

You mean that if you add up all their ages... you're still older than THAT?

Off topic so I apologise, but does anyone have "SPL goals per game" figures for Niculae and Rooney?

The original thread also uses the word "nabbed", the meaning of which could arguably be interpreted in a number of ways. You really can't be too careful in a situation like this and I would also suggest that CTO perhaps doesn't quite have access to the same pre publication legal advice or indeed the post publication courtroom resources which The Sun or the BBC would, if necessary be able to turn to. My advice to the moderators would be what it always is in this kind of situation - delete this thread unless you are prepared to be 100% across it 24/7 and at the same time totally sure of the legal status of every single word at all times.

ICT fans may enjoy the sight of this from the BBC website (you may have to look a little bit carefully to get it!) Clearly the computer is programmed to enter the left hand "place" column in response to the right hand "points" column and of course it would only be a complete optimist who could claim fifth place given that games in the top six are much harder than in the bottom six. But I'm sure this will still be a pleasant sight for Inverness fans. Scottish Premier table Saturday, 14 May 2011 16:58 UK Position Team P GD PTS 1 Rangers 37 55 90 2 Celtic 37 59 89 3 Hearts 37 9 63 4 Dundee Utd 37 4 58 6 Kilmarnock 37 2 49 7 Motherwell 37 -16 46 5 Inverness CT 38 8 53 8 St Johnstone 38 -20 44 9 Aberdeen 38 -20 38 10 Hibernian 38 -22 37 11 St Mirren 38 -24 33 12 Hamilton 38 -35 26 It's also worth noting that ICT have by far the best goal difference - and the only positive one - in the bottom six.

No, once the wheels of the SFA grind slowly away, the games subsequent to the Hibs game will be next season so Russell is "eligible for selection" at Hamilton. I would be very surprised if he doesn't figure at some point.

Yep, definitely looked like Adam actually put it over the line. It was certainly credited initially to Rooney but then most opinion seemed to switch to Foran. The pictures seem to be inconclusive. The post match banter was rather good and I had to have a laugh at the interview Jim Spence did with Adam which was only used for quotes for online copy and never appeared online or on air as an interview apart from the clip I couldn't resist using for local broadcast. Here was Rooney waxing lyrical about the club's youngsters like Nick Ross and Liam Polworth with this loud interjection in the background proclaiming "It wuz ovurr de loine... Richie Foran says it wuz ovurr de loine!!!" Much funnier when heard for real!