Charles Bannerman

With blue shorts IIRC, worn at Dens Park on 17/8/94. Not sure if/when it was worn again. Sorry Scotty, had a look but I can't help either! Gordon Gillespie or Ian Broadfoot are about the only hope. It's certainly not shown in Ian Broadfoot's book nor in mine but I've definitely seen it, as apparently has Mantis. I'm sure it was there at the very first strip and shirt sponsor (Citylink) launch at the Haughdale Hotel on July 29th 1994 - 24 hours before the first friendly against St. Mirren at Telford Street. There is also a reference on P46 of Against all Odds to Norman floating the idea of such a deisgn, an old Caley one, at the meeting in the Caley Club on 26th January 1994 which APPEARED to end so peacefully that Mr. Beaumont famously stated that he didn't think he had clients any more!

Yes indeed, you have put your finger on a Catch 22 situation here which began to emerge last winter. When USH is used to make a pitch playable the game is often postponed anyway under circumstances imposed by forces outwith the club which was obliged to instal it. There's something of an irony here that clubs have been using the USH which "SPL Rules" insist they have, manage to get their pitches playable... then the SPL imposes a blanket ban on all its games irrespective of local circumstances. It wll be interesting to see if any SFL games go ahead... possibly in certain areas of Scotland without the assistance of USH?

Terry coming up on Sportsound talking about his team's 1 year undefeated away from home.

I gather that a lot of work went ahead down at the Caledonian Stadium today to clear the car parks and the surrounding area in anticipation of the game being on. The undersoil heating has also been on. This will presumably cost a lot of money which will not now be recovered.

That's correct KB and I remember being at the meeting in the Caley Club early in 1994 when Norman Miller floated that very idea of using an old Caley away strip as the inaugural CT away strip in the hope of a favourable reaction from some of the Caley "doubters".

No indeed it's not, because it's painfully obvious.

Of course it does ... The courier printed proof last week http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/13910/Mystery_surrounds_Loch_Ness__91humps_92.html Yes, an amazing coincidence that the "monster's" three "humps" happened to correspond exactly with the three sections of the house immeidately above it and from which light would have been impingeing on the loch surface. Credit to Adrian Shine, even though he is a "believer", for being objective enough not to jump on this bandwagon.Anyway... to return to topic, I would be interested to hear what kind of "new" support has come into ICT as a result of 17 very high profile years. It must be growing from somewhere. (In addition to those among the thousands and thousands of original Refuseniks who have latterly seen the light of course )

I know I'm indulging a bit in numerical pedantry here, but I'm wondering why something which is measured in "games per goal" should be called "strike rate" because surely the higher the number of games it takes for each goal, the lower the strike rate is? I would tend to express something which implies a rate of scoring in terms of goals per game (eg 0.453) - or if you multiply by 100 (45.3), that gives the average percentage of games in which a goal was scored (which isn't the same as games per goal and indeed is the reciprocal of it).

I think the figures following the "x goals in y appearances" entries don't seem to correlate with the headings. The headings have got "strike rate" in brackets while the table itself has "SR" outwith brackets. As I understand it, what these figures really mean, for instance for Iain Stewart but it's the same for them all, is that he scored 82 goals in 144 appearances. That's 0.5694 goals per game which is presented here multiplied by 100 as 56.94. The other figure, in Iain's case 1.75, is the reciprocal of the goals per game figure ("one over it" in non mathematical terms). That therefore represents "games per goal". The figures in the table I've quoted are, quite correctly, stated in descending order of goals per game, so the average number of games it took the players to get each goal hence gets bigger in a downward direction.

That will be about right. He was a couple of years ahead of me. I think he was a major player for a legendary Royal Academy team of that era in the late 60s.

Apart from the question of the trauma of being followed to the toilet :biggrin: is this evidence of institutional bias within Celtic Football Club against Highlanders?

I think there's a bit more than that to it in this specific case. Hugh Dallas occupied a senior position within the SFA and the Protestant - Catholic divide is (unfortunately) a significant feature of football in Scotland. (I could go on to argue that it is extremely significant but won't digress here.) Furthermore the email was against the side of that divide subscribed to by many followers of the club which is claiming there is an institutional bias against it within the Scottish game. That severely aggravated the whole thing.

took me 50 mins to drive 12 miles from aviemore to grantown to work this morning road was a nightmare,just now in aviemore we have at least 12 inches and still falling So Strathspey Thistle's next home game will be in April then?

I would in no way want to condone in any way what Hugh Dallas did, which was fundamentally unacceptable and was made even worse by the fact that the message was forwarded from his address at the SFA, a body whose core business (football) is badly affected by sectarianism and the existence of a Catholic - Protestant divide in Scotland. However Gabby's reference here to the downright criminal activities of a number of Catholic Church staff - which have actually been covered up far more elaborately than any decision of Dougie MacDonald's although that's a separate issue - is spot on. I think the Bible covers the issue in its story about "motes and planks" in the eye.

Yes, I would have to agree on that. My follicologial terminology isn't that great! Does Rod still have hair?

To your first comment... hilarious!!! Will Rod be rinsing the long term white out of the mullett with a mid brown? To your second comment... don't go there! Buckie is a south west of the Castlecary Arches beverage and should stay there. Morrisons do a cheeky looking little Perry, probably not dissimilar to Pomagne, at 18.7p per unit. The reason I know this is that I did a bit of research the other week in relation to something I was doing with a class... honest!! Tesco then upstaged them with their "Killie Brand" (blue and white vertical stripe Tesco Value) cider which came in at about 15.6p per unit but I don't think you will want to go there either.

Oh there's mileage in this rite enaff You fancy being Winston? If Ann Nicoll will be Isa. What are you going to use for Pomagne 30-40 years on?

An interesting post which possibly reinforces the recently struggling theory that Dougal is in fact a windup merchant. In other words is he or is he not perfectly aware that IHE, in real life, is actually a senior psychiatric nurse coordinating treatment of many of the cerebrally dysfunctional of Lancashire... in effect gamekeeper rather than poacher? (OK... maybe a bit of both at times! ) Other than that.... reviving the "Caley Animals"? For "IHE and Mantis" read "Jack and Victor"!

Nah.. yer awright son.. no need to bother with that. Just take advice from this near(ish) pensioner and carry a few smoking passes about in your wallet and you should get in late OK.

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. Preumably your next episode of crass and naive stupidity will be to start a thread suggesting that I should instead have written it about the High School or Millburn rather than the Royal Academy.

Out of order! Heilandee is one of the most respected visitors to this site, his contributions are greatly valued by many and on that basis it doesn't matter a toss about which club he supports. It's when you see the Dundee situation at first hand, as I did in Dingwall on Saturday, that you feel for the genuine Dundee fans who have had nothing to do with years of financial profligacy, who really wish it had never happened and who only want to be able to continue to support their club.

That was actually me from Dingwall on Open All Mics. Maybe it's worth adding that, in his interview with Richard Gordon, Terry did also say that not all the players had fish and chips and not all of them had beer either!

You speak for yourslef duckie!

You appear to be suggesting that the second sentence there may be partly a consequence of the first.

Please do NOT attribute statements to <sources> which you have not confirmed directly to have come from that source! On the evidence you have, you can say no more than "my mate has texted me claiming that McGhee has been sacked." Please restrict yourself to the evidence you have and do NOT attribute unconfirmed statements to responsible media organisations. By the way... was this the same mate who texted you the other week with information which also led you to cause untold confusion?