Charles Bannerman

Terry Butcher interview with Charles Young Esq. on:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9028895.stm

Facebook is not working. This is a SERIOUS topic? Come on boys and girls. Look on this as a golden opportinity to get out a bit more and get a bit of a life!

would someone kindly translate that for one? i'm afraid i haven't a heavenly clue what any of it means!!!! I'm not entirely convinced you're not on a wind up here, but just in case you are having genuine difficulty... The first statement is by a football fan who is apprehensive about the fact that his team's opponents have a pair of new recruits to their ranks as well as a similar number now available once more for selection... presumably following injury or suspension. The second statement quotes the (apparently locally) recorded message in the lift in Raigmore Hospital which advises occupants of imminent changes in the availability of access and exit. Hopefully this explanation, when compared with the originals, also shows how concise a "longwudge" Sneck can be.

They did..... Fort William v Strathspey Thistle live in 3D from Claggan Park on last Saturday.

I would imagine that if the Pope was making weekly appearances home and away in addition to a few midweek shows as well, crowds might well shrink quite quickly.

Backu'tt... cheershmun! Reedeen throo tha powumm makes me hink ah'm lisneen t' Jud in Tha Leejun! Hafta go, though.... ah'm burshteen!!!! I've actually added this edit to return to a more serious and sombre note. The book I referred to further up the thread (which I can inform PMF I wasn't trying to plug since it is all but sold out) was my third Royal Academy book "Right Up Stephen's Brae". The first of a number of exchanges in broad Sneck involves a "bowsher" (message boy) whom, after I had listened to what I had written, I could only call Hamish Munro. That was because I realised that the inspiration for that particular passage had been the many conversations I had had with Hamish... glass of Black Bottle in hand (but not "blazeen" )... in the Social Club post match. I am actually so pleased that Hamish managed to read that book, including the passage dedicated to him, just before he died back in May.

Aye Buckett mun. Yer see'een it!! On this subject, does anyone have a source for the text of the legendary Sneck poem with the "frully knuckers" in the "flameen suttie"?

OK, if well presented food is easily accessible at sensible prices, I don't suppose a Saturday afternoon snack is all that out of the way. But if there are problems of the magnitude described.... why bother? (Indeed if they are as bad as described, I strongly sympathise.) Is it really all that necessary to eat mid afternoon at a football match? How many other days of the week do people have greasy pies etc etc at that time? If the service provided is as bad as has been suggested, just don't use it. I am sure people could survive without it and also save a lot of money. If enough people did that, then the company would soon begin to notice.

Scarlet.... I do have to admit that there are times when I genuinely worry that you may have been reading too much Coleridge!

People who know me also know that I celebrate rather than criticise things like this. For instance in my latest book, there are passages of dialogue written specifically in the Sneck dialect. For the benefit of those who don't, use of the word "classic" in the OP was maybe a strong hint!

What a shame never to be in a position to enjoy and celebrate the likes of the wonderful Inverness poem, written phonetically in the Sneck dialect, which appeared here on CTO a few years back nor indeed a gem like Stanley Baxter's "Parliamo Glasgow".

For God's sake! Do PMF or DC have any imagination or originality at all in their thought? I came to praise Caesar, not to bury him! Or is that too obscure for you poor guys as well? (Which, translated, means - Sorry you didn't quite manage to grasp the point boys!)

Heard in Marks and Spencer today - "They've got twoo plurrsh un an a kupla plurrsh bock." The gentleman was wearing a Celtic hat so I don't know if he was referring to the Hearts team news or not, but this was pure classic Sneck! Which reminds me of what I once heard as the recorded message in the lift in Raigmore Hospital. "Doarsh opneen.... doarsh klozeen!"

Steady on! Give the lad a break! For a start his body mass index is far too low! What does concern me about Andy Murray is that he will become the next victim of the Scottish Affliction i.e. a fatal tendency to overstate expectations of success. Scottish history is littered with examples of it. Flodden - 1513 Darien - 1698 Argentina - 1978 And very nearly Liechtenstein 2010. Central to the problem is a tendency to underrate the opposition, usually England but in 1978 Peru and Iran, and to overrate the Scottish contender. Murray is a good enough player who has done very well but must be getting pretty fed up of the Scotland Expects syndrome.

Yes, I took full advantage of the football international break and went for what turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon in Newtonmore. Newtonmore started with all guns blazing and were 3-0 up after 18 mins and 5-0 at half time. Kimgussie started the second half a bit more brightly but Newtonmore's 6th in 51 minutes put paid to any chance of even a modest revival. Significantly, Ronald Ross wasn't playing because he contracted a minor illness on Friday night. Although it was in midfield and defence that Kingussie looked shaky, Stevie Borthwick admitted afterwards that when Ronald is not playing this has an adverse effect on the morale of the rest of the team.

I think he made it quite clear that he is FUNDAMENTALLY capable of managing at a higher level than that but the deciding factor will probably be the extent to which he has managed to banish his demons. Even in a situation where I was meeting him face to face a couple of times a week I had no idea that his life was descending into such chaos when he was at ICT. Yes, we knew there were problems but it is only since the publication of the book that their full extent has become apparent. IF Steve can keep himself on the straight and narrow, I have got very positive feelings about the return of the Paterson - Shand partnership at Huntly - which I see got off to a winning start today. That in itself is unusual for any phase of Pele's management career - he was always a notoriously slow starter (qv Season 1997-98 in the Second Division )

No, that's not correct. Pele was one of Harry McFadden's players when Forres won the title in 1986. He then went on to manage Elgin I think from 1988 to 90 where his achievements included a clean sweep of all the Highland honours. Then they somehow managed to let him go as a player to Huntly before he then took over there as manager and won the league as well as goodness knows what else. He went to ICT in 1995 and after he left in 2002 he then had a spell managing Forres.

Yes, I'm sure you couldn't. Unfortunately neither could some Caley fans, who were in effect guests at Huntly's title celebration on their own patch, find themselves capable of allowing their own club to pass into history with the dignity which its own achievements would most certainly have merited. A dignity, by the way, which was in contrast being achieved with distinction at exactly the same time 66 miles away at Kingsmills Park.

Christie Park 14th May 1994. I was there too, dodging the coins some of the rebels threw after the game on a day when a number of Caley fans disgraced their club and Inverness. Huntly were celebrating their first Highland League title for 64 years - under the managership of Steve Paterson. Unfortunately the behaviour of a minority of Caley "fans", over an issue about which the happy home support couldn't give a toss, spoiled the occasion which ended in a 1 all draw where Wilson Robertson scored Caledonian FC's last ever goal.

I think it's not only good for Pele but also excellent for Huntly FC that Forbes is in there. The man is a Huntly FC legend, a gentleman... and an avid Coronation Street fan by the way! :biggrin: Over the years Forbes has done a massive amount for Huntly FC, both financially and through his business expertise and his special relationship with Pele played a big part in Huntly's enormous success in the early 90s which continued for a while under its own momentum after Steve came to Inverness. As long ago as 1985, Forbes also provided a groundbreaking sponsorship for the Highland League through his company RB Farqhuar. When Dougie McGilvray came in for Pele in 1995 Forbes, as Huntly Chairman, understandably did his best to keep his manager whom he had identified as a major talent. I don't know a lot about the inside story of Huntly FC at the moment but the recent departure of a Chairman at a time when they employed and then sacked a controversial manager and seem to be drifting on the field itself does seem to suggest that all may not be well behind the scenes. If this means that Forbes is going to have a beneficial effect for them at boardroom level as well as in support of Pele then this will be especially good news for the club. I was also just wondering what will happen in the immediate futureat Huntly? Will Pele take his customary half dozen or so games to make his influence felt or is the situation so bad there that there will be an immediate and ongoing shot in the arm?

This could be the most exciting three way league race for... well decades!! I think Inveraray are out of it now after losing to the Fort on Saturday. Newtonmore have the obstacle of a slightly more difficult run in than Fort given that Fort have Oban Camanchd who have been struggling all season (but on the other hand might start fighting for their lives.) Kingussie have the disadvantage of also needing to win three games in hand and in addition need to beat Fort and Newtonmore to overhaul them both. Basically all three have it in their own hands to win the league. What a finish! I'm strongly tempted to take advantage of the free football Saturday and get myself down to The Eilan for the Badenoch derby.

Kind of reminds me of these guys who work for the Turriff company which specialises in creating traffic chaos throughout Inverness and especially up the Crown with their spectacularly slow replacement of gas mains. Apart from the fact that they only seem to do a 40 hour week when they should be on the contract 24/7, on more than one occasion the only activity I spotted was the classic two blokes standing staring into a hole. Maybe the two companies employ the same work study consultants.

Baron Taylor's Street... must be the WORST street in Inverness. Three pubs (including The Keg), a junk food outlet, the back of a night club, a bookies... and the Thistle Club! I always think the Health Food Shop looks really out of place in what must also be the unhealthiest street in the place. Perhaps some of the folk who stand outside The Keg smoking at 10 in the morning should give it a vist though?

Gosh... I hope in that case that the Elgin fans are being civil enough to their new player assistant manager who has rather more formidable ICT credentials than even Ian Black has. I wonder how many of them still remember Johndo?

I'm not convinced that it's a two horse race by any means. Inveraray I think are out of it but Kingussie are sitting there respectively with four and three games in hand on the top two, although still one point short of Newtonmore and the Fort if they win them all. Stevie... how big a reverse do you think Fort's defeat by Kyles was at the weekend? And are you really Kignussie manager Stevie Borthwick trying to take some pressure off your team by tipping the other two?