Charles Bannerman

That's her. Sister of Rae MacLennan, former Caley winger and ex fireman.

Yes indeed... Colin's wife is called Lily but I don't know if she was previously a hairdresser.

Mmmm... maybe these chaps still find it a bit difficult to accept that even the worst case scenario of 3 years in Division 3, two in D2, five in D1 and five in the SPL plus two Scottish Cup semi finals and a Challenge Cup victory etc, etc, etc....maybe just edges their somewhat more limited conception of a further fifteen years of Caley - Jaggie abuse across the confines of Telford Street and Kingsmills Park. :)

Losing that single point actually makes minimal difference to Caley Thistle. A draw at home to Falkirk remains enough to keep them in the SPL. The only option for survival that is removed by Kevin Kyle's goal is for Caley Thistle next week to lose to Falkirk and for Hamilton to lose to St. Mirren as long as the relative margins of defeat didn't overturn ICT's goal difference advantage over Hamilton. That would have relegated Hamilton if ICT had got a point today.

One mistake the British didn't make in 1940 was to make too big a celebration of Dunkirk.

is that a mathematical certainty is results go that way? havent worked out the permutations..... See my post on "another point in the bag" thread.

John Sutton's goal last night had massive implications for Caley Thistle. Had they held on for 2-1, they would instantly have been safe on the night. However, since they didn't, they are now in the situation for the first time that they know before the game starts that one clear cut result will guarantee safety. Win at Kilmarnock and Inverness retains SPL football. There is also the secondary option that a draw would do if St. Mirren lost to Falkirk. And on the mention of Falkirk, their status in the eyes of ICT fans has certainly been utterly transformed in the last 24 hours, hasn't it? For weeks, Falkirk have been the side ICT have been desperate to see losing. Now they should be desperate for them to win against St. Mirren as an insurance policy should ICT not beat Killie because, as I've just said, that would bring a draw at Killie into the equation. But also, in the worst case scenario, if this does go to the last day of the season, ICT would presumably prefer to meet a Falkirk team which was safe after beating St. Mirren and with the Cup Final in sight rather than one which was still fighting for its life.

Dreadful dirge - out of the same stable as Flower of Scotland.

The question simply doesn't arise because there aren't nearly enough points left to be won for everyone below Motherwell to catch them. There are nine bottom six games left with a maximum total points take of 27. The five teams below Motherwell (who also have a much better goal difference) are as total of 45 points behind them.

That'll be 4.55am for the 1230 ko in the final game of the season then.

Yes it is. Now that I have been reminded exactly who Teetums was, that is exactly as I remember him.... highly visually challenged..

Just a minor point but Terry Butcher was appointed on January 27th so that would make yesterday (Wednesday May 7th) his 100th day.

It must have been Willie MacLeod who was known as "Teetums" then? These were the legendary days of the late 50s and (as I just remember) the early 60s when the Inverness BBs had both Teetums and Feetums. Indeed the Inverness Battalion was full of legends or guys who became legends... Gordy Bus, Scoobies, Rodwill, Peter Home, Jackie Sutherland, John Beaton to mention but a few.

I would guess Scoobs would have been in his late 70s, maybe 80. I certainly remember him as a fairly young Captain of the 5th Company in the 60s although even at that his lack of hair maybe made him look older than he was. He was also 5th Company "old boy" Billy Urquhart's father in law.

You Holocaust Denier! I bet you also don't believe in Global Warming, think the Recession is Communist Propaganda and switch off every time Susan Boyle comes on the TV!

For the most part {even today} that might be the only metaphorical explanation that folks are able to relate to. I'm sure Bishop Ussher, who came up with the 4004BC idea, has been well and truly savaged by everyone from Huxley to Dawkins. By the way, I think the idea of the expanding universe is that it started off around 13bn years ago as something quite compact which blew outwards and has been expanding ever since. The rate of expansion is quite slow relative to the speed of light 93 x 10 (8) m/s) but enough to shift light coming from distant parts towards the red end (longer wavelength) of the spectrum by what is known as the Doppler Effect. The shift is small but measurable and depends on the ratio 1/(square root of 1 minus v-squared /c-squared) where v is the speed of expansion and c is the speed of light. A similar equation exists to describe the manner in which mass changes with velocity and this explains how super-light speeds should not be possible since mass becomes infinite even when v = c.

And here was me thinking it all happened as recently as a seven day period beginning October 23rd 4004BC!

Why should that be so strange Charles? See here Is that story kosher?

Hang on a minute... I'm just beginning to wonder if this Swine Flu business is just one great international wind up. They're now claiming there are cases of this disease of PIG origin in ISRAEL! Think about it!

Yup, Scotland among the first countries to be affected. That'll be the Year of Homecoming up the tubes then!

Oh well Donald, at least it means we'll get a break from Global Warming, The Recession and Susan Bloody Boyle!

I don't believe it is. I suspect he means "gullibility" - and I'm not winding anyone up.

Sounds like the original Caley Rebels to me. Interesting to learn that the 1993 cohort originated from a pedigree like this!

I've just realised you can amend quotes. See what you can do to Kyle's one with a full stop, a comma and two capital letters.

How about trying the old idea of "Q ships"? These originated early in the First World War as a means of sorting out Uboats. The Uboats used to prefer to accept surrender on the surface and sink their prey by gunfire rather than waste torpedoes from beneath. What the British did was to send apparently defenceless merchantmen out and when the Uboat approached, the crew would appear to abandon ship. However what was less obvious was that they had left behind a party to man the gun which suddenly materialised when a false wheelhouse fell flat. The gun then proceeded to blow the **** out of the Uboat. It should be even simpler off Somalia since these pirates don't have the option of submerging to attack which the Germans eventually did once they wised up to the Q ships. Quite simply, arm a few merchant ships to the teeth with concealed weapons, wait until the pirates get quite close, show the teeth in question....bye bye pirates. This might well also provide a huge disincentive for some of their mates to try it on.