Charles Bannerman

Is this Richie on standby... just in case Terry's fury relented?

No more? Due to lack of crime in the area????

I remember these ints! I think that was the time when during the Terry one, Derek whacked the door with his fist on the way back up the corridor!

Richie more or less said that at his Thursday press conference. He admitted to missing the positive effect on players' aggression levels of Derek's pre-derby comments and highlighted what these did to his own. I did ask him if he was thinking about placing an effigy of Derek in the home dressing room......

Scotty, since there is likely to be an extradition treaty between the UK and Canada, 15 years or so on from when banter like this was considered "good crack", you can probably now expect a knock on the door from the Canadian PC Police and a summons to appear at Dingwall Sheriff Court on charges of offending Travelling People.

Even if the Head Girl gives the Junior Prefect permission to retrieve her lost money from the bookies to put once more on the losing horse she promised not to back again for a generation, I at the moment can't aee myself contributing much here. It's much more fun winding up Cybernats of various degrees of literacy and political nous on Facebook and in any case, the divisive nature of this whole referendum thing is such that I would prefer not to differ serially and abrasively on here with various other valued contributors with whom I otherwise find considerable common cause.

Again from Inverness When You Were A Kid, which is an excellent source, this is the Globetrotters at Telford St.

This is the construction of the pensioners' houses and the shopsbetween St Mungo and St Margarets in Dalneigh 1961/62. The structure in the foreground became Christison's shop. This is currrently trending on Inverness When You Were A Kid.

I am simply responding to Mr Pimple who posted an apparently genuine query as to what the Ides of March actually are. It seems there is no game that day but it remains to see what Wednesday may or may not bring.

I remember doing this in Latin in about 2nd Year. Each month in the Roman calendar had three fixed points - the Kalends (hence "calendar") which were always the 1st, plus the Nones and the Ides on the 5th and 13th - except for March, July, October and May when they were the 7th and 15th. The Ides of March (or as the soothsayer said "cave Idus Martias - beware the Ides of March") are hence the 15th - ie next Wednesday. Today, the 10th of March, is hence "the fifth day before the Ides of March" or (approximately, all these years on from Caesar in Room 14!) "ante diem quintus Idus Martias". There may also have been an abbreviation something like "a. d. V Id Mar".

Raigmore was more of a yellow, complementing the other school colour which was the blue of Abertarff. Far was indeed red and Dunain was green.

So you were one of these rough boys from the Teckie then???

You seem not to have taken into account the principle that statistically likely outcomes are less reliable in the short term but become more reliable as the number of results increases.

Agreed on Billy Hogg. I was sure you would have been Dunain IHE

As Julius Caesar might also have said on the Ides of March.... I think I get the point!! Based on other seasons, around 33 points to avoid bottom and 36 to avoid 11th might not seem a bad estimate of what's required this time. To get there would require immediate and sustained improvements of 23% and 57% over what has unfolded in 27 games so far. In the case of avoiding the playoffs, that's 14 points from 33 available... as compared with the "better" early season tally of 14 from 36 which Alternative mentions. HOWEVER what's needed to avoid bottom is actually less formidable than it was before the Hearts game since these three very difficult recent matches actually yielded more points than that particular target required. In practice this could all turn on the six pointer at Motherwell on April 15th and two more against Hamilton and Motherwell post-split. One, or very possibly two remaining Highland Derbies also loom large.

So where does this leave your earlier statement that if Caley Thistle didn't get 3 points from their next three games (Hearts + OF) then relegation was certain? After the Rangers game saw that target overtaken, I asked you "That's now four points from the first two of them, so does the converse apply? Does this now mean equally definite safety?"... to which you replied "Are you fick or wot ? Of course it is the converse and sets us up fer Cellic." But now you appear to have abandoned that converse, changed your mind again and once more consider the team to be in "BIG trouble". Confused, Inverness.

Is there not something a bit strange here? As I write we are less than three hours away from a game against the Premiership Champions which the team unfortunately goes into back at the bottom of the table. But since midnight last night all that has gone up on the Caley Thistle section of this forum is a single, nine word post referring to the reason for ICT being back bottom - plus no fewer than TEN posts on this thread where people are squabbling about a former Caley Thistle manager who is now in charge of a struggling lower league club.

If I'd been in R19 instead, I could probably have made a decent attempt at making the stuff using Benzyl Bromide, Magnesium, Ammonia and Acetaldehyde!

Looks like the kind of thing you would see on a gable end in Belfast during the "troubles".

Uniquely in the history of strikers, Urquhart has admitted publicly elsewhere that he didn't actually score that goal and was only celebrating it, not claiming it! Can't remember who he said did score it now? Ray MacKintosh?

Interesting to see that contributions to the Ness Bamnk jumble sale were to "be called for on receipt of a postcard to Mrs Petrie, Taybank". Presumably 100 years ago, it wasn't seen as "cool" to be seen dropping off junk at a jumble sale - or to admit publicly to having said junk!

I'm sure that's Betty Munro outside the pawnbroker's!

That would be "Happy Harry" Henderson who's there second left. He ended up as head of English at the High School where this photo was presumably taken. I'm wondering what the structure at the back is? Could it possibly be a HORSA hut - Huts On the Raising of the School leaving Age..... to 15 post-war? These went up latish 40s but that could well already be a fairly aged building, in which case the time wouldn't fit. The kids certainly seem to be dressed in the "austerity clothing" of the wartime or immediately post-war years.

What a strange perspective! The Prison looks as if it's right beside the Cathedral with the River completely obscured. Argyle St looks very wide and Kingsmills Rd very narrow. With no stand there at Kingsmills Park, I wonder what the date is? Some of the houses in Broadstone Ave also seem to be missing. They were presumably built later at the bottom of some of the Broadstone Park back gardens.

These houses on the left on Kilmuir Road are presumably prefabs?