Charles Bannerman

Was he riding Shergar and in the company of Lord Lucan and Elvis? If I had a pound for every alleged sighting like this, I would be a tax exile by now.

For as long as John Hughes is in post, this is an incredibly pointless and counterproductive thread.

So how can Rangers be worth £31.5 million while hundreds of creditors have never been paid the millions they were owed earlier - unless this of course is some other Rangers that didn't win 54 league titles (is it 54?? - I don't actually care) in years gone by?

So the departure of Billy MaKay wasn't after all the same kind of mortal wound as the similar exit of David Bingham in 2004 was also predicted to become?

And the next line...... "Then fall Caesar". Significant? Unless you mean the time time Brutus and Julius were eating their sandwiches and Brutus went to the toilet. He came back and said "Julius... when I left there were eight sandwiches. Now there are only six." Caesar replied:"Et tu Brute". Brutus and Julius Caesar went out for a dram. Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic intram.

You mean people are always wanting to get out of Dundee?

Are you sure about that because he seems to be doing pretty well at Plymouth? Could there possibly be some confusion here since it happens to have been a year ago tomorrow that he was sacked by Ross County?

We also get a few mentions in a book called Against All Odds. Can't believe you missed an opportunity to mention that one. No need Wingy! It's in the OP.

That would presumably have been recorded when Gordon Ramsay was up here playing for Rangers By way of books, please also don't forget Ian Broadfoot's "Going Ballistic" which takes the story as far as the SPL in 2004. I did hear suggestions immediately after the Cup Final about something to cover the entire 1994-2015 period by way of words and pictures. The idea seemed to be to get something out for this Christmas, which would have been a good idea but this has clearly come to nothing.

Should it not have the heading "Infrequency" instead, given that the units, as written, are "Games per red card" and hence the bigger the number, the less frequent are the sendings off? Since the table is intended to reflect how often clubs' players have been sent off, it might be better to have the reciprocal (1 over) of the figure there or, since these will be small numbers such as 0.027 for Kilmarnock, multiply them all by 100 which would give "sendings off per 100 games".... which is, as wynthank has also expressed it, the percentage.

Just pick it off and put your own one on... Now there's an interesting legal conundrum. Someone purchases an item of branded kit which includes a club's badge, the design of which is presumably the property of that club, but replaces with something else the logo of a sponsor which is also on that kit as a result of a legal agreement between club and sponsor. What does the law say? The buyer, having paid for the item, can do what they want with it? Or the buyer still has no right to corrupt a legally copyrighted design? By the way, observing from the sidelines, with a total of over 150 posts across the two threads, this issue seems to be creating an incredible amount of angst!!!

Mainly that I'm on the committee at Whitehill and we took Lothian's manager and their 4 best players. the other bits are just hearsay. Bit of a hike for Whitehill.... What comes around goes around! 2010 In Wick drew Whitehill away and got as far as Perth (220 miles "doon ee rodd") before they were told that the game was off. However this tie at Whitehill was small change compared with the two previous seasons. In 2008 it was a 700 mile round trip to play St Cuthbert Wanderers in Kirkcudbright which reduced to "just" 600 in 2009 to meet Girvan. So the 500 or so to Whitehill when the game finally went ahead was only a stroll in the park. But by now they had travelled 2200 miles to fulfil just three cup ties. Then in 2011 they drew Coldstream from the banks of the Tweed on the English border... but fortunately for Wick this was at HOME. Wick were obviously keen to avoid a replay here so they made very sure .....by winning 9-1!

Is that something of a Malapropism on your part Scotty?

They just have! The Scottish Cup semi final matchwinner David Raven. 1-0.

Norman Cordiner stood down 20 years ago. He might come back. But isn't Celtic's (and some other clubs') normal M.O. a sort of mirror image auction where they start by offering peanuts and then increase that when the lower ones are rejected? Interesting, though, that Joan Collins blames the allegedly poor standard of the rest of Scottish football for Celtic's European inadequacies while, if young Christie now goes there, he will be the fifth Scottish player they will have asset stripped of late, following three from DU and one from Hibs?

So who next? Iain Black?

I'd love to know what Jack and Victor (pictured) are saying about this return, which I think is an excellent move.

Oh dear! I hope he's already got kids then!

I'm not going to get involved in this kind of debate about the numerically bleeding obvious yet again because I seem to have spent much of the last 20 years explaining that half a pint isn't going to make a lot of difference when you're filling up a petrol tank.

Such is the lot of many clubs, I fear. The psychology of football support is fascinating! I have always been of the view that, for some, attending football matches (and I use that as a deliberate alternative to "supporting" a football team) is principally a means of trying to address their own personal feelings of inadequacy. If you are in a position to make a loud and public assertion that high profile individuals or, collectively, a high profile organisation are hugely inadequate well in that case you're maybe not quite as inadequate yourself as you constantly find yourself otherwise believing. Are you????? Sometimes the actual football isn't all that an important as aspect of people's visits to games. It's perhaps the same with all those guys (and it's overwhelmingly men) who invariably know FAR better than the manager how to set out the team and what tactics to use. Isn't it a scandal that such an overwhelming source of football expertise is being wasted in the stands while clubs pay good money to employ incompetents? This is what I find the most amusing aspect of going to football - all these people who individually have more footballing nous in their little fingers than the entire management team put together. So how come managers have acquired well paid jobs while these people have to pay to get in and watch? Sometimes the delusional aspects of football fans can be absolutely hilarious. As for Caley Thistle.... well I have to say that I am getting increasingly concerned that this Old Firm expectation that the default position is victory is gaining currency alarmingly rapidly among fans.

This is another of these occasions when it is not entirely clear whether a post from IHE should be taken at face value or whether it is the latest attempt to wind people up and create an unwanted rammy. Either way, I don't think it's particularly helpful to have the less savoury aspects of the merger continually dug up in a negative manner. In particular the persistent assertion that Inverness remains packed with refuseniks becomes especially irritating since this is simply groundless assertion which is never based on anything more than anecdotes out of the "There's guys at my work who say...." stable. Far more relevant is that, even in these under subscribed times, around five times as many people come to watch football in Inverness than you would normally get in the early 1990s when Thistle and Caledonian were, on the grander scheme of things, struggling small town teams. Part of the problem (and this is especially a "Caley" thing), is that rose coloured spectacles have been in operation for far too long and too many people actually believe that Caledonian FC really was a major player rather than a small, provincial semi professional club, too many of whose supporters had an unfortunately inflated perception of its significance - which is the wont of the big fish in a small pond. I think that this is especially the case among Howden Enders of the late 70s and 1980s who had never known anything other than that period of prominence in Highland League terms and as a result tended to display a lack of humility which, alongside a vastly inflated view of their own significance, gained the club the nickname "The Rangers Of The North". It would perhaps be a lot more constructive if some of the older fans around would take a hard look at where they really came from and just be grateful for the opportunity which football in Inverness has had to escape these decidedly modest beginnings and reach where it has in more recent years. Please note that these observations come from someone who felt equally supportive whilst standing in the Howden End or the Kingsmills shed in days gone by which he still looks on with enduring fondness.

I agree Davie, but in my opion this will never happen whilst we play our football in the Longman, we built the stadium in the wrong place. So, in view of the revelations about a total of 13 sites in the exhaustive Percy Johnston Marshall report of 1993, where should it have been built instead?

Well what about that!! For years it has never occurred to me that RiG was anything other than a bloke "I'm Shona"..... you could have been Spartacus for all I would have guessed! We learn something new every day!

Special congratulations on your excellent English Vlad! Better than many Invernessians certainly. Which reminds me..... when Sergei Baltacha arrived as manager of Caley in 1993 it was fairly quickly commented that his English wasn't to hot. It was equally quickly commented that after a while at Telford Street, it could only get worse!

no worries mate I was under the impression that they did too but my St Mirren colleague at work has told me that they don't. He he also warned me about Carbrini's sizing issues and how the tops are tiny so be aware when ordering Feck me - what size should I ask fer ? I think it's called 'darts player' Which "darts player" size? I believe there are two - heavyweight and superheavyweight.