Charles Bannerman

So what do you reckon TBB? If they'd called it "Caledonian" the team would have been SECOND!!

Se my post #7 on the "Where is the £250K?" thread.

God almighty Scarlet! Whose history class were you in at the IRA? We had to be content with World War I, the Unification of Italy and the Jacobites and never got any further into the Yanks than their War of Independence! On the other hand, when you were at school there was quite a lot less history to be covered! :lol:

Because of my various out of school activities, I actually quite often get taken for a PE or an English teacher. For God's sake, come to think of it, even David Currie presenting The Results Programme once referred to me as an English teacher! But on the other hand, recent progress made by the CB and Mantis escape tunnels may sooon render such considerations redundant!

According to this wikipedia entry it was a .22 pistol.

I've been saying for some time that I find it astounding that Northern Counties Cricket Club should continue to have such clout with the Northern Meeting Park. Fair enough, they have been there since Johndo was a boy, but Inverness has changed hugely and there are many other demands for this valuable area, use of which becomes even more restricted when you take into account the cricketers' extremely pernickety requirements about people even breathing on their grass. NCCC should have been told long since that they now need to groundshare at Fraser Park with Highland, hence creating far more felxibility for Inverness City and other users. Inverness can't afford to have two precious green spaces devoted so exclusively to a sport which has virtually no following in the place. Secondly, the Jobsworth mentality of the Aberdeen based North Region of the SJFA needs to be looked at very critically - especially their demeanour towards clubs a long way from Aberdeen. Thirdly, I'm going to act as Devil's Advocate and ask why there is so much complaint about Highland Council's provision for football on a website run for fans of a club which received £900,000 no less of Council Common Good cash without which its stadium could not have been built? Once that had been paid over along with £280,000 to buy the Clach Park, maybe the Council felt that football had actually done quite well out of them. I would also add - apparently in empathy with Caley D - that Inverness City had indeed known for years about the problem and no, the Council doesn't automatically owe a living to any football club that wants a home. (Apologies here to Highland News readers who may have noticed a certain similarity between what I have said here and in the paper - most recently and extensively just two weeks ago.)

It's not a case of "spinning the party line". This is a running story which I am actively engaged in reporting on and it has been my consistent policy on here for many years not to comment as a result. This is also why I have been completely circumspect towards the end of my last post.

Yngwie and fraz have got it bang on. Yes, I do realise that throughout football, when a club "comes into money" there is the expectation among some fans that a slice of this will be spent on boosting the player pool. But in practice it is so often the case, as it is here, that the club concerned needs the money merely to continue to operate at current levels - or indeed to reduce the size of cutbacks. In the year to 2011, Caley Thistle lost £190,000. The previous year in the First Division that was £946,000. Also during 2010-11 it was necessary to sell the Social Club which was more or less the last remaining significant asset, and the 2011 accounts also refer to Directors' Loans and state that "a number of existing shareholders purchased 250,000 at £1 each". This is not to be confused with the later Muirfield Mills injection which will presumably now ease the magnitude of losses for the next financial year to 2012 which ended on Thursday. In other words, for Caley Thistle to continue to survive in the SPL - and it looks to me as if even that is in a climate of contracting budgets - it appears to have become necessary to rely on a series of "one off" windfalls like the ones I have mentioned. It's if these begin to dry up that would create a real worry. However I would want to emphasise that all I have done above is to outline what I understrand to be the general financial situation at Caley Thistle. What I have not commented on - partly because I don't know the details - is the series of decision which I assume will have been made about how a reduced player budget is used and allocated among prospective signings/ contract extensions - including, until the end of last week, Ross Tokely.

Yes, his o/h kick v DU and the Tynecastle goal are my two favourites. The o/h kick for me wins by a nose but Ross himself once told me that the Tynecastle goal was his own personal favourite.

You've got plenty time to do your own bloody garden now!!! :lol:

Do you not mean "je continue mon silence" Scarlet? "Contient" is the third person singular (the bit you use with "il" or "elle") of the verb "contenir" - to contain. You're looking for the first person singular of the present tense of "continuer" - to continue.

Yes indeed "last night" is a real favourite of newspapers when they try to kid the public that they're not really hours behind more rapid response media such internet, radio and TV. For instance you might get something like: "Ex Rangers stopper Terry Butcher LAST NIGHT swooped from his secret Highland hideaway to snap up crack Dutch hit man Ruud Boogers on a one year deal. The Highlanders' boss, who has been ordered to appear before Hampden beaks following his latest rant against Scottish whistlers, had been tracking the busty goal ace since the flying Dutchman issued a 'come and get me' plea just before the last transfer window slammed shut. The England legend has now signed Boogers from under the nose of his old mate and fellow Ibrox legend Coisty, whose derisory wage offer of 50p a week was described by Boogers' agent Dick van Dyke as 'woeful, but I suppose it's the best they can afford'." Now what this really means is that LAST NIGHT, Terry was actually at home in Abriachan enjoying a glass or red wine and reflectiing over his latest signing who had put pen to paper first thing that morning, as reported throughout the day by broadcasters and internet.

In other realms of life, pupils in schools do not have a teacher. They have either a "sir" or a "miss" who - if they teach a Science - will also be a "boffin". And the most popular score in the Olympic Beach Volleyball is sure to be "PHWOAR - NIL".

Have Rangers Supporters in the guise of the Rangers Supporters' Assembly (why do they have always to be so triumphalistically grandiose - why can't they just have a Supporters' Club or Trust like everyone else?) not actually themselves provided a substantial argument for the SPL not to allow Rangers to remain a member club? What the RSA has said is that Rangers fans should boycott away games against other clubs if the SFA's sanctions are upheld. So, given that the main argument for allowing Rangers to remain in the SPL is that they provide revenue for other clubs, then has that not therefore been removed by the RSA's statement?

Pretty unremarkable I thought. Just a straightforward case of a sad Cybernat taking time out from spamming various newspapers' "Independence Yes or No" polls so he can add to his wish list of Union inclined organisations he would like to see the back of. In fact I would suggest that this kind of response on that kind of forum is about as predictable as a Flute Band playing The Sash!

Montecatini was wonderful! The first friendly also produced theee club records - biggest score, fastest goal and smallest crowd. I forget the numbers now, but when the game kicked off there were about 11 members of the public in the ground. The atmosphere was extremely strange since there was no crowd noise at all. It was only players shouting at each other in English and Italian and the constant whine of demented bumble bees outside as the local boy racers whizzed about on their scooters. But the most memorable part of that trip was that it coincided with a semi finals and the final of the 2006 World Cup and the Italians went absolutely mental when their team won, going round and round the town centre (which included the ICT team hotel) honking hooters, playing trumpets, three on a scooter, four on a scooter drinking beer etc etc. Unforgettable.

Suspect Terry has had a "loose end" for a while!

You mean the wives will be getting a visit from John Terry while the boys are at the game?

I have to say that on going into into Brattisanis in Newington when I was in Freshers' Week, this Highlander was totally confused by the question - "Salt and Sauce"? But anyway... Eddanburry's buzzan ken! Aye - jumpan. Eh! So what are the predictions for this mass migration from the Captial to Hampden Park? I'm going to predict that Hibs' 110 year wait will be extended on a 2-1 Hearts scoreline, but the first scorer will be.....Hiya Leigh... hiya pal! (Teckle!) Any more takers?

I often wondered how Sergei's ongoing efforts to improve his English were affected by typical Telford Street greetings like "Howyadooeensergmun"? As it happens we were just talking in the Social Club on Saturday night about the extremely civilised manner in which Sergei was sacked along the lines of "Sergei is standing down because he wants to spend more time with his family in Perth but we have asked him to stay on for the last three games of the season and are pleased that he has agreed to do so." I also sometimes wonder how Dougal spends the rest of his life? Playing with Rubik Cubes and Action Men toys..... watching episodes of Crossroads on his Betamax video..... ironing his flares and combing his perm?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18025886

Right from the original post on this thread I made it quite clear that I would be equally happy with an answer in the public domain or by PM. Caley D, as a party to this thread from an early stage, was hence clearly aware of the distinct possibility that the name would, sooner or later, appear publicly on here unless a request was made to the contrary. Had that been made it would have been observed but it never was. He therefore had several hours to act pre-emptively and request that anonymity was retained, but did not do so - preferring instead to whinge after the event. And given my previous experience of the pointlessness of endless nitpicking dialogues with Caley D on CTO, I hereby conclude my contribution to this thread.

Mmm.. interesting to see an attempt to draw a parallel here between the club's latest investors and the wearer of the mascot suit! Oh well.... maybe it's at this stage that I should suggest (see post 16) that the Sneck phonetic spelling of the word in question might in fact be "Tut- chee!" Valid observation by IHE in post 20 as well. PS - is there a separate rule for Site Admin with regard to the making of abusive posts?

If they were still there (and I think Barney's still is) you would pay well above the odds if you patronised either of these well established Sneck institutions. But on the opther hand you could buy a player right up until midnight - even on Christmas Day and on Bank Holidays!

I have PMd Donald to ask him what he actually means by this statement?! On the Tokely question.... I understand that Ross is injured. Wonderful retail analogy from the manager. In his post match interview he said that Celtic and formerly Rangers shop for players from Harrods (maybe for Still Game watchers that should be "Harrid's")... the rest of the SPL shop at Marks and Spencer but ICT's budget forces them to shop at ASDA. (Lidl and Aldi were also mentioned!)