Charles Bannerman

The music is specifically an item called "O Fortuna" from a cantata called "Carmina Burana" by the 20th century German composer Carl Orff. It initially shot to fame in the 60s and 70s when it was used to advertise Old Spice after shave.

I am not going to deflect this very worthy thread by raking over for the n-th time the usual speculative and highly anecdotal evidence on this theory. And of losing a few was the price to pay for a club which has achieved what it has since 1994 then, as the Lord High Executioner said in The Mikado... "they will none of them be missed!"

Oh dear... this weary old myth surfaces again!! Look - before the merger, not enough people in Inverness gave a toss about either Caley or Thistle to create any significant body of dissent in relation to a local population of 60,000. You are talking about (tops) two or three hundred people who didn't like something that happened almost 20 years ago - and most of them have either left Inverness, are dead, or have joined the fold.

I would thoroughly endorse what Kingsmills has just said. Apart from the fascination of following the birth and development of ICT over the years, I have also had the pleasure of reporting on the fairy story which has been Ross County since 1987 when they were ?250K in debt, amateur and working out of a " wooden shed" in Victoria Park, right through to the amazing revelations which we have seen this season. It's almost exactly 17 years since the SFL decided to create two vacancies and on this occasion at least they did the decent thing and let in the two strongest candidates. What ICT and Ross County have achieved in the intervening years has been absolutely amazing and fully justifies their election back in January 1994. Tomorrow's Cup Final is the very last act in what has been a phenomenal season for football in the Highlands. GOOD LUCK COUNTY!!

I don't know why that nickname doesn't stick.. fits him perfectly You should have seen Colin Mitchell when he was a kid in a Caley strip!! :021: Well done David and this is rather a nice idea on the part of the East Kilbride paper too, isn't it?

I thought I had better copy on here what I have just written on the Rumour Mill thread which was..... I seem to have misunderstood the situation here. I had heard this story so often about the town, including from 100% reliable sources, over the preceding three or four days that I actually assumed that it had already been done by somebody else and I had missed it so I thought I had better play catch up with a brief line this morning. However it has since emerged that it was simply a case of a story which was in wide public circulation but had not yet reached the media. If I had known that I might have waited since they might have preferred to release it officially.

Did Toich's interaction with lamp posts not amount to a bit more than simply talking to them? I have to say that the recent election would have been a lot livelier if Willie Bell had been standing once again and with Granville back as his Agent!

Are you just back from visiting Ally MacLeod on "the other side"?

Barry signed for the first time in 96.

As long as you don't have to travel Ryanair!

That I don't know.

From what I'm hearing, I don't think ICT fans will be disappointed with tomorrow's Courier.

I think I would also like to pay tribute to the contribution of my colleagues over at Scorguie. MFR did a really fine job on Saturday afternoon, splitting frequencies to give separate coverage of the "party" aspect of the day from Gino Conti and contributions from Ian Auld into the normal sports programme. This is what the local media are for and they did it very well. It's not an option we have locally with the BBC, although frequency splitting is the backbone of Saturday afternoons nationally. But within the MFR transmission area, especially given the interest in ICT, this worked very well.

Donald and EWS, I fully appreciate what you're saying but I obviously couldn't comment on the Record's sports editorial policy. All I'm doing is to try to shed some light on the general background to this scenario and in particular to respond to 12th Man's comment about BBC coverage.

There's maybe a hint there in the bit I've highlighted. The media can't go on covering this ICT story in depth forever. What you have to remember is that Caley Thistle won the title away back now on April 21st amid great media acclaim. In the case of the BBC, commentary on Raith v Dundee was laid on just for that purpose and Ross Tokely was on air within minutes of confirmation. Then there was a great celebration at Ayr and a 7-0 away win which also attracted a great deal of coverage - in the case of the BBC, Chic on Open All Mics and a great deal of follow up, including parts of the manager's impromptu speech. By the time you get to Saturday's event, yes it's a great day for ICT fans, but the fact that ICT did what they did is no longer NEWS. On the other hand, Stirling wininng the Second Division IS now news, and so is the relegation of Ayr and the ongoing Killie/ Falkirk scenario in the SPL etc etc. I think you also have to look at this from the perspective of the vast majority of people who use these media and who are NOT Caley Thistle fans. Newspapers and other media have a major onus to report breaking news and the kind of gratifying ongoing coverage which, OK the fans of successful teams really enjoy, is only a minority taste and there is therefore a limit to the extent to which it can be indulged. As for the BBC, coverage of Saturday's game amounted to the following - * Robbo on air all afternoon on Open all Mics. There was also commentary (I'm not sure if it was used live or otherwise - I certainly used it on this morning's local news report) on the moment Grant Munro held up the trophy. * A TV match report at 4:50. * Further radio coverage on Sports Report at 6:30. * An online match report on the BBC website from around 7:30. * Extensive coverage on the BBC local news bulletin this morning, including interviews with Terry Butcher, Grant Munro, George Fraser and David Sutherland. You also have to remember that something like this will obviously have a rather longer shelf life in the local media where it's a much bigger deal (but be prepared to be overshadowed very soon, possibly in all but the most very locally based Inverness media, by the run up to Ross County's Scottish Cup appearance). Nationally on the other hand there are far more fish to fry, so there really is a limit to which any one story can dominate other, breaking, fresher ones.

Aye but Terry's not trying to do it with a Learner at the wheel!! :(

They were repeatedly being kept out of national league football by a protectionist cartel of self interested Scottish League minnows who were scared to a paranoid degree about the conventional order of things being upset and of what has now actually happened over the last six years. However in 1994 that was sorted and the result has been evident ever since. Part of that amounts to challenging the notion that being a "big City" club with loadsa supporters doesn't really guarantee success. Commitment, bottle, ethos, a collective and organised desire to succeed and fundamental expertise count for a great deal as well.

How may gallons does it take to fill Les up? A LOT more than it takes to fill up your "place of work" I'm sure! :) But if he's as successful at filling up the Caledonian Stadium on Saturday as he was for Barry's testimonial, I'm sure there will be a few more V and Ks coming his way in the Social Club after the game.

I actually filled Les up with Vodka and Coke last night and he told me that it's going to be "Torridon and the Staggies" performing "We're On Our Way" live with a medley from the Dingwall Gaelic Choir as a supporting act.

I can exclusively reveal that it's the Alexander Brothers with Andy Stewart, Moira Anderson and the White Heather Dancers.

Was it not something like "CHIG" that he used to shout?

Did they stick enough stamps on your forehead to get you posted home safely?

I have to say that the BBC have been reporting the Savage and Bangladeshi developments for well over a fortnight. Anyway.. the reason I posted here was to point out the irony that the said Councillor Corbett happens to be Chairman of the Licensing Authority . I will not fail to jar him about that one next time I see him! However, it would appear that any alcohol ban at Clach Park would not be as easy to get round as the smoking ban since as far as I am aware Inverness's laws against drinking outside would eliminate the smokers' expedient as an option. I am actually told, though, that the Bangladeshis may be happy enough for the Social Club to continue in the town end of the building if a partition was erected between there and the main hall which is what they want to use but that is unconfirmed.

That more or less sums up the situation as I understand it at a time when money is tight and there are several much higher priorities. And yes, there would be a problem with the gas line. I recollect that David Sutherland once told me that it could be overcome with something called a cantilever - but that would cost a million. In any case the current capacity of 7700 just about matches the absolute maximum that could now be expected next season, on the basis of what OF attendances had slightly declined to in 2008-09. I think I'd better stop this now or we will have IHE back on about the aquifer...... :tonguecheek:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t..._ct/default.stm I don't know if a "linked" page changes with the site from which it originates, but as of the time of this message there were TV interviews with Terry Butcher and Russell Duncan and a radio interview with George Fraser. Ross Tokely also did two very good interviews for radio. I think there's a link to one of them on another thread but I can't see them as archived on the BBC site. I'm not trying to upstage the "newsfeeds" forum here, merely attempting to offer a direct link to a single source of several interviews with key personnel.