bluesbrother

I think Joe Toal died at a very young age.

Cant dispute whether or not they were born in Inverness, may have been cos it was the nearest mattie hospital, but they were brought up in Caol, Fort William as was another two I could add to the list.....Donald Park and George 'Pele' Cambell both went from Caley. Parkie to Hearts and Pele to Aberdeen then on to Australia where he's still involved in football. "Pele" Campbell was never on Caleys books. Caley signed two other Lochaber based youngsters around that time - Stuart McKinnon, who was a schoolboy international played season 72-73 before going to Edinburgh Uni to study maths and Joe Toal, a striker, who packed in football shortly after to concentrate on shinty.

Don't know the chronology but he also played with Caledonian, where he broke the record for the number of HIghland League goals in a season. A record that still stands. I have no idea of the exact number, but I am told it is astonishing. Any HL stattos? Davie Johnston went from Nairn to Hearts, returning to Nairn before joining Aberdeen. Signed for Caley in summer of 1969 and in his first season at Telford Street, hit 52 goals; his strike partner that season, Chic Allan, scored 49.

Poetry

For me Caley were and always will be the greatest football team ever. What I would give to be in the Howden End again, even on a miserable Tuesday in February against Fort William. Caledonian FC - we have not forgotten. "Primus Inter Omnes" indeed