bmills

14 hours ago, Scotty said:

I think the little project that @CaleyD references might be able to accommodate this provided someone (or a few folk) were happy to do the data entry .... need to check the logistics as we would likely have to set up separate instances for Caley and Thistle but its probably do-able and eminently suited to this kind of thing.  

This is great news.

I'd be happy to help out with the data inputting.

4 hours ago, TheMantis said:

Maybe worth asking them if they are willing to sell you a job lot of videos (they used to charge £10 each) and you could convert them yourself.

They said they don't have any videos for sale.  Any match footage would need to be transferred onto dvd.

Asked about discount for bulk purchase - they said they'd entertain £20 per dvd for a bulk order.  Thought it'd be worth letting you all know in case anyone was interested in this old footage.  I couldn't believe they had any at all after all these years.  They had to go away and rifle through the vaults and came back to me about a week later.   When they started going through the list I was hoping Caley 15 Golspie Sutherland 0 might be in there but alas not!

1 hour ago, Jaggernaut said:

I asked at the club several years ago if they could supply me with some details, results, fixtures etc,  of some old Higland League games.  The quizzical look I got was as if I had asked for some secrets from the vault. After some months had passed I asked again, and again quizzical looks to which I was informed that they couldn't help me. With ICT taking both Caley and Thistles name, I thought that their respected histories would been held in high esteem, and the new club would have kept a detailed history of the old clubs records. I therfore had to spend months at the library going through old couriers and highland news to get the info I required, Aberdeen library was also very helpful but I had to pay for the information. I do believe that there should be a football museum at the club, detailing the history of Caley and Thistle, to show the future generations where ICTFC came from.

Would it worth putting together fixtures, results, dates, scores, scorers between us for late 80's / early 90's either on this site or on Wikipedia?  Could add to it over time.  I'd be happy to scan pages from old programmes to verify.

2 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:

The game you are talking about took place on wednesday 25th April 1990. Christie and Urquhart scored for Caley, and It was Alan Macdonald who got the overhead kick goal for the Jags. The attendance at Telford Street was 541. 

Thanks very much for that, very much appreciated.   Spent the last couple of weeks scouring for results from those last few seasons but can't find anything at all anywhere online. 

Looked through a few old programmes.  Caley's 1993-94 results are covered in the 'Farewell To The Highland League' booklet and the Caley programmes themselves are quite good for a particular seasons but need late season programmes to be anywhere near comprehensive and the programmes themselves are harder and harder to find on eBay etc.

Sadly, the Thistle programmes don't seem to have much by way of a rundown of results for the season and seems to be more just match reports of the latest couple of games.

3 hours ago, TheMantis said:

Is that a tape? Got a few from Sergei’s time but not anything that early. Got a few years of Caley results though but I never went out of my way to gather them. Sometimes the Caley programme printed the previous season’s results.

Sounds like bmillsy that was buying me doubles in Brechin about 20 years ago 

 

Hi!  Yes it is BMillsy that was buying doubles in Brechin about 20 years ago! You also kindly sent me some tapes of Caley / Caley Thistle footage from 1993/94/95 (news footage of the last ever derby, news report on the Caley Thistle 1st league game v Arbroath, North Of Scotland Cup Final 1994, etc).

The Caley v Thistle game from 1990 is on dvd.  I contacted HCVF a few weeks ago to see if they still have any of the old footage (and fully expected to be told that they don't).

Amazingly they came back with a list of games that they are happy to convert to dvd at £24 each.

For anybody that's interested, the full list was:

Hi,

Is anybody able to direct me to the playing records for Caledonian Thistle and Inverness Thistle for the last few years up into 1994 eg dates, opponents, results, scores and scorers?

Can't find anything anywhere and I recently came into possession of a match video of a game between Calet and Inverness Thistle but can't find the date anywhere for when it would have been played.  Looks like 1989-90 judging by the kits and finished 2-1 to Caley (Charlie Christie and Billy Urquhatt for Caley and an overhead kick from inside the 6 yard box for Thistle)

Thanks.  Any help much appreciated.