beachcomber

Ashers pies at Nairn - yummmmmmmm - 99% salt !

I'd take Caley back to the Highland League days when they visited Station Park for their regular rogerings by the Wee County - Happy days Beachcomber is just back from the Nairn v Elgin Scottish Cup Tie. 4-2 to Elgin, but they got two soft penalties and County had a goal chalked off for a dubious offside, so I'm claiming it as a moral victory. I'm sure the ref was John Teasdale !! (I saw him in the P&J looking for a job back in football right enough !) Big crowd, good crack, City supporters pouring off the trains at Nairn Station, The Vic jumping before the game, snaking queues at the gate, Cowshed hoaching, all in all, a cracking day out except for the official score. photos from the gurnmeister here

maybe the board just don't want to be reminded of their last costly interaction with a person of Romany origin

Do you reckon ICT can bounce back to the SPL next season, and what are the biggest threats to them not making it ?

The table doesn't lie, but I honestly didn't expect to lose today. Reality only hit me at the final whistle.

Hello from the North Sea - By feck the next 45 minutes are going to be high stress.

All the 'headhunters' and 'recruitment consultants' I've come across have been nothing but fast talking opportunist spivs and flash harrys.

You'll never Waulk alone ?

'Bring it on Home' - bring it on back

Davie Johnston

A Penthouse Cottage - nice idea - a potential niche market for Tullochs ? Nairn is what it is - a fast fading Victorian sea-side resort that's seen better days, (a bit like your correspondent) with a run down High Street, but still with a great beach and home to the odd Oscar winning actress and ICT chairman. It doesn't pretend to be much else. But Snecky masquerading as a cosmopolitan city - you've got to laugh.

Face it, Inversnecky IS a backwater. It's a dull regional town, miles from anywhere with limited attractions for most twenty-somethings, unless they're tree hugging, munro-bagging, gore-tex fetishists. There's not too many professional footballers want to spend their free time hiking the Lairg Ghru. These young lads want pubs, nightclubs, more pubs and more nightclubs full of would be WAGs who're game for whatever it is premiership footballers aspire to do with them. Unless ICT start paying them silly money (which they thankfully can't and won't), there's no incentive for them to head North and there's not a whole lot can be done to change it. Most of the folk I've come across who argue otherwise have never actually lived anywhere else and still think having a Markies makes the place a city.

imagine expressing surprise at Rossco regularly getting booked - it's what he does he puts his right leg in his right leg out he does the Rosco Tokely and he shakes it all about Oh Tokely Tokely Tokely...etc Then he normally gets booked for it.

Correct ! The signs are all there and if Johndo summons up the influence his spirit friend, the great meeting at Station Park will become reality. I'm sure you'd love that too Charles.

He's got a great Highland name though, sounds like he should have a big mad red beard and carry a claymore.

It's no coincidence that the Bermuda Triangle started to disappear on the day the Hadron Collider Black Hole Generator was switched on. I've had to put a spanner in it's works before the Caley and the Star disappear too. The Vic is the one on the corner and last I knew it was available for lease if you fancy trying your luck, you could be running the bar and DJ'ing at the same time so you'd save a packet. Imagine that, living and working in the Bermuda Triangle and never having to leave it - could life get an better ? As for the football Nairn/ICT connection...er,....umm...ah, - County are away to Edinburgh City in the Scottish Cup on Saturday and if they get through this and the next few rounds until the footballing aristocrats from TCS join the fray, County could possible get ICT at home and you could all get the chance to visit the Bermuda Triangle and Station Park for yourselves. How good would that be ? Must get Johndo to check his tea leaves coz I've got a feeling in my water that this year I'm going to get my wish. The last time County had a Scottish Cup game in Edinburgh (about 1985/6 - I was there) they got through against Meadowbank and then got Dundee (when Dundee were a big team) at home, so the signs are good. Nairn calling Johndo - you must apply the full force of your mystical and ancient powers to this one. Speak with the gods at King Brude's fort, the fairies on Tomnahurich and with the Nessach to make this happen. With the combination of the internutters, Granville, Toich and Willie Bell meeting up with Willie Tiptoe and the Nairnacs in the Bermuda Triangle something magical is certain to happen. Then County can go and and thrash the Invernessians again at Station Park just like in ancient times. COME AWAY THE COUNTY

CB - ah 1976 - a vintage year. I didn't get the dubbing, but I've still got the high waist, side pocket trousers and tank top I wore at Borough Briggs that night. DH - how could you get depressed after a weekend in Nairn when there's the delights of the Canteen and Star to provide all the distractions and temptations a young man about town could desire. When is the Vic gonna re-open ? the Bermuda triangle has been broken and that just aint right

With the rampant levels of dissatisfaction, unhappiness and dishillusionment expressed on this board I think more of you should come back to the HIGHLAND league fold. You'd be made welcome to join me and my old friend Willie Tiptoe at Station Park if you publicly repent your sordid pasts as HowdenEnders/Kingsmillers and ultimately Caley-Thistlers and subjected yourselves to the necessary self flagellation in the centre circle at half time by way of penance. You'd love it - you'd feel right back at home - the clue is in the title - 'HIGHLAND' league - **** the central belt. I know you've got soul If you didn't you wouldn't be in here COME AWAY THE COUNTYYYYY

No tradesmen in Inverness, that's odd, because I'd heard that the use of the tradesmans entrance was particularly prevelant in the sneck, whatever could they have been referring to there then?? At least I must've got the collective noun for Dalneigh residents correct :thumb04: The residences at the East Beach are now euphemistically marketed as 'holiday homes' and prices seem to start at about 25 grand Tilda Swinton had her Cinema of Dreams to compliment Station Parks Field of Dreams, in fact I'd say Nairn is one big town of dreams, with a few dreamers living there too. I love the Highland League mentality so hated by so many of ICT's supporters. It's still got the soul which Caley and Thistle sold to the HIE down at the crossroads. Money - it's the root of all evil. COME AWAY THE COUNTY

You're probably right, most houses in Shanghai have croquet pitches and peacocks strutting the lawns, they are somewhat impoverished though, there's only one polo pitch for the whole community. Artists impression of Shanghai and typically attired resident Dalneighans preparing to head to Nairn during Inversnecky trades holiday

I've just noticed that the Caley U-19's are coached by Scott Kellacher who I think was thrown out of Station Park for being morbidly obese, so give him a few month and he'll have those loons in similar trim to County's thoroughbreds

C100 - That would be the county lads on a quiet night with no fish suppers or narcotics for sustenance and they can still show Caleys pasta and meusli munching metrosexuals a thing or two on the pitch CB - Being more of a cyclist than a runner I'm not sure about the 10k route, but Shanghai (aka Queesnpark) is the salubrious and desirable suburb behind Station Park at the opposite end to the railway line. Similar house styles to Dalneigh actually.

more likely to end up with methodone or alcohol dependency if they're from fife yahoorsir

tut tut Charles, sound like sour Invernessian grapes there as normal service is resumed with Nairn thrashing the combined ******* remnants of the unholy alliance of Kingsmills and Telford St. Whats more, this would be after the County boys rolled out of the Star at 2am last night , staggered to a party in Shanghai until 4 or 5 before waking up in a drunken heap in a strange flat with one of Nairn's fine young ladies, quick taxi home to grab their gear then a couple of refreshers in the Legion before heading through to the sneck for the game. That's what it's all about. 'Athletic and conditioned' indeed Championes etc etc....

Correct what we need is a strapping scottish centre forward whos just the right side of psychotic we'll never get anywhere with a forward line of lightweight midgets a Big Joe Jordan type or a Duncan Disorderly seen here discussing a difference of opinion with the ref I'm sure he's not too old for a comeback