Caley Mad In Berks

Looking forward to it.  First dram already poured. Hopefully there will be a few more to follow, for celebration, not drowning sorrows.

Good luck lads.

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ICT Sutherland

QoS  Shields

Yes, late 1950s I think when he was at Telford Street.

Will he have to quarantine?  Or, did he actually go to Spain (to join Cordoba) at all?

Yes, a fantastic win by Scotland, I enjoyed every minute of it although my fingernails are bitten to the quick.  Let's hope we can continue this form over the next few weeks and win the whole thing.

As someone who has been happy to pay to watch all our matches since streaming started, I will be happy to pay for a virtual ticket.  I know some of my friends down here, whom I've "converted" to become ICT fans, will probably be happy to do so as well if they watch the game on BBC.

Well, flattered to deceive again.  Thought we would have pressed on and won that after the good start to 2nd half.  Where was Storey for second half? Did he even touch the ball?

Decent chance for Sutherland, should have done better

Great goal.  Come on lads.

B****r, just when I thought we'd got away with it in a difficult first half against the wind.

Agree about the commentary team They're good value.

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Arbroath O'Brien

Yellow Devine

8 hours ago, Jack Waddington said:

..........and Crown at Cameron Barracks. Still nothing on Celtic...

I've never heard of a senior club called Crown .  There was a good juvenile team called Crown back in the 1950s, playing their home games, I think, at Fraser Park.

Don't know anything about the original 2, Union and Celtic.

Really disappointing that we can't see out a game against a team with only 10 men for over an hour

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Morton Oliver

Yellow Devine

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Alloa Thomson

It will be a good riddance for Scottish football when he goes for good. 

Thanks, Robert, I'll plough through them in due course.

Surprisingly, this doesn't get a lot of press coverage down here in darkest Englandshire!  I'd appreciate someone telling me where I can read up about it, background etc,  where it has reached, and what might happen next. 

57 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

..........enduring double geography with Mr Preece instead.

Yes, Mr Preece might have taught you the way to Telford Street

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ICT Sutherland

Buckie MacAskill

Corners 8

Fouls 14

Loads of interviews on You tube with David before the his game v Spurs on Sunday (on BBC btw).  I'm glad his recent red card has not precluded him from playing in that match.  He has become quite the celeb in the past few weeks it seems.

So I'm looking forward to a good week-end football viewing on TV.  Hopefully our match v Buckie will be streamed on Saturday, and then seeing how DR copes with marking Harry Kane on Sunday.  Good luck to him, and of course to ICT.   I wouldn't mind one surprise 'underdog' victory on the w/end, but not, of course, two.

Yes, terrible news.  What a legacy he has left us all with his fabulous book.  I'm honoured to have a signed copy.   RIP

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Arbroath Doolan

Yellow Allerdice

I had intended not to bother keeping my spreadsheets of ex ICT scorers up to date in 2020, but suddenly finding myself at home a lot, looking for things to do, I decided to carry on.

Unsurprisingly, the level of scoring in 2020 was about 60% down on 2019.  Nevertheless, I found 62 players scoring 188 goals amongst them. Once again Nathan Austin came out at the top of the list.

I don't include ICT players out on loan in my lists.  Nor do I include goals scored in penalty shoot-outs.

So, here goes :-

15 goals        N Austin (Kelty H)

12    "             D Ebbe (The New Saints)

11     "             R Christie (8,Celtic : 3,Scotland)

10     "             A MacRae (Brora R)

08     "             L Doumbouya (Meizhou Hakka)

07     "             S Armstrong (Southampton), B Mckay (Ross Co)

06     "             R McAllister (Cove R), A MacAskill (Buckie T)

05     "             S Boden (Chesterfield), H Anier (Paide)

04     "             J Oswell (Telford), B Greenhalgh (Tonbridge), J Baird (Raith), 

                        D Gillespie (Brora R), G Shinnie (Derby), G Wood (Formantine)

03     "             T Sho-Silva (2,Sutton : 1,Halifax) , D Park (Formantine), A Sutherland (Rothes)

                        S Sutherland (Elgin), D Raven (2,Warrington : 1,Marine)

02     "             D Lopez (Don Benito), A Wilson Rothes), A Grieg (Formantine), I Vigurs (Ross Co)

                        L MacKinnon (Buckie T), J Wilson (Dumbarton), N Wedderburn (1,Airdrie : 1, Dumbarton)

                        L Polworth (Motherwell), J Hayes (Aberdeen), M Watkins (Aberdeen), T Walsh (Ayr U)

                        A Chippendale (AFC Bury), R Eagle (Leiston), L Hughes (Bradford P.A.)

                        M Curry (1, Gateshead : 1,Sunderland), J Roberts (Gillingham), A Mutombo (Stade-Lausanne)

01     "             S Winnall (Sheff Wed), Z Elbouzedi (Lincoln), A Shinnie (Charlton), A Fisher (Exeter)

                       D Williams (Halifax), A Rooney (Solihull M), G Warren (Torquay), C Trafford (Hamilton)

                       R Draper (Ross Co), C Donaldson (Ross Co),S Rooney St Johnstone), J Rankin (Clyde)

                       D Devine (Dunfermline), A MacDonald (Brora R), M Finnis (Clach), C MacMillan (Strathspey)

                       A Evans (Longford T), B King (St Pats Ath), N Ross (El Paso L), T Aldred (Brisbane R)

                       R Calder (Rushall O), C Bell (Dunston UTC), J Mulraney (Atlanta)

That's all folks.   Happy New Year

An away trip to Buckie in my childhood still holds fond memories for me too.  It was the first 'away' match I'd been to outside of Inverness, and I travelled on the bus with the Caley team.  Can you imagine how exciting that was for a youngster?  It came about because an elder sister of mine was friendly with a sister of Donnie (Ginger) McKenzie, one of Caley's stars at the time.  I don't remember anything about the match, but I recall the bus stopping in Forres on the way home for the team to go into a bar.  I had to stay on the bus, but was well provided for with crisps and lemonade.  Happy days!  'Ginger' became a great hero of mine, and in later years, a friend, after he had emigrated to Canada, where I visited him (and his family) in Winnipeg on a couple of occasions.