Caley Mad In Berks

My nomination would be the same I made before CC was appointed, Steve Perryman MBE, currently Director of Football at Exeter City. Apart from his brilliant footballing career with Spurs, he has managed Brentford and Watford, been assistant to Ossie Ardilles at Spurs, and also managed extremely successfully at the highest level in Japan for 5 years. The fact that he is a personal friend, has of course, nothing to do with it!!

Personally I am disappointed, not so much that he has decided to quit, but with the unending hounding he received from so called fans, many of them on this site, which must have contributed to his decision. Good luck to him in whatever he does next.

I too saw the thread with a few replies, then it was gone. I thought the whole idea of this section was to post rumours!! Why then was it deleted? Especially, as it would seem from this morning's news, there's more than a grain of truth in it.

I have to agree with Smee and Caley108. To suggest that Elgin were a more successful HL team than Caley is utter nonsense. I can go back further than most of you, and although it is fair to say that Elgin became Caley's main rival, over the years Caley's record far surpasses that of Elgin

IHE I agree about Dods, but you can't say we haven't replaced Dargo. Nicolae ? McDonald ? Anyway, Dargo must have gone at least half a dozen games with us in his first season before he started scoring. I think the goals will come but replacing Dods is the real problem

I was taken as a 9 year old to my first football game in about 1950, a local Clach/Caley derby at Grant Street. The older boy who took me supported Caley, and I was hooked on them immediately. Although I always lived 'up the hill', I was never tempted to watch Thistle,(except against Caley of course). I was dead against the merger with Thistle, and had I been in Inverness at the time, would have been more actively against it. I still resent the fact that Ross County got into The Scottish league soon after us without merging, not to mention Elgin and Peterhead sometime later. However, once the merger was a 'fait accompli', I accepted it, and I have to admit that following ICT has given me some of the most memorable footballing experiences of my life. As a boy, I could never have imagined SPL (or Division 1, as it then was) football coming to Inverness.

Bobby Mann was excellent when he was with us, and rightly in my view, is now a nominee for the Hall of Fame. But that was some years ago, since when Bobby has struggled to keep his place at Dundee, and it would seem, even at Peterhead. I don't think you can turn the clock back. Let's remember Bobby as the legend he was, and not (like McSweggan) finishing his career with us very much as a bench warmer

Tokeley, I'm afraid will always be caught out by small, nippy wingers. I don't think he means to be dirty, its just that he is slow and awkward. He could easily have got a red card on Saturday. Also, when he goes on his forward runs, which can be an asset, he badly misses Dods, who used to cover for him.

Yes, a great player and a great loss. He was a real thorn in the side to Caley over many a year. I've just read(again) Rodwill Clyne's great book about the Highland League ("In a different league"), and I see, unsurprisingly, that Willie Grant was in Rodwill's all time best North Select X1.

Can't make it up to Sneck for this one unfortunately. However, I've been invited to watch it by a friend of mine who subscribes to Setanta. He just happens to be a fanatical Rangers supporter. I just have no pride ! I really hope to spoil his afternoon, not only by spilling beer etc on his carpet, but by cheering on ICT to another fine win over Gers.

I agree with Caley D that the 'west' should do less meddling in the affairs of other countries, but strongly disagree with him that we should not 'preach', as he puts it, how foreigners should behave here. If anything, I think we should do more of it, starting with a basic knowledge of spoken and written English being mandatory for permanent residents.

Sorry, finger trouble on my last post. I meant to highlight Caley D's first sentence only, and comment how utterly negative I thought it was. Clearly Caley D is a 'glass half empty' character, not 'half full'.

Well said, DavieB, my sentiments exactly. CC and the board should be applauded for showing some ambition.

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Spot on Kencar. It's not how much you spend, but how much you care!

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I agree with those who think Dargo (or his agent) has taken the P*** over the past few weeks. He could have made it clear he wasn't resigning for us ages ago. On a playing level, I think that if Dargo comes down here to Englandshire, he won't hack it, and will disappear without trace in less than a season. I'm one of the few who thinks that we won't miss him all that much, based on his performance on the season just gone, (not the previous season when he was on fire), especially if Denzil is fully fit and up for it. Anyway, we'll see in due course.

Wow! Not often lions come out second best! I was in Kruger Park in Feb this year. Never saw anything as dramatic as that.