60`s bairn
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Really pleased for Nesbitt, his work rate is immense. Also, he`s a good reader of the game and often gets himself into position to cut out opposition passes. It was that anticipation that got him his goal yesterday.
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33 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said:
The keepers in front of MacIver when miller heads the ball. In that pic miller has already headed it and the keeper is scrambling to get goal side of MacIver. If miller had headed it backwards then to MacIver then different story but MacIver is in front of miller when he heads it
Had a look at the highlights again and agree.
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5 hours ago, Shodwall cat said:
I think it quite possibly was offside. The keeper is out far enough so that when miller heads the ball forward to MacIvor he's more than likely off. Who gives a feck though.
I managed to get a wee sequence of shots of that and it looks like the keeper coming back plays McIvor onside.
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12 hours ago, Bigbrbairn said:
Big Doug Baillie was a hero of mine. Then he was a reporter for that awful paper The Sunday Post.
AHH, Big Doug, a guy who took no prisoners. Played as striker few times too.
"Markie, Baillie & Gibson" that was a combo.
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44 minutes ago, Bigbrbairn said:
A legend is usually a player you watched a long time ago. Callum will be a legend for those lads in the ultras the same way Johnny Graham then Stainrod, Latapy and Crunchie are for this old crusty
Johnny G, what a player.
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36 minutes ago, BPM said:
Very observant
It would appear to be an excellent vintage.
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3 hours ago, BPM said:
Sheffield FSC on the road. Drink of choice today
I think I can see why.
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2 hours ago, Rugster said:
What a story from Tam McManus about big Elvis by the way. What a gentleman.
That`s a side to him that not many knew about. The season after he left we were in the play-offs and he attended the game at Hamilton. After the match I was walking through the car park to the team bus and he was getting into a car about 50 yds away. He must have spied me and got out the car and walked the 50 yds up the car park to shake my hand and ask how I was doing. It was one of those moments where, as he was approaching, you turn round to see if there`s somebody behind you that he`s heading for.
A mark of the man.
I can also confirm his dislike for Jack Compton, I was at training the day he absolutely roasted him in front of everyone and ordered him off the training pitch. Had never witnessed that happen to a player before...or since.
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2 hours ago, RC55 FFC said:
He was brilliant!
I`m still trying to find the cash to pay for the mention he gave me.
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3 hours ago, ShaggerG said:
Haud oan here! That disco was Doc Dickens, run by none other than FFC's Gordon McFarlane.
Geez, I miss the big man, still coming to terms with him not being involved in things.
On a different note, I`m surprised Watneys Red Barrel didn`t put you off beer for life.
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1 hour ago, Bigbrbairn said:
I want the club to go over the top with goods to commemorate our win. Could be a great money maker
When I was involved in the media (2004-2015) We produced a "Yearbook" during the Premier League seasons. If ever there was a season for resurrecting that, I would think this is it?
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1 hour ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Was there when the famous Big Bar 1970 odd John Waynesk bar room brawl took place ending with a shotgun being fired into the ceiing and mass arrests. One of the funniest and bizarre things I ever saw it had everything. Hay baling punches, chairs over peoples backs, folk getting thrown over tables of drinks, pool cues used a javelins and pool balls used as ballistics.
Understandably, was put off ever going back.
Anybody else on the forum remember that?
Probably "The BA Cowboys" filming a bar-room scene!!
I got involved in that once (1972) in the pub up Grahams road (Empire Bar)
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20 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
I think I recognise 2 of them. One of them lives nearby, next time I see him check if it's home and get the context. I played in a couple of 11 a side matches at TFS back when it was a grass/sand by hybrid pitch. Its probably been just a hire or a charity thing maybe?
I think from memory it was a charity match... this is the opposition and I know there`s at least one guy on here regularly.
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Came across this in my archive, must be coming on 20 years ago I took it. Don`t know if it`s relevant to anyone on here?
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17 minutes ago, cbhaf said:
Old enough to remember that day at Clydebank (trying to convince my dad to run on the pitch at the end, being so excited about shaking Brian Rice's hand), and home vs Meadowbank as well (Stainrod up on a table). Some of my best memories as a wee boy - hope there are lots of kids get the same this season.
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1 hour ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
Wow. So you're not actually old enough to have seen him play?
A very quick look online shows he played for us just prior to the outbreak of WW2, so I always assumed that was the era you were in your prime.
Come to think of it, you might be right, I have vague memories of you lifting me over the turnstiles.
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10 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
That's what I have too, with 283 goals. A figure that will never be beaten.
When I started going to watch the Bairns as a kid in 19 "cough", all the old guys used to keep going on about Kenny Dawson..."Aye, he`ll never be as good as Kenny Dawson etc". Hadn`t a clue who Kenny Dawson was. Now I find myself in that category..."Aye, he couldny lace Johnny Graham`s boots etc"., and so it will go on!!
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26 minutes ago, RC55 FFC said:
Sat in the north stand a couple of times but not recently at all.
ICT (2006 I think) & Vaduz (2009).
Likewise, Vaduz game.
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18 minutes ago, Andy Dufresne said:
Wasn't it a midweek game?
Yes, a night game, I had just started covering games and thought going up on the camera gantry would be a good idea. The rain then turned to sleet in a strong wind and I came down from there with near hypothermia!! Never to be repeated.
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15 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
I recognise Andrews, Alison, Barclay, Mitchell, Arfield, Stewart, Moffat and Scobbie, can you help with the rest? [not the three in black obviously]
Top row, extreme left Kieran Stallard (centre half) He ended up with Airdrie and is now living in Australia.
Extreme right, Scott Gibb (defender)
Middle row: between Arfield and Stewart is Dean Clements (midfielder). Extreme right. Lee Nichol, (midfielder)
Front row: Extreme left, Peter McMahon (defender). Extreme right, Dane Robertson (Striker) played a handful of first team games.
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31 minutes ago, LatapyBairn. said:
Did he not spend a season or 6 months out on loan to Montrose or something as well?
Yes, went in 2007 to Stranraer (5 week loan) scored 6 goals in 8 appearances apparently.
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14 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:
I think that's exactly what they're doing, they're certainly not relying solely on the FSS.
From memory, we've sold Taylor, Higginbotham and Vaulks (don't think I've missed anyone) that didn't come through the academy. That in itself is an unusual situation and I think the fact that our academy was so well thought of helped with that. The academy however produced £millions by the sale of Flynn, Wallace, Arfield, Kingsley, Fulton, McGrandles, Murdoch, Blair, Biabi, Gallagher and Mark Stewart, who I'm sure briefly joined the academy before playing in the first team.
It was a terrible decision to axe it.
Edit to say that, hopefully, Fulton has still to get us some more cash if he's sold on. That add-on in itself may reap more than the accumulated fees of the three non-academy players that I mentioned.
You`re right about Mark Stewart, I`m sure we signed him from Partick for the Academy and he pretty much played his first season in it. He did get a debut against Cowdenbeath though in a 5-0 victory in the league cup, scoring soon after coming on.
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18 minutes ago, PedroMoutinho said:
Ryan Flynn was then re-signed and sold for a higher sum. The current model would not have prevented Wallace from coming through.
You were quoting them along with Vaulks and Taylor as players we had just picked up and then sold on without them being in the Academy, I was trying to point out for the sake of clarity that they had been in our Academy and subsequently moved to Liverpool and Huddersfield respectively.
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1 hour ago, PedroMoutinho said:
As I have said, the club should be making sure there are as many options as possible for people to contribute to the club. FSS should be one part of that.
I’m also not sure how the closure of the academy prevents us selling players. Vaulks, Taylor, Wallace and Flynn have all been sold without coming through our academy.
Will be controversial but another thing I would do to stop the gap becoming any bigger is to cap academy spending at current levels until we are established in the premier league.
There is a danger imo (which the board have done well to avert to far) that you have coaches and fans understandably wanting more investment and you end up as an academy with a football club attached again.
The current approach also frees up resources to take gambles like Yeats, Lawal and Adams.
Ryan Flynn was sold to Liverpool from our Academy in 2005. Murray Wallace was brought in from Rangers Academy to ours and spent a year or so in our Academy before getting into the first team.
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I believe his former team mate Luke Rankine scored 4 in the same match v Celtic "B".