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Aye, and one of his players almost took the dressing room door off its hinges on the way out.

Are you the maniac who was going crazy with your players after Colville Park lost last night?

41 goals so far this season, second only tp Adam Forsyth as his old man keeps reminding everybody but a better player overall in my opinion. Good with the head as well which is becoming something of a rarity these days. I think he will get goals in the second division if he has a couple of decent players alongside him.

Re the debate about teams being inconsistent and not good enough fot the Premier dovision. Only Glencairn anbd Benburb have truly been consistent throughout the season, all the teams battling for the third promotion spot have been inconsiastent (including ourselves) but have shown good enough form at times to match , and even beat, these two. You could say several of the teams in the Premier are not good enough to be there, like Rob Roy and a couple of the Ayrshire clubs, but they are and likely to remain in it for another season at least. Look at what happened to the two rop teams in last seasons championship, by far the worst in the Premier and strasight back down, interesting to see what happens next season, I reckon Glens and Bens are good enough to stay up but whoever goes up with them will struggle.

Thanks for info, I seem to remember seeing a Scottish cap in a display many years ago and allegedly it was his but how it came to be with other KR memorabilia I wouldn't know. Some of it has ended up in the custody of North Lanarkshire council so may be lost in their archives somewhere. Our player Walls, was definitely an Arthur so not the same guy.

Harry Pinkertom had been with Kilsyth the previous season and I believe giot a Scottish junior cap, was this Arthur walls at no 4 who came to us a few years later? There does seem to be a few players in those days who played for both clubs. I suppose if they came from the Falkirk area it was fairly likely as both towns are within easy travelling distance, we certainly had a lot of players from there.

As far as I understand it KRR are putting up a significant part of the funding from the sale of Adamslie. They will hope to learn from other new grounds built recently and provide more than just the absolutely basic facilities, ie playing pitch and changing rooms. Some covered terracing is a must, as is a capacity for at least 1000 I would think. Went down to the site a few days ago and nothing has changed in the past few years although latest word is that work will start in June.

Think its got more to do with some teams having very poor defences. To score 100 goals in 30 games is an average of 3.33 per game. A few clubs in the lower leagues are conceding a lot more than that and making fairly average teams look better than they really are, Not saying Glencairn, Gartcairn, etc are not decent sides but maybe they will be found out when they move up a league.

Maybe we should get together and our squad plays the home games and yours plays the away games. Win the league at a canter!

Another great home win, just a pity our away form hadn't been just a little better and we would undoubtably be going up. Spoke briefly to cameraman at the end and he was very complimentary about the standard of football played last night by both teams. There is still a bit of a gap between us and top three but ambition must be to get above at least one of the bunch chasing third place. A win at Arthurlie would certainly put the cat amomgst the doos!

Interestingly my official SFA copy of the Laws of the Game, published 2006, does not specify the actual cross sectional shape of the posts and crossbar. It only states that they should be the same width and depth (5ins/12cm). They could be square, circular or presumably even multi faceted, hexagon, octogonal or even auld thrupenny bit shaped. That would make for some very interesting rebounds off the post!

i doubt that anything other than square section goalposts and crossbar existed in that era and the idea that anything else would supersede them was most unlikely. I have photos showing the old wooden square posts still at Hampden well into the 1960's and they probably still exist at a few of the old grounds to this day. Last junior ground I remember seeing them was Showpark at East Kilbride not more than 6 or 7 years ago.

These sort of crowds were the norm in the immediate post war years. Five figure crowds even for fairly minor cup finals which were always played a senior grounds. Have a look at The Irvine Meadow website and you will see details of the Scottish cup run in which they played before 220,000 spectators, admittedly with multiple replays, but still a truly amazing total.

Davie Connell brought him to Kilsyth, he did score a few goals but never repeated his hat-trick and my memory is that he missed an awfull lot of sitters!

Kenny Neil? He scored a hat trick on his debut for us.

Yes, it did drag on a bit! I seem to remember Bo'ness were having a very good Scottish cup run that year but lost to Ashfield in the 6th round which was played in mid March and presumably he left for Rangers immediately after that game. Also I believe he scored a hat trick against Falkirk on his debut. He did play against Kilsyth a couple of years later in a friendly game at Duncansfield which we won 2-1 with both our goals scored by Tommy Douglas, the Benburb legend, who had a season with us. Glasgow Rangers had a pretty strong team out that day including Scott, Don Kitchenbrand, goalkeeper Bobby Brown and some others with first team experience.

Didn't realise he had gome back to juveniles but I presume he would have been scoring a barrowload of goals at that level. Maybe if he had stayed at Kilsyth he would have got 5 cup medals as that was our haul in 53-54 season. But we has signed an ex-Bo'ness centre forward to replace him from Forth Rangers, Alex Querrie, and he got 60 in that season. Did Jimmy stay with you till end of 54-55 season and what was his goals total? He would presumably been playing alongside Alex Scott and I would imagine that combination would have got a formidable total between them. I had relations who lived in Bo'ness and when we visited there were some great discussions as to the relative merits of our teams. Didn't come to blows but it did get a bit heated!

Wasn't really asking for info, just adding another question for afficianados of this thread. My records show him coming to Kilsyth early in the 1952-53 season and his first goal came in a 1st round Pompey cup game against Shawfield Juniors on 230th September. He scored fairly regulaly thereafter getting a total of nine goals, a long way behind our top scorer, Martin Mulhall with 38. Two other, Arthur Walls on 13 and John Glover with 10 were ahead of him. Jimmy's final goal for us came in a 4-3 defeat at Wishaw on 2nd May 1953. That was the day of the Stanley Mathews cup final which was the first game I ever saw on television in a local cafe. I had missed the supporters bus for the game at Wishaw which was our first loss in 26 games . Presumably Jimmy Harrower joined Bo'ness for the 1953-54 season as he did not figure in our team afterwards.

And who did he play for before Bo'ness? And after Bo'ness?

There aren't many Clyde fans in Rutherglen these days. There's not many anywhere!

I'll only be back if we're playing the glens mate or we've no game ,my mrs family all watch the glens ,but your right theve a smashing team at the moment and deserve more support from the rutherglen public . They're all at Broadwood watching Rutherglens other team also pushing for promotion. Maybe a double celebration on the cards in a few weeks time.

Good to see Nicky coming good and getting a regular start. I always thought that he would have been picked up by a senior club before now. Reputedly Falkirk showed an interest a couple of years ago, must be better than some in their present squad.

I'll suggest it was a club which was not originally a football club, but played something else like Queens Park being originally a cricket club. eg Kilsyth curling club claim to be the oldest in the world but they never started a football section for when the ice melted in the Spring. I don't really believe their claim in any case!

Miss going to Thorniewood, they always had plenty of GENUINE Tunnocks caramel wafers. And teacakes. And caramel logs.

Is there a West Renfrewshire, or is it just Inverclyde?