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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:

Anyone of our vintage without Geordie Gibson in the team doesn’t know football. An absolute rolls Royce of a player - certain the best left sided defender I have seen playing for us. Equally effective in midfield too 

Absolutely correct!! 

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21 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Who was the fellow with an Italian name who played left back?

Sounded like a fish and chip shop

From Hibs, I think.

He was rank rotten.

That was Golden Fry, Derek's brother. 

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16 minutes ago, Harry Kinnear said:

Mind the day at Greenock Marino got the serious head injury right in front of our fans, it was sickening to see.

I think he swallowed his tongue too! From memory it was a deliberate elbow to the back of the head by Collins I think. 

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6 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:

I think he swallowed his tongue too! From memory it was a deliberate elbow to the back of the head by Collins I think. 

I mind the minute he hit the deck you could see it was serious. My mate used to take his Mum and Aunty to all the games, home and away and they were in tears, one of the worst things I’ve witnessed injury wise to a Falkirk player.

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3 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:

Anyone of our vintage without Geordie Gibson in the team doesn’t know football. An absolute rolls Royce of a player - certain the best left sided defender I have seen playing for us. Equally effective in midfield too 

Whigham, Kennedy, Weir, Hughes, McQueen, Gibson, McAllister, Graham, Stainrod, Latapy, Johnson.

I`ve got an almost identical choice with only two exceptions (only because I go back further)😂

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59 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said:

Who was the fellow with an Italian name who played left back?

Sounded like a fish and chip shop

From Hibs, I think.

He was rank rotten.

Here is a list of the National Fish and Chip shop winners over the last 30 years or so.

Not an Italian name among them.

2020, The Cod's Scallops, Wollaton, Nottingham

2019: Krispies, Exmouth, Devon

2018: Millers Fish and Chips, Haxby, Yorkshire

2017: Kingfisher Fish & Chips, Plymouth, Devon

2016: Simpsons Fish & Chips, Cheltenham Gloucestershire

2015: Frankie's Fish & Chips, Brae, Shetland

2014: Quayside, Whitby, North Yorkshire

2013: The Bay, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire

2012: Seniors, Thornton, Lancashire

2011: Fish and Chips at 149, Bridlington, East Yorkshire

2009-2010: Atlantic Fast Food, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire

2008: Anstruther Fish Bar, Anstruther, Fife

2007: Townhead Cafe, Biggar, Lanarkshire

2006: Petrou Brothers, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

2005: Hodgson's Chippy, Lancaster, Lancashire

2004: Our Plaice, West Hagley, West Midlands

2003: Finnegan's Bar, Bridgend, Cardiff

2002: Brownsover Fish Bar, Rugby, Warwickshire

2001: Allports Fish and Chip Shop, Pwllheli, Wales

2000: Les's Fish Bar, Crewe, Cheshire

1999: Bizzie Lizzies, Skipton, North Yorkshire

1998: Zanre's, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire

1997: The Bervie Chipper, Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire

1996: Halfway Fish Bar, Poole, Dorset

1995: Hutchinson's, Helston, Cornwall

1994: The West End Cafe, Rothesay, Isle of Bute

1993: Reed Square Fish Bar, Birmingham, West Midlands

1992: Elite Fish Bar & Restaurant, Ruskington, Lincolnshire

 

You really need to give up your outdated thinking and come into the 21st century.

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22 minutes ago, 60`s bairn said:

Whigham, Kennedy, Weir, Hughes, McQueen, Gibson, McAllister, Graham, Stainrod, Latapy, Johnson.

I`ve got an almost identical choice with only two exceptions (only because I go back further)😂

 

1 hour ago, HopeStreetWalker said:

Great player should have played at a higher level but as usual Falkirk was not a Daily Record side

Markie Miller Gibson was the finest half back line I ever saw for Falkirk they were a multiplier for each other. 

I would go further and say Geordie Gibson would stroll into the current Scotland squad.

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55 minutes ago, Bairn in Exile said:

Here is a list of the National Fish and Chip shop winners over the last 30 years or so.

Not an Italian name among them.

2020, The Cod's Scallops, Wollaton, Nottingham

2019: Krispies, Exmouth, Devon

2018: Millers Fish and Chips, Haxby, Yorkshire

2017: Kingfisher Fish & Chips, Plymouth, Devon

2016: Simpsons Fish & Chips, Cheltenham Gloucestershire

2015: Frankie's Fish & Chips, Brae, Shetland

2014: Quayside, Whitby, North Yorkshire

2013: The Bay, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire

2012: Seniors, Thornton, Lancashire

2011: Fish and Chips at 149, Bridlington, East Yorkshire

2009-2010: Atlantic Fast Food, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire

2008: Anstruther Fish Bar, Anstruther, Fife

2007: Townhead Cafe, Biggar, Lanarkshire

2006: Petrou Brothers, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

2005: Hodgson's Chippy, Lancaster, Lancashire

2004: Our Plaice, West Hagley, West Midlands

2003: Finnegan's Bar, Bridgend, Cardiff

2002: Brownsover Fish Bar, Rugby, Warwickshire

2001: Allports Fish and Chip Shop, Pwllheli, Wales

2000: Les's Fish Bar, Crewe, Cheshire

1999: Bizzie Lizzies, Skipton, North Yorkshire

1998: Zanre's, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire

1997: The Bervie Chipper, Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire

1996: Halfway Fish Bar, Poole, Dorset

1995: Hutchinson's, Helston, Cornwall

1994: The West End Cafe, Rothesay, Isle of Bute

1993: Reed Square Fish Bar, Birmingham, West Midlands

1992: Elite Fish Bar & Restaurant, Ruskington, Lincolnshire

 

You are a racist old pr*ck.

My Italian neighbour own a chip shop.

Absolutely dreadful chippy but he drives a brand new Porsche so doubt that he cares about winning awards.

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1 hour ago, Duncan Freemason said:

 

I would go further and say Geordie Gibson would stroll into the current Scotland squad.

Had he not broken his leg he would probably have got a move and played in the 74 WC Finals. He was that good IMO

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8 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:

The thing about naming old heroes is that they were superb, but often surrounded by, or managed by, dolts. 

Hence we have never won anything major since 1957.

It’s a good thing therefore that for most diddy club fans, their continued support isn’t based upon winning cups. It’s not about reflected glory.
On the other hand, it’s the be all and end all for the big two provincial clubs

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7 hours ago, Bairnardo said:
8 hours ago, cbhaf said:
I can never settle on an all time XI but you have to love the idea of a team with both Stainrod and Latapy. First on the teamsheet obviously Crunchie every day of the week.
How about a "rest of the world" XI:
Mallo
Aafjes, Den Bieman, Tiago
Riera, Latapy, Ristic, Lima
Samuel, El Alagui, Moutinho
And the nightmare equivalent:
Fasan
Oponga, Lescinel, Khalis 
Theobald, Tano, Wallner, De Massis
Finnbogason, Fellner, Xausa
Admittedly that midfield is being judged on not a lot of playing minutes, I did see the entirety of De Massis' Falkirk career though...

Froxylias or Haber are WAY more worthy than Gerhard Fellner. Not sure what he did wrong to get in a nightmare 11. I remember him being quite good for his short spell.

Probably just that I had the good fortune not to see much of Froxylias or Haber playing. 

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There is an awful lot of competition for worst and best falkirk players.

Worst for me, as someone mentioned earlier was Taylor Morgan, a striker who just didn't look like a footballer in any shape or form, poor control, poor positioning,  weak in the air, and all backed up with a total of 0 goals in 14 appearances. 

Best is really hard, as it depends on which league we were in, who was playing around them, were they in their twilight of their career. I started going mid eighties and the 3 obvious ones everyone mentions are crunchie, stainrod and latapy. stainrod just shades it for me as he dragged us to the title, played equally as well in the premiership, entertained on and off the pitch and gave the whole team a swagger and belief, plus I was lucky enough to see his goal straight from kick off in Perth which not only due to his nerve, skill, cheek and atrocious weather conditions will stay with me till the day I die. I never enjoyed my football more than I did that season or two. 

on another note arfield playing for rangers today, didn't remember he also played for falkirk last time rangers won the cup in 2009

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