Ardenvohr6 Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Montrose Roselea Clydebank 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khufu2 Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 14 minutes ago, Ardenvohr6 said: Clydebank Mornington Crescent. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bravehearts dad Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Tutankhamen said: How many Rovers are there? I had a dug called Rover, he had a piss in a lot of Junior football grounds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 There are 131 Junior clubs and 89 have a suffix Of these: 14 are Uniteds 12 are Thistles (including Lugar Boswell Thistle) 11 are Juniors (where the plural is an integral part of the club name and not just as in Junior Football Club (JFC) and/or may be known locally as “XXXXXX Juniors”. 6 are Victorias 5 are Athletics 4 are Rovers (Ardrossan Winton Rovers, Buckie Rovers, Carluke Rovers and Kello Rovers) 3 are Rangers The remaining 55 clubs each have a unique suffix. Add to that 9 clubs that have a name that does not include a town/city/area Add to that 33 clubs that have a name of a town/city/area and no suffix NOTE: the allocation of these 42 clubs between the two categories may need to be adjusted as there are one or two that are difficult to work out. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 So Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic, or has the Athletic part now been dropped? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 18 minutes ago, bluedragon said: There are 131 Junior clubs and 89 have a suffix Of these: 14 are Uniteds 12 are Thistles (including Lugar Boswell Thistle) 11 are Juniors (where the plural is an integral part of the club name and not just as in Junior Football Club (JFC) and/or may be known locally as “XXXXXX Juniors”. 6 are Victorias 5 are Athletics 4 are Rovers (Ardrossan Winton Rovers, Buckie Rovers, Carluke Rovers and Kello Rovers) 3 are Rangers The remaining 55 clubs each have a unique suffix. Add to that 9 clubs that have a name that does not include a town/city/area Add to that 33 clubs that have a name of a town/city/area and no suffix NOTE: the allocation of these 42 clubs between the two categories may need to be adjusted as there are one or two that are difficult to work out. What are on your difficult list? Glentanar and Benburb I suppose, named after places nowhere particuarly near their home ground? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 20 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: What are on your difficult list? Glentanar and Benburb I suppose, named after places nowhere particuarly near their home ground? With apologies in advance for any howlers you spot in my geography here are the nine with no town/city/area link: Benburb Colony Park Deveronside Hermes Islavale Rossvale St Anthony's St Roch's Vale of Clyde Here are other 33 clubs with a town/city/area name: Arthurlie Ashfield Blairgowrie Clydebank Cruden Bay Culter Downfield Dufftown East End Gartcairn Girvan Glenrothes Glentanar Kinnoull Lesmahagow Longside Luncarty Maryhill Maud Muirkirk Petershill Pollok Port Glasgow Renfrew Rosyth Stonehaven Stoneyburn Sunnybank Tayport Troon Vale of Leven Whitburn Whitehills Any corrections will be gratefully received. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 At the risk of appearing being daft, are Deveronside and Islavale not in reference to the rivers Deveron and Isla? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRICEY Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 The outside wall of our stadium has the sign "Rutherglen Glencairn Junior Football Club", however I don't think "Junior" is officially part of the club's name. It's certainly not on any of our letterhead paperwork or our club badge. Similar case with Dunipace.Having researched a bit into there history,Juniors doesn’t appear in their name until the early 70’s.I believe Camelon intend to keep Junior in their name,even after their move. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 (edited) Benburb - village in N. Ireland Colony Park - is it not the park they play in? Deveronside - the Deveron flows through Banff and MacDuff. Hermes - named after a typewriter...? Islavale - The River Isla flows through Keith Rossvale - ? St Anthony's - ? St Roch's - ? the local school is St Roch's secondary, maybe something to do with the area? Not sure which came first. Vale of Clyde - the ground is in the Clyde Valley... Gartcairn - is it a place? The only reference I can find is to the club. Glentanar - one of the weird ones - Glen Tanar exists but it's an area in the Cairngorms and I cannot work out the connection to the team Kinnoull - named after the hill near Perth Pollok - named after the leafy Pollok Park estate as the original ground was in it, on the edge of Pollokshaws. The 30s/40s scheme was built on land donated by the land owner Sir John Stirling Maxwell (also he who gave Lok the ground and the colours from his heraldic shield) on the other side of the estate, by which time Lok had relocated to Newlands Sunnybank - They were originally Belmont FC until 1947. These days they don't play anywhere near the Sunnybank area of Aberdeen (relatively) though did play at Linksfield (now the Aberdeen Sports Village) in the 1950s which is just the other side of King Street from that area. I assume the name Sunnybank was adopted at a time they played there or thereabouts before Linksfield? Edited June 21, 2018 by cmontheloknow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Hermes FC are named after a model of typewriter by the name of the Hermes 2000. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 12 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said: At the risk of appearing being daft, are Deveronside and Islavale not in reference to the rivers Deveron and Isla? Yes you are right of course but I discounted them as they are not names AFAIK of areas of Banff or Keith respectively. A bit pedantic I know! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 4 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: Benburb - village in N. Ireland Colony Park - is it not the park they play in? Deveronside - the Deveron flows through Banff and MacDuff. Hermes - named after a typewriter...? Islavale - The River Isla flows through Keith Rossvale - ? St Anthony's - ? St Roch's - ? the local school is St Roch's secondary, maybe something to do with the area? Not sure which came first. Vale of Clyde - the ground is in the Clyde Valley... Gartcairn - is it a place? The only reference I can find is to the club. Glentanar - one of the weird ones - Glen Tanar exists but it's an area in the Cairngorms and I cannot work out the connection to the team Kinnoull - named after the hill near Perth Pollok - named after the leafy Pollok Park estate as the original ground was in it, on the edge of Pollokshaws. The 30s/40s scheme was built on land donated by the land owner Sir John Stirling Maxwell (also he who gave Lok the ground and the colours from his heraldic shield) on the other side of the estate, by which time Lok had relocated to Newlands Sunnybank - They were originally Belmont FC until 1947. These days they don't play anywhere near the Sunnybank area of Aberdeen (relatively) though did play at Linksfield (now the Aberdeen Sports Village) in the 1950s which is just the other side of King Street from that area. I assume the name Sunnybank was adopted at a time they played there or thereabouts before Linksfield? Rossvale's named after elements of two street names in Bishopbriggs IIRC. The Ants originated as the boys club for the local RC church, and the area immediately north of Glasgow city centre used to be called St Rollox, hence St Roch's...not sure what version's the correct spelling, but they're from the same root. I always assumed Hermes just did an Ajax and named the club after a character from Greek mythology. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Hillonearth said: Rossvale's named after elements of two street names in Bishopbriggs IIRC. The Ants originated as the boys club for the local RC church, and the area immediately north of Glasgow city centre used to be called St Rollox, hence St Roch's...not sure what version's the correct spelling, but they're from the same root. I always assumed Hermes just did an Ajax and named the club after a character from Greek mythology. Interesting, wasn't sure of the link between St. Rollox and St. Roch's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, Hillonearth said: Rossvale's named after elements of two street names in Bishopbriggs IIRC. The Ants originated as the boys club for the local RC church, and the area immediately north of Glasgow city centre used to be called St Rollox, hence St Roch's...not sure what version's the correct spelling, but they're from the same root. I always assumed Hermes just did an Ajax and named the club after a character from Greek mythology. 3 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: Interesting, wasn't sure of the link between St. Rollox and St. Roch's. St Rollox was a railway yard, my uncle worked there in the 40-60's I don't know if there is a railway connection. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Some more... https://saintsplaces.gla.ac.uk/place.php?id=1337703369 St Rollox a corruption of St Roch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 42 minutes ago, bluedragon said: With apologies in advance for any howlers you spot in my geography here are the nine with no town/city/area link: Benburb Colony Park Deveronside Hermes Islavale Rossvale St Anthony's St Roch's Vale of Clyde Here are other 33 clubs with a town/city/area name: Arthurlie Ashfield Blairgowrie Clydebank Cruden Bay Culter Downfield Dufftown East End Gartcairn Girvan Glenrothes Glentanar Kinnoull Lesmahagow Longside Luncarty Maryhill Maud Muirkirk Petershill Pollok Port Glasgow Renfrew Rosyth Stonehaven Stoneyburn Sunnybank Tayport Troon Vale of Leven Whitburn Whitehills Any corrections will be gratefully received. East Craigie was the name of the farm that that the team built their ground on and is in the Craigie area of Dundee. Although confusingly is at the western extreme of Craigie. I suspect it's because Craigie itself was once outside of the city boundaries and to the east of the the city. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 24 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: Benburb - village in N. Ireland... Also a mildly famous battle, but the followers of St Anthony's would have been more likely to want to celebrate the outcome in a Govan context, so the name is probably related to being the village where some of the people who founded the club were from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Benburb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 The same individuals founded both St Anthony's and Benburb (Govan version). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 (edited) I'm guessing Gartcairn is an amalgam of Gartlea and Cairnhill schemes in Airdrie. Similar to other teams that have existed around the town. Craigburn , Craigneuk and Petersburn or Petershall, Petersburn and z Chapelhall. Edited June 21, 2018 by Sergeant Wilson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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