60`s bairn
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57 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Bet it took a while for the bruising to come out.
The thing was all you needed was a soak in a bath, your sunday dinner and you were out on the raz till midnight at the dancing at the Leapark Hotel.
Were you shadowing me??
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17 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Remember that!
He was a danger to himself more than anybody else.
You were lucky not to have got the same it was a horrendous tackle.
Remember the Police van passing a few minutes after and them calling the ambulance. Nobodies heart was in it and we all drifted home.
I went to the Hospital a couple of days after it and the Doctor that looked at my leg said "Are you the other guy from the Bleachfield on Sunday?"
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5 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Many epic 8 - 9 a side bounce games on the Bleachfield Hockey pitch on Sunday's early 70's
Was as good as weeky Falkirk v Camelon derbies they went on for about 3 hours taking on water at J K Miller's at half time.
Lot of good football played, competitive but fair and not one vandetta.
Looking back we did not realise just how fit we were. 'You don't know what you've got till its gone' as Joni Mitchell sang
Happy memories
Great days....although there was one clash that resulted in a broken leg!!
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11 hours ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
One game, one clean sheet, two points. What were you worried about?
2-0 win over Hearts, (I was at that game) the only other games he played (2) were in the Stirlingshire Cup. What worried me & a good few others was that he might have played another first team game!!!!
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Nelson Still. AKA "Stan"
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Albert Burnett
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Stephen Bradley
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15 minutes ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Just up and to the left of the directors box. Could see the 4 corners from my seat without standing up.
Was a sweet spot in the stand.
We must have passed each other for years.
Oh I miss the place
Through the turnstile up the wee steps and into where the Bovrils were served and you were in another world. The smell of the Bovril and fags got you primed for what was to come. Always enjoyed coming out of there and up the 4 or 5 steps into the stand to get your first look at the crowd. If it was a big game, the place was jumping and the nerves started kicking in before you got to your seat. Happy days.
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3 hours ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
Great memories from that seat.
When you came into the stand did you go to the right or the left can't remember the last seat number of my row.
My seat was on the left
Section "B" was split by the stairs. The seat in Row "I" that I was in was in the part nearest section C (the middle section). I think the row started at seat 19. I was 2 or 3 seats in. You must have been pretty much next to section C??
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3 hours ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
My seat was Section B Seat 53 Row H
"Section B row I...seat 23." From 1963 until 1988 when Dave Clarke`s ultra defensive tactics finally got to me. I ended up in the covered enclosure until "91" when I went back to a season ticket. Couldn`t get my old seat back though.
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6 minutes ago, Back Post Misses said:
Was it not Albion Rovers away?
That was our first league Cup game at the end of July. The Alloa game was 02 July and the other friendlies were in between that...up to the last one v Hibs on the 19th. This isn`t from memory or I would have said Alloa was our last friendly. It`s from "Bettermeddle".
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1 hour ago, latapythelegend said:
Farid played and scored in the very first pre-season friendly that season.
He did, the game v Alloa. We then went up north and played a few games, he wasn`t with the team but returned to play the last two friendlies v Preston & Hibs.
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5 hours ago, HopeStreetWalker said:
You have to play with and against these old pro's to understand it's not just their skill and game craft but the level above you their minds work
Played 5's with Peter Godfrey, Stuart Munro, Stuart Burgess and John Blackley in my playing days it was exactly as you said.
You missed out the "White Pele"!
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10 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said:
I loved the yellow Bukta top
I remember that being the first time I`d seen Falkirk in anything other than Navy or white. Always associate it it with Joe McCallan for some reason.
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50 minutes ago, Rugster said:
I believe they were ready a few weeks ago but the council has delayed the launch.
As it would have coincided with Aberdeen`s launch and they take priority.
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2 hours ago, Blame Me said:
Once the weekends over somebody at the club needs to get these tracked down and permanently erected in the main stand concourse/ground. What a photo opportunity that would be with one/all of our previous Hampden scenes as a background
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2 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
This will be 6th time I can remember us going head to head with our Fife friends to win a league.
From way back in the late 70’s, to the Jim Duffy season, to the 5-0 and they won f**k all year, to one in the late 90’s, to the season they spent a fortune to go up (just before they went bust), to this. Unfortunately they have apart from once got the better of us in these races. (the one in the 70’s was a three way fight which Berwick Rangers actually won) Fingers crossed it is our time.From what I remember, the rivalry between the clubs originated from that time. They didn`t just compete for league titles but also to avoid relegation on many occasions from the mid 70`s onwards. Prior to that it was just another fixture in the season. Jock Stein built a pretty decent side at Dunfermline in the 60`s with a few memorable European games at East End.
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Looked decent in training today.
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53 minutes ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
You were - as always - on the side nearest the pressroom and the halftime pies.
It always amazed me how you got there first??
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3 hours ago, Bainsfordbairn said:
You're half right. I forgot about the second one but both weren't under Pressley. May delivered the first win and then departed after the next game when we lost at home to Kilmarnock. So Pressley gets the credit for the second win in which Showumi scored.
Surprised that you forgot about that one "BB". You must have been sitting the same side as Gregor for the Healey goal as your pic is almost identical to his, I was at the other side.
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Midfielders past & present in this pic.
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1 hour ago, Ranaldo Bairn said:
Barr, Rodrigues, Twaddle, Milne, Andrews, Higgins, Barclay, Ireland, Dodd, Craig, Lima.
X, Mitchell, Robertson, X, Arfield, Stewart, Staunton, Scobbie, X, Allison, X, Moffat.
McStay, Gow, Thomson, Churchill, Rice, Hughes, Latapy, Cregg, Moutinho, Ross, O'Donnell.
Your Xs are McMahon, Nichol, Stallard, Clements none of whom made it into the first team. Stallard played with Airdrie before going to Australia.
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2 hours ago, ShaggerG said:
Forgot about Alston, he just left at the end of his contract, like Sibbs. I had Scobbie and Barr as pre-academy as I don't think it was officially an academy at the time. Still came through the youth system though.
Barr was in the youth system in the Brockville days (YTS?) Scobbie was part of the Academy set-up along with Arfield, Mitchell, Allison. Stewart etc.
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4 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said:
The away Patrick strip was a cracker as well if I remember correctly. White with blue, pretty much just a reverse of the home.
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