Lord Talbot

Tbh I would rather the juniors were pro-active and just wrote this season off without waiting on anyone else making a decision - as harsh as that may be to some teams.

Did Cambuslang ever produce the sicklines?

It would appear that, albeit after playing 8 games more, our near neighbours have conceded 3 times as many goals and scored about a third fewer. Must be those pesky referees again.

I thought so but G claiming it according to Mark and him on the social club after the game.

To be fair to Rossvale they had by far the better of the first half. Can’t see them being anywhere near the relegation places if they keep that form up.

I've totally had a nightmare here tbh

I will take pelters from a couple of Beith fans for not mentioning him first

Henderson at Glenafton? They won a treble after all

Yep I agree hes experienced but always a but he did relegate a team regardless how many months or matches he had with them also yes he did beat talbot in the Scottish but how many games did talbot have to catch up with till the final if it was played fair and square at the time talbot would have won but the amount of games talbot had in the lead up to that final doesn't justify and if ur honest a decent final Pretty sure Shotts had an horrendous run of fixtures up to, and after, the Junior cup final - probably played more games than Talbot that season.

fair point.

Rossvale seem to be down to okay Beith on 18th January in the west of Scotland cup.

near the end. Pollok had used their subs so finished the game with 10 men.

Superb thing to do. More power to the clubs for doing this.

Aye. If it wasn’t for those pesky referees making Cumnock lose most weeks, eh? Is that still your excuse? Or have you conveniently forgotten that gem?

Sorry, hadn’t read through the page. Just looked - at the time of posting - an obvious solution

Further down the screen there’s a post from Irvine Meadow looking for a game that day.

2009. Just messaged him when he came back. He couldn’t remember hard to believe it was as long ago as that. Time flies. Anyway, this is getting off topic - sorry for that.

I have a lot of respect for Talbot, they agreed to play a Testimonial about 7 years ago at our old ground for our player/manager (who is still our manager), brought the Junior Cup with them and made it a great day. Nothing but respect for the club, I paid a visit a few years back to your place as a neutral and enjoyed it. A few roasters on Pie and Bovril doesn't change that. Must’ve been 2011 or 2013 as we hadn’t won the cup in 2012 I enjoyed the day tbh, weather apart. Also the day John Boyle cane back to the Talbot.

Gone. Maybe because of the spat between a Glenafton fan and a Cumnock one?

Hopefully they’re paying Talbot for use of the badge?

There is now no reason for it to be so late in the season Just as there is now no reason to be playing next Monday and Wednesday - the game v Cambuslang could be held over until after the Junior cup final

The older chap looked to me like he was almost pension age back then and I'm going back over 20 years. He was never malicious just liked annoying opposition fans. Harmless old guy. Sorry to hear of the passing of the character "big Moose" - football needs guys like him (and Lochee's 118 fan)

The guy who used to shout "Tora, tora, tora - attack, attack, attack" was brilliant And there was an older guy who walked round the pitch with - what is now known as a manbag - a satchel who'd wind up opposition fans. Liked going to Abbey Park - was always a tough place to go and you always knew Talbot had been in a game after 90 minutes. Couldn't single out any particular game there though

To be fair Talbot have played a league game 2 days after a Junior Cup final (when we beat Pollok at Beechwood to hand Irvine Meadow the league title) so there is a precedent there. And I am quite sure the Talbot players would prefer to play fewer games before this season's Junior Cup final and take their chances of playing Cambuslang midweek before what is, at the moment, only the potential of a West of Scotland cup final. However, I will reiterate that I fully believe Kennie has done a great job in his first season as fixtures secretary - the difference is night and day between him and the previous incumbent. The decision has been taken and the fixtures are up so we will get on with it. I'm just trying to stick up for my team and I'm sure fans of other teams would - probably - be doing the same too.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, much appreciated.