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Mark has been out with an injury recently

The attached is a photo of Robert Corrance when he was at East Stirlingshire in 1935/36. It is hard to say who he is in this 1932/33 team photo, 1st player on left 2nd row from the front perhaps ? ps bought your book. Fantastic work. It is helping me a lot with my own research.

Lol. Now u are really muddling the waters

Will check with Mr F

University of Stirling were up against it in the 1st half but dug in, defended well and took the chances that came their way in the 2nd half. They deserved a draw but a win maybe not - still when the shire defence went all kamikaze for the game winner (though there was more than a shout for the goal to be disallowed) then it was hard to come back from that. Well done to the Scholars for the result. Lots of serious thinking to do at Shire HQ re how we tackle our home games. Our home league record this season is pretty shocking especially when this is compared to our away form. This trend has been gone on for the last few seasons but this and last season we are particularly bad at home. The players, will and hard work is this all there but something is missing to spark it together.

Shire v University of Stirling today 167

I agree that Burnieclub is doing a fantastic job collating all the crowd stats. Out of interest surely clubs the size of Linlithgow and Bo'ness will have club records of their matches and crowd sizes even if they are incomplete and guesstimates. Failing that the club historians will have been recording/researching as much information as they can though I appreciate it isn't an east task.

My head count at the Edinburgh University v Shire game on 28/12/19 was 111

Shire crowd v BSC Glasgow yesterday was 181. An impressive £1255 was raised from donations at the gate for Forth Valley Sands Charity.

Would just like to mention the Colts sub gk, Alex Gilchrist, today who played a stormer when he came on due an injury to Colts no. 1 Jonny Grier.

Shire v The Spartans crowd today was 145

Genuinely hope Gretna survive and thrive. Would hate to see a Lowland League of teams contratated solely from the central belt and only 1 of 2 borders teams. If the West Junior teams fail to get their act together and as a result the current Lowland pyramid remains ( I don't expect that this will happen and truely hope that the West blockage will be cleared asap) then it is so important that the South of Scotland has teams at as high a tier as possible to give the local talent a chance etc be it Gretna, Dalbeattie or whoever. If I was a South team at the moment this is the time to go all out to be the main non-league in the South of the country. The winner of that race could be the front runner for years to come.

Lol. Been that wet at the footy many times in the past. Only wins help

Indeed. Enjoy your night

Lol. "Elevator gate" again. Will correct the attendance to 222

Shire v Berwick Rangers crowd today 221

Back on track. Today saw the 'Shire play all 4 fwds on the pitch at the same time for the 1st time this season. This together with UoS playing 433 for the full 90 mins made for an interesting watch today. Not sure if this will be regular tactic for the 'Shire this season though !

If Kilby would be less cloak and dangers with their attendances then there would be less weirdos for those running scared in the bogs to worry about . Most clubs are open about with the numbers at their games Personally I take notes of crowds for 'Shire club records. It is also useful for trends v each club at home games for prog volumes etc.

I counted 200 at the East Kilbride v Shire game but happy to go with the 150 as it was just a very rough head count

Sorry It is not something I have read or heard about before. John (Jim) Boyd was the Shire gk from 1957/58 to 160/61. He made his Shire debut on 15/2/1958 and was a permanent fixture between the sticks until the end of 1959/60. He was sidelined in 1960/61 with his last appearance for the club on 31/12/1960. This is his photo from a shire team 1958/59 pic. I do have a better quality picture of him but I can't lay my hands on it at the moment.

197 at the Shire v Colts game today.

Would like to say that when Leeroy Makovora was shown a 2nd yellow after the game ended and wassent off it was really nice that Mark Millar took the time whwn walking off the pitch to console him and give him encouragement, as did other shire players.

Thanks for showing this. Funny I had similar money comments from some home fans walking behind me leaving the ground as Low made it 3. Something about Shire's money now securing 5th place in the League. A bit weird. Myself and another shire fan didn't bite. It wasnt a big deal, some people will try anything to try and get a rise.

Crowd at Shire v Kelty Hearts tonight was 394.

I'm glad you are doing it. I do keep squad records of my own for all the teams but it good to see if I have missed anything if you are keeping wiki up to date. If u ever need any help re Shire players just give me a shout.