Bairns1994 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 8 minutes ago, Ranaldo Bairn said: Glorious away shirt that was, I must say. The 98/99 kits are in my earliest memories of watching Falkirk. I was lucky enough to grab the home kit a few years ago 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 11 minutes ago, Bairns1994 said: Holy shit man that's horrendous Christ was there any need for the stretcher close up? Wouldn’t show that these days and rightly so 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopeStreetWalker Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 45 minutes ago, 60`s bairn said: 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?" 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Kinnear Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 9 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. I used to spend most of my wages in the Leapark. Thursday night was the Coachhouse and Frid/Sat/Sun was the dancing. Most Monday mornings at work were spent hanging out my arse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believe The Hype Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Chinatoon Bairn said: Never fully noticed this at the time, retrospective greenie duly awarded 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 I was there that day and the Falkirk fans booed Derek Collins for that challenge and it caused a bit of a meltdown in the cowshed if memory serves me right. I was 15 at the time. I'm sure @AyrshireTonwill remember better than me. To say he meant it and led with the elbow is quite frankly ridiculous. Watching the above clip of it, he clearly tried to win the ball and is just ever so slightly later than Keith. No malice, purely accidental. Horrible to see but to blame Collins for it, f**k me man! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinatoon Bairn Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 17 minutes ago, Believe The Hype said: Never fully noticed this at the time, retrospective greenie duly awarded 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60`s bairn Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 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?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 4 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said: I’m sure he ended up fracturing his skull, he went up for a ball with the defender who if I mind correctly done him with an elbow. He was out before he hit the deck and his body went into spasm, the players round about him knew it was serious right away and waved for physios/doctors to come into the pitch. He was getting treatment for what seemed like an eternity. In those days the away fans were in the covered area to the left of the open terracing we get now and it happened right in front of us. Like Shagger said above I thought he was dead as did most of the Bairns fans, was horrific to witness it. I think he swallowed his tongue as well IIRC? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Marino Keith was there at the KM Stand opening match. Quite a few ex players of note there to congratulate Crunchie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Blame Me said: Davie Sinclair No idea why but always liked him even though he played quite infrequently. I was probably sh*t scared not to like him! Was it him that picked up a yelllow card one game, then immediately got issued a second after applauding the ref? I might be thinking of someone else. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 1 hour ago, madton said: I was there that day and the Falkirk fans booed Derek Collins for that challenge and it caused a bit of a meltdown in the cowshed if memory serves me right. I was 15 at the time. I'm sure @AyrshireTonwill remember better than me. To say he meant it and led with the elbow is quite frankly ridiculous. Watching the above clip of it, he clearly tried to win the ball and is just ever so slightly later than Keith. No malice, purely accidental. Horrible to see but to blame Collins for it, f**k me man! As I said I was very near it and Collins had zero chance of winning that ball turned sideways and ensured that he cleared one of our best players out the game. These days it would be a straight red no questions asked for endangering an opponent. He was always a nasty wee player Collins so it's not as if he didn't have previous. Horrible, horrible challenge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkirkBairn2021 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 6 hours ago, Harry Kinnear said: Loved Marino Keith, was a decent player. His injury at Morton was one of the worst things I’ve seen at a football match. Also loved Marino Keith. He was excellent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 18 minutes ago, Shodwall cat said: As I said I was very near it and Collins had zero chance of winning that ball turned sideways and ensured that he cleared one of our best players out the game. These days it would be a straight red no questions asked for endangering an opponent. He was always a nasty wee player Collins so it's not as if he didn't have previous. Horrible, horrible challenge. I'm not going to reply directly to the Morton fan because it'll just result in the usual pish with the Virgin appearing to show everyone how 'clever' he is. I must have been pretty near you at the time however because I was close to the incident and clearly remember him going in with his elbow up whilst making no real attempt to head the ball. I don't think the camera angle really shows this though so I can understand why the guy thinks it wasn't as bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shodwall cat Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 35 minutes ago, ShaggerG said: I'm not going to reply directly to the Morton fan because it'll just result in the usual pish with the Virgin appearing to show everyone how 'clever' he is. I must have been pretty near you at the time however because I was close to the incident and clearly remember him going in with his elbow up whilst making no real attempt to head the ball. I don't think the camera angle really shows this though so I can understand why the guy thinks it wasn't as bad. Yeah it was a shocker. You see head knocks all the time and can usually tell pretty clearly whether it's an accident or in a few cases like this one a deliberate foul. I'd like to think that the resulting situation was far worse than Collins was looking for but he was going for that challenge with little disregard for the consequences. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Grimsdale Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Get into this monstrosity tomorrow and lets lay down a marker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blame Me Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Mr Grimsdale said: Get into this monstrosity tomorrow and lets lay down a marker You're as bad as the Falkirk admin last week! Edited August 10, 2023 by Blame Me 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC55 FFC Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Big shout out to the 2,000 who listened/watched our 1st episode back last week & the near 1,300 who have this week so far If you haven’t as yet and can, be appreciated if you can give us a go. I’ll be sounding like John but if you do watch on YouTube, hit the like button on the episode & subscribe to the channel. Sales pitch done www.falkirkdaft.co.uk for the YouTube channel. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 5 hours ago, Shodwall cat said: As I said I was very near it and Collins had zero chance of winning that ball turned sideways and ensured that he cleared one of our best players out the game. These days it would be a straight red no questions asked for endangering an opponent. He was always a nasty wee player Collins so it's not as if he didn't have previous. Horrible, horrible challenge. Straight red, feck man man. How on earth did he have no chance of winning the ball, literally a few milliseconds late. The evidence is there, no elbow, no going for the player, he was clearly trying to win the ball and a freak accident occurred. 5 hours ago, ShaggerG said: I'm not going to reply directly to the Morton fan because it'll just result in the usual pish with the Virgin appearing to show everyone how 'clever' he is. I must have been pretty near you at the time however because I was close to the incident and clearly remember him going in with his elbow up whilst making no real attempt to head the ball. I don't think the camera angle really shows this though so I can understand why the guy thinks it wasn't as bad. So you thought you seen him going in with the elbow but admit the camera shows that wasn't the case. You can again clearly see from the highlights that his elbow is nowhere near Keith's head. When you jump you naturally jump with your arms out, every footballer does but again no where near his head or face. There's zero chance Collins went into that challenge to danger an opponent, its that simple. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 10 minutes ago, madton said: Straight red, feck man man. How on earth did he have no chance of winning the ball, literally a few milliseconds late. The evidence is there, no elbow, no going for the player, he was clearly trying to win the ball and a freak accident occurred. So you thought you seen him going in with the elbow but admit the camera shows that wasn't the case. You can again clearly see from the highlights that his elbow is nowhere near Keith's head. When you jump you naturally jump with your arms out, every footballer does but again no where near his head or face. There's zero chance Collins went into that challenge to danger an opponent, its that simple. It happened right in front of me. I was at the opposite side of the ground from the camera which obviously shows a different angle than the one that I saw. We'll agree to disagree because I can't be arsed getting into a slagging match with a feckin Morton fan. We've enough of our own that want to do that! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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