Quitongo's Left Peg Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thought the documentary was good, if a bit cuddly. This seems to be an in vogue thing at the minute though, football documentaries. BT Sport have been showing a whole host of excellent ones, including the fantastic 'Football Outposts'. Gid stuff to pass an hour or two with. The European version with Killie's UEFA Cup opponents Zelzejnicar: And the U.K. version, featuring Arbroath and Paul Sheerin cutting up flowers: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Alexander is a wee bit underrated as a manager: you still need a level of competency to be a successful chequebook manager (see McInally, J. and McCoist, A. as very good examples of those who failed even at this). If Scottish football wasn't such an old boys' club recycling the same dinosaur managers then he'd have found a reasonable club. Gretna on the other hand were a horrible outfit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quitongo's Left Peg Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) Where did you find that figure? I understood that it was around £4 million officially but assets made it effectively £3 million. He had £8million worth of debt, and £2million worth of assets. http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/former-gretna-owner-brooks-mileson-made-bankrupt-a-year-after-dying-1-792676 And also worth noting that not all of that was from Gretna F.C. Edited November 23, 2014 by Quitongo's Left Peg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliftonphil Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Dat Kilt what a total James Blunt ! Good riddance 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual Bystander Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Where did you find that figure? I understood that it was around £4 million officially but assets made it effectively £3 million. For my sins, it was the Daily Record. I appreciate how stupid it is to lift figures from those cockweasels, so it's probably wrong. They did leave creditors with millions of debt though so the whole "it's a fairly tale" is bullshit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capital_stag Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Tuned in thinking it was about the Rangers Grady's last minute goal relegated us, the most gutted I have ever been at football. I was also sorry for St Johnstone who I felt deserved to go up that year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoy who invented weetabix Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Rowan Alexander told me to f**k off once So fucking f**k them in the pussy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Tuned in thinking it was about the Rangers Grady's last minute goal relegated us, the most gutted I have ever been at football. I was also sorry for St Johnstone who I felt deserved to go up that year. That's a common misconception. Even if Grady didn't score, County were still relegated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Watched it earlier. Fairly decent, but like someone else said, a bit too cuddly. It was great to see the state of the Fir Park pitch during that season 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capital_stag Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 That's a common misconception. Even if Grady didn't score, County were still relegated. I know that, it just sealed it/ confirmed it. Having them celebrate on our patch when we were at our lowest ebb was hard to take. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumigoo Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Sky Sports have a long way to go compared to the quality of football documentaries produced by BT Sport. Thought it was pretty poor actually, and it didn't really dig deep enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I know that, it just sealed it/ confirmed it. Having them celebrate on our patch when we were at our lowest ebb was hard to take. I missed it, fortunately 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Sevco aside, I don't think there's been a more universally hated club in Scottish football. One of the most pleasing games I ever attended was when we scudded them 4-0 on their own patch. Conversely, losing 3-0 at Hampden was utterly horrific - although it did mark the beginning of the end for Alan Kernaghan so every cloud and all that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarto Mutiny Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 We lost twice in the SPL to them. Oh, the memories. I was one of the 501 who was there when we beat them at Fir Park that season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Sky Sports have a long way to go compared to the quality of football documentaries produced by BT Sport. Thought it was pretty poor actually, and it didn't really dig deep enough. It was just a glorified puff piece. No digging ever on the agenda. Did the true story of Alexander's departure ever come out? I remember reading rumours of booze or depression but nothing definite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Still convinced Main let in an easy winner for us against them in a 2-1 win at mcdiarmid. Never liked the b*****ds. Long been convinced that Geoff brown had a mileson voodoo doll that finally killed him off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Does anybody know the lowest SPL attendance before Gretna came along? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Does anybody know the lowest SPL attendance before Gretna came along?I believe that'd be Inverness CT 1-1 Motherwell in October '04, with 1,117 (at Pittodrie). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Gandosaur Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Did Mileson actually have any money? Debts of over 8 million when he died. Seems a bit like he was just a jakey living a Walter Mitty lifestyle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 My main memory of their time in the SPL was when they came up to Pittodrie just after the shit had hit the fan financially. For the only time I remember the away section of the South Stand was closed for a league game and the Gretna fans were put into a corner of the Main Stand instead. We didn't have too bad a record against them - 2 wins and a draw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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