sjc Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 As the thread title says, what's the one thing you'd pinpoint as the best and worst thing to happen to your Club? Please give reasons to justify your choices. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buchan30 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Best - Winning cup finals against Celtic and Rangers. Getting a chance to take on Bayern and take the lead against them. There will never be any greater feeling than they goals going in and the unbridled joy and celebration that it brought. Worst - Claude Anelka and his chronnies ending up at our club, purely as a ploy to move them on for what he hoped would be decent fees. He didn’t realise you had to actually be good at football for this to be possible. It caused a lot of financial trouble at the club and we were just rotten until John Mcglynn took over. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arabdelic Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Best: Appointing a 34 year old coach at Dundee as our new manager named James Yuil McLean. This set in motion the extraordinary period in our history. Worst: Stephen Thompson deciding he wanted to buy an Australian club (and failing at that) which meant the money he put in to United became loans that had to repaid promptly and sold our best players replacing them with diddies. This ushered in our worst period in modern times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 20 minutes ago, arabdelic said: Best: Appointing a 34 year old coach at Dundee as our new manager named James Yuil McLean. This set in motion the extraordinary period in our history. Worst: Stephen Thompson deciding he wanted to buy an Australian club (and failing at that) which meant the money he put in to United became loans that had to repaid promptly and sold our best players replacing them with diddies. This ushered in our worst period in modern times. Did Thompson actually get much back? I just got the impression that the finances become quite tight and he just couldn't afford to keep up his same level of backing rather than clawing it back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 From a Dons perspective Best: Fergie Worst: Sky TV 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Best: winning the league in 1961/62 closely followed by reaching the European Cup SF the following season. Worst: too fucking many. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) Best: Yet to happen. I'm ever the optimist. In my time watching them, rather pathetically, it might be Jim Duffy stabilising us and getting us promoted after the horror show the season before and then turning us into a solid Championship team again. We could easily have done a Clyde, went part time, and been stuck in the seaside leagues with minnows like Airdrie and Falkirk. Worst: Hugh Scott buying the club. Hope he survives the Coronavirus outbreak. If he dies and I don't get to celebrate it at Cappielow I'll be raging. He better be practising social distancing. Edited May 15, 2020 by AsimButtHitsASix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Axle Grease Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Best, Pars surviving administration. Worst, being beaten in the 2004 Scottish Cup Final. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Offside Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Best; Alex Ferguson Worst; Alan Mackin -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Best: being the main force in developing the game of football bar none and winning ten Scottish cups. Worst: the advent of professionalism in the 1880s. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrooge1928 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 It's all been "best thing" for five or six years now. Suddenly going from a mid-table non-League side whose only title was in 2006, to winning back-to-back Lowland titles at the moment a lobbying-free route to the SPFL opened up. Slaughtering Cove Rangers and squeaking past East Stirlingshire to become the first team to play their way into the Scottish League. Two seasons scrabbling to avoid the relegation play-offs was a bit tense, but we've been promotion challengers for the last two seasons. Worst things? Can't get a ground sorted out yet. Other than that, the only time I've felt really gutted in the last five years was losing to Brora Rangers on penalties in the 2015 play-offs. Losing at Connah's Quay (also on penalties) in the 2019 Challenge Cup semi-final wasn't much fun either. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Jacobite Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) Best thing - Winning promotion to the Professional Leagues. Excellent potential. Worst - No settled Stadium, maybe Edinburgh Academy Stadium in Stockbridge. Edited June 28, 2020 by City Jacobite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Best: The 1957-58 League win Worst: World War One 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 23 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Best: The 1957-58 League win Worst: World War One Hadn't heard of this. Appears to have been quite the rammy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Not looking forward to the second installment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Not looking forward to the second installment.No spoilers but keep an eye out for the guy with the Charlie Chaplin moustache. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) I'll stick to things that happened in my lifetime. Best: Winning the First Division in 1996 Worst: Administration. Dishonorable mention to the 10,000 all seater rule and the Elvis figure in Legends. Edited January 23, 2021 by DA Baracus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Best - employing Stewart Petrie worst - employing Tommy Campbell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marly Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Best: Geoff Brown and the move to McDiarmid. As much as I loved and miss Muirton, it was in a sorry state at the end. McDiarmid is a fucking soulless place, but the timing of the move was perfect and undoubtedly attracted a higher standard of player to Saints at the time. The fact that we capitalised so successfully by winning promotion in our first season and turning fulltime laid the groundwork for the most successful spell in our history. Worst: Remaining part-time when we were promoted in 1983. We got some serious scuddings in the Prem the following season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mid-Links Faithful Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Best - employing Stewart Petrie worst - employing Tommy Campbell Tommy Campbell was definitely the worst ever appointment (almost on a par with David Hannah) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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