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Happy to be told I’m talking shite but.... My father in law passed away on Tuesday at an all too early age. He is an ex Morton player and I emailed the club on Wednesday advising them and asking if they would mind putting a wee tribute on their website. 2 days later, not even a response. On the contrary in his later years he played for Larkhall Thistle who were quick to post a lovely wee tribute. Rude soapdodging caaants I say, but I’m bias. What do you say?

Tony Fitz against Dundee Utd in the cup. Scanlon against Celtic in the League. Scanlon against Clydebank in the cup. Zico against Rangers at Ibrox Zico against Celtic in the cup semi. These were all great goals from that era as due to the composition of the ball back then, the type of “spectacular” goals we see these days were very rare indeed. In the more modern age you could probably list countless goals and it would be very difficult to tell them apart. Jesus, Stevie Mallan’s wee video montage on YouTube would provide about a dozen for a start!

Are you talking about THAT Billy Davies goal? The one he bulleted into the top corner after the mazy run by Cameron? if so, there’s two things wrong with your statement. We lost 2-1 that day and it wasn’t Sevco it was Rangers. If we want to call them Sevco now, then it stands to reason that you have to acknowledge that they were Rangers then

Faded away to an elephant?

I’d love to see what Buster Bloodvessel looks like now. I bet he’s bald and fat!

Speaking of the Anglo-Scottish Cup, the very first tie we played against an English team, was arguably the best of the lot. Having drawn the first leg 1-1 at Craven Cottage, this happened in the second leg. For those that weren't there, check out how the scoring went... http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/StMirren/STM_Match_Details.php?Season=1977&GameID=197709260

Whilst I do take your point, I was more coming at it from the point of view that he has said playing is actually his release. I’m not sure if you have any experience with mental illness, but in my (albeit limited) experience, it is not something you get “cured” of. Not this type of illness anyway. It’s very much something you learn to live with. In opening up like this it sounds like David Cotterill is well on the way to doing just that and I’d hate to see him discriminated against on that basis. Sounds like it’s going to be a bit of a moot point as far as Saints are concerned anyway.

I always just assumed that the “Billy” Boys was just derived from William of Orange. Every day is a school day as they say.

Blimey! Poor lad. Like he says probably one of many. Fair play to him for opening up. I don’t know where he is with us at the moment, but I’d like to think this admission wouldn’t stop us signing him provided he has shown up well on the pitch.

And (I hope this is true) while on his deathbed 'either that wallpaper goes, or I do' My favourite of his is “I’m so clever, sometimes I don’t understand a single thing of what I am saying”.

And just to put and end to Shull’s deliberate coyness! Hello! Hello! We are the Killie Boys Hello! Hello! You’ll know us by our noise. We’re up to our knees in Ayr blood Surrender or you’ll die. For we are the Ayrshire Killie Boys. I can only think Doogie didn’t know they sang that song.

Unlike many of their songs, (unless I’m missing something) there’s absolutely nothing wrong with Celtic’s “Hail Hail” song. It’s one of the few songs they sing that’s actually about their effin team! They do refer to Rangers fans as “animals”, but that’s ok in my book.

Oooft!! That's horrendous!

Go on then?

Assuming that the lowest attendance for a first class match we’ve been involved in over our entire history? Surely?

Ach. Nae luck the Scorries!

Just saw that I was actually underselling the record attendance as 43000. It was over 47000. Makes the suggested figures in some of the late 1970s games all the more ridiculous.

Interesting that with the exception of Deveronvale, the Highland League showed up pretty badly in this round. The only other HL winners were ones that were playing against other HL sides. Disappoointed for my soft spot HL team Wick Academy. My mate is the Chairman and we’ve been made very welcome up there on several occasions. When I heard they’d drawn Auchinleck Talbot I thought they’d get absolutely pumped, but looks like they ran them quite close.

What load of complete and utter bollocks! Every team has a stand out player FFS. In a great Celtic team Henrik Larsson was a stand out player. In a great Rangers team Brian Laudrup was a stand out player. Johann Cruyff in the 1974 Dutch team. Pele for Brazil. Frank Beckenbauer for West Germany. Were they all one man teams too? Oh and by the way, your underselling of Gavin Reilly’s contribution to our league campaign last season shows you up for the complete and utter clueless article that you are. It’s not all about goals. Edited to remove the personal abuse. There was no need. The rest of my post speaks for itself.

I’m sure I’ve had this discussion on here before. Our record attendance was 43000 in whatever year it was. However until the East terracing was redeveloped in 79/80, surely it was exactly the same ground that held 43000. So how could the ground be bursting at the seams with only 20000 in it? The 3-3 Rangers game in 77 is listed as 24000. On that basis there should’ve been room in the ground for almost double the crowd that was there. It’s absolutely mental.

I’m always disappointed watching the grainy old YouTube footage of that game. I was behind the goal in the East terracing and the footage seems to show more Celtic fans in there than buddies. I really don’t remember it that way at all. I don’t remember being surrounded by *****. When Dougie nets the penalty rebound I’m sure I remember the full big swell thing. Maybe time has distorted my memory.

Spot on. All I expect from Oran between now and the 1st January is that he shows positive man management skills, communicates in a positive manner and is seen to be making the very best he can out of what he has, with players appearing to be on his side. Hopefully we won’t be too far adrift and he can show us what he’s made of in the transfer window.

Ricardo? The Rickenator? The Rickatollah? Rickman?

Aye very good!

It does beg the question (which I’ve never though about before), but what was the qualification rationale for the Anglo Scottish Cup? In Scotland it was often the Premier League teams who had just missed out on the European slots, but even then I’m sure we played Stirling Albion one year in the Scottish rounds. England was also bizarre. You could have anything from (old) first division teams to third division teams. Was it just anybody that fancied it? When we beat Bolton weren’t they in the top league at the time and doing reasonably well?