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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?

Yup. It wasn’t a great night weather wise but it was in every other sense. I was 13 going on 14. Crowds were always massively understated in those days. The 1980 cup replay against Celtic was quoted as something ridiculous like 27000. FFS there was about 3000 locked outside that night. That game was after the East terracing had been redeveloped which would’ve reduced the capacity somewhat, but at that time Love Street must’ve still had a capacity of at least about 35000

Yup. I guess we all suffer in different ways Rickster!

I pay all my taxes I’ll have you know. Income Tax - 20% (flat rate) GST (see VAT) - 5% CGT - 0% All up to date thanks!

What a bloody team. Would make you greet thinking about it.

Welcome aboard mate. Just to keep you up to speed, I’m the big cool handsome bassturt who always makes hilariously funny or insightful, articulate posts. Everybody loves me round here.

Ha Ha. Like I said Doogie. The link assists the memory. For example I’d have sworn my first away league game was at Airdrie, but the website confirmed that Hamilton actually came first. ETA I was talking bollocks above. The Hamilton away game I was thinking of was actually a League cup tie at the start of the following season which we won 2-0. So In fact my first League away game actually was Airdrie 2 St. Mirren 2 - 23/4/77

Responding to post of Shull’s on other thread got me thinking. About all my “firsts”. First Home Cup game - St. Mirren 4 Dundee Utd 1 - 29/1/77 (also my first game ever barring a handful of old Div 2 games I don’t really remember. First Away Cup game - Motherwell 2 St. Mirren 1 - 25/2/77 First Home League game - St. Mirren 3 Dundee 1 - 5/2/77 First Away League game - Hamilton Accies 0 St. Mirren 1 - 19/3/77 First National Cup Semi Final - St. Mirren 1 Aberdeen 1 - 3/4/82 Firtst National Cup Final - St. Mirren 1 Dundee Utd 0 - 16/5/87 First Victory witnessed over Celtic - Celtic 1 St. Mirren 2 -15/10/77 First victory witness over Rangers - Rangers 0 St. Mirren 1 - 12/8/78 First Renfrewshire Derby - St. Mirren 5 Morton 2 - 8/5/77 What were your firsts? This link will help if the old memory banks aren’t quite what they were... http://www.stmirrenprogrammes.co.uk/

Ha Ha. You could be talking about me there Shull. My first games were when I was about 6 or 7 (which would’ve been around !972/73 time, 74 max). My Dad (who was a DOB) did one decent thing for me I suppose. I reckon I maybe went to about 4 or 5 games in the depths of the old Division 2 and all I remember was being freezing cold, bored stiff and playing tag with the other bored kids on the big empty East terracing, just to try to keep warm. It all really started for me in January 1977., when my 2 uncles took me back. It was a slightly different experience. St. Mirren 4 Dundee Utd 1. The rest was history as they say.

I think the fact that someone said earlier that he got a big ironic cheer when he eventually touched the ball, probably tells you everything you need to know.

Long ball is the ONLY tactic on those shitey pitches. You still have to execute it properly of course.

No idea. I wasn’t in the changing room. My post was based on the assumption he did. If he didn’t then the whole story is irrelevant. For what it’s worth, I was surprised when I heard he’d said it. My view would have been that he was far to boring, disinterested, insipid and weak to have mustered up the nerve to say such a thing.

He’d probably be better than anything on the bench!

So midfield 4 of Edwards, Flynn, Magennis and ????