Thank you for that, insightful.

I agree with almost all of this. The exception being, "sacked by a jealous board". Sacked by a suckered, stupid board AFAIC. I'm as certain as I can be that Aberdeen were champing at the bit to get Fergie. IF the board hadn't been so stupid as to fall for sacking him, Fergie would have, IMO, still moved on at the time he did, but, Saints would have got some cash for the move. The draw of Aberdeen was just as strong for Fergie as it was for Goodie and Robinson.

Frewboy knows Teams like QotS,East Stirling,Airdrie,Montrose,Clyde were taking 5 or 6 goals off us on a regular basis home and away Crowds were around 1000/1100 and the stadium was crumbling Fergie arrived in 74 and within a couple of seasons crowds were up and Love St was a fortress Fergie went around the Town with a loud hailer encouraging people to come to LS and very quickly crowds of 5 figures were quite common I have no doubt if it wasn’t for Fergie we’d be playing in the basement of Scottish football……….or worse