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7 hours ago, chubbs said:
Don't know how or why I had it in my head it was Watson....
@chubbs- because he was a dirty big rat and it was the kind of thing he would do?
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3 minutes ago, skygod said:
“Jim Brown (Dunfermline) set a legal precedent in 1982 when he sued John Pelosi of St Johnstone after suffering a compound fracture of the leg. Settled out of court for £20,000.”
Haha I really don't know what to say. I thought Pelosi played for Hamilton when the incident took place.
I can't even blame the drink. I've not touched a drop all day, I swear.
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11 minutes ago, chubbs said:
Think it was the Dunfermline defender John Watson that ended wee Simmy's career.
Not according to Bill Donnachie's "Who's Who Of Kilmarnock Fc" and Richard Cairns and Gordon Allison's "Killie Til I Die".
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24 minutes ago, carpetfitter said:
Where has this been reported?
On the Announce To Pre Contract thread @carpetfitter.
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1 minute ago, Bonbon19 said:
Have to say the film at 3 hours long is a bit of a slog to be honest , and the undubbed Indian language especially the first hour will make it hard to follow , if you haven’t read the book .
I'm willing to give it a go. Had you read the book first before you saw the film?
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On 3/28/2024 at 11:43 AM, AliBaba said:
15 minutes of waffle from the Aberdeen CEO……..not too impressive if you ask me.
Absolute fraud of a guy, clearly out of his depth. Long may it continue.
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12 minutes ago, skygod said:
To be pedantic, Jim Brown was a midfielder who was better known for his time at Hearts, where he played over 400 times.
You are being generous by calling this pedantic.
Oooft- I swear to (sky) god I don't make things up on purpose!
I have no idea why I thought this man was a Dunfermline goalkeeper!!
He was playing for St Johnstone when Pelosi clashed with him (I hope).
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5 minutes ago, skygod said:
Not a Bobby Fleeting era signing, he came from Meadowbank for £8,000 and his last appearance was at Palmerston in the 6-0 game.
Nine starts, seven substitute appearances and one goal.
Haha, I got the transfer fee bit at least! Thanks @skygod. I always seem to conflate Jim and Bobby Fleeting's time at the club as the one period, forgetting that Jim was there first. I love the tricks the memory plays at times- I was always certain that the aforementioned John Pelosi got into bother for ending Jimmy Simpson's career, but as you explained it was Dunfermline goalie Ian Westwater who did that, and Dunfermline goalie Jim Brown that Pelosi clashed with.
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You're right, he was nowhere near the worst player of that era.
I seem to remember there was a bit of excitement around the signing of Des Walker at the time. Did we sign him from Clyde? And for a transfer fee? I kind of associate him with a Bobby Fleeting spending spree.
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On 12/29/2023 at 10:43 AM, Bonbon19 said:
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time . The birth of the FBI and how the American Indians were mistreated in the 20th century .
Just finished this @Bonbon19. Excellent read and the amount of research and hard work carried out by the author really shines through. It was shockingly still Cowboys v Indians even in the 1920s and 1930s in Oklahoma. Can't wait to see the film now.
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Robert Docherty, a midfielder from the late eighties. In my mind, he had a pot belly, a mullet and a drooping moustache but maybe I just wish it was so.
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I've been looking forward to this game all week. The Cup's done now but we still have a lot to play for. Let's get ourselves as far up this league as we can.
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On 3/9/2024 at 12:13 AM, Allan said:
Some may describe as "jakie-looking" as of today?
He later had a furniture removal business called "Prytz Flitz".
I thank you.
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I particularly remember a game at Rugby Park v QOS, earlier in the same season as the East Fife game people have already mentioned (what a player Paul Hunter was for them back then btw). A 2-0 defeat and everyone was gathered outside the front doors afterwards. It all became a bit of a popularity contest as the players came out, some being cheered (Alan Robertson) and others being roundly abused. Most were just glad to get out and away, except for John McVeigh who basically asked all and sundry to come ahead. Maniac.
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21 minutes ago, Prahakillie said:
Thanks. Another one I'll look out for.
I've moved onto reading Mayflies now.
Be interested to hear what you make of "Mayflies".
I liked some of it and was not so impressed with other bits.
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Steven McCloy, a bit part player in the first season back in the premier league under TB.
Peter McCloy's boy.
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On 3/6/2024 at 6:54 AM, Prahakillie said:
Excellent book. Just got round to reading it.
Incidentally, I hadn't realised he was mates with Andrew O'Hagan who crops up in the book.
And Keith Martin, whose close friendship with Andrew O'Hagan inspired "Mayflies".
John Niven himself pops up in Stuart Braithwaite's "Spaceships Over Glasgow", another book I can highly recommend.
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On 3/7/2024 at 11:24 PM, TrueBlue said:
Had a very good career in Northern Ireland with Ballymena and Portadown and also coaching / management, still lives over there.
Thanks for that @TrueBlue. Good to know. Good on him.
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5 hours ago, McDicken'sLeftPeg said:
Springside folklore.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Springside Colts had a couple of really decent teams that provided a few 'obscure; Killie figures and a couple who became less obscure.
The team two years above mine contained my cousin Robert McLaughlin who played Scottish schoolboys and went through all the age groups with Paul McStay, Neale Cooper, Davie Bowman, Gary Mackay and Ian Westwater. He was a strange mix of a player and turned out as a centre-half and as a left winger. Had a ferocious left foot. Famously (and, I have to say, rudely rebuffed Billy McNeill who wanted to talk to him about signing for Celtic after he'd marked Mark Hughes in a Victory Shield game against Wales at Broomfield). Signed for Killie, played a few reserve games but drifted into the Juniors. Signed from the same team - Sammy McGivern. Also in that team - and eventually made his way to RP - Stevie Clarke.
Best ever Springside Colts team though - mine. Dominated Ayrshire age-group football for years, won the Strathclyde Cup and Scottish Boys' Club Cup, Scottish Cup semi-finalists twice.
From that team - Andrew Brown, Scott Johnson and Andy Kerr all signed for Killie. Andrew could have been a star. Crosshouse lad. Skillful, great engine and hard as nails but had a bad leg break early in his Killie career and was never the same. The other two, imho, were never gonna make it and were usually subs for us. Another sub was Stevie Murray who admittedly was a year younger than us - was going to be a star but another who suffered a career-ending injury. That team also sent two boys to Aberdeen - Stuart Wilson and Colin Brown. Geordie Watt became a well-known figure in Ayrshire juniors.
Me? Just before I joined the Met, was offered £26 quid a week to play for Morton but there was only one team I'd have played for for that kind of money - and then I might have been an obscure Killie player too!
I remember Andy Brown, Scott Johnson and Andy Kerr @McDicken'sLeftPeg. I was at the game v Partick Thistle when Andy Brown broke his leg. The coldest I've ever been at Rugby Park. Absolutely freezing. I've heard before that he was highly rated as he was coming through to senior football. Scott and Andy were both Bourtreehill men and I'm sure they went on to play Junior.
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9 hours ago, Prahakillie said:
Allan McGraw (83), Greenock Morton player and manager
You are a year late with that news mate.
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5 hours ago, chubbs said:
Local lad who stayed in Dundonald Road.
I never knew that @chubbs. Cheers. I take it he never had a career in senior football?
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9 minutes ago, Thebigguy68 said:
Yes. The classic “looks like a player”. Unfortunately that was about it - there were worse than his around in the team at that time though.
Aye, he had some legs on him. Did we not get him in a swap deal that saw Robert "Zico" Clark go to Motherwell?
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15 hours ago, Killieboyd said:
Gary Shaw for me, former European Cup winner that was clearly finished when he joined us from Shrewsbury
I think he had a relatively successful spell at Shrewsbury after he left us, I seem to remember them having an FA cup run that season under John Bond.
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6 minutes ago, skygod said:
He was a boy from the Highlands we signed from Well.
Played 13(6) in 1984/85, scoring in that 4-2 win at Perth. Freed to join Falkirk and went from there a year later back to the Highland League.
He had a bit of a rocket shot. And quite a tan.
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Ha- another one. It's been a laugh though.
Also- I am really interested in the things we think we know or remember and the stories we tell and how they stack up against the actual facts. That's why I like these nostalgia type threads because as we have seen, there can be a huge gap between both. And it's through the mistakes and the discrepancies that exist in this gap that we learn the truth. Someone may remember things differently from you but as in the case of me and @chubbs we are both mistaken or have misremembered through time. I thought it was John Pelosi who crippled Jimmy Simpson, @chubbs thought it was John Watson (who I was derogatory about in the post above but only because he always gave us a torrid time of it back then) but when we refer to the historians, it turns out it was Ian Westwater. Wow.