skygod Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 That's why I said "Scottish League" in brackets after his name.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillkieBoab Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Without question. Bobby Ferguson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabunias Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 I started going to games in the season we won promotion to the premier league and I never thought you could do better than Geddes in goals. I remember pleading with my dad to get the tartan goalie top rather than the home kit and I got the chance to wear it on the telly when an old program called N.B. was doing a feature on the Scottish Claymores American football team. His stop on the line last game of the promotion season which came off the bar and he clutched to his chest will stick with me the rest of my days. We have always seemed to have at least one top rate goalkeeper in the squad, amazes me when you see some teams struggle in that position to make a choice and stick with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefife Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Got to say at his peak Ally Hunter was as good if not better than any of them. Career went downhill after joining Celtic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) Didn't he go to pieces after losing a very soft goal in the World Cup qualifier at Hampden against Czechoslovakia, which we won 2-1 to go to Germany 1974? He didn't even make the squad - we took David Harvey, Thomson Allan and Jim Stewart. Edited January 20, 2018 by skygod 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAN-MCNASTY Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Colin meldrum was the best -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncanEwart Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Alan McCulloch was the first, and the best, Killie goalie I've seen. He always seemed to make sure that if he couldn't hold a shot, he put it round the post rather than back into play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbk Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 5 hours ago, DAN-MCNASTY said: Colin meldrum was the best Not when he dropped the high ball at castle greyskull right at the forwards feet to tap in the first goal in a 4-0 humping against them he wasn't! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesnowman21 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 My fav was always Lekovic. Produced the best save I have ever see at Pitodrie. Believe we won 0-1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetfitter Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 11 hours ago, skygod said: Forsyth played most of the championship season - Ferguson only played the last seven matches plus another - his debut - when Forsyth was on international duty (some home international matches were scheduled on the same day as league programmes). Ferguson kept the shirt the following season and Forsyth left for Southampton in December 1965. Ferguson’s deputy was possibly Ian Dick. No substitutes in those days so reserve goalies didn’t get much exposure. Sandy McLaughlan started the 64/65 season as Forsyth’s deputy but left for Sunderland in September. When Ferguson left for West Ham in the summer of 1967, McLaughlan was brought back from Sunderland. It's kind of amazing that, when England played at Hampden in 1964, Forsyth was in goal yet, when they returned in 1966, he had been replaced in goal for both Killie and Scotland by Ferguson. From Sandy McLaughlan (Scottish League) through Forsyth, Ferguson, McLaughlan again, Ally Hunter, Jim Stewart and Alan McCulloch (Scottish League) we had an unbroken run of keepers who were capped. Great post. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie1961 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 13 hours ago, historyman said: It was Bobby Thompson that broke McCulloch's ankle. He was a really dirty swine. That got us relegated that season. Im trying to think who replace him as the permanent number one - was it Bobby Geddes? Spot on 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie1961 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 10 hours ago, Bigdaw said: Going back years we have always had a reputation of bringing through top keepers, As a kid i thought Jim Stewart was fantastic , Big strong guy with the agility of a gazelle, When Boro bought him i thought he could never be replaced, But Mcculloch grasped his chance and imo became even better, Amazed no bigger clubs came in for him, If he had got his chance for Scotland i think he would have been snapped up.Only a single u21 cap too. Even when opposition got a penalty i was conifident he would save them. Gret shot stopper, Club Legend ! Alan Mcculloch was the best keeper for coming off his line for crosses thats why i rate him better than jim stewart 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gkillie Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Lekovic and Geddes my two favs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historyman Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 I can remember all the Killie keepers I have seen drop a real clanger like MacDonald did against Hibs recently but I can't ever remember McCullouch selling a goal like that. He was so consistently good. On the other hand, I don't think I ever remember Dubourdeau making a save. He's the worst I have seen by a long way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelesboots Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 42 minutes ago, thesnowman21 said: My fav was always Lekovic. Produced the best save I have ever see at Pitodrie. Believe we won 0-1. We did. I still say that is the best save I have ever seen from a Killie keeper. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ycfc1922 Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Jim Stewart bought me a pie and a bovril back in the day when I was a wee boy so for that reason he gets my vote :-)) Without food induced bribes it would be Alan McCulloch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historyman Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ycfc1922 said: Jim Stewart bought me a pie and a bovril back in the day when I was a wee boy so for that reason he gets my vote :-)) Without food induced bribes it would be Alan McCulloch. You wouldn't get that kind of thing happening these days ... he would either give up after waiting 20 minutes in the queue or there would be sod all left like today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncD Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 The dragon was the best for me. The cheque goalie kit helped the cause! Watching the dons saints highlights and forgot how bad Craig Samson was 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) McCullough was keeper when I started going to RP and was another in a magnificent tradition of great Killie keepers. In the 40ish years since my debut we've only really had 3 first choice goalies who were poor ... Meldrum, Doobydoo and Samson. There's been a few horrors as backup right enough in Brown, Holland, McKellar, Harpur .... but first choice has been pretty consistent. Edit: McCulloch has always been my favourite and will take some shifting. Edited January 21, 2018 by chubbs -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby14 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Craig Samson and Colin Meldrum are definetly two of the worst. Meldrum probably just pips Samson, how both made a living from the game (Samson still!) is beyond me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygod Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) Meldrum still makes a living too as Celtic's academy GK coach! Edited January 21, 2018 by skygod 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 18 hours ago, Ycfc1922 said: Jim Stewart bought me a pie and a bovril back in the day when I was a wee boy so for that reason he gets my vote :-)) Without food induced bribes it would be Alan McCulloch. He was my hero when I was at school. He even sent me a postcard from the Scotland HQ in Germany during the 1974 World Cup. I remember going round to his house where he showed me all the goalkeeper jerseys he had acquired along the way. Gutted when he went to Middlesborough, though fully understood why. Even more gutted when he went back to Rangers. That said, thought McCulloch was a better keeper. Like many have said, he should have been Scotland's number 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killiepies Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Bobby14 said: Craig Samson and Colin Meldrum are definetly two of the worst. Meldrum probably just pips Samson, how both made a living from the game (Samson still!) is beyond me. Samson got in the Scotland squad and was a Gordon Banks compared to the likes of Barry Holland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby14 Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Killiepies said: Samson got in the Scotland squad and was a Gordon Banks compared to the likes of Barry Holland Think he was there to get the ball for the other two when it went over the bar or wide. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanus Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I’m torn between the one against Hamilton which got us promoted in 92-93 or the one against Hibs at Easter Rd that kept us up in 1994. Oh, wait. I’ve misread that haven’t I? It’s not the Great Killie Goalless Discussion is it?? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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