steelman1991

No we were just crying out for a centre forward - the big fella didn't have one of his better games last night - an 18-yard box striker playing off him wouldn't have any more success than the two wider front men (Murphy and Ojamma), There are times he traps the ball further than I go my holidays. basics seem to be his problem. The difference between the 2 opposing centre forwards was quite marked last night. I really must be attending different games to others who see Higdon as this flick and knock-on expert, if anything my take is that he doesn't do it enough and as a result we lose possession far too cheaply trying to bring him into the game. Time to drop him and try an alternative approach - like play football on the ground to feet. Daley - mobile (in comparison) and the ability to make the ball stick, bringing they're midfield and fellow front men into the game. Higdon - slow and cumbersome with little, to no control of the ball and as a result our more forward thinking players are unable to decide what they should actually do to support him. McCall's last 2 substitutions at home to my mind have defied logic - Ojamma (the only player who even looked likely to score) replaced by McHugh, who for the best part of the time he was on the park wandered around like a headless chicken - in no small part as the result of McCall's instructions - the poor lad looked like he didn't know where he was supposed to be playing. Then Daley, (aside from the fact he hasn't been in any kind of form since he arrived) to ask him, or any player for that matter to make an impact with 3 minutes (6 if you include additional time) is quite frankly laughable. What happened to the good old days when substitutions were made at half and at least there was a chance to impact the game. Oh and a plea to McCall please move away from the tactic of squeezing the game into one half of the park (right or left, dependent on which side the goal kick is taken from ) - try using the whole width that's what its there for. There was a period last night when all 20 outfield players (and the ref lol) were within 10 yards of each other and in the East stand half of the park.

Do "Wishaw and surrounding areas" have more of an affinity to Jamie than other areas - Oh and No and No

Used to be a regular pre-season tour destination during Tommy McLean's time. Split the squad - one half went with him and the other with Big Tam Forsyth - both squads to different highland league clubs. Had a wee dram with Big Tam at the Borough Briggs Social Club after one such encounter. These were as close as we got to Euro adventures in those day's you younger guys don't know your living

The boy done us proud - Agent Amber over and out

Glad I checked this - would have been turning up on Saturday Was it announced over the tannoy at the Utd game

Not restricted to the East Stand - Cooper got the same message - we were last out and the steward was adamant that Season Ticket holders did not require a voucher - what an absolute shambles

Get back to work slacker and less of this nonsense.

So glad I gave this a miss. Now we're going for it - Arthur f.......n Daley

That was much later mate - 80's perhaps in a Scottish Cup Replay - huge crowd again. Think the clanger was in the last minute of extra-time

Douglas is a 'well fan - that chant went on for ages - before the clanger

Yeah it was and both teams seemed to cope better against it. Love him or loathe him and I can be his fiercest critic, you've got to admire big Higgy. Was really unlucky not to score successive hat-tricks (his first half shot of the post looked in all the way). Wait till you see his second, what a bullet header They're relegation fodder, but happy to come away with the points, despite a below-par performance.

No apology necessary mate - but aren't we all

Ask Kirkie if he played at Hampden for the Vics in a Scottish Junior Cup final before joining the 'well. Vague recollections of watching him from the schoolboy enclosure (front of South Stand).

Way out with that one Pie - mind playing tricks. Spurs were double winners in 1960-61, a feat not achieved again until Arsenal 1970-71

What a trip down memory lane that was - thanks tex. Keep them coming if you've anymore from your scrapbook - you wouldn't happen to have the report of the St Mirren game 1975?

If your referring to Graeme Forbes - did he not go to Walsall, around the same time as Andy Dornan?

Great clip shit result - forgotten that we had drainage problems far beyond the recent issues .

Grew - I take it from your comment that the game wasn't televised - I couldn't remember - the SFA were funny about things in them day's, none of this televised football at the drop of a hat. Wonder what Hugh Allan and Ernie Walker would make of all this live football and Sky. Rule 14 ya bass, if there was a game in the public park, then no football could be shown on tele at the same time. To protect the game, I think was the line they always trotted out. Changed days indeed.

"As the Gladiators entered the arena, the roar could be heard at Glasgow Cross" Doug Baillie's opening line of the Sunday Post report - Motherwell v St Mirren, Scottish Cup circa 1975(?) Huge crowd that day

Along with the car keys - retrieved after the match at 'F' Division HQ, if I remember correctly

Was that all it was - seemed like a lot longer at the time.

LOL remember it well - I had given him dogs abuse for the majority of the game and after that strike he deservedly ran straight from their end to ours and gave me the 'GIRFUY' . Spoke to him some years after that and we both had a giggle about it.

Please do mate - coming from Harthill we normally parked in Orbiston Street, that night we were parked in Jerviston - and just made KO. The queues snaked from both sides of the Taggarts end out onto Windmillhill Street - what a night, perhaps only bettered for atmosphere by the Hearts semi in the same competition. Cult hero's from that era has to be both 'Jumbo' Muir and big John Goldthorpe (made Higgy look like Messi )

He didn't sign McGlinchey - the auld cuddly b.....d Broon did. Sorry re-read your post 'we', not 'he'

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