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Going to two leagues of 20 won't help crowds improve . Very poor logic to say crowds were bigger in the 70's so let's copy the league format then. They were bigger in the 50's but many things have changed.
Exciting meaningfull games like this attract crowds. Not lots of boring mid table meaningless games which is what you would get with leagues of 20. Top 3 get Europe and even 3 relegation spots leaves mountains of pointless games with certain teams never in contention for either end of the table.
Not logic, its facts.
5/4/75, East Fife 0 Montrose 4, crowd 2,248
30/3/75, Montrose 2 Stenhousemuir 1, crowd 1,200
4/5/75, Montrose 2 Hamilton 1, crowd 1,750, wednesday night game
13/4/75, Montrose 2 StMirren 1, crowd 2,000
Arbroath 0 Montrose 2, crowd 1,997
15/8/75 Montrose 4 East Fife 0, crowd 1,100
20/8/75 St Mirren 1 Montrose 2, crowd 1,900
23/8/75, East Fife 1 Montrose 1, crowd 1,844
27/8/75 Montrose 2 Raith 1, crowd 2,000, midweek game.
After 40 years I still have the scrapbook. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
Football played at 3 on a saturday and 7:30 on a wednesday. No live games on TV, people went and stood on the terraces and watched their local teams.
Montrose has/had a population of 10,000 back then. More than 10% of the population going to watch their home team play.
The stats don't lie.
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Arrive Friday afternoon and get chauffeured into the exclusive hotel where one shall enjoy a champagne reception.
Book into the Presidential suite where 2 very scantily clad models will give the full massage and treatments
Proceed to the private spa and sauna to recuperate from the massage prior to receiving the red carpet treatment at one of Dublins top vip establishments where one will enjoy an evening of the finest food and refreshments.
VIP escort by chauffeur back to the hotel where the private treatments commence accordingly.
Saturday morning, I shall be woken up by another 2 stunners to be washed and rubbed with enthusiasm prior to heading to many fine establishments in the centre where I shall be wined and dined to the very highest standard.
Limo to the stadium where I shall thoroughly enjoy watching the mighty Scotland duly hand the Irish a defeat of only the highest standard available.
Evening entertainments commence after the match with the red carpet being walked on so the Timberlands don't get dirty.
Needless to say, another 2 dreams await my return to the suite where I shall again receive treatment of the highest standard.
Morning shall have me being awoken by the hotel staff trying to remove the contents of my caviar kebab from the royal throne in the en-suite. ( private jet lag )
Chauffeur driven back to the airport for the private helicopter trip back to sunny Manchester.
It's a hard life but if anyone fancies the same, proceed like I am to placing all the costs and fees onto room 512 under the name Mr J. Daly ( Flure )
I've never heard Zico and Ed called stunners before. Lots of other things, but never stunners.
The scantily clad bit I can believe.
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Have you tried ringing your number when pished
I'm back ashore on Thursday, bell you then
No I haven't. If I did it would be engaged......
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Well said buddy
Try answering yer bloody phone anaw btw
Try ringing the right fecking number then.
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Cheers Davie.Was that Bruce M video?
I don't know. Graeme sent me the link on sunday. I was working in Bournemouth Saturday and popped in to see Wrighty, and was following the match on-line.
Was trying to get up for Mo fest next week, but can't make it.
You'd only stalk me again anyway.
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The lower divisions need to be regionalised. Asking part timers to travel 2 or 3 hundred miles to play a game in front of a few hundred fans makes absolutely no sense.
Lets go back to the two leagues again, as it used to be.
In the 70's teams such as Montrose, Brechin, Forfar etc were getting 1000-1500 crowds every week. Sometimes more. Its not just the lower leagues either. Some of the crowds at premier league games are abysmal compared with a couple of decades ago.
Football was played on saturday afternoons at 3:00, and midweek on a wednesday at 19:30. Very rarely were games played at any other time. People used to go and watch their local teams as there were no other way to see football unless it was a cup final or international game being shown on tv.
Nowadays football can be watched on telly virtually everyday of the week. Sometimes on a saturday and sunday there are three games on, all kicking off at different times, just so the TV companies can make money.
Saturdays used to be great. Several coaches would leave Montrose early doors to get to the likes of Coatbridge, Kirkaldy, Methil, Hamilton, Paisley, etc. No motorways then, and very few stretches of dual carriage way. Chugging along on an Alexanders or Bluebird coach at about 40 miles an hour max. No toilets, so it was cans full of pee getting hurled out of the windows.
Auchterarder was always a favourite stopping off place. The chippies and bars there must have made a fortune in those days. Mind you, some saturdays it was like a wild west town when several different sets of supporters all turned up at the same time.
Great effort by Montrose yesterday. It would have been a sad day if they had dropped out of the league after 92 years. Hopefully some of those that turned up yesterday will go back next season to support them.
Good shout Bruce. Spot on with the result and scorer.
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Cheers for the replies folks. I saw Rhoderick dhu it is. Clocked the signs last night pie at ht and free pint if we win. Heading now......right up for a Sunday club
Aaaah, so it was you that ate all the pies?
Saw that on the friday night to. Had a few in there before the match. Went to Hampden for the first half, and was back in the Dhu for my pie just as the second half kicked off.
All the pies were gone.
Fat bassas
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Oooooooh, how cynical of you.
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I'm hoping a couple of them get a hat-trick. Think Anya and Naismith deserve one a piece.
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If so, can you get me 250g of Golden Virginia and I'll give you the money on sunday. Thats at Gib prices, not UK prices!!
Cheers
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A couple of us staying there friday and saturday. Then in Faro for the sunday night.
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Ooooh, look. Hes wearing a good luck charm.
Didn't work for him though.
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This year, as every other year of my life, I will not be wearing a poppy.
Here's a good read.
Hers another good read.
http://www.1914-1918.net/9div.htm
I always took you to be a fairly intelligent tamber, however, to start this thread you must have had a bad day.
You know there are a lot of serving or ex serving people on the board, and we have the same thread every year, which always causes controversy and generally someone getting banned.
As an ex serviceman myself, I will be wearing a poppy. To remember those that have fallen serving their country. No need for a white poppy. The red one is, and should always be a reminder about the futility of war.
I recently had the very humbling/harrowing experience of visiting the Flanders area, whilst travelling to Dortmund. As well as visiting some of the battlefields and museums, I visited the grave of my great uncle. A very emotive experience walking through a cemetery of 200 headstones, and seeing the names of some of the great Scottish regiments of years gone by, Cameron Highlanders, Seaforth Highlanders, Royal Scots, Black Watch etc., and the ages of those that were killed. Mostly all young Scotsmen.
Thats why I will be wearing my Red Poppy, so those people aren't forgotten, and to remind the generation of today about the futility of it all. Perhaps you should try visiting for yourself.
I have also bought one of the ceramic poppies from the display at the Tower of London, and will be placing it on his grave in 2018. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, which, ironically, was on the day you started the thread. The sad thing is, it was the last day his regiment saw action.
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To the north of St Cyrus there was the village of Tanglaha which was flooded by a high tide and still remains totally underwater. There is also an old graveyard to the south and some old fisher huts which are now lived in. Pass this quite a lot with the horse as we keep it just along the road from here.
Just one of the many places you stalked me.
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I'll have a twenner - ya bassas!
Were you there? Never saw you.......................
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Booked. Two of us from Exeter on the saturday morning back sunday. £65 return.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badbea
Depending on how far back you want to go, this is a very interesting place to visit. The hike from the A9 is well recommended to get an idea of just how desolate and hard life must have been here....
Not too sure if thats the one I drove past the other year.
Had taken the wife for her first trip up the West coast, across the top and back down the east coast.
The most animated I saw her was when she saw a sign for the Highland Clearance Village, and asked if we could stop off for a while.
I nearly crashed the car wetting myself.
She seriously thought it was an outlet centre.
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Many a happy day playing there.
Used to live just up the road(about a mile away) at the Scotston of Usan.
Houses we lived in were demolished years ago.
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Did he have a set of pipes with him, and was wearing wellies?
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Good to see Im getting the blame for the chaos !
Superb time, that first night in the jakey bar will last long in the memories.
Cheers to all the Troops that put up with me
I'd like to thank them too. And can you please have him next time as well.
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This is the most divisive topic I have ever seen on the TAMB, I think we all need to be a bit more tolerant of each other's viewpoints.
FFS...
Wait til we start discussing stovies.
Tatties, onions, beef stock, with salt and pepper to season.
Nothing else. Thats the ingredients.
And definitely no fucling celery!!!
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I'll run out of fury eventually and recede but until then... Did you read that "purring" comment by Cameron and his other remarks? I think it is safe to say she was not neutral when she made that comment / veiled threat.
Had to read that twice.
Thought someone had neutered good old Liz. Perish the thought.
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I have had an absolute fukking brainwave.
We all know that people on the internet, the working age population, voted marginally yes. The elderly, those who get all their news from the TV and papers, voted massively no.
Places like the borders, where internet connections are terrible, voted massively no.
So...
The government should now start a programme of improving internet speeds across the whole country. Secondly, they should get silver surfers activated. Give every household over 65 a Chromebook. With a small range of news sites and links to community activism pre-installed in the favourites.
Boom! An informed population. And we all knows what happens after that.
Better still.
As Scotland are to be given, according to the "Vow", new powers, should they not be introducing compulsory euthanasia for all those over 70-75?
Kills several birds with one stone. Lots of No voters gone, reduced pensions bill, and a younger, more vibrant population of Yes voters.
Will also save loads on the chromebooks.
Now wheres my book on Pol Pot?
Brora Vs Montrose
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Agreed. What about the figures for April, May and June?
That was the old Second division.