the Sunnylaw Jag

I always thought the only manly beard was one of bees other than that meh! Of course if any one had a wasp beard that would really be something.

In the twenty plus years they've been talking about it; couldn't they have just joined the bottom of the FA pyramid leagues and be there or thereabouts legitimately by now.

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Plain or pan bread?

Thanks guys up until I read this thread I thought my life was still in ascension now it's just a downhill slalom.

Well it will be the first time this season a commentator will say "the Jags look dangerous in attack today".

Actually it might be an idea to play it up front although it might burst the baw wae it's pointy head.

That's not much help to the Thistle in getting one though, unless we can get him on loan.

Mind you if you get one like this, then maybe questions should be asked. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34399648

Severed? I know Glasgow's tough but surely we're not that bad!

Honestly haven't seen any so can't question their veracity but all I'm asking for is just a poxy one for the Jags.

I'll pass that on to Archie and the team and maybe, who knows we'll get one this weekend? Still a penalty every second game, even some Italians couldn't boast that ratio.

Did I hear right on the telly today that Waghorn has scored 7 penalties this season? How do you get one of those; we Jags fans haven't seen one for us in over a year?

I did mention a fans statue in the original article but I suppose one player I should have mentioned was the the tragic Hughie Gallacher who scored 23( sometimes credited as 24) goals in 20 games for Scotland. At only 5ft 5" he also represents the wee Scottish player we all love. Have a look at his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie_Gallacher

With Scotland playing the USA in rugby tomorrow, there's been quite a few shots of Billy Bremner's statue at Elland Road on the tv in the past couple of days. It reminded me of an article I wrote for the Scotland Epistles Facebook page and I thought I would post it here. Who would you choose for a statue though? A Statue for Hampden Going to Hampden for a Scotland match should be a pilgrimage in a way, whether you’re travelling 500 miles or like me 500 yards. There should be a sense of the occasion, a sense of history and the shared legacy of it. At Celtic Park, there’s quite a few statues including Jimmy Johnstone, Jock Stein and the newly unveiled Billy McNeill. I imagine quite a few Celtic fans take their sons, grandsons etc. and show them the statues before the game and tell tales of days gone past. I’m sure others do likewise with John Greig’s one at Ibrox and indeed Billy Bremner’s down at Elland Road, home of Leeds United. Although, I was in Barrow-In-Furness once and saw Emlyn Hughes’ statue and just thought “ Aye, yer still a dick.” So what do we have at Hampden? Nothing, not a sausage, although I do admit to liking the big pictures on the concourse walls, although I was a bit confused when I was at the Gibraltar game to see two of what looked like a Peru goal from Argentina on show. However, we don’t have that icon that we can say to our sons etc. “Aye, he was a great player” to. Isn’t about time we did though? So who could we have? Well, Denis Law is probably the most likely, in that one arm raised salute holding his collar by the cuff pose. I suppose we could have Billy Bremner in that iconic moment when he has just missed the opportunity to score against Brazil with his hands to his head. Or what about Jim Baxter playing keepy uppy at Wembley. Then there’s Archie Gemmil’s nonchalant pumped fist in the air when he has scored the greatest goal ever, ever. Then there’s also WGS in Mexico ’86 when he pretends to jump the barrier. Or in the modern era what about James McFadden as he has just hit the trigger to score that great goal in France. Joe Jordan with his teeth out is always a classic pose. Given our penchant for shooting ourselves in the foot, maybe one or two showing our less celebrated moments could be apt. What about Jinky on a rowing boat or even Jinky given the two fingers up to the press a couple of days after the boat incident. Chris Iwelumo missing against Norway. Alan Rough, Asa Hartford et al with perms! Barry Ferguson rubbing two fingers against his nose at Hampden after Boozegate. Willie Johnston holding out two pep pills. Maybe we could have a surreal faceless Ally McLeod holding two Janus masks, one his happy ebullient self and the other that face of abject misery in Argentina where he seemed to age years in minutes. Or what about a dedication to the Tartan Army with three foot soldiers in regalia, arms around each other with the two outer characters arms also out, so we can pose either side and have our photos taken. Of course they could all have sporrans to drop money into and raise funds for the Tartan Army Sunshine Appeal. It goes without saying that about ten yards away there should be a lonely anorak reading his programme and I’m sure Robert Marshall would volunteer to model for it. It would also make an apt place for us to sell the Epistles magazine, rather than saying we will be on Somerville Drive selling the magazine, we can say, buy from the anorak at the Anorak. It goes without saying that as long as it’s not Rod Stewart; badly done like that Michael Jackson one at Fulham, a few years back. At the very least let’s have some of the stands named after some of our greatest players, that way I won’t get East and West mixed up with North and South.

Good shout Barney, he only got 12 caps; scoring three goals for Scotland. Is that what you meant?

Southcliffe with Sean Harris, although if you do watch you will never look at Shirley Henderson the same again.

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Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24 or Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in Walking Dead

Taxi to Rutherglen Station, Train at 22.05 arriving at the Exhibition Centre 22.18. Next train 22.20.

I'm not sure if maybe a Thistle like team is a better description but they certainly did have a rise in supporters mainly from St.Pauli who were fed up with the club. They also adopted Thistle's song of old; producing stickers with F the Pope and F the Queen. The Pope was Uwe Seeler a Hamburg legend and the Queen was the owner of St. Pauli who was a well known Thespian / Theatre Lovey in Germany.

Has anyone ever went to see fifth tier Hamburg side Altona 93? I've had a few copies of their club fanzine and their editor contributed to the second edition of the Scotland Epistles. The fanzine is half in English and half in German because there's a lot of Supporters from the UK particularly Dulwich Hamlet fans.

Jimmy Saville forty years of playing a perv right in front of us and we never even realised he wasn't playing.

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath

Roysters and it's great you can get a six pack in Poundland.