Your First Team You Remember.

[Och Aye]

The Willie Watson thread got me looking back to the earliest memories of supporting my team. I reckon this was the 1st Well squad I remember. Worth it for the hair cuts (check out Colin McAdam) and cracking sponsor free old kits.

[Och Aye]

[Ally Bongo]

Would be Accies of the mid to late 70s 

Rikki Ferguson 

Jamie Fairlie 

Joe McGrogan

Mick McManus 

Jim Frew 

These were the most memorable 

[Och Aye]

14 hours ago, Ally Bongo said:

Would be Accies of the mid to late 70s 

Rikki Ferguson 

Jamie Fairlie 

Joe McGrogan

Mick McManus 

Jim Frew 

These were the most memorable 

Jamie Fairlie was a terrific player. Was Ferguson the goalie?

[Malcolm]

Hearts, very late 70s, early 80s.  Drew busby, willie petrigrew, willie gibson, john brough, donald park, robert o conner.

 

[Och Aye]

1 hour ago, Malcolm said:

Hearts, very late 70s, early 80s.  Drew busby, willie petrigrew, willie gibson, john brough, donald park, robert o conner.

 

Willie P could find the net.

[slasher]

16 hours ago, Ally Bongo said:

Would be Accies of the mid to late 70s 

Rikki Ferguson 

Jamie Fairlie 

Joe McGrogan

Mick McManus 

Jim Frew 

These were the most memorable 

Was McManus the wee right winger? I watched many a game under the lights at the old Douglas Park after we moved round the corner from it when I was about 16. I had already been going to Celtic for a few years by then or I’d probably have ended up an Accies fan.

[Malcolm]

18 minutes ago, Och Aye said:

Willie P could find the net.

yeah, i remember of him kind of playing the same position as dalglish so maybe he would have had more caps otherwise.

hearts were in debt to dundee utd for a while after the transfer.  My great uncle was on the board of Hearts around then and resigned over Mercers insistence at putting youth players like Bowman and Gary Mackay up for sale to settle thre debt.

[Ally Bongo]

4 hours ago, Och Aye said:

Jamie Fairlie was a terrific player. Was Ferguson the goalie?

Yes - Ricardo Ferguson was a legend and was eventually replaced by Allan Ferguson (no relation)

For almost 25 years there was a Ferguson between the sticks at Accies

2 hours ago, slasher said:

Was McManus the wee right winger? I watched many a game under the lights at the old Douglas Park after we moved round the corner from it when I was about 16. I had already been going to Celtic for a few years by then or I’d probably have ended up an Accies fan.

Yes - Rubber legs McGrogan was left wing and McManus was on the right 

Sometimes they would reverse and that's why they were memorable because when you were hanging over the wall at the shed as a wee boy you were right close to them 

[glasgow jock]

My Dad took me to my first Clyde game (My Mum wouldn't let him take me to the Rangers games, his team,  as he was a Brigton boy) early - mid seventies

Jim Cairnie (Goalie)

Danny McGrain (would have been capped for Scotland but serious injury that ended his career)

Willie McVie

Alan Swan

Brian Ahern

Dom Sullivan

Stevie Archibald

Loved going to Shawfield when I was young, some great characters in our support back then, mainly came from The Oatlands, Rutherglen, Gorbals & Castlemilk areas of the city

[Fairbairn]

The first Rangers team I can really remember is when Souness came in and brought half the England squad with him so the likes of Woods, Butcher, Roberts and a bit later Stevens, Wilkins, Walters etc being added to McCoist, Cooper, Durrant, Ferguson.

My Mum was related through marriage to Frank McGarvey and growing up just outside Paisley I always had a soft spot for St Mirren so have strong memories of their cup winning team of 87 with Money, Fitzpatrick, Abercrombie, Lambert, Ferguson, Cameron, the 2 Hamiltons and of course McGarvey!

[Squirrelhumper]

Jim Fleeting's Killie side. 

Geddes, Montgomerie, McKinnon, Burns, Porteous, McPherson, Watters, Mitchell, Tait etc. 

[Jersey Jim]

Fergies Furies (76/77 Season)

Midfield of Billy Stark, Billy Abercrombie, Tony Fitzpatrick and Lex Richardson.

A young striker Frank McGarvey up front. 

In the second tier and went 28 league games unbeaten, played top flight Motherwell away in the Scottish Cup, attendance was 28,000, it was estimated there was over 18,000 Saints fans there that day. 
 

 

[dan cake]

Arse end of 70s early 80s shit Hibs team, beautiful strip truly awful team of utter no marks and fat finished alkies (George Best). Fans gathering outside the main stand after most home games demanding the sacking of ex legendary players (now shit managers) Stanton and Blackley. Then Alex Miller turned up for 10 years ☹️

[Toepoke]

Killie 1977-78

 

[Och Aye]

17 hours ago, Jersey Jim said:

Fergies Furies (76/77 Season)

Midfield of Billy Stark, Billy Abercrombie, Tony Fitzpatrick and Lex Richardson.

A young striker Frank McGarvey up front. 

In the second tier and went 28 league games unbeaten, played top flight Motherwell away in the Scottish Cup, attendance was 28,000, it was estimated there was over 18,000 Saints fans there that day. 
 

 

Lex Richardson! Had a few doublers of him on the old football cards.

[Och Aye]

14 hours ago, Toepoke said:

Killie 1977-78

 

This is the first Killie team I remember seeing. Was strange seeing them in stripes rather than hoops a few years later.

[Orraloon]

Can anybody guess the team and the biggest game this team played in?

Nicholl, Smith, Rankin, Brown, Knox, Rae, Payne, Clark, Hall, Gallacher, Gavine.

[Och Aye]

Dundee Utd. Graeme Payne? Henry Hall?

[Orraloon]

1 hour ago, Och Aye said:

Dundee Utd. Graeme Payne? Henry Hall?

Close, but no cigar. You got one of the players right but the wrong club.

Edited April 11 by Orraloon

[Ally Bongo]

2 hours ago, Orraloon said:

Can anybody guess the team and the biggest game this team played in?

Nicholl, Smith, Rankin, Brown, Knox, Rae, Payne, Clark, Hall, Gallacher, Gavine.

Must be St Johnstone although without googling i would have suspected Dundee 

[Orraloon]

39 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:

Must be St Johnstone although without googling i would have suspected Dundee 

You are in the right area of the country. 

[Orraloon]

I'll give you another clue. It's the team that played in a League Cup Semi final at Hampden.

[prideothenorth]

My father started taking me to Pittodrie in the early 70s,

Bobby Clarke, Jim Hermiston, Martin Buchan, Steve Murray, Arthur Graham, Davie Robb, Joe Harper all stand out and of course Zoltan Varga who sadly never stayed long but was a fantastic player.

[Toepoke]

7 hours ago, Orraloon said:

I'll give you another clue. It's the team that played in a League Cup Semi final at Hampden.

Forfar Athletic, took Rangers to extra time.