stuwell Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Standing behind the goals in the queue at the pie hut watching the game and getting the odd wiff from the toilets below - memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWeegieDosser Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Geezer wandering round trackside with a cardboard box "Erz yir macaroon and yir spearmint chewin' gum!!" (PK or Arrowmint, if memory serves me correctly) Quality catering Pies seemed to be floating with grease too, I'm sure that's what scarves were for, grease catching! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geedub Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Any of the Bois lost a Huawei phone? Someone on my Fb has found it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Geezer wandering round trackside with a cardboard box "Erz yir macaroon and yir spearmint chewin' gum!!" (PK or Arrowmint, if memory serves me correctly) Quality catering Pies seemed to be floating with grease too, I'm sure that's what scarves were for, grease catching! Not forgetting yir Kia-ora and Chipmunk crips. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWeegieDosser Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Not forgetting yir Kia-ora and Chipmunk crips.Kia-Oras unmistakably plastic taste, washing down the cardboard flavour Chipmunk crisps- a folk think the chicken curry pies are bad these days? 70s catering- all part of the match day experience- topped off with getting a hard time off the OF Orcs on the train back to Weegieville. Funny thing is , those were far more enjoyable times, maybe just nostalgia taking over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Geezer wandering round trackside with a cardboard box Was there not also a boy who used to wander around the trackside at half-time with the lucky programme number written on a board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 I don't think it's just nostalgia - although obviously difficult to be objective. I was a teenager when we were dossing around in the First Division and I think that's when the football bug really bites. I went to most of the home and away games, met up with my good mates at all of them and enjoyed the craic (which you had to do when we were so bad) and loved visiting all the old stadiums. Live football was almost unheard off, so the week revolved around 3pm on a Saturday plus the occasional 7:45pm on Wednesday night. But that was it. Mon - Thu was spent analyzing the Sat performance, then Friday was all about the weekend game. On the Ball and Football focus at lunchtime before heading out to watch then rushing back to the car to listen to Richard Park, Jimmy Sanderson or Bob Crampsie on the radio. Then Archie on telly on a Saturday night and Arthur on a Sunday afternoon. Standing on the terraces defintitely added to the experience. Good times, and a shame for the younger generation that never got to experience it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superward Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 As an aside - good show from the bois on Saturday with the banners etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Live football was almost unheard off, so the week revolved around 3pm on a Saturday plus the occasional 7:45pm on Wednesday night. But that was it. 7:30 on a Wednesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 7:30 on a Wednesday You're right. Which made it a bit of a rush to get to the away games, but we somehow managed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 You're right. Which made it a bit of a rush to get to the away games, but we somehow managed. Especially when playing Tottenham Hotspur in the Texaco Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Especially when you were playing Tottenham Hotspur in the Texaco Cup. Threw them a bone in the first leg. Second leg, turn them over* *Then lost to the Jambos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 *Then lost to the Jambos One of the saddest nights I ever had watching the Well in the 70s, I was depressed for days after that one. It was only equaled by defeats from both Airdrie and Rangers in the semi final of the domestic cups. Those three defeats still hurt to this day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted September 6, 2015 Report Share Posted September 6, 2015 Airdrie was a sore one. So was Celtic in the cup semi when we came back to make extra time, Gahagan missed his chance (sitter) during extra time and the square Hampden crossbars denied Philliben his pen in the shoot out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelman1991 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 One of the saddest nights I ever had watching the Well in the 70s, I was depressed for days after that one. It was only equaled by defeats from both Airdrie and Rangers in the semi final of the domestic cups. Those three defeats still hurt to this day. That Airdrie one really hurt, when your at school in the f....g place. Hate it and them with a vengeance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWeegieDosser Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 That Airdrie one really hurt, when your at school in the f....g place. Hate it and them with a vengeance. Airdrie - Stuart Rennie penalised for exceeding the four step rule, that put us out. Only time I EVER saw that rule enforced.Rangers- Penalty given for "foul" outside the box on fat Derek Johnstone, referee was about 70 yards away Still livid, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onthefringes Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Airdrie - Stuart Rennie penalised for exceeding the four step rule, that put us out. Only time I EVER saw that rule enforced. Rangers- Penalty given for "foul" outside the box on fat Derek Johnstone, referee was about 70 yards away Still livid, I'll wager there's a few in our support who dedicated the recent humiliation of the orcs to the rotund diving one... I know my old fella did. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
something else Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 The skol cup defeat in 86 really hurt, so to did the quarter final defeat to hearts in 87 scottish cup. After doing the hard work at tynecastle, i really thought our name was on the cup, especially with the old firm both out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Airdrie - Stuart Rennie penalised for exceeding the four step rule, that put us out. Only time I EVER saw that rule enforced. Rangers- Penalty given for "foul" outside the box on fat Derek Johnstone, referee was about 70 yards away Still livid, My heart sank when Rangers were awarded the inevitable soft penalty, I was standing with my dad and some other folk from the Forth, Lanark & Carluke supporters bus and we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. I really felt for the players that night as they didn’t deserve to lose that one. We never really turned up for the Airdrie semi final replay and probably got what we deserved. A cliché, however, it was probably our best chance opposition wise, to reach a cup final in the 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWeegieDosser Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 My heart sank when Rangers were awarded the inevitable soft penalty, I was standing with my dad and some other folk from the Forth, Lanark & Carluke supporters bus and we couldnt believe what we were seeing. I really felt for the players that night as they didnt deserve to lose that one. We never really turned up for the Airdrie semi final replay and probably got what we deserved. A cliché, however, it was probably our best chance opposition wise, to reach a cup final in the 1970s.We were at the back of the Celtic (uncovered) end pissing rain all night. I lived 20 minutes up the road from Hampden, can still remember the walk home, absolutely devastated at the robbery we had just suffered. Then the pain of school with all the gloating h**s the next day. 1976, my 2nd year at Secondary school, can remember it like it was yesterday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 1976, my 2nd year at Secondary school, can remember it like it was yesterday... It’s funny how certain matches stay with you for ever. I would have been about 13 then, an age when getting beat off any team was very hard to take. It does get slightly easier as you get older (I promise), as by then you have pretty much experienced all the ups and downs that go with supporting a provincial side. School was a nightmare (as I am sure it still is) and the Forth/Lanark schools there were no different from all the other primary/secondary’s in Scotland, full of glory hunting Old Firm bastards who never attended the games. And that is one reason why it was so sweet to beat them in the recent play off game, if only to say not this time lads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelman1991 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Airdrie - Stuart Rennie penalised for exceeding the four step rule, that put us out. Only time I EVER saw that rule enforced. Rangers- Penalty given for "foul" outside the box on fat Derek Johnstone, referee was about 70 yards away Still livid, It was AFAIR NEVER enforced, other than that incident and don't get me started on JPR....................spit, what a horrible taste that left in the mouth. If anything, coming from Harthill it was even harder to endure than the Airdrie one. I still say to this day we would have beaten either of the other sides in those 2 finals (Celtic and Hearts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_P Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 It’s funny how certain matches stay with you for ever. I would have been about 13 then, an age when getting beat off any team was very hard to take. It does get slightly easier as you get older (I promise), as by then you have pretty much experienced all the ups and downs that go with supporting a provincial side. School was a nightmare (as I am sure it still is) and the Forth/Lanark schools there were no different from all the other primary/secondary’s in Scotland, full of glory hunting Old Firm bastards who never attended the games. And that is one reason why it was so sweet to beat them in the recent play off game, if only to say not this time lads. See you say that but they always conjour up new innovative ways of punching you in the gut. I give you Odense for example where if we had scored that penalty with 5 minutes to go, we'd have had 5 minutes plus another 5 minutes injury time against 9 men to take it extra-time. Where upon you'd have had another half an hour against 9 men to get a goal that would have taken us into the Europa League group stages and the untold riches that could have brought the club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underboyleheating Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 See you say that but they always conjour up new innovative ways of punching you in the gut. They sure do Andy, however, you become more hardened to it as the years go by. For me, I found it much worse when I was a kid at school. But aye, it’s no easy supporting the Well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelvinBragg Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 See you say that but they always conjour up new innovative ways of punching you in the gut. I give you Odense for example where if we had scored that penalty with 5 minutes to go, we'd have had 5 minutes plus another 5 minutes injury time against 9 men to take it extra-time. Where upon you'd have had another half an hour against 9 men to get a goal that would have taken us into the Europa League group stages and the untold riches that could have brought the club. Funny, the Odense game didn"t really bother me that much. I reckon growing up watching Motherwell, the latter stages of the UEFA cup were never something I coveted. Scottish Cup finals and league cup finals probably were. Probably took the semi defeat to Celtic under Butcher when Corrigan made that passback harder than Odense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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