welladad Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Anyone remeber them? Judging by our present and predicted losses of personnel we may be heading for a mark2 version featuring last year's under 19's with daddy Craigan in charge! Mind you if they are half as good as that team we could be in for a treat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real dosser Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 That was the team that got me started watching the mighty Dossers. We might have some great young players coming through but I doubt we will ever have a team which will produce the football played by the Ancell Babes. Weir McSeveney McCallum Aitken Martis McCann Reid Quinn St John Hunter Weir What a team !!!!! P.S. I might be wrong with this team but if you're old enough to remember the Babes there's a fair chance your memory might be about to go. ? Anybody else remember seeing them. Mon the Dossers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welladad Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Yes RD I too was weaned on 'Well, lifted over the gate and sat up on the barriers or the wall by my dad to watch that team. When I read all the moaning posts on here recently I smile a little at the thought of those young guys setting up against the best of Scottish football and proving that they could hold their own. Don't know if it would work nowadays buut it looks as though we may be about to find out! Anyway I will be there to watch and support the mighty 'Well whatever team we are able to field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yosemite sam Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 I was brought up watching that wonderful team. Charlie Aitken was my hero. Never saw anybody who could head a ball like him. Happy days indeed, even if they never won anything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris*Kaizer 2*Nunn Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 I was brought up under the McCleish days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villageman Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Now they were FOOTBALLERS. And they didn,t come through club youth teams like today. they were from Junior football. As said previously memory is likely to be suspect if you can remember watching them but I.m sure Pat Quinn played his first game after joining in a friendly against a South American team. Score was something like 7-1. Marvellous football!!!. Agree about Charlie Aitken and he was good with the ball at his feet as well but only when played at wing half and not inside forward (youngsters please get your parent to explain these words). My favourite was Willie Hunter subllime skills and not appreciated by everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texanwellfan Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 I saw most of them. Memory of my first game at Fir park was against Rangers and the score was 3-3 not sure if that is right or not but that is my recollection must have been early 60's But the team I recall was ( not specifically that day ) Wylie Thompson Mcallum Aitken Martis McAnn forward line is a bit sketchy but certainly remember watching Andy Wier ( scored winner in scottish cup game V stenhousemuir with a "banana" shot i think papers called it ) willie hunter was magic was it just after that when JOe Mcbride played? the other forwards I recall were maybe a wee bit after that people like george Lindsay.......is he still running? I also have some old newspapers with reports on mothere beatingBrazilian teams Flamenco 9-3 and Bahia 3-0 plus of course paper clips from 1952 scottish cup victory ( before i was born ) I need to get them laminated or something to preserve them and get them scanned to share on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special aka Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 My father used to rave about them, however Ancell had departed by the time I first ventured into Fir Park. Howitt was in charge and regular player Willie McCallum was the last of the Ancell Babes. Good to see some 'elder' 'Well fans on here thou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLip69 Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Like Special AKA, I too came in just after the Ancell babes and at the start of the Howitt era. My dad though raved about the babes, Charlie Aitken and Pat Quinn in particular. I think the team I first watched was along these lines McCloy Whiteford, Wark Forsyth, Martis, McCallum Bobby Campbell, Tom Donnelly, Dixie Deans, Jackie McInally, Jimmy Wilson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickoza Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Would love to have seen that team. My first season was the one Davie Hay took us to First Division glory - only for Jock Wallace to rip it up next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghorn Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Just too young to remember the Ancell Babes and i also started watching 'Well under Howitt. Dixie Deans was my hero and seemed to score every week, another centre stolen by Celtic for almost nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaststandfan Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Lindsay player on the right wing in that team, and the American team they beat was Flamingo or is that a spanish team. I remember Ian ST John scoreing a goal from a corner at the knowtop end he was tying his lace at the time anybody else remember that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real dosser Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Flamengo was the Brazilian team we scored 9 against. I remember Andy Weir (famous for scoring direct from corners) took a head knock against Third Lanark at Cathkin and ended up in Hospital with meningitis. Fortunately he recovered to play again for us. If only we could get a team like that again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelmaninOZ Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Thanks for this post welladad memories the Ancell Babes I was dragged along to Ibrox by my R*****S daft uncles back then...Motherwell scored I cheered (in the middle of the blue end)....never went to another R*****'s game with my uncles....and the rest is Claret & Amber history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edradour Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 The Ancell babes were the team I grew up with. I seem to recollect John Martis was always giving away own goals, but that might just be my age . I was at the 9-3 drubbing of Flamengo, also at the 7-0 against Leeds and 5-2 against Eintracht. Ah, great days...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotts Well Fan Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 I am too young to remember them Ok I'm stretching it a bit!!! Started watching the Well in 63 so towards the backend of this period. Not too many specific memories but always seemed to be big crowds and don't remember too many defeats. Always liked Wylie and Martis for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONeils40yarder Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 My papa always said that Charlie Aitken was the best player he had ever seen play for Motherwell and he had been watching the team from the early 1930's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 I was brought up under the McCleish days I was too, was McCleish that got me into the Well as I got a tour round the stadium and met him in his office he signed stuff for me then took me to meet the full squad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jym Bob Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 My team . A forward line of Hunter, Reid, St John, Quinn and Weir. (Poetry in motion) I seem to remember Pat Holton playing at left back. Charlie Aitken was one of the best headerers of a football in the world - he would jump and just seem to hang in the air as he flicked his blond hair on the ball to either clear in defence or score on the attack. (a true `Well Legend) Fantastic football played before massive crowds crammed into Fir Park and other stadiums. My heroes but I remember the old codgers of the day saying - "Aye - the`re guid, son, but no as guid as Ferrier and Stevenson" Bring on a new generation of young talent so I can make my comparison!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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