Vintage Blues pictures and film

[erskblue]

 Monday, 29th Oct 1962. And a friendly match at The Bridge v my local side Greenock Morton.,saw a 6 - 1 win for us.

Our scorers: Bridges 3, Shaw, Mulholland, Brown witnessed by 6,492 spectators. My Uncle lived near The Bridge at this time and was at this match.

Interestingly, well to me anyway , We played Morton again, this time at their at Cappielow Park on 19th Nov 1962 and it was a 1-1 draw.

Edited October 29, 2019 by erskblue

[erskblue]

 Ach I can't resist !    Sat 29th Oct 1983.  A 3-2 home win v Charlton and our scorers that day were;  David Speedie 24th and 32nd whilst King Kerry Dixon  scored in the 78th min.    How appropriate those two got our 3 goals that day !   A crowd of  17,789 saw it

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[OnePeterOsgood]

I don’t remember that match but do recognise some less well known names in the team. The 8, Colin Shaw, was a wunderkid goal scorer in youth and reserve football but never made it despite a few appearances in the first team. Knox and Mullholland both came down from E Stirling with Eddie McCreadie,  while Albert (Ruby) Murray played often for the first team but was very much the prototype for Peter Houseman in fans’ eyes. Butler is a total mystery, as is the fact that we’re playing a friendly in the middle of the season!

[OnePeterOsgood]

On 26/10/2019 at 10:56, erskblue said:

On 26/10/2019 at 10:56, erskblue said:

It wasn't until early March 1974,  kick off times on a Saturday returned to 3pm.

Before the arrival of floodlights, all Saturday kick-offs were at 2 or maybe 2.15 I think. 

[MKBlue]

On 27/10/2019 at 19:14, erskblue said:

Just as a matter of interest, how much was it to get into the match ?

If you can remember !

I'm guessing at 25p, certainly no more than 30p......to get in the Loft obviously.

[erskblue]

14 hours ago, OnePeterOsgood said:

I don’t remember that match but do recognise some less well known names in the team. The 8, Colin Shaw, was a wunderkid goal scorer in youth and reserve football but never made it despite a few appearances in the first team. Knox and Mullholland both came down from E Stirling with Eddie McCreadie,  while Albert (Ruby) Murray played often for the first team but was very much the prototype for Peter Houseman in fans’ eyes. Butler is a total mystery, as is the fact that we’re playing a friendly in the middle of the season!

We played a few friendly matches in the middle of the season under Tommy Doc.

Will try and find out the reason for these two friendlies v Morton. Can't think of us buying a Morton player at this time and these two matches being part of the transfer deal .

[erskblue]

11 hours ago, MKBlue said:

I'm guessing at 25p, certainly no more than 30p......to get in the Loft obviously.

Cheers, just wondering.

[erskblue]

Here's the 'return' friendly match v Greenock Morton in Nov 1962.

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 This friendly match was part of the Eddie Mac transfer deal. Eddie McCreadie was bought from East Stirling for £5,000 in April 1962.

We  bought Tommy Knox from the same club a month later, also for £5,000.

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Big Joe

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Edited October 30, 2019 by erskblue

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Edited October 30, 2019 by erskblue

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 Duncan Shearer in action v Rangers at Ibrox back in Feb 1986,

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 Alan Hudson and I think we are playing Arsenal.

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 March 1986 v Southampton at The Dell.

[OnePeterOsgood]

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

 This friendly match was part of the Eddie Mac transfer deal. Eddie McCreadie was bought from East Stirling for £5,000 in April 1962.

We  bought Tommy Knox from the same club a month later, also for £5,000.

.. and Mulholland. Eddie was the only one who was any good!

[erskblue]

2 minutes ago, OnePeterOsgood said:

.. and Mulholland. Eddie was the only one who was any good!

Cheers mate. Eddie wasn't a half good signing though was he for us.

[OnePeterOsgood]

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

I’m pretty sure this is the game we won 7-0 to clinch promotion after the Sunderland game away  (I could look it up but what’s the fun in that?)  I think the first goal was scored by Derek Kevan who had joined us in the twilight of his career to boost our flagging promotion drive.  Kevan  was the first in the line of rubbish strikers we have bought/loaned over the years ending with Higuain! It was a great night under the lights .... no booze - school the next day!

 

[bluehaze]

1971.

 

[erskblue]

  OnePeterOsgood stated; I’m pretty sure this is the game we won 7-0 to clinch promotion after the Sunderland game away  (I could look it up but what’s the fun in that?)  I think the first goal was scored by Derek Kevan who had joined us in the twilight of his career to boost our flagging promotion drive.  Kevan  was the first in the line of rubbish strikers we have bought/loaned over the years ending with Higuain! It was a great night under the lights .... no booze - school the next day!

[erskblue]

I still check out dates etc about games,

It's probably the Uni lecturers  mantra about  ' always referencing your sources'  that is still with me.

Edited October 30, 2019 by erskblue

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6 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

1971.

 

Great pics blue haze.