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  1. What a fantastic night we had at Friday’s match, best feeling in years at Cappielow. I also overheard a fan coming up with a great suggestion for a new Morton song - Singing in the Rain!
  2. I'm sure he signed at the same time as Bobby Street. Could it be it took Bobby 7 years to get into the first team?
  3. He made 1 appearance in 74/75, he established himself in the team in 75/76, so I was still wrong. I
  4. I just checked and you are correct. I don't know where I got the 7 years from then, so I'm obviously mistaken if it was 4.
  5. I have a signed copy from Johnny, with "to a fellow spammer" on it. Yes it was a good read. I was playing football wity him the day he signed for Aberdeen. His timber house overlooked the Gibshill football pitch, and they sent a message down for him to come up to the house as Bobby Calder was waiting to speak to him. Johnny came back down with his copy of the signing on form, absolutely chuffed to bits as you would imagine. And Johnny's point was they tested all players in that way, not that they set up training for one trialist as someone suggested.
  6. The answer to that is yes, 100%. My survival instinct told me to always give 100% to everything I did from then on. Unfortunately that’s exactly what I didn’t do at Den Haag. I got frustrated at the 1 and 2 touch 7 a side games and asked why we weren’t doing anything else, like a full eleven a side game where I could show what I had and be judged on that. I later told my close friend since teenage years, John McMaster, and he told me it took him 7 years to get into Aberdeen’s first team. He said they were just testing me to see if I would stick with it without complaining, therefore I failed badly in terms of commitment, probably for the first time in my life. I greatly regret that I didn’t persevere, so instead of the Roy of the Rovers poster, it should be a violin!
  7. Well I suppose as this is a general nonsense thread, and I'm being ridiculed for being ridiculous, then I might as well give you the even more ridiculous truth about what happened the night Den Haag asked me to trial with them. Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb as they say. I'd always played up the right side of the pitch, mostly as a right back, but occasionally right mid or right wing. That night at Den Haag I started on the bench, but our centre forward was taken off injured after about 20 minutes. Our coach came over and asked if anyone could play centre forward and I put my hand up. I'd been watching the good service to the centre forward and thought I could do a half decent job, despite being only 5ft 6 and the Dutch as far as I know are the tallest people in Europe. I went on and the highest ball I received all game was about chest height. I played out of my skin, scored a 20 yarder, hit the bar from 30 yards and kept holding the ball up till my team mates got up the pitch. I'd never possessed a lot of skill so relied mostly on speed, strength and energy, so skill wise I must've played the game of my life that night. When our coach said after the game that the manager wanted to speak to me, I said "manager of who?", when he said "Den Haag" I couldn't believe it. Sure enough though it was the Den Haag Manager, who turned out to be Co Adriansse. I know my age at the time has been mentioned but my last game of football was in 2018, at 63 years old, which was the first time I ever got injured on a football pitch, a sprained ligament on an astroturf pitch. I took ages to recover and have never played since. I still go to the gym 3 times a week though so I am still pretty fit, which perhaps explains why I was so fit at 37.
  8. Well I did do gave you the courtesy of spending the time finding examples of the previous consensus I was referring to. I wasn't expecting you to all of a sudden start agreeing with me, and that's fair enough. Anyway that's my search complete so make of it what you will.
  9. To complete my response to Toby: thehustler: Posted September 16, 2023 (edited) Very poor decision. Release young, talented player and sign a perennially injured player from a lower league club. Some might think Imrie is deliberately ruining our season....see signing of a useless, finished centre back. SpoonTon: Posted October 2, 2023
  10. You made it onto Dougie’s “THE FEW” shortlist not because you devised the above thread, but due to your following post: SassenachTon: Posted September 20, 2022 Apart from the insanity of Blues starting every game, the greatest team selection mystery to me is why Lewis Strapp is being used to keep the bench warm. I thought he was arguably our most solid player last season. if you disagree then take it up with Dougie.
  11. I was 37. I've been advised the coach was likely Rob Ouwehand and the manager was definitely Co Adriaanse. Also for your information works football is a big deal in The Netherlands and Germany. I worked at Keppel Verolme (but didn't play for them) and they reached the final of the European works teams tournament, where they were beaten by a major German works team. Their stadium was also very impressive with a clubhouse, bar and restaurant.
  12. No, my point was that other posters were voicing similar concerns as myself regarding academy players. The posts I've copied specifically show exactly that, as I've missed out the generalistic posts you're talking about for that very reason. If you believe in smoke without fire then: a) Why did SassenachTon start a new thread entirely devoted to that subject? b) Why did Dougie recently refer to "THE FEW" who questioned his policy on academy players? Other posters have said he reads this forum (which I first refuted), so what posts would he be referring to if not those above? Those posts had a similar tone to mine at the time, i.e. an open question on whether academy players were getting a bit of a raw deal, with a caveat that we trusted Dougie to get everything else right. Here's an example below which may be even more tame than the other posters. DreamOakTree: Posted September 21, 2022 "I thought Strapp was our most influential player by far. I was one of many who was worried we’d lose him and was delighted when he signed on again. Imrie has my backing but this looks a strange decision." I first changed the narrative with the post below, where I directly questioned Dougie's attitude. It was at this point I started getting kickback from other posters. This grew to the point when I lost the plot with my outrageous personal rant towards Dougie. DreamOakTree: Posted April 15, 2023 I find it a bit stomach churning that Dougie would tell our possibly best player that he’s got no future at Morton, while he’s trying to recover from a long term injury. Imrie has a very good ratio in improving players who were unpopular with the fans, plus his new signings. I wonder if he has something against popular home grown players such as Strapp, McGrattan, McGregor, Lyon etc. If so I’m not sure why this would be the case. It was relatively recently that Dougie started to rectify his attitude towards our academy players. You were citing evidence from within that recent time frame of a couple of months compared to the references I’ve made starting well over a year ago. I don’t know what it would take to make you admit your recollection of that time frame which shows that Dougie has completely turned around his approach to our Academy Graduates.
  13. I’ve responded as you requested. Your point was that I was always the lone voice with concerns over Dougie’s attitude to our academy graduates. My point was that wasn’t always the case, though it did become the case several months back. If you think those examples of such concerns above are a bit tame, then they later ceased to exist altogether, to the point no decision Dougie made could be even remotely questioned.
  14. Hang on though, some of those comments are the type of thing I’m absolutely hounded for, apart from my angry rant. Have you actually read them? “It just seems pretty jarring to be so completely ostracising the player who was absolutely crucial to the initial run under Imrie” “I think that's got to be pretty demoralising for the likes of McGrattan and King, even leaving Lyon aside.” “If we see Blues starting again on Saturday ahead of King or McGrattanafter the comments about repeated errors, it'll be hard not to see it as a rare example of poor management from Imrie.” “Pretty shambolic recruitment and decision making from Imrie in the market this summer.” “Dougie not wanting him, wtf.” “not even making him an offer is a baffling decision.” “It was not that long ago we were being told a crucial element in the financial viability of the club was through rearing young talent to sell on.” “I am astonished at Dougie's attitude.”
  15. I meant to say that’s only the first batch. It’s very time consuming and I’m only halfway through one thread.
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