The Widow's Son 399 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Reading some responses to my earlier post ("Fifty years ago yesterday"), there were some posts about Peter McCloy. I only saw him a few times over the years but recall him as a capable and competent custodian. Not sure if he was ever capped for Scotland but I think that I saw him once in a friendly with Brazil at Hampden. If any of our statisticians are reading, perhaps they can cite his record with clean sheets. He certainly lasted a long time for a goalkeeper, over fifteen years or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dummiesoot 15,986 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 He got one cap I think. Had his moments of brilliance and others of madness... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow argyle 1,093 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Nowhere near the standard of Goram, Woods, Klos, McGregor. Decent but prone to some bizarre errors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mearns loyal 2,706 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, glasgow argyle said: Nowhere near the standard of Goram, Woods, Klos, McGregor. Decent but prone to some bizarre errors. Seem to remember him swinging from the crossbar at Hampden as one of his bizarre ones ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry handsome 629 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 The Girvan Lighthouse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgow argyle 1,093 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, mearns loyal said: Seem to remember him swinging from the crossbar at Hampden as one of his bizarre ones ... V . Aberdeen correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boybluesy 3,688 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 3 minutes ago, harry handsome said: The Girvan Lighthouse. And just as agile. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullies_bowly_legs 3,779 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Most memorable moment for me was againt St Mirren when a high ball was punted towards him. No pressure, no opposition players near him when he held out two hands to catch it and the ball went straight through them, bounced and hit him under the chin.😜 As others have said competent but made some howlers. Lucky he had a great defence in front of him most of the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyboyblue 226 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 12 minutes ago, mearns loyal said: Seem to remember him swinging from the crossbar at Hampden as one of his bizarre ones ... That my friend was Stewart Kennedy iirc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mongoose 1,007 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 minutes ago, sandyboyblue said: That my friend was Stewart Kennedy iirc. Nope defo big gas meter! Jim Hermiston scored I think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristoe1872 2,526 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Had one of the highest and longest kick outs I can remember. Lost count of the amount of goals we scored with DJ latching onto one of his kick outs. One against Murder well in a cup semi we were losing stands out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dummiesoot 15,986 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 8 minutes ago, sandyboyblue said: That my friend was Stewart Kennedy iirc. Defo Big Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyboyblue 226 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 hours ago, dummiesoot said: Defo Big Peter Was trying to find the link, thought it was the ill fated England game, I stand corrected gents. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
To Be A Ranger 4,032 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Some kickout. Surprised he never scored more than he did Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hume 12,968 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 24 minutes ago, glasgow argyle said: Nowhere near the standard of Goram, Woods, Klos, McGregor. Decent but prone to some bizarre errors. Have to agree with you on that account regarding standard of player ...... but it was a very different role the goalkeeper had to play back then with no protection from the officials as there was no rules laid out to protect goalies then. Not sure that any of the ones you compared Big Peter with could have stood the punishment keepers got before the rules changed ..... Peter was no worse than any of the others of that era ... and he had his moments or he would not have been our number one choice ...... the whole team was of a different standard back then .... and they did bring home the ECWC from Barcelona to their credit with Big Peter between the sticks ..... that achievement alone makes him stand out as a winner and he deserves to be remembered as such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mearns loyal 2,706 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 23 minutes ago, sandyboyblue said: That my friend was Stewart Kennedy iirc. Kennedy did it at Wembley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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eejay the dj 31,964 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 33 minutes ago, Bristoe1872 said: Had one of the highest and longest kick outs I can remember. Lost count of the amount of goals we scored with DJ latching onto one of his kick outs. One against Murder well in a cup semi we were losing stands out. That is mere consolation for the amount of big games he cost us Having grown up in the 70s and seen hundreds of them. Let me say he was responsible for breaking my heart on many occasions Nice big guy, but nowadays. Would never have got a game. He was as slow as the lights going round in his girvan lighthouse Off the top of my head Few tankings up at Pittodrie He spilled the ball to Archibald in dyings moments in game we lost 3-2 78/79 i think 79 CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDER where he was absolutely shocking when we only needed a draw 80 cup final where he sat on his arse too early as their winner took deflection and the ball trundled in to break my heart. This one was painful 83 MCCOIST OF first minute goal game. He spilled the ball near the death to give bheasts a win they did not deserve Long long list if i could be arsed finding them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimjim1690 4,534 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 42 minutes ago, eejay the dj said: That is mere consolation for the amount of big games he cost us Having grown up in the 70s and seen hundreds of them. Let me say he was responsible for breaking my heart on many occasions Nice big guy, but nowadays. Would never have got a game. He was as slow as the lights going round in his girvan lighthouse Off the top of my head Few tankings up at Pittodrie He spilled the ball to Archibald in dyings moments in game we lost 3-2 78/79 i think 79 CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDER where he was absolutely shocking when we only needed a draw 80 cup final where he sat on his arse too early as their winner took deflection and the ball trundled in to break my heart. This one was painful 83 MCCOIST OF first minute goal game. He spilled the ball near the death to give bheasts a win they did not deserve Long long list if i could be arsed finding them Even though he was in our ECWC team this is how I mostly remember him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 16,952 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 He wasn’t a keeper I can say I had a lot of confidence in. I remember when Stewart Kennedy came in we thought we had someone consistent but Wembley finished him. The difference between those two and Chris Woods was night and day, when he came we finally had a keeper you expected to concede nothing no matter who we were playing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eejay the dj 31,964 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 32 minutes ago, slimjim1690 said: Even though he was in our ECWC team this is how I mostly remember him. His long kick outs back then were a weapon. Even in the final . Bud latched on to his punt beginning of second half that put us 3 up I can remember us winnning a never to be forgotten SC SF where we were 2-0 down at HT against a Well team that fucked the scum out previous round in 76 and his kick outs turned the game our way in high drama near the end However for every one of these. There were many games where, if Gers had better keeper. We would have won many more trophies and OF games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbt1548 1,839 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 hours ago, The Widow's Son said: I think that I saw him once in a friendly with Brazil at Hampden. Not one of the Rangers great Gk's , however a good number of gk's came and went while Peter was at Rangers, so he seemed to be quite resilient, I think the one that eventually replaced him and took the first team jersey was Jim Stewart whom we bought from Middlesboro' for £100,000. Here he is in the infamous Queens Park Green Jersey escapade walking on to the pitch in that game. The Scotland strip was dark blue, obviously, with the GK jersey yellow, but he couldn't wear it as Brazil were in yellow, he couldn't wear the Scotland change GK jersey as it was red but the ref and linesmen were in red as they couldn't wear black because it clashed with the Scotland strip so the only solution was to borrow a green GK jersey from Queens Park resplendent with the big Queens Park badge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moody Blue Legend 61,339 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 2 hours ago, mearns loyal said: Kennedy did it at Wembley Wrapped around the post. First Gers top I got was his goalie one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eck_M 109 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 I can remember his first games for us, he took over from Gerry Neef in the 69-70 season. We were still in with a shout to stop the Mhanks winning 5 in a row but managed to go on a dire run at the end of the season. We only won 1 of our last 8 league games, big Peter played in 7 of them and we could not manage a single clean sheet. Not saying he was to blame but was far from an auspicious start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluenoz 30,579 Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 No where near as bad as some are suggesting. We have been blessed with some great keepers throughout the years so he is obviously a wee bit down on that list. Helped win us the CWC and I will never forget that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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