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I thought that too when it first came out in 1964, so I bought it then. I've still got the original single - but no record player now! I think I'll download a copy right now...

Or maybe Ian MacMillan (sort of same hairstyle)?

Fucking stand up tall, shoulders back, chests out ............ that will sort them out (older bear here!)

I vaguely recall that he was related to Scot Symon - possibly a nephew of the manager?

Brilliant....

Great to see Ronnie McKinnon there - loved watching him late in the good old days. Govan lad, ex-Benburb if I recall correctly too.

Wellsaid - we're all in this together. And we'll come out the other side stronger.

I agree with this. I thought he reminded me of Alex McDonald at times. If he can bring a fraction of that guy's skills to the team then he's worth a run.

OK - we need to get into the CL for the £18m that's been quoted - and is sorely needed by the Club. So why do we give these guys a 3/4 week holiday at the end of the season? And then we struggle to get match fit? We were flyng at the end of last season, so why not keep that level of performance ticking over for few more weeks by playing friendlies during the so-called holiday period? Then we go into the CL qualifiers still at a good level of match fitness, and we have a good chance of grabbing the £18m. Share out some of the CL money to compensate the players who don't get a holiday. Simples. Desperate times call for desparate measures.... but I don't get that feeling from the approach to the CL qualifiers, or our performance in the transfer market. Old Bear having a slightly drunken rant just now; but who decrees the players need to have 3/4 weeks holiday - especially when there is so much money at stake? I'm sure most of us would give up a holiday for once if it meant our employer (ie the Club) would get on a real sound financial footing. Just a thought....

Definitely Bobby Watson on the left - we were at school together early/mid-sixties (Govan High). He was still at Ibrox in 1972 when we won in Barcelona - he pops up in one or two photographs of the squad in the days after the Final.

Old Git Loyal here - what about Bobby Watson? Reserve keeper in Barcelona?

Eric Caldow always played Left Back for us, and usually for Scotland. Great 'technical' defender, who was almost as fast at running backwards as he was forwards (meant he kept his eye on the ball). Great Rangers captain and true gent...

Older bear here, not that many posts, but this really gets my goat. Never mind all the nonsense about Struth & Waddell, and what they would have done with Fergie and McGregor. For a start they wouldn't have tried for a fire sale in January like Murray did - they had more sense than that. If Smith has the Club at heart, why the f* give them a ban at the run-in of a season when we're neck & neck with the Celtic? If I had the Club at heart I'd keep my powder dry till the end of the season and then fine/ban/sell or whatever - not when there's a chance they could go 4 in a row, and we could slifurther behind money-wise. Smith's made enough bad call back in August without this.

I feel a bit of a dinosaur on this board at times - my first games was Standard Liege at home; I think 1962. long time ago, late night, couple of malts ....... happy days.

Have to go for the Goalie - different game intensity, lighter balls, quicker & more athletic players - I'm knackered myslef thinking about these differences!

nvager when you think peter Mcloy played 644 games beating jerry dawsons record of 545 and won a european cup winners cup medal. This may be a false memory. We signed the Big Gas Meter from Motherwell and his first game was at East End Park, in a 3-2 defeat. My old man announced on the way back that McCloy would not do, too big and too slow to get down to low shots. Coming from Lanarkshire, I thought Motherwell's other keeper, Keith McCrae was the better bet. In saying this, the big man routinely pulled off game saving saves, particularly in Europe. I suppose imagery has a lot to do with it, I keep seeing McCloy swinging from that Hampden cross bar after conceding against Aberdeen in the 1978 Scottish Cup final. i think it was a 2-1 defeat and colin stein scored our goal. You are correct, having checked McElroy's, 'Player by Player' tome. Yup, Gas Meter did have the occasional clanger - but Ritchie Niven didn't have the same nubern of high profile games in Europe high. Niven & Ritchie wore a bunnet though!

Me too, Nvager - you're absolutely right. I saw him regularly in the 60s, and he was the best.

and it was in black & white as I recall....

her surname says it all - forza azzuri!

never heard of sporting integrity since I started following in 1962 ..... load of bollocks.

Yup Fish, definitely Billy Ritchie - I didn't recognise him withoot his bunnet on!

Apologies for the typo, the trainer's name is Davie Kinnear. Fitalspark

Here you go, boys...... Back row, L-R; Shearer, Caldow, Davis , Provan, Niven, MacKinnon, Greig, Baxter front row L-R; Scot Simon (manager), Henderson, Mclean,McMillan, Millar, Brand, Wilson, Davie Kinnera (trainer). Probably around 1962 - 1963, a season or so after I started going along to Ibrox. What a team............! Fitalspark