bigblueyonder 11,158 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 The Rangers club isn't gone mate? The horse shoe is a Rangers pub but let the bheggars use the lounge side.I think Easdales own the cafe,i know they were interested in it and drink in it.I'm pretty sure they do own it. No one seems sure which to me is a tell tale sign they do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbGER 24,518 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 In fact its the Morton club thats gone! Is the Britannia club any good ive never been in.I was in Montieths the other night and both Easdales were inThe Morton club has only moved next door mate but its still open. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
linfield1690 4,249 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Young fucking strone ya basturds fuck yer port Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Young fucking strone ya basturds fuck yer portWhere the fuck is the strone tho actually? I dont live in greenock but have went to college then worked there for over 10 years so i know the place pretty well but ive no idea where the strone is.I work in an office in Greenock and theres like full grown men in their 40s and 50s that still go on about "eh Tribe" Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
linfield1690 4,249 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Where the fuck is the strone tho actually? I dont live in greenock but have went to college then worked there for over 10 years so i know the place pretty well but ive no idea where the strone is.I work in an office in Greenock and theres like full grown men in their 40s and 50s that still go on about "eh Tribe" Just step off the train at whinhill and you'll get a meet and greet Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatDolphins 5,358 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I'm originally from Greenock.The lemonade company mentioned might have been Lawson's. They used to have pictures of Clyde ferries on their bottles. Jagger's was anothe local lemonade company. My Mum and sister worked for Lawson's.I used to go to school not far from Cappielow. Ladyburn Primary, the wee old building that looks like a castle! Some kind of council run business centre now. There used to be a Catholic school next door, which was far newer, St Mungo's but it was demolished years ago. Stuff used to fly over that wall all the time. Hit a nun with a bottle once. My headteacher tried to tell me off but was too busy laughing...Greenock has its fair share of Mr Potato Heads but isn't nearly as bad as Port Glasgow. Rangers fans fled out of that place in recent years and I left there because I had a junkie IRA sympathiser next door to me. We only went up there because my Dad came from there and it had been far better years before.Greenock might have quite a lot of MPHs but they have some really hard line loyalists too. Also a fair amount of bluenoses in the middle class West End.I got into trouble over an incident involving the muppets that dwelled next door. Complained about sectarian chanting and music and my Dad was ill because of it. First time they warned them and asked us to call back inmediately but we had to call back and I got a rude tattle head police officer. Got in a rammy with them and ended up charged.Got off with it thanks to my doctor (I was suffering from anxiety and depression caused by repeated incidents), lawyer and judge all knowing each other well and I had never been in trouble before. After that, that police officer involved quit almost immediately (just before my case was being dealt with) but they had apparently behaved like this before and my neighbours got into repeated legal problems after this. Their son spat on two police in Greenock (outside an notorious Easdale club) and this seemed to change their attitude and the father, son and several of his friends got lifted in a paddy wagon (appropriately!) one night and it went on from there.We decided to move to Erskine as I had worked here before and I quite liked it. Fair bit bluer that the Port but there seems to be a few more snotters than 10 years ago. Still 3-1 to us I reckon, though. That little parasite Deila does stay here though. Yeeuch!Sorry mate but that's total bollocks. I was born and bred in the port and now live in Greenock. The port is by far more us than them, by miles and miles. Greenock is about 60/40 us. In the end I've no idea were either town got the reputation of being Tim towns as neither is any where near is infested as any where in Glasgow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie72 151 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Sorry mate but that's total bollocks. I was born and bred in the port and now live in Greenock. The port is by far more us than them, by miles and miles. Greenock is about 60/40 us. In the end I've no idea were either town got the reputation of being Tim towns as neither is any where near is infested as any where in Glasgow.We used to have more in Greenock but that's changed recently IMO, republican shitehole along with the clatty wee port. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corkinator 611 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I'm pretty sure they do own it. No one seems sure which to me is a tell tale sign they do.I don't think the easdales own the Cafe its a guy called Andy, hes had it for years. Big Rangers Fan! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatDolphins 5,358 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 We used to have more in Greenock but that's changed recently IMO, republican shitehole along with the clatty wee port.Na. Since we went down it seems like there's less of us purely because not as many bears wear their colours now, which is already changing this season. Add to that they have a shop in Greenock and unfortunately their range of merchandise is far better then ours so every Tim in town constantly has something with their colours on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbGER 24,518 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 We used to have more in Greenock but that's changed recently IMO, republican shitehole along with the clatty wee port.Republican shitehole that voted in favour of remaining loyal to the union? Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbGER 24,518 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Just step off the train at whinhill and you'll get a meet and greetWee bastards were climbing on the barriers over there last night,half 11 and the guy who mans the CCTV had to call through to tell them to get down,when an announcement is made i hear it from my living room,pain in the arse man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbGER 24,518 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I don't think the easdales own the Cafe its a guy called Andy, hes had it for years. Big Rangers Fan!You sure mate? Rumour was the asked him to name his price to sell and it was a million quid,they have been spotted in there a lot since,i prefer cleats myself,the cafe is full of snobs!Cleats is a good Rangers pub especially on old firm days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number6 242 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The Port has the Top of the Hill Rangers supporters club, the Upper Port had a bus for a while and the Bouverie Rangers have a bus again. Plenty bears in the Port.Edit: Forgot about the 68 and the Glen bus that's combined. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatDolphins 5,358 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The Port has the Top of the Hill Rangers supporters club, the Upper Port had a bus for a while and the Bouverie Rangers have a bus again. Plenty bears in the Port.Edit: Forgot about the 68 and the Glen bus that's combined.The jaffa aswell. I thought the Bouvrie was gone a with all the houses? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumbGER 24,518 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The jaffa aswell. I thought the Bouvrie was gone a with all the houses?Nah the club is still standing mate,not sure how well it's doing,i heard it was struggling but if it's running it's own bus again then hopefully it increases takings at the bar to keep the doors open. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingtom80 166 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 my age.i'm just too old to remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number6 242 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The jaffa aswell. I thought the Bouvrie was gone a with all the houses?The Jaffa is the club, the Top of the Hill is the name of the supporters bus. The Bouverie has been struggling somewhat but there's a bus of about 30 leaving from there these days, very pleased to see it return. Loads of younger ones joining in which is good to see. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeto 112 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Sorry mate but that's total bollocks. I was born and bred in the port and now live in Greenock. The port is by far more us than them, by miles and miles. Greenock is about 60/40 us. In the end I've no idea were either town got the reputation of being Tim towns as neither is any where near is infested as any where in Glasgow.When I lived in the Port, there were apparently 3000 more Protestants than Catholics and that was apparently taking the number the Catholics claim (they don't remove people who never attend or have left entirely or are in non denominational education) while Protestant churches don't claim people who have loose affiliation but may not have been officially baptised.I read more recent statistics somewhere that claimed Port Glasgow was 49% Catholic and only 30 odd % Protestant. Of course there are likely to be a lot of people who are affiliated to Protestant culture in some way that are non church people.I know there were clubs like Bouverie Rangers (my Mum went to the country western nights there when we stayed in Gibshill in the 80s) and the Port used to have loads of staunch Rangers fans, particularly in the better areas, while the worst areas were green hellholes, like Kelburn. The Port had loads of churches too but they seemed to wither in recent years in terms of attendance.The Port was infested with demons during a period that run down areas in Greenock were being demolished in the 80s and early 90s and I think this was a terrible thing for the town.My Dad was born in Lochwinnoch but actually lived in the Port until he was 26 and moved across the border (by three buildings!) to Gibshill for 17 years after that so he spent the majority of his life in and around the Port. He liked the place for years but was getting disgusted by the attitude there. The council wouldn't do a thing about sectarian behaviour in the area I was in but what do you expect when you're dealing with a Mr Potato Head called Carson? That creep was more of a comedian than Frank!Labour generally runs things down there and that means that Catholics had undue influence on everything. From underinvestment in non denominational schools and over investment in Catholic ones to Catholic provosts (like in Glasgow but probably not to the same extent) and so on.I don't understand how a single Protestant could ever vote for Labour as you're basically giving Catholics power over your area. Glasgow is two thirds Protestant but hasn't had a Protestant provost since the early 70s... It is almost like Black South Africans voting for a pro apartheid candidate and apartheid is what Labour preach. Divided schools are the reason for sectarianism. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number6 242 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Labour's been in here for a long time. The Catholic schools in the Port got done up wheres the non doms got a brand new school. It's not true in this day and age. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwhiteandblue 3,330 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 I moved away from the Greenock area about 10 years ago, moved back about 5 years ago and have now moved away again.The place is indead a junky shitehole. The only decent Rangers pubs are the Rangers club, Cleats and the Cafe continetal. the town has changed dramatically over the past 10 years.Is Cleats a Rangers pub? They never let me in wearing a Rangers top. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwhiteandblue 3,330 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 The Rangers Pubs gone and the other two are in Gourock mateThe fact that most clubs in greenock are owned by tims meant that when i was 16 in college i used to always get served so we could get mad wi it at lunch time That said ive walked through Greenock with a Rangers top on loads of times and never got any bother. Im mental thoTry wearing a Rangers top in the Jimmy Watt then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number6 242 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Is Cleats a Rangers pub? They never let me in wearing a Rangers top.It was once but the new owner isn't into it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougie76 15,362 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Having a dig at Glasgow To be fair mate we did vote yes so can't really argue with that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel H VC 299 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 It was once but the new owner isn't into it.Its been the same owners for the last 25 years Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 Is Cleats a Rangers pub? They never let me in wearing a Rangers top.Its no really a Rangers pub as far as I know but its full of Bears on matchdays. Watched a few games in there before work nights out etc Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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