John "Bomber" Brown

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He was a cracking player and hard as fuck too.

[McEwan's Lager 30,532]

1 minute ago, The Dude said:

1995 McKinley got his first cap iirc. Brown was just getting ready to retire at that point. 

I was very young but my recollection of McKinlay is that for Scotland (1997-98) played more as a left midfielder rather than as a defender. 

Brown tended to play a 3-5-2 with either a central midfielder or an attacker as one of the wide players and a defender as a midfielder on the other side  

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5 minutes ago, G.E.C. said:

Was listening to Craig Brown recently and as much as he’s boring with his stats he said Leighton kept about 36 clean sheets for Scotland which is pretty remarkable.

Probably helped he had Miller and McLeish in front of him for a lot of those games. 

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5 minutes ago, G.E.C. said:

Was listening to Craig Brown recently and as much as he’s boring with his stats he said Leighton kept about 36 clean sheets for Scotland which is pretty remarkable.

He was a good goalie, and that is a hell of a stat. It says a lot for the defensive group Scotland had at the time as well. 

[lewislaudrup 851]

I remember watching him trying to kill a tarrier that attacked Ally Maxwell. No fucks given just steamed in to help his pal. If I remember correctly was that no just as we scored the 3rd goal in like 30 mins?

[will2203 821]

1 hour ago, Unionblue said:

Signed 35 years ago?  fuck , I'm getting old.

I said exactly the same mate! Where did the time go?

[falkirkNS 6,298]

36 minutes ago, The Dude said:

You’re younger than I am and Bomber was largely finished by the time you’d have been old enough to watch him. 

Wtf you on about ya creepy obssesive weirdo.

You and your fishing gtf 🎣 you dont and wont know me.

Obsession is bad.

I attended Ibrox in the 80s as a child is all your getting.

[JamieD 18,949]

I remember about ten years ago or more, WVB posting on here that Bomber was a cunt and he always hated him because he had given the middle finger to the Ibrox crowd while playing for Dundee once. True or not, imagine bearing a grudge through a nine year playing career for us and then well over a decade after his retirement

[ayro 3,007]

18 minutes ago, lewislaudrup said:

I remember watching him trying to kill a tarrier that attacked Ally Maxwell. No fucks given just steamed in to help his pal. If I remember correctly was that no just as we scored the 3rd goal in like 30 mins?

Fucking class, no fucks given by the Bomber.

[The Dude 20,026]

1 minute ago, falkirkNS said:

Wtf you on about ya creepy obssesive weirdo.

You and your fishing gtf 🎣 you dont and wont know me.

Obsession is bad.

You said you played with (or maybe against, you couldn’t quite remember which) Callum Reidford for the county at school level. Reidford is younger than I am so if you played in his age group then you’re a year younger than I am. Bomber retired in 96 - which would have made you 8 or 9 at the time - and he’d barely played in the years prior due to injury. 

 

 

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Just now, ayro said:

Fucking class, no fucks given by the Bomber.

Hed be infront of the SFA for that now.

Got a couple digs in, great viewing.

[lewislaudrup 851]

Just now, ayro said:

Fucking class, no fucks given by the Bomber.

That's the one. I'm positive down the other end the teams celebrating🤣

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Just now, JamieD said:

I remember about ten years ago or more, WVB posting on here that Bomber was a cunt and he always hated him because he had given the middle finger to the Ibrox crowd while playing for Dundee once. True or not, imagine bearing a grudge through a nine year playing career for us and then well over a decade after his retirement

Believe it was the vickies with the full up and under. Before my time but by all accounts he had a knack of scoring goals against us in the 80s and generally playing out of his skin. It comes up about 3 times a year on FF that he got a lot of stick because Bears assumed he was a Celtic fan. 

[ayro 3,007]

1 minute ago, lewislaudrup said:

That's the one. I'm positive down the other end the teams celebrating🤣

Think you’re right that it happened when big Oleg slammed in the 4th.

[McEwan's Lager 30,532]

Brown was meant to have had a ding dong with Souness in a game too just before he signed for us.

[Inigo 32,534]

Probably the most naturally hard player I've seen at Ibrox. Him and Hurlock.

Class player too. The positional sense and strength to play CB, mobile enough and with enough technical ability to play midfield and left back. And obviously a winner and leader with it. Scored the odd decent goal too.

Would kill for a guy like him now. Ridiculous he didn't have more caps. Sometimes wonder if there was an element of snobbery about it, given on the surface he gave the impression of an honest grafter. 

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6 minutes ago, falkirkNS said:

Hed be infront of the SFA for that now.

Got a couple digs in, great viewing.

It's a red card offence these days.

[ayro 3,007]

Injection in the Achilles knowing that it was going to snap during the game is beyond mental.

This was the Aberdeen title decider when we were down to the bare bones with injuries.

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20 minutes ago, ayro said:

Injection in the Achilles knowing that it was going to snap during the game is beyond mental.

This was the Aberdeen title decider when we were down to the bare bones with injuries.

What id do to have just one enforcer in our weak team.

Hopefully raskin suprises us.

[Unionblue 3,575]

The game has changed a lot since Bomber's days, you get a booking for sneezing now, some of the tackles in the 80's and 90's were just  fucking insane  

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40 minutes ago, The Dude said:

You said you played with (or maybe against, you couldn’t quite remember which) Callum Reidford for the county at school level. Reidford is younger than I am so if you played in his age group then you’re a year younger than I am. Bomber retired in 96 - which would have made you 8 or 9 at the time - and he’d barely played in the years prior due to injury. 

 

 

School team was a year under or over.

Do the maths and get a life ffs.

[The Dude 20,026]

Just now, falkirkNS said:

School team was a year under or over.

Do the maths and get a life ffs.

So it wasn't the county team (which is in yearly groups)

At  best that means you're ages with me which would make you 10 at most when Bomber retired and about 7 when he stopped being a regular due to injury.

[Colin Traive 22,785]

He bought me a pint in a pub in Carnoustie one night. My mate played alongside Bomber at Dundee and they had some great stories.

But it was crystal clear, even as they talked about Dens, where his heart lay and his heroics against Aberdeen (the Hateley game) were unbelievable.

Wish you could take his spirit and commitment to our club and inject into some of the shitebags and malingerers of recent times.

John Brown, maybe not a legend but definitely a hero.

[Inigo 32,534]

13 minutes ago, Colin Traive said:

He bought me a pint in a pub in Carnoustie one night. My mate played alongside Bomber at Dundee and they had some great stories.

But it was crystal clear, even as they talked about Dens, where his heart lay and his heroics against Aberdeen (the Hateley game) were unbelievable.

Wish you could take his spirit and commitment to our club and inject into some of the shitebags and malingerers of recent times.

John Brown, maybe not a legend but definitely a hero.

Legend would not be an exaggeration in this case.

I think with eight titles, six cups, starred in some of our most iconic games of the late 80s/90s, over 200 appearances in 9 (?) seasons (which would have been more if not for injury), 9 in a row mainstay.

Defo a legend to me, anyway.

[falkirkNS 6,298]

The man himself troops, on crutches!!!