Would it upset your equilibrium if I said Ross County are the only team in the league to have won their last three games? By definition, we play the form side in the division tomorrow. You think we have plenty to play for? County are one of six teams competing for three spots in the top half of the table – that’s bonus payments in the pocket of players who will appreciate them.
They came to Celtic Park last season bottom of the table and comfortably knocked a dispirited Celtic out of the League Cup. Few of the players who will play in green and white tomorrow will relate to that game, but it will be front and centre of the minds of County players. If they can do it when they were so poor, they can do it tomorrow.
The remaining fixtures favour Celtic: five at home and three away, the assumption being we will win at Celtic Park. Leagues are won and lost in these weeks, in a unprecedently tight table, no result can be taken for granted.
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GENE on 18TH MARCH 2022 5:34 PM
Philbhoy When I started in 66 as an apprentice my basic was £6 per week less tax and Mum got £2.
*In ’63 I was paid one and a tanner an hour, no tax just my stamp, had to sit an exam at and engineering institute close to Charing Cross station to get the job.
Gave my mum pay and pay poke and she gave me thirty bob back, my da reckons I cost him about a fiver extra in tax just for leaving school.
After 6 months when I was “an apprentice to trade I was bound”, I was given a 10 bob spot bonus.
Another 6 months later I was on shares with the squad and soon I was earning more than my da.
That’s when my mum put me on my own can, gave her a fiver, she paid the installments on my scooter, bought my train pass, still made up my pieces, oh and also bought me my new clothes.
Why the donald did I get married, I really had a good life.
I had a milk round then a paper round .
Milk round from Methil to Kennoway with Kilrenny Daries.
Paper round from Buckhaven to Denbeath for Marco Salamoni.
Paper round was 7 days a wee.
When I got off the Methil & District Csc bus on a Saturday night ,I delivered the sporting post round all the pubs and clubs .
Still in my Celtic Tammy and scarf.
Buckhaven and Denbeath were like Larkhall and the Shankhill in those days.
The Buck n Hind. Bus was where the Rangers SC bus left from.
Hun trebles in 76 & 78 .
Our double sandwiched in between in 77.
I took some stick .
Looking back .
I was beyond Gallup.
Ten men won the league in 79 was the highlight of my teenage years .
15 years old .
They were on for their 3rd treble in 4 years.
There was never a prouderbhoy than me delivering the sporting post ,the Saturday night after that famous Monday evening.
TT
Fun reading the wee “first job” stories today.
SFTB
Spent the early part of my childhood not too far from your route. Croftside Avenue. I do remember the teachers being tough on the kids that were on the milk.
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Gene
Similar for us on the ice cream vans, some real sorts back then.
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MARSPAPA
I remember a couple of occasions that happening to friends. Sitting ducks to the ‘big boys.’
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PHILBHOY
First tailored suit at 15, good stuff!
Oops meant to add I also had a paper round when I was still at school, too much money for a 14 year old, oh I was also playing fitba with an under 18 side at the time who all talked about drinking and lassies, which is why I left school early much tae the consternation of my mum, my da’s response when he heard I was want oot “hell scud him”.
Gallus not Gallup.
Anybody watched Black 47 ?
rent or buy – £3.49 to rent; £5.99 to buy on Amazon Prime
TT @ 5.54?
SPL — don’t agree.
We are currently equal with them in the head to head games.
Three points ahead of them in the Rest of the SPL competition.
We have won two more games than them.
Rest of the SPL we have two defeats and 4 draws.
They have one defeat and 7 draws.
The bookies have us as good favourites.
I think that we have a 55% heading for 60% chance of winning the league.
The great unknown is the attitude of Ludge MIB.
They might be saving their powder for a full on mugging — sending off rather than a penalty when it hurts us most like the last SPL game against them.
Or maybe they have played this joker too early in the season.
The stats don’t lie — just a case` that they need plenty of publicity.
The secondary unknown is the TFOD2.1 attitude to the SPL.
At the moment they are playing in their Sunday finest in the EuL.
They look as if they have been dragged through a hedge backwards in the SPL.
If we play like we can then we win — a return of the low energy stuff will bring us trouble.
My parents bought me my first made to measure suit out of Hepworths in Leven ,when I was 15.
TT
TINYTIM on 18TH MARCH 2022 6:59 PM
My parents bought me my first made to measure suit out of Hepworths in Leven ,when I was 15.
*I was 13, Boys Guild Dance, in Bremners Glassford Street.
Madmitch
The bookies had them strong favourites at the beginning of Jan.
We do have the advantage though .
TT
First job — sweeping out houses after the joiners did the roughing.
Summer job in the UFO capital of Central Scotland.
Went home covered in plasterboard dust.
The bus cleaner must have been overjoyed when the autumn came.
From memory I got a full labourers wage / site bonus / holiday stamp.
In todays P&O inspired world — no chance of that now.
First made to measure suit was out of Burton’s at 16.
Double vent and pocket flaps
Tinytim
Think the suit was £10 or £20 – paid back at 5 or 10 Bob a week on HP – Dad had to sign guarantor papers.
GENE on 18TH MARCH 2022 7:09 PM
First made to measure suit was out of Burton’s at 16.
Double vent and pocket flaps
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You still wearing it ? :O)
If we win the league, and the Huns win the Europa (I know…) would Hearts get entry into the Champions league qualifiers?
VP
I’m no longer 28″ waist 🤭
MADMITCH on 18TH MARCH 2022 7:09 PM
First job — sweeping out houses after the joiners did the roughing.
Summer job in the UFO capital of Central Scotland.
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Bonnybridge? I lived 5 mins from there as a teen.
GENE on 18TH MARCH 2022 6:15 PM
Thanks for that, was sure it was Braga!
Ffs it’s like something out the Secret Policeman’s ball.🤣. I had a paper round and sold rolls from McKechnies bakers.
I had a Monday to Friday paper round when I was 12 where I stood at Yarrows gatehouse and sold loads a papers in 78/79, whilst 12 years old I was earning £35 a week from that round. Also done a Sunday morning round and delivered meat parcels for a neihbour who had opened a butchers.
My older brother done milk rounds.
Even when I left school at 16 and had a job stacking shelfs in Safeway I kept that Yarrows paper round going as long as I could.
Went onto 25 years in Royal mail now a Housing Manager.
I like to think the old work ethic has passed from my parents to me and siblings and now onto my kids who have decent jobs/careers.
FREEBIGJIMMYCSC
D :)
Oh and trained twice a week for football and played twice a week.
Plus played golf and boxing training.
Ffs where has all my energy gone
D :)
Came back from an 80 hour shift, was made to lick out septic tank with me tongue and then beaten to a pulp. Luxury! Still a favourite sketch from a great show.
David 66. Luxury!!🤣
BRRB
And lived in a shoebox
Gene, ffs hahahaha
We lived in a matchbox at side of motorway.
Shoebox – Bloody luxury.
:)
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 18TH MARCH 2022 7:48 PM
Came back from an 80 hour shift, was made to lick out septic tank with me tongue and then beaten to a pulp. Luxury! Still a favourite sketch from a great show.
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Septic tank? You’re lucky you had a septic tank. My family used my slippers.
BRRB :-))))
https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE
HH
Reminds me to open the chateau de sha till Ray lol
HH
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DAVID66@7:45pm
Not mentioning my part time jobs after reading your post.You must have had some energy even for a youngster.
Had a paper round that covered The Milton from one to the other, took me a couple of hours, thankfully it was only a Sunday
First job was for Unilever as a Cargo Superintendent
Timhorton – I’m knackered thinking about it.
D :)
First job was at Burger King
£1.95 an hour I think
Started aged 15 in 1989
What a great job it was too
Loads of young people and so many great nights out
Kept me going all the way thru college and Uni till I was 21
AT – Superb vid.
Love that.
D :)
Jackie Mac: Black 47 is a good film. Slow and dark, not a Friday night romantic film.
I taught the director, Lance Daly, and his son.
Moderator 1888 – Ya lucky Burger.
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