dave mc Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 ha ha Dave - we gubbed yeez 4-3 what an amazing day it was though One of our old memory's is going John,probably mine! Take care pal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy rhodes fancy watch Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 I had a crap seat in the east stand but luckily it was a season ticket holders and was double booked , with it being a sell out i moved up to the scoreboard end on the stairs , brilliant atmosphere , brilliant game , section b tryin to get on the pitch , this game had it all . Probably the best game i've witnessed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chips Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 section b tryin to get on the pitch I think it was because of they bad boys that i had to swap tickets and sit in the mainstand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st paddy Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Fantastic day, superb weather, cracking crowd, and a match that had everything.... How many times did we hit the woodwork that day? at no point was I despondent, I knew we were gonna win, and we only let them get the first goal to make a game of it. In reality, we coulda been 10-0 up at half time, and sent cherry out on his tod for the second half and still won. Great day, great memories, easily the best game at McD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahoorsir Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Definitely my all time favourite game at McDiarmid. Everything about that day was superb except Airdrie scoring. Still remeber Dougie Donnelly introducing this game on Sportscene as "quite simply one of the best games we have covered in a very long time" So many happy memories of this match, including going aboultely mental without about 4 mates on the steps when Roddy's header went in and walking into the Royal to watch the match just as it came on Sportscene. Bar full of Saints fans we ordered 5 pints and one of the arseholes behind the bar switched the telly off claiming that it would just cause trouble to which the reply was 2 your right there you can stick your pints up your a*** and we headed to the Tw Tams to watch the match there. I still have the full 90 minutes ona DVD an d play it regularly.My boys alos eenjoy watching it . Slightly more significant to them was the fact that owen Coyle was playing for Airdrie that day after they had spent £175,000 buying him. Fond memories indeed. IN fact hee haw on the telly just now will go and get that DVD on and geta couple of beers out of the fridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Center Half Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 Yea, Yea, Yea, Fuquing silver weding in Lemington spa that day, So Saints had a present day four season ticket holders no there, How ever we watched the old BBC teleprinter in Dixons shopfront window come up with the score and we were dancing in the street the locals wondered what had happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Center Half Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 On a serious note. This was a significant transitional moment for Saints. Up until that day, Airdrie were seen as a bigger club than us but that thought is now ancient history. By then we had seen off several clubs that were often thought to be bigger than us: Clyde, Morton, Dunfermline, Raith, Ayr etc. Many younger members take being above these teams for granted now. The last twenty have been a remarkable and unprecedented era for the club. Love it. SS you forgot Dundee:), Falkirk, Partick Thistle,and at one point Forfar:oops: or were they the etc:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Christmas Jones Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 walking into the Royal to watch the match just as it came on Sportscene. Bar full of Saints fans we ordered 5 pints and one of the arseholes behind the bar switched the telly off claiming that it would just cause trouble to which the reply was 2 your right there you can stick your pints up your a*** and we headed to the Tw Tams to watch the match there. Still the same for fifers,just ask Dave Mc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulfulsaint Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 SS you forgot Dundee:), Falkirk, Partick Thistle,and at one point Forfar:oops: or were they the etc:) Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slf Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 jimmy jimmy wheres yer wreath? Dave Ferg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crieffsaintandy Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Watched saints well over thirty years and that is up there if not the best game seen, had everything, crowd, weather, result and highlights on Sportscene on the Saturday night, quality those were the days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Christmas Jones Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Watched saints well over thirty years and that is up there if not the best game seen, had everything, crowd, weather, result and highlights on Sportscene on the Saturday night, quality those were the daysScrap with the B?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crieffsaintandy Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 Scrap with the B?? Too busy baby sitting brother at the time, he was only sweet sixteen at the time, and more hassle than the Section:laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Ferg Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Should Saints be marking the 25th anniversary of this fantastic game? Surely worthy of some commemoration! COYS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstar101 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Should Saints be marking the 25th anniversary of this fantastic game? Â They probably will...in about 6 months time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint-johns-toun Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 still one of the best games I ever been to! Dave Ferg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Ferg Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) The earlier comment about that game marking a transitional point in our history makes it worthy of being celebrated. It would be great to see the surviving members of that squad paraded at a game around the 25th anniversary. Edited January 29, 2015 by Dave Ferg Dave H 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul N Shark Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Seeing Jimmy Bones greeting pus on the back of all the tabloids was a sight to behold, could have backfired on us sending it, thankfully it didn't, giving us MC Diarmids best ever game. dave mc and Gordon Drummonds Perm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Jack Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 25 years!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erchie Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 best game evere ! McCarry One Nil and Hubands House 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gertiesaints Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Should Saints be marking the 25th anniversary of this fantastic game? Surely worthy of some commemoration! COYS It's international break that weekend. Pity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sainties sheep Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Tell you what's good about watch that clip again. Straight from kick-off Airdrie forward run at and jumps with his back into the Saints player who has just put ball up front for the Saints player to go jumping into the defender elbow first. Now a days 2 fouls, and 2 yellow or 1 yellow 1 red cards in the first 5 seconds of the game would've resulted. Sliding tackles from the back (that would be another red card), cuts pouring with blood (no having to leave the pitch for stitches, bandage) pass backs to the keeper !!! Jesus, even the pitch look good after a seasons playing on it. Oh those halcyon days. After watch that clip, went on to watch the Saints 3-1 and 4-1 games against Rangers.  It made me realise, we, over the years have had some cracking, quality players, who have never had the recognition, caps, that they should have had.   Shaggy Jenkins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik2304 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Great day. Never forget it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sainties sheep Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Sorry kind of lost the thread of the post there, rose glasses and glazed eyes.  My memories are in 3 stages. 1. Walking down the Goodlyburn Road aged 5 - 8 with my dad, older brother and his mate, getting a lift over the gate and being in the stand, if it was a big game, being held, sitting on the barrier at the front, legs over the boardings. 2. 12 - 17 walking from the Dundee Road into town, meeting mates and walking to the game. Standing in the shed area with the quoir or behind the Ice Rink goal, ambushing Dundee at St Leonards Street mid week after we won on their way to the railway station. 3. Playing there in the schools cup finals, scored a half dozen goals at both ends over the years.  Great days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jings Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Sorry kind of lost the thread of the post there, rose glasses and glazed eyes.  So this all happened on the 31st March 1990 did it? Ice Rink End  Lost the plot mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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