Saturday, 19 May 2012

Friday night drams again

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

Word was out that it was John McWhinnie's turn to buy the birthday drams last night and there was a full house of 8 of us at the Burnett to celebrate - including a very rare appearance from Gerry Mullins:


Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Jeb Tyrie - Energy Mogul

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

From yesterday's P & J, taken at a reception attended by the First Minister for "cutting edge technology companies":

Sweet

Monday, 9 April 2012

Good forecast!

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

From Saturday's Times, a spot-on forecast from the legend that is Davie McParland:

(Click on article to enlarge)

Of course, this is really just another shameless excuse for showing the winning PTFC team from 1971, but Davie was spot on - Celtic did wreak revenge on Kilmarnock on Saturday for the League Cup Final defeat - just as they did on Thistle in 1971.

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Happy birthday to the database!

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

No, it's not an April Fool - it was 22 years ago today that the database was first established.

22 names appeared on the list in the first full year that we kept the stats:


  Apps.90/91
   
Stewart, Ian 50
Gore, Andrew 49
Lodge, Malcolm 46
McDonald, John 45
Williamson, Dave 44
Fitzpatrick, Brian 41
Morrison, Fred 40
Simpson, Jack 38
Grant, Gary 36
Kilgour, Colin 35
Dunnachie, Rob 30
Moir, John 25
Elgie, Colin 19
Meany, Nigel 18
Others 15
McWhinnie, John 15
Sharp, Ian 12
Birse, Derek 6
Wilson, Paul 6
Corbett, Dan 5
Reilly, Mike 5
Dallas, Rod 1



More birthday drams

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

Belatedly, it was my turn for the birthday drams at the Legion last night. Almost a month after my actual birthday, I finally got round to doing the honours. After some technical difficulties with cameras and photographers, we managed to get this rather grainy snap:


Monday, 26 March 2012

Vince Doyle 60!

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

Our man in Paris hits the big one today - happy birthday, Vince! Time to wheel out once more the only archive photo I have of him:


Enjoy the big day, Vince!

Monday, 19 March 2012

Friday night drams again

From http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

Friday night in the Burnett and it was Steve's turn to buy the (belated) birthday drams:


Still to do mine as well - we decided it was best that we didn't double up this time!