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  1. Drew

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    Theyre impossible to compare. But he’s on the conversation for both. I don’t really see why we need to rank and do down on some of our very best.
     
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  2. Ric Glasgow

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    The one at Yarrows,Scotstoun? Yeah it's huge!!

    My old man worked there for years as a senior development engineer on type 22's & 23's.
     
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    Both world class.
    Murray’s impact at a time when the greatest ever players came together has to be the number one in Scottish sport.
    The fact he went 41 weeks as world number one at this time was incredible. Genuinely don’t think he gets the credit as a world class sportsman.
     
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    Ferguson wasn’t a great player. Denis Law, Kenny Dalglish, Dave Mackay and the great Jimmy Johnstone were.
     
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    yea, and nadal, federer and djokovic there too
     
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    Bet Murray couldn't have beaten Fred at whiff-whaff. :emoticon-0138-think

    The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
     
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  7. bradymk2

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    ships are just crazy big, it honestly blows my mind the size of them, especially when theyre out of the water and you see them all
    it almost doesnt make sense the size of them
     
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  9. Ric Glasgow

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    Jimmy Johnstone out of the 4 of them,what a player!!

    Jim Baxter,remember him?
     
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    Daley Thomson. Debate over. :emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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  11. Ric Glasgow

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    I prefer the Daley Mail but if you insist.
     
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  12. SW3 Chelsea Tiger

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    greatest sportsman…doesn’t mean greatest player….does it??
     
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  13. Cityzen

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    Very well. Entertaining player was Jim. I remember Jimmy Johnstone tearing Leeds United apart.
    Unfortunately both of them a bit too fond of a drink or two. But the sort of characters missing nowadays.
     
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  14. Phinius T Bookbinder

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    I’ve watched Jimmy Johnstone on you tube. Just sheer class. How good would it of been to watch him live.
     
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    I would say it does.
     
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  16. bradymk2

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    or athlete
     
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  17. SW3 Chelsea Tiger

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    I would say it doesn’t
    Let’s leave it there…I’m not looking for a 8hr Aussie syd style debate…
     
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  18. Ric Glasgow

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    It was said that at the peak of his drinking,Baxter was downing 3 bottles of Bacardi a day!!

    He had a pub near Ibrox Park that me and a few of my mates would drink in if we were going to a game...Can't remember them ever having a decent white rum in stock though:emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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  19. Phinius T Bookbinder

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    Oh yes you are
     
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  20. bradymk2

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    Fergie was a manager not a sportsman
     
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