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Brainy Dose said:
My recollection is that Alan Brown left well before Ian McColl was appointed....don't think it was the same day. McColl did sign Slim Jim for us....he knew him from Rangers and Scotland teams. He also then signed George Kinnell who was Jim Baxter's cousin,and then played him as centre half instead of King Charles,which led a lot of people to think there was some kind of sectarianism going on. I'm not sure about that,but although Kinnell was a good player, Charlie was the man.
I think I'm right in saying that McColl introduced a young Colin Todd into the side a season or two after. That was a half back line....Todd,Hurley Baxter.
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You just sparked a memory with that. We started calling him Fu Kinnell, probably because he replaced Charlie Hurley rather than him being ****e :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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Serious question, absolutely not a dig at anybody.

Has any reputable journalist actually linked us with Still or Maric yet this time around? I know several did back in December with Still. But have any this time, other than to repeat we were interested last time?

I only ask because its so impressive (I think) how quiet the media is around our appointment. We are either doing nothing or keeping everything so quiet its untrue
 
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Southern A said:
Serious question, absolutely not a dig at anybody.

Has any reputable journalist actually linked us with Still or Maric yet this time around? I know several did back in December with Still. But have any this time, other than to repeat we were interested last time?

I only ask because its so impressive (I think) how quiet the media is around our appointment. We are either doing nothing or keeping everything so quiet its untrue
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The days of journalists being reliable sources of info from the club are long gone.

Almost everything the club do is kept firmly under wraps now.

And there's no chance we're doing nothing so it has to be the latter surely?
 
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Brainy Dose said:
My recollection is that Alan Brown left well before Ian McColl was appointed....don't think it was the same day. McColl did sign Slim Jim for us....he knew him from Rangers and Scotland teams. He also then signed George Kinnell who was Jim Baxter's cousin,and then played him as centre half instead of King Charles,which led a lot of people to think there was some kind of sectarianism going on. I'm not sure about that,but although Kinnell was a good player, Charlie was the man.
I think I'm right in saying that McColl introduced a young Colin Todd into the side a season or two after. That was a half back line....Todd,Hurley Baxter.
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Yes, I got that wrong - Alan Brown left in 1964, replaced by George Hardwick who left under a cloud in 1965 (some scandal about him and an SAFC directors wife was the rumour at the time) and then in came Ian McColl, who managed from 1965 until 1968 when he was replaced by Alan Brown who stayed as manager until 1972.
I still have a recollection of headlines in the Evening Chronicle of the manager ( who I erroneously thought was Brown) being sacked and immediately replaced by McColl.
You are correct re: the signing of Jim Baxter and George Kinnell, (I had forgotten about him) whose debut I think was the Newcastle Derby game at Syd James Park where he completely subdued the toon’s debutant CF, Wyn Davies.
Good to banter with you, take care.
 
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robinoz said:
Yes, I got that wrong - Alan Brown left in 1964, replaced by George Hardwick who left under a cloud in 1965 (some scandal about him and an SAFC directors wife was the rumour at the time) and then in came Ian McColl, who managed from 1965 until 1968 when he was replaced by Alan Brown who stayed as manager until 1972.
I still have a recollection of headlines in the Evening Chronicle of the manager ( who I erroneously thought was Brown) being sacked and immediately replaced by McColl.
You are correct re: the signing of Jim Baxter and George Kinnell, (I had forgotten about him) whose debut I think was the Newcastle Derby game at Syd James Park where he completely subdued the toon’s debutant CF, Wyn Davies.
Good to banter with you, take care.
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And you mate....good to recall these great memories.
 
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