MrAsterisk

I don't see the problem

so just click the "view new posts" link in your member bar at the top and thats all you will get.

I did and this was top of the list

Where you been hiding man? Missed your dulcit tones :018:

BENI's just a bunch of fans but you're looking for bias at the club?

Nothing stopping you forming your own NINI or whatever you want to call them :015:

Tempting offer - may have already started on the Red & Black striped banner :thumb04:

I would point out however that despite my NOT looking I do tend to be bombarded with evidence ;)

no Caley takeover or disappearance of the Thistle name.

I wouldn't say a takeovers happened but I would say that a Caley bias still exists.

..and the predominantly blue design and removal of the stripes from the new shirt does little to dispel the bias !!!

Even the BENI poster is predominately blue, but we are assured there is no bias

Personally I reckoned we were wrong to take him back, that said the saving grace was his potential super sub role which never came about.

On the field he was able to get the best out of the likes of Dargo. In our current situation we have the players that could do the job with the correct attention to dulling down the edges.

Guess my opinion is that despite my reservations at his return I believe he has the ability given sufficient time to make us a top 6 team before we sell off more players to keep our bank balance in the black.

The current flag is crap and should either have all the blue dyed black or alternatively burn the rag

Child of the Universe

Barclay James Harvest

Anyway back to the thread, can anyone tell me when the buildings in Eastgate were knocked down, ie the building where Marks is now, i can sort of remember the shops on that side, but the big car park seems to stick in me memory banks more.

I've got a feeling that "old" Eastgate began to disappear about 1979-80 to make way for Eastgate Mark 1 (which opened about 1982) and around the same time Falcon Square also went and was used as a car park before the new Falcon Square/ Eastgate 2 appeared more recently. Further out the road Hamilton's Marts (and the Lochgorm of beloved memory of pints of lager for 2/4d!) also went to make way for Safeways (of beloved memory before it got converted to Morrisons where the cafe isn't nearly as good!) which I think opened in 1999.

I don't have all the dates but the 20 years between about 1979 and 1999 saw that whoile Eastgate/ inner Millburn Road area blitzed and transformed.

Your dates seem right, I moved to Elgin end of '77 and came back a couple years later to see changes, back a couple years later and even more. It seemed to progressively lose it's character over the years

. But that whole area is a blank to me

That's also what a lot of people used to say when they piled out of the several pubs in old Eastgate.

Any IRA FPs remember the assistant jannie of the mid 60s by the name of Oddjob, partly because thast was his function in the school and partly because of his strong physical resemblance to the character of that name in Goldfinger? Oddjob would wander down Stephen's Brae at lunchtime, pop into Greewalds the bookies anf then on into Eastgate... the Plough or whatever. His pathway back up Stephen's Brae at 5 to 2 (or later) was never quite so straight.

Half my time at IRA you could find me in Greenwalds, mind you my fondest memory of eastgate was when we took the day off IRA, went further out to the cattle mart, opened all the corals and chased the cattle up into the town through eastgate. Might have been a few farmers chasing us at the time

I've tidied it up a bit so hopefully it's a little less intrusive...although that's kinda the point as it's stuff we want people to know is there

I personally don't like having more than 4 or 5, but it's mostly impossible to get it to that few when there's so much going on.

Personally I deyest having to scroll past them. If a person is looking into forums then surely they head to most recent rather than what you want us to look at :thumb04:

This is written with my 110% gaurantee but - I am very reliably informed that contact has been made with John Robertson and Duncan Shearer to place them in readiness to take over at ICT. Fro my perspective that would be a shocking decision but well in line with the thinking of the Heathmount Mafia.

Poor old IHE still being gagged by the powers that be, I heard DS & JR were caught in an uncomprimising position so doubt that this partnership will make it with ICT guess they could see if Dundee Utd will have them