a f kincaid Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 You're right. You're wrong TJR! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I can't mind Davie McParland scoring a hat-trick but a lot of his career was before I started going to games. Just a wild guess but at the same time using a bit of logic given the number of games Davie played. He chipped in with plenty goals tho' but playing in positions scoring 3 goals in a game would've been very unusual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) I was reading that FC Bayern have had a player in every World Cup final since 1982 1982: Breitner, Dremmler and Rummenigge for Germany 1986: Matthäus and Eder for Germany (D. Hoeneß as sub) 1990: Augenthaler and Kohler for Germany (Reuter) 1994: Jorginho for Brazil 1998: Lizarazu for France 2002: Kahn, Linke and Jeremies for Germany 2006: Sagnol for France 2010: Robben and van Bommel for the Netherlands (Braafheid) 2014: Neuer, Boateng, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Kroos and Müller for Germany (Götze) I was wondering how many Jags, or former Jags had made it to the final tournament ? Rough I'm certain 78 and 82 Chalmers I think retired before 74 I'm struggling to think of others Edit: How could I miss Alan Hansen 82 Edited January 8, 2018 by Dick Dastardly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 You're right. You're wrong TJR! I like being wrong - it reminds me why building a database was a good idea! I was reading that FC Bayern have had a player in every World Cup final since 1982 1982: Breitner, Dremmler and Rummenigge for Germany 1986: Matthäus and Eder for Germany (D. Hoeneß as sub) 1990: Augenthaler and Kohler for Germany (Reuter) 1994: Jorginho for Brazil 1998: Lizarazu for France 2002: Kahn, Linke and Jeremies for Germany 2006: Sagnol for France 2010: Robben and van Bommel for the Netherlands (Braafheid) 2014: Neuer, Boateng, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Kroos and Müller for Germany (Götze) I was wondering how many Jags, or former Jags had made it to the final tournament ? Rough I'm certain 78 and 82 Chalmers I think retired before 74 I'm struggling to think of others Edit: How could I miss Alan Hansen 82 10 in total. You've got Roughie and the Stroller, WAT has 8 to find... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I guess we have already talked about David Harvey - what about Billy Thompson Mo Johnson Billy Dodds Jackie Macnamarra ? Jorge Cadete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I've got 4 more ..... David Harvey (is always the answer) 74 Peter Cormack 74 Mo Johnston 90 Murdo McLeod 90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgaejag Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Name Thistle's highest scorer who never scored more than 2 goals in a game. Chris Erskine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I should point out that I have no data for unused squad players, and that there were 10 one-time Jags who have actually played at the World Cup finals. Of these you have now identified 6: Alan Hansen Alan Rough David Harvey Jackie McNamara Maurice Johnston Murdo MacLeod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jags on tour Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 I should point out that I have no data for unused squad players, and that there were 10 one-time Jags who have actually played at the World Cup finals. Of these you have now identified 6: Alan Hansen Alan Rough David Harvey Jackie McNamara Maurice Johnston Murdo MacLeod Ryan McGowan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Simon Donnelly in 98 Derek Whyte in 98 (God we had a bad squad in that world cup with Jackie in there too !) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Ryan McGowan? Yes, now 7 out of 10 as far as the playing appearances go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a f kincaid Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Name Thistle's highest scorer who never scored more than 2 goals in a game. The answer (surprisingly high) is Frank Coulston. He scored 81 goals - 57 singles and 12 doubles. Not a hat-trick in sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Johnny McKenzie, Mathers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 ^ The late great Johhny MacKenzie takes us up to 8 out of 10. From memory, I think Mathers was one who lost out as there were too many blazers and wives on the plane to fit in players! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Jimmy Davidson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 ^ Yes, Jimmy and Johnny went together in '54. The trickiest one is left to last... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Robert Fleck??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 ^ Superb, definitely worthy of a cyberpint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 According to this, Matthers also made the 54 squad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_squads#Scotland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jukebox Rebel Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) ^ DD, If you read the Wikipedia entry it actually tells you that Davie didn't travel. I researched it from original press archives many moons ago for the great unpublished book of Jaggy factoids: Jaggy trivia # 1313 Davie Mathers was surely the top candidate for the tag “unluckiest Thistle player of the 1950s”. To compound the misery of Army directives depriving him of two Cup Final appearances in 1953 and 1956, he was selected for the World Cup squad of 1954 but was asked to sit at home on standby rather than actually travel with the party. Most nations took their full allocation of 22 players to the Finals in Switzerland but the SFA decided that this would too expensive. Manager Andy Beattie, who would soon resign citing SFA incompetence, was told that his 22 man squad would have to be cut down to just 13. In mid April, our Davie survived the first culling, as the numbers were reduced on paper to 18, but he missed out when the final 13 was announced in May. Speaking in regards to this demoralising squad selection process, Tommy Docherty later recalled, “The plane was full of committee-men and their wives. It was the same for the 1958 World Cup. The heavy mob in charge looked after themselves. The players didn’t matter.” Edited January 8, 2018 by The Jukebox Rebel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlgarveJag Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 ^ Yes, Jimmy and Johnny went together in '54. The trickiest one is left to last... Well done LIB I was thinking along the lines of Stephen Craigan but N.I. didn't qualify during his time with the National team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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