Former Scottish Stadiums

[Ftivano1]

Allegedly cost Queens a huge fee at that time but only played 30 games.

[johnny_dumfries]

Any Doonhamer fans have wee stories of following Queens to these old grounds :-
ANNFIELD, BOGHEAD, BROOMFIELD, BROCKVILLE, BAYVIEW, CATHKIN PARK,
DOUGLAS PARK, FIRS PARK, KILBOWIE, LOVE STREET, MUIRTON PARK, SHAWFIELD.

Queens at the old Bayview

[johnny_dumfries]

Billy Reid and the great Jimmy Robertson.

[johnny_dumfries]

Clydebank

[ALBERTZ_11]

Allegedly cost Queens a huge fee at that time but only played 30 games.

If I recall he was either superb or shambolic in equal measure.

[Francis_begbie_HFC]

Allegedly cost Queens a huge fee at that time but only played 30 games.

yes ftivano ,he could quite possibly still be our record transfer fee at something like 30k loool ,he was an ok keeper likes but he was no barney davidson nowhere near thats prob why alot of fans never took to him as being so close to playing so close to having the luxury of having the great barney in goal .

[Ftivano1]

Your top Queens goalkeeper Alan (Barney) Davidson celebrated his 60th birthday last week Dougal I read somewhere

[Stravaigar]

Would I be right in saying Kilbowie Park was the first all seater stadium in Scotland?

[Ftivano1]

Yes Colin if I remember correctly they secured seats on to their concrete terracing. Kilbowie is now a retail park.

[Auld_Chippy]

Just missed going to Cathkin, Third Lanark were finished by the time I started travelling to away games, been to all the other ones though. Like Stravaiger my first visit to Shawfield was a bit of a mystery tour which I found more through luck than precise navigation, despite poring over a street map before I left home, the country boy lost in the big city. The 2002 game at Brockville that ftivano1 mentioned earlier, I remember walking to my car after the game followed by 3 or 4 young Falkirk urchins who were giving me the V's and the gerrit right up ye, yer teams ****e. My old dad didn't get to many away games but he came with me once to Bayview. This was well before the "new" Edinburgh City Bypass was built and you went via what I believe was called the Inner ring road. We got to the game nae bother as the route to the Forth Bridge was well signposted but coming back through Edinburgh was a different matter as I must have missed a turning. I told the old man to look out for Ring Road signs but he turned out to be a worse navigator than me. Luckily we spotted a Gibsons bus at a set of traffic lights which we followed to guide us out of Edinburgh.