amabluestar
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Mum and dad, thank you so much.
Reading through these posts I'll second that Lairdo. Very emotional sums this thread up.Very emotional reading the various posts.
Every time we play them invokes thoughts of so many great “Ranger’s” who are no longer with us.
To Absent Friends.
What a poignant post. I sincerely wish you all the best mate. You have a great command of language and have made some great posts ive truly enjoyed
Coisty raises an interesting point about his dad there.
We’ve all fought like hell to get our club back & I really hope we can get our club back to the top especially for the older bears in our Family & community.
None deserve it more than guys like yourself mate. See hearing from posters like you who can describe in detail a period in time before myself. Its like having a link back to my dad. I think any of us who share my story, appreciate the posts of guys like you Grigo. A true gentleman
Best wishes from a fellow Bathgate Rangers man.To my dad Jock Brookes and to Fraser Scott
You will always be remembered
Losing loved ones is always hard but to lose a son or daughter is the worst nightmare anyone can endure. Hope you and your family find comfort in every way possible.My boy, 5 years ago today his brick went up in fernando rickson wall as a gift at what should off been his 21st at christmas .miss you lewis GBNF left a hreat big whole in mine and your siblings life.
Here’s to Cameron and SamuelBoth my sons - Cameron and Samuel -I don't acknowlege you enough these days because of the pain.
Grannies are class mate.My gran who would back in the days when we regularly beat them would pick me up from the masonic where our bus went and take me back to hers so my mum wouldn’t know how smashed I was.
Would spend the journey telling her about the game and sit up with the tunes drinking with her many a night.
She passed in 2013 so wasn’t to see us get back up.
This ones for you Jeannie “Jinty” x
Grannies are class mate.
Lost count the number of times I knocked on my granny's door in the small hours of the morning, pished after a day at the football rather than going home to my ma.
She never once told on me and there was always a fry ready in the morning
Exactly bud.My gran always took my side when my mum lost her rag (rightly) in my grans eyes I could do no wrong. You never went hungry there. She was a govanite like my grandad. Genuine salt of the earth. I couldnt be prouder of them mate. Much like you must be
Exactly bud.
Both my grannies were superstars mate and although they couldn't have cared less about football, both proper staunch wee women.
Miss them both everyday
Raise a glass to your father, like many he would want to see his club back on top, that will comeMy dad. 18 months gone he would have loved that!
Your dad wasn't an arse, he was your dad, and done the best for you during his time..My dad was an arse booze killed him but I suppose he set me on the right path sad reading all the posts but happy also
Second drink, a toast to George Nelson, who along with Tommy Thomson, died in the 1961 Ibrox disaster.
George's brother Roy is a smashing guy and the family are still big bluenoses.
My gran hated football,my pop went to every game and could have named you every player in every Rangers team like every bear in that generation.Exactly bud.
Both my grannies were superstars mate and although they couldn't have cared less about football, both proper staunch wee women.
Miss them both everyday
100%One of the reasons I'm so bitter at the goings on since 2012 is the amount of Bears who passed, with their final memory of The Rangers being at our lowest ebb.
They will all be in my thoughts when we eventually regain, hopefully in not too distant future, our rightful place!
My Late Father and brother Vinnie Stephen, uncle ernie,and father in law Bob all big blue noses whom I'm sure would have been watching from our blue heaven above yesterday miss you all so much xxTop class, as always mate.
Our great friend Peter Morrison, who sadly passed away yesterday. Will always be remembered by everyone at Townhead Rangers SC
We dedicate today's victory to his memory.
Another old friend of mine and a good few on here will remember him . . . Jock Paterson from Kilmarnock, as big a bluenose as you’ll ever meet.
Knew both Tucker and Mel from years ago in Drumchapel, never knew they had both passed on. Sorry to hear thatA toast to my dad Tucker Hamill who took me to my first match against Dundee in a Scottish Cup 1/4 Final 6-3 win for my 9th birthday in March 1979. He was telling folk to lay off Alex Miller with a typical, "Hey you, cut it out" being a fellow Drumchapel man and regular in my dad's local The (Orange) Peel Bar.
Also to my Uncle Alex (Mel) Hamill who took me to my first full house at Ibrox against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Cup in 1982 with a majestic Davie Cooper on show. Some atmosphere and a wee smell of whisky in the air from Uncle Alex' hipflask and many others around us in The Copland Rear.