Billy Ritchie RIP

Billy Ritchie and George Niven were the two I remember , RIP Billy

comment by theresgonnaebeashow - The Spoon Is Mine, All Mine (U5686)
posted 6 hours, 57 minutes ago
comment by RedandBlacksocks (U10609)
posted 3 hours, 10 minutes ago
Ritchie, Shearer, Caldow.........etc...etc....etc....

I'll never forget that line-up.......

Great memories.

R.I.P. Billy
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Greig, McKinnon & Baxter.
Henderson, McMillan, Millar, Brand & Wilson

Remember that line up being recited regularly on the crackly old wireless as a wee teuchter boy. Halcyon days.

RIP Billy, fois shiorraidh dhut.


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RIP Billy
Never saw him play but could rhyme off that great team before I could walk

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comment by Zachsda (I'll be up a Pole by Sunday) (U1850)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
first Rangers goalkeeper I remember seeing
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Zach....possibly the last one anaw?

Ritchie Shearer Caldow.....as above

was also the line-up at my first game 1961 v. QOS

I remember Billy Ritchie as a great keeper, not that tall I don't think, but very agile

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comment by the blue professor (U1948)
posted 51 seconds ago
Ritchie Shearer Caldow.....as above

was also the line-up at my first game 1961 v. QOS

I remember Billy Ritchie as a great keeper, not that tall I don't think, but very agile


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Quite common in those days. Simpson was the same... 5ft 8 or 9 but could stand with his back on one post and leap across and touch the other. Unbelievable. I remember people used to say that mccloy was too big to be a goalie. That tall keepers couldn't get down quick enough. Imagine that now. If your not 6 foot 4 you've no chance.
Goram was possibly the last of the great wee goalies

comment by Zachsda (I'll be up a Pole by Sunday) (U1850)
posted 1 minute ago
I remember going to the games with my da when I was very young and him buying the "Green Citizen" which always had a player poster
I remember Jimmy Millar,Alex Scott, callow etc
Had loads of them
I wish I still dud😂😂
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Callow? Was he a youth?

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Just picked up on this - very sad news - I remember a wee ditty from the sixties - instead of "Campbeltown Loch, I wish you were whiskey" - it was "Campbell Forsyth, I wish you were Ritchie"

RIP Billy