15 Jul 2022 02:35:05
Curiosity here, my earliest memories of rangers players are Willie johnston, davie cooper and ally Mcoist and managers I remember were jock Wallace and John greig. like to hear your guys first ever memories guys?
15 Jul 2022 05:46:47
Probably my 1st ever game stands out. Friday night v Aberdeen at ibrox. Beat aberdeen 1 nil. Laudrup layed it off to super ally. Remember the goal clear as day. Anybody on here able to tell me why it was a friday night? As always thot if it as unusual. 1995 ish must have been.
15 Jul 2022 06:29:12
I remember the game. Ibrox was being used for the cup final on the Sunday which Celtic lost to Raith Rovers.
15 Jul 2022 06:57:24
First game was v Dundee, end of 84/ 85 season and we got beat 3-1 at Ibrox. Went the following week to game v Aberdeen and we got beat 2-1. 2 weeks later went to hearts match and we won 3-1. Of those 3 games the only goal I remember is Davie Cooper hitting one from 25 yards into top corner past Henry Smith. Never found tv footage of it. Different times, crowds were something like 9,000 at Ibrox for these games.
15 Jul 2022 08:04:03
My 1st game was against St Mirren in Paisley Rangers won 7-0 and Jim Baxter was outstanding that night.
15 Jul 2022 08:11:42
I remember Jock Wallace was the manager with Peter Mcloy in goals John McClelland, Ally Dawson, Bobby Williamson Super Cooper. Early 1980s I think John McClelland was the captain.
15 Jul 2022 08:24:50
Sounds like you're a similar vintage to me Cooper. Back in those days, Dundee was a bit of a bogey team for us with a certain John Brown dominating a lot of the games. Mind you, back then Rangers didn't often appear in the top section of the league table. I recall us struggling in a lot of games and then we were after Alex Ferguson - and later Jim McLean - to be our manager. We ultimately got Jock Wallace, whom I had never heard of at that time as his previous stint as manager was before my time. It's all a bit hazy and I'm sure time will have altered a lot of the memories but that's what my early memoriea are.
My first game at Ibrox was against Ajax in the early/ mid 80s when I was 8 or 9 and I recall Rangers winning by a few goals.
15 Jul 2022 08:48:46
One of my earliest memories the gers was the 1982 Scottish cup final against the sheep . Terrible result we lost 4-1 after extra time . I remember standing outside at possibly 1.30 and it was really quiet . We paid at the gate i'm sure £4 to get in . The stadium was nowhere near full changed days .
15 Jul 2022 08:49:55
Similar to me Three cheers. I remember being disappointed when Sandy Clark moved to Hearts. I never have been much good at picking a player, but I actually thought big Sandy was decent.
15 Jul 2022 09:05:29
Uncle took me to Gers v Airdrie. Must be around 1963. Maybe Richie shearer brand. McKinnon. Baxter. I think. Mother wanted me to be smart for uncle John and looked out my school blazer. Green and gold piping . oh no. I was around 9/ 10 years old and I'm 68 noo. Team and uncle John all gone now.
15 Jul 2022 09:09:00
Yeah blue, after posting I had a look at the results back in the 83-86 seasons. We certainly did struggle against Dundee a lot! John brown, great great player. How he didn’t end up with 30-40scotland caps?!?!
15 Jul 2022 09:10:48
Irvger, what a first game. Would have loved to have seen Jim Baxter play in the flesh.
15 Jul 2022 09:11:17
78-79 season. Against Partick Thistle at Ibrox. Terrible game ( 0-0 ) .
But I was hooked from that day.
15 Jul 2022 09:27:20
1st game ibrox v st mirren was just a nipper an when gers scored i put my gers scarf around a st mirren fan nevk lol that was b4 fans separated like they are today.
15 Jul 2022 09:31:21
First game was 1968 v Hibs - - got there early to run up the steps and try and be first in. Colin Stein got a hat trick and we won 6-1, what was there not to love.
15 Jul 2022 09:34:21
First players mark Walters, super ally, Ian Ferguson, ray Wilkins
Management team graeme souness, Walter smith
First game I went to we won 7.0 against Hibs Gazza got booked for booking the ref.
15 Jul 2022 09:54:01
One of my earliest memories was League Cup final v Morton 1963. The Rangers won 5_0 at Hampden with over 100,000 in attendance.
Jim Forrest scored 4 and Alex Willoughby (Jim's cousin) scored the other 1.
Manager was Mr Scot Symon. Some great names in The Rangers team that day. Ritchie, Shearer, Greig, McKinnon, Henderson, Brand and the one and only Jim Baxter. (My no1 of all time)
15 Jul 2022 10:28:38
Yes Spanish john. confirms my memory of 1963 ISH team against Airdrie. Cheers!
15 Jul 2022 11:02:32
Not my earliest memory but best.
My mum knew waddle and his wife very well.
Remember visiting his home in west end Glasgow, seeing his caps, medals hearing the stories.
Then as a 15 year old being taken to ibrox for a game, in centre stand as a guest of Mr Waddell. People thought I was a new kid signing lol. I was honestly treated like royalty and still have the program signed by mr waddle.
My love for Rangers was confirmed for ever.
15 Jul 2022 11:12:13
My first game was away to St johnstone at they're old ground with the wooden benches, but my 2nd game was league/ skol Cup final against celtic 3-2 when mccoist got a hatrick. My dad managed to get 3 tickets for the celtic end which we swapped for 2 tickets for the good end when we got to the stadium ?.
15 Jul 2022 12:26:59
Lithium, what a great thread you've started here. I love reading about different people's memories and some of the great experiences some of us have had.
Coop, yeah I really don't understand how Bomber didn't get multiple caps. He was so versatile and whilst he played mainly at CH for us, I think he was an attacking midfielder for Dundee; he definitely scored a good few goals there.