I’ve got loads and loads of memories.
When I first started playing in the men’s ba’ like, I’m an Uppie, the Doonies were in the ascendancy and I think my first 14 ba’s I think two went up and the rest all went doon. Probably more than that and it was a hard struggle. But we dug in and we turned the tables a wee bit. One of my kind of, memories I look back on is the old Phoenix Cinema, the ba’ was smuggled around the back of their and there’s ditches at the back, and they had water in them, so you’d be careful. ?You’re still fighting for the ba’ and trying to do a smuggle. At the same time, it was trying not to get your head in the water and people piling on top of you. There’s a lot of houses there now but then at the back of the Phoenix Cinema, it was a big field and in the middle of this big field in the dark, pitch black and there was only about 20 or 30 players left, who knew where it was and it would swirl around and around in the middle of this field and nobody had a clue what to do, where they were going, and how they’re going to do anything best for our own team. ?And eventually it was taken out and came down Wellington Street and it hit the wall, which was great for me.
Another one was like last New Year, it was the Doonies were about to celebrate and they were speaking to themselves about how they were going to fight for it and it was other side of the PDC and they were getting ready to break over the wall, hit the shore with it and there were guys who broke into the PDC and swam across and it was so unexpected they weren’t ready for it and we run along the path, and then through the supermarket car park and then went away. where it’s never been before, and it was so, so exciting. and it was a beautiful night for it to, the Aurora Borealis was out too.”?
Memory added on December 19, 2025
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