The Sportsmans Dinner
The club had organised a Sportsmans Dinner on the 10th of October for the members, and the turnout was excellent, but those who couldn`t make it on the night missed a truly brilliant evening.
There were two guest speakers for the evening
Mr Robert " Bobby " Tait, an ex Grade 1 referee for 18 years
and
Mr John Gagahan, an ex professional player with Motherwell and Morton.
The evening started with a couple of beers in the Lounge before being invited into the main hall where the tables were laid for our meal. Just to set the mood for the evening, we were entertained by " The Bankie Bugle " playing Apache on the air guitar and then he starts singing " Batchelor Boy and Summer Holiday "........... NOT a pretty sight! This was because " The Bankie Bugle " had been to see Cliff Richards at the SECC the night before
( He actually bought a scarf and wore it on the Duntocher Bus :-}} )
and was still in party mode !
Just as an aside, later in the main hall a certain member asked The Bugle if Cliff had a support band ... DUH !!! That started him off again !! The Bugle told him " THE SHADOWS " then proceeded to rhyme off all of their names, instruments they played and then started playing air guitar again at the dinner table !!!
After Dinner we had the first of our two speakers Mr Bobby Tait, who told some cracking stories about his times in football and some of the characters he has come across. Bobby was hugely entertaining and if you get a chance to go and see him then he is well worth the wait...
This one is called " Robert meets a referee " :-P
Then came Mr John Gagahan........ Well John had us in stitches laughing with his stories, it was so bad at one point that a certain Vice President was taking his glasses of and wiping his eyes with a hanky so often, I thought his fake tan was going to run ! :-P
John`s stories were brilliant, and the jokes were coming so fast that it was difficult to remember them. A couple that spring to mind were when he was talking about his doctor in Maryhill, and a girl he knew in Port Glasgow. John was absolutely brilliant on the night, and many people believe that this is one of the best nights the club has ever had! John has a strange way of telling time though. We normally talk about hours, days months and years. But John used to play football with the President and he described those times as " about 10 stones ago! " He also told yours truly that he used to know me about 5 stone ago !!!!!!!!!!!!! Strange
On another note the Vice President would like to make an announcement regarding the stickers with the teams names he puts on the board when he is doing a football card. Even after he had specifically told everyone to write their name UNDER the sticker... there was still one pillock who let the top of the letters of his name touch the Sticker. This led to a highly emotional bout of clucking and a string of bad words about the character and parentage of the writer from the Vice President.
I can only add one comment to this.............. OOps Sorry Sammy !! :-}
It would also be appreciated if anyone has a copy of the rules of Irish Bingo, could they hand it in behind the bar. Alison did a sterling job of trying to explain how it all works to the members, but there still seemed to be some confusion
..... in the words of a famous philosopher "Against stupidity even God fights in vain"