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queensferryjambo

Hi,

 

Just looking for a wee bit of help from supporters in the 1970s who might have some info on the Hearts change kit of the mid 70s possibly 1976/77. This isn't the white and maroon kit with the thinner bar stripes and round neck like the ones worn in the Texaco Cup final programme.

 

Possibly somebody might have a colour photo of it being worn. Kit is definitely Umbro but even from the black and white photos the dark stripes look much darker than maroon home kit.

 

So my question is what colour were these kits thick stripes maroon? black? or dark blue?

 

 

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davemclaren

Vague memory of it. Just maroon stripes I think. We had more to worry about than away strips that season. 😎

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14 minutes ago, davemclaren said:

Vague memory of it. Just maroon stripes I think. We had more to worry about than away strips that season. 😎

 

I am sure there was more than a few horrible weekends that season / rest of the decade. Thankfully I am one of the lucky Hearts fans who were too young to have suffered it. 

 

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Just now, Gilamas said:

Maroon and white. I remember them also from the collectible football cards of the day.

 

Will have a wee search of the cards as well. Good shout. Thanks for that

 

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Andrew Gilbert Wauchope

From the faces I can recognise in the squad (Cruikie, Roy Kay, Dave Sneddon, JJ, Willie Gibson, Drew Busby, Kenny Aird), it's definitely a mid-1970s team photo.  However, although I was watching Hearts home and away at that time, I have no recollection of that strip at all.

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queensferryjambo

Found another black and white one vs Stirling Albion the cup apparently - worthy of posting anyway :)

 

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Looking at the top photograph and remembering these first team players, how the f#ck did we get relegated? I was at every game that season, and this side was miles better than the '79 or '81 relegation teams.

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45 minutes ago, davemclaren said:

Vague memory of it. Just maroon stripes I think. We had more to worry about than away strips that season. 😎

That's my vague memory as well - maroon stripes.

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A Shoreditch Heart

Ralph Callahan and Eamon Bannon in the same team photo - my two big heroes of the post Busby / Ford era , but I think we sold Callahan to Newcastle before that awful 76/77 season even started 

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queensferryjambo
1 minute ago, Andrew Gilbert Wauchope said:

From the faces I can recognise in the squad (Cruikie, Roy Kay, Dave Sneddon, JJ, Willie Gibson, Drew Busby, Kenny Aird), it's definitely a mid-1970s team photo.  However, although I was watching Hearts home and away at that time, I have no recollection of that strip at all.

 

Yeah it doesn't look like it got much of a run out. When I have discussed it before people tended to get mixed up with the other earlier striped shirts with the thinner striped and round neck. I have found colour photos of that one but never the thicker striped one.

 

Here is the thinner striped one from the earlier 70s.

 

 

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davemclaren
2 minutes ago, WorldChampions1902 said:

That's my vague memory as well - maroon stripes.

Away strips were quite a minor thing then and less used iirc. 

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queensferryjambo

Apologies I found this picture of a programme cover so looks like it was season 1975/76 not 76/77.

 

 

 

 

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gerryjambo41
11 minutes ago, queensferryjambo said:

Found another black and white one vs Stirling Albion the cup apparently - worthy of posting anyway :)

 

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Donald Ford’s last game if I remember correctly 3-0 , the only cup tie we won in 90 minutes on our way to the final 75-76. The real misery started the next season 🙁

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A Shoreditch Heart

we've always wore maroon and white in the 1970's ....apart from a cup tie against Dundee in 1975 maybe - 1-1 (Tommy Murray)

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A Shoreditch Heart
Just now, A Shoreditch Heart said:

we've always wore maroon and white in the 1970's ....apart from a cup tie against Dundee in 1975 maybe - 1-1 (Tommy Murray)

and we wore that odd pink stripey version 

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Tommy Brown
8 minutes ago, davemclaren said:

Away strips were quite a minor thing then and less used iirc. 

Home teams  changed back in those.days.

Really liked that strip.

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queensferryjambo
2 minutes ago, A Shoreditch Heart said:

and we wore that odd pink stripey version 

 

One of these shirts? These are pinky and very odd :)

 

 

 

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Tommy Brown
27 minutes ago, queensferryjambo said:

Apologies I found this picture of a programme cover so looks like it was season 1975/76 not 76/77.

 

 

 

 

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Interesting kick off time, most likely an international at Murray field.

 

There used to be a flood of rugby fans would enter when the gates would be opened with about 20 minutes remaining. No floodlights at Murray field back then.

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2 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

Interesting kick off time, most likely an international at Murray field.

 

There used to be a flood of rugby fans would enter when the gates would be opened with about 20 minutes remaining. No floodlights at Murray field back then.

 

1976-02-21
Scotland 23px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 22–12 23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png England
Tries: Lawson (2)
Leslie
Con.: Irvine (2)
Pen.: Irvine (2)
  Tries: Maxwell
Con.: Old
Pen.: Old (2)
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales)
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Maroon Sailor
24 minutes ago, queensferryjambo said:

 

One of these shirts? These are pinky and very odd :)

 

 

 

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Jock Wallace

 

Gary Lineker was shit scared of him when he was Leicester manager

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Tommy Brown
24 minutes ago, queensferryjambo said:

 

One of these shirts? These are pinky and very odd :)

 

 

 

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Is that JJ ? Kneeling, Rene Miller kicking?

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1 minute ago, Tommy Brown said:

Is that JJ ? Kneeling, Rene Miller kicking?

And looks like Roy Kay, Cammy Fraser(?) is it not Eric Caruthers kicking?

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1 hour ago, queensferryjambo said:

Hi,

 

Just looking for a wee bit of help from supporters in the 1970s who might have some info on the Hearts change kit of the mid 70s possibly 1976/77. This isn't the white and maroon kit with the thinner bar stripes and round neck like the ones worn in the Texaco Cup final programme.

 

Possibly somebody might have a colour photo of it being worn. Kit is definitely Umbro but even from the black and white photos the dark stripes look much darker than maroon home kit.

 

So my question is what colour were these kits thick stripes maroon? black? or dark blue?

 

 

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New Bannon Grandison Halley Brown Rodger Paterson join 1976 (1).jpg

Don’t really remember that strip sorry. 30 players in that the photo though and not many look particularly young.

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Tommy Brown
1 minute ago, Jambo-Fox said:

And looks like Roy Kay, Cammy Fraser(?) is it not Eric Caruthers kicking?

Not Cammy, he is a bit younger than these. Clunie next to JJ.

It is annoying me who he is?

 

Someone, please.

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40 minutes ago, queensferryjambo said:

Found another black and white one vs Stirling Albion the cup apparently - worthy of posting anyway :)

 

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This was my first game, maroon and white stripes....3 nil win 14th February 1976...... I was 14 !

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1 hour ago, davemclaren said:

Away strips were quite a minor thing then and less used iirc. 

I have a vague memory that the home team changed if there was a clash of colours at that time.

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1 hour ago, davemclaren said:

Away strips were quite a minor thing then and less used iirc. 

 

They were not away strips in those days. Teams only changed when there was a colour clash or it was needed for TV clarity (black and white was still dominant), and when they did it was always the home team that changed.

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38 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

Not Cammy, he is a bit younger than these. Clunie next to JJ.

It is annoying me who he is?

 

Someone, please.

Joe Morgan, I think.

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davemclaren
3 minutes ago, henryheart said:

 

They were not away strips in those days. Teams only changed when there was a colour clash or it was needed for TV clarity (black and white was still dominant), and when they did it was always the home team that changed.

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1 minute ago, Wilson said:

Joe Morgan, I think.

 

40 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

Not Cammy, he is a bit younger than these. Clunie next to JJ.

It is annoying me who he is?

 

Someone, please.

Don't think that is Dave Clunie-he'd be first team then-looks more like Drew Young. ( This is taken from a colour brochure the club put out -it's in my loft!)

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Alex MacDonald

It was an Umbro shirt, a maroon and white version of West Brom’s home shirt at that time. Liked it a lot, a pity it never went on sale.

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1 hour ago, Jambo-Fox said:

And looks like Roy Kay, Cammy Fraser(?) is it not Eric Caruthers kicking?

I too think it’s Carruthers kicking.

 

In the picture of six, I reckon the second in from the right is Paul Rodger?

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17 minutes ago, Wilson said:

 

Don't think that is Dave Clunie-he'd be first team then-looks more like Drew Young. ( This is taken from a colour brochure the club put out -it's in my loft!)

It’s definitely Clunie next to Jefferies.

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1 minute ago, Morgan said:

It’s definitely Clunie next to Jefferies.

..so I need to go up to my loft and dig this out!

 

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1 minute ago, Wilson said:

..so I need to go up to my loft and dig this out!

 

Aye!

 

:lol: 

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queensferryjambo
17 minutes ago, Alex MacDonald said:

It was an Umbro shirt, a maroon and white version of West Brom’s home shirt at that time. Liked it a lot, a pity it never went on sale.

 

100% bang on. I had been asking about the colour as I had seen the similarity to the West Brom ones of the time.

 

In fact I think the earlier striped shirt worn in the Texaco cup is pretty much the same as the West Brom kit of the same time as well (except they had a white round neck). 

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1 minute ago, heartandsoul said:

Loving this thread. Brings back the memories.

Players like John Hay (maybe?) and Don Murray in there too!

 

Wee bloke called Alan Wilson maybe?

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Maroon Sailor
43 minutes ago, Wilson said:

Joe Morgan, I think.

 

 

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heartandsoul
15 minutes ago, Morgan said:

Players like John Hay (maybe?) and Don Murray in there too!

 

Wee bloke called Alan Wilson maybe?

Think Don Murray signed from Cardiff Morgan. I could be wrong.

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2 minutes ago, heartandsoul said:

Think Don Murray signed from Cardiff Morgan. I could be wrong.

He did indeed!

 

Hard as nails player.

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23 minutes ago, Jambo-Fox said:

Ian Sneddon??

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I think this is George (Sticky) Wood who never made it a Hearts unfortunately but he was a decent player as a youngster and moved to Dundee Utd but never made it there either.

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