Never forget as a wee boy my Mum telling me with pride at how blessed we were to have Walter Smith & Ally McCoist at our club. True Ambassadors were her words. Thank you both for all your love & dedication Gentleman 💙💙
Gutted didn't play in the Prem'! (or 1st Division longer). Though was convinced he'd go abroad tbh. Must've been plenty of ClubS (in general) who wanted to sign him.
@nicky cotton, dont talk pish. The man was a poacher all his days. He didnt even make into the mexico 86 squad becouse there was far better strikers. And he played with great players around him wich made him look better. Come on mate keep it real. He couldnt dribble, he couldnt pass great with both feet or any foot, he couldnt play in midfield or defence if or when needed becouse it takes a great player to do that, a complete player like maradona, george best, pele and beckenbuaer. Ally played for the jersey wich ye dont see anymore but he was never in the company of thee greatest legends that made the game look great to play and made us kids want to play great like them. Ally just got lucky thats about it, for every boy that makes it theres 100 better ones that dont? And ally struggled till rangers took him back up north. Then souness didnt rate him. Uck he did well in the end just like thousands of others?
@@alanmctavish4802 Well, each to their own. Know he didn't exactly play in the Prem' or for Real Madrid & no Ian Rush either. If he was a "poacher" then that's part of a Strikers job! Many players didn't make the "Mexico 86" WC, but we'll agree to differ eh.😎
You fool. Love the way you compare your 'Heroes' to him! Picking Pele (RIP) George Best (RIP) & the rest including a 'proud cheat'. Keep it real "mate".⚽.
He was just a wonderful poacher. Great timing and awareness to just be in the right place at the right time. A real class act. I believe he would have been excellent at an Italian club.
Who the Fk is Nakamura? Someone on flipflop not talking shite for a change. Now get the fk outa here with this piss, you obviously watch idiots dancing in their bedroom in youre spare time.
I didnt rate him. He was a poacher and like most poachers they get lots of goals. Maybe its becouse i know i am better than him by a long way. He was a good goal scorer but not a scorer of great goals. He couldnt win a game on his own, he didnt know how to. Every time he got the ball upfront and was on his own with two players to beat he had to hold it up for help but by then the chance had gone, as he couldnt turn and beat 1 man never mind 2. Becouse he couldnt dribble, he was a trier though and played for the jersey wich you dont see anymore. I played amature but there was so many great naturaly gifted players i played with and against. In short ally just got lucky, as for every boy that makes it theres 100 better ones that dont, becouse they lose interest at age 12, 13, 15, 16...and so on. And ally even struggled at st johnstone becouse any team would have kept him till real big cash was put up for him, and he was age 18 at that age your skill cant and doesnt get any better if your a natural? Yes ye still learn a bit about the game overall and even a few rules ye didnt know about. Well i didnt play to listen to rules i was too busy beating men at age 29 and older when i was just 16. But sunderland took ally down to the big boys and he couldnt handle it so they got rangers to buy him after 1 year and a bit. A laugh when fans say "well it worked out better he did join sunderland as with st johnstone he wouldnt have been ready for rangers. Why wouldnt a man at age 18 not be ready? To play in a poor rangers team at that time. And alot of hes goals were pure luck when he just had to hit that ball towards goal quick and hard or risk a tackle taking it away, and alot do go in, but if you saw how many he missesd? as in missesd the whole goals by at least 10 yards past and 20 yards over it shows how bad and lucky he can be. I never once hit a ball more than 2 yards over a bar and 3 feet bye the post. I always placed it very rarely did i go for the hammer shot, why it seems a desperate attempt. Souness didnt rate ally and i can see why as he kept him a sub for at least a year, now thats a very very long time in football. He played him here and there when needed but he wasnt what souness wanted. And that was skill not luck depending on a rebound or deflections. But in truth ally had nowhere else to go, he couldnt go south if he did it would be a third divison team. But he stuck in and got away with it.
Blimey! Shame you can't meet up with the legend & tell 2 *LONG* lectures about how crap you think he was to his face. (Or are you a Celtic fan in disguise eh ;-)
There's a certain amount of truth in your rant. I don't think McCoist was a technically great player. As you say he missed a LOT of chances. Mo Johnstone was better technically, heck, Dougie Arnott at Motherwell was a far better finisher than McCoist, (seriously, look at him on youtube). But you're missing the point, in that Ally had a better instinct than anyone in the Scottish game in my lifetime, of knowing where to be, and that's a huge skill. He deserves his reputation.
