Saw him play often for the reserves. The Chelsea final was a terrific performance in front of a very big crowd for a reserve fixture - players like Peter Osgood were a big draw - and an excellent atmosphere.
Hamish was certainly a strongly built player - not unlike Dick Renwick - and was likewise very left footed. We had a number of young Scottish players in that era - Charlie McInally, George Summers, John Docherty - a resource which seems to have completely dried up for the most part with lower division clubs.
Thanks for the memories!
You are quite right on all this.
That London Challenge Cup Final v Chelsea was a memorable match indeed.I believe, also, that the recently-mentioned Gerry Cakebread was the goalie that night( it was towards the end of his career here).
Some of us chaired the players off the pitch afterwards.The crowd, I believe, was 6000to 7000.
A photo of the victorious team, including Hamish, in the changing room, was published in one of the club's publications.
Another scot well worth mentioning, from that era, was the one and only Tom Higginson, and there was also Johnny Hales and Tommy Curley, and another guy called Lafferty.Most of them were hardened battlers, and popular with the fans.Higginson became a legend here, and Docherty, too, was one of our best players for many years, as well as becoming Manager.
Opportunities for Hamish were very limited, at the time he was here, as we had some very good full-backs, Thomson, and Jones among others.A few years later he may well have become a regular in the first team.
