David White and David Reid, 1978 signings ?

**crewetollhibee** · 28-11-2018 01:35 PM

Remember being on holiday and reading that we had signed these 2 laddies from Leeds Utd IIRC. Don’t think I remember them playing for the first team, anyone else recall them ?

***surreyhibbie*** · 28-11-2018 02:08 PM

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Remember being on holiday and reading that we had signed these 2 laddies from Leeds Utd IIRC. Don’t think I remember them playing for the first team, anyone else recall them ?

these guys?

http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/player...s/W/WhyteD.php

**crewetollhibee** · 28-11-2018 03:20 PM

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***brog*** · 28-11-2018 04:03 PM

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Remember being on holiday and reading that we had signed these 2 laddies from Leeds Utd IIRC. Don’t think I remember them playing for the first team, anyone else recall them ?

Unfortunately I do remember them. Actually its the kind of signing i enjoy, a shot to nothing really as was Johnny Hamilton & the Dobster! I remember Jimmy O was going to get them to play for our Corrie Inn team but wasnt sure they were an improvement on our 43 yo holding midfielder!

**IberianHibernian** · 28-11-2018 04:58 PM

Think it was year we were relegated . 1980 . Seem to remember them making debuts in final games of season when we`d already been relegated . Strange as their free transfers had already been announced . Tiny crowds at those games - about 1000 v Partick Thistle .

**HUTCHYHIBBY** · 28-11-2018 05:15 PM

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Think it was year we were relegated . 1980 . Seem to remember them making debuts in final games of season when we`d already been relegated . Strange as their free transfers had already been announced . Tiny crowds at those games - about 1000 v Partick Thistle .

Nae wonder, nae chips available!

**~~Iggy Pope~~** · 28-11-2018 05:42 PM

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Think it was year we were relegated . 1980 . Seem to remember them making debuts in final games of season when we`d already been relegated . Strange as their free transfers had already been announced . Tiny crowds at those games - about 1000 v Partick Thistle .

We had not half lost it.

That Partick game was the same night as the Iranian Embassy siege. I remember ‘Radio Hibs’ announcing the news to a thoroughly disinterested Enclosure, that and parts of the Centre Stand being the only areas open to the public.

***Hiber-nation*** · 28-11-2018 06:02 PM

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Think it was year we were relegated . 1980 . Seem to remember them making debuts in final games of season when we`d already been relegated . Strange as their free transfers had already been announced . Tiny crowds at those games - about 1000 v Partick Thistle .

Just checked iHibs, yep it was that hellish season. Reid made 1 sub appearance late in that season, White didn't appear for us at all. I vaguely remember them both being dire for the reserves, but the main thing I recall was them being on the front of a programme early that season in a photo with Jimmy Brown

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We had not half lost it.

That Partick game was the same night as the Iranian Embassy siege. I remember ‘Radio Hibs’ announcing the news to a thoroughly disinterested Enclosure, that and parts of the Centre Stand being the only areas open to the public.

I remember the game S but not the announcement....although it's the sort of thing that a 22 year old me would indeed have been thoroughly disinterested in

**~~Iggy Pope~~** · 28-11-2018 06:03 PM

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Just checked iHibs, yep it was that hellish season. Reid made 1 sub appearance late in that season, White didn't appear for us at all. I vaguely remember them both being dire for the reserves, but the main thing I recall was them being on the front of a programme early that season in a photo with Jimmy Brown

I remember the game S but not the announcement....although it's the sort of thing that a 22 year old me would indeed have been thoroughly disinterested in

Some of us were 17....

***Hiber-nation*** · 28-11-2018 06:03 PM

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Some of us were 17....

Bet ye were a wee radge

**~~Iggy Pope~~** · 28-11-2018 11:47 PM

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Bet ye were a wee radge

I was J, and became much, much ****ing radger

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 28-11-2018 11:53 PM

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Think it was year we were relegated . 1980 . Seem to remember them making debuts in final games of season when we`d already been relegated . Strange as their free transfers had already been announced . Tiny crowds at those games - about 1000 v Partick Thistle .

The good old days, eh?

I've never heard of White or Reid.

**~~Iggy Pope~~** · 29-11-2018 12:09 AM

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The good old days, eh?

I've never heard of White or Reid.

Those are the facts though friend.

**hibbydad** · 29-11-2018 09:28 AM

I remember meeting Eddie Turnbull in the Ben Loyal hotel in Tongue and he told my dad and I that he was going south the next day to sign these 2and he was really excited about their prospects. Somehow it just did not work out.