Third Lanark AC

GroundsKeeper Willie · Member

Joe McInnes

Bert at Cathkin · Veteran Member

Hi Hi Hi, When researching for the History of Third Lanark AC, Joe McInness was only one of 65 former played I visited. Did you know that Joe signed from Accrington Stanley, on Saturday 2nd August, 1956 at 12 noon and only three hours later cracked in 5 magnificent goals from the left wing berth, in the league cup opener against Stenhousemuir to create a new goalscoring debut record for a left winger - which in my opinion still stands to day. The Goodfellow, Hilly, Harley Gray & McInness front five of the early sixties, netted 88 of the 100 league goals scored in season 1960/61, and Joe more than played his part. He was a wing wizard, with a character to match and I agree that if he had played in Blue or Green, he would have been a Scotland regular - Jimmy Mason paid the same penalty in this regard.

-- Edited by ABell at 13:38, 2004-12-23

Pulchy Pilgrim · Member

I've just been checking Joe McInnes on Greger Lindberg's very impressive site dedicated exclusively to the "old" (1891-1962) Accrington Stanley FC at

http://hem.passagen.se/accringtonstanley/

It appears that McInnes joined Accrington in the 1955-56 season from Partick Thistle FC, and made a total of 14 Football League appearances for the Lancashire club, scoring 2 goals. Note that Accrington's manager at that time, Walter Galbraith, seems to have had a strong preference for recruiting players from Scotland: the previous season, only three members of the regular team were English - the rest were all Scots.

hihibear · Member

My main memory of Joe was the number of times he was sent off for mouthing off at the referee! I was almost in tears at one game as a wee boy when he was dismissed.I believe it was a Scottish Cup game at Cathkin against Hibs around 1960(2-1 for the good guys !-big crowd that day ,about 26000 I think).Changed days now with players swearing at the refs all the time with not even a warning.

Also I remember that Joe was an avid Celtic fan and I recall him scoring against them (he couldn't miss as it was from about a foot out ).He was obviously uncomfortable about the situation as he returned for the kick-off with his head down! No doubt his Celtic mates would have given him a hard time that night!

philip59 · Member

I remember Joe McInnes as a great dribbler of the ball, although i think, sometimes he forgot there were another 4 forwards. Also if memory serves correct, don't know where he got the energy. Didn't he have 11 children!!
I think that our centre half, George Mccallum would have been one of the Greatest center halfs in Britain, if he didn't get an injured knee which stopped his career, if i remember correctly.

grahammcinnes91 · Newbie

Hi my name is graham mcinnes grandson of joe mcinnes have been reading a few comments and have to laugh. He had 6 kids 3 boys 3 girls. Would love to here more stories of him if anyone has any.

Thanks