Talk:Bill McLaren

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Knighthood[edit]

Please stop adding MBE and OBE after his name. As "If one is appointed to a higher class within the order, one must return one's existing insignia in exchange for the more senior one, and cease using the juniorpost-nominal letters" Quoted from Order of the British Empire —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sacul72 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

War Service & Daughter[edit]

I believe he had a quite distinguished war service.

He also had a daughter who died young which had a profound effect on him. He has an interesting personal history if anyone can help fill it in. Epeeist smudge 12:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism from BBC site[edit]

Two of the sentences in this article (out of a small number) are copied word for word from the very BBC website that this article links to. This needs to be fixed.

JLR[edit]

Am I wrong, or Bill McLaren has been the commentator of the 1997 rugby video game "Jonah Lomu Rugby", with Bill Beaumont? Famous quote: "My goodness, that tackle could have put him in Ward 4" with the punchline by Beaumont: "I hope not, that's a maternity ward" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.48.9.20 (talk) 21:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Someone has really buggered up this article. It's poor stuff.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is true. For instance, the "Bill McLaren's World XV" section is not about that topic. It does not name his "Bill McLaren's World XV" but merely lists some players in it - and a list of Scots separately. Poor show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.148.23.102 (talk) 11:27, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes[edit]

The article could do with some famous quotes by him, e.g. the one about a mad octopus. Also, did he really say 'They'll be dancing in the streets of Auchtermuchty tonight'? 93.96.236.8 (talk) 15:44, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]