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The C team captain was Jim Mullin and he and Chris Donkin were just about to graduate. He was however so proud of his achievement as team captain that he wished to play for the Stirling University C team the following season in division two.

Many times Jim turned up to play in these fixtures but each time he found himself as the only Stirling University player present.

The club had gone downhill and were finding it impossible to field three teams. Jim approached the club secretary and asked him if he could get together a bunch of his mates to fulfil the fixtures.

This was where Chris Donkin came in!

Jim, Chris, Jannic and others completed the season as Stirling University C and enjoyed it immensely – They also avoided relegation.

At the AGM of the Central League in May 1980 these guys asked it they could do the same again. By this time Stirling University were unhappy about nun-students playing under their name and the league secretary, Robert Togneri, said that if  new team was to be entered into the league they would have to apply for election into division 3. But we didn’t wish to enter a new team, we simply wanted to change the name of Stirling University C. “Well, what do you want to change the name to?” was his question. At this time we all (except for Jannic) played the Dragon variation of the Sicilian and it was pretty clear to me that as we had no equipment or premises we would have to play all our games away from home – hence the name Wandering Dragons. Had that day turned out differently we may have been called The Five Degrees, as this was the name suggested by Robert Togneri.