Billy Collings
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Billy Collings | ||
| Date of birth | 10 June 1940 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Vale of Clyde | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1958–1961 | Morton | 48 | (14) |
| 1960–1962 | Dumbarton | 11 | (6) |
| 1961–1962 | Berwick Rangers | 16 | (7) |
| 1962–1964 | Cambuslang Rangers | ||
| 1964–1970 | Queen of the South | 193 | (24) |
| 1970–1973 | Stranraer | 101 | (6) |
| 1973–1974 | Gretna | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Billy Collings (originally from Glasgow) is a Scottish ex footballer who played for Greenock Morton, Dumbarton, Berwick Rangers, Cambuslang Rangers, Queen of the South, Stranraer and Gretna.
Billy Collings started his senior career as a teenager playing for Greenock Morton. At the same time he served his apprecticeship as a bricklayer working at Greenock shipyards.
Billy Collings then joined Dumbarton where he picked up the only sending off of his senior career.
Next on Collings' travels was Berwick Rangers after which he stopped playing completely.
Billy Collings was playing snooker in Bridgeton YMCA when he was approached by Davie McLachan to play for Cambuslang Rangers in the West of Scotland junior league. Collings agreed to join.
At Cambuslang with Collings was ex Queen of the South trainer Jimmy McGuire and ex Queens left back Charlie Hammill.
Despite being a marked man as an ex pro, Collings remembers his Junior League time with affection. Cambuslang Rangers won the West of Scotland Junior League and also made it to the Scottish Junior Cup Final. In the semi final played at neutral Firhill Collings picked up an injury that essentially ended his involvement in the fixture. Struggling to run he was moved to left wing where he finished the game. After the game, he was at home when police came to the door to tell him that he was required to attend hospital immediately. At hospital he was told that his earlier diagnosis was inadequate as it had since been recognised that there was issue that hadn't been noticed. Collings was subsequently diagnosed as having a broken rib and a punctured lung. Collings played in the final after taking an injection from a specialist. The final was won by Johnston Burgh.
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