27th Mar 1886 Port Glasgow Athletic 4 Partick Thistle 5 (Friendly)

matches:1885-86: ← 25game 2627 →

Match Information

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Raglan Brown (4-1, 2nd half); Graham (4-2, 2nd half); Hannah (4-3, 2nd half); ? (4-4, 2nd half)					John Marshall; ?; ?; ?; ?
			Blackadder		Andrew Duff			26y, 11m, 17d
			Ritchie		Tony Robertson
			Stewart		McFadyen
			James McGarry		Bob Robertson			20y, 10m, 5d
			Irving		George McKay			25y, 3m, 9d
			Graham		Bob Marshall			21y, 4m, 25d
			Hannah		John Young [ii]			23y, 1m, 3d
			future Jag Raglan Brown		John Marshall			35y, 11m, 24d
			McCann		J. Sutherland
			McKerral		Andrew Johnston			20y, 5m, 15d
			n-a		n-a
								24y, 10m, 8d

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Match Report

TTA report

It was all Thistle in the first half and they scored (10). Port found Duff in goal the measure of their forwards. Goals in 20, 40 and just before half-time made it 4-0. Early in the second half it was 4-4 until Thistle scored again (disputed while Port claimed a foul). GH reported both teams played with 10 men.

Stats Watch

● Tony Robertson makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 5 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for Andrew Duff & John Hendry, 10th Nov 1883 to date. (Longest run since: Bob Robertson - 6 games, 29th Sep 1883 to 31st Oct 1885. Joint club-record: Jack Beattie, 17 games - 5th Apr 1879 to 13th Sep 1884 & George Leckie, 17 games - 5th Apr 1879 to 10th Nov 1883.)

Stats Watch adheres to our stated definitions of League, League Max, Major Competitive, Competitive or All Games. Where there is no written qualification, you should presume that the Stat in question is compiled from the All Games criteria.

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