9th May 1887 Partick Thistle 5 Church 3 (Friendly)

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Match Information

Jerry Suter; James Miller; D. Hyslop
John Caldwell; McEwan [i]; Andrew Johnston
John Marshall (1st half); D. Hyslop (1st half); ? (1st half); Willie Paul (4-1, 2nd half); Willie Paul (5-1, 2nd half)					Gregson (0-1, 1st half); ? (5-2, 2nd half); ? (5-3, 2nd half)
28y, 0m, 29d			Andrew Duff		Thorpe
			John Hendry		McLennan
23y, 4m, 9d			Andrew Milliken		Walker
24y, 10m, 22d			Robert Middleton		Gastall
20y, 9m, 14d			William Flannelly		Tapier
21y, 11m, 17d			Bob Robertson		Tattersall
21y, 3m, 2d			Willie Paul		Bourne
23y, 11m, 6d			Jerry Suter		Gregson
			James Miller		Beresford
			D. Hyslop		Holden
37y, 1m, 8d			John Marshall		Smith
25y, 2m, 2d

notes

A CFF diary report credits Smith with Church's opener, but the GH has a description of the goal itself, saying that Gregson scored after a fine run by Beresford. We therefore stick with Gregson as per the provider of our teamlines, GH.

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Match Report

TTA report

Thistle started brightly against the team from Lancashire but it was the visitors who took the lead. By half-time it was 3-1 however. Paul scored just after half-time then again for 5-1 but Church “exhibited some beautiful passing” (GH) and scored twice. Their keeper was well off form.

Stats Watch

● D. Hyslop makes his first-known appearance for Thistle and, theoretically, joins our scoring debutants club with his one and only known goal for Thistle.

● John Marshall scores his last-known goal for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 12 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for Andrew Duff & John Hendry, 10th Nov 1883 to date. (Longest run since: Jerry Suter - 12 games, 9th Sep 1882 to 24th 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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