9th Nov 1889 Battlefield 0 Partick Thistle 2 (Friendly)

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Match Information

					Robert Allison; Jacky Smith; Roddy McLeod
					Bob Robertson; Willie Paul; Matthew Ferguson
					Andrew Johnston (1-0, 1st half); Scrimmage (2-0, 1st half)
			?		John McCorkindale			22y, 2m, 10d
			Donald Sillars		William Proudfoot			23y, 9m, 13d
			James Hall		Robert Allison
			?		James Killin
			?		Jacky Smith
			?		George Gorham			22y, 8m, 0d
			?		Jerry Suter			26y, 5m, 6d
			?		Andrew Johnston			24y, 0m, 28d
			?		Roddy McLeod			18y, 10m, 27d
			?		David Hislop			22y, 0m, 7d
			?		John Drummond			20y, 7m, 25d
								22y, 7m, 4d

notes

By process of elimination the OH lists Roddy McLeod as the scorer of Thistle's first and this is backed up by the GH, who declare Thistle's second to be as the result of a scrimmage, naming no scorer. We cannot find a named scorer for the second; the SR offers Johnstone [sic] as a scorer, albeit with no specifics as to whether it was the first or second goal. This seems to be cleared up (to a certain extent) by the EC report which credits Johnston as the scorer of the first (“… Hislop centering beautifully, Johnstone had no difficulty in scoring the first for the Thistle.”) On the balance of probability we go with Andrew Johnston for the first and feel that the second must be registered as an unknown, resulting from a scrimmage.

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Match Report

TTA report

After some early pressure by Battlefield, Hislop took the ball up the right and crossed over for Johnston (perhaps McLeod?) to score with a fine header. A 2nd goal followed by half-time from a goalmouth scramble (scorer uncertain). The home team improved after the break but the Thistle defence held firm.

Stats Watch

ongoing sequences:

● 13 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for John McCorkindale, 29th Aug 1888 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: Andrew Johnston - 24 games, 24th Oct 1885 to 27th May 1889.)

● 17 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 31st Oct 1885 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

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