21st Sep 1918 Hamilton Academical 1 Partick Thistle 2 (SFL - game 5)

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Match Information

			former Jag Alec Raisbeck		George Easton			43y
					Herbert Lock; Henry Laverty
					Alex Stewart [i]; James Gray
Daniel Kelly (2-1, 2nd half)					John Bowie (1-0, 1st half); Bobby McNeil (2-0, og 2nd half)
			John Anderson		Herbert Lock			31y, 8m, 0d
			Robert Robertson		John Pearson			26y, 7m, 30d
			Adam Miller		Willie Bulloch			35y, 7m, 3d
			Michael Nimmo		Adam Black			22y, 4m, 25d
			William McNamee		Willie Hamilton			28y, 11m, 12d
			Bobby McNeil		Jimmy McMullan			24y, 7m, 14d
			David Mathie		Willie Whittle			28y, 5m, 12d
			James Stewart		Alex Lauder
			Daniel Kelly		John Bowie			23y, 8m, 9d
			Samuel Anderson		Henry Laverty
			William Thomson		Willie Salisbury			19y, 6m, 29d
								26y, 10m, 3d

notes

SP up to strange old tricks, listing (the otherwise unheard of) Main in the team line-up, but referring to him as McNeil in the body of the report. HAMB/HAD/JL reaffirm McNeil not Main. For Thistle's second, JL has an “R. McNeill” og at the expense of Willie Salisbury per OH. This stems from the SP report which says that Salisbury's shot was pushed into his own net by McNeil. Strangely, the very same report has no McNeill in the line-up! The DR confirms that “Bobby McNeil put the ball through his own goal” so we're compelled to accept the evidence for the own goal.

Match Report

TTA report

A fast, entertaining game. Bowie scored from a breakaway to lead 1-0 at half-time (looking off-side). Salisbury's cross was turned in as an OG to double the lead before Hamilton pulled one back. Thistle were fortunate to take the points. All the pressure came from Accies in the second half.

Stats Watch

● 31-year-old Herbert Lock makes his Thistle debut.

ongoing sequences:

● 23 consecutive competitive appearances for Willie Bulloch, 5th Jan 1918 to date. (Longest run since: Willie Bulloch - 36 games, 26th Aug 1916 to 14th Apr 1917. Club-record: Jock McTavish - 61 games, 15th Nov 1913 to 6th Feb 1915.)

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