23rd Jun 1945 Partick Thistle 1 Morton 0 (Summer Cup Semi Final)

matches:1944-45: ← 42game 4344 →

Match Information

64y, 4m, 23d			Donald Turner		Jim Davies
no changes
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Jackie Johnson (1-0, 20 mins)
26y, 5m, 9d			Jim Steadward		Archie McFeat
29y, 0m, 13d			Jimmy McGowan		Matt Maley
			Peter Curran		Andy Fyfe
31y, 9m, 21d			Bill Shankly		Billy Campbell
21y, 4m, 7d			Bobby Parker		Willie Aird
27y, 0m, 26d			Jackie Husband		Jimmy Whyte
23y, 6m, 12d			Jackie Johnson		John Kelly
23y, 6m, 16d			Hugh Brown		David Cupples former Jag
18y, 9m, 20d			Dougie Stockdale		Ally McKillop
23y, 7m, 12d			Maurice Candlin		Jimmy Garth
19y, 3m, 2d			Gavin Lang		John McInnes
24y, 5m, 10d

Match Report

TTA report

There was no doubt Morton were the better team and Steadward had an outstanding game to keep them at bay. Johnson scored direct from an inswinging corner that should have been a goal kick (20). The Thistle defence was often in a tangle but Shankly and Parker had fine games. It was a lucky win.

Media report

24-Jun-1945, Sunday Post

FIDDLED TO DEFEAT. VERY stout effort Morton. No doubt about the better side. Any argument was gradually hammered flat as the game went on. Up the middle, down the sides, right across the park – with one exception the men of Greenock carried the day. The exception – young Jimmy Steadward, who literally threw himself between Morton and a passage to the final, especially in the great and gallant Cappielow second half invasion. That he had more mad scrambling than clean cut saving to do is indication of where lay Morton’s only weakness. Right up to shooting-time they were powerful, workmanlike; then they petered out. Halves set them going in great style. Aird was away and ahead their bright particular star, so much on top of his charge that he was able to develop a crisply constructive game. Campbell nursed along the Kelly-Cupples wing to make them the outstanding combine on the field. For the rest, there was plenty of willingness – offset by a want of poise. A goal down for the last half hour of the game, they allowed the edge of their play to be dulled with desperation. Cupples gave us the day’s brightest moment with a flashing angle shot that only a catapult Steadward dive turned for a corner. Garth loosed two power-drives in the final onslaught. That apart, they were ragged rascals all, in the danger area.

DEFENSIVE ANCHORS. As finalists, Thistle can claim tenacity as their redeeming feature. Shankly was a power in dragging a constantly harried defence from the morass they too often floundered in, and Parker kept the breezy McKillop on a tightish rein. But, over the piece, Firhill owes a lot to Lady Luck. Forward they were dangerous only in the briefest of flashes. Their goal – pity it had to be from a corner decision that was just a wee thought doubtful. Referee Craigmyle took the linesman’s ruling that a ball kicked by Johnson rebounded from a Morton defender and hit the winger after it was over the line. The kick was as pretty an inswinger as ever you saw. McFeat just scratched the leather with his nails as it screwed its way in. A word on the bumps and bruises. Thistle were at the wrong end of most of them – and most were evidence of a game that, though not always clean cut, was always a thriller of the most virile variety.

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Daily Record, 23rd June, 1945

Evening Times, 23rd June, 1945

Sunday Post, 24th June, 1945

Daily Record, 25th June, 1945

Stats Watch

● The crowd of 25,000 stands today as the joint-record for any Thistle vs. Morton match. (1919; 1945)

ongoing sequences:

● 12 consecutive competitive appearances for Bill Shankly, 24th Mar 1945 to date. (Longest run since: Joe McGeachy - 33 games, 30th Sep 1944 to 2nd Jun 1945. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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