5th Dec 1959 Ayr United 4 Partick Thistle 1 (SFL First Division - game 15)

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Match Information

			former Jag Jackie Cox		Willie Thornton			39y, 9m, 2d
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Jim McGhee (0-1, 2 mins); Willie Paton (0-2, 19 mins); Peter Price (0-3, 60 mins); Sam McMillan (1-4, 90 mins)					Billy Simpson (1-3, 65 mins)
			Ian Hamilton		Tom Fleck			19y, 7m, 5d
			Ramsay Burn		George Muir			19y, 10m, 14d
			John Paterson		Dougie Baird			24y, 0m, 9d
			Willie McIntyre		Alex Wright			28y, 11m, 24d
			Jim McLean		John Harvey			26y, 10m, 14d
			John Telfer		Frank Donlevy			26y, 11m, 19d
			Billy Fulton		Jim Fleming			17y, 10m, 28d
			Sam McMillan		Billy Simpson			29y, 11m, 23d
			Peter Price		George Smith			24y, 6m, 4d
			Willie Paton		Davie McParland			24y, 7m, 0d
			Jim McGhee		Willie Devine			26y, 3m, 13d
								24y, 6m, 3d

Match Report

TTA report

“Partick Thistle outsmarted” (GH). Unchanged, but a pale shadow of the previous week, Thistle went behind when Ayr scored with their 1st attack (2) and while Simpson was off for 15 minutes with a head injury. 3-0 on the hour mark and Ayr were coasting but Simpson pulled one back (65) before Ayr scored (90).

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Evening Times, 5th December, 1959

Stats Watch

● Billy Simpson scores his first goal for Thistle.

● 19-year-old Tom Fleck plays his last game for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 15 away games without a clean-sheet in the League; 24th Jan 1959 to date. (Longest run since: 21 games; 14th Sep 1957 to 18th Oct 1958. Club-record: 40 games; 1st Feb 1908 to 17th Sep 1910.)

● 21 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 24th Jan 1959 to date. (Longest run since: 30 games; 14th Sep 1957 to 18th Oct 1958. Club-record: 90 games; 31st Oct 1885 to 23rd Jan 1897.)

● 51 consecutive competitive appearances for Dougie Baird, 15th Nov 1958 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Frank Donlevy - 70 games, 11th Nov 1957 to 18th Mar 1959. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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