8th Oct 1966 St Johnstone 3 Partick Thistle 5 (SFL First Division - game 5)

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Match Information

			Bobby Brown		Willie Thornton			46y, 7m, 5d
					Dan McLindon; Tommy Rae
					John Flanagan; Andy Roxburgh
Gordon Whitelaw (0-1, 9 mins); John Kilgannon (0-2, 36 mins); Willie Coburn (5-3, pen 82 mins)					Billy Cunningham (1-2, 39 mins); Arthur Duncan (2-2, 49 mins); Billy Cunningham (3-2, 56 mins); John Divers (4-2, 60 mins); Tommy Gibb (5-2, 79 mins)
			Jim Donaldson		George Niven			37y, 3m, 27d
			Buck McCarry		George Muir			26y, 8m, 17d
			Willie Coburn		Hugh Tinney			22y, 4m, 24d
			Jim Townsend		Davie McParland			31y, 5m, 3d
			George Ryden		Donnie McKinnon			26y, 1m, 18d
			Ian McPhee		Tommy Gibb			21y, 9m, 25d
			Eddie O'Donnell		Dan McLindon			26y, 7m, 5d
			former Jag Gordon Whitelaw		Tommy Rae			20y, 7m, 21d
			John Kilgannon		John Divers			26y, 7m, 0d
			former Jag Neil Duffy		Billy Cunningham			25y, 2m, 23d
			Willie Renton		Arthur Duncan			18y, 10m, 3d
								25y, 9m, 15d
			Billy Clark		Andy Roxburgh			23y, 2m, 3d

Match Report

TTA report

Ex-JAG Whitelaw scored (9) and a 2nd goal (36) put Saints 2-up but Cunningham strode through (39). Duncan levelled after a scramble at a corner (49) and a deserved lead was only postponed until Cunningham headed in (56). Divers poked one in from close in (60) then Gibb made it 5 (79) before a late pen for Saints (82).

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Perthshire Adverrtiser, 12th October, 1966

Stats Watch

● John Divers scores his first goal for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 84 consecutive competitive appearances for George Muir, 19th Dec 1964 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Davie McParland - 204 games, 25th Nov 1961 to 25th Dec 1965. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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