12th Aug 1972 Cowdenbeath 1 Partick Thistle 5 (League Cup Section 1 - game 1)

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Match Information

			Andy Matthew		Davie McParland			37y, 3m, 7d
					Nobby Clark; Denis McQuade
					Donnie McKinnon; Colin Smith
Billy Laing (0-1, 12 mins)					Denis McQuade (1-1, 16 mins); Alex Forsyth (2-1, pen 18 mins); Alex Forsyth (3-1, 26 mins); Ronnie Glavin (4-1, 28 mins); Ronnie Glavin (5-1, 2nd half)
Dick Campbell (Colin McCullie)					Johnny Gibson (Colin Smith)
			Billy McGann		Alan Rough			20y, 8m, 18d
			Alan Kinnell		Ian Reid			21y, 8m, 1d
			Davie Cairns		Alex Forsyth			20y, 6m, 7d
			Dick Campbell		Ronnie Glavin			21y, 4m, 16d
			George Innes		Nobby Clark			22y, 4m, 0d
			Jim Moore		Hugh Strachan			33y, 5m, 22d
			Billy Laing		Johnny Gibson			21y, 7m, 20d
			Willie Bostock		Frank Coulston			29y, 10m, 7d
			Ronnie Sharp		Denis McQuade			21y, 7m, 6d
			Robin Thomson		Alex Rae			25y, 11m, 20d
			Davie Ross		Bobby Lawrie			24y, 8m, 29d
								23y, 11m, 27d
			Colin McCullie		Colin Smith			21y, 7m, 3d

Match Report

TTA report

Poor defending gave Cowdenbeath the lead (12) but Thistle soon got their act together. Coulston hit the bar then McQuade equalised (16). Forsyth scored from the spot (hand ball, 18) and then from a free-kick (26). Glavin took a ball in his stride to make it 4-1 at half-time and he got the 5th in the second half.

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Stats Watch

● Thistle's 27th League Cup campaign gets underway.

ongoing sequences:

● 46 consecutive competitive appearances for Alan Rough & Hugh Strachan (a new personal best), 4th Sep 1971 to date. (Longest run since: Alan Rough & Frank Coulston - 55 games, 18th Apr 1970 to 28th Aug 1971. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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