4th Apr 1978 Aberdeen 2 Partick Thistle 1 (SFL Premier Division - game 30)

matches:1977-78: ← 44game 4546 →

Match Information

			Billy McNeill		Bertie Auld			40y, 0m, 12d
					Ally Love; Sandy Frame; Denis McQuade
					Andy Anderson; Bobby Houston; Ian Gibson
Joe Harper (0-1, 12 mins); Joe Harper (0-2, 16 mins)					Sandy Frame (1-2, 27 mins)
Steve Archibald (Gordon Strachan)					John Craig (George Mackie)
			Bobby Clark		Alan Rough			26y, 4m, 10d
			Stuart Kennedy		Colin McAdam			26y, 7m, 7d
			Steve Ritchie		Brian Whittaker			21y, 6m, 12d
			John McMaster		Jackie Campbell			32y, 1m, 8d
			Willie Garner		John Marr			21y, 10m, 1d
			Willie Miller		John Craig			24y, 11m, 25d
			Dom Sullivan		Ally Love			22y, 10m, 26d
			Steve Archibald		Alex O'Hara			21y, 5m, 14d
			Joe Harper		Sandy Frame			23y, 4m, 20d
			Drew Jarvie		Dougie Somner			26y, 9m, 0d
			Duncan Davidson		Denis McQuade			27y, 2m, 29d
								25y, 0m, 3d
			Gordon Strachan		George Mackie			23y, 10m, 17d
			Ian Fleming		Jim Melrose			19y, 5m, 28d

notes

Original date 21st January 1978.

Match Report

TTA report

Top of the league Aberdeen were in complete control in the first half. Harper scored 2 goals (12 and 16) and he could have had 5. Rough had a fine save to keep it at 2 then Frame crashed in a Whittaker free-kick (27). Thistle had a good second half and Somner and O'Hara went close but it wasn't to be. Still 7th.

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Evening Times, 5th April, 1978

Glasgow Herald, 5th April, 1978

Stats Watch

● Sandy Frame scores his last goal for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 6 competitive games without a win, 18th Mar 1978 to date. (Longest run since: 6 games, 31st Dec 1977 to 25th Feb 1978. Club-record: 26 games, 28th Nov 1908 to 28th Aug 1909.)

● 6 League games without a win; 18th Mar 1978 to date. (Longest run since: 7 games; 22nd Mar 1975 to 30th Aug 1975. Club-record: 26 games; 28th Nov 1908 to 2nd Oct 1909.)

● 14 away games without a clean-sheet in the League; 24th Sep 1977 to date. (Longest run since: 15 games; 3rd Apr 1974 to 18th Jan 1975. Club-record: 40 games; 1st Feb 1908 to 17th Sep 1910.)

● 84 consecutive competitive appearances for Brian Whittaker, 1st Sep 1976 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Alan Rough - 145 games, 4th Sep 1971 to 11th Sep 1974. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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