24th Nov 1992 Partick Thistle 0 Aberdeen 7 (SFL Premier Division - game 18)

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51y, 8m, 22d	John Lambie	Willie Miller

Grant Tierney; Sammy Johnston; Paul Kinnaird
Don McVicar; Ray Farningham; Bobby Law

		Duncan Shearer (0-1, 32 mins); Eoin Jess (0-2, 47 mins); Duncan Shearer (0-3, 51 mins); Paul Mason (0-4, 68 mins); Scott Booth (0-5, 80 mins); Duncan Shearer (0-6, 85 mins); Lee Richardson (0-7, 89 mins)

George Shaw (Colin McGlashan, 52 mins); Ian Cameron [i] (Isaac English, 62 mins)		Jim Bett (Scott Booth, 58 mins); Lee Richardson (Paul Kane, 2nd half)

24y, 4m, 4d	Andy Murdoch	Theo Snelders
24y, 1m, 11d	Martin Clark	Stephen Wright
26y, 11m, 15d	Paul McLaughlin	Alex McLeish
29y, 6m, 28d	Willie Jamieson	Brian Grant
31y, 1m, 13d	Grant Tierney	Brian Irvine
31y, 4m, 6d	Davie Irons	Gary Smith
23y, 9m, 14d	George Shaw	Lee Richardson
25y, 7m, 11d	Sammy Johnston	Jim Bett
22y, 1m, 4d	Gerry Britton	Eoin Jess
26y, 0m, 13d	Paul Kinnaird	Duncan Shearer
26y, 3m, 0d	Ian Cameron [i]	Paul Mason

26y, 5m, 23d

28y, 8m, 7d	Colin McGlashan	Paul Kane
21y, 0m, 12d	Isaac English	Scott Booth

notes

Rearranged game from Saturday 21st November 1992.

TTA report

Thistle were completely outplayed. Even against the wind and rain in the first half, Aberdeen (sitting on 15 points with Thistle) were the better team and they rattled in 7 without reply (32, 47, 51, 68, 80, 85 and 89) to emphasise their superiority. A late search for a consolation came to nothing. (Abandoned, snow, 21 November.)

Media report

25-Nov-1992, Glasgow Herald

It’s raining goals as Aberdeen hit seven at Firhill… ABERDEEN’S return journey to Firhill proved entirely worthwhile as they improved immensely upon the 2-0 score from the abandoned first game at the weekend, much to the embarrassment of the Maryhill men. After the torrential rain of the first half, when Aberdeen scored only once, Thistle found it pouring goals after the interval as the northern side made the difference in class brutally obvious. It was a specially big night for Duncan Shearer, who scored a hat trick to give him his eighteenth goal of the season. Eoin Jess, Paul Mason, and substitutes Scott Booth and Paul Kane were the other scorers who made it a memorable evening for the Pittodrie team. They must have given the watching Joe Jordan, manager of Hearts, some food for thought as he plans his visit north at the weekend. Aberdeen, with this result, eased ahead of Hearts in second place to Rangers on goal difference. At least no-one could say that Thistle have lost their sense of humour. Manager John Lambie appeared at the start with a parcel in the shape of a new brush and was loudly applauded by the troops, some of whom no doubt were present on Saturday when the Firhill brush broke as the groundsman tried to clear the lines of snow.

Thistle had a couple of efforts at goal before Aberdeen got themselves into first gear, but neither was as close as the visitors’ first try, which ought to have been a goal. Bett went on a long run down the right and managed to send over a superb cross from a difficult angle. Shearer, in the clear, jumped high to head just over when his colleagues expected to see the net bulge. Thistle, with the wind and incessant rain at their backs, made the occasional race upfield, but generally Aberdeen had control, such as was possible in desperate conditions. Any kind of shot could cause the keepers problems in the circumstances, as one misplaced cross by Mason did for Murdoch when it landed unexpectedly on the top of his post. But the keeper had no chance when Aberdeen went in front in 32 minutes. Smith sent a marvellous long pass over the Thistle defence, Shearer nodded it forward and, despite being pursued by Jamieson, calmly placed the ball out of Murdoch’s reach.

Aberdeen made it two within two minutes of the second half with a magnificently constructed goal which was the copyright of Richardson and Jess. It was the former Blackburn player who started the move, switching the ball to Jess, who cleverly moved inside before re-directing play down the right, where Richardson had gone. And when the ball was sent into the middle Jess, who was still running, hit it first time over the line. If Thistle had harboured recovery ambitions they were dashed four minutes later, when Shearer scored his second goal after a fine cross by Bett. Thistle immediately sent on McGlashan for Shaw, but the cause was lost. In 58 minutes, Aberdeen put on Scott Booth for Bett, and that was followed four minutes afterwards by Thistle’s second replacement, Isaac English coming on for Cameron. But it was Mason who lifted the standards again with a meandering run from the left which took him past three defenders before he finished in classic manner with a right-foot shot into the net. But Aberdeen were not finished. Booth scored number five 10 minutes from the end, Shearer, following a sweet move, collected his hat trick in 85 minutes, and to complete what had now become a rout Paul Kane, who had replaced Richardson, smacked in the seventh goal a minute from time.

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