17th Jan 1995 Falkirk 1 Partick Thistle 3 (SFL Premier Division - game 21)

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Match Information

			Jim Jefferies		John Lambie			53y, 10m, 15d
					Wayne Foster
					Rod McDonald
Scott MacKenzie (1-1, 57 mins)					Alan Dinnie (1-0, 32 mins); Wayne Foster (2-1, 61 mins); Derek McWilliams (3-1, 71 mins)
Colin Cramb (Nicky Henderson)					Derek McWilliams (Ian Cameron [i], 80 mins)
			Tony Parks		Nicky Walker			32y, 3m, 19d
			Graeme Hamilton		Alan Dinnie			31y, 8m, 3d
			Tommy McQueen		Stevie Pittman			27y, 5m, 30d
			Neil Oliver		Gregg Watson			24y, 3m, 27d
			John Clark		Steve Welsh			26y, 8m, 29d
			Brian Rice		Tommy Turner			31y, 3m, 6d
			Eddie May		Wayne Foster			31y, 4m, 6d
			Colin McDonald		Albert Craig			33y, 0m, 14d
			Colin Cramb		Derek McWilliams			29y, 0m, 1d
			future Jag Steve Fulton		Chic Charnley			31y, 7m, 6d
			Scott MacKenzie		Alex Taylor			32y, 7m, 4d
								30y, 1m, 15d
			Billy Lamont		Mark Cairns			25y, 3m, 23d
			future Jag Nicky Henderson		Ian Cameron [i]			28y, 4m, 24d
			Forbes Johnston		Callum Milne			29y, 4m, 21d

Match Report

TTA report

Still bottom, Thistle showed rare skill and confidence. Falkirk made the early running but against the run of play Dinnie touched in a corner (30) then chances to extend the lead were squandered. Falkirk equalised (57) but Foster (2-yard side foot, 61) and McWilliams (set up by Craig, 71) tied up the points.

Media report

18-Jan-1995, Glasgow Herald

BROCKVILLE rarely allows 90 minutes to pass without dramatics, if not finesse. Although the home side had been hard done by to be a goal down at the interval, they equalised early enough to sort out the problems. But they reckoned without the old Jags’ penchant for defying the norm. Thistle did not even match Falkirk for a long time, but this was the night they found the route to goal. For Thistle’s assistant manager Gerry Collins, the performance showed that his team are capable of staying up. He said: “We scored against the run of play but I thought we played some good football in the second half.” Falkirk manager Jim Jefferies, whose team have not won for 10 games, was depressed by the way his side lost their goals. “But when you defend as badly as we did, you destroy anything you achieve,” he added.

Alan Dinnie put Thistle in front but Scott McKenzie equalised after the break. Goals from Wayne Foster and Derek McWilliams, however, doused any Bairns’ ambitions. Thistle, with the wind at their backs, had looked as likely to put the ball in the net as those of us sitting in the stand, yet they went in front with perhaps their third venture upfield in the first half-hour. Albert Craig’s chip from an acute angle was knocked away for a corner by McKenzie. However, from Charnley’s corner Dinnie flicked the ball over the line at the far post. Eddie May should have gone closer than he did with a header from about 12 yards after Colin McDonald had laid the ball on his forehead, and it was soon after that his team were stunned by Dinnie’s goal. That lifted Partick’s morale through to half-time. In fact, it needed a fine save by Parks to defy a second goal for them, when Alex Taylor hit a good strike from 14 yards. But it was hard to see Falkirk failing to make some kind of impression, so much of the play had they captured against the wind. They needed only 12 minutes of the second half to equalise. Tommy McQueen hit a fierce shot which Stevie Pittman managed to head out, but McKenzie smacked a well-placed shot out of Walker’s reach. Back came Thistle, ducking under the wind, and when Welsh sent over a long cross from the left, Foster dipped his head to nod it over the line. Nine minutes later they added a third. Foster did some good work down the right and passed to Craig, who glided past McQueen and sent the ball along to Derek McWilliams. He sent the keeper the wrong way before shooting into the corner.

Scrapbook

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Evening Times, 18th January, 1995

Daily Record, 18th January, 1995

Dundee Courier, 18th January, 1995

Stats Watch

ongoing sequences:

● 17 consecutive competitive appearances for Ian Cameron [i], 17th Sep 1994 to date. (Longest run since: Willie Jamieson - 43 games, 30th Nov 1993 to 26th Nov 1994. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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