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

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	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

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.

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