12th Apr 1997 Partick Thistle 0 St Johnstone 4 (SFL First Division - game 32)

matches:1996-97: ← 42game 4344 →

Match Information

38y, 6m, 19d			Murdo MacLeod		Paul Sturrock
Alan Dinnie
Callum Milne
					Phil Scott (0-1, 24 mins); Phil Scott (0-2, 33 mins); Attila Sekerlioglu (0-3, 48 mins); Roddy Grant (0-4, 68 mins)
Alan Dinnie (Charlie Adams, HT); Jered Stirling (Alan Archibald, 76 mins); Steve Maskrey (Hreinn Hringsson, 80 mins)					Attila Sekerlioglu (Allan Preston, 77 mins); John Colquhoun (Kieran McAnespie, 77 mins); Phil Scott (Steve Tosh, 80 mins)
27y, 6m, 18d			Mark Cairns		Alan Main
33y, 10m, 29d			Alan Dinnie		John McQuillan
20y, 5m, 30d			Jered Stirling		Callum Davidson
22y, 2m, 25d			Jim Slavin		Attila Sekerlioglu
27y, 5m, 14d			David Farrell		Jim Weir
26y, 6m, 22d			Gregg Watson		Danny Griffin
30y, 2m, 29d			Gareth Evans		Phil Scott
21y, 1m, 25d			Stephen Docherty		Keith O'Halloran
34y, 7m, 27d			Steve Maskrey		Roddy Grant former Jag
28y, 4m, 28d			David Moss		John Colquhoun
30y, 5m, 24d			Andy Lyons		Leigh Jenkinson
27y, 6m, 22d
21y, 0m, 22d			Charlie Adams		Allan Preston
19y, 3m, 30d			Alan Archibald		Kieran McAnespie
22y, 9m, 23d			Hreinn Hringsson		Steve Tosh

Match Report

TTA report

Thrashed again by easily the best team in the league and runaway leaders. The defence was split wide open for the 1st goal (24) then a diving header (33) put Saints well ahead. A 30-yard free-kick (48) and a nodded goal by ex-JAG Grant when he out-jumped Cairns (68) completed the misery. More anger from the crowd.

Media report

13-Apr-1997, The People

St Johnstone will have to wait another week before the inevitable becomes reality, when they can uncork the champagne to celebrate clinching the title. An Airdrie defeat against Dundee and a St Johnstone victory over Partick Thistle would have signalled a Saints championship party at Firhill, but while the Perth side eased to a 4-0 win, Airdrie won as well. St Johnstone swept aside struggling Thistle with a stunning first-half performance. Philip “Fizzy” Scott's deadly double sealed the points. Second-half strikes from Sekerliougo and Grant rounded off the rout.

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Daily Record, 14th April, 1997

Stats Watch

● 22-year-old Hreinn Hringsson plays his last game for Thistle.

● 27-year-old Mark Cairns plays his last game for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 39 consecutive competitive appearances for Jered Stirling, 10th Aug 1996 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Steve Welsh - 64 games, 26th Dec 1994 to 27th Apr 1996. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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