10th Jan 1998 Partick Thistle 1 Stirling Albion 3 (SFL First Division - game 21)

matches:1997-98: ← 25game 2627 →

Match Information

40y, 11m, 16d			John McVeigh		Kevin Drinkell
Callum Milne
Andy Lyons
Nicky Henderson (1-1, 58 mins)					Kevin Gaughan (0-1, og 32 mins); Alex Bone (1-2, pen 63 mins); Alex Bone (1-3, 78 mins)
Gregg Watson; Alan Lawrence					Neil Bennett; Todd Lumsden; Alex Bone; Landry Zahana-oni
Jered Stirling (Robert Dunn, 70 mins); Callum Milne (Jamie McKenzie, 76 mins)
19y, 1m, 3d			Kenny Arthur		Mark McGeown
27y, 3m, 20d			Gregg Watson		Andy Paterson
20y, 0m, 28d			Alan Archibald		Paul Deas future Jag
32y, 4m, 14d			Callum Milne		Neil Bennett
19y, 10m, 4d			Kevin Gaughan		Garry Paterson
21y, 2m, 28d			Jered Stirling		Todd Lumsden
30y, 10m, 22d			Jimmy Boyle		Tommy Tait
21y, 2m, 28d			Iain Nicolson		Gavin Price
35y, 4m, 22d			Alan Lawrence		Alex Bone
23y, 1m, 0d			Alan Morgan		Landry Zahana-Oni
28y, 11m, 2d			Nicky Henderson		Gary Carberry
25y, 4m, 27d
18y, 6m, 13d			Robert Dunn		John Gibson
17y, 1m, 12d			Jamie McKenzie		Gretar Hjartarsson
18y, 4m, 23d			Alex Martin		Stuart McLaren

notes

SB lists Andy Paterson as the scorer of Albion's first. The SMR and the GH both say Kevin Gaughan o.g. and we stick with them.

Match Report

TTA report

“A performance…little short of disgraceful” (GH). But for Arthur this would have been much worse. No spark, no invention. Gaughan's OG (32) was cancelled out by a scrambled effort by Henderson (58) but Albion scored again (63, pen and 78). Nicolson blasted a rebounded Morgan pen over the bar (84).

Media report

12-Jan-1998, The Herald

FIRHILL has been the venue for many great matches and excellent Partick Thistle performances. Gifted players, well-taken goals, fine saves, tingling excitement - and then there was Saturday. As though the regular customers do not have enough on their collective plate in having to dig deep to keep Thistle in existence, the guys who pull on the boots saw fit at the weekend to turn in a performance which was little short of disgraceful.

Thistle were outplayed and out-thought in every department by a team who, last time out, were beaten 6-0 on their own patch. However, no blame should be placed at the door of the players, claims Thistle manager John McVeigh. “I take full responsibility for that performance,” he said. How so? Well, McVeigh apparently felt a little sorry for his men after their fruitless efforts against Airdrie earlier in the week and decided to take some of the strain out of the subsequent training sessions, a decision that the manager now deeply regrets. “I went slack on them during the week,” claimed McVeigh, adding, in more colourful language, that his error would not be repeated. Two strikes from Alex Bone and an own-goal by Kevin Gaughan, with only a scrambled effort by Nicky Henderson on the plus side, made sure Thistle fans would not enjoy Saturday evening and had keeper Kenny Arthur played as badly as the rest of his pals, then Thistle's defeat would have been far heavier. However, the youngster should be informed that it is well within the rules that goalkeepers are permitted to leave their line in an effort to collect opponent's crosses, thus alleviating excess pressure on over-worked defenders. As for Stirling, their manager, Kevin Drinkell, has more than forgiven them for last week's mega defeat, and claimed satisfaction that his men now have a three-point buffer between themselves and those beneath them in the division. Due to Thistle's financial plight McVeigh's task is one which is envied by few, but the man appears to possess a mountain of determination, the trick is passing that on to his players.

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Daily Record, 12th January, 1998

PTFC Match Programme, 21st February, 1998

Stats Watch

● Thistle go 6 competitive games without a win versus Stirling Albion, the H2H record.

ongoing sequences:

● 23 consecutive competitive appearances for Jimmy Boyle, 2nd Aug 1997 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: David Farrell - 40 games, 12th Oct 1996 to 18th Oct 1997. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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