29th Aug 1998 Clyde 1 Partick Thistle 2 (SFL Second Division - game 4)

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Match Information

			Allan Maitland		Tommy Bryce			38y, 7m, 2d
					no changes
					no changes
Graham Connell (1-1, og 51 mins)					Alan Morgan (1-0, pen 30 mins); Alan Morgan (2-1, 86 mins)
Ian Spittal; Andy McClay; Scott McHarg; Andy O'Brien					Alan Archibald; Martin Lauchlan; Paul McDonald
Craig Cranmer (Paul Campbell, HT); Andy O'Brien (Allan Grant, 64 mins)					Willie Jamieson (Kevin Gaughan, 57 mins); Tommy Callaghan (Paul McDonald, 66 mins); Willie Callaghan (Robert Dunn, 73 mins)
			Gordon McIntyre		Kenny Arthur			19y, 8m, 22d
			Craig Cranmer		David Kennedy			31y, 10m, 22d
			Darren Murray		Scott McArthur			30y, 6m, 1d
			former Jag Ian Spittal		Willie Jamieson			35y, 4m, 2d
			Bryan Smith		Alan Archibald			20y, 8m, 16d
			Ritchie McCusker		Graham Connell			23y, 9m, 29d
			Andy McClay		Martin Lauchlan			17y, 10m, 28d
			Stevie Convery		Tommy Bryce			38y, 7m, 2d
			future Jag Pat Keogh		Alan Morgan			23y, 8m, 19d
			future Jag Scott McHarg		Willie Callaghan			31y, 5m, 6d
			Andy O'Brien		Tommy Callaghan			29y, 0m, 1d
								27y, 6m, 6d
			Allan Grant		Robert Dunn			19y, 2m, 1d
			Trialist		Kevin Gaughan			20y, 5m, 23d
			Paul Campbell		Paul McDonald			30y, 4m, 9d

notes

Paul McDonald played as a trialist.

Match Report

TTA report

A positive start against the early league leaders saw Thistle taking the lead through a Morgan pen (Lauchlan fouled, 30). Clyde improved and levelled with a deflected shot OG by Connell (51). They blasted over from a 1-on-1 before Morgan scored again with a looping header 4 minutes from time for a rare Broadwood win.

Media report

30-Aug-1998, Scotland on Sunday

CLYDE TRY EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOSE TO LATE GOAL. A DERBY, of sorts, both sides applied themselves with awesome resolve. We dared not blink for fear of missing some of the bone- crunching antics. At the end of it all, Thistle had swiped the points with a late winner and dislodged Clyde at the top of the league. It was seldom pretty - eight bookings - but at least the game livened up after an excruciating first half. Uniquely, perhaps, Broadwood was not assailed by spoiling gales, and some imaginative marketing - GBP 4 admission for a parent with child - encouraged a respectable turn-out.

The 2,600 crowd were not regaled with a riveting spectacle, and our notepads were alarmingly bare long into the game. It took fully 30 minutes to furnish a shot on goal, but how decisive it was. Clyde's Ian Spittal, having been cautioned moments earlier for up- ending an opponent, repeated the error inside his own area, and Alan Morgan slammed the penalty past Gordon McIntyre. Clyde's response was immediate, Pat Keogh skelping a long-range effort into Kenny Arthur's arms. At last, the game showed signs of ridding itself of its shoddiness. Our optimism proved justified immediately after the resumption with a flurry of goalmouth incidents at both ends of the park. Thistle's Willie Callaghan miraculously spooned a shot over the bar when it looked easier to score and, minutes later, his team had surrendered the lead. Clyde's Richard McCusker strode 30 yards upfield, laid the ball left to Scott McHarg, and the winger's cross was deflected home by Graham Connell. Clyde having failed to offer much of a threat, an own goal was fitting.

Both sets of players are barely recognisable from last term. Clyde, in particular, have undergone something of a benign revolution in terms of playing personnel, but who would take issue with the ploy? Top of their division prior to this, no Scottish team had conceded fewer league goals to date. Coach Ronnie MacDonald has plundered Junior football for the bulk of his acquisitions. But he has acquired some eye-catching talent as well as a glut of honest jobbers. I was impressed by Clyde's diminutive playmaker Andy McLay. The midfielder was pivotal to everything his side created which, admittedly was not a lot. Still, one memorable jink past a defender teeing the ball up for Stephen Convery might have produced a belated score. Thistle's 86th minute winner came just as you suspected shared spoils would be acceptable to both parties. Connell, he of earlier own goal infamy, belted in a hopeful cross and there was Morgan leaping above his marker to send a looping header over McIntyre.

Stats Watch

● 30-year-old Paul McDonald makes his Thistle debut.

ongoing sequences:

● 4 consecutive away League wins; 18th Apr 1998 to date. (Longest run since: 4 wins; 23rd Nov 1991 to 1st Jan 1992. Joint club-record: 5 wins; 23rd Jan 1897 to 24th Apr 1897, 1st Oct 1932 to 24th Dec 1932, 1st Jan 1959 to 7th Mar 1959, 13th Oct 1962 to 8th Dec 1962 & 14th May 1983 to 28th Sep 1983.)

● 34 consecutive competitive appearances for Alan Archibald, 18th Oct 1997 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Jimmy Boyle - 39 games, 2nd Aug 1997 to 9th May 1998. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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