6th Mar 2004 Partick Thistle 0 Dunfermline Athletic 3 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final)

matches:2003-04: ← 36game 3738 →

Match Information

35y, 6m, 4d			Derek Whyte		Jimmy Calderwood
33y, 4m, 15d			Gerry Britton
Stephane Bonnes; Daniele Chiarini
James Grady; Andy S. Gibson
					Ritchie Byrne (0-1, 10 mins); Barry Nicholson (0-2, 36 mins); Craig Brewster (0-3, 70 mins)
Billy Gibson; David Rowson					Scott Wilson
Derek Fleming (@ 0-3, 85 mins)
Daniele Chiarini (Jorge Cadete, 54 mins); Kenny Milne (Derek Fleming, 65 mins); Stephane Bonnes (Andy S. Gibson, 65 mins)					Craig Brewster (Noel Hunt, 79 mins); Stevie Crawford (Derek Young, 86 mins); Gary Mason (Gary Dempsey, 89 mins)
25y, 2m, 28d			Kenny Arthur		Derek Stillie
29y, 6m, 8d			Ian Ross		Andrius Skerla
28y, 6m, 6d			Grant Murray		Scott Wilson
24y, 6m, 9d			Kenny Milne		Andy Tod
27y, 4m, 0d			Jamie Mitchell		Stevie Crawford
26y, 0m, 9d			Stephane Bonnes		Lee Bullen
33y, 4m, 15d			Gerry Britton		Ritchie Byrne
27y, 5m, 21d			David Rowson		Barry Nicholson
22y, 7m, 5d			Billy Gibson		Darren Young
24y, 10m, 24d			Daniele Chiarini		Gary Mason
21y, 7m, 24d			Adrian Madaschi		Craig Brewster
26y, 5m, 20d
24y, 2m, 13d			Jamie Langfield		Marco Ruitenbeek
30y, 3m, 1d			Derek Fleming		Aaron Labonte
22y, 0m, 4d			Andy S. Gibson		Gary Dempsey
35y, 6m, 8d			Jorge Cadete		Derek Young future Jag
20y, 2m, 10d			Tommy English		Noel Hunt

Match Report

TTA report

A week's training in Portugal had no obvious effect. Dunfermline only needed to be average. 2 goals (10 and 36) gave them the lead. Bonnes hit the bar then Britton went close. The 3rd goal went in (70) before Fleming's straight red (furious dissent). Arthur saved the pen but there was little to cheer about.

Media report

06-Mar-2004, bbc.com

Dunfermline eased their way into the Scottish Cup semi finals with a comfortable win at Firhill. Richie Byrne gave the Fifers the lead after 11 minutes when he slammed the ball into the net from close range. In the 36th minute, Barry Nicholson slotted the ball past Kenny Arthur after a slick passing move. Brewster headed a third in the 69th minute when he met a cross from Stevie Crawford and Nicholson saw his penalty kick saved late in the game.

The game began at a frantic pace, with the home side forcing a couple of corners, but the Pars' defence held firm. In the 11th minute, though, the visitors rocked the Jags with an opening goal. Brewster found some space on the right-hand side of the box and, when he rolled the ball along the six-yard box, the unmarked Byrne had the easiest of tasks to hammer the ball into the roof of the net from two yards out. Thistle might have grabbed an equaliser after 20 minutes when Stephane Bonnes found Adrian Madaschi in a good position but the defender headed straight at Pars' keeper Derek Stillie. In the 27th minute, Darren Young swung in a free-kick from the left which was left by the Jags' defence, including keeper Arthur, only to drift inches past the post. The visitors were knocking the ball around well, while Thistle were reduced to long aimless balls. As the match nudged towards the interval, Dunfermline's five-man midfield took control of the game and there was no surprise when the visitors grabbed a second goal. Darren Young put Nicholson through on the right-hand side and the Pars' man coolly slotted the ball past Arthur from 14 yards out. Stevie Crawford was given a chance after Jags' defender Grant Murray was woefully short with a back-pass but Arthur was quickly out of his goal to smother. The Jags almost snatched a goal back on the half-time whistle but Stillie reacted well to save a David Rowson header from close range.

Partick started the second half brightly and Bonnes twice went close to scoring shortly after the break. The Frenchman saw his looping shot on the turn land on the crossbar and then Stillie pushed away his shot after he had broken away from the Pars defence. Dunfermline were seeing little of the ball but a Crawford shot from 20 yards had Arthur scrambling to his right to save at the second attempt. And, in the 64th minute, as the home defence hesitated, Crawford's shot from an acute angle sped across the Jags' goal-line before running out to safety. The visitors stretched their lead five minutes later when Crawford crossed from the left and, with the home defence posted missing, Brewster had time to steer a header past the onrushing Arthur from 16 yards. Jags substitute Derek Fleming tried his luck from 25 yards but his shot flashed inches wide of the target. Fleming's afternoon was cut short when he was sent off for pushing Noel Hunt, after the Dunfermline replacement had won his team a penalty. Nicholson was denied a second goal when Arthur dived to his right to block the spot kick.

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● For the first time, five nations are represented in the Thistle appearances tally; Australia, France, Italy, Mozambique & Scotland.

● For the first time in competitve action, five nations are represented in the Thistle appearances tally; Australia, France, Italy, Mozambique & Scotland.

● Thistle appear in their 28th Scottish Cup Quarter Final, but fail to progress for the twentieth time.

ongoing sequences:

● 4 consecutive competitive defeats, 14th Feb 2004 to date. (Longest run since: 9 defeats, 27th Sep 2003 to 4th Dec 2003. Club-record: 14 defeats, 3rd Jan 1898 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 26 consecutive competitive appearances for Grant Murray, 20th Sep 2003 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: David Lilley - 30 games, 2nd Nov 2002 to 16th Aug 2003. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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