11th Mar 2006 Partick Thistle 2 Ayr United 2 (SFL Second Division - game 27)

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Match Information

52y, 3m, 17d			Dick Campbell		Robert Connor
Scott McCulloch; Darren Brady
David Craig; Dmytro Pronevych
Mark Roberts (1-0, 18 mins); Billy Gibson (2-0, 48 mins)					Chris Robertson (2-1, 55 mins); Craig Conway (2-2, 77 mins)
Sandy Hodge
Adam Strachan (Sean Kilgannon, 72 mins); Sandy Hodge (Will Snowdon, 75 mins); Stephen McConalogue (Paul Ritchie, 80 mins)					Chris Strain (Andy Reid, 90 mins)
27y, 3m, 4d			Kenny Arthur		Mark McGeown
30y, 6m, 10d			Grant Murray		James McKinstry former Jag
30y, 3m, 10d			Scott McCulloch		Chris Robertson
24y, 11m, 0d			Darren Brady		Kieran McAnespie
25y, 5m, 7d			Sandy Hodge		David Lowing
19y, 9m, 7d			Scott Boyd		Ray Logan
26y, 0m, 20d			James Gibson		Paul Weaver
24y, 7m, 10d			Billy Gibson		Craig Conway
24y, 8m, 23d			Stephen McConalogue		Dougie Ramsay
30y, 4m, 10d			Mark Roberts		Jerome Vareille
19y, 0m, 15d			Adam Strachan		Chris Strain
25y, 8m, 21d
26y, 2m, 1d			Colin Stewart		Eric Phillips
37y, 1m, 14d			Paul Ritchie		Jean-Yves Anis former Jag
24y, 8m, 3d			Stevie Nicholas		Gareth Wardlaw
25y, 0m, 3d			Sean Kilgannon		Andy Reid
23y, 2m, 4d			Will Snowdon		Ian Cashmore

notes

Advertised officials S. Logan and G. Middleton were replaced by K. Graham & A. Davis.

Match Report

TTA report

A shot in the corner by Roberts (18) and a 25-yarder by Gibson (B) (48) gave Thistle a comfortable lead. Ayr reduced it (55) and 10 minutes later they had a goal disallowed for offside. They got their deserved leveller (77) and might have won it late on when Arthur tipped a header over. Hopes of a play-off fading. Fans restless.

Media report

13-Mar-2006, Daily Record

DICK'S FUMING AS JAGS DROP POINTS AND LEAGUE PLACE. FURIOUS Jags gaffer Dick Campbell believes his Firhill flops should have been sweating buckets instead of sipping pints on Saturday night. The Thistle boss was left fuming after his Maryhill misfits blew a two-goal lead against Ayr to allow Peterhead to leapfrog them into third place in Division Two. Campbell said yesterday: “We trained today but if I'd had my way the players would have been back in on Saturday night. I was disgusted with the lack of professionalism shown when the game was there to be won. Once we went 2-0 up we stopped playing, we stopped closing down and we stopped matching runs. In the end we were fortunate to get a draw. But the final result still leaves Ayr feeling a damn site happier than us.”

Mark Roberts put the home side in front in 18 minutes when he latched on to a Jimmy Gibson through ball to beat Mark McGeown from close range. The Jags' top scorer almost grabbed a second before the interval but the visitors' keeper brilliantly saved his volley. Billy Gibson looked to have ended Partick's six-match winless run three minutes after the restart when he lashed home a 30-yard drive. But Chris Robertson pulled one back for Ayr in 55 minutes after fine link-up play involving Kieran McAnespie and Raymond Logan. Robertson thought he had completed his double 15 minutes later but Jerome Vareille added a final touch to his team-mate's goalbound header and he was adjudged to have been offside. However, Ayr were not to be denied a share of the spoils and Craig Conway completed their fightback in 77 minutes when he curled a 20-yard shot past Kenny Arthur after a fine solo run.

Ayr gaffer Robert Connor was delighted with his team's second-half showing. He said: “The players showed great character to come back and get a point. But I am actually slightly disappointed that we didn't get all three. Towards the end of the game only one team looked like winning.”

And one of United's young heroes, Chris Strain, believes his team-mates can take great heart from their Firhill fightback as they gear up for an end-of-season relegation dogfight. He said: “We can build on this performance and get the points we need in the remaining fixtures to stay up.”

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PTFC Website, 11th March, 2006

Stats Watch

ongoing sequences:

● 38 consecutive competitive appearances for Grant Murray, 30th Jul 2005 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Derek Fleming - 39 games, 27th Mar 2004 to 19th Jan 2005. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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