24th Feb 2007 Dunfermline Athletic 2 Partick Thistle 0 (Scottish Cup Quarter Final)

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Match Information

			Stephen Kenny		Dick Campbell			53y, 3m, 2d
					Pat Keogh; Derek Young
					Alan Archibald; Simon Donnelly
Stephen Simmons (0-1, 4 mins); Stephen Simmons (0-2, 86 mins)
Gary Mason; Stephen Simmons; Jim O'Brien					Scott Boyd; Darren Brady; Pat Keogh
Owen Morrison (Jamie McCunnie, 72 mins); Greg Ross (Stevie Crawford, 89 mins); Jim O'Brien (Souleymane Bamba, 89 mins)					Barry Smith (Adam Strachan, 49 mins); Derek Young (Stephen McConalogue, 82 mins)
			Dorus De Vries		Kenny Arthur			28y, 2m, 17d
			Greg Ross		Barry Smith			33y, 0m, 5d
			Scott Wilson		John A. Robertson			30y, 10m, 27d
			Scott Morrison		Darren Brady			25y, 10m, 13d
			Phil McGuire		Scott Boyd			20y, 8m, 20d
			Gary Mason		Pat Keogh			30y, 9m, 17d
			Owen Morrison		James Gibson			27y, 0m, 5d
			Stephen Simmons		Billy Gibson			25y, 6m, 23d
			Adam Hammill		Allan Russell			26y, 2m, 11d
			Jim O'Brien		Mark Roberts			31y, 3m, 26d
			future Jag Jim Hamilton		Derek Young			26y, 8m, 28d
								27y, 10m, 7d
			former Jag Roddy McKenzie		Jonny Tuffey			20y, 1m, 4d
			Souleymane Bamba		Mark McChrystal			22y, 7m, 29d
			Stevie Crawford		Adam Strachan			20y, 0m, 0d
			Jamie McCunnie		Brown Ferguson			25y, 8m, 20d
			Jim McIntyre		Stephen McConalogue			25y, 8m, 8d

Match Report

TTA report

The optimism of 2,297 Thistle fans was shattered when Dunfermline headed home (4). Thistle had a good spell with some near things but the home side got on top. Thistle pressed in the second half but it was increasingly frantic. A cross and a back-post header made it 2 (86). Not a bad performance but not good enough.

Media report

24-Feb-2007, bbc.com

Stephen Simmons' double against battling Partick Thistle sent Dunfermline Athletic into the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup. Simmons headed home a cross from man-of-the-match Owen Morrison after just four minutes to put the Scottish Premier League side ahead. Another Simmons header flashed wide and a Morrison shot struck a post. The Pars had to survive late pressure from the First Division side before Simmons headed in a Jim O'Brien cross. There was to be no romantic cup re-union for brothers Darren and Derek Young. Derek returned to fitness - and the Thistle starting line-up - in place of another former Dunfermline forward, the injured Simon Donnelly, while Pat Keogh replaced the ineligible Alan Archibald. Darren failed a Friday fitness test and missed out on playing against his brother for the first time in their professional careers. Former Scotland striker Stevie Crawford was also missing, being dropped to Pars bench, while on-loan Hibernian full-back Stephen Glass was cup-tied. So manager Stephen Kenny brought in Owen Morrison and Scott Morrison.

And using two wingers paid off immediately as the Pars took the lead. Owen Morrison had been switched to the left and curled in a right-footed cross that was headed home powerfully by Simmons from 12 yards. Thistle refused to lie down and a Billy Gibson free-kick deflected off the defensive wall and a couple of feet wide of the post. The First Division side were lucky to survive when Adam Hammill beat goalkeeper Kenny Arthur to another Owen Morrison cross, but the winger's header flew just wide. It was Arthur to the rescue again, rushing out to save at the feet of O'Brien after the forward had latched on to a poor Scott Boyd back-header. Simmons should have made it 2-0 after a carbon-copy of the opening goal but this time headed Owen Morrison's cross a couple of inches wide.

Thistle were first to threaten after the break, but Jimmy Gibson's 22-yard drive flew a couple of feet past. Dunfermline came close to killing the game when Owen Morrison turned inside his marker, his curling drive struck the inside of the far post and O'Brien just failed to connect with the rebound. Thistle suddenly had the SPL outfit under pressure. Adam Strachan had a low cross-cum-shot blocked clear by goalkeeper Dorus De Vries and Keogh flashed a header across goal dring a spell of four corners in a row. But Dunfermline killed the tie three minutes from the end, with Simmons heading in off the underside of the bar after some wing trickery by O'Brien. But the goalscorer picked up a booking for celebrating that means he is suspended for the semi-final.

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BBC, 24th February, 2007

Stats Watch

● Thistle appear in their 30th Scottish Cup Quarter Final, but fail to progress for the 22nd time.

ongoing sequences:

● 33 consecutive competitive appearances for Scott Boyd, 10th May 2006 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Kenny Arthur - 34 games, 31st Dec 2005 to 9th Sep 2006. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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