11th Dec 2010 Partick Thistle 1 Ross County 1 (SFL First Division - game 14)

matches:2010-11: ← 23game 2425 →

Match Information

46y, 2m, 11d			Ian McCall		Willie J. McStay former Jag
Simon Donnelly
Kris Doolan
Chris Erskine (1-1, 40 mins)					Richard Brittain (0-1, pen 18 mins)
David Rowson					Gary Miller
Alan Archibald (@ 0-0, 18 mins)
Liam Buchanan (Conrad Balatoni, 21 mins); Simon Donnelly (Kris Doolan, 69 mins); Chris Erskine (Iain Flannigan, 85 mins)					Martin Scott (Garry Wood, 83 mins)
23y, 5m, 13d			Scott Fox		Michael McGovern
23y, 7m, 23d			Paul Paton		Gary Miller future Jag
23y, 8m, 21d			Patrick Boyle		Scott Morrison
23y, 2m, 18d			Bryan Hodge		Paul Lawson
26y, 3m, 3d			Willie Kinniburgh		Scott Boyd former Jag
32y, 11m, 28d			Alan Archibald		Darren McCormack
23y, 3m, 12d			Paul Cairney		Martin Scott
34y, 2m, 27d			David Rowson		Richard Brittain
25y, 8m, 14d			Liam Buchanan		Andy Barrowman
36y, 0m, 10d			Simon Donnelly		Steven Craig future Jag
23y, 10m, 3d			Chris Erskine		Iain Vigurs
26y, 11m, 10d
18y, 1m, 12d			Ryan Scully		Joe Malin
24y, 0m, 0d			Kris Doolan		Johnny Flynn
22y, 10m, 26d			Iain Flannigan		Stuart Kettlewell
19y, 10m, 14d			Conrad Balatoni		Mark Corcoran former Jag
26y, 2m, 2d			Martin Grehan		Garry Wood

Match Report

TTA report

Only the ref saw an infringement, awarded County a penalty (which they converted) and red-carded Archibald (18). Thistle levelled (40) when Erskine scored from a quickly-taken free-kick. Future-JAG Craig went close twice then Fox saved the day with a fine save and a battling display by the 10 men ended 1-1.

Media report

11-Dec-2010, ptfc.co.uk

After a month without a home game Thistle returned to action at Firhill this afternoon against a Ross County side that had their new manager, former Firhill loan player Willie McStay, in charge for the first time. Thistle’s last outing had been a 3-1 Scottish Cup win against Stirling Albion and the Thistle side showed one change from the side that started that game. Simon Donnelly, scorer of the second goal against Stirling, getting the nod to start ahead of Kris Doolan who dropped to the bench. The opening exchanges in this game hardly indicated that we were in for a classic on a cold afternoon. Indeed 18 first half minutes elapsed before we really had a moment of note and it was a highly controversial one. A nice passing move sliced the Thistle defence open and when the ball was cut back from the right referee Conroy spotted an infringement inside the box. The decision to award the penalty was itself sufficiently contentious to provoke debate but that was nothing compared to the decision to flash a red card in the direction of Alan Archibald. County’s Richard Brittain ignored the fuss that the red card produced and he fairly smacked home the penalty into the bottom corner of the net. County have on many occasions on previous visits to Firhill shut up shop having taken the lead and while they certainly enjoyed the majority of possession after opening the scoring they were hardly troubling the reorganised Thistle rearguard, Conrad Balatoni coming on for Liam Buchanan in the wake of Archibald’s ordering off. Indeed in the 22nd minute it was Thistle were close to scoring. A Paul Cairney free kick from the corner of the box picked out Paddy Boyle and was unfortunate to see McGovern in the County goal get down and push his header away. Thistle though did get back on level terms in the 40th minute. A quickly taken free kick was collected by Chris Erskine and the Thistle player who seems to save his goals for matches against Ross County found the corner of the net.

The first hint of a chance in the second half came Thistle’s way. Chris Erskine and then Simon Donnelly had opportunities to shoot at the edge of the box with the latter tackled just as he was getting ready to shoot. Perhaps because they weren’t leading, County were more of a threat in the opening 15 minutes of the second half than they had after they had established their lead in the opening quarter of the game. Twice in the space of a couple of minutes Steven Craig came close to putting his side back in front. Firstly with a snap shot that was about a yard wide and then a header that was just over the bar. In the 66th minute it was Martin Scott’s turn to come close to scoring for County. Unlike his team mate Steven Craig, Scott’s effort, after the Thistle defence had made a mess of clearing a ball at the edge of the box, was on target and was denied a goal only be an excellent tip over by Scott Fox. Five minutes later there were loud shouts for a Thistle penalty when Chris Erskine went down inside the box in not dissimilar circumstances in which County got their penalty. While Thistle looked dangerous on the break it was County that did the bulk of pressing and with five minutes remaining they missed a great chance to take a late lead. Paul Lawson threaded through a pass to sub Wood who had just come on and he should perhaps have done better than clip his shot wide of goal. That was the last chance of a game in which Thistle showed plenty of battling qualities to earn a point from a game in which they were both a goal and a man down.

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ongoing sequences:

● 21 consecutive competitive appearances for Paul Paton, Patrick Boyle (a new personal best) & Liam Buchanan, 24th Jul 2010 to date. (Longest run since: David Rowson - 24 games, 27th Feb 2010 to 25th Sep 2010. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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