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36y, 5m, 1d	Alan Archibald	Tommy Wright

Stuart Bannigan
Steven Lawless



Gabriel Piccolo		Gwion Edwards

Isaac Osbourne (John Baird, 44 mins)

26y, 5m, 16d	Scott Fox	Alan Mannus
25y, 1m, 28d	Jordan McMillan	Dave Mackay
22y, 8m, 6d	Aaron Taylor-Sinclair	Tam Scobbie future Jag
23y, 3m, 14d	Aaron Muirhead	Frazer Wright
24y, 1m, 29d	Gabriel Piccolo	Chris Millar
27y, 5m, 22d	Isaac Osbourne	Gary McDonald
21y, 2m, 27d	Stuart Bannigan	David Wotherspoon
22y, 8m, 16d	James Craigen	Gwion Edwards
27y, 0m, 3d	Kris Doolan	Stevie May
22y, 6m, 18d	Christie Elliott	Murray Davidson
24y, 5m, 29d	Kallum Higginbotham	Sahil Jahic

24y, 3m, 17d

34y, 3m, 28d	Paul Gallacher	Stevie Banks
24y, 9m, 11d	Ross Forbes	Patrick Cregg
22y, 8m, 2d	Steven Lawless	Nigel Hasselbaink
28y, 3m, 22d	John Baird	Liam Caddis
31y, 9m, 12d	Mark Kerr	Gary Miller future Jag
20y, 0m, 24d	Henoc Mukendi	Brian Easton
22y, 10m, 17d	Conrad Balatoni	Chris Kane

Teamlines derived from PTFC / SPFL.

Fox, Taylor-Sinclair, Muirhead, Craigen, Bannigan, Doolan, Piccolo, Elliott, McMillan, Osborne, Higginbotham. (Baird.) The strong wind at their backs did Thistle no favours in the dreadful conditions. Saints almost took the lead with an overhead kick and had the better of the chances. Having declared the pitch playable before kick-off (a dubious decision) the referee had another look at h-t. While the pitch was no worse that had been the case in the 1st half, he decided the amount of water on the pitch made a restart impossible.

Thistle’s final home game before Christmas didn’t get beyond half-time as the heavy rains that had bombarded Glasgow since mid morning Saturday left a section on the pitch waterlogged. Referee Kevin Clancy, who has passed the pitch as playable before kick-off, took a prolonged look at the pitch again during the half-time interval before deciding that the game couldn’t continue. The 45 minutes of football that were played in dreadful conditions could scarcely have been described as a classic. Thistle, with Stuart Bannigan replacing Steven Lawless the only change from the side that drew with Hibs, had the strong wind at their backs in the first half but they seemed to cause more problems as any forward balls just drifted away from the Thistle frontline. Thistle really had just two efforts on goal during the 45 minutes that were played. A Kris Doolan header dropped wide of goal in the 16th minute and after 34 minutes James Craigen tried to lift the ball over Mannus from 30 yards out but didn’t get enough elevation on his shot allowing the St Johnstone keeper to make a comfortable save. The best chances both came the way of St Johnstone and Stevie May. In the 11th minute May nearly found the net with an overhead kick from a Wotherspoon cross; his audacious effort just clearing the Thistle crossbar. May didn’t score against Thistle while on loan with Hamilton last season but he was close again to finding the back of the Thistle net as a St Johnstone player in the 20th minute when he cut in from the left corner of the Thistle penalty area before firing narrowly wide of Scott Fox’s right hand post. Worryingly for Thistle, Isaac Osbourne picked up a knock shortly before the interval which saw him replaced by John Baird. It would unquestionably be a blow to lose a player to injury in a game that ultimately doesn’t count towards anything. Yellow cards, however, collected in an abandoned match do still remain on a player’s disciplinary record which means that Gabriel Piccolo’s yellow card will stand.

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