● 3 League wins out of 3 against Caley makes for our first "whitewash" since we bossed Cowdenbeath 4-times in 2012-13 (albeit with a little help from the fog-machine). Post-reconstruction, it's only the third time this has been done by Thistle in the top-flight. Dundee were defeated 4 times in 1992-93 as were Hearts in 1978-79. IF the highlanders make the Europa League this would be the first time in our history that we've whitewashed a European qualifier - time will tell! Looking back, there were a couple of instances in that vein. In 1968-69, Scot Symon's Jags, in a rare feat of success, maxed out (just twice in those days) the Hibs side who represented Scotland in that same season's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Before that, Willie Thornton's Jags defeated the League runners-up (Kilmarnock) twice in season 1962-63. Thistle, of course, qualified for Europe as as the highest placed club from a Scottish city that held an International Trade Fair. Hearts also qualified as Edinburgh’s representative. Despite finishing above us in the League, Kilmarnock missed out that year due to the strict qualification rules (that were later relaxed). They did, however, qualify for the short-lived "International Soccer League" which was held in America in the close-season which followed. |
● First time an unchanged Thistle side has won since McNamara's Jags defeated Airdrie by seven goals to nil back in October 2012. |
● Already, Thistle have won more League matches than they did last term, 9 wins plays 8. |
● Unsurprisingly, Abdul becomes the first Jag to pass 3,000 minutes of competitive game time for the season. Die mensch maschine has maintained an average of 89 minutes per match over the course of his 34 appearances. |
● Steven gets a second goal for the season to add to his eight assists. He joins Ryan at the very top of the "Combi-Table", with both players competitve game tallies now sitting at ten for the season. |
● Steven and Abdul are the only two to have played in all twelve of Thistle's competitive wins this season. |
● With his sixth clean-sheet in sixteen competitive games this season (37.5%), Scott is returning a higher average than his total return (36.11%) since he made his Thistle debut (with a clean-sheet!) away back in October 2010. |
● Scott Fox is the first Thistle goalie to register back-to-back clean-sheets in the top-flight since Nicky Walker in January 1996. Beyond that, Roughie did 4-in-a-row back in 1982. |
● Of all the current players who've played in a significant number of competitive games this season, only James and Scott can lay claim to having won more matches than they've lost. James record reads: W11, D6, L9; Scott's reads: W7, D3, L6. Both players can also make the same claim when the query is limited to this season's League games. |
● From what I can gather, that's the first time we've won back-to-back games in quite a while. :whistling: In fact, with just 6 minutes to spare, Archie's Jags avoided the ignominy of creating a new outright club-record for the category. This similarly chimes with the eleventh-hour effort which avoided an outright record during last season's "no home League wins" fiasco. |
● Ben Richards-Everton gets a late-game competitive debut as the Jags close out the game, and he becomes the 27th player to appear competitively this season. Ben now has a 100% win record in his 2 games, having played in the 3-1 win vs Sunderland XI back in August. |
● Since it was introduced in 1970-71, a goal-difference of +3 after 30 top-flight games is virtually unheard of for the PT. If Jags emerge reasonably from difficult trips to Pittodrie and Celtic Park, they will have a fighting chance of creating a new club-record for this level, which co-incidentally was +3, set away back in in season 1978-79. If achieved, this would also be the third season in-a-row that Archie's Jags have created a club-record in the finishing tables, having achieved record highs with their points tally (78) in 2012-13 and for their top-flight away goal difference (-3) in 2013-14. |
● Thistle have now spent fully 4 months in 9th place. |
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ongoing sequences: |
● 9 competitive games since a draw, 30th Jan 2015 to date. (Longest run since: 9 games, 23rd Aug 2014 to 18th Oct 2014. Club-record: 27 games, 18th Feb 1899 to 23rd Dec 1899.) |
● 21 consecutive competitive appearances for Stephen O'Donnell, 8th Nov 2014 to date. (Longest run since: Abdul Osman - 22 games, 13th Aug 2014 to 27th Dec 2014. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.) |
● 36 competitive games since back-to-back draws, 7th May 2014 to date. (Longest run since: 59 games, 18th Aug 2009 to 11th Dec 2010. Club-record: 201 games, 11th Feb 1957 to 1st Apr 1961.) |
● Thistle stay 9th in the Premiership for the 18th match in a row. (Longest run since the club-record: 33 games in 12th, 20th Sep 2003 to 15th May 2004.) |