6th Jul 2024 Glenafton Athletic 2 Partick Thistle 4 (Friendly)

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	Ryan Caddis	Kris Doolan	37y, 6m, 25d

		Wasiri Williams; Ben Stanway; Robbie Crawford; Kyle Turner; Logan Chalmers
		Jack McMillan; Daniel O'Reilly; Stuart Bannigan; Blair Alston; Scott Robinson

Ross Lindsay (4-1, 63 mins), Aaron Carmichael (4-2, 87 mins)		Brian Graham (1-0, 8 mins); Brian Graham (1-0, 11 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (3-0, 32 mins); Brian Graham (4-0, 44 mins)
none (4-1, 63 mins); none (4-2, 87 mins)		Harry Milne (1-0, 8 mins); Wasiri Williams (1-0, 11 mins); Robbie Crawford (3-0, 32 mins); Kyle Turner (4-0, 44 mins)


Lewis Currie (Andy Strachan, HT); Sam McKee (Cammy Ross, HT); Danny McBeth (Ryan Walker, HT); Armand Dolani (Paul O'Brien, HT); Evan Maley (Dylan O'Kane, 59 mins); Craig Pettigrew (Lewis Kennedy, 59 mins); Ollie Rowe (Aaron Carmichael, 73 mins)		David Mitchell (Mason McCready, HT); Aaron Muirhead (Daniel O'Reilly, HT); Brian Graham (Ricco Diack, HT); Logan Chalmers (Daniel MacKay, HT); Wasiri Williams (Ché Campbell, 57 mins); Robbie Crawford (Zander MacKenzie, 57 mins); Kyle Turner (James Lyon, 57 mins); Harry Milne (Jamie Taggart, 67 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (Sallu Turay, 67 mins)

	Ally Semple	David Mitchell	34y, 3m, 2d
	Lyall Holding	Wasiri Williams	24y, 3m, 5d
	Lewis Currie	Harry Milne	27y, 8m, 7d
	Ollie Rowe	Luke McBeth	24y, 9m, 27d
	Craig Pettigrew	Aaron Muirhead	33y, 10m, 6d
	Ross Lindsay	Ben Stanway	19y, 9m, 16d
	Sam McKee	Robbie Crawford	30y, 0m, 14d
	Danny McBeth	Kyle Turner	26y, 7m, 26d
	Hugh Kerr	Brian Graham	36y, 7m, 13d
	Armand Dollani	Logan Chalmers	24y, 3m, 12d
	Evan Maley	Aidan Fitzpatrick	23y, 3m, 16d

			27y, 9m, 11d

	n-a	Mason McCready	21y, 4m, 1d
	Andy Strachan	Daniel MacKay	23y, 2m, 17d
	Cammy Ross	Daniel O'Reilly	29y, 2m, 25d
	Ryan Walker	James Lyon	21y, 8m, 9d
	Aaron Carmichael	Zander MacKenzie	18y, 10m, 8d
	Lewis Kennedy	Sallu Turay	17y, 8m, 12d
	Dylan O'Kane	Jamie Taggart	18y, 11m, 0d
	Paul O'Brien	Ricco Diack	19y, 1m, 29d
		Ché Campbell	17y, 8m, 17d

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.
Glenafton had no sub goalie.

TTA report

A 1st half hat-trick by Graham (headers, 8, 11 and touched in a Turner free-kick, 44) plus a goal by Fitzpatrick (32) put Thistle well ahead. Inevitably the second half saw 9 substitutes resulting in a very young side. A screamer of a free-kick made it 4-1 (63). A loose ball from a McCready parried save was tucked away (87).

TTA man of the match

It has to BRIAN GRAHAM who made the most of his 45 minutes run-out by netting thrice. Was hungry and in the mood as always.

Media report

06-Jul-2024, Glenafton Athletic

Glenafton were delighted to welcome Partick Thistle to Loch Park today and to meet up again with former player Luke McBeth who clearly has made a great impression on the Harry Wraggs! Of course, Thistle’s manager Kris Doolan was no stranger to Loch Park, having starred for neighbours Kello Rovers and Auchinleck Talbot. Before kick-off both clubs and their supporters joined together for a minute’s applause in memory of the late Gerry Collins. Sadly, the heavens opened at kick-off but thankfully conditions would improve later but no matter what, a vocal section of the large travelling support sang out whether rain or sun!

Although, the visitors looked lively from the kick-off, whipping balls across the face of the Glens goal from both flanks it was home side that came close to opening the scoring on 3 minutes. Ewan Maley after a great run from the centre circle was finally up-ended on the outskirts of the box and curled the ensuing free kick over the Thistle wall only for keeper David Mitchell to leap and at full stretch push the ball high over the bar. The corner-kick that followed was floated beyond the back post where Danny McBeth headed it back into the danger only for it be cleared to the edge of the box where Craig Pettigrew rolled it back to Ross Lindsay to curl a shot the flew just wide of the post. Back came Thistle and a break down the right ended with Wasiri Williams whipping a great ball into the six yard box for the inrushing Robbie Crawford only for Ally Semple to brilliantly block his shot on the goal-line from where Lewis Currie hooked the loose ball to the ‘D’ where it was gathered by Kyle Turner who quickly squared it left for Harry Milne to drive to the bye-line before chipping the ball into goalmouth for the incoming Brian Graham to get between two defenders and leap to bullet a downward header into the corner of the net from 3 yards out. Thistle 1-0 up on 7 minutes. On 11 minutes the visitors doubled their lead with Williams from the right-hand corner of the box floating a perfectly weighted ball to the back post for Brian Graham to get the jump on Lyall Holding and another downward header the bounced over the diving Semple.

Play ebbed back and forth for a time with defences on top and a few chances on show. Semple got down low to hold Aidan Fitzpatrick’s low shot from inside the box. Midway through the half Turner chipped a ball into the goalmouth for Graham who did well to bring it under the control before trying to flick it over the head of Semple only for the keeper to pull off a great reflex save to bend over backwards and push the ball over the bar. Glens mopped up another attack and Pettigrew played the ball out to Currie on the left who quickly picked out Armand Dollani on the half-way line to switch the play to Holding breaking up the right flank to float a ball where Shuggy Kerr leapt between Luke McBeth and Aaron Muirhead to flash a header dipped over the junction of the far post and bar. On 30 minutes a stramash on the outskirts of the Thistle box between defenders McBeth, Muirhead & Ben Stanway and Kerr & Dollani ended with the Glens appeals for a free-kick being waved away and McBeth setting up a quick counter-attack which concluded with Crawford playing a slick one-two with Graham before slipping a pass to Aidan Fitzpatrick who curled a low shot from 12 yards beyond the reach of Semple and into the corner of the net. Thistle 3-1 up on 31 minutes. The visitors finished the half strongly with Semple, Pettigrew and Daniel McBeth forced into goal mouth saves and blocks alike and when it seemed they had weathered the storm added a fourth on 44 minutes after Crawford whipped a low free-kick into the box where Brian Graham from the six- yard line got the slightest of touches to divert the ball into the net for his first-half hat-trick.

On the bright side. Loch Park was now bathed in sunshine as the second half kicked off. Both sides made four changes at the break. The visitors were first to threaten after Diack, a former team-mate of Shuggy Kerr at Rossvale, broke into the left hand-side of the box slipping past two defenders to drive for the bye-line and faced with Semple guarding the post he cut the ball back into the goalmouth for Daniel MacKay only for his shot from 4 yards to be blocked by O’Brien sending the ball spinning wide for corner which was scrambled clear. Soon after, Milne, now with the captain’s arm-band, burst into the left-hand side of the box and squared the ball across the face of the goal but despite his best efforts the inrushing Diack stretched leg failed to make contact. Stanway then weaved his way forward to the edge of the box before cracking a shot a vicious shot that Semple did well to push it round the post with both hands. On 57 minutes Thistle made three changes with Robbie Crawford, Kyle Turner and Wasiri Williams making way for James Lyon, Zander MacKenzie and Che Campbell. The Glens followed suit soon after with Lewis Kennedy and Dylan O’Kane coming on for Craig Pettigrew and Evan Maley. The Glens pulled one back on 62 minutes after Kerr had been impeded a yard outside the right-hand side of the box. Thistle set up a two-man wall while O’Kane and Ross Lindsay both set up as if to take the kick and it was the latter that curled a glorious shot over the leaping-wall and beyond the reach of the airborne keeper to bulge the net. Tails were up and O’Brien from deep on the left skipped past two Jags before playing the ball forward to O’Kane who gave another two the slip as he drove forward to the edge of the box only for his shot to drift wide of the target. Thistle made another couple of substitutions Jamie Taggert and Sallu Turay coming on for Aidan Fitzpatrick and Harry Milne, who passed in the captain’s armband to Luke McBeth.

Another great run through the middle by O’Kane ended at the edge of the ‘D’ after McBeth nicked the ball from his toe, however the home side quickly recovered the ball allowing Lindsay to release Ross down the right and whip the ball into the goalmouth where O’Kane from the corner of the six yard box clipped it to the box post for the incoming Walker only for Campbell to make a superb sliding tackle two yards from the goal-line sending the ball back across the face of goal where McBeth’s sliding tackle prevented O’Kane from prodding the ball home, Kerr then tried to recover the ball from a tangle of limbs only for Stanway to steal the ball from the scrum and clear the danger. On 73 minutes Glens made their final substitution with Ollie Rowe making way for Aaron Carmichael. The visitors enjoyed a good spell. Campbell and Turay combined down the right where O’Brien and Kennedy combined to lock any crosses into the box, albeit at the expense of a corner which was met at the back post by the leaping O’Reilly only for Semple to get down low and save the header at the base of the post. Campbell from wide on the right gathered a long ball and cutely cushioned a cross to the edge of the six- yard box from where Turay leapt to glance a glorious header into the net, but from an offside position. Thistle continued to press and were winning many of the aerial battles in the box with headers dipping over the bar, or inches of the post before it seemed O’Reilly had made a breakthrough but although it beat Semple, O’Brien was in place to head it off the line. The Glens however, would have the final say on 87 minutes. O’Kane, in the centre circle, gathered the ball from O’Brien from where he weaved his way through the middle before being tripped by MacKay, some 25 yards from goal on the outskirts of the ‘D’. As before O’Kane and Lindsay lined up to take the free-kick and as before it fell to Lindsay who curled a low strike round the four-man wall and although the keeper got down to low to get two hands to it the ball shot up into the air, the alert Aaron Carmichael was first to react and guide the ball past the rising keeper and into the net. A couple of half chances at either end came and went before a thoroughly entertaining match enhanced by a great atmosphere at Loch Park, throughout the day. Gerry would have loved it!

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Partick Thistle manager Kris Doolan (speaking to Jagzone):

I think we got out of it what we wanted. Not so much just fitness, there was a tactical element to it as well. I wanted to see our midfielders rotate round which I think we saw from the likes of Robbie Crawford. We speak about the quality of crossing a lot, it has to go in the right areas so there's no guessing from our forward players. Delighted with the quality from Kyle Turner's dead balls and set plays. Thought Wasiri put in some terrific balls, Harry Milne too. Every succesful squad has almost two elevens; we've tried our best with the recruitment to make sure that there's a squad there that's capable of doing really good things.

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