4th Oct 2025 Partick Thistle 1 Arbroath 1 (SPFL Championship - game 8)

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41y, 3m, 29d	Mark Wilson	Colin Hamilton
		David Gold

Paddy Reading; Oisin Smyth
Cammy Logan; Ben Stanway

Logan Chalmers (1-0, 5‎ mins)		‎Findlay Marshall (1-1, 62 mins)
Aidan Fitzpatrick (1-0, 5‎ mins)		none (1-1, 62 mins)
Daniel O'Reilly‎; Lee Ashcroft		Findlay Marshall

Tony Watt (Alex Samuel, 59 mins); Tsoanelo Letsosa (Ben Stanway, 59 mins); Robbie Crawford (Kyle Turner, 65 mins); Oisin Smyth (Sean McArdle, 71 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (Steven Lawless, 71 mins)		Harry Cochrane (Nikolay Todorov, 73 mins)

21y, 2m, 6d	Josh Clarke	Aidan McAdams
21y, 6m, 15d	Ben McPherson	Scott Stewart
26y, 4m, 5d	Paddy Reading	Jack Wilkie
30y, 5m, 23d	Daniel O'Reilly	Brooklyn Kabongolo
32y, 1m, 5d	Lee Ashcroft	Aaron Muirhead former Jag
25y, 4m, 29d	Oisin Smyth	Ryan Flynn
31y, 3m, 12d	Robbie Crawford	Harry Cochrane
21y, 3m, 28d	Tsoanelo Letsosa	Findlay Marshall
31y, 9m, 5d	Tony Watt	Taylor Steven
25y, 6m, 10d	Logan Chalmers	Jacob MacIntyre
24y, 6m, 14d	Aidan Fitzpatrick	Ryan Dow

26y, 6m, 2d

23y, 3m, 15d	Lewis Budinauckas	Jordan Pettigrew
23y, 8m, 6d	Cammy Logan	Colin Hamilton
27y, 10m, 24d	Kyle Turner	David Gold
30y, 0m, 14d	Alex Samuel	Craig Watson
34y, 5m, 22d	Steven Lawless	Arran Pettifer
26y, 0m, 25d	Luke McBeth	Nikolay Todorov
18y, 1m, 7d	Sean McArdle	Rocco Hickey-Fugaccia
21y, 0m, 14d	Ben Stanway	Victor Enem
16y, 5m, 7d	Liam Dolan

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.
Arbroath filled 8 of their 9 allocated bench slots.

TTA report

Another strong start saw a fine passing move across the box for Fitzpatrick to set up Chalmers' first-time top corner shot (5). Arbroath (no better than workmanlike) got into the game after h-t and when Clarke failed to gather a loose ball they levelled (62). Both keepers made some fine saves in the last 20 mins. Overall, disappointing.

TTA man of the match

It didn't always come off for him today, but LOGAN CHALMERS was always on the front foot and looking likely, especially in the first half. Swept in his goal brilliantly in the manner which we've come to expect and that's now 12 goals or assists in the 14 games so far.

Media report

David Forrest, 04-Oct-2025, ptfc.co.uk

Partick Thistle shared the spoils at the Wyre Stadium at Firhill today, with a 1-1 draw against Arbroath in the William Hill Scottish Championship. Thistle were reunited with the Angus side after a season apart which saw Arbroath bounce straight back up from League 1 after relegation the season prior. The Red Lichties have continued the good form which saw them win the League 1 title last season, coming into this fixture fourth in the table. Thistle were in similarly good form, undefeated since the start of August, having won their previous five league games, sitting in second place. There was a familiar face in the opposition line-up, with two spell Jag Aaron Muirhead making his return to Firhill after departing the club in the summer following a loan spell with the Gayfield men at the end of last season. Paddy Reading and Oisin Smyth returned to the starting line-up for Thistle, having missed our gritty 1-0 win over Queen’s Park in the week. Cammy Logan and Ben Stanway dropped to the bench to accommodate them. Joining them on the bench was Sean McArdle, getting his first taste of Firhill after signing from Celtic on a season-long loan deal in the week.

Thistle have cultivated a reputation this season for high intensity starts to games, and early goals. Today was no different, with Logan Chalmers giving them the lead on six minutes. Some excellent link-up play between Aidan Fitzpatrick and Tony Watt, enabled Fitzy to lay off a pass for CHALMERS on the right hand side of the penalty area. Chalmers then curled his first time shot past Arbroath keeper Aidan McAdams to put the Jags into the lead in style. Thistle continued to play their fearless brand of football in search of a second, peppering the Arbroath box with chance after chance. McAdams was working overtime to keep the score down, in particular, making a great save from Reading’s long range effort on 15 minutes. On 28 minutes, the Arbroath shot-stopper looked to be clipped by the boot of Robbie Crawford, and went down in considerable pain. After several minutes of treatment from both sides’ physio team, McAdams was able to shake it off and resume play. The last 10/15 minutes of the half saw both teams find it difficult to create chances in the swirling wind, with the game feeling more like it was taking place at Costa Del Gayfield than it did Maryhill.

Despite leading Thistle weren’t out of the woods yet though, as Arbroath started to find their way into the game in the second half. Arbroath fired a few warning shots across the bows before Finlay Marshall looked poised to equalise on 57 minutes, but the midfielder struck his effort wide. He would make no mistake four minutes later, as Arbroath made it 1-1. The ball flashed across the home box and when Josh Clarke failed to gather Marshall was there to pounce and hit home for 1-1. The goal was the wake-up call Thistle needed and substitute Kyle Turner forced McAdams into two great saves to keep it level. The visitors were also out to get in front and Clarke showed his class as he pushed away Nikolay Todorov’s header and tipped over a shot from Jacob McIntyre. Thistle were to finish the stronger and Alex Samuel, who had looked lively after coming on was unlucky to not score after he found himself with a point blank header a few yards out, but McAdams managed to divert it round the post. Chalmers had an opening seven minutes from time when a gorgeous ball from Stevie Lawless found him at the back post eight yards out. However, he was unable to get the ball under his spell and McAdams was able to get the ball in his grasp. Despite the pressure late on, Thistle were unable to make the breakthrough, with Dan O’Reilly having a header cleared off the line moments before time. Mark Wilson’s men had to settle for a point on a day where leaders St Johnstone also dropped points at home to Ayr and third placed Raith Rovers were defeated away to Ross County.

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Partick Thistle manager Mark Wilson (speaking to 'The Thistle'

We were pretty deflated after that in the office there and pretty deflated all day. I thought things just didn’t quite click. I thought in the opening stages we had control and obviously got off to a good start, and then maybe we just take our foot off the gas a wee bit - and before you know it Arbroath start to build themselves into the game. So, a wee bit slack in everything that we did. Second half, I don’t think we were particularly good either, and again Arbroath then started to get a wee bit of a hold of the game. So, I’m disappointed in that respect. At the end Josh [Clarke] makes a couple of good saves, but then when I’m watching the video there, some of the chances we have when we’re not at our best to win the game, we probably should have put away. So, disappointed with the point, but it’s been a tough week for the players. I think you’ve seen that. I know we’ve got a healthy squad at the minute, and we make the changes, and that makes a bit of a difference. But I wasn’t too harsh on the boys. They’ve been pretty good, pretty solid, for eight, ten weeks now. And it shows the level that we’ve got to that we’re disappointed with that performance. I’ve been in dressing rooms with top teams that if you’re a wee bit off it, you get sharply reminded that the fans expect more. That’s football. They pay their money and they’re entitled to that. Ultimately it’s up to us to put on a better show for them so they don’t boo us. But we’ll obviously try and restrict days like that. We don’t want that to be the norm.

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