Sun 13 August, 2023
SWPL 1 
Petershill ParkHenderson (4, 76 and 82), McQuillan (28)
SWPL 1
Sun 13 August, 2023. Kick Off: - 1:10
Petershill Park
🎫 Tickets
Adults: £7
Consc: £5
KIDS GO FREE!
🎟️ Season Tickets
Season tickets are valid for this match.
You can still #BePartOfThis and purchase your season ticket online
If you have purchased a season ticket online they will be available to collect at the match.
🏟 Stadium
Gates open at 12:15pm for the fixture and entry is through the turnstyles at the car park side of the ground.
🚗 Getting There
Bus:
Firstbus services 10, 24, 27, 88, 89, 89A, 89B and 90 all stop on Springburn Road, a stones throw from Petershill Park.
Train
Springburn and Barnhill are the nearest train stations, both just a 5 minute walk from the stadium. Both are serviced from Glasgow Queen Street Low Level by regular trains.
Car
Plenty of free car parking is available at Petershill Park. The post code for Petershill Park is G21 4DD and the complex can be accessed from Adamswell Street, at the rear of North Glasgow College.
🅿️ Parking
Please note there will be no parking available in the car park for this fixture except for blue badge holders.
Street Parking is available around Petershill Park but please consider public transport.
🌮 Food and 🥤 Drink
The food kiosk at Petershill Park will be open before kick off selling a variaty of food and drink. Payment is by cash or card.
📺 Live Coverage
The match wil be shown LIVE on BBC ALBA. Due to the match being on TV there will be no live stream.
Highlights will be available on our YouTube channel.
💻 Live Coverage
Live updates will be available on our Twitter account during the match.
🗣️ Post -Match
After the match we’ll have all the reaction from the Thistle camp on our Twitter and Facebook pages with Full match highlights and interviews on our YouTube Channel.
We’ll also have a full match photo gallery available after the game.
This Sunday 13th August, PTWFC take on Dundee United at Petershill Park for a 13:10 kick off.
Thistle get their Scottish Power WPL season underway with a home match against Dundee United.
Brian Graham will be hoping to start the campaign brightly and will be looking to build on what was a highly successful campaign last season,
📍Petershill Park
🕐Sun 13th August, 1:10pm
🎟️Adults: £7 / o65’s: £5 / u16’s: FREE
🎫 Pay at Gate by Cash or Card
📺 Live on BBC ALBA
💻Updates on Twitter
💻️Highlights and reaction post match
Last season United finished in 9th position in SWPL1 a nervy last day 1-1 at home to Hamilton Accies ensuring that United didn’t have to endure a play-off fixture with Gartcairn to secure their place in the top flight for the season ahead.
It was their top scorer, and Player and Players’ Player of the Year, Danni McGinley that scored the United goal in that fixture and it will undoubtedly be a blow that she has moved on to Hearts for this coming season.
United manager Graeme Hart, who was an interested spectator at our pre-season Glasgow Cup fixture with Queen’s Park, has made a number of additions to his squad for the season ahead.
Goalkeeper Megan Sidey has signed from St Johnstone with defenders Nicola Jamieson and Katie Frew making the switch to United from Spartans. Centre half Jade Wilson has been recruited from Glasgow Women and last, but by no means least, Emma McMurdo has joined United after returning to Scotland after a number of years in Australia.
The two encounters between Thistle and United were both tight affairs. On both occasions the games finished in narrow 1-0 wins for Thistle with Cara Henderson the scorer of the winning goal in each game. The latter of those two wins, at United’s Gussie Park home ground, securing a top six finish for Thistle.
Thistle enjoyed a tough but very positive pre-season build-up which provided Brian Graham the opportunity to fully integrate his new signings into his squad, the core of which has been retained from last season.
A 3-1 win over Montrose was followed by a 2-0 win in the North East of England over Sunderland. A narrow 2-1 defeat away to Celtic, with last season’s top scorer Cara Henderson scoring a fantastic goal, was swiftly followed by a thumping 5-0 Petershill Park win over Kilmarnock.
The pre-season fixtures were rounded up by two City of Glasgow Cup matches. Thistle were defeated 4-0 by Celtic before The Jags defeated Queen’s Park by a single goal to nil.
As mentioned above, Thistle manager Brian Graham has made a number of very shrewd additions to his squad for the season ahead and it will be interesting to see which of the new recruits will feature in the squad for Sunday’s fixture.
The new signings are Kodie Hay (Motherwell), Emma Lawton (Motherwell), Lucy Sinclair (Hamilton Accies), Megan Robb (Dryburgh). Rosie McQuillan (Spartans), Jenna Ferguson (Rangers on loan), Ava Eadson (Glasgow City on loan), Vhiari Munro (Glasgow City).
In addition to the above Megan Cunningham has rejoined the club for a further season long loan from Rangers.
Looking ahead to Sunday, there are a couple of players with injuries who will be subject to late checks before a decision is made on their inclusion.
Definitely out, and out for some time, is Cheryl McCulloch. Cheryl though recently had her operation on her damaged ACL and will now began her rehabilitation programme.
16th October 2022
PARTICK THISTLE 1
(Henderson, 61′)
DUNDEE UNITED 0
Thistle got the competitive action in season 2023-2024 off the best possible of starts with a comfortable win, but a win not without controversy, over Dundee United.
Brian Graham’s team selection saw the inclusion of five summer recruits. Rosie McQuillan, Lucy Sinclair and Kodie Hay made their Partick Thistle debuts while Emma Lawton made her competitive return to the red and yellow of Partick Thistle for the first time since 2019. In Megan Cunningham too there was a familiar face in the Thistle goal with Megan starting a second season at Petershill Park on loan from Rangers.
It was one of the core of last season’s highly successful squad though that deservedly took the after match plaudits with Cara Henderson, scorer of the winning goal against United in both of last season’s meetings, grabbing an opening day hat-trick.
The first of Henderson’s three goals arrived as early as the 4th minute.
Two of the aforementioned new players had a hand in this goal. McQuillan’s ball over the top found Sinclair. Her shot was half saved by Sidey and when Sinclair stabbed the loose ball towards goal Henderson was in the right place at the right time to tuck the ball home.
With the confidence of that early goal behind them Thistle took a firm grip of proceedings with the game almost exclusively played inside the United half with Thistle looking to build upon the platform that Henderson’s goal had provided them with.
There was a shock ahead for Thistle though when the referee dramatically flashed a red card in the direction of Clare Docherty just after the 20 minute mark for what we can only assume was something that Docherty said.
If there was any anxiety that the reduction in numbers would have an impact on proceedings were soon dispelled as Thistle continued to dominate and a second goal was added before the interval.
As she had with the first goal Sinclair had a hand in this goal too. Collecting a pass from Henderson, who had held the ball up following a throw, Sinclair squared for McQuillan to mark her debut with a neat left foot finish from 6 yards out.
A disciplined and mature performance after the break, with 17 year old Jenna Ferguson who was introduced as a sub in the immediate wake of Docherty’s red card outstanding, in the heart of the Thistle defence, ensured that there was no chance of a United comeback.
The win was sealed with 14 minutes of the match remaining. Hay lifted the ball over the United defence for sub Imogen Longcake to use her pace to get on the end of. She looked set to score as she took the ball round the keeper only to he hauled to the ground for an obvious penalty. Sadly Longacke picked up an injury in being fouled and was unable to continue.
It was Henderson that was entrusted with the penalty and she powerfully sent the ball to the keeper’s right and into the back of the net.
Six minute later Henderson completed her hat-trick with another emphatic penalty conversion, this time after Lawton was fouled inside the box.
A United side that had rarely, if ever, threatened did create one opening with the game inside the final 90 minutes but they could find no way past Cunningham.
