SWPL 1
Sun 20 November, 2022. Kick Off: - 14:00
New Douglas Park , Hamilton
🎫 Tickets
Entry is through pay at the gate
Adults – £5
Concession – £3
U16 – Free
🚗 Getting There
New Douglas Park, Hamilton.
📺 Live Stream
As this is an away Fixture there will be no PTWFC live steam of this match.
💻 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 20th November, PTWFC take on Hamilton Accies Women at New Douglas Park for a 14:00 kick off.
Thistle come off the back of an impressive 1-0 win against Motherwell in the SWPL1 just over a fortnight ago at Petershill in a game played in some horrible conditions.
Brian Graham’s women deservedly took all three points from the Well and now head to Hamilton as we look to keep our fantastic form which has saw The Jags rise to 5th in the table.
That Motherwell victory on the back of a win against Dundee United and a draw against Hibernian will see Thistle head to New Douglas Park full of confidence and looking to further secure themselves in that fifth place. as we enter the winter months.
📍New Douglas Park
🕐2pm
🎟️Adults: £5 / Concession: £3 /
🆓Kids go FREE
📺 No Live Stream
💻Updates on Twitter
🗣️Highlights and reaction post match
Hamilton have had a strong start to their season thus far, picking up 9 points from a possible 27.
Gaining victories over Aberdeen, Spartans and Glasgow Women so far. Hamilton currently sit in 8th place in the SWPL1, 3 places and 3 points below the Jags.
There are not as many club links between the squads as we had with Motherwell last time out, Amy Bulloch announced her signing from Hamilton 2 years ago this week with a stunning volley against Stirling Uni and .she’ll be raring to go and get one up on her former outfit this Sunday. Hamilton have former Jags loanee Summer Christie in their ranks.
As previously mentioned, a tough victory in harsh conditions brought all three points for Brian Graham’s side against Motherwell, and they can be commended for their mentality throughout the match. There were plenty of positives that spell out good signs for The Jags as we look to continue our impressive form.
Having had a couple weeks in between fixtures to gain fitness, our Jags are raring to go against Hamilton. Top scorer Jordan McClintock wasn’t risked against Motherwell after missing Hibs, however, is looking to get her shooting boots back on come Sunday.
Strong followings from the Red and Yellow Army so far this season have really helped our girls, and hopefully more of the Thistle faithful make the journey to Lanarkshire on Sunday to help cheer on the Jags.
Nearly a full squad available for Brian Graham this weekend, with only Taylor McGlashan, a long term injury victim out through injury. Clare Docherty misses out through suspension after picking up her fourth yellow card of the campaign against Motherwell.
The manager will be hoping he can call on his available players, and show on Sunday just how it feels to be a Jag.
6th February 2022
HAMILTON ACCIES 0
PARTICK THISTLE 1
(Docherty, 77′)
With three wins and a draw in the last four league outings Thistle went into this match as arguably the division’s form team. The emphatic 5-1 win that followed not only served to underline the good form that Thistle are currently in but also consolidated a top six position.
The game kicked off to the dramatic backdrop or a rainbow soaring above the traditional away end of New Douglas Park and events on the pitch were no less dramatic inside the game’s opening 10 minutes.
A sharp turn from Hamilton’s Giard that wrong footed Demi Falconer inside the opening 60 seconds signalled the home side’s early attacking intentions with a raised flag for offside halting any early threat to the Thistle goal. Those attacking intentions were emphasised a few minutes later when Giard saw a shot blocked.
There were just five minutes on the clock, however, when the game took a dramatic shift in Thistle’s direction. Abbie Ferguson lifted a shot high towards the Hamilton goal. Thoughts as to whether the ball was going to drop into the net were rendered mute when Nicolson in the Hamilton goal instinctively threw her hands up to save but did so while a yard or so outside her penalty box. The red card that followed, leaving Thistle with a numerical advantage for upwards of 85 minutes, was inevitable.
Linzi Taylor saw her effort from the free kick that followed deflected wide of goal as Thistle looked to take immediate advantage of their newfound numerical supremacy.
A minute later Rebecca McGowan saw a shot well saved by the Accies substitute keeper Rhind and three minutes later Rachel Donaldson spurned a good opportunity following some excellent build up play from Thistle who were already making good use of the full width of the pitch not allowing their opponents to settle into any kind of shape.
Rhind made another excellent stop in the 19th minute to deny Taylor, but the opening Thistle goal was only delayed for a further three minutes.
Cara Henderson and Freya MacDonald exchanged passes on the right and when the latter sent over a cross, Taylor bravely got on the end of it to head Thistle into a deserved lead.
Claire Adams, who has been busy making a slot in the Thistle midfield her own since coming into the starting eleven, and Falconer and Henderson all came close to increasing the Thistle lead before Thistle did net a second goal with 32 minutes on the clock when Donaldson found the net with a superb effort from outside the box.
A third Thistle goal would surely end the game as a contest and Thistle started the second half firmly on the front foot looking for that killer third goal.
Adams saw a shot saved and McGowan dragged an effort narrowly wide of Rhind’s right-hand post, but Thistle had to wait only until the 6th minute of the second half to score again.
Donaldson provided the assist with a low cross from the left that Ferguson fired low past Rhind for the goal that her performance so richly deserved.
Six minutes later and 3-0 became 4-0.
Once again Donaldson provided the assist with a low cross from the left with Taylor at the back post this time applying the finish for her second goal of the afternoon.
With the win all but secured Brian Graham took the opportunity to make some changes but with no lessening in intensity of Thistle performance.
It was one of the substitutes introduced, Jordan McLintock, that extended the Thistle lead further after 74 minutes when she converted a penalty after she herself had been fouled.
It could even have been a sixth for Thistle and a second for McLintock with 80 minutes on the clock, but she was denied by another good stop from Rhind, who impressed after her early introduction into the action, with Charlotte Terry unable to hit target when the ball fell into her path.
There would be one further goal before the final whistle but while essentially meaningless in the context of the destination of the points it was still a frustrating one for Thistle to concede with yet another clean sheet so close to being recorded. The referee spotted what he considered a handball after Falconer had cleared a cross from the Thistle left and awarded the home side a penalty that was converted by Quinn to complete the scoring for the afternoon.