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Sat 4 February, 2023. Kick Off: - 15:00
Firhill Stadium, Glasgow

Match Information:

Ticketing Information:

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Ticket prices for this match are priced at:

Adults – £20

Concessions (Over 65s, students, disabled supporter including carer, 16-18 year olds) £15

Under 16 – £5

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Matchday purchases

Tickets can be purchased on matchday through online sale. The Executive Offices will be open between 11:30am and 1pm.

Very limited provision will be made at the Jackie Husband ticket office for home supporters, without bank cards or online access, to use cash to purchase tickets for this game.

Partick Thistle Season Ticket Holders

This fixture is on the Partick Thistle 2022/23 season ticket. Use your season ticket card, or the PTFC ticketing app at the turnstile to gain entry to Firhill. Season tickets are only valid for the stand they were purchased for with no changing between stands on a game by game basis, currently permitted.

 

Away Supporters

Cove Rangers supporters will be situated in the north end of the Jackie Husband Stand for this fixture.

Away fans can purchase their ticket for this league game through one of the two methods below:

Away supporter ticket prices for this match are priced at:

Adults – £20

Concessions (Over 65s, students, disabled supporter including carer, 16-18 year olds) £15

Under 16 – £5

Online ticket sales for Cove Rangers fans will be available right up until kick-off.

There will be no provision available for physical in-person ticket sales for away supporters on matchday.

Partick Thistle FC
Partick Thistle
1
Jamie Sneddon
2
Jack McMillan
3
Harry Milne
4
Kevin Holt
6
Kyle Turner
8
Stuart Bannigan
11
Steven Lawless
16
Lee Hodson
18
Connor McAvoy
19
Danny Mullen
21
Aidan Fitzpatrick
 
Subs
31
David Mitchell
5
Darren Brownlie
7
Scott Tiffoney
9
Brian Graham
15
Cole McKinnon
22
Aaron Muirhead
27
James Lyon
29
Zander MacKenzie
Cove Rangers
12
Scott Fox
2
Shaleum Logan
3
Jason Naismith
4
Connor Scully
5
Scott Ross
6
Morgyn Neill
9
Mitch Megginson
11
Leighton McIntosh
14
Miko Virtanen
17
Luis Longstaff
22
Cieran Dunne
 
Subs
23
Kyle Gourlay
15
Kyle McClelland
16
Iain Vigurs
18
Tony Weston
25
Decan Glass
26
Mark Reynolds
28
Broady Paterson
 
Subs
31
David Mitchell
5
Darren Brownlie
7
Scott Tiffoney
9
Brian Graham
15
Cole McKinnon
22
Aaron Muirhead
27
James Lyon
29
Zander MacKenzie
 
Subs
23
Kyle Gourlay
15
Kyle McClelland
16
Iain Vigurs
18
Tony Weston
25
Decan Glass
26
Mark Reynolds
28
Broady Paterson
95’Full Time Report

It's a second home defeat in a row. 

 
95’Full Time
 
90’+03’

A Muirhead effort goes high and wide of goal. 

 
90’+02’

The free kick drops in front of Fox who collects. 

 
90’+02’

Longstaff fouls Tiffoney and Thistle have a free kick. 

 
90’+01’

The ball is behind for a goal kick. Megginson somehow escaped a second yellow card for a foul on Tiffoney that lead to the corner. 

90’+01’Thistle corner from the right
 
90’

Into injury time. It will be interesting to see how much Williams plays of that. He's booked two for time wasting. 

 
89’

There's a couple of shots blocked inside the Thistle box before Scully's shot is saved by Sneddon. 

 
88’

Turner looks to have hurt himself while taking a free kick but is back on his feet. 

87’Cove Rangers Booking - Mitch Megginson
87’Cove Rangers Booking - Kyle McClelland
82’Cove Rangers substitution: Tony Weston replaces Cieran Dunne
82’Cove Rangers substitution: Kyle McClelland replaces Leighton McIntosh
82’Cove Rangers substitution: Mark Reynolds replaces Jason Naismith
 
78’

Thistle are trying to get forward when they can but with no real outlet inside the box and a man short this is getting harder and harder. The stop start nature to the game isn't helping as another Cove player is down receiving treatment. 

 
73’

Thistle win a free kick. The ball is pushed wide to Milne but his cross is poor. 

69’Thistle Booking - Brian Graham

Thistle go down to ten men as the red card is flashed in the direction of Brian Graham. For what is unclear at this juncture. 

 
66’

It's still Cove that lead, but not quite sure how. There's firstly a tremendous Fox save to keep out a Holt header after a Turner free kick then strong Thistle appeals for a penalty fall on deaf ears. It's been much better from Thistle but the score stubbornly refuses to change. 

65’Thistle Booking - Lee Hodson

Thistle have the free kick but it is Hodson that collects a yellow card. 

 
65’

McIntosh gets to Turner's corner ahead of Holt. 

64’Thistle corner from the right
 
63’

It's frantic inside the Cove box but the ball never quite drops for a Thistle player to have a clear look at goal. 

 
61’

This is Thistle's best spell yet but there is no joy from Turner's corner. 

61’Thistle corner from the left
60’Thistle corner from the right

Ironic cheers as the referee signals a corner as Fox gets a touch to McKinnon's shot from the edge of the box. 

 
60’

Tiffoney's low cross across the face of the Cove goal is hacked to safety. 

58’Thistle substitution: Aaron Muirhead replaces Connor McAvoy
 
57’

Turner finds Tiffoney. Tiffoney cuts inside to the edge of the box but although his effort is on target it's never going to beat Fox who makes a routine save. 

 
56’

It's a good ball in from Milne but Graham can't quite get close enough to it to make contact. 

 
55’

The referee spots an infringement as Longstaff's corner comes over. 

55’Cove Rangers corner from the right

Longstaff leaves Holt on the ground but McAvoy steps in to clear. 

 
51’

It's a clever ball from Holt over the Cove defence looking for Tiffoney but the ball runs away from Tiffoney and out for a goal kick. 

 
49’

Graham has a shooting opportunity at the right corner of the Cove box. The ball doesn't sit up for him and he sends his shot wide of goal. 

47’Thistle Booking - Connor McAvoy
45’Thistle substitution: Cole McKinnon replaces Jack McMillan
45’Thistle substitution: Scott Tiffoney replaces Steven Lawless
45’Thistle substitution: Brian Graham replaces Danny Mullen
 
45’Kick-Off (2nd half)
45’+02’Half Time Report

It's a familiar story. Thistle dominance but a failure to turn that into a goal or goals and a sucker punch at the other end. 

 
45’+02’Half-Time
 
45’+01’

Fox turns Fitzpatrick's low shot round the post but the referee unbelievably gives a goal kick. 

45’Cove Rangers Booking - Miko Virtanen
 
39’

It's an excellent corner from Longstaff and Thistle have to be grateful that no Cove player is on the end of it to apply a telling finish. 

38’Cove Rangers corner from the right
 
36’

A Cove player goes down and stays down as Turner's corner comes over and play is stopped. 

35’Thistle corner from the right

Turner's effort fizzes over the bar, with a slight deflection, following excellent hold up play from Milne. 

 
33’

Ross looks hold Mullen as he tries to get on the ball at the edge of the box but referee Williams thinks otherwise and play continues. 

32’Thistle corner from the left
31’Thistle corner from the left
 
31’

Thistle can make nothing of the corner though. 

30’Thistle corner from the right

Turner is again unlucky with a free kick with Fox getting down low to push the ball behind. 

 
29’

Logan comes through the back of Lawless and Thistle have a free kick about 10 yards outside the Cove box. 

 
27’

The ball is worked wide to McMillan in a good position but his cross his poor with the frustration of the home crowd all too audible. 

25’Goal Cove Rangers! Mitch Megginson
Thistle 0 - Cove Rangers 1

Thistle fall behind. Dunne is allowed to advance to the corner of the Thistle box and his cross is bundled home at the back post by Megginson. 

 
22’

Milne does well to get the ball over from the left but no Thistle player anticipates the ball coming over and it drifts across the 6 yard box and out of play. 

 
20’

Nearly disaster for Thistle as Fitzpatrick is short with a pass back to Sneddon but Sneddon whips the ball away from the lurking Cove player and disaster is adverted 

 
20’

Turner lifts the free kick in deep. It bobs about for a few seconds before being cleared. 

 
19’

Lawless picks up the ball after Turner's corner is cleared and is fouled right on the edge of the box near the bye line. 

18’Thistle corner from the right

Turner goes for goal with the free kick and Fox does well to turn the ball round for a corner. 

 
17’

Ross fouls Mullen and Thistle have a free kick near the left hand corner of the Cove box. No yellow card this time though. 

 
16’

Sneddon is off his line to confidently claim a Longstaff free kick. 

15’Thistle Booking - Jack McMillan

McMillan trips Dunne as he starts to get clear of him and picks up the game's first yellow card. 

 
10’

First chance for Thistle and Mullen really should do better when he gets in behind the Cove defence. He delays his shot which allows a defender to get back to block and Fox is able to collect the ball before it goes out for a corner. 

 
06’

It's a cheap corner that Thistle concede. Mullen slicing Longstaff's free kick behind. Longstaff though can't make anything of the corner as the scrappy start to the game continues. 

05’Cove Rangers corner from the left
 
04’

It's been a quiet opening but Cove win a free kick in from the left touchline following a foul from McAvoy who has slotted in the centre of the Thistle defence. 

 
00’

It's Cove that get the game underway. Thistle shooting towards The John Lambie Stand in the first half. 

 
00’Kick-Off
 
00’Introduction

It's a breezy Firhill that awaits the players of Partick Thistle and Cove Rangers for this afternoon's cinch Championship fixture. 

Ian McCall's selection worries have thankfully eased although Ross Docherty misses out. 

Steven Lawless goes straight back into the starting eleven while the return to the matchday squad for Darren Brownlie, Brian Graham, Cole McKinnon and Scott Tiffoney starts on the substitute bench. 

New loan signing from Fulham wears the Thistle number 18 jersey this afternoon and plays from the start. 

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