Sun 16 April, 2023
SWPL 1 
Petershill Park
Kerr (15, 23, 55), Howat (22), McLean (90)
SWPL 1
Sun 16 April, 2023. Kick Off: - 12:10
Petershill Park
🎫 Tickets
Entry for this fixture is via pay at the gate. Cash and card are accepted.
Partick Thistle Men’s Season Ticket holders can gain entry to this fixture for only £5!!
Adults: £7
Concessions: £5
Mens Season Ticket Holder: £5
U16s: FREE
🎟️ Season Tickets
Season tickets are valid for this match.
🏟 Stadium
Gates open at 11:15pm 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
There is parking available for free at Petershill Park. Spectators should use the lower two levels of parking at the stadium.
🌮 Food and 🥤 Drink
The pie stall at Petershill Park will be open before kick off selling a variaty of food and drink. Payment is by cash only.
📺 Live Stream
This Match will be shown LIVE on BBC Alba. There will be no Partick Thistle stream of this match.
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 16th April, PTWFC take on Rangers at Petershill Park for a 12:10 kick off.
Thistle come off the back of a 2-0 defeat against Celtic in a hard-fought match that saw defeat in Airdrie. The girls put on a great display against the Hoops but ultimately fell to Fran Alonso’s side after a tough 90 minutes.
A result here for Brian Graham’s side would be massive as we face a really strong Rangers squad at Petershill live on television.
📍Petershill Park
🕐Sun 16th April, 12:10pm
🎟️Adults: £7 / Consc £5
🎫Mens ST Holders: £5
🆓Kids Go Free!
📺 BBC ALba
💻Updates on Twitter
💻️Highlights and reaction post match
Rangers have had a great season, picking up 59 points so far in the league from a possible 72.
Sitting in 3rd position, Malky Thomson’s side will be looking to secure all three points and leapfrog bitter rivals Celtic into 2nd place. Having gained a recent 2-0 win over Hibs, they’ll likely have an eye on the late kick off with another Glasgow derby between Glasgow City and Celtic taking place later that night but will look to secure their job in the early kick off against the Jags.
There are several club links between the two sides with the likes of young defender Rosie Slater making her way through the Rangers Youth ranks before joining the red and yellow side of Glasgow. Current Jags loanee Megan Cunningham is on a temporary switch from the Gers therefore will be ruled ineligible under the terms of her loan agreement. As well as this, new assistant manager Ross Stormonth has recently joined us from Rangers Under 19s side having been the head coach of their development side for a number of years.
The last meeting between the squads ended in a 5-0 defeat at Broadwood Stadium, which was a tough night for the Jags. Despite our good showing in that midweek fixture, we unfortunately suffered injuries to Rebecca McGowan and Cheryl McCulloch that evening which have both been huge losses for Brian Graham as the season has progressed.
Thistle entered the match against Celtic with a clear game plan and worked that from the offset looking to tighten up and prevent the hoops from playing their typical free flowing game. The Jags done very well to keep the green and white side of Glasgow at bay and were unlucky in the goals that they conceded. Megan Cunningham made some excellent saves and was awarded player of the match for her efforts, only highlighting how much of a loss she will be in this upcoming contest against the Gers.
Having had a squad riddled with injuries and absences, the girls did themselves proud and Brian Graham touched upon this in his post-match interview expressing how proud he was of his girls to see out the contest despite everything going against them.
Taking the positives from that showing and following the recent international break, we have been able to rest and recuperate as we welcome Rangers to Petershill Park for this massive tie.
Strong followings from the Red and Yellow Army so far this season have really helped our girls. Your support has played a big part, now we have our opportunity to bring the fight to some of the best clubs in the country, and that continues this Sunday.
News broke shortly before the Celtic tie that Cheryl McCulloch appears to be out for the rest of the season having suffered an ACL injury in the reverse tie of this fixture at Broadwood a few weeks ago. Rebecca McGowan is still be doubtful as she recovers from her injury that she suffered that evening but the midfielder has began light training.
Megan Cunningham is ineligible due to the terms of her loan agreement with Rangers while top scorer Rachel Donaldson and right back Clare Docherty are suspended for this tie having picked up too many bookings this season.
Abbie Ferguson returns to the squad following her ineligibility against her parent club Celtic and does so in fantastic form having scored five goals in her debut for the Scotland u19s squad during the international break. Taylor McGlashan also returns to the squad having missed the Celtic tie as she looks to replicate her fine performance in her last showing at Petershill against Hearts.
Our management squad will be looking to find the best team available as we return home for this fixture in the top six of the Park’s Motor Group SWPL.
1st March 2023
RANGERS 5
(Watson, 18) (McLeary, 50′) (Danielsson, 56′, 62′) (McCoy, 65′)
PARTICK THISTLE 0
Partick Thistle fell to a third-consecutive post-split SWPL1 defeat as they fell 5–0 to Rangers at Petershill Park.
The result means Brian Graham’s side remain bottom of the top six group, but still only a point behind Hibernian at the close of play, with the Hibees not playing till the two sides face up on Wednesday.
Just six minutes in, Rachel McLauchlan called Khym Ramsay into action with a long-range effort. And the stopper, in place for Megan Cunningham who was ineligible against her parent club, was kept busy as Kathryn Hill’s header from a corner was blocked on the line before she gathered the ball. Seconds later, she denied Sam Kerr what looked to be a sure goal with her feet.
But Scotland international Kerr would not be denied a second time in the 15th minute, beating the offside trap to get onto the end of Kirsty Howat’s pass, firing the ball into the bottom left corner. Rangers kept the pressure up five minutes later as the ball was played through into the box to Emma Watson, whose chance was blocked by the onrushing Ramsay. But their lead was doubled within a minute, as Howat’s chance from a Jodi McLeary cross went in.
And it was three soon after as Kerr got onto the end of McLauchlan’s long ball to be one-on-one with Ramsay, slotting the ball in off the post. Thistle had a Demi Falconer shot from a corner blocked before Rangers nearly scored on the counter, with Ramsay coming off her line to deny Watson.
The closest Rangers came again before the break saw Nicola Docherty put a ball across the box to find an unmarked McLauchlan, with the head of Falconer clearing her shot behind for a corner.
Rangers came out pressing in the second half as Howat blazed a shot over the bar. Ramsay then had to get down low at her near post to deny half time substitute Chelsea Cornet, with Linzi Taylor clearing Tessel Middag’s header off the line from the ensuing corner.
Their pressing was rewarded in the 56th minute as Kerr completed her hat trick, heading in from six yards out. They chased a fifth as Ramsay’s save from Cornet’s shot spilled into the path of Howat, but Rosie Slater blocked the rebound. Kerr almost grabbed her fourth of the afternoon, but her header dipped just past the post.
Thistle had the chance to grab a consolation goal with ten minutes to play, but Imogen Longcake’s shot was blocked behind. And Rangers made it five in stoppage time as substitute Kirsty MacLean’s shot from the centre of the box nearly burst the net.
The Jags will look to regroup as they travel to Edinburgh to take on Hibernian in midweek action. That game takes place this Wednesday 19th April at Meadowbank Stadium, kickoff is at 7.30pm.
