William Hill Championship
Fri 30 January, 2026. Kick Off: - 19.45
McDiarmid Park, Perth
Ticket Information
Partick Thistle supporters will have the option of the north end of the Geoff Brown Stand (Main Stand) for this fixture or the North Stand (behind the goal). Both stands are now on sale HERE.
Tickets will be available to purchase online only (with the exception of wheelchair & PA*), and the following prices apply:
Please note for the £21 family deal, all ticket holders must enter via turnstile 6 which will be monitored by stewards – strictly 1 adult + max 2 x U13 only.
*Wheelchair & PA tickets (GB Stand only) can be purchased directly from the St Johnstone FC ticket office on 01738 459090 (option 1).
Adult/concession wheelchair tickets are £24/£16, respectively. A personal assistant ticket is included in the ticket price (where required).
All supporters must have a ticket for entry (including U13s and personal assistants).
We have a limited amount of disabled parking bays for visiting supporters to book in advance (£5 – cash on the day). Supporters should email with their name and vehicle registration to enquire about booking.
Supporters’ Buses
John Lambie Jordanhill Branch (Sharing with North-West Branch)
Fully booked for this fixture.
City Centre Branch
Pick up:
Station Bar : 16:30
For seats, call Duncan 07979496154 or e-mail .
North-West Branch (Sharing with John Lambie Jordanhill Branch)
Fully booked for this fixture.
Thistle left it late to secure a point away from home against St. Johnstone tonight with Oisin Smyth scoring both goals in a 2-2 draw.
Tonight’s game represented one of the biggest of this season’s Championship so far as Mark Wilson’s Jags were faced with the prospect of going top of the table if they could beat Simo Valakari’s side on their own patch.
Off the back of a 2-1 win over Ayr United, there was a single change to the first XI for Thistle as Logan Chalmers was replaced by Robbie Crawford, starting for the first time since 4th October.
Ts’oanelo Lets’osa remained absent through injury but new loan signing from St. Mirren Fraser Taylor was named among the substitutes.
St. Johnstone’s marquee January signing Josh Fowler took a place on the bench having joined from Queen’s Park the day before the match.
Alex Samuel had the first chance of the game in the opening two and a half minutes. Luke McBeth played a superb ball up for Tony Watt and an error in the Saints’ defence gave Alex Samuel a sight of goal from the angle but the Welshman’s effort rippled the side netting.
Thistle continued to pile on early pressure when Tony Watt received the ball in the box after some neat build-up play. He shifted onto his right foot but fired straight at Toby Steward who palmed away.
St. Johnstone’s first big chance of the game fell after 10 minutes when the ball came to skipper Jason Holt 15 yards out. He took a touch and shot but Dan O’Reilly was quickly out to deflect the shot behind for a corner.
A period of control followed for the hosts with more defensive blocks required to keep the league’s top scorers at bay, however, it would be the travelling Jags who would break the deadlock in the 41st minute.
After a Saints set-piece was cleared, Tony Watt pinched the ball from Reece McAlear and drove the length of the pitch, evading Jason Holt and entering the home side’s box. He was forced to turn back by a recovering defender but then noticed the arrival of Oisin Smyth to his right, sliding a pass to the Northern Irishman who gladly turned home from eight yards out.
Half-time: St Johnstone 0 Partick Thistle 1
The home side brought recent recruit Josh Fowler on during the interval as Simo Valakari sought a reaction from his team and that’s exactly what he got.
Two minutes after the restart, a Jamie Gullan corner wasn’t cleared properly and Alfredo Agyeman struck on the spin, seeing his shot bounce past Josh Clarke thanks to a deflection off of one of the Thistle defenders.
St. Johnstone threatened a quickfire second when Adam Forrester let fly from 20 yards out but his attempt was always bending the wrong way as he shot across goal with his right foot.
Mark Wilson’s Jags then came close to another go-ahead goal as Tony Watt played Alex Samuel in on the inside-right channel, but Toby Steward got out quickly to smother the forward’s advances as he tried to sneak it past the ‘keeper.
Tony Watt pinged a ball over to Alex Samuel who raced onto it. He tried to dribble round the keeper before shooting but Toby Steward put his hands out to prevent a certain goal.
Further scoring seemed inevitable as both teams endeavoured to edge in front and the third goal of the game would arrive in the 65th minute with the Perthshire Saints getting it.
Unsurprisingly it was the division’s top scorer Josh McPake who got it as he cut in from the left wing before reversing a powerful low shot past Josh Clarke into the near corner to take his seasonal tally to five against Thistle alone.
Seeking an attacking spark, Mark Wilson turned to his bench and introduced Kyle Turner, Logan Chalmers and Fraser Taylor with Taylor on for his debut in Jags’ colours.
Those changes led to some renewed threat by the away side as Logan Chalmers had a curling shot across goal headed behind for a corner and Alex Samuel saw a header fly a couple of yards wide of the near post after a cross from the right flank.
After than initial substitute-inspired burst, the Saints regained control and looked likely to add a third. Josh Clarke was called into action a couple of times, most notably to deny Alfredo Agyeman with his shoulder when the on-loan Falkirk man rocketed a shot goalward from the right side of the box.
The game went into five minutes of added time and when Oisin Smyth saw a shot saved easily by Toby Steward, you’d have been forgiven for thinking the points were staying in Perthshire but the visitors didn’t give in.
A ball hooked over the top of the St. Johnstone defence was latched onto by Alex Samuel and with the Thistle number nine sizing up his shot, Cheick Diabate bundled him over requiring referee Sean Murdoch to point to the spot.
January hadn’t been a favourable month for the Jags from 12 yards but a new face in the form of Oisin Smyth stepped up for the pressure spot kick. The midfielder smashed the ball forcefully into the bottom right corner leaving the goalkeeper, who guessed correctly, with no chance.
The final whistle blew as soon as the game restarted and Thistle claimed a point which over the piece they could have reasonably thought to have deserved.
Full-time: St Johnstone 2 Partick Thistle 2
As the spoils were shared, the gap at the Championship summit remains two points with leaders St. Johnstone holding a game in hand on the Maryhill Men.
Up next for Mark Wilson’s side is the long-awaited trip to Borough Briggs as Thistle face Elgin City for a place in the Scottish Gas Men’s Scottish Cup quarter-finals.
Teams
St Johnstone – Toby Steward, Cheick Diabate, Morgan Boyes, Bozo Mikulic (Jack Baird, 74’) Jason Holt, Jamie Gullan (Victor Griffith, 88’), Sam Stanton (Josh Fowler, HT), Josh McPake (Kai Fotheringham, 79’), Alfredo Agyeman, Adam Forrester, Reece McAlear.
Unused substitutes – Ross Sinclair, Matty Foulds, Louis Lloyd, Taylor Steven, Liam Smith.
Partick Thistle – Josh Clarke, Paddy Reading (Cale Loughrey, 59’), Lee Ashcroft, Dan O’Reilly, Ben McPherson, Luke McBeth (Logan Chalmers, 71’), Ben Stanway (Fraser Taylor, 71’), Oisin Smyth, Robbie Crawford (Kyle Turner, 66’), Tony Watt, Alex Samuel.
Unused substitutes – Lewis Budinauckas, Cammy Logan, Scott Martin, Ricco Diack, Aidan Fitzpatrick.
Referee – Sean Murdoch
By Craig Vassie
Fri 30 January, 2026
William Hill Championship 
McDiarmid Park, Perth
Oisin Smyth's injury time penalty rescues a point for Thistle.
You read that correctly. We scored a penalty!
Smyth slams home.
Samuel is barged to the ground and Thistle have a penalty.
St Johnstone player down being treated for cramp.
Smyth shoots from the edge of the box but Steward is able to get his body behind it and save.
Minimum of 5 minutes additional time to be played.
Clarke makes himself a big target to beat. Too big a target for Ageyman to get the ball past and Thistle are still in this game but only just.
A Gullan shot is saved by Clarke.
Samuel isn't too far away with a header that goes just the wrong side of the post.
Steward gets a fist to Turner's corner before McPake steps in to complete the clearance.
Chalmers is quickly involved in the action and he picks the ball up on the left and tries to curl the ball into the net only to see his effort headed behind for a corner.
The pressure has been mounting on the Thistle goal and that pressure brings St Johnstone a second goal McPake firing home a low drive from the edge of the bx.
Clarke is forced into pushing an Agyeman shot behind for a corner.
There is an absolute stramash inside the Thistle 6 yard box until the referee's whistle signals a Thistle free kick.
Holt lashes a shot high over the Thistle bar.
Boyes header from Gullan's corner takes the ball away from goal.
Steward smothers at the feet of Samuel after a clever pass from Watt.
Thistle win a free kick midway inside the St Johnstone half.
Forrester is just inches wide with a shot from the edge of the Thistle box.
There is a touch of good fortune about the St Johnstone equaliser as Agyeman's effort is deflected in.
McBerth heads the free kick clear.
St Johnstone win a free kick near the left hand corner of the Thistle box.
Oisin Smyth's goal three minutes before half-time sees Thistle lead at the break.
Minimum of 1 minute additional time.
Thistle again get the ball clear.
Thistle under pressure from the corner but clear.
Wow. It's a good corner from Gullan right under the Thistle bar but Thistle clear. Watt picks up the ball at the edge of his own box, drives forward all the way into the St Johnstone box. He's forced wide but squares to Smyth who knocks the ball home.
Ashcroft needs to make a timely intervention near the Thistle goal line as St Johnstone threaten from the corner.
Clarke gets a strong fist to a McAlear effort and that's enough to get the ball over the bar and out for a corner.
Gullan's corner curls out of play.
Thistle remain on the attack after Reading's free kick is cleared. The ball won't sit for a Thistle player inside the box until it breaks to Crawford and his effort from a tight angle is blocked.
A tug on Samuel and Thistle have a free kick in a threatening position.
It's Reading with the corner. It's missed by Steward and picked up by Thistle at the far side of the box. It's worked back to Stanway who lifts the ball back into the box but it drifts out for a goal kick.
Thistle though win their first corner.
A Gullan shot trickles through to Clarke. It's the home side on top at the moment.
An Agyeman shot from the edge of the box is straight at Clarke.
The referee spots an infringement as Gullan's corner goes to the back post and Thistle have a free kick.
It's a great block from O'Reilly that denies Holt.
A Stanway shot is blocked by the leg of a defender.
Patient build up from St Johnstone nearly creates a chance for McPake but his takes his eye off the ball and it rolls away from him and out for a goal kick.
Boyes is late on McPherson. There is a lecture for the St Johnstone player but no booking. Thistle free kick wide on the right.
Steward pushes away a Watt shot.
Boyes advances down the middle of the pitch and from 35 yards out sends a shot high over Clarke's crossbar.
Early chance for Thistle as Samuel gets a clear glance at goal. His shot though finds the side netting.
Thistle get the game underway.
It isn't the nicest of evenings in Perth but the atmosphere is building nicely with kick-off in this top of the table clash now less than 10 minutes away.
The Thistle side shows just one change from the side that started last weekend against Ayr United.
Robbie Crawford comes in for Logan Chalmers.
New loan signing Fraser Taylor starts on the bench.