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Queen of South 3
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Clydebank
3 - 3
 Queen of South

League (Division 2)
Saturday, January 11th, 1969
New Kilbowie Park. Att. 725
3:00 PM Kick-off
Goalscorers
Jimmy Caskie  (5)
(Assist Ian Hawkshaw)
Tommy McGhee  (68)
(Assist Ian Hawkshaw)
Paul McMillan  (80)
(Assist Ian Hawkshaw)
 		Lex Law (20)
Mike Jackson (61)
Jim Welsh (73)

Team Managers
Jack Steedman
 Unknown.

Starting Eleven
1 Dick Madden
2 Paul McMillan
3 Davie Mitchell
4 Dennis Ruddy
5 Jim Fallon
6 Dougie Hay
7 Ian Hawkshaw
8 Bobby Love
9 Tommy McGhee
10 Alan Munro
11 Jimmy Caskie
 Allan Ball 1
Matt Watson 2
Mike Barker 3
Mike Jackson 4
Jim Kerr 5
Billy Collings 6
Ian Henderson 7
Jim Welsh 8
Billy Faulds 9
Lex Law 10
Peter Mitchell 11

Bench
12 Gerry O'Brien
 Iain McChesney 12

Substitutions
Gerry O'Brien for Jim Fallon (78)
 Iain McChesney -> Jim Welsh (75)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

A Webster (Referee)



Match Report

Clydebank Press

What has come over Bankies? For months on end supporters are fed with utter trash then, all of-a-sudden, the team bursts into life to provide some of the most entertaining football in the Second Division.

This is exactly what has happened at Kilbowie over the past three weeks. Clydebank have hit top form and there appears to be no looking back.

Spectacular is the only word which can be used to describe the game at Kilbowie Park against Queen of the South on Saturday. From the beginning, the game erupted into fast, end-to-end play, which kept both defences on their toes.,

Clydebank went into an early lead only to lose it, then go one down. They came back strongly and repeated the procedure yet again before the match ended.

Bankies gained the advantage in the fifth minute. Jimmy Caskie, the "Wee Wizard" at outside-left, ran on to an Ian Hawkshaw cross, which slipped across the goalmouth and rebounded from 'keeper Ball to hammer it into the back of the net.

Queen of the South hit back hard but, try as they did, could not dampen the determined and explosive spirit of Clydebank.

The first equaliser came only 15 minutes after Caskie's goal.

Queen's inside-left, Lex Law, surprised everyone by shooting from 25 yards. The ball rocketed towards the Clydebank goal, and Dick Madden made a brave attempt to save. He got his fingers to the ball, only to see it bounce over his body, into the net.

Retaliating, big Alan Munro proved to be a veritable pain in the neck to 'keeper Ball. Alan's determination meant that Ball was kept on his toes throughout the match. It is greatly in his favour that the score for Clydebank was not higher than it eventually turned out to be.

Queens went into the attack from the start of the second half and before long had gained the upper hand, pinning Clydebank into defence.

A series of corners around the 60th minute made things look dangerous for Clydebank, illustrating the shakiness of a rather slow defence.

Right-half Jackson, reputed to be Queen's top man, put his team into the lead in the 61st minute. Lex Law took a free-kick which laid the Clydebank defence wide open. Jackson moved on to the ball and blasted it home from 30 yards.

Trying desperately, Bankies tried to push their way out of defence, no mean task against such a team as Queens.

After a further seven minutes of lively play Tommy McGhee brought Clydebank back on to even terms.

Ian Hawkshaw took the ball down the right wing and crossed it in from the byeline. On the ball, so to speak, McGhee snapped up the shot and sent it home.

As if there had not already been a fair amount of excitement, Queens went into the lead yet again in the 73rd minute when inside-right Welsh landed a cracker of a shot from a right-wing Henderson pass.

A few minutes later Welsh was taken off and substitute McChesney was brought on in his place. Just after this, Fallon at centre-half for Clydebank fell heavily in a tackle and had to be carried off the field. Substitute Gerry O'Brien was brought on in his place.

The big surprise of the match came with the final goal in the 80th minute. Bankies right-back McMillan, an ex-Chelsea player, had moved upfield for a previous corner. Ian Hawkshaw crossed the ball in from the right wing and McMillan, moving like a streak of greased lightning, shot it past 'keeper Ball into the back of the net.

No one could possibly have asked for anything but the result at this match. A draw was perfect.

Bankies had lost nothing of their fervour, displayed at the previous week's Forfar game.

They were up against a far more determined team than Forfar and the result turned out just right.

Evening News and Star

Queens and Clydebank served up excellent fare at Kilbowie Park on Saturday for the 2000 fans who attended, and few, if any, left before the final whistle sounded. The draw was perhaps a fair result, although Queen's forwards had chances enough to have returned to Dumfries with both points.

Young Jimmy Welsh was the chief culprit and shortly after he had given Queens a 3-2 lead in the 70th minute he had the miss of the match. Almost on the goal-line when the ball came through a ruck of players, he tried to help it into the net, but somehow managed to scoop it up on to the crossbar. It proved a costly miss, for the Bankies set up an attack that brought a goal at the other end.

Queens had shown top form in the early stages and Mike Jackson had a goal disallowed a few minutes after the kick-off. But it was the home team who opened the scoring, Caskie netting.

Lex Law equalised, with a tremendous 25-yard drive, and with 60 minutes gone, Mike Jackson scored the goal of the game, from a 30-yard drive.

McGhee levelled the score, but Queens looked well on top when Welsh- put them ahead. Finally McMillan equalised.



Squad Statistics (as at January 11th, 1969)

1968-69 All Time
League Cups All
Dick Madden (GK) 21 - 7 - 64 -
Davie Mitchell 16 - 6 - 954
Jim Fallon 18 - 3 - 21 -
Ian Hawkshaw 229722911
Paul McMillan 6151112
Dennis Ruddy 16 - 7 - 27 -
Tommy McGhee 630 - 939
Dougie Hay 19 - 5 - 381
Bobby Love 1011 - 111
Alan Munro 1693 - 199
Jimmy Caskie 2053 - 296
Gerry O'Brien (sub) 1817 - 281







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
11th January 1969
Albion Rovers1-0Cowdenbeath
Ayr Utd2-0Berwick Rangers
Brechin City1-3Alloa Athletic
Clydebank3-3Queen of South
East Fife5-0Hamilton Accies
Motherwell5-1Queen's Park
Stenhousemuir2-2Montrose
Stirling Albion2-1Forfar Ath
Stranraer1-2Dumbarton

League Table (as at January 11th, 1969)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Motherwell 21 18 2 1 +56 38
2. Stirling Albion 22 18 1 3 +29 37
3. Albion Rovers 22 14 4 4 +11 32
4. Ayr Utd 21 14 3 4 +34 31
5. East Fife 22 12 4 6 +18 28
6. Queen of South 22 11 5 6 +19 27
7. Forfar Ath 20 12 2 6 +18 26
8. East Stirlingshire 21 11 2 8 +16 24
9. Stranraer 21 8 5 8 +3 21
10. Queen's Park 23 9 3 11 -10 21
11. Berwick Rangers 22 6 5 11 -13 17
12. Montrose 21 7 2 12 -17 16
13. Dumbarton 23 6 4 13 -19 16
14. Clydebank 22 3 9 10 -18 15
15. Cowdenbeath 21 5 4 12 -16 14
16. Hamilton Accies 22 5 4 13 -23 14
17. Alloa Athletic 22 4 4 14 -22 12
18. Brechin City 18 5 1 12 -15 11
19. Stenhousemuir 22 2 4 16 -51 8