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Clydebank 3
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Alloa Athletic 

3 - 3

Clydebank

League (Division 2)
Saturday, January 18th, 1969
Recreation Park. Att. 643
3:00 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
John Muir (6)
Tommy Ure (9 pen)
Jim Baillie (15) 		Tommy McGhee  (4)
Alan Munro  (47)
(Assist Ian Hawkshaw)
Jimmy Caskie  (85)
(Assist Ian Hawkshaw)

Team Managers
Unknown. Jack Steedman

Starting Eleven
1 Jim Matchett
2 Alex Hodge
3 Bobby Gray
4 Jimmy Thomson
5 George Brown
6 Andy Campbell
7 Joe McCallan
8 John Muir
9 Jim Baillie
10 Tommy Ure
11 Jan Halup 		Dick Madden 1
Paul McMillan 2
Davie Mitchell 3
Frank McAleer 4
Jim Fallon 5
Dougie Hay 6
Ian Hawkshaw 7
Bobby Love 8
Tommy McGhee 9
Alan Munro 10
Jimmy Caskie 11

Bench
12 Ian Cruickshank Gerry O'Brien 12

Substitutions
None. Gerry O'Brien for Frank McAleer (44)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

W Balfour (Referee)




Match Report

Sunday Post

What a cliff-hanger of a game! Alloa, leading 3-1 after an action packed quarter of an hour, found they were still fighting a Clydebank side which refused to acknowledge defeat.

Bankies got one back after the restart, and with five minutes to go, their stubborn fightback was rewarded.

Then a real heart-stopper for Alloa! Clydebank netted, but the referee had just enough time to disallow this score, before blowing for full time.

Hawkshaw was the man of the match. A clever and constructive attacker in a game which tended to be vigorous rather than clever.

On one vital occasion, he popped up to sweep the ball off the line when Madden was well beaten.

McGhee having missed an easy first minute chance, made up for it in four minutes when he nipped in a close range effort. Two minutes later Muir levelled, then Halup was brought down in the box, and Ure scored from the spot. Thomson put Alloa three up in the fifteenth minute.

On the restart, Hawkshaw laid on a good chance for Munro who prodded home, and Caskie got the equaliser five minutes from time.

Sunday Mail

Clydebank opened the scoring in four minutes through McGhee. Alloa equalised through Muir and in the ninth minute Halup was upended in the box and Ure scored from the spot.

In the 15th minute Baillie put Alloa two ahead. After the interval Clydebank's Hawkshaw laid on the ball for Munro to net in the 47th minute.

Warnings were handed out for hard tackling.

Clydebank were going all out for the equaliser.

With five minutes to go Hawkshaw crossed for Caskie to shoot home a well deserved equaliser.

For Clydebank, Hawkshaw had a great game with support from Madden, Mitchell, Hay and Caskie. Alloa's top men were Matchett, Brown, Thomson, Muir and Halup.

Alloa Advertiser

NEVER WON! Perhaps these are the words that can most appropriately be applied to this game between Alloa and Clydebank on Saturday. It was never won. When Alloa were leading 3-1 with only 16 minutes gone (and that score including recovery from an early deficit) one might have thought they had matters well in hand. But somehow we never had that impression-those who were at the game will understand what we mean. In this chancy affair any- thing could happen and when Alloa had failed to improve their position by the interval (yes we were greedily requiring at least a 4-1 lead!) somehow we feared the worst. What if the Bankies get a quick one? we foreboded (is there such a word?). And that was just what happened and there was the game wide open to those grey, dripping skies. Alloa were now playing to the wrong goal for any further feats of derring do (they can't book the railway as their objective both halves) and when the closing phase was entered upon with a battling Clydebank raiding with persistence and courage one could almost see that late equaliser coming along. And come along it did through wee Jimmy Caskie and a defender's deflection in the 85th minute - the Bankies had done it.

And believe it or not we were glad to hear the whistle - quite apart from the dismal conditions and those onsets of rain. For this was a game in which Alloa, for all their goal-scoring, never looked really comfortable. At one stage goals looked two a penny (there were four in 16 minutes) and chancy was the only word which could be applied to the defence work from time to time. Perhaps the boggy conditions had the final word-the teams settled down in the morass and eventually settled for a draw (Clydebank reluctantly).

So much for the general pattern of events, let's see how the Alloa players acquitted themselves in this so near and yet so far affair.

And first those forwards who looked to have made victory secure (if any reliance was to be placed on score-sheets!). And full marks here to roving Jim Baillie, the man who kept the Clydebank defence on the move. What a grand game Baillie played! If he wasn't bringing pressure down the middle he was roving down either wing. Some stamina there (we understand it derives from three nights a week training).

And next to Baillie, we would place John Muir-Alloa's classiest forward and in typical form here with many a lively inroad and rocket drive. The efforts of Baillie and Muir deserved a better reward (but sometimes they reduced the reward with a drive when a pass would have served better).

In the other position Tommy Ure played a serviceable game - noted for its activity and industry comments which also apply to McCallan on the right. In a team which has been often this season "without wingers" McCallan is a reasonable proposition in that position.

But surely no "wingerless" criticism now with young Jan Halup performing on the left What a fine game the diminutive Halup had! Always liable to be mowed down as a result of his tricky footwork, he suffered just that fate spectacularly on one occasion and a penalty resulted! Ure saw to it that the full penalty was exacted. Yes, Jan Halup should do well (penalties apart) on the Alloa left-he crosses a good ball as a variety from maziness.

And what of the rear six We find it difficult to sum them up in this game which forward effort should have won. Pivot George Brown came on to a game as the going deepened, but was suspect in the early stages. We are an admirer of Brown, but would not place this among his top games (though were we glad to see him looking bulkier than ever in those closing minutes!)

Brown had two hard-working wing-halves in Jim Thomson and Andrew Campbell, and were all those efforts needed here? Those Bankies just didn't seem to realise when they should have been lying down- 1-3 meant nothing to their consciousness.

And in the rear division also Alex Hodge and Bobby Gray didn't have their troubles to seek. A kick on the face was one episode in which Hodge was involved (the victim's retaliation might have earned him marching orders) and Gray had a name Hawkshaw to haunt his dreams on Saturday night! But over the piece they could cry quits on the deal - the trouble was Clydebank could do just that too!

Finally, keeper Jim Matchett. A fine game spotlit by many a grand save and area crisis pick-up in true Matchett rugby style. In this type of game (with its atmosphere of uncertainty) it was well for Alloa that Matchett was at his deft best. Over briefly to Clydebank. They had one of the forward personalities of the game in the raiding Hawkshaw and sound defenders in Mitchell and Fallon. They never gave in.



Squad Statistics (as at January 18th, 1969)

1968-69 All Time
League Cups All
Dick Madden (GK) 22 - 7 - 65 -
Paul McMillan 7151122
Frank McAleer 1 - 0 - 251
Davie Mitchell 17 - 6 - 964
Jim Fallon 19 - 3 - 22 -
Ian Hawkshaw 239723011
Dougie Hay 20 - 5 - 391
Bobby Love 1111 - 121
Tommy McGhee 740 - 9410
Jimmy Caskie 2163 - 307
Alan Munro 17103 - 2010
Gerry O'Brien (sub) 1917 - 291







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
18th January 1969
Alloa Athletic3-3Clydebank
Berwick Rangers0-0Brechin City
Cowdenbeath0-5Motherwell
Dumbarton5-1Stenhousemuir
Hamilton Accies1-1Stirling Albion
Montrose2-2East Stirlingshire
Queen's Park1-1Albion Rovers

League Table (as at January 18th, 1969)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Motherwell 22 19 2 1 +61 40
2. Stirling Albion 23 18 2 3 +29 38
3. Albion Rovers 23 14 5 4 +11 33
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 22 11 3 8 +16 25
9. Queen's Park 24 9 4 11 -10 22
10. Stranraer 21 8 5 8 +3 21
11. Berwick Rangers 23 6 6 11 -13 18
12. Dumbarton 24 7 4 13 -15 18
13. Montrose 22 7 3 12 -17 17
14. Clydebank 23 3 10 10 -18 16
15. Hamilton Accies 23 5 5 13 -23 15
16. Cowdenbeath 22 5 4 13 -21 14
17. Alloa Athletic 23 4 5 14 -22 13
18. Brechin City 19 5 2 12 -15 12
19. Stenhousemuir 23 2 4 17 -55 8