Brechin City 2
Clydebank 4
League (Division 2)

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Brechin City 

2 - 4

Clydebank

League (Division 2)
Saturday, November 11th, 1967
Glebe Park. Att. 366
2:30 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
Frank McAleer (7 og)
John Thomson (89) 		Eddie Moore  (54)
John Boyd  (70)
Tony Moy  (75)
Tony Moy  (80)

Team Managers
John Gilmartin Jack Steedman

Starting Eleven
1 John Ritchie
2 Bisset Harrier
3 Harry Smith
4 Charlie Dunn
5 Willie Tocher
6 John Cooper
7 Eddie O'Donnell
8 Tommy Ward
9 Les Sneddon
10 Frank Sandeman
11 John Thomson 		Dick Madden 1
John Boyd 2
Davie Mitchell 3
Ernie Collumbine 4
Frank McAleer 5
Tommy McGhee 6
Eddie Moore 7
Stan King 8
Jim Fleming 9
Tony Moy 10
John Baxter 11

Bench
12 Stan Lewry Eddie Jenkins 12

Substitutions
None. Eddie Jenkins for Frank McAleer

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

W Mullan (Referee)




Match Report

Clydebank Press

Tony Moy does it again! That's what happy Clydebank fans must be saying after their team's great performance away at Brechin. Tony scored two goals bring his total to five in his last two games.

Brechin opened the scoring in the first half when Frank McAleer put through his own goal, but Bankies found an equaliser in Eddie Moore, who returned to the team after suffering an injury several weeks ago. Eddie was shoved out on the right in place of the injured Eddie Rutherford.

Featured in the scoreline was John Boyd, the right back, who cracked home a free kick to put his team in the lead. Hamish Ritchie, City's substitute keeper must have wished the Glebe Park turf would swallow him up. He fumbled Boyd's effort from 35 yards out into the back of the net.

Two good opportunist goals by Tony Moy from defensive errors in the second half gave Bankies control but Brechin got one near the end through a left footed drive by Thomson.

Bankies have released Frank Russell at his own request. The forward signed for Alloa and made his debut Cowdenbeath. Also going through the exit door at Kilbowie is Harry Rutherford who has been given a free transfer.

Frank McAleer lost four front teeth in the match at Brechin when he ran into the a brick wall in the form of Davie Mitchell, Davie's got the teeth marks on his shoulder to prove it! Frank will be playing next week but as Jack Steedman quipped, "he won't be as handsome!"

As a result of the players leaving the club the Bankies are down to a pool of 14 so the starting line up against St Mirren is likely to be the same. The Saints already looked certain for promotion, even a this stage.

Continuing their search for young talent, Bankies signed up three hopefuls last week. Jimmy Caskie, son of the former Rangers winger, David Beckett, and Clydebank Strollers player Alan Munro. David and Jimmy are former YM players.

The boys are all in the 15 to 16 age group and are working or still at school. They will train with the club and be called up in the future. The club is showing interest in several other young players and moves to have them at Kilbowie can be expected soon.

Brechin Advertiser

What a disappointment this game turned out to be to the home fans. After City's great 7 points out of 8 run in the League, they deservedly went down to this not too great Bankies side.

In the first half they scorned enough chances to win a couple of matches. Only Thomson on the home left wing and right back Harrier came out with any credit. Chief sinner in front of goal was City's hat-trickster of the previous week, Les Sneddon, ably abetted by young Tommy Ward, who appeared too eager to walk the ball in rather than have a go.

The defence was far below their past few outings, with new 'keeper Ritchie badly at fault for one of the visitors' goals. Pivot Willie Tocher also had a bad day. But, we feel it would be wrong to criticise individual players, as the team in general had an off day.

A vote of confidence has, however been given to them, when the same team is expected to turn out against Alloa this Saturday, when, we hope, the home fans will have a chance to see them play as well as they have done in the past week or two.

McAleer opened the scoring for City in 7 minutes when he passed back past his own keeper. Tocher, in 54 minutes put past his Own keeper to level the scores, Ritchie made a bad mistake in 70 minutes and allowed the Bankies to take the lead. Moy made it 4-2 for the visitors ten minutes from time.



Squad Statistics (as at November 11th, 1967)

1967-68 All Time
League Cups All
Dick Madden (GK) 10 - 6 - 16 -
Frank McAleer 1216 - 191
John Boyd 916 - 151
Ernie Collumbine 10 - 6 - 56 -
Stan King 1115 - 161
Davie Mitchell 12 - 6 - 463
John Baxter 1036 - 163
Tommy McGhee 1015 - 676
Eddie Moore 9553148
Jim Fleming 623294
Tony Moy 129527551
Eddie Jenkins (sub) 7 - 3 - 621







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
11th November 1967
Alloa Athletic1-1Cowdenbeath
Arbroath1-0Albion Rovers
Berwick Rangers2-1Stranraer
Brechin City2-4Clydebank
Dumbarton2-0Montrose
East Fife3-0Stenhousemuir
Hamilton Accies2-1Forfar Ath
Queen of South2-4East Stirlingshire
Queen's Park1-1Ayr Utd

League Table (as at November 11th, 1967)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. St Mirren 13 8 4 1 +16 20
2. Arbroath 12 8 2 2 +20 18
3. East Fife 12 8 1 3 +5 17
4. Queen of South 14 7 2 5 +7 16
5. Dumbarton 13 5 5 3 -1 15
6. Albion Rovers 13 5 4 4 +7 14
7. Ayr Utd 11 5 3 3 +8 13
8. Cowdenbeath 13 4 5 4 +3 13
9. East Stirlingshire 12 4 4 4 +4 12
10. Clydebank 12 5 2 5 +1 12
11. Forfar Ath 13 4 4 5 -5 12
12. Alloa Athletic 13 5 2 6 -10 12
13. Montrose 12 4 3 5 -2 11
14. Hamilton Accies 13 4 3 6 -5 11
15. Berwick Rangers 12 5 1 6 -5 11
16. Brechin City 12 4 2 6 -6 10
17. Queen's Park 11 2 5 4 +1 9
18. Stranraer 13 3 2 8 -13 8
19. Stenhousemuir 14 1 2 11 -25 4