Clyde 3
Clydebank 0
League Cup (Group 7)


Clyde 

3 - 0

Clydebank

League Cup (Group 7)
Saturday, August 15th, 1981
Shawfield. Att. 465
3:00 PM Kick-off


Goalscorers
Robert Reilly (40)
Danny Masterton (72)
Robert Reilly (77)
None.

Team Managers
Craig Brown Bill Munro

Starting Eleven
1 Greig Young
2 John Brogan
3 Tom McQueen
4 Jim Docherty
5 Jim Dempsey
6 Jimmy Miller
7 Derek McCutcheon
8 Robert Reilly
9 Danny Masterton
10 Tom Coutts
11 Tom O'Neill
Jim Gallacher 1
Mark Treanor 2
Jim Fallon 3
Gerry McLauchlan 4
Gerry Sharkey 5
Jimmy Given 6
Campbell McKeown 7
Davie Houston 8
Barry Evans 9
Blair Millar 10
Gerry McCabe 11

Bench
12 Jim McAlpine
14 Pat Nevin
Gerry Ronald
Tom McGorm

Substitutions
Jim McAlpine -> Tom Brogan
Pat Nevin -> Danny Masterton
Tom McGorm for Campbell McKeown (45)
Gerry Ronald for Barry Evans (75)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

J Duncan (Referee)
T Hanley & JF Smith (Assistants)



Match Report


Clydebank boss Bill Munro looked a worried man as he left the rain-soaked Shawfield pitch on Saturday.

He had seen his First Division side floundering badly against supposedly weaker opposition - a Clyde outfit without a point after two games.

The 3-0 beating was food for thought enough, but the manner of Bankies' defeat must have left a scar even this early in the new season.

After a late Hampden defeat and a throwaway 2-2 draw with Second Division Berwick Rangers, the Kilbowie side needed two points to have any chance of a League Cup section win and a possible glamour quarter-final tie.

Ninety minutes later, that dream lay in tatters, thanks to a double from Reilly and some nightmare defensive mistakes.

"Clydebank have fallen back a million miles since I last saw them," said a fellow sports writer at Shawfield. A trifle unkind, but on this performance the heady days of Premier League football do seem a long, long time ago.

The visitors were stretched after only four minutes, when Clyde's Tom O'Neill glided through the static defence to send a grounder past Jim Gallacher. The ball rebounded off the post before the grateful Jim Fallon nipped in to send it wide for a corner.

Minutes later a Danny Masterton drive sent Gallacher scrambling across his goal, before Clydebank settled back for their best move of the game.

A complex midfield move ended with Greig Young diving to save well from a close-range Blair Millar header.

Clyde took the initiative and always looked capable of scoring past the shaky Bankies' rearguard. In 40 minutes, the inevitable happened when former Ayr United striker Robert Reilly beat the back four to a through ball, before coolly slipping it past Gallacher from a tight angle.

Clydebank brought on McGorm for young McKeown at the start of the second half and for a while the Kilbowie side came alive.

First Evans missed a glorious scoring chance when he completely miskicked in front of goal, then Houston sent a clever effort just wide of the post.

But Clyde were soon in the driving seat again and they increased the lead in the 72nd minute through Danny Masterton.

The unfortunate Gerry Sharkey let a crossfield pass run under his foot to send the big striker through on his own before placing his final shot wide of Gallacher.

Bill Munro sent on Houston for Evans in a last attempt to salvage a point, but Clyde stretched their already commanding lead with a goal in the 77th minute.

The ever alert Reilly added his own second goal and Clyde's third when he netted from eight yards after an old-fashioned goalmouth scramble.

Bankies' defence was in total disarray and they had to call on the luckless Jim Gallacher to turn a Reilly shot wide to save the final humiliation.

The defeat left Clydebank with only one point from their three League Cup section games, five behind the confident Queen's Park.

In the other group match, they kept up their 100 per cent record to beat Berwick 2-0, with a double from centre half John McGregor.



Squad Statistics (as at August 15th, 1981)


1981-82 All Time
League Cups All
Jim Gallacher (GK) 0 - 3 - 337 -
Mark Treanor 0 - 3 - 24 -
Gerry McLauchlan 0 - 3116312
Jimmy Given 0 - 3 - 14715
Jim Fallon 0 - 2 - 59032
Gerry Sharkey 0 - 3 - 241
Barry Evans 0 - 31516
Gerry McCabe 0 - 3 - 561
Davie Houston 0 - 1 - 18517
Campbell McKeown 0 - 3 - 61
Blair Millar 0 - 3 - 16078
Gerry Ronald (sub) 0 - 3 - 1179
Tom McGorm (sub) 0 - 3 - 4710







Recent Results


League results since Clydebank's last match
None.

League Table (as at August 15th, 1981)


Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Dumbarton 1 1 0 0 +4 2
2. Falkirk 1 1 0 0 +3 2
3. Ayr Utd 1 1 0 0 +2 2
4. St Johnstone 1 1 0 0 +1 2
5. Dunfermline 1 1 0 0 +1 2
6. Kilmarnock 1 1 0 0 +1 2
7. Motherwell 1 1 0 0 +1 2
8. Clydebank 1 0 0 1 -1 0
9. East Stirlingshire 1 0 0 1 -1 0
10. Hearts 1 0 0 1 -1 0
11. Queen's Park 1 0 0 1 -1 0
12. Hamilton Accies 1 0 0 1 -2 0
13. Raith Rovers 1 0 0 1 -3 0
14. Queen of South 1 0 0 1 -4 0