Queen of South 2
Clydebank 2
Scottish Cup (2nd Preliminary Round)
Queen of SouthQueen of South |
2 - 2 |
ClydebankClydebank |
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Scottish Cup (2nd Preliminary Round) |
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| Goalscorers | |
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Mike Jackson (34) Lex Law (86) |
John Baxter (44)
(Assist Arthur Paterson) Tony Moy (78) (Assist Eddie Jenkins) |
| Team Managers | |
| Jack Husband |
Jack Steedman |
| Starting Eleven | |
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1 Allan Ball 2 Colin Baillie 3 Mike Barker 4 Billy Collings 5 Jim Kerr 6 Iain McChesney 7 Jimmy Davison 8 Mike Jackson 9 Bobby Carroll 10 Lex Law 11 John Daley |
Dick Madden 1 Malcolm Henderson 2 Davie Mitchell 3 Ernie Collumbine 4 Eddie Moore 5 Tommy McGhee 6 Arthur Paterson 7 Stan King 8 Jim Fleming 9 Tony Moy 10 John Baxter 11 |
| Bench | |
| 12 George Siddle |
Eddie Jenkins 12 |
| Substitutions | |
| George Siddle -> John Daley (79) |
Eddie Jenkins for Tommy McGhee (70) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
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JM Kelly (Referee) |
Match Report
Clydebank Press
Queen of the South must have been counting their blessings after this thriller; for with only four minutes to go they managed to equalise and that is really cutting it a bit fine.Local supporters came to this match thinking their team would knock spots out of the "Kilbowie Terrors" but it did not take them long to change their minds.
Queens have a good home record, having won eight, drawn two and lost two, and to be quite frank, I thought Bankies were backing a loser. It would have been very disappointing to travel down to Dumfries if Bankies had lost, but the lads did not let us down. There were a 100 or so other Bankies fans who were there felt the same way.
The home side started off strongly and two good shots by inside left Lex Law came too close for comfort but we had no worries for Dick Madden and the rest of the defence were in top form.
Law's first effort came in eight minutes with an 18 yarder which scraped past the post and he followed this up half a minute later with a similar effort which went by the other post.
The game began to settle down and Bankies tried a sortie in Queen's territory and found the home defence in a shaky position and in fact for some time in the first half their pressure brought moans of despair from among the home fans.
After 20 minutes a Baxter header from a Moy cross let right winger Arthur Paterson in with a chance to score but he headed past the post.
This type of stuff whetted the appetites of Bankies fans for most of the middle period of the first half and Bankies came close on several occasions.
Meanwhile the home forward live was not exactly asleep either and a bit of hard pressure on the 34 minute mark gave them the lead.
A McChesney free kick landed at the feet of the inside man Mike Jackson, the former Clyde and Celtic player. Davie Mitchell hung back waiting for offside to be given by referee Kelly from Motherwell but that whistle never blew and Jackson went through to crash the ball past the helpless Madden.
That's one mistake I'm sure Davie Mitchell will not make again. Never wait for the whistle!
Queen's fans were jubilant and were chasing for more goals(the last time the clubs met Queen's won by five goals to nil) but they had to reckon with a Clydebank side that has learned to fight tooth and nail.
Keeper Allan Ball dropped a Moy header in 38 minutes but recovered in time, then Tommy McGhee ran on to a Fleming pass and thumped the ball past the post one minute from half time.
By this time Bankies supporters were getting frantic and then it was time for a miracle! Arthur Paterson slammed the ball across goal from the left - Jim Fleming missed it - Tony Moy jumped over it - And there was big John Baxter, travelling like an express train, to smash it into the net and all that keeper Ball could do was make a feeble attempt to save.
The time was 44 and 1/2 minutes played. They could not have made it any closer had they tried!
If you think the first half was exciting you should have seen the second. Bankies played like tigers and the home forward line never had so many chances in their naturals! I've never seen a crowd like it for poor shooting. Their attacking moves were good but time and time again their shots went yards past of over the bar.
For most of the second half when it was all Queens with Lex Law the only decent forward where hooting was concerned.
But Law could have put his side ahead in the 50th minute. He had a dazzling run up the right and was faced with an open goal when Madden was drawn out of position but he crashed the ball past the far post.
Bankies fielded substitute Eddie Jenkins in 70 minutes when Tommy McGhee was taken off with a leg knock he had received earlier in the game.
Its getting to the stage now that you don't see a Bankies scoreline without the name of one Will o the Wisp, Tony Moy on it.
In the 78th minute of the game Tony battled his way through a tight defence, being hacked most of the way, to slam the ball past Ball to put Bankies in the lead.
Panic stations for the homesters! They brought on substitute George Siddle in place of left winger Daley and then began to pound the Bankies goal.
Their pressure succeeded and who better to score than inside left Lex Law. The wee man had played his heart out and it was only fitting he should score.
It was a good goal! Right winger JImmy Davison cracked over a fine cross and the wee man threw himself forward to head the ball into the back of the net with only four minutes of the game to go.
Surprisingly the pressure in the remaining four minutes came from Clydebank and, in fact, instead of scoring goals poor Tony Moy got in the way of a cert.
Fleming passed the ball back to Stan King who slammed it towards the goal but the ball struck Tony on the back and was subsequently cleared.
Evening News and Star
Only a flying header by Lex Law seven minutes from the end saved Queen of the South from being knocked out of the Scottish Cup when they met Clydebank at Palmerston on Saturday.Only 2675 watched this second round preliminary tie. The gate receipts were £394.
A draw was a fair result in this real cup-tie thriller, in which both sides gave all-out effort on a treacherous surface. The Queens sadly missed centre-forward Dick, absent because of a broken nose, and left-winger Mitchell, out with a leg injury. Their re-organised attack, with Carroll at centre and Daley on the wing, failed to click. Second- half changes, Siddle in place of Daley, failed to effect any improvement.
Jackson and Law brought the Queens into the game with intelligent moves, and Law showed the way with a great run and shot which went only inches wide. Then, rather against the run of play, the Queens went into the lead. A McChesney free-kick came over to Jackson, who breasted the ball down and calmly shot it past the advancing Madden as the Clydebank defenders stood waiting in vain for an offside decision.
Queens were kept, on the defensive, with Kerr and Barker outstanding and only occasionally did the visiting forwards get through to Ball.
The 'keeper seemed none too sure of himself after injuring his back in clearing one difficult situation, and twice he dropped the ball almost on the goal-line. Clydebank got the equaliser right on the interval when Baxter prodded the ball home in a goalmouth scramble after a Paterson free-kick.
The Clydebank defenders kept the Palmerston attack subdued. Only Jackson and Law spelt danger, and both were carefully "Policed" by Collumbine and McGhee.
The left-half went off with a thigh injury and Jenkins came on in his place. The newcomer made an immediate impact with a clever touchline run and through pass to Moy, who beat Ball from close in to put the Bankies in the lead.
The Queens immediately threw everything into attack, but the forwards made little impression. Only individual efforts by Collings and McChesney troubled Madden.
With everyone except Ball in the Clydebank half, Queens eventually broke through, Carroll passed out to Jackson, who lobbed over a chest-high cross for Law to nose-dive and bullet the equaliser past Madden.
Squad Statistics (as at January 6th, 1968)
| 1967-68 | All Time | All Time | |||||||||||||
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| League | Cups | League | Cups | All | All | ||||||||||
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| Dick Madden (GK) | 23 |
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17 | - | 7 | - | 17 | - | 7 | - | 24 | - | |||
| Malcolm Henderson | 21 |
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5 | - | 1 | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | 6 | - | |||
| Ernie Collumbine | 29 |
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17 | - | 7 | - | 52 | - | 12 | - | 64 | - | |||
| Stan King | 29 |
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18 | 1 | 6 | - | 18 | 1 | 6 | - | 24 | 1 | |||
| Davie Mitchell | 23 |
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19 | - | 7 | - | 45 | 3 | 9 | - | 54 | 3 | |||
| John Baxter | 31 |
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17 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 4 | |||
| Tommy McGhee | 20 |
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16 | 1 | 6 | - | 62 | 6 | 12 | - | 74 | 6 | |||
| Eddie Moore | - |
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15 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 8 | |||
| Arthur Paterson | - |
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5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Jim Fleming | 28 |
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13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 7 | |||
| Tony Moy | 22 |
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19 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 71 | 53 | 12 | 5 | 83 | 58 | |||
| Eddie Jenkins (sub) | - |
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10 | - | 4 | - | 57 | 1 | 9 | - | 66 | 1 | |||
Recent Results
| League results since Clydebank's last match |
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| 6th January 1968 |
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| East Fife | 1-0 | Albion Rovers |
| Hamilton Accies | 2-1 | Cowdenbeath |
| Stranraer | 1-3 | Dumbarton |
League Table (as at January 6th, 1968)
| Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | ||
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| 1. | St Mirren | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | +43 | 38 |
| 2. | Arbroath | 21 | 14 | 3 | 4 | +34 | 31 |
| 3. | Queen of South | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | +16 | 27 |
| 4. | East Fife | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | +7 | 27 |
| 5. | Ayr Utd | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | +12 | 23 |
| 6. | Hamilton Accies | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 23 |
| 7. | Queen's Park | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | +10 | 22 |
| 8. | Albion Rovers | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | +9 | 21 |
| 9. | Clydebank | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | +7 | 21 |
| 10. | Cowdenbeath | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| 11. | Dumbarton | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | -8 | 20 |
| 12. | Montrose | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | -5 | 19 |
| 13. | Alloa Athletic | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | -13 | 19 |
| 14. | Berwick Rangers | 19 | 8 | 1 | 10 | -12 | 17 |
| 15. | Forfar Ath | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | -11 | 16 |
| 16. | East Stirlingshire | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 15 |
| 17. | Brechin City | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -16 | 14 |
| 18. | Stranraer | 21 | 3 | 3 | 15 | -30 | 9 |
| 19. | Stenhousemuir | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | -38 | 9 |