Clydebank 4
East Fife 1
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Clydebank
4 - 1
 East Fife

League (Division 2)
Saturday, October 11th, 1969
New Kilbowie Park. Att. 797
3:00 PM Kick-off
Goalscorers
Jimmy Caskie  (6)
(Assist Alan Munro)
Jimmy Caskie  (9)
Tommy McGhee  (57)
(Assist Jimmy Caskie)
Jimmy Caskie  (89)
Eddie Thomson (34)

Team Managers
Jack Steedman
 Bill Baxter

Starting Eleven
1 Dick Madden
2 Davie Mitchell
3 Danny Gray
4 Dennis Ruddy
5 Jim Fallon
6 Dougie Hay
7 Gerry O'Brien
8 Bobby Love
9 Tommy McGhee
10 Alan Munro
11 Jimmy Caskie
 Billy McGann 1
Bobby Waddell 2
McQuade 3
Bert Ireland 4
John Martis 5
Walter Borthwick 6
Eddie Thomson 7
George Christie 8
George Dewar 9
Jim Finlayson 10
Andy Waddell 11

Bench
12 Paul McMillan
 Pat Quinn 12

Substitutions
Paul McMillan for Tommy McGhee (60)
 Pat Quinn -> Bert Ireland (46)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

T Kellock (Referee)



Match Report

Clydebank Press

The Terracing at Kilbowie was not exactly packed with over-enthusiastic fans, to see a match which was full of exciting football (honestly) and one or two amusing incidents. To top it all Bankies did something almost out of character this season. That is, they won!

Reverting to their early season line-up and form Bankies held a relatively strong East Fife team at bay throughout the match. Jimmy Caskie scored a hat-trick, and Tommy McGhee was taken off the field by mistake.

The latter incident, although almost tragic for Bankies, was rather amusing. McGhee mistook a call from the dug-out and walked off the field, his place taken by substitute Paul McMillan.

Realising his mistake Tommy McGhee pulled back on his jumper, back to front, and ran on to the field but referee Joe Kelly stuck to his guns and would not let Tommy back on. That's one early bath that Tommy can say he really didn't deserve.

Before the match Jack Steedman told me, "This is the first time since the beginning of the season that we have been able to pick our team from a full pool of players." He was obviously expecting big things from his boys. He was not disappointed.

Jimmy Caskie was the man of the match, twice within three minutes at the beginning of the match, he ploughed into the East Fife goal to hammer the ball into the back of the net.

His first was manufactured by Tommy McGhee, who dribbled the ball into a ruck of visiting defenders and passed on to Munro. Munro lost his balance, leaving the shot to Caskie, who netted.

Three minutes later East Fife centre-half Martis duffed a free kick in his own half. Caskie latched on to the ball and ran home to score unopposed.

Groping around midfield the East Fife players couldn't find an answer to a solid Clydebank defence. They looked promising on the break but couldn't find a way round 'keeper Dick Madden, at his most agile.

It took nearly 35 minutes for the visitors to pull back on Bankies' lead. The goal which eventually turned out to be their only one was scored by outside-right Thomson. Meeting a header from the left wing he sent the ball past Madden from 10 yards out.

At the start of the second half East Fife substituted Quinn for right half Ireland.

McGhee might have set the pace for the second half, scoring after 57 minutes' play. He took a close shot from a Caskie square cross and left East Fife keeper McGann's head reeling.

Just after this McGhee lost the place, literally!

As it turned out Paul McMillan proved to be quite an asset to the Bankies. On more than one occasion during his short term of play he was right up at the East Fife goalmouth snatching at any chances thrown his way.

The final touch, or the last hope, whichever way you look at it, was Jimmy Caskie's hat-trick goal, almost on the final whistle. He played the ball close in to the East Fife goal, took a shot which keeper McGann managed to block, and scored from the rebound.

After seeing Bankies on Saturday playing as they did at the start of the season, you can hardly wonder why enthusiasm used to run so high at Kilbowie. Let's hope this match was only a taste of what has still to come.

Leven Mail

East Fife manager Bill Baxter was not at Clydebank to see his side in action, and that is possibly just as well for it wouldn't have done his blood pressure any good. And while the game is over, the memory lingers on to give the Bayview boss more than one headache to solve after his potential sales trip over the border.

He missed seeing his side deliver the poorest performance of the season against a Clydebank outfit which found form, early on and stayed on top for most of the game.

It would be difficult to dismiss this showing as an off day, for many of the regular Bayview failings were present and the fact is that the side fielded on Saturday is not the one to win promotion.

The absence of Davie Clark and Bobby Cairns, who were in England with manager Baxter, may have contributed something to the defeat, but the Fifers were on level terms, crowd-wise, with a good Methil support in a dismally poor attendance.

There were no stars in this side which conceded four goals to third bottom of the table Clydebank, and the blame for only one of them could be put at 'keeper McGann's feet.

The Fifers never really looked like getting a grip on the game, and although they seemed promising in one or two break-aways they were never in any real danger of scoring.

Their consolation goal was scored by Thomson from a high cross-ball, the type of shot Clydebank had difficulty dealing with, and a tactic which should have been much more exploited.

Moving Bobby Waddell to right back was an experiment which did not come off, and there were problems in both attack and defence.

The Bankies' left winger, Caskie, was the marksman of the match netting a hat-trick and setting up the fourth for his side. It was far from a one man effort, however, for he received good support from his colleagues.

Clydebank went ahead in six minutes when McGhee slipped a ball into the centre and Munro, finding his way blocked, gave Caskie his scoring chance.

Three minutes later East Fife were awarded a free-kick in their own half. Martis made a poor job of the kick Caskie latched on to it, and with no defenders able to catch him, he blasted home from 12 yards.

The Fifers could not find a way through Clydebank's solid defence and with keeper Madden on top form their efforts in the break-aways came to nothing.

Outside-right Thomson finally did have success, however, when he latched on to a cross ball from McQuade on the left-wing and sent the ball past Madden from 10 yards.

Clydebank's Love had to receive attention when a ball struck him in the face, just before half-time.

After the turn-round East Fife substituted Quinn for right-half Ireland, but in a matter of minutes his side was another goal down. Caskie squared to McGhee, unmarked at the far post, McGann decided against coming out for the ball, and it was in the net.

With their lead consolidated, Clydebank brought on McMillan in place of McGhee, but the centre failed to report to the referee that he was going off, and he had to go back on the field to check with ref, Kellock.

Caskie completed his hat-trick just on time. Keeper McGann managed to block his first shot, but the winger beat him with the rebound.

The Fifers began to tighten up towards the end, but by then it was too late. Apart from a ten-minute period after their goal in the first-half, they were never really in the hunt.

Sunday Post

Call this match Caskie's Cavalcade. The Bankies left-winger had a dream game, scoring a hat-trick, laying on another goal, and generally spreading panic in the East Fife ranks.

This was not purely a one-man show, because Caskie got excellent support from his colleagues.

Pick of the goals was the third, scored by McGhee, after that man Caskie had dispossessed substitute Quinn and outstripped the defence leave the centre a simple tap in.

East Fife boss Bill Baxter, who was in England, has little to look forward to on his return.

The Methil defence looked about as safe as a wallet at a pickpockets' convention, and their attack could not have burst the proverbial paper bag.

Sunday Mail

Clydebank recaptured much of the sparkle they showed at the start of the season and within nine minutes they had scored twice.

Outside left Jim Caskie scored both. The first was a culmination of a sweeping attack by McGhee Munro and Caskie. Munro, finding his way blocked, tapped the ball to the outside left who hit a great shot past McGann. Three minutes later a poorly taken free kick by Martis landed at the feet of Caskie and he ran in to slam the ball home from 15 yards.

In 34 minutes outside right Thomson scored in a goalmouth scramble to put the Fifers back in the game.

However, in 57 minutes centre forward Tom McGhee put the finishing touch to a Caskie pass and the outside left completed his hat-trick with only a couple of minutes left.



Squad Statistics (as at October 11th, 1969)

1969-70 All Time
League Cups All
Dick Madden (GK) 6 - 5 - 88 -
Davie Mitchell 8 - 6 - 1234
Dennis Ruddy 11 - 2 - 53 -
Danny Gray 11 - 6 - 26 -
Jim Fallon 6 - 61473
Tommy McGhee 636110716
Dougie Hay 6 - 6 - 621
Bobby Love 10 - 5 - 401
Jimmy Caskie 117626022
Alan Munro 112654922
Gerry O'Brien 11 - 6 - 592
Paul McMillan (sub) 4 - 1 - 284







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
11th October 1969
Alloa Athletic1-0Albion Rovers
Arbroath1-2Queen's Park
Berwick Rangers6-1Stenhousemuir
Brechin City2-1Forfar Ath
Clydebank4-1East Fife
Cowdenbeath1-0Dumbarton
Falkirk7-5Queen of South
Hamilton Accies1-1Stirling Albion
Stranraer4-1East Stirlingshire

League Table (as at October 11th, 1969)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Cowdenbeath 12 9 1 2 +16 19
2. Falkirk 10 8 0 2 +17 16
3. Berwick Rangers 10 7 1 2 +16 15
4. Arbroath 12 7 1 4 +13 15
5. Alloa Athletic 12 7 1 4 +9 15
6. Stirling Albion 11 4 6 1 +9 14
7. Queen of South 11 6 2 3 +2 14
8. East Fife 11 6 0 5 +4 12
9. Queen's Park 11 5 2 4 +2 12
10. Montrose 11 4 3 4 +5 11
11. Brechin City 9 5 1 3 0 11
12. Dumbarton 9 4 1 4 +4 9
13. Hamilton Accies 10 2 4 4 -5 8
14. Albion Rovers 12 3 2 7 -9 8
15. East Stirlingshire 10 2 3 5 -8 7
16. Stranraer 11 3 1 7 -13 7
17. Clydebank 11 2 2 7 -16 6
18. Forfar Ath 11 2 0 9 -13 4
19. Stenhousemuir 10 0 1 9 -33 1