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Scottish Cup (1st Preliminary Round)

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Clydebank

Scottish Cup (1st Preliminary Round)
Saturday, December 17th, 1966
MacKessack Park. Att. 500
2:15 PM Kick-off

Goalscorers
Charlie Todd (48) Joe Rankin  (59)
(Assist Tony Moy)
Tony Moy (pen.)  (82)

Team Managers
Unknown. Jack Steedman

Starting Eleven
1 Thompson
2 Gallagher
3 Rough
4 Shirreffs
5 McLean
6 Cormie
7 Hay
8 Todd
9 Ally McRae
10 Robb
11 Colin Middler 		Sandy MacLachlan 1
Graham Small 2
Davie Mitchell 3
Ernie Collumbine 4
John McGill 5
Tommy McGhee 6
Joe Rankin 7
Eddie Jenkins 8
Frank Russell 9
Tony Moy 10
Willie McCallum 11

Bench
12 Scott John Wark 12

Substitutions
Scott -> Gallagher John Wark for Graham Small

Cautions
None. Joe Rankin

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

RAS Crockett (Referee)




Match Report

Sunday Post


No Cup glory for the gallant triers of Mackessack Park, but the Highland League boys at least deserved another bite at the cherry.

Two poor sides served up a disappointing display marred by a lot of wild kicking and scrappy play. Rothes' aim was to hold out to the interval, and this they did, thanks to some atrocious finishing by the visiting attack and sterling work by the Rothes rearguard.

Three minutes after the restart, Mackessack Park went wild as Rothes took the lead with an extremely fine goal by Todd. Im- mediately afterwards Gallagher received a bad head injury and Scott substituted.

Clydebank were showing up better in this half and equalised with a well-taken goal by Rankin, but the winger was booked shortly afterwards following a tussle with Cormie.

Exchanges became extremely tough with players going down all over the place, and eventually Small had to be taken off with a leg injury, Wark coming on in his place. Eight minutes from time Clydebank got the winner when Moy netted from the spot after he had been brought down in the box.

Aberdeen Evening Express


There were less than 200 at Mackessack Park for the first preliminary round of the Scottish Cup between Rothes and Clydebank.

The visitors won the toss and took a strong wind advantage. They forced the first corner which was scrambled clear.

Rothes were finding it difficult to make progress against the wind and were confined to their own half in the opening stages.

A quick pass by centre forward Russell beat the home defence and went to winger Rankin whose shot struck the side net.

Clydebank were piling on the pressure but not using the strong wind to their best advantage. Their keeper did not have a ball to handle in the first quarter of an hour.

The Rothes defence was fighting gamely but was being helped by the poor finishing of the Clydebank forwards.

There was a near miss for Clydebank when Russell just failed to edge the ball home at the upright and then a timely intervention by Gallagher after Rankin had dribbled past keeper Thompson saved a certain counter for the Bankies.

The longer Rothes held out the better the chances of getting on top and they were making a plucky job of a difficult task.

Rothes fans roared for a penalty when Middler appeared to be brought down going through, but the referee waved play on.

Hay was injured in a tackle. but the Rothes player appeared to be all right after treatment.

Clydebank had still to find the finishing touch and clever leading up work repeatedly broke down at goalmouth.

Just on the half-time whistle Colin Middler just failed to get his head to a high Hay cross.

Rothes took the lead three minutes after the restart. Ally McRae beat Collumbine out on the bye-line and crossed a lovely ball for Charlie Todd to head home. It was a well taken effort.

Minutes later Gallagher was assisted off with blood streaming from a head injury and Scott went on as substitute.

Thomson, who had been a hero for Rothes in the first half brought of a great save when Jenkins forced his way through to fire in from close range.

But Clydebank were showing up better against the wind than Rothes had done in the first half and they equalised in 59 minutes when Rankin hit the ball into the roof of the net from a Moy cross.

With five minutes to go Clydebank got a penalty award when Moy was brought down by McLean. The inside man took the kick himself and made no mistake.

Clydebank were just about worth their win on their second-half showing.



Squad Statistics (as at December 17th, 1966)

1966-67 All Time
League Cups All
Sandy MacLachlan (GK) 8 - 1 - 9 -
John McGill 14 - 61392
Graham Small 17 - 6 - 342
Ernie Collumbine 17 - 4 - 21 -
Davie Mitchell 611 - 71
Frank Russell 841 - 94
Willie McCallum 16 - 61221
Tommy McGhee 1745 - 325
Eddie Jenkins 18 - 4 - 331
Joe Rankin 5 - 42224
Tony Moy 1410423926
John Wark (sub) 9 - 1 - 31 -







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
17th December 1966
Albion Rovers1-1Stranraer
Brechin City1-2Cowdenbeath
East Fife1-0Alloa Athletic
Morton7-0Montrose
Queen of South4-2Hamilton Accies
Queen's Park1-1Dumbarton

League Table (as at December 17th, 1966)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. Morton 18 17 1 0 +53 35
2. Raith Rovers 17 13 2 2 +18 28
3. East Fife 19 14 0 5 +17 28
4. Arbroath 17 10 3 4 +16 23
5. Queen of South 19 9 5 5 +13 23
6. Hamilton Accies 19 9 5 5 +12 23
7. Queen's Park 18 8 5 5 +15 21
8. Albion Rovers 19 9 3 7 +4 21
9. Third Lanark 18 7 5 6 +4 19
10. Stranraer 19 7 5 7 -2 19
11. Alloa Athletic 19 8 1 10 -6 17
12. Montrose 17 6 3 8 -8 15
13. Cowdenbeath 18 6 2 10 +2 14
14. Dumbarton 19 4 6 9 -5 14
15. Forfar Ath 18 6 2 10 -18 14
16. Stenhousemuir 18 5 3 10 -24 13
17. Berwick Rangers 18 4 4 10 -9 12
18. Brechin City 18 4 3 11 -15 11
19. Clydebank 18 2 4 12 -31 8
20. East Stirlingshire 18 1 4 13 -36 6