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Clydebank
2 - 3
 Forfar Ath

League (Division 2)
Saturday, April 6th, 1968
New Kilbowie Park. Att. 698
3:00 PM Kick-off
Goalscorers
Tony Moy (pen.)  (42)
Jim Fleming  (61)
(Assist Eddie Rutherford)
 		Jim Young (29)
Ian Stewart (35 pen)
Jim Young (47)

Team Managers
Jack Steedman
 Jackie Husband

Starting Eleven
1 Maurice Dunne
2 Malcolm Henderson
3 Davie Mitchell
4 Ernie Collumbine
5 Eddie Moore
6 Dougie Hay
7 Eddie Rutherford
8 Stan King
9 Tommy McGhee
10 Tony Moy
11 Gerry O'Brien
 David Phillips 1
Alistair Carrie 2
John McKenzie 3
Jim Knox 4
John Fyfe 5
Syd Dick 6
Tony Harvey 7
Willie Rutherford 8
Jim Young 9
Ian Matthew 10
Ian Stewart 11

Bench
12 Jim Fleming
 John May 12

Substitutions
Jim Fleming for Eddie Moore (51)
 John May -> Willie Rutherford (22)

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.
Match Officials

W Anderson (Referee)



Match Report

Clydebank Press

Bankies threw this one away and should have won by a large margin but too many chances were missed and Forfar took their chances well.

Clydebank fielded the same side which beat Hamilton in midweek but they lost Eddie Moore early in the second half and he was replaced by Jim Fleming.

All the pressure came from Bankies in the opening stages, and Tommy McGhee playing at centre was unlucky on at least three occasions. The forward line had the Forfar defence in a sweat.

The first came for the visitors in 29 minutes when Young collected the ball inside the Bankies half and looked offside but the ref waved play on despite pleas from the home players, and Young strolled onto smash the ball past Dunne who was helpless.

Forfar began to warm to this and started an all-out assault on the Bankies defence. Young brought down by Moore in 35 minutes inside the penalty area and the referee had no hesitation in pointing to the spot. Stewart scored easily from the resulting penalty kick.

Moy brought one back, also from the penalty spot, for Clydebank in 42 minutes when a McGhee header was punched off the line by a Forfar defender.

The stage looked set for a second half fight back by Bankies but any hope of this was quickly lost as centre forward Young netted in 48 minutes when Dunne came too far out of goal and the centre easily rounded him to score.

Bankies came back again however for substitute Jim Fleming netted a fine goal in 61 minutes with a crashing shot into the corner of the net which keeper Phillips couldn't hold.

The homesters pressed and pressed and pressed but to no avail, the visitors defence was giving away nothing and what chances there were for Bankies were squandered by poor finishing.

In conclusion, the game was depressing from the point of view that if Bankies had pressed their superiority on the ball to greater advantage they would have gained a valuable two points in their to get into the top six, as it is things look pretty bleak.

Two players received injuries and are doubtful for the trip to Methil to face East Fife. Eddie Moore had a recurrence of his thigh injury and Stan King took a knock and pulled a muscle.

Bankies signed a young Chelsea babe on Monday. He is Danny Gray who has been with the English club for two years. and is still only 16. He was terribly home sick and Chelsea rang the Steedman brother and recommended him to them.

Young Jimmy Caskie has brought great honour to Bankies by being picked to play for the Scottish Professional Youth Team on the continent. The lad left with the team at the weekend and will be abroad for seven to ten days.

Only three, including Caskie, play for Scottish clubs, the remainder of the pool play their football south of the border with the top English clubs.

Forfar Despatch

A capital result and better than anyone quite expected even in view of the Loons' record since the New Year. It would have been even less expected if we had known that Jake Young was not to play.

John Fyfe, who had been standing by at the White City for Friday's amateur match with England, came up overnight by 'plane and stepped into the centre-half position. In front Rutherford was in for Wyles and Mathews for May.

A lot of changes and one in a very vital position. Forfar's mid-season troubles had started with the loss of Jake Young at centre-half and their recovery began with his return. Could they be expected to win a tough game on "foreign" soil without him?

They did, as the result shows. What it does not show is that the victory was largely the reward of a sterling performance by the defence, plus some more of that calculated opportunism which is bringing goals regularly to centre Jim Young.

The re-arranged defence took a little time to find an understanding but wasn't in real danger. McKenzie did block a possible score from Moy at a corner.

After 25 minutes Rutherford showed signs of distress (it was his first game after a long layoff) and May came on. Five minutes later Forfar opened the scoring, a fine bit of work by Jim Young taking him through the Clydebank defence and being capped by a well-taken goal.

Another five minutes and Young was going through again when he was fouled by Moore in the penalty area and Stewart scored from the spot.

Moy cut the lead back to one just before the interval when he scored from the spot after McKenzie had stopped a scoring shot with his hand.

The second half was hardly under way when Young collected a long pass down the left, ran up the field and hit a winner from well outside the penalty area.

Young was so regularly getting the better of Moore that the Clydebank manager called his centre-half off, re-arranged his team and put the substitute, Fleming, at centre-forward. Within minutes the substitute collected a pass from his right and slammed the ball into the top of the net.

With still half an hour to play the home crowd exhorted their favourites to pile them on and they had reason to be hopeful. But their hopes faded steadily as it became evident that the Forfar defence was more than a match for the re-arranged Clydebank attack and that the Loons in somewhat fewer attacks were far the more likely to score. Altogether an excellent show from the Athletic and a team effort.



Squad Statistics (as at April 6th, 1968)

1967-68 All Time
League Cups All
Maurice Dunne (GK) 3 - 0 - 3 -
Malcolm Henderson 19 - 3 - 22 -
Ernie Collumbine 27 - 9 - 76 -
Stan King 3238 - 403
Davie Mitchell 33 - 9 - 703
Dougie Hay 1110 - 111
Tommy McGhee 2418 - 846
Gerry O'Brien 3 - 0 - 3 -
Tony Moy 3221859866
Eddie Moore 298833711
Eddie Rutherford 13 - 1 - 14 -
Jim Fleming (sub) 228522710







Recent Results

League results since Clydebank's last match
6th April 1968
Albion Rovers3-0Stranraer
Arbroath4-0Dumbarton
Ayr Utd0-0Brechin City
Berwick Rangers2-0Cowdenbeath
Clydebank2-3Forfar Ath
East Fife6-0East Stirlingshire
Queen of South4-1Hamilton Accies

League Table (as at April 6th, 1968)

Pld W D L +/- Pts
1. St Mirren 29 24 4 1 +61 52
2. Arbroath 31 20 4 7 +48 44
3. Queen's Park 32 18 7 7 +25 43
4. East Fife 31 18 6 7 +19 42
5. Queen of South 33 16 5 12 +19 37
6. Ayr Utd 28 14 5 9 +17 33
7. Forfar Ath 29 13 7 9 0 33
8. Clydebank 33 13 7 13 -4 33
9. Albion Rovers 30 12 7 11 +6 31
10. Hamilton Accies 33 12 6 15 -7 30
11. Dumbarton 30 10 9 11 -9 29
12. Montrose 31 10 8 13 -4 28
13. Cowdenbeath 32 10 8 14 -4 28
14. Berwick Rangers 29 11 2 16 -16 24
15. Brechin City 31 6 12 13 -20 24
16. Alloa Athletic 31 9 6 16 -26 24
17. East Stirlingshire 30 7 8 15 -14 22
18. Stenhousemuir 31 5 5 21 -52 15
19. Stranraer 32 5 4 23 -39 14