Match Preview
Tomorrow the aim is simple. To well and truly banish the disappointment of last week's reverse against Dundee by getting our promotion challenge firmly back on track with victory against Airdrie United.
Although Kenny Black's side presently sit bottom of the league and we have defeated them twice already this season tomorrow's fixture will be an extremely difficult one from which to get three points. A point that manager Ian McCall acknowledged when www.ptfc.co.uk caught up with him.
"We need to be aware that Airdrie United are coming into tomorrow's fixture on the back of their best result of the season so far, a 4-0 defeat of Queen of the South in the Scottish Cup. We are under no illusions whatsoever as to just how difficult this game promises to be. It is, however, a match from which we really need to take three points from. We had a disappointing result last weekend and I will be looking for a positive reaction from the players in response to that. So far this season we have generally bounced back from a defeat with victory in our next fixture and that is obviously our aim tomorrow."
"With the exception of Liam Buchanan I have a full squad to select from tomorrow. Liam himself is continuing to make excellent progress and our intention is to play him in a bounce game next week that we have scheduled."
"Returning to the team tomorrow I haven't, as yet, settled on what team I will pick. You might think that we should make big changes in the wake of last Saturday's defeat but I'm not convinced that is necessary. Had we taken the chances we had in the first half and gone on and won the game there wouldn't be any call to make changes. Besides my players have been excellent for the vast majority of this season."
Through the week the Thistle reserves defeated their Stenhousemuir counterparts 5-0 and there were a few performances in that game that caught the eye.
"It was good to see Kris Doolan score a couple of goals and they were both excellent finishes. Chris Erskine did well too. Chris is a player that I enjoy watching but Mark Corcoran is playing so well at the moment that Chris can't get a game on his favoured left hand side of the pitch. I was a left sided player but I enjoyed playing on the right but neither Chris or Mark seem too keen on that. I think that is a shame because it would be good to see one of them going down one flank and the other down the opposite side of the pitch."
Thistle Stats
Current Form - Last Five Games
W D L F A
2 0 3 6 8
Scorers Season 2009/2010
Liam Buchanan 11
Simon Donnelly 7
Paul Cairney 4
Mark Corcoran 3
Chris Erskine 3
Kris Doolan 2
Bryan Hodge 2
Jim Hamilton 2
Jamie Adams 1
Alan Archibald 1
Steve Lovell 1
David Rowson 1
Last Game
Irn-Bru Scottish League First Division
Saturday December 5th 2009
Partick Thistle 0, Dundee 2
Airdrie United Stats
Current Form - Last Five Games
W D L F A
2 0 3 10 9
Scorers Season 2009/2010
John Baird 5
Alan Trouten 4
Diarmuid O'Carroll 3
Bobby Donnelly 1
Scott Gemmill 1
David Nixon 1
Own Goal 1
Last Game
The Active Nation Scottish Cup Third Round
Saturday November 28th 2009
Airdrie United 4, Queen of the South 0
Last Meeting
Irn-Bru Scottish League First Division
Saturday October 3rd 2009
Partick Thistle 2, Airdrie United 0
Teams
Thistle: Tuffey, Paton, Archibald, Hodge, Kinniburgh, Maxwell, Cairney, Rowson, Buchanan, Donnelly (Doolan), Erskine (Corcoran).
Airdrie United: Robertson, Parratt, Storey, McDonald, Donnelly, McCann, Trouten (Smith), McLaughlin, O'Carroll, Baird, Lagana (Watt).
Scorers
Thistle: Hodge (52), Donnelly (67)
Crowd: 2,839
Match Details
Irn-Bru Scottish League First Division
Saturday December 12th 2009
Airdrie United v Partick Thistle
Kick-off: 3:00pm
Prices
Adults £15
Concessions £10
Under 16s £7
Concessions are over 60s, Students, unemployed and disabled
How to Get There
By Supporters Bus
By Car
From Glasgow or Edinburgh leave the M8 at Newhouse junction (A73) and the stadium is 2« miles north of Newhouse. From Cumbernauld, the stadium is 6 miles south on the A73.
By Bus
Nos 260 or 15 from Airdrie Town Centre.
By Train
From Glasgow Queen Street to Airdrie there is a train every 15 minutes. From the Station beyond Airdrie, Drumgelloch, there is a train every 30 minutes, then a 10 minute walk to the stadium.
Match Officials
Referee: Crawford Allan
Assistant Referees: Charlie Smith and Brian Templeton
