Queen’s Park Greenock Morton

ANDY MURPHY

GAVIN MITCHELL

SCOTT GIBSON

ANTHONY QUINN

CONOR MCVEY

PAUL WOODS

SEAN BURNS

JOHN CARTER

BRYAN WHARTON

CRAIG MCLEISH

DAVID GALT

JAMIE MCKERNON

JOE BRADLEY

BILLY MORTIMER

GREGOR FOTHERINGHAM

ANTON BRADY

AIDEN MALONE

DARREN MILLER

ROSS MILLEN

LIAM BROWN

JOSH WATT

EWAN MACPHERSON

OWEN STOTT

ADAM CUMMINS LIAM COOGANS

WILLIE MUIR

MICHAEL TIDSER

DEREK GASTON

THOMAS O'WARE

MARK RUSSELL

LEE KILDAY

ROSS FORBES

RICKI LAMIE

CONOR PEPPER

JON SCULLION

JAI QUITONGO

GARY OLIVER

JAMIE LINDSAY

MICHAEL DOYLE

THOMAS ORR

CAOLAN MCALEER

KUDUS OYENUGA

JAMIE MCGOWAN

JAMIE MCDONAGH

SCOTT TIFFONEY

ANDREW MCNEIL

JOHN TENNENT

Referee: Gavin Duncan AR1: Gary Hilland AR2: Willie Ferguson

OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME

Irn–Bru Cup Round 3

Queen’s Park FC

v

Greenock Morton FC

Saturday 3rd Sept, Hampden Park, 3PM

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Programme Contributors: Scottish Football Museum, Keith McAllister,

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Good Afternoon and welcome to

Hampden Park.

Today’s visitors are Livingston

FC who currently sit top of the

table thanks to a great start to

the season.

This match will most definitely

be an extremely tough test for

the squad. However it is our

home match and we can go into

the game with confidence given

our own start to the season.

We were satisfied with the result

at Glebe Park last week and

delighted with a clean sheet. I

would have liked to have seen

us get a goal in the second half

as I felt we were the better

team. Overall we were pleased

to have gone away from home

and taken a point.

Enjoy today’s game!

Gus MacPherson.

SPOTLIGHT ON 1966-67 3rd SEPTEMBER 1966

On 3rd September 1966 Queen’s Park played their final League Cup group match, with only pride to play for. The spiders had gained only 2 Points from their 5 matches couldn’t qualify. Their opponents Airdrieonians had already won the group and would progress to the Quarter Finals.

1,500 spectators watched the match at the old Broomfield ground. Airdrie won a scrappy game by 3 Goals to 2. The home team mounted a lot of attacks, but early in the game their finishing was awful. Their opening goal on 42 Minutes had an element of luck about it .Irvine shot for goal only for the ball to hot Queens D Holmes and rebound off the Airdrie player, and into the net.

Handball against Airdrie Centre Half Black earned Queens a Penalty ,Niall Hopper Converted after 49 Minutes. Within 3 Minutes Airdrie had a Penalty of their own. Holmes handled a Ferguson shot(What an eventful game MR Holmes was having!),Keenan scored from the spot kick. The home team went 3-1 up 5 Minutes from time ,with a headed goal by Murray. Queens weren’t dead yet though!. In the last Minute I Campbell headed home from a Hopper cross,it was too little too late though!.

In the other game in Queens group QOS defeated Dumbarton 4-2.

Third Lanark played their last ever League Cup game ,and lost 3-2 to East Fife at Cathkin Park. The Hi Hi finished in bottom position in their group with just 2 Points, and no wins!. Thirds last ever goal in the competition was scored by Mclaughlin.

At Tannadice Dundee United entertained Aberdeen(In a match not yet billed as the New Firm Derby!).The dons won an entertaining match 4-3.Wilson,Little and Whyte(2) scored for the visitors .Seemann(Pen) and Mitchell(20 got the goals for United.who were wearing a White kit at the time(The change to tangerine would come in a couple of years later).

The Old Firm both had 1-0 wins and qualified .Celtic at St Mirren and Rangers at Kilmarnock.

There were some interesting matches played the following midweek. Brechin City had finished top of Group 9,which was made up of the bottom 6 teams from the previous seasons Second Division. The now faced a Home and Away Play Off with fellow lower league side Morton for a place in the Quarter Finals. These fixtures were played on the Monday and Wednesday Nights. Morton won 7-3 on aggregate.

On the Wednesday Queens played a League match , and handed Forfar a 7-2 Hampden thrashing. P Buchanan(4) I Campbell(2) and P Conn did the scoring.

There were a few goals scored at Celtic Park that night too. An Inter League match was played between the Scottish league and the League of Ireland. It ended in a 6-0 victory for the Scots. The teams lined up Scots MCCloy (Motherwell),Gemmell(Celtic),McCallum (Motherwell),Murdoch (Celtic),McKinnon (Rangers),Clark (Celtic),McClean(Kilmarnock),MCbride(celtic),Chalmers (Celtic),Lennox (Celtic) and Cormack(Hibs). Irish D’arcy(Drumcondra), Keogh(Shamrock R),McKeown(Dundalk),Mulligan Shamrock R),Morley (Cork Hibs),Fullam(Shamrock R),Dixon (Shamrock R), O’Neill(Shamrock R), O’Sullivan (Bohemians), Hannigan (Dundalk) and O’Connell (Dundalk).

There was a definite gulf of class between the teams but the Irish Offered spirited resistance. The goals were scored by Mc Bride (3),Lennox (2) and Cormack.

A crowd of just 12,000 watched the game .so perhaps it’s understandable that games like these had Disappeared from the Football calendar within a few years.

See you Next home match

Yours in the beautiful game

Dave MacPuzzle Scottish Football Museum

Keith McAllister One of the joys of the social media nowadays is that I’m continually amazed that people who are even more half-witted than me get the chance to have their say….

and make me sound better than I am.

What caught my (rapidly failing) eye this week was some half-wit wanting to start a petition to essentially abandon hope of qualifying for the next World Cup and play kids in the up ‘n’ coming qualifiers. This, he argued, would benefit Scotland in the future. Now, whilst I may entertain this if it had a cat in Hell’s chance of guaranteed success, I can’t help thinking that the lad is aff his trolley.

First up, and most importantly, this assumes that we have a crop of youngsters that it up to the task. It would seem, from people much better able to comment on things like this, that Scotland only has 4 star youngsters. Unfortunately three of them are left backs and the other (Oliver Burke) is, to be honest, a bit untested. I think we tend to confuse lads who are “not too bad” with genuine international class prospects. Our under 23 team has been reputedly ram-packed with half-decent talent for as long as I remember but I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the numbers who have blossomed into players who could even compete with, let alone be as good as, the best over the past twenty years.

Added to this, would you throw our young lads in at the deep end and ask them to sink or swim even if they were up to the task? You simply can’t do that. We don’t have a good enough crop of more experienced players that could carry them. Our squad is

pretty dreadful at the moment. I’d be afraid that the young lads would sink.

I know that some countries have gone down this route to some extent, but if you’re Germany for example, you have a really good squad that can cover for kids coming in. We simply don’t.

I add that, as someone who goes along to the majority of Scotland games home and away, I’m not sure that I’d be too happy at the prospect of seeing us (probably) perform at an even lower level than we do at present to allow the youngsters to come through…..when there is no guarantee that they will. Hard as you may find it to believe, some of these away matches is a right hard shift. We may come away with the occasional decent result, but that’s generally due to the opposition failing to convert their whopping superiority into a win. Poland in the last campaign was a very good example of this. So, am I ready to have a dip in our already poor results in the hope that the kids come good? Nope.

If there was some guarantee, I might; but there are no guarantees in football, and our record in producing decent players is in tatters. And where do any potentially decent players go now. If we’re talking about testing themselves against the best, then the options are limited. Even our best team by a country mile, Celtic, are not really that good, as results in Europe bear out. And if you play for one of the provincial clubs, it seems that their objective is to join one of the Old Firm…where they sit on the bench. A look at either the Rangers or Celtic team lines in the upcoming Old Firm fixture will, I am sure, make for disappointing reading if you are expecting to see the cream of young Scottish talent. And the number of Scots performing in the

top English division is minimal. Even the English kids are being squeezed out as the obscene cash swishing about south of the border is used to bring in a wheen of guys whose name you can’t pronounce from places you couldn’t point to on a map. Why spend years to develop your own talent when the TV money allows you to bring in players for money that almost no other league in the world can compete with?

So, if we don’t sacrifice the World Cup campaign that starts tomorrow with the banana skin that is Malta away, for the chance to develop the kids, what do we do? I’ve no idea…and sadly no one else seems to have either.

POS TEAM PLD GD PTS

1 Alloa Athletic 4 12 12

2 Brechin City 4 4 10

3 Livingston 4 8 9

4 Airdrieonians 4 1 7

5 Queen's Park 4 0 7

6 East Fife 4 1 4

7 Stranraer 4 -7 3

8 Albion Rovers 4 -6 2

9 Stenhousemuir 4 -5 1

10 Peterhead 4 -8 1

Frank McCrossan ON THIS DAY

3 September 1927

Queen’s Park 4 Aberdeen 3

On this day 89 years ago, Queen’s Park and Aberdeen met at Hampden Park in a Scottish League First Division match that had the 14,000 spectators on tenterhooks to the end.

Queen’s Park made a whirlwind start to the match, with Eddie Scott on the right wing in unstoppable form. The Spiders took the lead in only four minutes when a pinpoint Scott cross was slammed into the net by Stewart Chalmers. The lead was doubled in 20 minutes with a goal that was almost a replica of the opener. This time, Jimmy McAlpine provided the finish.

Aberdeen had been reeling but gradually came into the game and slackness in the home defence allowed Benny Yorston to pull a goal back four minutes before half-time. Queen’s responded immediately and restored their two-goal lead through a memorable goal from Jimmy McAlpine. The big winger weaved his way through the Dons’ defence before firing the ball towards goal. ‘Keeper Peter McSevich got his fingers to the shot but could not keep it out of the net.

Just as Queen’s Park had dominated the opening 20 minutes of the first half, Aberdeen did likewise in the second. In 50 minutes, Bobby Bruce scored from a seemingly offside position and it was a worrying time for the home support. However, the Spiders weathered the storm and succeeded in scoring for a fourth time when Stewart Chalmers ran on to a Scott through pass and slipped the ball past McSevich. The Dons kept battling away and Benny Yorston scored for a second time with four minutes remaining. This led to a tense finish but Queen’s Park held on to take the two points.

The two teams were: -

Queen’s Park – Jack Harkness; Kerr Campbell and Willie Wiseman; Jimmy Langmuir, Bob Gillespie and Willie King; Eddie Scott and Stewart Chalmers; Balsillie Russell; Jimmy McAlpine and Willie Nicholson.

Aberdeen – Peter McSevich; Willie Jackson and Duff Bruce; Jock Edward, Bob McDermid and Tom McLeod; John Wilson and Alex Cheyne; Benny Yorston; Bobby Bruce and Jimmy Smith. Today’s opponents Morton were at home to Stenhousemuir in the Second Division. Morton dominated the game from the start to finish but, to the frustration of the 6,000 spectators, had to settle for victory by the only goal of the game. Charles Lyle was the Cappielow side’s marksman.

Events Elsewhere on 3 September 1927

A three-year-old Glasgow child had a remarkable escape when she fell from the third floor landing of a tenement in London Road. She was sliding on the bannister when she lost her balance. Luckily, she landed in a pram that was sitting in the close and suffered no serious injury.

There were angry scenes at Sanqhuhar at the end of the Provincial League match between Nithsdale Wanderers and Queen’s Park’s fourth team, the Victoria Eleven. Fans furious at an appeal for offside having gone unheeded when Queen’s Park scored their third and winning goal attempted to “intercept” the referee. Guarded by the players and Nithsdale Wanderers officials, the beleaguered official, Mr McLean of Rutherglen, managed to reach the safety of the dressing room.

In China, following an incident of piracy in the Pearl River in Canton, a British naval operation was carried out against the villages of Taipinghu and Shekki. The pirates had captured a Chinese steamer flying the British flag and killed the captain and chief engineer. Three British gunboats were sent to teach the offenders a lesson. The inhabitants of Taipinghu, where the pirates came from, and Shekki, where the loot was landed, were ordered to evacuate their villages. Sailors then burnt down the houses at the waterfront in Taipinghu and the gunboats fired 18 shells into Shekki.

A young Crosshill man appeared at Glasgow’s Western Police Court charged with the theft of vacuum cleaners from homes across Glasgow. (Vacuum cleaners were luxury items in those days.) He told householders that he was calling about vacuum cleaners recently purchased from his firm and asked if the machine was up to expectations. On hearing of any minor defects, he asked for permission to take the article away for repair and promised to return it in a day or so. Needless to say, he failed to do so. Since he had been found out, about a dozen of the stolen items had been recovered from city pawnshops and the owners traced.

In the Scottish Alliance, Queen’s Park’s second eleven, the Strollers, went down 4-1 to Motherwell A at Fir Park. R Laird scored the Spiders’ goal. Morton’s second string fared even worse then the Spiders, losing 6-1 to Hearts A at Tynecastle.

A restaurant aeroplane, which flew from Paris to London at one o’clock each day, left Le Bourget airport with 12 passengers aboard. They seated themselves at table but had not proceeded far down the menu when their meal was unexpectedly interrupted. Near Rue, on the Somme, the plane’s engine failed and the pilot had to make as good a landing as possible on land not suited for the purpose. The plane bumped along for a hundred yards or so, with plates and glasses overturned on the unfortunate passengers’ laps. Finally, it pitched nose first into a ditch. Happily, the occupants emerged from the remnants of the food and crockery none the worse for their experience apart from a few bruises.

Supporters’ Notes Souvenir Shop The new kit is here! It’ll be available exclusively from the souvenir shop until the start of next week when it will be available online. Tops are £40 for adults and £35 for youths. We have a limited number of each size as a first order, so don’t dilly dally to make sure that you get your size. We have a limited number of shorts and socks for both home and away kits. We’re tinkering with the online shop, so it’s been down for a wee while. We’ll have it back up and running by the start of the week and the new kit will be first items to be available. We’ll build up the number of items available over the next couple of weeks. We’ll be introducing a range of high-quality souvenirs celebrating the Club’s 150th anniversary. Away Travel Our next away bus will be to Peterhead…deep breath. Note that we will not be taking transport to Coatbridge on 1st October. PETERHEAD - Saturday 10th September Clarkston – 8.30, Mount Florida – 8.45 and High Street – 9.00. Prices: £15 for those in employment; £12 for concessions and £5 for the under 16s. Again, we’d ask you to help us by booking for every match. For this match only, e-mail hampdenfan@yahoo.co.uk to book, or buy a ticket at the souvenir shop today or next week. Tickets will also be available from myself. Graeme Shields is on holiday so will not be able to take bookings. Membership and 60 Club The 60 Club will gain be £40 for the whole season. As well as having the chance to win a right good few bob, you’ll be helping to keep the Association’s away buses on the road. Applications for both clubs are available from Norrie Walker, Graeme Shields or the Souvenir Shop. Cards are now available for uplift at the Shop now. Race Night – Saturday 15 October The quiz nights we organised last year were a huge success and we’ll continue running them this season. We will also be joining the supporters’ football team to host a race night on Sat 15th October. More details next week, but tickets are available at £5 from Andy McNaught (junior) who’ll be stoatin’ about the club bar in the JB McAlpine. YOUNG FANS! The Black and White Club for younger fans will run again this year. New members must be twelve years of age or under, but existing fans can remain in the Club until they’re 16. Membership forms can be obtained from the club shop on match days, from Frank McCrossan, John Richmond or by emailing f.mccrossan@ntlworld.com Membership is free and we’re hoping that we can attract a record number of members this year. COLIN SUTHERLAND The Association were very sad to hear of the passing away of Colin, who was one of our most loyal and committed supporters, travelling up and down the country for many years. Despite not enjoying good health of late, he still followed the side home and away. The Club's a wee bit poorer for his passing. Keith McAllister hampdenfan@yahoo.co.uk

The Opposition – Greenock Morton Jim Duffy (Manager)

A Morton captain who made 140 appearances between 1982 and 1985, famously picking up the SPFA Player of the Year in his final season, Jim Duffy returned as manager in May 2014. Jim was

charged with guiding the club back to the Championship at the first time of asking following relegation. And the former defender duly did so, with his team dramatically clinching the League

One title with a 3-1 win over Peterhead on the final day of the season. He continued his good work the following campaign by steering his side to a fifth-place finish in a highly competitive second tier including the likes of Rangers and Hibs. A well-travelled manager, the 57-year-old has been boss at Falkirk, Dundee (twice) Hibs, Norwich City, Brechin City and Clyde. His coaching CV also includes

stints at Chelsea and Portsmouth as well as working as director of football at Hearts.

Derek Gaston (Goalkeeper)

Signed in 2012 from Albion Rovers, “Gats” has been Morton’s Number One for four seasons, during which time he has experienced the highs and lows of being a Cappielow player, with a second place finish in the old First Division in 2012/13, followed by relegation the following season, an SPFL

League One Champions medal in 2014/15 (when he was voted Player of the Year and included in the League One Team of the Year) and a top five finish in the SPFL Championship in 2015/16. Last

season he put pen to paper on a new deal that secures his Morton position until the end of 2017/18 season. Derek has reflexes and agility which belie his height and physique. Moving into his fifth

season with the club, he has made 128 appearances (including one as a substitute) putting him into the Morton’s all-time “top ten” goalkeepers, in terms of appearances. His 40 clean sheets and average

of 1.22 goals conceded per game are the best records in that Top Ten.

Thomas O’Ware (Defender)

Following a youth career at Rangers, Kilmarnock and Bonnyton Thistle, Thomas joined Morton in 2011, initially in the Development Squad, but made his first team debut against Deveronvale in the

Scottish Cup in November of that year. Thomas has featured at full-back, centre- back, centre midfield, and occasionally as a striker during his five seasons with the club. He signed a new two-year contract at the end of 2015/16 season. His career has blossomed under Jim Duffy’s leadership

with 80 of his 123 appearances coming in the last two seasons, during which time he has scored 10 of his 11 Morton goals. Last season’s five goals included winners against Alloa, and Livingston twice, including a Scottish Cup 4th round tie. Thomas is one of three first team squad members to have

passed the 100 appearance landmark for the club.

Michael Tidser (Midfielder)

A product of Celtic’s youth academy, Michael was initially signed by Morton from Swedish Club Ostersunds FK in January 2010 having made 3 appearances each for the Scotland U-18 and U-19 sides; he made 126 appearances for Morton in his first spell at the club, scoring 17 goals, and was

nominated for the Scottish First Division Player of the Year award in 2012/13, included in the First Division Team of the Season and won the Morton Supporters’ 2013 Player of the Year award. He

was subsequently transferred to Rotherham United in July 2013 for a fee in the region of £50,000. After loan spells with Oldham Athletic and Ross County, Michael re-joined Morton in January 2015, but registration problems delayed his debut and injuries have so far curtailed his appearances in his

second spell with the club to just 18. A talented and creative midfielder, Michael has made more appearances for Morton (144) than any other member of the first team squad, and is contracted to

the club for the whole of 2016/17 season.

deep breath. Note that we will not be taking transport

s away buses on the road. Applications for both clubs are available from Norrie Walker, Graeme Shields or the Souvenir Shop. Cards are

ll continue running them this

The Club's a wee bit

Jai Quitongo (Forward)

After spells with the Hamilton and Aberdeen youth squads, Jai joined Morton in August 2015 as part of the successful Development Squad, winning the 2015/16 Development League West. He was offered an 18 – month contract extension in December 2015, running to the end of 2016/17 season. He made his first team debut as a late substitute against Raith Rovers in December 2015, followed

by a further 6 appearances from the bench, including run outs at both Parkhead and Ibrox.

Head to Head Played 126 Queen’s Park 44 Draw 25 Greenock Morton 57

Club Records

Best league position: 2nd in First Division (Old) (1916–1917) Biggest victory: 21–0 v Howwood (1886–87 Renfrewshire Cup)

Biggest defeat: 1–10 v Port Glasgow Athletic (05/05/1894), St Bernard's (14/10/1993) Record home attendance: 23,500 v Celtic (1922)

Most goals in one season: Allan McGraw (58 in 1963–1964) Most league appearances: Derek Collins (534)

Most league goals: Allan McGraw (117) Record transfer fee paid: Janne Lindberg – £250k from MyPa-47

Record transfer fee received: Derek Lilley – £500k to Leeds United

Club Honours Scottish Cup

Winners: (1) 1921–22 Runners-up: (1) 1947–48

Scottish League Cup

Runners-up: (1) 1963–64

Scottish Challenge Cup Runners-up: (1) 1992

Scottish Premier Division Runners-up: (1) 1916–17

Scottish First Division

Champions: (6) 1949–50, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1986–1987 Runners-up: (4) 1899–00, 1928–29, 1936–37, 2012–13

Scottish Second Division

Champions: (3) 1994–95, 2006–07, 2014–15 Runners-up: (1) 2005–06

Scottish Third Division

Champions: (1) 2002–03