23rd Dec 2022 Partick Thistle 5 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1 (SPFL Championship - game 19)

matches:2022-23: ← 29game 3031 →

58y, 2m, 23d	Ian McCall	Billy Dodds former Jag

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Brian Graham (1-0, 16 mins); Kyle Turner (2-0, 39‎ mins); Cole McKinnon (3-0, 53‎ mins); Aaron Muirhead (4-0, 57 mins); Danny Mullen (5-1, 74‎ mins)		Aaron Doran (4-1, 73‎ mins)
Aidan Fitzpatrick (1-0, 16 mins); Harry Milne (2-0, 39‎ mins); Brian Graham (3-0, 53‎ mins); Kyle Turner (4-0, 57 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (5-1, 74‎ mins)		Billy Mckay (4-1, 73‎ mins)

		Wallace Duffy (@ 5-1, 77‎ mins)
Jack McMillan (Kevin Holt, 62 mins); Steven Lawless (Danny Mullen, 68 mins); Harry Milne (Zander MacKenzie, 68 mins); Aidan Fitzpatrick (James Lyon, 79 mins); Brian Graham (Tony Weston, 79 mins)		Steven Boyd (Aaron Doran, HT); Lewis Hyde (Matthew Strachan, 79 mins)

25y, 3m, 17d	Jamie Sneddon	Cammy Mackay
25y, 0m, 5d	Jack McMillan	Ryan Barrett
26y, 1m, 24d	Harry Milne	Zak Delaney
28y, 8m, 13d	Darren Brownlie	Max Ram
32y, 3m, 23d	Aaron Muirhead	Wallace Duffy
30y, 3m, 6d	Stuart Bannigan	Sean Welsh former Jag
19y, 10m, 24d	Cole McKinnon	David Carson
31y, 8m, 11d	Steven Lawless	Lewis Hyde
35y, 1m, 0d	Brian Graham	Billy Mckay
25y, 1m, 13d	Kyle Turner	Steven Boyd
21y, 9m, 3d	Aidan Fitzpatrick	Daniel MacKay future Jag

27y, 4m, 22d

32y, 8m, 19d	David Mitchell	Mark Ridgers former Jag
29y, 10m, 28d	Kevin Holt	Aaron Doran
26y, 1m, 4d	Anton Dowds	George Oakley
27y, 3m, 29d	Cammy Smith	Matthew Strachan
19y, 3m, 6d	Tony Weston	Keith Bray
27y, 9m, 22d	Danny Mullen
18y, 3m, 3d	Ben Stanway
20y, 1m, 26d	James Lyon
17y, 3m, 25d	Zander MacKenzie

notes

Both sides generally in playing order.
Inverness filled only 5 of their 9 allocated bench slots.
Originally scheduled for Saturday, 24th December, 2022. Brought forward by mutual preference by the clubs.

THE BOYS ARE FLYING

● PT and ICT meet for the 7th time in this calendar year - none of which have been played on a Saturday. As you might imagine, this freakish sequence stands uniquely in PTFC history! There have only been 3 longer non-Saturday runs in history (all of which peaked at the 8 game mark) albeit they were spread over a number of years; Celtic (8, 2013-2015), Glentoran (8, 1904-1996) and Queen's Park (8, 1950-1956).

● Thistle starting eleven is unchanged for the first time in over 4 months, namely since the opening two League games of the season featured the same line-up.

● Brian Graham scores Thistle's 50th competitive goal of the season before Christmas, which is great going. The #9 is now just one goal away from joining Gerry Britton in our competitive Top 50 goals chart.

● Brian Graham scores his 5th Thistle goal against Inverness CT. Only Kris Doolan (6) has scored more against the Highlanders.

● There's been at least one first half goal in each of the last 12 competitive Thistle matches.

● Thistle score 3 or more in a fourth consecutive competitive game at Firhill. Only once in the last 50 years (5 in 2012) have the club surpassed such a goal fest.

● Kyle Turner has registered EIGHT direct goal involvements in the last four games at Firhill, netting twice and providing six assists. The boy's flying!

● Cole McKinnon scores his last goal for Thistle.

● Aaron Muirhead scores his last goal for Thistle.

● Danny Mullen gets his first League goal for Thistle.

● For the first time in history Partick Thistle score 5 goals against Inverness CT. It's a new record margin of competitive home victory in the H2H, and equals the 4 goal winning margin set in the 4-0 away League win in December 2014.

● Thistle set a new H2H record, going 5 home League games without defeat (2019 to date) for the first time between the two clubs.

● Thistle have scored 54 goals in 27 competitive games in 2022-23 for a hugely impressive average of 2 goals-per-game. Only twice in the last 68 years have the club returned this ratio by season's end, doing so in 1970-71 (2.083 gpg) and 2012-13 (2.043 gpg).

ongoing sequences:

● 27 consecutive competitive appearances for Jack McMillan, 9th Jul 2022 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Jamie Sneddon - 41 games, 28th Aug 2021 to 9th Jul 2022. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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