Dundee 5
Kilmarnock 2
League (Premier Division)
DundeeDundee |
5 - 25 - 2 |
KilmarnockKilmarnock |
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League (Premier Division) |
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| Goalscorers | |
|
Jimmy Murphy (2) Peter Mackie (32) Davie Bell (42) Jimmy Murphy (60) Cammy Fraser (87) |
Jim Clark (82) Ally MacLeod (84) |
| Team Managers | |
|
Donald Mackay |
Jim Clunie |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1. Colin Kelly 2. Bobby Glennie 3. Brian Scrimgeour 4. Cammy Fraser 5. Jim Smith 6. Ian MacDonald 7. Jimmy Murphy 8. Davie Bell 9. Eric Sinclair 10. Peter Mackie 11. Ray Stephen |
Alan McCulloch .1 Alan Robertson .2 Jim Cockburn .3 Jim Clark .4 Derrick McDicken .5 Paul Clarke .6 Sammy McGivern .7 Stuart McLean .8 Brian Gallagher .9 Ally MacLeod .10 Ian Bryson .11 |
| Bench | |
|
12. Stewart McKimmie 14. Albert Kidd |
John Bourke .12 Robert Clark .14 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. | John Bourke for Ian Bryson (55) |
| Cautions | |
| None. | Alan Robertson |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
W. McLeish (Stonehouse) (Referee) |
Match Report
It isn't often that I permit myself to go a bit overboard about any individual performance or, indeed, a team performance when it comes to football, principally because as a former player I have always felt it was a question of doing a job for which you were being well paid.
However, I am prepared to make an exception on both counts after watching Dundee decimate Kilmarnock at Dens Park on Saturday with a 5-2 victory which, with a bit of luck, could have been even more decisive than the score suggests.
Dundee won this match looking round, and the only criticism that can be levelled against them is a lack of concentration near the end which produced two Kilmarnock goals in a two-minute spell when the visitors had never really looked like scoring at all.
But having said this, had Kilmarnock not scored these goals, the fans might have been deprived the spectacle of a final goal by Dundee, scored by Cammy Fraser, which was easily the best of the bunch.
The Dundee skipper's goal set the seal on a quite brilliant individual display. His understanding, especially with Peter Mackie and Eric Sinclair, was a feature of an entertaining game in which Kilmarnock were always cast as the victims.
Dundee, inspired by the flair, urgency and distribution of Fraser, played with an enthusiasm and pace that left Killie floundering for most of the game and most of us wondering how they had managed to hold Rangers to a draw the previous week and had gone three successive games without defeat.
How much of Dundee's authority was due to Jimmy Murphy's return after being on loan to Hamilton and scoring within two minutes is debatable.
Sometimes a quick goal like this has an adverse effect, with players inclined to think it is all too easy.
On this occasion it did not work like that.
Peter Mackie got a second for Dundee in 32 minutes and wee Davie Bell put his team three in front before the interval.
Murphy came on to a good game in the second half and when he put Dundee further ahead with his second goal, it looked a question really of how many would they score.
That is until the last ten minutes when Dundee appeared to relax and paid the penalty by losing two untidy goals to Clark and MacLeod.
But even these setbacks were quickly forgotten when that man Fraser stepped in with a glorious goal with only three minutes to go, bringing his team's total to five in what was a very good team performance, and for Cammy Fraser something worthwhile for his scrap book.
Match report written by The Courier
Squad Statistics (as at November 27th, 1982)
| 1982-83 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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|
|
|
| Colin Kelly (GK) | 21 |
|
14 | - | 14 | - |
| Bobby Glennie | 25 |
|
18 | - | 212 | 2 |
| Brian Scrimgeour | 23 |
|
8 | - | 52 | 5 |
| Jim Smith | 21 |
|
14 | 1 | 33 | 3 |
| Davie Bell | - |
|
9 | 2 | 30 | 3 |
| Cammy Fraser | 25 |
|
19 | 4 | 93 | 17 |
| Ian MacDonald | 29 |
|
14 | - | 37 | 3 |
| Peter Mackie | 24 |
|
19 | 4 | 124 | 16 |
| Jimmy Murphy | 26 |
|
3 | 2 | 118 | 13 |
| Eric Sinclair | 28 |
|
17 | 3 | 270 | 90 |
| Ray Stephen | 19 |
|
18 | 5 | 76 | 19 |
League Table (as at November 27th, 1982)
No league table has been added for this season.
Manager's Programme Notes
Since the last time I spoke to you through the medium of this column, a lot of things have happened both on and off the field which have created a lot of controversy.
The off-the-field happenings are very worrying to us all, but it is our job - i.e. the manager, the coaching staff and the players - to produce things on the field and therefore I feel that I have no right to pass comment in these pages.
Our major concern must be to improve our standards on the playing pitch and I can assure everyone that a lot of hard work is going in everyday at Dens Park to achieve this.
The results have been disappointing and very satisfying. The disappointment of losing to Celtic was immense. After a poor first half, an inspired second half of left us that little bit short of gaining a result.
At Motherwell the following Saturday, in a game that to say the least was rather disappointing, again the odd goal stopped us from gaining what would have turned out to be a very valuable point.
But last Saturday at Greenock we went a long way to retrieving part of that situation by gaining our first away win in the League this season, and that at one of the hardest grounds in Scotland to get anything from.
If you don't believe this, just ask Aberdeen. The result last week was achieved with a lot of effort and commitment and no mean skill into the bargain.
And when you consider that we have been without the services of two regular first team men for quite a length of time, this augurs well for the future.
As many of you will have noticed, the League is already beginning to break into two sections with four teams coming away from the rest. This makes this game doubly important because a result today would enable us to keep in touch with these top four teams.
Whereas a defeat would keep us too close to the bottom group. Many critics of the Premier League are very quick to point out that this has been happening in the League for many years now and I must go some way to agreeing with them.
Although it makes for very competitive football it does not leave as much room for entertainment as we would want.
One of the big flaws in the League is that too many teams cannot afford to lose and this is a big difference from having to win. It can only lead to negative football which is only helping to drive people away.
It was good to see so many supporters at Greenock on Saturday and, in these alleged trying times, it is very important that you know your support is appreciated by all at Dens Park.
We were all very disappointed to lose the Rangers fixture on December 3, but I am hopeful that we will be able to fix up a friendly, albeit overseas, which will keep us playing.
It is surprising how, when a team is going through difficult times, a trip away can make a tremendous difference to everyone at the ground.
Congratulations are in order again to lain Ferguson and Ray Stephen for making the Under-21 squad to travel to Switzerland recently. Fergie unluckily had to call off through his hamstring injury, but I am quite sure this will not do his chances any harm in the long term.
Tosh McKinlay returned from Monaco where we were very pleased to hear that he played in both games, but we were disappointed for him and the youth team that they did not progress further in the tournament.