Dundee 5
Greenock Morton 1
League (Premier Division)
DundeeDundee |
5 - 15 - 1 |
MortonMorton |
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League (Premier Division) |
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| Goalscorers | |
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Albert Kidd (14) Albert Kidd (25) Bobby Connor (73) Ray Stephen (75) Walker McCall (85) |
Doug Robertson (58) |
| Team Managers | |
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Archie Knox |
Willie McLean |
| Starting Eleven | |
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1. Bobby Geddes 2. George McGeachie 3. Tosh McKinlay 4. Stuart Rafferty 5. Jim Smith 6. Bobby Glennie 7. Ray Stephen 8. John Brown 9. Walker McCall 10. Bobby Connor 11. Albert Kidd |
Craig Adams .1 Jim Wilson .2 Jimmy Holmes .3 Jim Fleeting .4 Alan Mackin .5 Jim Duffy .6 Doug Robertson .7 Danny Docherty .8 Jim Gillespie .9 Dom Sullivan .10 Ian Clinging .11 |
| Bench | |
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12. Stewart Forsyth 14. Lex Richardson |
Tommy Turner .12 John McNeil .14 |
| Substitutions | |
| None. | None. |
| Cautions | |
| None. | Jim Fleeting |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
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David Syme (Rutherglen) (Referee) |
Match Report
Newspaper extract from The Sporting Post.
Dundee have Albert Kidd back for the injured Colin Harris. Lex Richardson is rele gated to the sub's bench to make way for Walker McCall.
Morton field the same team who crushed Hibs last Saturday.
Dundee are first to threaten when McCall finds Rafferty with a fine 50-yard pass. He races to the by-line and sends over a low ball which McCall just fails to reach.
Stephen sets McCall up on the 18-yard box in five minutes but the centre's first-time shot is well wide.
McGeachie does well to cut the ball back to Stephen for the winger to turn and fire a low drive at Adams.
Stephen almost picks up the rebound from a fierce 30-yard McCall effort but Adams beats him to it.
Connor breaks away on the left but fires well over.
Dundee take the lead in 14 minutes. Connor passes to KIDD, who calmly rounds the keeper before slotting the ball home. He almost gets his second a couple of minutes later but Adams stops his header.
Morton have a penalty claim waved away when Robertson tumbles in the box after a McKinlay challenge.
They win a corner in 20 minutes, but Fleeting shoots well over.
Sullivan works his way to the by-line but slices his cross wide.
Connor is unlucky in 23 minutes when he heads against the post off a Stephen centre.
Dundee go two up with 25 minutes gone. the ball is played through to KIDD, who turns quickly before shooting past Adams.
Robertson lets fly from 25 yards but is off target.
MeColl turns his man superbly in 37 minutes only to see the keeper dive to save his shot.
Docherty out-jumps Geddes from a Clinging corner but the referee penalises the Morton forward.
Dundee play the ball back and forward across the visi tors goalmouth before Brown gets a header in which the defence clears.
Conner is brought down a couple of times before half time after a mazey run but Dundee waste the free kick.
Half-time-Dundee 2. Morton 0.
Reflections-Dundee thoroughly deserve their) lead, having created all the scoring chances.
Morton restart with McNeil on for Fleeting.
Dundee force a corner in 51 minutes. Connor crosses and the ball is headed out to Rafferty, whose shot is deflected for another corner. Connor takes it again but the ball is scrambled away.
Gillespie pulls out a good save from Geddes and a 35 yard free kick by Brown just misses.
A superb ball out of defence sends Robertson away but McGeachie intervenes.
In 62 minutes Adams. gathers the ball at the feet of McCall, then he stops a well flighted McGeachie shot.
Morton pull one back in 67 minutes. Holmes flings over a cross which ROBERTSON drives past Geddes McGeachie's strong running down the right pays off when CONNOR controls his cross to hammer the ball home.
Two minutes later STEPHEN rounds Adams to score.
With five minutes to go, Dundee grab their fifth Stephen cuts into the box and his cross sets MCCALL up for his first league goal of the season.
Final-Dundee 5, Morton 1.
Summing-Up - Dundee's biggest win of the season was just reward for their endeavour.
Squad Statistics (as at December 8th, 1984)
| 1984-85 | All Time | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Nat |  |
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| Bobby Geddes (GK) | 24 |
|
4 | - | 101 | - |
| Bobby Glennie | 27 |
|
19 | - | 284 | 4 |
| George McGeachie | 25 |
|
21 | - | 217 | 8 |
| Tosh McKinlay | 20 |
|
21 | 2 | 69 | 5 |
| Jim Smith | 23 |
|
8 | 1 | 109 | 5 |
| John Brown | 22 |
|
19 | 4 | 19 | 4 |
| Bobby Connor | 24 |
|
19 | 5 | 19 | 5 |
| Stuart Rafferty | 23 |
|
21 | 2 | 21 | 2 |
| Albert Kidd | 23 |
|
16 | 2 | 113 | 12 |
| Walker McCall | 30 |
|
17 | 2 | 57 | 21 |
| Ray Stephen | 21 |
|
20 | 6 | 149 | 32 |
League Table (as at December 8th, 1984)
No league table has been added for this season.
Manager's Programme Notes
The disappointment of last Saturday's result at Parkhead was due to our performance in the second half.
We started the game very well and were well worth going in level at half time . . . but sadly the second period was a different story altogether. We had caused Celtic problems by giving them veryblittle space in which to operate and also by pressurising them at every opportunity.
It was only when we stopped doing this in the second half that Celtic managed to get on top of us and against a side of their calibre you just can't afford to allow this to happen.
I felt our undoing was by failing to match our positive approach of the first 45 minutes and that is another aspect that we'll have to keep working at as we strive to get it right.
It's a well-worn cliche - the game lasting 90 minutes - but we seemed to forget that against Celtic and we paid the price in full. But there were positive things to come from our visit to Glasgow and again we'll be trying to build on these in the matches ahead.
Everyone knows we're playing with what amounts to a brand new team and I'm looking for the more established players who've been over this difficult course before to help the others who are new to this experience.
The visit of Morton today presents another challenge and we must be looking to win this kind of game at home if we are to do ourselves justice.
The Greenock side of course had that excellent 4-0 victory over Hibs last Saturday and I'm sure that will give them every encouragement to come here looking for a win and make today's an open game.
None of the players at Dens are in any doubt as to how we have to tackle this match - we must work all the time and put pressure on our visitors.
IF WE SUCCEED IN DOING THIS THEN I'M CONFIDENT WE'LL GET THE RESULT WE ALL WANT.
I've said before that we're only a couple of good results away from being able to play more relaxed football and we've certainly got to try and get one such victory under our belts today.
The players here have shown already this season what they can do but it's up to them to do it with a level of consistency that so far has been missing.