2007–08_Clyde_F.C._season

Clyde Football Club
2007–08 season
Chairman	Ian Letham
Manager	John Brown
First Division	9th (Playoffs)
Scottish Cup	Fourth Round
League Cup	First Round
Challenge Cup	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Ruari Doherty (9); All: Ruari Doherty (9)
Highest home attendance	2,548 (vs Airdrie United, 10 May 2008)
Lowest home attendance	621 (vs Queen of the South, 14 August 2007, League Cup)
	← 2006–07 2008–09 →

2007–08 Clyde F.C. season

Clyde Football Club 2007–08 football season

Season 2007–08 was Clyde's eighth consecutive season in the Scottish First Division. Former Scotland captain Colin Hendry was appointed manager in June 2007, replacing Joe Miller. Hendry resigned in January 2008, and was replaced by John Brown. The club finished 9th in the division by 1 goal, and were confined to the playoffs. They staged an impressive 6–5 aggregate victory over Alloa Athletic in the Semi Final, coming from 5–2 down with 25 minutes left. They defeated Airdrie United 3–0 over two legs to regain their status as a First Division team.

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[table_note_res_RP0.27655341209683-62] The 9th placed team were entered into a play-off with the Second Division's 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed teams. The winning team were awarded a place in the 2008–09 First Division, Clyde won the play-off to stay in the division.

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Club Statement – Joe Miller

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Players Released

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Upton goes

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Manager appointed

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Trust deal in Ruari

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Club Statement

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Harris move agreed

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Gilmour joins Queens

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Taz & Dave sign on

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Bollan joins up

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Four players signed

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Morton 3–2 Clyde

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Wilson signs on

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Clyde 0–3 Raith Rovers

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Clyde 1–0 QOS

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Sweet Sixteen

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Partick Thistle 4–0 Clyde

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Clyde 1–0 St Johnstone

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Col at the double

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Debut of Craig Potter

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Debut of Christian Smith

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Debut of Marvyn Wilson

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Debut & final appearance of David Thomson

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Dougie Bell & Gary Bollan take care-taker charge

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Final appearance of Dougie Imrie

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Debut of Jörg Albertz

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Final appearance of Iain Campbell

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Debut of Marc McCusker

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Final appearance of Christian Smith

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Final appearance of Dušan Bestvina

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Final appearance of Gary Arbuckle

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Final appearance of Michael McGowan

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Debut of Michael Doherty

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Debut of Roddy MacLennan

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Final appearance of Joe Cardle

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Final appearance of Evangelino Valentim

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Colin Hendry's final game in charge

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Player	From	Fee
Craig Potter	Airdrie United	Free
Christian Smith	Port Vale	Free
Andrew Traub	Celtic	Free
Marvyn Wilson	Hamilton Academical	Free
Michael Doherty	Clyde Youth	Free
Jordan Murch	Clyde Youth	Free
Roddy MacLennan	Clyde Youth	Free
Stephen Connolly	Hamilton Academical Youth	Free
Ryan Craig	Greenock Morton Youth	Free
Martin McGowan	Greenock Morton Youth	Free
Calum McGregor	St Mirren Youth	Free
Juan Carrio	Motherwell Youth	Free
Joe Cardle	Port Vale	Loan
Dan Kirkup	Carlisle United	Loan
Dušan Bestvina	FC Mistelbach	Free
Evangelino Valentim	Unattached	Free
Ryan Wilkie	Unattached	Free

Player	To	Fee
Joe Miller	Retired	Free
Craig Bryson	Kilmarnock	Undisclosed
Andy Ferguson	Alloa Athletic	Free
Roddy Hunter	Albion Rovers	Free
Alex Williams	Ayr United	Free
Robert Harris	Queen of the South	Undisclosed
Brian Gilmour	Queen of the South	Undisclosed
Michael Fulton	Lugar Boswell Thistle	Free
Paul Reynolds	Airdrie United	Free
Ryan McCann	Bohemians	Free
Andrew Traub	Cowdenbeath	Free
Craig Potter	Dumbarton	Free
David Thomson	Sauchie	Free

Player	From	Fee
Pat Clarke	Cowdenbeath	Undisclosed
Jimmy Gibson	Partick Thistle	Free
Billy Gibson	St Patrick's Athletic	Free
Shaun Fagan	Galway United	Free
Iain Campbell	Kilmarnock	Loan
Dave McKay	Drumchapel United	Free
Paul MacDonald	Hearts	Free
Jörg Albertz	Unattached	Free
Gary McSwegan	Unattached	Free
Marc McCusker	Hearts	Loan

Player	To	Fee
Dan Kirkup	Carlisle United	Loan Return
Joe Cardle	Port Vale	Loan Return
Ryan Wilkie	Workington	Free
Evangelino Valentim	Released	Free
Dougie Imrie	Inverness Caledonian Thistle	£35,000

Date	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers
10 July 2007	East Stirlingshire	Little Kerse	2 – 3	Masterton , Trialist
13 July 2007	Stenhousemuir	Ochilview Park	3 – 2	Imrie , Bradley pen'
24 July 2007	St Mirren	Love Street	1 – 2	Imrie
26 July 2007	Oldham Athletic	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 2	own goal', Arbuckle

2007–08_Clyde_F.C._season

2007–08 Clyde F.C. season

Events

Transfers

Summer

In

Out

January

Squad

Fixtures and results

Pre-season

Scottish First Division

Playoffs

Scottish League Cup

Scottish Challenge Cup

Scottish Cup

Reserve League Cup

Player statistics

Overall

League

Challenge Cup

League Cup

Scottish Cup

League table

Notes

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Date	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Position	Notes
4 August 2007	Greenock Morton	Cappielow	2 – 3	Masterton 10', Higgins 45'	3,784	8th	^[20]^[21]^[22]
11 August 2007	Hamilton Academical	Broadwood Stadium	0 – 2	N. McGregor 45'	1,182	8th	^[23]
18 August 2007	Partick Thistle	Firhill Stadium	0 – 4		3,175	10th	^[24]^[25]
25 August 2007	St Johnstone	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 0	Ruari MacLennan 70'	1,310	9th	^[26]
1 September 2007	Dundee	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 2	Higgins 4', Cardle 25'	1,500	9th	^[27]^[28]^[29]
15 September 2007	Queen of the South	Palmerston Park	1 – 1	N. McGregor 49'	1,730	10th	^[30]
22 September 2007	Dunfermline Athletic	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 1	Masterton 19', D. McGowan 65'	1,554	7th
29 September 2007	Livingston	Almondvale Stadium	2 – 4	D. McGowan 15', Ruari MacLennan 42', Imrie 85' (pen), Smith 88'	1,500	9th	^[31]
6 October 2007	Stirling Albion	Forthbank Stadium	2 – 0	Arbuckle 38', N. McGregor 45'	950	7th
20 October 2007	Greenock Morton	Broadwood Stadium	0 – 1		1,231	7th
27 October 2007	St Johnstone	McDiarmid Park	1 – 1	Imrie 75'	2,782	7th
3 November 2007	Partick Thistle	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 2	Imrie 88' (pen)	1,980	10th
11 November 2007	Dundee	Dens Park	1 – 0	Dixon 86' (own goal)	3,727	7th
1 December 2007	Queen of the South	Broadwood Stadium	0 – 0		1,008	7th
8 December 2007	Dunfermline Athletic	East End Park	1 – 1	D. McGowan 3', Imrie 57'	3,574	7th	^[32]
15 December 2007	Livingston	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 1	McKeown 43', N. McGregor 75'	910	7th
26 December 2007	Hamilton Academical	New Douglas Park	0 – 0		1,750	9th
29 December 2007	St Johnstone	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 3	Bradley 14', Wilson 59'	1,200	9th	^[33]
2 January 2008	Partick Thistle	Firhill Stadium	1 – 1	Arbuckle 26'	3,299	8th
5 January 2008	Queen of the South	Palmerston Park	1 – 3	Michael McGowan 15' (pen)	1,513	9th
19 January 2008	Dundee	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 1	Arbuckle 72'	1,328	9th	^[34]
26 January 2008	Hamilton Academical	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 3	Arbuckle 3', Imrie 14'	1,214	9th	^[35]
2 February 2008	Stirling Albion	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 3	Fagan 79' (pen)	961	9th	^[36]^[37]^[38]^[39]
9 February 2008	Greenock Morton	Cappielow	2 – 1	Ruari MacLennan 90+1', McKeown 90+3'	2,239	8th
23 February 2008	Dunfermline Athletic	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 2	Clarke 68' (pen)	1,126	8th	^[40]^[41]^[42]
1 March 2008	Partick Thistle	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 4	McKeown 10'	1,717	9th	^[43]
8 March 2008	Livingston	Almondvale Stadium	0 – 0		1,800	9th
11 March 2008	Greenock Morton	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 1	Clarke 56'	1,265	9th
15 March 2008	Stirling Albion	Forthbank Stadium	1 – 1	Albertz 45', Campbell 65'	1,089	9th	^[44]^[45]^[46]
22 March 2008	Queen of the South	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 4	Masterton 69'	1,211	9th	^[47]
25 March 2008	St Johnstone	McDiarmid Park	2 – 1	Bradley 30', Albertz 51'	1,686	7th
29 March 2008	Dundee	Dens Park	0 – 2		4,037	8th	^[48]
5 April 2008	Livingston	Broadwood Stadium	3 – 2	Clarke 19', Ruari MacLennan 24' 48'	1,156	8th
12 April 2008	Dunfermline Athletic	East End Park	1 – 2	Clarke 44'	3,129	8th
19 April 2008	Hamilton Academical	New Douglas Park	0 – 2	N. McGregor 21'	4,940	9th	^[49]
26 April 2008	Stirling Albion	Broadwood Stadium	3 – 0	McSwegan 44', Clarke 46' 83' (pen)	1,426	9th

Date	Stage	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Notes
30 April 2008	Semi Final First Leg	Alloa Athletic	Recreation Park	1 – 2	Masterton 62'	1,026
3 May 2008	Semi Final Second Leg	Alloa Athletic	Broadwood Stadium	5 – 3 AET	J. Gibson 30', Arbuckle 64', B. Gibson 68', McSwegan 84', Clarke 111'	1,548	^[50]
7 May 2008	Final First Leg	Airdrie United	Excelsior Stadium	1 – 0	Clarke 77'	1,878	^[51]
10 May 2008	Final Second Leg	Airdrie United	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 0	McSwegan 47', Clarke 64'	2,548	^[52]^[53]^[54]^[55]^[56]

Date	Round	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Notes
14 August 2007	Round 1	Queen of the South	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 0	Masterton 13'	621	^[57]
5 September 2007	Round 2	Dunfermline Athletic	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 4	Ruari MacLennan 46'	799

Date	Round	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Notes
24 November 2007	Round 3	Montrose	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 0	Arbuckle 8', Imrie 90'	821	^[58]^[59]^[60]
16 January 2008	Round 4	Dundee United	Broadwood Stadium	0 – 1		1,550	^[61]

Date	Stage	Opponents	Stadium	Result F – A	Scorers
16 October 2007	Group	Airdrie United	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 0	Valentim
29 October 2007	Group	Stranraer	Stair Park	6 – 0	Valentim , McKeown , Smith , Bradley
15 November 2007	Group	East Stirlingshire	Firs Park	4 – 1	Valentim , Bradley , McKenna
22 January 2008	Group	Stenhousemuir	Ochilview Park	3 – 2	Roddy MacLennan , McKenna , Connolly
12 February 2008	Group	Hamilton Academical	Broadwood Stadium	2 – 1	McKay (Trialist) , Smith
4 March 2008	Group	Queens Park	Broadwood Stadium	1 – 1	McKay
12 March 2008	Group	Partick Thistle	Firhill Stadium	3 – 5	Roddy MacLennan , McKay
27 April 2007	Semi Final	St Johnstone	McDiarmid Park	2 – 0	McKenna , McLaren (Trialist)
5 May 2008	Final	Livingston	Almondvale Stadium	4 – 1	McKay , C. McGregor

#	Player	P
GK	David Hutton	45	0	2	0
DF	Neil McGregor	40	3	10	2
DF	Chris Higgins	41	2	11	0
MF	Christian Smith	25 (6)	0	8	1
MF	Steven Masterton	28 (6)	5	4	0
MF	Kevin Bradley	23 (12)	2	3	0
MF	Marvyn Wilson	19 (5)	0	12	1
FW	Gary Arbuckle	23 (12)	6	1	0
DF	Michael McGowan	34 (6)	1	5	0
MF	Ruari MacLennan	37 (5)	5	4	1
MF	David McGowan	22 (12)	3	3	0
FW	Sean McKenna	1 (9)	0	1	0
DF	Michael Doherty	0 (2)	0	0	0
MF	Stephen Connolly	0 (1)	0	0	0
DF	Dušan Bestvina	24 (1)	0	5	0
DF	Craig McKeown	18 (1)	3	4	0
FW	Roddy MacLennan	2 (5)	0	0	0
DF	Iain Campbell	4	0	1	1
DF	Billy Gibson	18	1	2	0
FW	Pat Clarke	15	9	3	0
MF	Shaun Fagan	2 (1)	1	2	0
FW	Dave McKay	8 (8)	0	1	0
MF	Jimmy Gibson	5 (5)	1	2	0
FW	Gary McSwegan	6 (3)	3	1	0
MF	Jörg Albertz	7 (1)	2	1	0
FW	Marc McCusker	0 (3)	0	0	0
GK	Peter Cherrie	0	0	0	0
MF	Juan Carrio	0	0	0	0
DF	Calum McGregor	0	0	0	0
FW	Dougie Imrie	24	5	12	1
FW	Evangelino Valentim	0 (3)	0	0	0
DF	Dan Kirkup	7 (1)	0	0	0
MF	Joe Cardle	10	0	3	1
DF	Craig Potter	6	0	0	0
DF	Andrew Traub	1	0	0	0
GK	David Thomson	0 (1)	0	0	0
MF	Ryan Wilkie	0	0	0	0

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
6	Partick Thistle	36	11	12	13	40	39	+1	45
7	Livingston	36	10	9	17	55	66	−11	39
8	Greenock Morton	36	9	10	17	40	58	−18	37
9	Clyde	36	9	10	17	40	59	−19	37	Qualification for the First Division Play-offs^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	Stirling Albion (R)	36	4	12	20	41	71	−30	24	Relegation to the Second Division