J Smith 10
Match Information
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: D.F. Reilly (Port Glasgow)
Matchday: Wednesday
Match Trivia
There were two ways of seeing this affair at Ibrox. Rangers should have won handsomely. They might have been beaten. When Smith scored a bonnie goal after ten minutes, Rangers seemed set for a walk-away. Then they began to show how nit to do it. The forwards became positively awful as marksmen. McPhail, Marshall and Smith could not get on the target, although the centre had one ponderous shot which gave Ferguson trouble. On the pressure Rangers should have been well up, but instead, they were nearly brought back to equality when Morgan shot hard, and Tom Hamilton brought off a great save. It was not a good second half. It lacked life, and there was a lot of scrappy play. Dyet had two chances to give the game a twist, but instead of placing the ball in the net he shot hard and straight, and Hamilton saved each time. At the other end, Smith headed against the bar after Brown had raced down the wing and centred. Tom Hamilton had another magnificent save from Stevenson. It was lucky for Rangers that their goalkeeper was making no mistakes. He saved their bacon. The four Rangers International men piping hit from the oven will have to do a great deal better at Hampden. McPhail was playing the proper game in the first twenty minutes, but he went back like the rest. I am still of the opinion that he would be more successful on the right. Though he missed scoring chances, Smith is coming on. We did not see much of Marshall, although he was working hard enough. Brown was the best half-back. He played a splendid first half but seemed affected by the general deterioration afterwards. On the ball, he and Gallagher were the neatest of the bunch, but Patsy found the pace hard on him, and a knock on the face did not help him. Meiklejohn was sluggish. I never saw him with his old freedom of action. Simpson was too far back to be of much good to the forwards. A sound back all the time was Newry Hamilton, while Gray had Gall pretty well in hand. Falkirk had a sturdy defence. Ferguson and both backs being the strong part of the team, although towards the finish Kennedy and Hutchison came well into it. The forwards had some promising movements. But they required more determination, and Dyet some coolness when the scoring chances were going. Morgan and Stevenson were the better wing.
