1976–77 Dumbarton F.C. season

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Season 1976–77 was the 100th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 70th time, the Scottish Cup for the 82nd time and the Scottish League Cup for the 30th time.

Overview

Dumbarton played for the second successive season in Division 1, but with the Spring Cup being dispensed with, the league programme was extended by each team playing the other 3 times. Once again a poor start was to scupper Dumbarton's promotion ambitions with only a single win to show from the first 6 games. Thereafter results were mixed - which was almost to account for manager Alex Wright's resignation in February - although a mid-table 7th place was achieved in the end.

In the Scottish Cup it was once again Hearts who were to end any thoughts of a cup run for Dumbarton, losing in the third round by the only goal, after a drawn game.

In the League Cup, another tough qualifying group, which included Premier Division clubs Celtic (again) and Dundee United, was to prove to be too much of a hurdle to progress to the knock-out stages, although 2 wins and 2 draws from the 6 ties was a creditable achievement.

Locally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton were defeated by Alloa Athletic in the first round.

A pre-season mni-tour of Spain was undertaken where two well deserved wins were chalked up.

At the end of the season Alex Wright gave up his managerial duties to move 'upstairs to the directors box' and was replaced by Davie Wilson.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

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Main article: 1976–77 Scottish Football League
Date Opponent Venue Result Scorers Attendance
4 September 1976 Dundee A 1-2 Muir 4619
8 September 1976 Arbroath A 0-1 753
11 September 1976 Montrose H 2-1 Bourke(2) 1,000
14 September 1976 Airdrie H 1-3 Bourke 1,200
18 September 1976 St Mirren A 1-2 Bourke 2,500
25 September 1976 Hamilton H 1-2 Brown,A 1,500
29 September 1976 East Fife A 3-2 Brown,A;Muir;Steele 784
2 October 1976 Raith Rovers A 1-1 Muir 1,553
5 October 1976 East Fife H 5-1 Muir(3);Steele;Bourke 1,000
9 October 1976 Morton H 1-1 Bourke 2,000
16 October 1976 St Johnstone H 2-1 Bourke(2) 2,000
20 October 1976 Falkirk H 2-2 McLean;Bourke 2,000
23 October 1976 Queen of the South H 3-3 McLean;Bourke;Brown,A 1,505
30 October 1976 Clydebank A 0-2 7,000
10 November 1976 Dundee H 1-1 Harvey 500
13 November 1976 Montrose A 1-2 Harvey 1,000
20 November 1976 St Mirren H 0-1 4,000
27 November 1977 Hamilton A 1-0 Whiteford 1,200
27 December 1977 Queen of the South A 2-1 McLean;MacLeod 2,500
1 January 1977 Clydebank H 1-1 Brown,A 4,000
8 January 1977 Montrose H 2-2 Whiteford(2) 2,000
22 January 1977 Hamilton H 1-1 Whiteford 1,500
5 February 1977 Raith Rovers A 1-3 Brown,A 1,613
7 February 1977 St Mirren A 2-3 Bourke;Graham 7,800
12 February 1977 Morton H 0-4 1,000
19 February 1977 St Johnstone H 2-0 Bourke(2) 1,497
23 February 1977 Raith Rovers H 2-0 Bourke;Whiteford 800
26 February 1977 Morton A 0-3 2,000
5 March 1977 Queen of the South H 2-0 Muir;Whiteford 1,000
12 March 1977 Clydebank A 2-4 Bourke;Whiteford 4,000
19 March 1977 Airdrie A 2-1 Bourke;Whiteford 1,000
23 March 1977 Dundee A 0-4 1000
26 March 1977 Airdrie H 2-1 Bourke;Whiteford 2,000
2 April 1977 Falkirk A 3-1 McLean;Whiteford(2) 1,000
6 April 1977 St Johnstone H 2-4 Whiteford(2) 1,000
9 April 1977 Falkirk H 4-0 MacLeod(2);Whiteford;Muir 1,000
16 April 1977 Arbroath H 2-3 MacLeod;Bourke 1,000
23 April 1977 Arbroath A 2-1 MacLeod;OG 957
30 April 1977 East Fife H 3-3 MacLeod;McLean;;Bourke 2,000

Scottish Cup

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Main article: 1976–77 Scottish Cup
Date Rd Opponent Venue Result Scorers Attendance
29 January 1977 3 Hearts A 1-1 Bourke 7,969
2 February 1977 3R Hearts H 0-1 3,000

Scottish League Cup

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Main article: 1976–77 Scottish League Cup
Date Rd Opponent Venue Result Scorers Attendance
14 August 1976 P Arbroath H 2-0 Wallace;Sinclair 1,500
18 August 1976 P Celtic A 0-3 15,000
21 August 1976 P Dundee United H 1-2 Wallace 2,500
25 August 1976 P Celtic H 3-3 Bourke(2);Wallace 12,000
28 August 1976 P Dundee United A 1-1 Muir 4,000
1 September 1976 P Arbroath A 3-0 Muir;Mullen;MacLeod 810

Stirlingshire Cup

Date Rd Opponent Venue Result Scorers Attendance
15 November 1976 1 Alloa Athletic H 2-4 Steele;Brown,A 500

Other Matches

Date Opponent Venue Result Scorers Attendance
27 July 1976 Vale of Leven A 5-2 OG;Wallace(2);Mulraine;MacLeod
4 August 1976 SpainLloret CF A 6-1 Wallace(2);Muir(2);Sinclair;Harvey
5 August 1976 SpainMalgrat A 3-2 Wallace;Smith;Harvey
11 August 1976 Rangers XI H 3-2 Wallace(2);Muir

Appearances

Club

Dumbarton used 26 players for the 47 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Graeme Sinclair and Laurie Williams were best by being the only players to start in every one of these matches, bar one.[1]

Player Position Appearances[2] Goals
Scotland Raymond Blair FW 11(2)
Scotland John Bourke FW 42 22
Scotland Ally Brown FW 36(6) 5
Scotland Brian Brown MF 3(1)
Scotland Jim Cook FW 15(1)
Scotland Jim Donaldson FW 0(2)
Scotland Johnny Graham MF 40(2) 1
Scotland Drew Harvey FW 6(6) 2
Scotland Bobby McCallum FW 11(5)
Scotland Ian McGregor GK 1
Scotland Columb McKinley MF 31(2)
Scotland Hugh McLean MF 27(10) 4
Scotland Murdo MacLeod FW 28(5) 8
Scotland Donald McNeil MF 17(10)
Scotland Martin Mowatt MF 10
Scotland Jim Muir MF 30(1) 10
Scotland Terry Mullen DF 0(4) 1
Scotland Tommy Mulraine FW 3(2)
Scotland Willie Russell DF 2
Scotland Graeme Sinclair MF 46 1
Scotland Walter Smith MF 34(1)
Scotland Billy Steele FW 16(4) 2
Scotland Ian Wallace FW 4 3
Scotland Don Watt DF 37
Scotland Jocky Whiteford FW 21 15
Scotland Laurie Williams GK 46

International

Graeme Sinclair was selected to play for Scotland Under23s in a match against England Under23s on April 27, 1977. The tie - which was part of the unofficial under23 British Home International Championship - was won by England 1-0. This was the first Dumbarton internationalist, of any sort, for over 15 years.

Reserve Team

Dumbarton competed in the Scottish Reserve League and finished 9th of 18 with 14 wins and 6 draws from 34 matches.

In the Scottish Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost to Queen of the South in the second round, on penalties, after a 2-2 draw.

In the Scottish Reserve League Cup, Dumbarton failed to qualifying from their section.

See also

References

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External links

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