The 1-1 draw was Arthurlie’s first draw in 12 — whilst it also marked the first game in charge for new manager Craig McEwan and his back room staff.

Meanwhile Paul Stewart made his 100th start for the Barrhead club.

Arthurlie started the game well — and right from the first minute had the hosts on the back foot. A Danny Burns corner found Stewart but Robert Hamilton keep the score line all square with a fine save.

Conner McGlinchey saw his thunderbolt from the edge of the area deflect inches wide second later as Arthurlie went for the jugular early on.

Jordan Shelvey had an opportunity on 10 minutes — but seven minutes later normal service was resumed as Gavin Rushford sent a fantastic ball into Chris Dallas, who controlled before turning and shooting but the ball was again deflected wide.

Twenty minutes in Rushford seemed to get the ball but was adjudged to have caught Ramage first. Rhys Devlin vented his fury at the referee, who flashed a straight red, only to admit he had pulled the wrong card and rescinded it.

Thirty-eight minutes in and Arthurlie were down to 10 men.

A through ball saw Shelvey run into space only for the tricky striker to be brought by the sliding Alan Muir — earning himself his second yellow card of the afternoon.

Clydebank started the second half playing the ball from defence at every opportunity as they looked to tire out the ten men — but it wasn’t to happen as Dallas and Stewart backed by the midfield covered every blade of grass chasing down for the entire game.

And their hard work was eventually rewarded on the hour mark.

McArdle sent a deep corner and McGregor rose highest at the back to head across goal. The ball was cleared back out to the midfielder and he reacted quickest to hit a rising strike into the roof of the net before Hamilton had the chance to react.

With 90 minutes over a ball into the Arthurlie penalty area saw Rushford kick the ball off a Clydebank attacker — only for a corner to awarded.

And, Bankies made them pay as Ian Gold rose highest to header beyond Michael White.

Straight from kick off Smith raced through and saw his effort fumbled into the path of McArdle who looked like he was certain to score — but it wasn’t to be and as the ball went out the referee blew for full time.