Alfred the Great Provider

After Blair Lyons had missed an early chance for Montrose, Alfie Bavidge opened the scoring in the fourth minute. It started in defence where David Wotherspoon won the ball after Joe Chalmers was mugged by four players in midfield. Spoony passed through the middle to Alfie Stewart who spun round before releasing a great ball into the box for Bavidge to run onto and drill home from fifteen yards. Wotherspoon was denied by the keeper soon after and Stewart had an effort of his own from twenty yards saved as we searched for a second goal. Calum MacLeod headed in a second after half an hour as the visitors dominance paid off following a Stewart corner and flapping from the keeper. Billy Mckay might have done better than slip the ball just wide after robbing the last man and running in on the left of centre. Just on half time Wotherspoon was denied by tremendous save by Cammy Gill from the left side of the six yard box, the keeper tipping it over after Stewart had set him up.

 HALF TIME: 0-2

Michael Tidser replaced Clark for the hosts at the interval as they looked to stem the tide. A few stoppages at the beginning of the second half with Louden, Devine and Mckay all needing attention. An hour gone and Montrose were still within touching distance of the Caley Jags despite another couple of efforts from those Alfie boys. Loudon tried to buy a lifeline penalty but the referee booked him for simulation. (He might have got away with it last weekend). Liam Sole replaced Longstaff for the final twenty minutes. More substitutions continued to break play up as Inverness saw out the game without any hassle from their hosts as McClenents headed just over to miss out on a consolation goal as the Caley Jags recorded another win on the road and three points to lift us up to 7th in the table.

FULL TIME: 0-2

No Paul Allan today, but it was a tremendous first half for the Caley Jags with Alfie Stewart pulling the strings with both assists and more. Such was our dominance we could have been out of sight again by the break. As such, the two goals we did score were sufficient to do the damage. Big difference this season is that the bench has potential match winners throughout whilst last season we had to make do with what we had due to our circumstances. Good to see Bavidge and MacLeod off and running with the vital goals today. Alloa are in Inverness next week and they top the table with 9 points and a game in hand followed by QotS and Stenhousemuir on 7 points, We are up to seventh on 4 points and Cove & Montrose take up the relegation spaces with a point apiece..

Date:  23/08/2025  Venue: Links Park  Attendance: 0776 Referee: Grant Irvine 
 
Montrose: 0

• Manager: Stewart Petrie

• Lineup:  Gill; Freeman, Smith, Quinn (Brown 84), Steeves, Clark (Tidser 46), Masson (Craig 76),

• Sandilands, Machado (McClenents 76), Loudon, Lyons (Webster 76)

• Subs (not used):  Millar; Shrive, Waddell

• Scorers: none

• Booked: Louden (66)

• Sent Off: none

Inverness CT: 2

• Manager: Scott Kellacher

• Lineup: Munro; MacLeod, Devine Savage, McIntyre, Longstaff (Sole), Stewart (Alonge 90),

• Chalmers, Wotherspoon, Bavidge (Zimba 76), B Mckay (R Thompson 75)

• Subs (not used): Ross; Clark, McKinnon, Robertson, Strachan

• Scorers: Bavidge (4), MacLeod (33)

• Booked: none

• Sent Off: none