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Early goal in Dingwall for the visitors.

PEARSON opens the scoring! Moult is slid in, cuts it back and Pearo does the rest from 10 yards. COYW!!

Motherwell FC ‏@MotherwellFC  2m2 minutes ago

16' | 0-2 A rare one for LASLEY!! Some strike from the edge of the box, thundering into the net!! 0-2 'Well!!

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Hamilton Accies FC ‏@acciesfc  1m1 minute ago

5' chance Storey but McGovern catches at 2nd attempt on edge of area

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Kilmarnock FC ‏@OfficialKillie  51s51 seconds ago

18' Goal Dundee. Nick Ross crosses the ball into the 18 yard area and Loy loops the ball over MacDonald with a header. 1-0

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Andrew Sutherland ‏@ASutherland1983  34s35 seconds ago

Two good chances for Accies. Morris rifles a shot over the bar and then Boyd (?) goes clean through but skews his effort wide.

Sounds like a rip snorter of a game......................

Wait a minute, Danny Devine has just scored, surely not, he's rubbish is he not 

 

3' Foul by Antons Kurakins (Hamilton Academical).

4' Foul by Gary Warren (Inverness CT)

12' Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical)

13' Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).

16' Foul by Carlton Morris (Hamilton Academical).

21' Foul by Steven Boyd (Hamilton Academical).

25' Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).

26' Foul by Antons Kurakins (Hamilton Academical).

30' Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).

39' Foul by Jesus Garcia Tena (Hamilton Academical).

39' Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.

Jamie Durent ‏@IC_JDurent  2m2 minutes agoHamilton, Scotland

GOAL #HAFC 0 #ICTFC (Devine) 1 - Quick free-kick by Vigurs puts Devine one-on-one and he slides under McGovern.

 

 

One on one with the keeper and scores, sign him up.

Just watch the guys in front step up a gear now.

Meanwhile, St Johnstone draw level with Celtic at 1-1.

Jings, we thought we had poor crowds. 

Hamilton Accies FC ‏@acciesfc  4m4 minutes ago

Attendance 1516 (98 @ICTFC fans) Thank you

 

And Killie equalise against Dundee  as St Johnstone go ahead against Celtic 

Andrew Sutherland ‏@ASutherland1983  25s25 seconds ago

Inverness seem to have put the brakes on in an attacking sense here. Any attacks are at a pedestrian pace. Bizarre.

 

Meanwhile over the bridge

Motherwell FC ‏@MotherwellFC  2m2 minutes ago

69' | 1-2 Goal - Gardyne's shot is palmed out to Boyce who takes a touch and volleys home. Thats been coming

Hamilton down to 10 men - Mackinnon gets into it with Vigurs apparently then loses it completely, two yellows and a red in quick succession. 

 

Jamie Durent ‏@IC_JDurent  58s59 seconds agoHamilton, Scotland

Flashpoint: Mackinnon booked for foul on Vigurs, immediately gets a red for dissent. Restrained by Accies coaches as he heads off

Hamilton Accies FC ‏@acciesfc 

74' red card MacKinnon 2 yellows in 10 seconds

Mckinnon is a feckin thug anyway, best place for him.

ffs, under the cosh against ten men with 7 minutes left.

3 minutes ago, caley100 said:

Mckinnon is a feckin thug anyway, best place for him.

Richard Gordon was more diplomatic and called him a hothead .... but his behaviour not a surprise apparently. 

Andrew Sutherland ‏@ASutherland1983  23s24 seconds ago

This has been a dreadful game. ICT have struggled to pass the ball and have offered very little in an attacking sense.

Last minute equalizer on the way?????

Dundee draw with Killie (1-1) as Motherwell score a third in Dingwall (1-3)

Jamie Durent ‏@IC_JDurent  16s17 seconds agoHamilton, Scotland

FT #HAFC 0 #ICTFC 1 - Gritty, at times fortunate, but Caley Thistle escape Hamilton with three points.

 

Oh well, a wins a win.

YES!!! Fantastic night for us. A draw on Saturday is enough to secure 7th place. 

Oh, and we're already guaranteed to have more points than County!

Well Saturday's game is looking like a drab 0-0 which will ensure a best of the rest slot, County(ha ha) humped again and looking like a poor bottom of the top slot. 

http://caleythistleonline.com/team/tables.html/

Well done to the 98 stalwarts who made the trek down tonight! 

Football tops are now down to £10 for the last game of the season at JD.

1-0 is statistically the most common football result, but it has taken until our 46th competitive game of the season for us to finally pick up our first 1-0 win!

We've lost 1-0 on 5 occasions this season.

Really poor end of season affair lightened up by MacKinnon being a colossal ned and scrapping with his coaching staff as he was bundled off the pitch and one of the ICT fans charging across the stand to celebrate the Williams 'goal' before realising it had been chalked off

For some reason, after turning in a wonderful performance against Partick, we seem to have returned to our timid, non threatening, slow passing game. Whereas Draper and others had been snapping at the heels of Partick players winning the ball and providing great support further forward for the likes of Storey we seemed significantly less inclined to attack with anyone other than Storey, Williams and Polworth. Draper and Tansey were lined up exceptionally deep with Meekings and Tremarco seldom supporting on the flanks. It was like we had put the brakes on for this one despite 7th place and some potentially important prize money up for grabs.

The best move of the game for us came when Storey scampered free on the left flank and crossed for Williams who finished well but had apparently just drifted offside. Hard to tell from where we were. A quick free kick from Vigurs released Devine and he tackled the ball into the net. Decent finish for a defender. Hamilton had largely been restricted to shots from range with a couple looking like they flew pretty close to OFW goal.

Second half was sadly a very timid affair from us in attacking sense best exemplified when Williams had the ball on the right flank and the ICT players alongside him stood completely still. There was little movement off the ball to create space for either a pass or for the player who had the ball. We seemed happy to knock the ball around and protect the one goal lead. Draper (I think) did find Polworth with a superb through ball but he shot right at McGovern.

MacKinnon, perhaps the biggest ned in Scottish football, was sent off for clashing with Vigurs. Looked like he threw an elbow in the direction of Vigurs after a challenge which strangely brought only a yellow card before he then mouthed off at the red and was shown a second yellow. As he went off he clashed with the Accies coaching staff and was restrained before appearing to launch himself at however was holding him back. Bizarre.

For most of the latter part of the second half we were defending deeper and deeper as we clung on to the lead. Hamiltons best chance came when a clever and quick free kick nearly caught us out but somehow the final shot from an Accies player, from about 3 yards out, was ballooned into the retail park.

Not going to complain too much about a win but having seen what the team can do when it is set up correctly it seems bizarre to put the brakes on and reign the side back.

A win is a win.

Thought we were ok in the first half without really asserting ourselves. There was a period at the start of the second half where we started running at them and looked like we might kill them off with a second, but that seemed to peter out with Polworth's shot straight at McGovern.

I guess MacKinnon only got a yellow because he missed with the elbow, but you could see his reaction from our stand, so it was no surprise that he got a second yellow. The reaction from there was priceless, and pretty much secured his award as Scottish football's bellend of the century.

The team selection wasn't exactly exciting either. Mutombo and Roberts have been our most promising attackers of recent weeks, but were on the bench, and we had four midfielders of similar ilk in Tansey, Draper, Vigurs and Polworth.

So avoid defeat against Dundee and we finish 7th. 

It's been a problem all season trying to fit 4 central midfielders into the team. It was okay to play Vigurs and Polworth out wide when we had no natural wide men available. But it's a questionable decision when you have on form wide men available and you play players out of position ahead of them. Still, we won. 

 

Another insipid display, if a decent result. Please field an exciting side against Dundee - last home game and a chance to encourage some season ticket sales. I'd take a 3-3 draw over a drab 1-0 victory! Not sure I'd stretch to preferring a 4-3 defeat, though (hypocrite!)