Here we go again

 

The draw back in January meant that The Caley Jags would head to Victoria Park Buckie to take on olde Highland League adversaries Buckie Thistle in the second round of the William Hill Scottish Cup on Saturday January 9th, a draw predicted by one of our resident seers Gringo. Unfortunately the game would be covid restricted meaning that no fans would have been allowed into the ground to witness the first full competitive match between the sides. That game was scheduled to kick-off at 3:00pm on Saturday 9th January. However, winter intervened and froze the game off, and the next date of 12th January, and then lockdown scuppered the game for another couple of months. Fast forward to March 23rd and we're all set to go against Spider and his men fae Buckie. 

It's not the worst draw to be honest as we have a decent record of putting green and white hooped sides out of the Scottish Cup. A cold mad March night, potential banana skin fixture with the possibility of a scalp for the Highland League side. What's not to enjoy about the early rounds of the Scottish Cup.

The prize for the winners, if you can call it that, is a visit to Dingwall to take on the Caley Jags reject XI complete with a Caley Jags Scottish Cup winning manager. Just let that sink in for a bit.

Yes, it's coming up to a mere six years since James Vincent scored the winner at Hampden Park as Inverness Caledonian Thistle lifted the Scottish Cup. 

Where are these teams now I hear you ask? Well, we are in the Championship back where it all began against the likes of Arbroath and Falkirk are four points clear of Cove Rangers in League one.

 

 

 

 

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Graeme Stewart's Buckie Thistle made their way to the second round of the Cup after an excellent away win at Albion Rovers, beating the Cliftonhill side 3-0. Two goals from Andrew MacAskill, one direct from a corner kick, and a Scott Adams strike were enough to inflict a sixth defeat in seven games for Brian Reid's side. Buckie Boss Stewart had played under John Robertson for the Caley Jags from season 1999 to 2003 making 38 appearances, scoring twice. Buckie played a warm-up game at the weekend after three months of inactivity and went down 3-1 to fellow highland League side Brora Rangers. As Ziggy Stardust once said, it's a big ask for the Spider's from m'arse after such a long lay off.

Former Inverness youngsters Kevin Fraser and Andrew MacAskill are at Buckie. Stewart's assistant manager Lewis MacKinnon is also on the books as a player, so great incentive for these guys to do well against their former club. 

***Latest Team News***

Brad Mckay and our own braveheart David Carson are on Scottish Cup suspension and will miss this game. That's maybe not a bad thing given our hectic schedule recently where David Carson in particular has been in outstanding form with three MotM performances and his first goal for the club in almost fifty appearances. This should be an opportunity to offer some match time to our fringe players whilst still maintaining enough quality to be competitive and get us through to a derby in Dingwall. However Lewis Hyde and Shane Harkness are cup-tied. Miles Storey has started from the bench in the last two after returning from injury and his pace could cause problems for the ring rusty Buckie squad. Neil McCann has boosted his squad with a loan signing from Rangers. Seventeen year old youth player Arron Lyall has come in until the end of the season with our wide players struggling with injuries. So, once again the loan arranger has arranged a loan for a loan Ranger. He is available to go straight into the squad for the cup tie at Buckie.

Spider will do well to put out a competitive squad after the long enforced lay-off. 

We have never played Buckie Thistle in a competitive game before but some of the pre-season games have been close. Our last game at Buckie was a 4-3 win for an Inverness XI on July 13th 2019.  MacGregor, Nicolson, Morrison & Harkness scored for the young team in a 4-3 win at Buckie.

Buckie Thistle 3 -V- 4 ICT FC XI @ Victoria Park, Buckie

Highland League teams in action tonight 

 

Nairn County v Montrose

Brora Rangers v Hearts

Dumbarton v Huntly

Formartine v Annan Athletic

Keith v Clyde

Plus

 Elgin City v Ayr United

Peterhead v Stenny

Arbroath v Falkirk

Buckie looked every bit as fit as our guys and only 2 games in 3 months. They won more balls than we did, but next round for us and Yogi and a few old friends await us

We put some kids out, the underdogs were up for it , but job done in the end.

We're not Hearts.

We go again.

Never in doubt.

Does this mean we no longer have the "Shock of the Century" Crown?

We got through and that’s all that matters. Fyffe and Nicolson got game time and looked ok to me.

Scoring in the first minute should have made it a formality but Buckie competed well and it was a good work out. Maybe we under rated them: if so, we nearly paid the penalty.

We need to focus on Saturday and getting three points.

On a light note, I grew to liking the partisan commentator.

And I wish Gringo well getting reliable corner and foul statistics. The BBC text is no guide on those, or on what happened for the first half goals!

Now we just need the BBC to pick the County game for tv.

 

Edited March 23, 20215 yr by Robert

Report published on CTO

 

Well, that was as poor as I've seen us play, but a win is a win.  The conditions were a great leveller but Buckie showed far more desire than us across the park and more quality in the final third.  We will need to play far better to beat Arbroath on Saturday in what is a really important game if we want to keep clear of the relegation zone.

 

Ugly win, but a win. 

Now for an ugly team in the next round. 🤣🤣

Another upset has seen Formartine beat Annan on penalties.

A lot of credit to the Highland League tonight, particularly after the long lay off. 

We were staggeringly uncreative going forward.

But hey, we are through to the next round and, more than that, we actually managed a rare win against a part-time side!

Glad to hear we got through. I still never saw anything of the match just this image on my screen throughout the game despite setting up and paying 90 mins before kick off. I had decided to come back and look in on this game after recent results. Even more disgruntled than before now  but not with the team.

Edited March 23, 20215 yr by Row S

📅 Fixture Confirmation

Our Highland Derby match against Ross County in the @ScottishCup Third Round will take place on Friday 2nd April with kick-off at 7:35pm

📺 The match will be shown live on @BBCScotland pic.twitter.com/6EtOlKrrgr

— Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC (@ICTFC) March 24, 2021

11 hours ago, Row S said:

Glad to hear we got through. I still never saw anything of the match just this image on my screen throughout the game despite setting up and paying 90 mins before kick off. I had decided to come back and look in on this game after recent results. Even more disgruntled than before now  but not with the team.

I assume you did try pressing the "Play" icon closer to kick off? There wouldn't have been anything to show at 6:47 pm.

Apart from the fact that we won the commentator alone was worth the £10. Comedy gold.

57 minutes ago, Hearach said:

Apart from the fact that we won the commentator alone was worth the £10. Comedy gold.

I was in tears of laughter at the boy. 'Jings almechty' being my favourite. I loved the no nonsense approach to commentating he took and the complete disregard for the oppostion team, not in the slightest bit bothered by trying to be neutral. 

Just for you Row S

 

23 hours ago, WYNESS101 said:

GET IN....James Keatings

33 seconds that our quickest goal?

nope. 

According to "Milestones and Memories" the fastest goal was 31 seconds and it happened twice. Craig Dargo on 18/12/05 against Celtic and Dougie Imrie on 03/05/08 against Gretna.

12 hours ago, RiG said:

I assume you did try pressing the "Play" icon closer to kick off? There wouldn't have been anything to show at 6:47 pm.

Very funny. The first time I pressed the play icon was 7.45pm. Then I lost count of the number of times I refreshed and pressed play over in the next 45 minutes after that.

To add insult to injury I logged back on to the Buckie TV site tonight and was able to view the playback. This was before I was refunded by BTFC  but no explanation of what the problem was last night.

Edited March 24, 20215 yr by Row S

8 hours ago, tm4tj said:

Just for you Row S

 

Cheers. Not the same having missed the live action last night.

Is the camera position for the highlights on the opposite side of the pitch to the one used for the live stream, just like our system is to the CaleyJagsTV set up?

Yes, opposite side to what we watched live. Much better recognition of light and colour too, the club stream was quite gloomy.

8 hours ago, Row S said:

Very funny. The first time I pressed the play icon was 7.45pm. Then I lost count of the number of times I refreshed and pressed play over in the next 45 minutes after that.

To add insult to injury I logged back on to the Buckie TV site tonight and was able to view the playback. This was before I was refunded by BTFC  but no explanation of what the problem was last night.

Who's being funny? I was being serious. You said "this is what I saw" and posted a screenshot clearly showing that the "play" option had not been selected. it's a perfectly valid question to ask given the circumstances.

Edited March 25, 20215 yr by RiG