No Rice

 

We would have locked horns with one of our olde gaffers sidekicks this weekend as Inverness travel to the Fountain of Youth Stadium (NDP) in South Lanarkshire. Brian Rice was the man who took Accies down, and not before time if you ask me as they have been flirting with relegation for years, but he resigned in August. Former player and assistant manager Stuart Taylor is the man tasked with reshaping the Accies. Good luck with that. This one kicks off at 3:00pm on Saturday with Inverness looking to continue their tremendous start to the season and Accies looking to kick start theirs as they sit second bottom with only one win and two draws to their name so far.

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Home	13	4	4	5	20	17	+3
Away	9	6	1	2	15	10	+5
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	22	10	5	7	35	27	+8

First Competitive Meeting

Jan 25th, 1997

Scottish Cup (Rd 3)

(H)

1 - 3

Most Recent Competitive Meeting

May 6th, 2017

League

(H)

2 - 1

Last 10 Competitive Meetings

2 - 1 (H)

0 - 3 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 0 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

4 - 3 (A)

0 - 2 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

4 - 2 (H)

Biggest Victories

Feb 22nd, 2003

Scottish Cup (4th Round)

(H)

6 - 2

Heaviest Defeats

Jan 31st, 2017

League

(A)

0 - 3

Highest Attendance

Jan 24th, 2015

League

(A)

5,089

Highest Home Attendance

Aug 28th, 2010

League

(H)

3,851

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts   1. Inverness CT 7 6 1 0 9 2 19 2. Kilmarnock 7 5 1 1 8 1 16 3. Arbroath 7 4 2 1 14 4 14 4. Raith Rovers 7 3 2 2 11 9 11 5. Partick Thistle 7 3 0 4 13 13 9 6. Ayr United 7 2 2 3 7 8 8 7. Q.O.S. 7 2 0 5 8 12 6 8. Morton 7 1 2 4 5 10 5 9. Hamilton Ac. 7 1 2 4 6 14 5 10. Dunfermline 7 0 4 3 4 12 4

Other fixtures this weekend, all 3:00pm on Saturday. 

Killiemarnock v Raith - Chance for Raith to get in the mix.

Morton v Arbroath - Can the Smokies keep the run going.

Partick Thistle v Ayr Utd - cCan Ayr leapfrog Partick into 5th.

Queens v Pars - Joust at the bottom end, time for Pars to get the finger out.

Surprisingly, Accies have a better record than us at the Caledonian Stadium overall, but we have been more productive in the away fixture with six wins and a draw out of the nine fixtures. It's four years since our last meeting when we won 2 - 1 at the Caledonian Stadium in what was a difficult season for Inverness culminating in relegation. Brad Mckay and Greg Tansey scored for Inverness whilst Danny Redmond notched a late consolation for the visitors. However, three weeks later we were relegated 

From the Archives: Rare win for Inverness gives hope: Inverness threw themselves a slender lifeline with a deserved 2-1 win over Hamilton Accies in the relegation scrap at the foot of the table. It was only our second win in twenty-four games and our fourth of the season. This win closes the gap to Accies and Well to four points with only three games left. We should have been out of site by half time and Accies could have had no complaints had we been four or five up at the break. As it was, an early goal from defender Brad Mckay and a penalty by Greg Tansey was all we had to show from numerous attempts. Accies left a bitter sweet taste in the mouth as they notched a goal through Redmond with the last kick of the game as we got ourselves in a fankle. Pity about that but it was a welcome three points that gives us a glimmer of hope and keeps our premiership status alive for another week at least.

Inverness dug deep last weekend to overcome a stubborn but mainly toothless Queen of the South 2-1 with goals from Sean Welsh and Michael Gardyne. Lee Connelly scored a stunner for Queens out of nothing. That victory put Inverness back on top of the table after Killie and Arbroath played out a scoreless draw on the Friday night. 

Raith Rovers and Dunfermline played out a 1-1 draw in the rescheduled Fife derby on Wednesday night to bring the table up to matchday eight for everyone. Raith are up to fourth in the table with the Pars still bottom.

Here's the three goals; all superb strikes...

Accies only success this campaign was a 1-2 win over Queen of the South on matchday four. Their opening fixture against Raith Rovers offered much promise as they came from four nil down to snatch a dramatic 4-4 draw after scoring four goals in the final twenty-two minutes. Their last game was a 0-0 draw with Dunfermline at EEP, similar to us. Arbroath put four past them without reply three weeks ago. They have failed to score in their last three Championship matches. All this means that at the moment, like Dunfermline, they find themselves at the wrong end of the table.

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Billy Dodds will have more choice this Saturday as Aaron Doran and Shane Sutherland remained on the bench last week after recovering from injuries picked up at Dunfermline.

Stuart Taylor has had a few knocks to contend with over the last couple of weeks. Lewis Spence is out with a knee injury that Taylor hopes is not requiring surgery. Shaun Want,  Luke Matheson, Kieran MacDonald and Andy Ryan were all noticeably struggling and could be doubts for this weekend. Accies have secured Hearts defender Mihai Popescu on loan for the entire season. Striker David Moyo could return this weekend. Miko Virtanen is optimistic insisting "Accies are ready to inflict a first defeat on Inverness". He has based this on the number of opportunities Accies have created against Ayr United and Dunfermline and claims of being unlucky.

Dodds looking forward to the Accies challenge

 

Dodds:

https://ictfc.com/post-match-billy-dodds-hamilton-accies-2-1-ictfc-02-10-2021

15 hours ago, ForresJag said:

Taking Walsh off was the right move, he has been very poor for weeks and results and lack of a fit option kept him in team. Would have brought McDonald on earlier and given him a decent chace to get at Hamilton. McKay been awful as well since resigned but Gardyne and Mcdonald wide will create a lot of chances. Today Hamilton sat very deep and we played in front of them. 2 or 3 touches instead of 1-2. Playing 10men we should have moved them quicker and tired them but waiting to 65 to go to 3 at tge back was weird. Should have done that at ht and really gone at them, just looked lije hopeful balks into box. Oh and Duku was brutal as well...

Agree that Walsh hasn't been great for a while but he has still be in the side that was, until yesterday, undefeated. Taking him off for another striker and moving arguably one of our key players out of position was a bad move. We lost our shape at a time when it was important to maintain it. For me, either Welsh or Allardice should have come off to allow us to keep playing with two wide men.

Probably have to put this one down to three key players missing, leaving us with no defenders on a six man bench.

36 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

Probably have to put this one down to three key players missing, leaving us with no defenders on a six man bench.

If Doran is one of the three, then, sadly, I don't think that he is a key player any more.  Devine and Carson, yes.

Your point is valid, and, yes, we conceded two goals, but I think the main problem was at the other end of the pitch.  We made enough chances to win the game.  We just have no one who can reliably get shots or headers on target, and thus put the ball in the net.

It's one game - no need to push the panic button - the boys just need to dust themselves down and move on. They are top of the league and therefore in pole position for promotion.

Go on boys - young, older, experienced or less so, ICT born and bred or otherwise - keep the faith. You have been amazing so far this season and we fans have been loving it. 

BELIEVE

Only managed to watch the game in sporadic bursts but when you take half your defence out (fairly late in the day as well) then the chances of being caught cold are increased. That’s what happened. Simple as that. There were chances created but when you have 9 behind the ball and most of them in the box it is incredibly difficult to break it down. Def needed more movement to stretch them and pull them out of position and I’d imagine that’s what will be worked on in the coming weeks. Would love to see Mcdonald getting some game time. 

16 minutes ago, FrontRow said:

Only managed to watch the game in sporadic bursts but when you take half your defence out (fairly late in the day as well) then the chances of being caught cold are increased. That’s what happened. Simple as that. There were chances created but when you have 9 behind the ball and most of them in the box it is incredibly difficult to break it down. Def needed more movement to stretch them and pull them out of position and I’d imagine that’s what will be worked on in the coming weeks. Would love to see Mcdonald getting some game time. 

The good news is there is now a fortnight for the physio to work on getting the crocked players fit before the next league outing.

Strange  we seem unable to see off teams at the bottom but outplay teams at the top. Is this a mental thing, poor judgement or what.

4 hours ago, bigman said:

Strange  we seem unable to see off teams at the bottom but outplay teams at the top. Is this a mental thing, poor judgement or what.

Whatever it is, let's hope that we can put it right in our next league game against almost foot of the table Morton and the best way to deal with the end of an unbeaten run is to immediately embark on another one.

Edited October 3, 20213 yr by Kingsmills

We may have lost but there is always a silver lining to be found. We only have to look north of the bridge to find our entertainment ...

 

 

Edited October 4, 20213 yr by Jockdoonsouth

2 hours ago, Jockdoonsouth said:

We may have lost but there is always a silver lining to be found. We only have to look north of the bridge to find our entertainment ...

 

 

Not yet established whether there was any misconduct by County fans and sadly there are still a small minority of racists idiots among all supports including our own.

However, as far as MM is concerned, while I am generally in favour of people being given a second chance, I would be very uncomfortable with someone with such a sustained history of racist, homophobic, sexist and antisemitic comments being manager of our club.

 

2 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

Not yet established whether there was any misconduct by County fans and sadly there are still a small minority of racists idiots among all supports including our own.

However, as far as MM is concerned, while I am generally in favour of people being given a second chance, I would be very uncomfortable with someone with such a sustained history of racist, homophobic, sexist and antisemitic comments being manager of our club.

 

Agreed, however, I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to rip the P*ss out of C*unty!

 

24 minutes ago, Jockdoonsouth said:

Agreed, however, I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to rip the P*ss out of C*unty!

 

Personally, I am happy to wait until the end of the season and wave to them with at least two fifths of my hand as we pass each other in different directions between the Championship and the Premiership.

Not the right thread for it, but it seems the Dundee United manager made a right walloper of himself with his post match actions.

Both clubs concluded after discussions that no racist chanting/language was used...🤔

1 hour ago, Satan said:

Not the right thread for it, but it seems the Dundee United manager made a right walloper of himself with his post match actions.

Both clubs concluded after discussions that no racist chanting/language was used...🤔

All threads are on when it comes to ripping the p*ss out of C*unty!

 

Facebook still down then.

Hamilton 1-6 Partick…….

Makes our display and result a fortnight ago even more disappointing.