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Not sure if it's a good thing that we are on the telly on Friday night for all to see given our recent tepid performances, but we travel to Dumfries to take on Queen of the South at Palmerston for a 19:45 kick-off. Unfortunately any confidence we built up over the first nine games has dissipated in the Autumn mist and our form is now on a par with Queens who are second bottom of the table. Only Ayr united are worse over the last five games, and we failed to beat them as well.

Our demise has been excruciatingly rapid over the last few weeks where we have gone from five points ahead to four points and two places behind leaders Kilmarnock in the space of five games where we have only managed to accumulate three points out of a possible fifteen with zero wins. This is certainly not the form of a team looking for at least a play-off place, unless of course it's at the wrong end of the table.

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Venue - Head2Head

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

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Home	20	12	2	6	36	24	+12
Away	18	7	7	4	31	19	+12
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	38	19	9	10	67	43	+24

First Competitive Meeting

Dec 17th, 1994

Scottish Cup (Rd 1)

(H)

1 - 2

Most Recent Competitive Meeting

Sep 25th, 2021

League (Championship)

(H)

2 - 1

Last 10 Competitive Meetings

2 - 1 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

3 - 0 (A)

3 - 1 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

2 - 0 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

1 - 2 (H)

3 - 3 (A)

Saturday Fixtures

Dunfermline v Ayr United

Kilmarnock v Arbroath

Partick v Accies

Rovers v  Morton

		Pld	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
1.	Kilmarnock	14	9	2	3	20	8	12	29
2.	Raith Rovers	14	7	5	2	24	15	9	26
3.	Inverness CT	14	7	4	3	16	10	6	25
4.	Partick Thistle	14	7	3	4	28	14	14	24
5.	Arbroath	14	6	6	2	25	13	12	24
6.	Ayr United	14	3	4	7	13	23	-10	13
7.	Hamilton Academical	14	3	4	7	13	28	-15	13
8.	Morton	14	2	6	6	11	18	-7	12
9.	Queen of the South	14	3	3	8	12	21	-9	12
10.	Dunfermline	14	1	7	6	12	24	-12	10

The first meeting this season ended in a narrow 2-1 victory for Inverness in the Highlands after goals from Welsh and Gardyne overcame Queens who scored through Lee Connelly. Last time in Dumfries it ended all square at 1-1. Both sides have three draws and two defeats in their last five championship games.

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Must be a copy'n' paste on the official preview as that's all we get these days. “There’s always a couple of little niggles, I don’t want to give anything away with it being live on TV. We’ve given them right up until the last minute but apart from that I’ve got a healthy squad to choose from.”  What that probably means is that we have four or five missing, and the usual 'made of rice paper' players injured again and a four man bench. Good to see Carson back last week, let's hope he has no reaction from his first game in weeks and hopefully maybe some news about Shane Sutherland.

QOTS (away v Arbroath 1-1): Brynn, McKay, Nditi, Debayo, Johnston, McGrory, Gibson, Liddle (Todd 78′), Paton, Connelly (Roy 58′), Cameron

Same old story from Dodds <<yawn>>

 

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At least we will have a clear picture of us squandering the lead this evening.

Looking forward to this one, which is an opportunity to get things back on track. We often raise our game on tv, as we did in the same fixture last season. More of that will do me just fine.

The lack of numbers in the squad is becoming an issue, and if it continues we may need to get some of those out on loan back, particularly Fyffe or Nicolson as we are light on defenders.

As mentioned on another thread, I’d give MacGregor a run in the “no 10” role if Sutherland is not fit to start. McDonald is due a start on the wing also to see if he can contribute more than Walsh.

The downside is them having Innes Cameron who had a habit of scoring against us when with Ayr and Alloa.

Whatever our line up, let’s hope we put on a good show and get the three points. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

There's a nervous demeanour in my body at the moment.  I feckin hope our Jeckle and Hyde team sort themselves out.

No Gardyne, Welsh, Walsh or Duffy. Subs bench looks pretty thing. Line up appears to hint towards a return of the 4411 we had earlier this season.

In Gardyne’s absence, will someone step up and be the spark we need?

Good to see Sutherland back in. MacGregor playing out wide?

Dodds is at the game. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

Decent start by both teams. MacGregor lucky not to be booked there. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

Mckay penalty 1 up!

MacGregor pulled down in the box. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

A stonewall penalty well taken.

This time can we please not squander the lead.

MacGregor is really up for it. He’s been class so far tonight.

Devine unlucky not to get the second there. Great run in box but header just wide. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

We need a second while we are on top.

The heady days of the start of the season when we could be confident of hanging onto a 1-0 lead are a distant memory.

Doran been woeful as has McAlear. Put MacGregor into cm and put Mcdonald right....

 

Deservedly ahead but we need to play the full 90 tonight.

MacGregor, Sutherland and Allardice have impressed most me so far, and a good penalty by Mckay.

As Kingsmills says, I hope we don’t regret not getting further ahead whilst on top.

Same half time scoreline as last week. Same scorer.

Now we need to make absolutely sure that that's where the similarities to last week ends.

Vital that we hold onto this lead if we are not going to lose touch with our promotion rivals.

Impressed with our first half performance. We are very lively upfront.

2 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Impressed with our first half performance. We are very lively upfront.

We always seem better when Sutherland is in the support role.

1 minute ago, Robert said:

We always seem better when Sutherland is in the support role.

And MacGregor back in the team 

Great cross by Carson. Headed in by Mckay. 2 up!

No complaints about that booking for Carson. 

What a set piece. So unlucky. Doran corner perfectly to Allardice but header just wide of the post and Mckay’s attempt to touch it in. Deserved a goal. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

Oh oh. 1-2. 

We don't make it easy for ourselves.

Jeez, **** clearance, Tighten up please.

 

An important 10 minutes ahead. We need to win this one.

How did we not score there? Mckay off the bar after great play by Allardice. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert

Harper on for Doran.

Need to keep it tight for the last few minutes. 

Edited November 19, 20213 yr by Robert