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Joint holders clash

 

It's the second game of a hectic period for the Caley Jags as the joint holders of the Challenge Cup meet at the Caledonian Stadium on Tuesday night in a game that kicks-off at 7:45pm. This season it's called the SPFL Trust Trophy and last time it was held it ran out of time with Inverness and Raith being awarded joint custody of the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup for 2019/2020. No event for 2020/2021 as covid was the only winner that season. Inverness have held the Challenge Cup three times with Raith holding it twice. Falkirk have the most victories with four wins.

MATCH INFO & TICKETS

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OFFICIAL PREVIEW

Venue Head 2 Head Pld Won Drn Lst For Agst + / -
Home 17 13 2 2 36 13 +23
Away 14 7 4 3 27 17 +10
Neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 31 20 6 5 63 30 +33
First Competitive Meeting
Sep 25th, 1999 League (H) 0 - 2
Most Recent Competitive Meeting
Oct 23rd, 2021 League (Championship) (A) 1 - 1
Last 10 Competitive Meetings
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1 - 1
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2 - 0
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3 - 3
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Despite our recent run of form, we hold the Indian sign over Raith Rovers with only two defeats in seventeen home games in all competitions, and that was not yesterday (Oct 2000)...

This season it took a super strike from Roddy MacGregor to separate the sides back in August and more recently at Starks Park Aiden Connolly and Sean Welsh scored the goals in a 1-1 draw where Ross Mathews was sent off on half time for Rovers.

Billy Mckay is our top scorer with 10 goals for the season, half of those coming in the Challenge Cup including a hat-trick against Elgin City in the last round. The Caley Jags put Buckie Thistle out in the previous round 4-2 with Mckay and Jamieson scoring braces.

Raith got here by virtue of beating East Fife 3-1 at Starks Park. Tait, Connolly and Poplatnik the scorers for them. They put Forfar Athletic out before that scoring the only goal of the game.

Latest Team News

The mystery continues as the tough winter schedule kicks in and with an unwanted Scottish Cup replay coming up against Morton, the frailties of our wafer thin squad will no doubt be severely tested over the next few weeks. Unfortunately there is some unfinished personal business that is disrupting the squad and it's affecting performances on the park. It's about time the club acted professionally on this and make the paying public aware of the situation to avoid further embarrassment.

A good chance to progress, but also a great opportunity to give some of our fringe players some more game time and those returning from injury. Manny Duku seems to have lost his way, but maybe he fancies a game against his old club and the likes of Cammy Mackay, Harper, Duffy, McDonald and Jamieson are all in need of getting some mileage on the park.

Scott Kellacher ahead of the Raith game

May be an image of text that says "SCOTTISH CUP FOURTH ROUND DRAW MOTHERWELL Inverness aledonian WILL PLAY EST. 1886 MORTON GREENOCK FC LTD 18 74 SCOT SCOTTISH CUP ORIGINAL MOMENTS. UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES. 1873"

 

 


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2 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Well last night some of the finishing actually looked like they were trying NOT to score!

Now they have established how not to score they can get on with establishing the opposite and put the ball past the goalkeeper and into the net. 😂

Official Attendance last night?

It may well be a diddy cup but it was heartwarming seeing Cove put 5 past an Orc Eleven🤣

Dougal

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