Time to stop the rot

 

The last team we beat are coming North but with a renewed vigour and a new manager in Dougie Imrie. Cast your mind back to December 11th 2021 and we absolutely routed Morton 6-1. Unfortunately it's been all downhill in the six games since then. Morton are here on Saturday for a 3:00pm kick-off, but beware, this is not the same deflated Morton we stuffed in December. Our demise has been alarming to say the least. In the six games since we beat Morton we have picked up only four points from a possible eighteen. That's relegation form in any language and the rot needs to stop now before we slip out of the play-off zone and into mid table obscurity.

OFFICIAL PREVIEW-MATCH INFO-TICKETS-STREAMING

Venue - Head2Head

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	18	12	4	2	46	16	+30
Away	16	9	3	4	34	19	+15
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	34	21	7	6	80	35	+45

Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Morton

6 - 1 (A)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

2 - 0 (H)

4 - 1 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

2 - 2 (A)

3 - 2 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

3 - 1 (H)

Inverness have taken six points from the two league games this season. The first encounter saw Inverness edge out Morton 2 - 0 in a low key game where Billy Mckay and Mich*** Gard*** scored the goals. The last meeting was our best ever away result at Cappielow.

CTO summary from 6-1 win at Cappielow: Managerless bottom club Morton were gubbed. There's no other word for it. Caley Jags were rampant after a couple of drab draws in the Scottish Cup. I'll credit Aaron Doran with the opener as his cross to the back post ended up in the net as Hamilton tried to claw it clear. Sutherland got the second after a Billy Mckay shot was blocked at close range. Mckay got his own when he rolled the ball in off the post. Boss! Just on the interval Ugwu scored from the spot to offer Morton a lifeline. Reece McAlear scored a fekkin screamer, what can only be described as a piledriver. What a strike that was! The ever alert Sutherland added a fifth and it was no surprise when Jamieson dribbled his way into the box and slotted home the sixth. This has been coming for weeks, but today was maybe the day the Caley Jags believed in themselves. Boom!  That result left us top of the table on 34 points and Morton were bottom on 13 points. Doh! Seems like a distant memory now...

The Head2Heads are stacked heavily in our favour, only two defeats at home from eighteen encounters in all competitions. However, those two defeats have come in the last two years, add to that Morton ended our interest in the Scottish Cup this season after a replay and penalties, then this is another potential struggle waiting to happen.

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts   1. Arbroath 22 11 8 3 35 16 41 2. Kilmarnock 22 12 4 6 28 15 40 3. Inverness CT 23 10 8 5 30 19 38 4. Raith Rovers 24 9 10 5 34 27 37 5. Partick Thistle 21 10 6 5 34 19 36 6. Hamilton Ac. 23 6 7 10 25 38 25 7. Dunfermline 23 4 10 9 22 37 22 8. Ayr United 23 5 7 11 20 36 22 9. Morton 22 4 9 9 26 33 21 10. Q.O.S. 23 4 7 12 24 38 19

Friday 4th Feb

Arbroath v Kilmarnock

SATURDAY 5TH FEB

Ayr United v Dunfermline

Caley Jags v Morton        

Partick v Queens

  Rovers v Hamilton

Morton have a new gaffer in former Inverness player Dougie Imrie (38), brought in when Gus McPherson was sacked after they drew with Ayr United, ten days after we thumped them 6-1 at Cappielow. This is his first managerial role, having coached at Livingston earlier this year. As a wide midfielder, Imrie played for Morton in season 2013-14 scoring 11 times in 33 appearances.

When Dougie went to Morton as the new manager they were a point adrift at the bottom of the Scottish Championship and heading for relegation.

Here's Dougie's stats whilst at Inverness.

Position:	Left winger/attacking midfielder
Signed:	January 5th, 2008
First Manager:	Craig Brewster
Left Club:	January 5th, 2010
Career Stats:	73 appearances, 10 goals
Debut (as sub):	February 9th, 2008 - St. Mirren 1 - 1 Inverness CT (League - )
Full Debut:	February 16th, 2008 - 1 - 1 Dundee Utd (League - )
First Goal:	April 19th, 2008 - Inverness CT 3 - 0 Kilmarnock (League - )
Also Played For:	Clyde, Hamilton Academical, Morton, St. Mirren

Latest Team News

Inverness will be without long term casualties Scott Allardice and Danny Devine. Aaron Doran, Roddy MacGregor and Billy Mackay all missed the game at Rugby Park as well. Devine is back in training from next week. Doran is not ready to return but Billy Mckay will be back in the squad.

Morton have added midfielder Iain Wilson from Dunfermline to their squad along with Jamie Brandon on loan from Hearts.

 

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Scottish Youth Cup Draw 🏆

The ICT Under 18s have been drawn away to Hearts U18s in the Semi Final of the Scottish Youth Cup.

Semi-Final ties are scheduled to be played on Friday 4 March 2022

 

 

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14 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Our attacking players were too easily tackled

Our players were being muscled off the ball all over the pitch

Too many passes went astray

Hardly any chances created, a real lack of creativity 

Woeful shooting, some absolutely hopeless attempts on goal

Didn’t win headers in and around the opposition box

Lost most of the 50:50 challenges

There’s a lot there that we can’t really blame the manager for.

Says it all. I can't see us winning another game this season at this rate. I lasted until 4:15pm and then headed home for the rugby.

Dodos   🤣🤣🤣🤣

It’s all been said there was nothing positive for us in that game!

Well, I didn't think we could play any worse after the last home game, but I was wrong, that was a hard watch. If we hadn't had that good run of wins at the beginning of the season, I reckon we would be in a relegation fight now. We seem to have no game plan, just pump aimless balls through the middle, it's not as if we have a target man, and their centre half had a field day, heading all the balls away. Dodds is incapable of seeing what tactics need changing, strange subs and no motivation. We were crying out for a playmaker in the transfer window and he brings in strikers, does he not realise we need someone to create the chances! If things don't change quickly, I can see my pre season prediction of 5th coming true.

22 minutes ago, caley100 said:

Utter feckin shyte.    Dodos to go. Soon,  and take Wilson et all with you.

Has to happen now ! we can’t let this go on any longer Dodds has had plenty opportunities to sort this out and appears clueless as what to do . 

When you can't even get the basics correct then it's already writing on the wall.

I struggle to understand what we do all week in training when we put in a performance like that. 

Whats worse is that Morton had to do very little, it's not like they made us play that way.

The telling thing is that we're all looking at other teams results because we know we're not good enough and we are reliant on them dropping points. We could learn a lot from Arbroath, part time or not, they are well drilled, well versed and play 100% with the belief that their manager has instilled in them and they know what they are doing.

Turgid, one dimensional, no urgency, no plan, no width, no belief, apathetic, I could go on describing that display.

Just plain awful watching that today. Could have played another 90 minutes and we'd not have scored.

GM were no great shakes but they deserved it. 

I was one of the mugs in the stand today and I will probably be there on Wednesday as always hopeful,like I was before 3 today .I hoped our poor run would end but alas we were worse than last week.Welsh is no leader or captain,Sutherland is a passenger and none of them showed drive or determination or a hunger to win.Usually second to the ball and could be there until morning and would struggle to score.We haven't played a decent game since Gardyne stopped playing for us. We are crying out for wingers.Maybe we are just a championship team now as the club seem to be content with this standard of football.Players don't even look like they played together before.I can't understand what goes on through the week at training.

That was very poor. If we come up against a side that works hard we just don’t know what to do. 
 

This is starting to feel like the final days of Foran’s spell as manager. 
 

And unless we improve dramatically, we will be no where near the play offs. 

The whole team should be forced to watch how Arbroath faced up to Kilmarnock last night. They fought like tigers for 90 minutes and never have up. Compare that to our insipid display this afternoon - lacklustre, half hearted and devoid of any class. Morton deserved their points and we can't complain at the result.

Absolutely no comparison to Forans or Brewster's  tenure this is a lot worse. 

Imrie's  team totally bossed us today and there was not a thing we could do about it. Embarrassing when large number of  fans are leaving 15 mins before the end. That kinda sums up where we are as club right now.

 

 

 

 

29 minutes ago, Alan said:

The whole team should be forced to watch how Arbroath faced up to Kilmarnock last night. They fought like tigers for 90 minutes and never have up. Compare that to our insipid display this afternoon - lacklustre, half hearted and devoid of any class. Morton deserved their points and we can't complain at the result.

It must be a pleasure watching Arbroath.Down to earth humble players playing their socks off for their Manager and supporters.

Edited February 5, 20224 yr by Douglas Mackenzie

Thank god for the rugby 🏉🏉

I said before the game that we had to come firing out of the blocks, work our socks off and hunt the ball down in packs, if we wanted the three points, we did none of these, so we we got nothing from the game.

3 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:

I said before the game that we had to come firing out of the blocks, work our socks off and hunt the ball down in packs, if we wanted the three points, we did none of these, so we we got nothing from the game.

Which is precisely what we deserved.

Tough watch that 😨😨

Surely Dodds will not come out and say we played well,had loads of possession and bossed Morton, because if he does, he needs to stop taking whatever he is taking.There is no way he can say anything positive about that defeat.

32 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Thank god for the rugby 🏉🏉

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It's got to be worrying how easily teams can nullify and stop us playing. Morton were a physical side and we couldnt cope . 

Cannot fathom why we used all our meagre budget on 4 forward minded  players when we have only 3 fully fit defenders in the squad. Bizarre we still dont have a right back in the squad. 

 

 

 

I can't defend the team or management anymore. Today was an absolute shambles and the performance was totally disgraceful. There isn't one positive thing to take from that horror show.

Dodds and Wilson seem as clueless as each other. Wilson stands in the technical area all game and offers nothing. It's like he just wants people to see he's there.  We have no shape, no tactics and no idea what we're doing. Someone should of mentioned to Dodds that McKay and Hardy are 5"7. How the hell do they have any chance of winning long balls punted up to them against centre halfs well over 6 foot. I've no idea what formation we were supposed to be playing come the end of the game. 

There was a comment a few weeks ago that this is the worst ICT team there has been which I thought at the time was harsh, but after today I would struggle to think of a worse one. 

 

Until there is an entire clear out of Coaching Staff and that includes Robbo whatever his role is this Club is going nowhere this Season the title is there for the taking and we have blown it big style 

Pissed and love Robbo what a crack we had  

1 minute ago, jagster said:

Pissed and love Robbo what a crack we had  

You weren't at the game then?

There is a possibility I might give up drinking. Unlikely though 🍺🍺

1 minute ago, caley100 said:

You weren't at the game then?

We were but the alcohol numbed everything