The Torture Continues

 

We face Hamilton on Friday night in a televised game with our winless run now at nine games and getting longer with every game. It's a horrendous run of results since we hammered Morton 6-1 at Cappielow on 11th December. Unfortunately we will be going public on council TV on Friday night in a 19:45 kick-off at the Fountain of Youth. Should Accies win, then they will only be six points behind us. Who thought that could be possible three months ago.

MATCH INFO/TICKETS/SUPPORTERS BUS 07462218717/TV INFO

Venue

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

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Home	14	4	4	6	21	19	+2
Away	10	6	1	3	16	12	+4
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	24	10	5	9	37	31	+6

Last 10 Competitive Meetings

1 - 2 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

2 - 1 (H)

0 - 3 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 0 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

4 - 3 (A)

0 - 2 (H)

Saturday Fixtures  all 15:00

  Ayr Utd v Queens

Dunfermline v Kilmarnock

    Morton v Arbroath

  Rovers v Partick

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts Accies v ICT FC Friday night 7:45pm 1. Arbroath 25 12 10 3 38 18 46 2. Kilmarnock 26 14 4 8 34 19 46 3. Inverness CT 26 10 9 7 34 25 39 4. Raith Rovers 26 9 11 6 34 30 38 5. Partick Thistle 23 10 7 6 37 23 37 6. Morton 26 7 9 10 30 35 30 7. Hamilton Ac. 26 7 9 10 28 40 30 8. Ayr United 26 7 8 11 25 39 29 9. Dunfermline 25 4 11 10 24 40 23 10. Q.O.S. 25 4 8 13 25 40 20

We have lost both fixtures against Accies this season by the same score, 2-1. 

October 2021: Academicals teach us a lesson: Accies did inflict the first reverse for Inverness, as the Caley Jags drowned at the fountain of youth, and they did it with ten men for over an hour after Reegan Mimnaugh was sent off for a second bookable offence. They opened the scoring when Lewis Smith thumped the ball into the net after only five minutes. Andy Ryan added a second as Inverness crumbled and failed to trouble the home keeper. 2-0 at the break and Inverness bossed possession after the interval but never made Fulton work for his money. Harper hit the bar as the pressure mounted and Michael Gardyne scored a late consolation in injury time, but it was too little too late. With Raith beating Killie and Arbroath drawing, no major damage was done with Raith and Partick the big winners this weekend.

December 2021: After an uneventful first half, Inverness slumped to their second defeat of the season to a rank rotten Accies when they surrendered a second half lead after Cammy Harper netted. However two goals in the space of three minutes from David Moyo and Andrew Winter ruined our day and knocked us off our perch at the top. I suppose it was only a Winter's tale, but it doesn't make good reading. That's our Jekyll and Hyde season in all its sorry glory... Same side, different day! If anyone can solve the puzzle, please call the Caledonian Stadium and ask for Billy Dodds. After the rout of Morton the previous week, what should have been a routine victory turned into a Christmas pantomime. Oh no it wasn't I hear you say - Oh yes it was came the unanimous reply.

It appears Billy Dodds has learnt nothing or won't listen after these games and the massive slump is now in full flow. 

Morton beat Partick Thistle on Tuesday night, but with three games in hand over us, methinks it's only a matter of time before we drop to fourth, or even worse, out of the play-off places.

Last Time Out

We slumped to defeat at home against a team that had not beaten us in almost twenty years. Twenty years; just let that sink in. Ayr were deserved winners against a hapless Caley Jags where our goal came from a cross that ended up un the net from Lewis Nicolson. Well done on your first goal for the club, just about the only positive from a thoroughly disappointing game.

Accies beat Morton 1-0 with Lewis Spence getting the only goal of the game just after the interval. 

Latest Team News 

We still have a raft of players missing and our season is in tatters. Allardice, Devine, MacGregor, Walsh and Welsh have all been out recently and despite an official preview kicking around on the official site, there's no news, if any, on who is likely to return, so meh!

As it is, Accies could put out their under 16's and take the points, so meh again.

What have Accies been up to in the latest transfer window? Eric has been doing the homework.

Departures

Jamie Smith - The 19 year old Goalkeeper is on Loan to Blackburn United FC. until the end of season.

Ben Stirling - Centre Back on loan to Edinburgh City until the end of season.

George Stanger - The Centre Back left the club in October 2021 on a free transfer to Stirling University FC.

Luke Matheson - The English Right Back's loan from Wolves U23 ended in the January window and is now at Scunthorpe United FC.

Kyle Munro - A left wing player, he is currently on loan to Dumbarton FC

David Templeton - The former Hearts and Rangers left wing player missed much of last season through injury and returned to action at the beginning of the current campaign, but hadn’t featured since coming off the bench in a defeat to Kilmarnock in August, announced his retirement in November 2021. He remains connected to Hamilton FC as a coach with their Youth Academy.

Arrivals

Daniel O'Reilly - The Dublin born centre back arrived in the January window on a free transfer from Irish side Drogheda United FC.

Steve Lawson - Steve Tevi Lawson is a French born right back with dual citizenship of Togo, a winter arrival without a club since leaving Livingston FC last summer after a 3 year spell at there.

Ellis Brown - A left sided midfield player who has transferred in January on an undisclosed fee from English 5th tier Vanarama National League side Boreham Wood FC

Kai Kennedy - The perpetual loan Ranger turned up at Hamilton in January on loan until the end of this season. The attacking left winger from Rangers Reserves has had several loan spells in the Championship with ICT, Raith Rovers and Dunfermline.

Thanks Eck, good work.

 

 

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28 minutes ago, caley100 said:

And the passing is as shyte as usual!   

that 45 minutes was an absolute embarassment. Hamilton are simply as bad as we are. And there has only been a handful of passes - it has been a case of aimless hoofs. Welsh looks like the only one who is not scared to put his foot on the ball or play a first timer.

The first 25 minutes were Don't Watch Alone. Things have improved but you cringe whenever we have to play out of defence.

Absolute torturous 45 mins.

Never seen a team so disjointed and lacking in confidence. 

Will need to improve dramatically 2nd half to take anything from this. Here's hoping 

 

Shocking performance for the first 30 minutes or so and a stroke of luck got us back in it. We should have had a penalty for the challenge on Deas in the box but we scarcely deserve to be level.

We have showed a few signs before half time that we can trouble Hamilton so we need them to come out fighting in the second half. This game is winnable but we could easily lose it.

The next 45 are key to us in terms of this season.

Hard to pick out players for praise. Definitely MacKay. Possibly Samuels and Pearson but neither looks comfortable tracking back.

There is no point playing high balls. We need to get it wide and run at them if we want to win this.

Surprisingly looking at the BBC stats, we’ve had more attempts in the first half. 

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Robert

Should we not switch Samuels and Pearson  ?

We are poor again, but gotta be happy to be still in it at 1-1.

And if Doran hadn’t missed a sitter just before Person scored, we’d be 2-1 up!

Harper on for Devine. Devine’s had a decent game but presumably is not yet ready for 90 minutes.

We’ve been better this half but need to ensure we don’t concede and hopefully nick a goal. 

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Robert

Sutherland on for Doran. Maybe Doran not fully fit yet either?

Goalie’s fingertips stopped Mckay scoring there after great kick out by MacKay. 

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Robert

Well I suppose that I am now watching the norm. You simply have to take your chances when you have such a degree of possession. And if you don't !!!!!!

2 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Well I suppose that I am now watching the norm. You simply have to take your chances when you have such a degree of possession. And if you don't !!!!!!

Bang on cue Pearson misses a sitter!

Then Hamilton hit the post.

Its turned into a decent game. 

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Robert

Hope we don't rue these missed chances!!

The Billy Mckay of old would have scored at least one of his chances tonight, surely.

Interesting snippet from commentators. When Deas got booked, they said he’s the most booked player in the Championship. How close to a suspension is he?

Hardy on for Pearson. 

Better taking off Samuels, he's been pretty poor

 

Mcalear... he's another that's been pysh

I really feel it's down to a lack of quality, A lot of these players would not get near the pitch of ICT teams of the past. 

Thought Welsh had a decent game,better second half,missed sitters though,but they hit post.defo penalty for us not given and yes I am grasping at straws.

Shocking first 30 minutes but I thought we were much better in the second half but neither team was impressive and neither deserved to win it, but we had decent chances we could and should have taken. A draw was probably the fair result.

MacKay was my pick as our best player with a couple of decent saves.

A word for Hyde, though. Is he not a midfielder? He quietly coped at right back and Kennedy didn’t really trouble us.

At least we showed some spirit and tried in the second half and seemed to want to win.

Confidence is clearly an issue, which should be the focus for Dodds and the back room staff. That came across loud and clear until we got the break to equalise.

We could easily be fourth at 1650 tomorrow.

Edits:

Watching the post match, we created enough chances to win several games. Confidence is clearly an issue but I can’t fault the second half effort. I agree with others: 10 without a win is not acceptable and puts everything in context.

Decent interview by Pearson, and an honest assessment, including that he should have got a second.

Worrying then to hear Dodds say that Welsh was asking what we need to do to win a game. If our senior players are lacking confidence, little wonder our younger players are.

 

 

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Robert

10 games without a win. Enuff said !

6/30 points in 2022, 10 games without a win. Simply. Not. Good. Enough. 

Well if you want to be positive, we didn’t lose, and we didn’t deserve to lose either.

And we were again missing a number of first team players and others were probably not quite ready.

Credit to mackay in goals he has done well again tonight.10 games without a win though shows something is clearly not right.

We need to really work on confidence and learn to stop giving away crappy early goals then chasing  the game

Edited February 25, 20224 yr by Douglas Mackenzie

4 minutes ago, Robert said:

We could easily be fifth at 1650 tomorrow.

No we couldn't. Partick play Raith Rovers. We could possibly drop to fourth though.

From a great position in December, we have completely blown it.

So depressing....................I have now lost all hope and am hoping that my other (even longer term) long term football love Spurs can put a shine on the remainder of the season......  Not holding my breath though.