First Leg v Smokies

 

After an edgy quarter final play off win over Partick Thistle, we face Championship team of the season Arbroath on Tuesday night at 7:05pm. Dick Campbell takes his team North as favourites to progress to the final, with St Johnstone being the likely candidates for the opposition. The game will also be screened live on the BBC Scotland channel. 

Arbroath have had a fantastic season falling just two points short of automatic promotion and finishing second in the Championship, six points ahead of third placed Inverness, and with a superior goal difference of seven, and losing only five Championship games all season. The one thing in our favour is that we beat them twice, the most recent a slightly flattering 3-0 win a couple of months ago.

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Venue H2H all comps

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	21	16	2	3	56	18	+38
Away	19	9	4	6	26	22	+4
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	40	25	6	9	82	40	+42

This seasons meetings with the Smokies

3 - 0 (H)

0 - 0 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

1 - 0 (A)

Interestingly, over the final six games of the Championship, Inverness were the team on form, finishing with a flourish ahead of the Play-Offs

			Overall					Home					Away
Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
1.	Inverness CT	6	4	1	1	12	5	3	0	0	8	1	1	1	1	4	4	+7	13
2.	Arbroath	6	3	2	1	13	6	2	1	0	11	4	1	1	1	2	2	+7	11
3.	Kilmarnock	6	3	2	1	9	6	3	0	0	6	2	0	2	1	3	4	+3	11

Last time we faced Arbroath we were on an eleven game run of no wins since we thumped Morton 6-1 at Cappielow on December 11th

CTO Report March 12th: 3-0: The spell is broken: A blistering start by Inverness put them on their way to a first win in 12 starts. Goals from Shane Sutherland and Reece McAlear set them on their way inside eleven minutes. Billy Mckay sclaffed in a third with twenty minutes to go and there was no way back for Arbroath who lost ground at the top of the table with Dick Campbell sent to the stands. As Partick Thistle lost to Morton, we closed the gap to two points behind them with Raith still one point behind us. Away to Rovers next week. That's a massive game now as both sides chase a play-off spot. I said to my grandkid's at the game "that was an emphatic win" At only seven years old, Ava said "granda, what does win mean?" Yes, it's been a long time coming...

 

Well done Mark, great stuff.   

68 clean sheets, that's some size of linen cupboard pal!

TEAM NEWS

Roddy MacGregor has cracked a bone in his jaw and could be out for the next few games. Tom Walsh is likewise after being injured inside twenty minutes at Firhill. Wallace Duffy missed the last couple after being injured against Accies on matchday 36. Scott Allardice made it onto the pitch as an injury time sub for the first time in months, so that's a positive and here's another one, Aaron Doran came on as a sub for the last half hour after taking a knock at Cappielow on matchday 35.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A well deserved April's Player of the Month award for Logan Chalmers who has chipped in with some massively important stunning goals recently in our drive for promotion.

He scored five goals in a five game purple patch starting with a match winning fiercely struck brace over Raith Rovers. He followed that up with a belter against Ayr United, a sweet winner against Killie and a wonderful solo thumper against Queen of the South.

After a somewhat slow start, Logan has benefitted from more game time and you can see why he is highly rated by parent club Dundee United

That's some left peg lad. 💪

 

 

 

 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

We all knew it would only be a matter of time before the star of the show made his mark

Willie the ***** always has a calamity decision. 

We’ve won Cup Finals before with 10 men!!  With the same ref!!

2 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Willie Collum!  

 

Dont know if anybody else noticed but Gollum was told that he had made a mistake. Will we see the Gollum Reparation ?

8 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Dont know if anybody else noticed but Gollum was told that he had made a mistake. Will we see the Gollum Reparation ?

No    it's Willie the pryck mind

Oh..  why are we so shyte with throw ins?

I fecking hate Collum

Despite Collum's best efforts we got there ... wow, talk about squeaky *** time! That was really hard watching the scores via an app on my phone in the office 😞 

Yessssssss!  Feck you Collum!!  Feck you ugly Campbell    yessssss

Willie Collum is our lucky red🏆

Just now, GaliantGrunt said:

Willie Collum is our lucky red🏆

REF

Wow!!! Thank god

Incredible backs to the wall performance. With all that crap thrown at us, and one of the worst refereeing performances of all time, we stuck to our guns, defended resiliently, and then scored five great penalties. Never mind the quality of the game, let's salute the fantastic spirit and never say die attitude of our boys. Nerves of steel, and very well deserved.

Yesssssssss go on the Caley Jags!

Proud of these boys, yes the game was crap to watch as a spectacle but when we were down to 9 men,8 men and so on,when you think the ref had an absolute howler and backs were to the wall,we dug deep and showed true grit

1 minute ago, Douglas Mackenzie said:

Proud of these boys, yes the game was crap to watch as a spectacle but when we were down to 9 men,8 men and so on,when you think the ref had an absolute howler and backs were to the wall,we dug deep and showed true grit

Yeah   Willie Cogburn!!!

3 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Willie Collum!  

....

I have a horrible feeling that it will all come down to penalties.

Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you tomorrow night's winning lottery numbers.

And Dick Campbell said Christmas came early for Inverness tonight 

Congratulations to the whole team for two hours of heroic defending.  Justice done in the end.  What a joke Collum is.  Both red cards were laughable.  I assume we will appeal them? Otherwise I can see us struggling to get 11 players out next Friday

If there was any doubt  about the team spirit, that display blew it out of the water. 👏 Brilliant 👏 

One of the best days ever  ??

 

 

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Between injuries and suspensions, what sort of team will we be able to put out next week?

In a fair world, both reds would be cancelled on appeal.  But Collum is refereeing the Cup Final, so the SFA are not going to undermine him, are they?

3 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Between injuries and suspensions, what sort of team will we be able to put out next week?

In a fair world, both reds would be cancelled on appeal.  But Collum is refereeing the Cup Final, so the SFA are not going to undermine him, are they?

Can't appeal a (second)yellow...

Both reds looked very appealable to me.

I can see why Devine was deemed to have committed a foul, albeit a soft one, due to  having his arm round the attacker as he fell, but the ball had already been headed towards Ridgers waiting arms and it was not a clear goal scoring opportunity.

Duffy won the ball clean and fair and the ref was conned by the player’s reaction. Edit - sorry hadn’t realised this was a second yellow, thought he’d got a straight red.

Edited May 13, 20224 yr by Yngwie

6 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

Both reds looked very appealable to me.

I can see why Devine was deemed to have committed a foul, albeit a soft one, due to  having his arm round the attacker as he fell, but the ball had already been headed towards Ridgers waiting arms and it was not a clear goal scoring opportunity.

Duffy won the ball clean and fair and the ref was conned by the player’s reaction. Edit - sorry hadn’t realised this was a second yellow, thought he’d got a straight red.

I don’t think you can appeal two yellows. Devines 100% never a straight red