They'll be dancing on the streets

 

 

After more than twenty years of trying to beat the Caley Jags, Raith Rovers will never get a better chance to win a game against us than this weekend at Starks Park. The last time we lost, Steps were top of the charts with 'Stomp'. The untennable word is ready to hit the press as Inverness continue their downward spiral after eight big boy games in a row without a win and only one draw to show for it. No excuses anymore, we have underperformed everywhere we go and the current regime are taking this club down to the gutter. Billy Dodds is under fire and rightly so as football is a results driven business. He might be the fall guy here though and none of his seniors at the club is smelling of roses at the moment. Robbo can be seen elsewhere on Saturdays while his team suffer another embarrassing defeat. Scot Gardiner is dishing out jobs for the boys and the stench of failure is unbearable. When will it stop? When will the Chairman wake up and smell the stench? One point from a possible twelve is relegation form. Better managers have been sacked for less. How long do we wait???

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Match/Ticket Info

Supporters Bus £20

Supporters Trust

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The Supporters Trust have called for an open meeting to discuss the Matchday Experience Survey and the demise of our club amongst other things.

The natives are restless and the long knives have been drawn for a while now with most fans not liking the direction we are moving towards. One point from a possible twelve makes us relegation candidates and management decisions are being questioned by a disgruntled support who feel many of these decisions are not in the best interest of this club.

Come along and let the voice of the support be heard on Saturday 23rd September before the Dundee United game,12:00 – 14:15 @ The Innes Bar (Beer Garden), 61 Innes St, Inverness IV1 1NR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Venue H2H v Raith Rovers

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	21	14	5	2	40	15	+25
Away	17	9	5	3	34	21	+13
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	38	23	10	5	74	36	+38

We first met Raith in 1999 and went down 2-0. Report by Ian Broadfoot: Caley Thistle lost this game because of a dismal first half performance. They came out fighting in the second half and matched Raith well but produced no goals. Raith took the lead in the ninth minute after a Jay Stein corner from the right - Marvin Andrews rose above Mann to head downwards and into the net. In 24 minutes the second goal came courtesy of an error. Mann was too slow passing back to Fridge and Didier Agathe stepped in and he ran on and volleyed past Fridge from 20 yards. Caley Thistle hit on the occasional breakaway but to little effect. A disappointing afternoon for the home support despite a spirited fight back. Caley Thistle now slip to second bottom of Division 1. Sounds familiar!!!

Fast forward to October 28th 2000. Five defeats and a draw later for the Caley Jags, Raith Rovers would win their last fixture against us over 90 minutes. Unbelievably that is 23 years next month. That unbeaten run is under serious threat as under fire Billy Dodds takes his hapless cloggers down to Kirkaldy. I fear there will be dancing on the streets of Raith after this one. Prove me wrong!

Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Raith Rovers

2 - 0 (H)

2 - 2 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

3 - 2 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

0 - 0 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 0 (H)

1 - 0 (A)

 

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts Partick Thistle trounce Ayr United 4-0 on Friday night to go joint top. Table still to be updated. 1. Dundee Utd 4 3 1 0 10 1 10 2. Raith Rovers 4 3 1 0 9 6 10 3. Queens Park 5 3 0 2 8 8 9 4. Partick Thistle 4 2 1 1 10 6 7 5. Airdrieonians 4 2 0 2 5 6 6 6. Arbroath 5 2 0 3 6 8 6 7. Dunfermline 4 1 2 1 4 4 5 8. Morton 4 1 0 3 6 11 3 9. Ayr United 4 1 0 3 3 8 3 10. Inverness CT 4 0 1 3 3 6 1

FRIDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER

1.  Ayr United 0-4 Partick Thistle

SATURDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER

1. Arbroath FC v Airdrieonians
2. United v Morton
3. Queens Park v Dunfermline 
4. Raith Rovers v Inverness CT

Last Championship game v Pars

Our last Championship game saw us gain our first point of the season. However one point from a possible twelve is nothing to crow about. We took an early lead throgh a Nathan Shaw strike with the keeper not covering himself in glory. Alas the confidence is not there and Dunfermline thoroughly deserved their point and probably were unlucky not to take all three but for a great late save from Mark Ridgers. However the defence will be disappointed with the goal we lost as the errors continue to mount up. Current League Form L L L D    F3 A6

Latest Team News 

Billy Dodds will be without MacGregor, Nicolson, Welsh and the suspended Harry Lodovica. We had made eight changes to the starting XI last week against Arbroath, therefore I would expect Billy Mckay, Danny Devine and Max Anderson to be back in the side (should Max be fit). Wallace Duffy was replaced just before the interval last week and is a doubt with a hamstring niggle. Mark Ridgers will surely be back between the sticks, although in his last appearance he was a bit suspect at the Dunfermline goal along with two or three of his defenders. Nikola Ujdur might be over here by next week according to Dodds, i'll no hold my breath...

A less than ebullient Billy Dodds

 

 

What's new at Stark's Park

In: Jack Hamilton, forward (Livingston); Keith Watson, defender (Ross County); Kevin Dabrowski, goalkeeper (Hibs); Euan Murray, defender (Hartlepool United); Josh Mullin, midfielder (Ayr United); Dylan Corr, defender (Celtic); Scott McGill, midfielder (Hearts, loan to permanent); Callum Smith, forward (Airdrie). Loan in: Shaun Byrne, midfielder (Dundee).

Out: Jamie MacDonald, goalkeeper (Morton); Brad Spencer, midfielder (Falkirk); Tom Lang, defender (Falkirk); Ryan Nolan, defender (Hercules); Connor McBride, midfielder (Gateshead); Greig Young, defender (Dumbarton); Luke Mahady, forward (Bonnyrigg Rose). Loan ended: Isma Goncalves, forward (Livingston); William Akio, midfielder (Ross County); Kieran Ngwenya (Aberdeen). Loan out: Andy McNeil, goalkeeper (Edinburgh City); Kieran Mitchell, forward (East Fife).

Last Championship game for Raith Rovers

Ian Murray's Raith beat ten man Queens Park 3-2 after coming from behind with two late goals by substitute Lewis Vaughan in the last five minutes. Raith had opened the scoring in the eighth minute through Callum Smith's header. Queens then had William Tizzard sent off before the interval. They hit back after the hour with goals from Turner and Thomas before Vaughan's late brace secured the points that keeps Raith level at the top with Dundee United. Current League Form: D  W  W  W   F9 A6

Raith lineup v Queens Park

Dabrowski

 

Millen   Watson   Murray (Ross 84)  McGill (Dick 75)

 

Brown

 

Mullin (Easton 75)  Byrne   Stanton (Vaughan 62)   Smith

 

Hamilton (Gullan 45)

Subs not used: Thompson; Dick Arnott, Masson

 

A game at the Gleaner Arena, or as we all know it, Boroughbriggs. 

Good luck to our u18's as they take on Elgin City in the Scottish Youth Cup.

 

Best we played all season to be fair but as per usual we can't score and we keep letting in cheap goals at crucial moments in the game cause we have a leaky defence. Just a recipe for disaster..... we could've literally been 2-0 up by HT but our quality in the final third is so poor... for a coach who used be a striker his players aren't the best at finishing. 

49 minutes ago, jagster said:

Surely Dodds must be gone tonight take Kellacher and Wilson with him also Gardiner and Robbo

They all need to go . Scot Gardiner has done nothing for the club but give it bad exposure and actually cost the club money with his failed concert fiasco etc and there’s probably more we are not hearing of so has failed our club miserably and financially . Dodds should definitely go now and this muppet should follow him out the door . 

ICT dont have the cash to pay off Dodds. Could be another Foran situation unfolding (Board acts after the damage has been done ...ie relegation)

If Brooks scored v Arbroath and scored 2 v Dunfermline and we are in a game where we need to score and he gets thrown on at the end to try and salvage a draw; who made that decision ? Signed puzzled 🤔 

The only good thing to come out of this is that Raith now know that we are far superior to them. Could easily have been 3 or 4 ahead at the break. Dabrowski was MotM for a string of saves in the first half. However, despite our defence picking them off easily, we conceded a late goal and the rest is history 😡

10 games into the season and we have won 1 game against bonnyrigg. totally unaceptable. Ross Morrison, Gardiner, Dodds and co all have to go before they completely run our club into the ground.

1 hour ago, SMEE said:

ICT dont have the cash to pay off Dodds. Could be another Foran situation unfolding (Board acts after the damage has been done ...ie relegation)

Thats so easily solved so that does not need to be used as an excuse . Get rid of our useless non speaking scot Gardiner and also the elusive John Robertson . That money would more then likely pay of Dodds contract and also go towards a coach that actually  knows how to coach . . 

Says it all 

Our goals conceded record in the league isn't terrible, and I think we're focusing too much on the wrong end of the park.

Just a quick napkin calculation, but if we'd scored about 1 in 5 of the chances created, we'd be doing pretty well.

18 minutes ago, STFU said:

Our goals conceded record in the league isn't terrible, and I think we're focusing too much on the wrong end of the park.

Just a quick napkin calculation, but if we'd scored about 1 in 5 of the chances created, we'd be doing pretty well.

Well in Dodds' last pre match interview I'm sure he was saying he wasn't worried about us scoring and 'we'll score plenty' or something along those lines. 🤷‍♂️

50 minutes ago, STFU said:

Our goals conceded record in the league isn't terrible, and I think we're focusing too much on the wrong end of the park.

Just a quick napkin calculation, but if we'd scored about 1 in 5 of the chances created, we'd be doing pretty well.

Yeah, All very well, but the records say we got beat (again) and we didn't score and we are still bottom of the league.  Dodds can f**k right off.

3 hours ago, caley1 said:

Thats so easily solved so that does not need to be used as an excuse . Get rid of our useless non speaking scot Gardiner and also the elusive John Robertson . That money would more then likely pay of Dodds contract and also go towards a coach that actually  knows how to coach . . 

Agreed : awful to watch a once great club being run by people who seem not to care and worse have zero accountability.

Whoever had the final disastrous decision to award the tactically naive talentless excuse of a coach a two year deal, needs to be first out the door. It smacks of giving him protection against the sack. In one of the Wyness Shuffle podcasts, Gardiner was asked about how close we were to changing the manager when we were on that eleven game winless run, and he said something along the lines of very close, so, any CEO worth their salt wouldn't have handed out a two year deal, when they know that he has that in his locker, it should have been at least a rolling contract, or in a perfect world, Dodds would have left after the Scottish Cup final, with nothing, that would have been in the best interest of the club, which the CEO is supposed to be responsible for, instead of putting them in such a perilous position. Is another defeat today against Raith acceptable to the club now? Or are they waiting till we hit eleven games without a win till they act?

Our last nine games makes for grim reading when you see it in print 

9 hours ago, caley100 said:

Yeah, All very well, but the records say we got beat (again) and we didn't score and we are still bottom of the league.  Dodds can f**k right off.

I agree.  My post was not intended as any kind of defence of the situation.  If anything it further highlights how far out of his depth Dodds is.

3 hours ago, jagster said:

Thats really unfair, we won the Inverness cup so unlike any other club in the league we already have silverware.

We were unquestionably the better side yesterday but we seem completely unable to convert the chances we create and always look likely to throw one in. 

Dodds says after our latest capitulation that he wants to give the fans something to celebrate.  The surest way to achieve this noble objective is by him tendering his resignation today. 

 

43 minutes ago, ymip said:

We were unquestionably the better side yesterday but we seem completely unable to convert the chances we create and always look likely to throw one in. 

Dodds says after our latest capitulation that he wants to give the fans something to celebrate.  The surest way to achieve this noble objective is by him tendering his resignation today. 

It’s got that bad his interview is not even been listened to now by fans it’s excuses after excuses just utter dribble after dribble .

Not the best keeping from Ridgers for that Gullan shot. Always feel keepers shouldn't be beaten at the near post and he didn't seem to expect the shot. Credit to Gullan for taking it so early but think we could have done better there. 

Hard to be objective or see anything positive when we’ve just lost again on the back of a disastrous start of the season. I’m not going to defend the players, manager, CEO or any other official here (the results lay bare our shortcomings). 

Their is an air of resignation and acceptance from most of the fans that irrespective how much they complain or register their dissatisfaction the club batten down the hatches and adopt a bunker mentality and ignore any criticism.

I wasn’t at the match but taking in the comments from the fans that were, the performance of the team was good and should or could have taken something from the game if we would have put the ball in the net, (their goalie had a good match by all accounts)!
The defence appears to be improved and tighter which is where bulk of our losses came from. 

So there are signs of the team getting it finally together. It wouldn’t surprise me if we carried this over to next Saturday and finally get a win!!

I don’t take BD’s line he wants the win for the fans, it’s to save his own skin. A win against DU keeps BD secure for now. I’m all for getting rid of SG, but unless the Chairman and Board have the courage and conviction to challenge him nothing will change.

Slow signs of improvement by all accounts, but far too late!! 
bc

 

 

Edited September 17, 20232 yr by big cherly

18 minutes ago, RiG said:

Not the best keeping from Ridgers for that Gullan shot. Always feel keepers shouldn't be beaten at the near post and he didn't seem to expect the shot. Credit to Gullan for taking it so early but think we could have done better there. 

Was wondering about that too, but giving him the benefit of the doubt as the shot was hit powerfully and through a pretty crowded penalty box. Very well taken goal actually, but an absolute sickener for us.

Davie Carson was turned inside out for the goal, Mark was very slow to react. Beyond that the highlights showed some effort on our part to score. In some ways it would be nice to hear someone in the club mention relegation is clearly a possibility if we continue as now. That would recognise the situation. My concern is that the Cup Final created an illusion as did Billy becoming all time top scorer.

Hit with plenty power from 15 yards. Our efforts were less powerful and from ten yards further out.

Meh!