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Raith Rovers Jan 27th

 They used to be sh!te, but now they're alright

 

Inverness face a treacherous trip to the home of the new, improved version of Raith Rovers. This would have been a game where we might have expected to pick up at least a point over the last twenty odd years. However, they are more resillient of late and testament to that is our two meetings this season when late goals saw Rovers snatch all six points from Inverness who deserved more from both games.

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Match/Ticket Info

Scottish Cup v Hibs

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Venue Pld Won Drn Lst For Agst + / -
Home 22 14 5 3 41 17 +24
Away 18 9 5 4 34 22 +12
Neutral 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 40 23 10 7 75 39 +36

Raith broke the mold back in September when they won for the first time in 23 years:  Record Breakers

Never had there been a better time for Raith Rovers to break the Caley Jags hoodoo! Inverness, without a win in their last eight games, and Billy Dodds and the management team under fire. A 23 year run of games without a win for Raith Rovers was brought to an end today when Jamie Gullan smashed home from 15 yards with five minutes left. It was harsh on Inverness who dominated for long spells earlier in the game, but it leaves the management with some tough decisions to make. There will be dancing on the streets of Raith tonight!

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And in December:  Just Like Buses

None for 23 years then two in a row as Raith came from behind to win with a time added on penalty converted by Jamie Gullan. Billy Mckay had opened the scoring with a header on the hour but a late surge by Rovers won it. Lewis Vaughan four minutes from the end then the penalty to take the win at the death scored by Jamie Gullan. We should have had a penalty of our own after that, but Mr Williams chose to ignore it. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and that one hurt.

image.pngChampionship Points

Dundee Utd    - 44

Raith Rovers   - 44

Partick Thistle -36

Airdrieonians - 27

Morton -           26

Dunfermline  -  23

Ayr United    -   23

Inverness CT  -  21

Queens Park  -  20

Arbroath FC  - 18

 

Latest Team News

Inverness Last 5 Championship results:  

Big Dunc has been dabbling in the January sales both in and out over the last couple of weeks.

Out:  Sean Welsh, David Wotherspoon, Cillian Sheridan, Zak Delaney, Harry Hennem (departed), Lewis Hyde, Keith Bray, Ethan Cairns (loaned out)

In: Striker Alex Samuel, the rest are all defenders:- James Carracher, Cammy Kerr, Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen, Remi Savage

 

Raith Rovers have suffered three defeats on the trot: Airdrie & Queens Park in the Championship and a 2-1 defeat to Livingston in the Scottish Cup last weekend.

Zak Rudden, Shaun Byrne and Kyle Turner are new additions in the January sales. Rudden was the latest signing and he will be available for tomorrow.

Jamie Gullan has left Rovers to sign for Dundalk.

Last 5 Championship results: 

 

Team v Livi in the Cup last week
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Millen   Brown   Dick
 
Connolly   Mullin   Byrne (Gullan 83)   Turner (Easton 67)  Smith
 
Hamilton   Vaughan
 
Subs Not Used:  Thomson; Masson, Hannah, McGill, Corr, McNeil, Murray
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  • That was sweet. Never in doubt even after going behind. When I saw the orange strips it took me back to November 2001 when we went behind to a Nacho Novo penalty and won 5-1.  Sure the last 20 minut

  • Need to get some defenders in before the window closes 🤔

  • Ridgers seems to be slower off his line and increasingly reluctant to come for balls recently, so that may have been a good shout by Devine.  I await the highlights to see. Important 3 points tod

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21 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I go away for a few minutes, and they score a hat-trick :crazy:

Give the match ball to Samuel now!

I think you need to go away for a few minutes again :wink:

Just now, DoofersDad said:

Need to get some defenders in before the window closes 🤔

Real ones.

5 minutes ago, DoofersDad said:

Need to get some defenders in before the window closes 🤔

Or at least a defensive minded coach for the many we have?

A bit of breathing space with Queens Park and Arbroath both losing. We need to build on this and beat Queens Park next week now.

Well done to the team, particularly Samuel.

Looking forward to feedback from those at the game. 

Well done lads.  Glad that we finally managed not to concede vital goals in last few minutes.  More of the same next week please.

2 hours ago, Pele_Is_God said:

Why has he dropped Boyes and Carson. We are down…. Have no faith whatsoever in Dunc I’m afraid.

Hopefully you have some faith now after getting all three points today. 

YASSSSS!!!! Hope Big Dunc was giving it big fist pumps at the end 👊.... We are heading for the Premiership playoffs 😝😝

On a serious note though I'm just so happy we didn't concede a last minute sickener AGAIN!! 

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4 minutes ago, Robert said:

Hopefully you have some faith now after getting all three points today. 

We didn't concede after Boyes & Carson came on😄

Masterstroke?

Aside from all the new signings looking good  I felt shaw looked like his old self which could almost be like a new signing for us. Just think we need to try whipping some more balls into the box via the fullbacks and wouldn’t mind seeing some players try a dribble or two

A great away result should give us a morale boost going into the next couple of weeks. 

Great result away against second.Had to listen on radio and seemed a good game with new boys doing okay.

Dunc seems to have a sound idea of what he wants and how he wants us to play.Glad we tried shooting from outside the box for a change with good results.

Samuel's seems to have slotted nicely into the space left by Spoony.

Now we seem solid at the back and with options up front maybe we can start climbing the table.

Looking at the table, we need to improve our home form.

We have 9 points from 10 home games: only Arbroath have taken fewer.

Conversely we have 15 points from 12 away games: only Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Partick Thistle have taken more.

Our next two league games are at home against Queens Park and Partick Thistle so it’s time to start winning at home.

 

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