Six Pointers Already

 

Callum Davidson brings his new charges North for what might be considered a six-pointer already at this stage of the season with both teams desperate for points to clamber away from bottom spot in the table, currently held by Arbroath. January sales have brought new faces in and old faces out. The latest ins being Aribusitamunoipirim Emmanuel Pepple & Sean McAllister and the latest outs being David Carson, Jake Davidson and Robbie Thompson. Queens Park have added Danny Wilson, not the band but the former Liverpool, Hearts and Rangers defender to their squad.

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Match/Ticket Info

Sean McAllister In

David Carson Out

Aribim Pepple In

Jake Davidson Out

Shake it all About (Robbie Thompson)

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Last 7 Competitive Meetings

4 - 1 (A)

1 - 2 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

0 - 2 (H)

0 - 0 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

Over the last couple of seasons Queens Park had the beating of us during the Doddsball era. However, we had a tremendous away win at Hampden Park last time out, our first since Queens Park were promoted into the Championship in season 22/23. FULL TIME: 4 - 1  Happy Days! Our biggest win of the season, first goal for Ujdur with Anderson, Spoony and Mckay all hitting the back of the net. All this with Ferguson sent to the stands at half time. Plenty room for him there in an empty National Stadium. Inverness move up to sixth in the table and we play Morton  at Cappielow on Tuesday night where a win would see us jump another place to fifth. (never happened meh!)

Indifferent results from Inverness over the last five, but the two wins were well deserved away wins at Somerset Park and Starks park, scoring three goals on each occasion. Alex Samuel was the hero last weekend against Raith Rovers with a first half hat-trick. In between those two wins we snatched defeat from the jaws of a draw at home against Dundee United when a late goal ruined our TV night. We also progressed to the fifth round of the Scottish Cup after beating Broomhill 4-0. We now face Hibernian at home in the next round.

Eat yer heart out Derek!

🗂 Instant Impact@Alex_Samuel95 bagging a hat-trick on his league bow 🎩
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— SPFL (@spfl) January 29, 2024

Inverness CT Last Five Championship Games: D L W L W 

 

Callum Davidson is the new manager of Queens Park and in his first game in charge he saw his new side beat Raith Rovers 2-1. On BBC Sport, Davidson said: "Really pleased with the character. They reacted really well, the heads could've gone down. We got back into the game with a fantastic goal by Cammy. Delighted for him. Sean (Welsh) was a real calming influence. It's a great start and it's just three points for us. I'll hopefully try and get a couple more players in." He was undone in his next game as another new manager, Scott Brown saw his Ayr United beat Queens Park 2-1 with Sean Welsh being sent off. The other win over the last five was a 2-1 win over Dunfermline on the 5th of January.

Queens Park Last Five Championship Games: L L W W L 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latest Team News

Inverness made a host of defensive signings in the sales bringing in James Carragher, Callum Kerr, Remi Savage and Jeremiah Chilokoa-Mullen. All four have had some game time since joining but the most effective newbie so far has been the loan signing of striker Alex Samuel from the quaint market town of Dingwall. Big outs were Sean Welsh to Queens Park and David Wotherspoon to Dundee United. Zak Delaney is now on the injured list at Arbroath. Add David Carson to the out list: Sold to Livingston and Robbie Thompson on loan to Spartans. Here's one for you, the longest name ever to sign on at the Caledonian Stadium: I give you Aribusitamunoipirim Emmanuel "Aribim" Pepple. Quite the transfer window that we have been involved in. That's around 50 players that have been in or around our squad this season. I couldn't even hazard a guess at our team selection for tomorrow, apart from maybe Mark Ridgers will take the gloves.

Awaiting team news. I doubt if Ferguson even knows the players names.

Queens Park have a new manager and a new goal scoring midfield maestro in Sean Welsh, when he is not injured. However, he is suspended after his red card last week against Ayr United 🤣. A couple of loan players in, Mackenzie Carse, midfielder (Celtic) and James Crole, forward (Cardiff City). Callum Haspell has joined from Rothes. A big miss will be Barry Hepburn who has returned to Bayern Munich. Ruari Paton is way out on his own as top scorer with 15 goals. Former Liverpool, Hearts and Rangers defender Danny Wilson is a late transfer signing for QP.

Team v Ayr United last week

Ferrie

 

Bannon   Thomson   Robson

 

Mauchin (McPherson 83)   Welsh   Turner (Spong 71)   Bruce (McKinstry 72)

 

Longridge (Carse 71)   Paton   Thomas

 

Subs Not Used: McKenna; Jarrett, Reid, Williamson, Tizzard

Looking at the highlights we really should have taken something from the game. Disappointing after beating them 4-1 a few games ago.

1 hour ago, Donald1973 said:

I can never understand why more fans don't direct the criticism at the one person who's been at the club longer than the last 4 or 5 managers and who is clearly behind the on field tactics, Scott Kellacher. No team ever changes manager and assistant but keeps the same coaching staff. It's just bonkers that he's still on the training field with the players when clearly this tippy tappy passing across the face of goal dosent work. Until we address what the players are being told to do midweek by the coaching staff and yes I include DF in that too, we are going to continue to struggle. Not once did we look like creating a good enough chance to result in a goal yesterday, far too slow and ponderous and simply no real awareness or quality from anyone in front of goal 

Should we get rid of the admin and accounts staff because the club's a shamble off the pitch?  After all, many of them have been there longer than the last few Chairmen/CEOs.

The highlights show that we played some stuff and it’s a surprise that we failed to score. As for the goal we conceded, defenders just standing back and letting him get all the space he needs to take a touch and pick his spot, oh dear.

I thought QP closed the space really efficiently in and around the box first half & stifled us probably aware we"d be looking for that final pass too many. This meant we although we were creating "chances" they were mostly half chances on the turn or shots from the edge of the box Gilmour coming closest from distance. Second half I thought we lost our shape almost immediately after the goal although Kerr looked threatening when cutting in on his left foot and there were glimpses of good interchange down that side. Pepples looked pacy but rusty when he came on. We could have done with a long throw exponent at the death to ask their defence a different question. Overall we seemed to lack a bit of leadership on the park a few old sweats needed particularly in midfield as we sometimes have to do the dirty work more enthusiastically and earn the right to play. Sadly QP won most of the individual battles second half & had sussed us out well before the end. Just my recall & thoughts at the game. 

3 hours ago, Leaky Blinder said:

I thought QP closed the space really efficiently in and around the box first half & stifled us 

This. There was a lot of frustration about lack of shots in the first half given the amount of ball we had around their box, but apart from the shot/backpass (Anderson?) we didn’t really get a look at goal, so no chance to shoot. 
 

Game was begging for the ball to go out wide and stretch them out a bit, but we just let them pack the middle.

Can we get last season’s Nathan Shaw back, please?

4 hours ago, Yngwie said:

The highlights show that we played some stuff and it’s a surprise that we failed to score. As for the goal we conceded, defenders just standing back and letting him get all the space he needs to take a touch and pick his spot, oh dear.

It’s a pity we didn’t do some business to strengthen the defence during the transfer window 😕

38 minutes ago, HawkeyeTheGnu said:

Game was begging for the ball to go out wide and stretch them out a bit, but we just let them pack the middle.

 

When we did get it wide the ball just ended up being recycled backwards and across their defence rather than fizzing the ball early into the near or back post areas. QP were by no means the Land of Giants first XI and we could have looked to exploit that a bit more. One ball swung across their 6 yard box at pace late in game had their  defence turned and just needed a touch, but just too predictable overall. This was Ferguson 0 Davidson 1 on the day.