Accies Storm Warning

With storm Amy closing in and wide spread disruption across the land predicted, It makes one wonder the merits of trying to play football under the current weather forecast. Not only that, what about the safety of the travelling supporters who want to cheer on their side? It's high time the authorities looked ahead and made these decisions and not leave it for the clubs to decide. Should the game go ahead, it's scheduled for a 3:00pm kick-off at Broadwood Stadium.

Despite their well documented financial issues, Accies have made a strong start to League1 after their relegation last season. Many expected them to fall apart but they have dug in and made a positive start winning four games with just the two defeats. Inverness though have made a stunning start and despite a five point handicap, they top the table winning seven of their eight games and are on a five game winning streak.

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This was the Caley Jags squad that took them to the top of the table with a 4-1 win over East Fife. Stewart & Bavidge scored and Wotherspoon's two goals and general all round quality won him the Star Man in the SPFL Team of the Week.

League1 Results

1. Kelty 0-3 ICTFC

2. ICTFC 2-0 P'Head

3. ICTFC 1-2 Stenny

4. Mont 0-2 ICTFC

5. ICTFC 1-0 Alloa

6. Cove R 0-1 ICTFC

7. QotSth 0-2 ICTFC

8. ICTFC 4-1 E Fife

Two or three struggling according to Kellacher.

TICKET INFO

Tickets available via Fanbase by clicking here

Ticket Prices:
Adult – £20
Concession – £15
U16s – £10

Supporters Bus 🚍

The ICT Travel Club are running a bus to the match this Saturday.

The bus leaves the Sarens PSG Stadium at 10am picking up in Aviemore and Pitlochry. £20 a seat. Book through Facebook or on 07462218717

Cash strapped Accies last squad in the 2-0 win over Stenhousemuir a week ago. Oli Shaw and Kevin O'Hara with the goals. Shaw, the former Killie and Ross County striker, has netted eight goals this season.

League1 Results

1. Accies 2-0 Monty

2. QotSth 1-4 Accies

3. Accies 1-4 E Fife

4. Alloa 1-0 Accies

5. Accies 0-0 Cove R

6. P'Head 2-2 Accies

7. Kelty 0-4 Accies

8. Accies 2-0 Stenny

Accies top scorer in the League is jointly held by Oli Shaw and Connor Smith on four goals each.

Former Caley Jag John Rankin is still the manager at Accies and has kept them competitive as their purse shrinks.

https://spfl.co.uk/news/shaw-wins-l1-award

Oli Shaw to be watched but not when he is unmarked like Nathan last Saturday!!!

0-1. From the BBC live text, that's no surprise. Going to be a tough afternoon.

Feckin hate Hamilton, Always have, hate Imrie too.

We need to up the tempo in the second half like last week and get some goals.

Nice one Alfie!! Get into them!

Jeez... didn't last long. 😠😠😠

You're never as vulnerable as when you've just scored.

And it applies to football, too

Seems like Hamilton have got their mojo back unfortuately!

3-1. Ouch. ☹️

Ah well, can't win them all.

In the first quarter of the season, we won at least 4 more points than anyone else. Repeat that for the next three quarters, and we'll be in clover.

Of course it won't happen like that, but we are still in an excellent position.

What’s disappointing and slightly concerning is not that we have dropped to 3rd, but that we have lost both ‘6 pointers’ against the top 2.

That was always going to be a tough match. Seemingly we were poor defensively and Hamilton took full advantage. Thats certainly a wake up call for us.

We were going to come unstuck sooner or later. It happens, so the focus should again be on what we gone wrong today and work on the training ground to eliminate doing it again.

For those fans attending today, can you provide your thoughts on where we came short of what was required to come away with a result (point).

I’m sure the weather and pitch surface had an effect, but was the goals lost individual or collective failings.

bc

Edited October 4, 2025Oct 4 by big cherly

I won’t be hard on the boys as they have been brilliant so far this season. We gifted them their first two goals, and outwith our mistakes they rarely threatened. Devines distribution from the back was awful, and the wind defo influenced that. Spoony had one of these days when things just didn’t go his way. But our attacking intent was only on show in short spells. Kell was giving Bav a very hard time for not running the channels, which was harsh IMO as balls to him were lacking in quality, and fighting for the ball isn’t his forte, whereas his finish showed where his strength is.

14 minutes ago, IBM said:

Can we have the sky sports one back?

That was a tough watch today.

We were really poor in that first half. it honestly felt like Hamilton had an extra couple of players at times. Credit to them, they pressed us brilliantly and we just couldn’t get a proper foot on the ball. Our passing was off and we never really created anything of note.

You could maybe point the finger at Danny Devine for the first goal. I’d need to see the pass to him again, but he lost it and O’Hara went straight through.

Second half was a bit better, but we still struggled to find space and Hamilton kept closing us down quickly. Liam Sole was frustrating to watch today. His tricks usually come off, but this time they didn’t and it led to a couple Hamilton breaks where we were almost caught out. He was subbed early, probably rightly so.

All in all, just a bad day at the office. Hopefully we pick it back up next week.

That's two defeats against the teams now sitting above us. One team sat in and picked our pockets, the other got the better of us, capitalising on our errors and taking their chances. Hard lessons to be learned.

We really need to stay sharp for every game.

A disappointing result and, it sounds, performance.

However, before the league season started we’d all have been delighted to get 21 (-5 = 16) points out of our first 27 this season and be right in contention.

I’m sure we will have learned a lot from the two defeats which will hopefully stand us in good stead as the season progresses.

What’s telling for me is that we’ve now played 17 games in the league, League Cup and Challenge Cup and have not drawn any of them.

We want to win and I’m convinced we’ve won games we’d have drawn in the past.

If we keep going as we are, I’m sure we can make this a successful season despite the inevitable blip or two along the way.

Edited October 4, 2025Oct 4 by Robert

13 hours ago, Robert said:

I’m sure we will have learned a lot from the two defeats

I understand the positive position you take Robert. We have clearly overcome a 5 point deficit imposed on us at the start of the campaign. Latterly, prior to yesterday’s game, the team were playing some of the best football seen for some time now. The team has also proved they can get results at difficult grounds ie Cove and Dumfries (QoS).

That said, there is an case and argument to be made that this ICT set of players (full time, professional and training) should be capable of ‘turning up’ at every football ground in this division and being able to perform consistently at a high level.

Without seeing the highlights it’s impossible to comment on the performance. That said there has been consistent comment over a good period of months from a number of fans on (bad or poor) practice we keep repeating that either looses us possession or an attacking opportunity or in the worst instance a goal. The lack of goal scoring was the biggest need, but this has been addressed IMO. Maybe a bit unfair here but the two repeated shortcomings I’ve seen /heard are :

• Providing or relying on Danny with the ball (too many times) to be our attack creater from the back, (which can leave us vulnerable at the back), and exposed if it goes wrong.

• Liam Sole’s continued reluctance to pass the ball to a colleague where an attacking opening exists, but instead over complicates his possession my trying to beat the defender when it’s not to his advantage, or leads to a better attacking threat.

In both instances it is the manager that has to see these shortcomings (maybe he doesn’t see them as such), and make changes to the game plan, or instruct / train the players to pass the ball to others in a better position.

I return to my starting point that we are in a good position and will experience losses throughout the season. We have a good chance of finishing in the top four of this campaign. That doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with below acceptable performances, eliminate repeating errors or be able to play at the level we are capable.

bc

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by big cherly

18 minutes ago, big cherly said:

I understand the positive position you take Robert. We have clearly overcome a 5 point deficit imposed on us at the start of the campaign. Latterly, prior to yesterday’s game, the team were playing some of the best football seen for some time now. The team has also proved they can get results at difficult grounds ie Cove and Dumfries (QoS).

That said, there is an case and argument to be made that this ICT set of players (full time, professional and training) should be capable of ‘turning up’ at every football ground in this division and being able to perform consistently at a high level.

Without seeing the highlights it’s impossible to comment on the performance. That said there has been consistent comment over a good period of months from a number of fans on (bad or poor) practice we keep repeating that either looses us possession or an attacking opportunity or in the worst instance a goal. The lack of goal scoring was the biggest need, but this has been addressed IMO. Maybe a bit unfair here but the two repeated shortcomings I’ve seen /heard are :

• Providing or relying on Danny with the ball (too many times) to be our attack creater from the back, (which can leave us vulnerable at the back), and exposed if it goes wrong.

• Liam Sole’s continued reluctance to pass the ball to a colleague where an attacking opening exists, but instead over complicates his possession my trying to beat the defender when it’s not to his advantage, or leads to a better attacking threat.

In both instances it is the manager that has to see these shortcomings (maybe he doesn’t see them as such), and make changes to the game plan, or instruct / train the players to pass the ball to others in a better position.

I return to my starting point that we are in a good position and will experience losses throughout the season. We have a good chance of finishing in the top four of this campaign. That doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with below acceptable performances, eliminate repeating errors or be able to play at the level we are capable.

bc

Last season was a great watch as we were chasing down the 15 point deficit. I wondered at the end of the season if we would still play that way this season. Getting up the park quickly, getting the ball into the box at every opportunity.

Said I wasn’t impressed with first half last week, and other games to be honest. Too slow in transition, allowing teams to get 2 banks of 4 behind the ball making it difficult for us to break teams down. Dare I say it, flashes of Dunc ball returning as we play chuckle brothers football across the back four, to you, to me, going not an inch forward. Then a devine launch to the opposition.

Have a joke with the grandkids as they know who Liverpool’s VVD is. I say we have one also, Virgil Van Devine. But van Dijk is the best defender in the premiership they say and his long passes are amazing. Too clever kids nowadays.

We have had a bit of luck winning some games. The winner at cove, Stewart last week to make it 3-1 to close out the game, “wicked” deflections taking ball past the GK into the net.

Charlie gilmour was always available to take the ball around our box. Surely one of the midfield could do the same.

Agree with you re sole. He is supposed to be quick. Just knock the ball past the defender and put a cross in. Barry Wilson made a career out of doing that.

Jeez, The defending for all 3 goals! very very poor!

Hamilton trying the halfway line shot as they did in the playoff to put us down. Keeper on the ball this time.

Great bavidge strike and big shout for a penalty. But it all evens itself out at the end of the season.