On the Telly...
Not sure if it's a good thing that we are on the telly on Friday night for all to see given our recent tepid performances, but we travel to Dumfries to take on Queen of the South at Palmerston for a 19:45 kick-off. Unfortunately any confidence we built up over the first nine games has dissipated in the Autumn mist and our form is now on a par with Queens who are second bottom of the table. Only Ayr united are worse over the last five games, and we failed to beat them as well.
Our demise has been excruciatingly rapid over the last few weeks where we have gone from five points ahead to four points and two places behind leaders Kilmarnock in the space of five games where we have only managed to accumulate three points out of a possible fifteen with zero wins. This is certainly not the form of a team looking for at least a play-off place, unless of course it's at the wrong end of the table.
| Venue - Head2Head | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Agst | + / - |
| Home | 20 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 24 | +12 |
| Away | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 19 | +12 |
| Neutral | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 38 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 67 | 43 | +24 |
| First Competitive Meeting |
| Dec 17th, 1994 | Scottish Cup (Rd 1) | (H) | 1 - 2 |
| Most Recent Competitive Meeting |
| Sep 25th, 2021 | League (Championship) | (H) | 2 - 1 |
| Last 10 Competitive Meetings |
 2 - 1 (H) |
 1 - 1 (A) |
 0 - 1 (H) |
3 - 0 (A) |
3 - 1 (H) |
2 - 0 (A) |
2 - 0 (H) |
2 - 0 (A) |
1 - 2 (H) |
3 - 3 (A) |
Saturday Fixtures
Dunfermline v Ayr United
Kilmarnock v Arbroath
Partick v Accies
Rovers v Morton
| Pld | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | Pts | ||
| 1. | Kilmarnock | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 29 |
| 2. | Raith Rovers | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 26 |
| 3. | Inverness CT | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 25 |
| 4. | Partick Thistle | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 24 |
| 5. | Arbroath | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 24 |
| 6. | Ayr United | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 23 | -10 | 13 |
| 7. | Hamilton Academical | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 28 | -15 | 13 |
| 8. | Morton | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -7 | 12 |
| 9. | Queen of the South | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 21 | -9 | 12 |
| 10. | Dunfermline | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 24 | -12 | 10 |
The first meeting this season ended in a narrow 2-1 victory for Inverness in the Highlands after goals from Welsh and Gardyne overcame Queens who scored through Lee Connelly. Last time in Dumfries it ended all square at 1-1. Both sides have three draws and two defeats in their last five championship games.
Latest Team News
Must be a copy'n' paste on the official preview as that's all we get these days. “There’s always a couple of little niggles, I don’t want to give anything away with it being live on TV. We’ve given them right up until the last minute but apart from that I’ve got a healthy squad to choose from.” What that probably means is that we have four or five missing, and the usual 'made of rice paper' players injured again and a four man bench. Good to see Carson back last week, let's hope he has no reaction from his first game in weeks and hopefully maybe some news about Shane Sutherland.
QOTS (away v Arbroath 1-1): Brynn, McKay, Nditi, Debayo, Johnston, McGrory, Gibson, Liddle (Todd 78′), Paton, Connelly (Roy 58′), Cameron
Same old story from Dodds <<yawn>>
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