Bring your own curry oot
Cove Rangers are the visitors on Saturday for a League 1 encounter at the Caledonian Stadium with a kick-off time of 3:00pm. Unfortunately curry is off the menu due to lack of interest, let's hope that malaise does not transmit onto the field of play. Inverness will be without Flynn Duffy, Lewis Nicolson and Ethan Cairns. Paul Allan and Charlie Gilmour are back in the squad after injury and Ferguson is still looking for a striker on loan. It's just the ninth meeting between the clubs with Inverness in the driving seat with six wins, one defeat and one draw. The last four games all went the way of the Caley Jags when Cove popped up into the Championship in season 2022/2023. The pick of that games was a 6-1 win for Inverness at home with Billy Mckay notching a hat trick. More of this would be dandy: Happy New Year: Inverness began 2023 with a crushing win against Cove. Two from Billy Mckay and one from Danny Devine countered the opening goal from Jack Sanders. Two quickfire own goals within five minutes of the restart put the hosts 5-1 ahead. Mckay notched his hat-trick from close range as we ran away with the game. Big win to start the year, just what we needed.
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Season so Far
INVERNESS CT: D L D D W D Our season got off to a slow start with a draw at home to Dumbarton followed by a penalty defeat at Annan. Another two draws against Montrose (h) and Kelty Hearts (a) before our first win of the season over Queen of the South at the Caledonian Stadium a fortnight ago. Last weekend we beat Stirling Albion 3-0 to send us into a fourth Rnd tie away to Livingston thanks to a brace from Adam Brooks and a strike from Adam MacKinnon. That was followed up by us throwing away a two goal lead at Alloa to end up with a 2-2 draw six minutes later. A Danny Devine volley and Calum MacLeod with his first goal for the club were the scorers last weekend.
COVE RANGERS: L L D L W W Cove got off to a poor start in the league with defeats at home by Annan (3-1) and Queen of the South away (2-1). A 1-1 draw at home to Dumbarton was followed by another loss away to Stenhousemuir (3-2). However, they are on the up now after winning their last two games oner Montrose (1-0) and a good win at Kelty by 3-1.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | |||||||||||
Table ahead of Saturday's game with Cove | |||||||||||||||||||
1. | Alloa Athletic | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 10 | |||||||||||
2. | Q.O.S. | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | |||||||||||
3. | Kelty Hearts | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | |||||||||||
4. | Montrose | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||||
5. | Stenhousemuir | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | |||||||||||
6. | Inverness CT | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||||
7. | Cove Rangers | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | |||||||||||
8. | Annan Athletic | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 7 | |||||||||||
9. | Dumbarton | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 6 | |||||||||||
10. | Arbroath | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
Fixtures for Saturday 21st September 2024
- Inverness CT v Cove Rangers
- Alloa v Kelty
- Arbroath v Annan Ath
- Dumbarton v Montrose FC
- Stenhousemuir FC v Queen of the Sth
LATEST TEAM NEWS
INVERNESS will be without Flynn Duffy, Lewis Nicolson and Ethan Cairns. Paul Allan and Charlie Gilmour coming back will be a boost to the squad after injury and Ferguson is still looking for a striker on loan. Dunc likes the grass, doesn't he...
Cove Rangers
<<< Cove's starting XI last weekend in that excellent 3-1 win at New Central Park, Kelty. Megginson had given Cove a half time lead but Cunningham squared the game just after an hour. Yule blasted in five minutes before the end and Marshall added the third in stoppage time to complete the job. Mitch Megginson and Blair Yule are always a danger and Captain Fraser Fyvie has been around with Connor Scully part of the fixtures and fittings. Midfielder Findlay Marshall is top scorer with three goals. Megginson and Adam Emslie have scored two apiece. Marshall and winger Emslie joined this season from Aberdeen and are great acquisitions for manager Paul Hartley.
Here's the strike from Blair Yule at Kelty. Boom!
A goal which Yule never tire of watching
— SPFL (@spfl) September 17, 2024@CoveRangersFC's number 8⃣ with a scorcher in Fife! pic.twitter.com/shwd0YtOA5
We failed to score at Kelty and are once again one of the lowest scoring teams in the league with the best defensive record. Nothing changes really. Cove are one of the high scorers but have one of the worst defensive records thus far. However, we need to be aware of the threat from Megginson and Yule.
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