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7 pointsThe official Twitter account described this, on 88 mins, as 'one of the most even games of the season'. Nice to be positive, but I really can't agree. In common with most posters on here, I thought we were clearly second best for all but the first 10 mins and the last 10-15, when Hibs were clearly tiring. Admittedly, Hibs closed us down well, but too often our players seemed reluctant or scared to make runs that would allow the ball to go forward on the deck, which meant that the tactic for much of the game seemed to be to pass the ball horizontally in our own half umpteen times before hoofing it forward to Storey, whose attempts to play the Hibs offside trap were pretty lamentable. The way this ended up inviting play back onto us didn't do players like Devine and even Tansey any favours, and I'm quite relieved that we ended the game with 11 players, as we committed a lot of niggly fouls and had a referee who was willing stop the game for almost anything. When Horner came on, I said to a few people that I thought he might present a threat going forward, although he wouldn't do anything for our stability at the back, and so it proved. I'd really like to see what he could do wide right in a traditional 4-4-2 with Raven behind him, but I don't imagine we'll see that this season. Funnily enough, for all that negativity, I do have a hunch that we'll make the semi-final now, but everyone who has said that we are likely to be fighting against relegation for the rest of the season is correct, imho - that's now three games in a row that I've watched us look second best for three-quarters of a match and create next to nothing in terms of real threat, and that's pretty unsustainable in terms of getting points on the board. Hopefully we now go and put three past St Johnstone on Wednesday and make me look like a total dick. Great support for us today, btw, and good crack in the Iona beforehand. Shame it's a school night.7 points
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5 pointsnope. Horner chased the lost cause, kept it in, and crossed it for Storey to setup for Mutombo ... 1-15 points
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3 pointsAgree whole-heartedly with RiG. That was embarrassing for long periods today. When Hibs scored, I was almost relieved that football was winning the day - whatever we were playing, it wasn't football. One shot on target ffs?! We are simply the most boring outfit to watch. Possession for possession's sake is tedious and ultimately dangerous. Today's tactics seemed to be a horrible mix of keep the ball at the back until the Hibs defence was organised and then thump it long for Roberts or Storey to be caught offside! Don't get me wrong - delighted to be in the draw, but Hibs were mugged - we played well for 10 min at the start and 5 min around our goal. Otherwise, without Draper's energy we would have been thrashed. This style of football is doing my head in! Football is about creating chances and scoring goals and we do neither. One thing is for certain - employ those tactics in a relegation dogfight and we're gone. Get it sorted.3 points
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3 pointsOnly problem with what you have just stated is that we scored fro a 10 pass move!3 points
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2 pointsOh, yes. Yes indeed. Like everyone else, disappointed, but if we need a replay to dispose of Stirling Albion, not surprising that we need the same with Hibs. Hopefully they'll either be depressed, or have overcelebrated, after the LC Final when the replay comes around. Hopefully we can then dodge the Billy McKay banana-skin, and in the final face an ordinary Celtic team (who will surely dump the taxdodgers in the lesser semi-final) and make up for the recent loss at Celtic Park.2 points
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2 pointsThought Miles Storey was lucky to stay on the park. He flicked his leg at the defender then confronted him as if he was going to nut him. He needs to stop the petty fouling and get back to scoring goals.2 points
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Thought Celtic and Rangers would have been apart so hoping for them to meet in the final they must have heated the wrong ball before the draw2 points
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2 pointsDid anyone else briefly go "Aaaargh!" when Mutombo took a touch instead of taking it first time?2 points
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2 pointsDreadful from Inverness today. That 3 at the back did not suit us especially with Tremarco charging out at every opportunity to go after the ball. Defensively we were poor as exemplified by that free kick in the first half when we didn't even bother to mark Mcgeouch. How Hibs never scored from that I don't know. As with recent games we had started not too bad but quickly regressed into our now familiar pass it sideways, don't go forward style which is tedious to watch. Great play from Hibs to open the scoring but I can't help but feel that, having quickly watched the game back, that we should have been tracking Keatings. It looked like Tansey just ran away from him having followed him into the box. It wasn't until Horner came on and he decided to try and overlap a team mate to try and give us a wee bit more drive down the flanks that we came back into it. Horner did really well to get to the ball and dig out a cross, lovely touch from Roberts to lay it off to Mutumbo who seemed to take an eternity to get his shot away. Great scenes in the Inverness end when that went in. Scarcely deserved but still celebrated like it won us the cup. Storey should have scored with his chance not long after but it was a poor scuffed effort. Pleased to somehow be in the competition but I am very concerned about how the team is playing right now. After a bright start we were shambolic for the next 60 minutes. Only a rare piece of direct, pacey attacking play got us back in it and that's maybe a message for Hughes given his apparent love for this pedestrian style of football which is at times dire to watch. Thought we had an excellent away support down for the game. Meant to be around 800 - 900 which was far in excess what I thought we would have taken. Hopefully the replay is on TV as there's no way I'll get up for it. Shout out to for Crawford Allan who was garbage and the main stand linesman who somehow missed a Hibs player leathering Roberts with a kick in the second half. Some laughable decisions in that game. Also getting pretty fed up with some of the antics of our players. I'm probably blinkered but I don't remember seeing us being so niggly as we have been in recent weeks and throwing ourselves to the floor at times. Don't like seeing that from ICT.2 points
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2 pointsI'm definitely going to the replay not least so that I don't have to listen to this biased rubbish from the commentary team. When Hibs got their goal they all cheered and laughed, but when Inverness got their goal there was silence. Come no Caley Thistle, show them why you are the cup holders.2 points
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2 pointsBeen coming since minute 10. I have no idea why our esteemed manager hasn't switched formation or personnel, we're being run ragged. We're like a lower league team trying to kick a higher league team off the park.2 points
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1 pointBiggest mistake today was tactically. Yogi started with a 3-5-2 shape that looked to cut out playing through the midfield. This resulted in passing between the back three plus keeper before aiming long passes into the channels for Storey and Roberts to chase, hold up and allow the 'advanced' midfielders to get forward and support. Although this worked well for the first 10 minutes, winning several corners, it quickly went wrong as Hibs pressed us high up the pitch and stopped our back three having any kind of out ball. I have only ever seen us play this way once, away vs Partick Thistle last season where it didn't work, and it certainly didn't work today. Tactic 1 (3-5-2): Fon Williams Warren Devine Tremarco Tansey Vigurs Polworth Draper Williams Roberts Storey Worryingly, it took Yogi 70 minutes until he recognised change was needed. Credit where credit is due though, the subs changed the game for us and we looked much better thereafter. We moved to our favoured 4-2-3-1 and suddenly the defence had more time on the ball and could pick out shorter passes and play through Tansey and Draper. For example, Horner took a Hibs player away, creating room for Warren to move into who played a good pass into Mutombo in the build up to our goal. Tactic 2 (4-2-3-1): Fon Williams Horner Warren Devine Tremarco Tansey Draper Storey Mutombo Williams Roberts In my view, we're very fortunate to still be in the cup but we'll take it. Theres a great chance for another cup final but Yogi needs to find a system that gets us looking more dangerous without opening up at the back too much. For me, Storey isn't the centre forward that we can use in a 4-2-3-1 and the sooner we get Fisher back fit, the better.1 point
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1 pointI agree with much of what's been said on this thread. Firstly, it's only fair to give the manager credit for a timely and effective double substitution. Within minutes of being brought on the substitutes combined to score what was a cracking goal. However, I am not sure that Yogi deserves too much more credit for today's largely dire and, sadly recently typical, ineffective performance, The goal apart, our only other notable contributions to the game were Fon William's terrific double(or was it triple) save after the avoidable stramash in our six yard box and then his even better effort at tipping Stokes's goal bound effort onto the post. That apart we are very fortunate to be still in the Cup. Even the best managers make tactical errors, the trouble with Yogi is that he doesn't seem to learn from his. He made precisely the same mistake as he made at Ibrox in the League Cup last season in treating what he alone perceives to be a 'big' lower league team with far too much respect and, had Hibs had a wee bit more fortune in front of goal Mutombo's effort would have been a mere consolation. Hibs are a lower league team, they had been on a horrendous run of form haemorrhaging goals yet until our equaliser had not once tested their 'keeper. Once again, when we were forced to be more positive and direct and only then we looked dangerous and could even have nicked it in the end but that would have been grossly unfair on Hibs. Even with our injuries we have the players to stay in the Premiership and perhaps even sneak into the top six and give ourselves a fighting chance of retaining our trophy. On the other hand, if we continue to play as we did for 70 minutes of this match relegation is a distinct possibility and we have no chance of progressing further in the Cup.1 point
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1 pointOut of jail indeed, What gets to me is with this obsession with possession is that when we gets two thirds up the pitch with it no one has a clue what to do next. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the changing room. Possession is fine if you have a plan when you get into the danger area but we seem to be clueless and iam going to scream the next time we get into the opposition box and another blxxdy pass is made. A good example of this was Liam Polworth early on, shoot for fxxxks sake!!!!!! This leads to my next point, I am sure we have a goalkeeping coach and ones who specialise in defence but have we got a striking coach I ask myself........... I give up, thats two goals in four games and I have a feeling that the points we need for safety are going to be very hard earned indeed. And finally, we must not surrender our place in this league as we have got out of jail once when we dropped down and we are dreaming if we ever think this will happen again should we ever be relegated. Roll your body sleeves up boys and sort it out!1 point
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1 pointThe absolute nadir was when they started gloating over the `extraordinary` Leanne Dempster. What a load of tosh.1 point
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1 pointOur first instinct always seems to be pass backwards and we keep gifting the opposition opportunities. Fair enough if we had players capable of possession football, but we don't, and that's why they're playing for us and not at a much higher level. When we play more direct we look a far better team, as proved with the equaliser.1 point
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1 pointStill no changes. I don't even know what system we're supposed to be playing.1 point
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1 pointWe couldn't score in a you know what, I am off to watch the tennis1 point
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The defence of our trophy. Inverness continue the defence of their trophy at Easter Road in a 2:00pm kick off on Sunday in the quarter finals of the William Hill Scottish Cup. This will be the last quarter final to be played and we already know the outcome of the Saturday cup games. The Rangers thumped Dundee 4-0 in the early game and ten man Dundee United knocked Ross County out as Billy Mckay scored the winner in a thrilling 2-3 win at Dingwall. Celtic take on Morton in Sundays early kick off and the Cappielow club will be hoping for a repeat of the league Cup result from three years ago when they put Celtic out after extra-time. Hibs have won the Scottish Cup twice. That in itself is not unusual, but their last triumph in this competition was back in 1902 when they defeated Celtic 1-0 at Celtic Park in front of 16,000 fans. That's 114 years and counting. Incidentally, Inverness Caledonian beat Stranraer 6-1 in the first round that same year before going down 5-1 at Ibrox against Rangers. Hibs have reached the Quarter Finals by beating Raith Rovers 2-0 away from home and then coming back from the dead to draw 2-2 at Tynecastle. In the replay, Hibs went through thanks to a Jason Cummings strike. However their top scorer will miss the tie against us as he is suspended after being red carded Inverness made it here after needing a replay to dispose of Stirling Albion 2-0. Andrea Mutombo scoring the goal of the round in that replay. Jordan Roberts was the match winner as he replicated Mutombo's feat by scoring a spectacular winner at Fir Park against Motherwell in a 1-2 victory. Hibs are coming into this game off the back of three defeats in a row in the Championship and have now slipped down to third in the division as these results take their toll. Morton, Dumbarton and Queen of the South were the teams that beat the Hibees and Falkirk are now above them in the league. Inverness have little to shout about. We have slumped to ninth in the Premiership after a series of frustratingly grim performances and gifting goals like nobodies business. It's four games since we won, beating Aberdeen 3-1 with a stirring performance, but erratic form, injuries and suspensions have curbed our desire to entertain and we now find ourselves staring at the heart of the relegation battle. Defeat at Tynecastle has thrown our season into despair and just when we thought our injury predicament was getting better, we had nine players out receiving treatment and Ross Draper suspended. Yogi has been proclaiming the Hibernian side this week and despite criticism from some fans regarding his comments I tend to agree that Hibs are a miss to the Premiership. If nothing else, it's a great day out in Leith and one of the better grounds in Scotland. It's the usual posturing prior to games and bigging up Hibs will help to make them more complacent. I'm sure Yogi will be looking to end their cup run despite his history with the Easter Road club. It's all part of the game. Alan Stubbs will be without a trio of suspended players. Jason Cummings, Paul Hanlon and Marvin Bartley. John Hughes will have Ross Draper back after his suspension and the good new continues with Josh Meekings and James Vincent likely to be added to the squad as they recover from injury. Andrea Mutombo is a doubt but Richie Foran, Aaron Doran, Alex Fisher, David Raven, Nat Wedderburn and Dean Brill are all out. tm4tj Prediction:- I'm taking Inverness to get into the semi-final, but it might take a replay to sort this one out. Our wafer thin squad has been exposed recently, but it's great to have Draper back and with Meekings and Vincent set to return things are looking up. Scoring goals is a problem and Miles Storey and Jordan Roberts will be the men asked to do just that. Hibs will miss the tenacity of Cummings up front, but in John McGinn they have one of the most talented players in Scotland. Anthony Stokes is another who will provide a challenge for any defence and he knows the way to goal. I'm banking on our midfield holding the key to our success here and our passing game to frustrate Hibs and their big support, I'm just not sure who will be scoring the goals. Replay up North and Inverness to progress.1 point -
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Cup holders too, just in case anyone has forgotten.1 point
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1 pointAhhh.....Inverness Caley Thistle - Inverness Castle. That's quite clever actually.1 point
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1 pointFor obscurity that one is surely straight out of the "tall ships passing behind Tomnahurich" stable! I am minded of a variation on a famous photo caption from a 1993 issue of LSM (the Caley fanzine) - "Right lads, what to you want do do? Keep trying to be the greatest Highland League team in history or build a Scottish Cupwinning club down the dump with Fiona Larg?" The irony of the original caption lingers on!1 point
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1 pointInteresting to hear quite a few of the supporters down at yesterday's game saying that we deserved to win, better team and so on. Well both the "sportscenes" commentator and "open all mikes" commentator seemed to think that Motherwell should have been the team to score and that they were the better side! Whenever I listen to either, I can't help but think that the commentators are looking for reasons to slag us off! Is it just me or does anyone else think this?1 point
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0 points..........and what a difference the aforementioned player made when he came on. I think he should have been on much earlier. Vigurs is the one who is pissing me off just now . He was a real prima donna today; on more than one occasion stopping, putting his foot on the ball, pretending he had all the time in the world to pick out a pass and before he knew it..........he had been dispossessed by a laughing Hibs player. I think that he thinks he is better than he is . i have news for you boy..........you're not! Roll your sleeves up and lets see you play some incisive, creative football We know you can do it0 points
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-1 pointsVery lucky to get a replay from that but i'll take it. Cup dream is still alive for another 10days yet. Most concerning thing for me was yet another meek insipid performance. We have so little creativity and at times it looks as though the players are scared to go forward and try something.-1 points
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-1 pointsPathetic performance! bullied all over the park and shambolic defending, didn't deserve a replay. Becoming very concerned we'll be in a relegation battle.-1 points
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-1 pointsWhy was Polworth playing in the full back position rather than Horner he had an absolute disaster of a game. After bossing the 1st 10 mins went missing to give what is by far the worst performance I have seen for a long time carry on like this and we will be in deep relegation trouble. only after Hibs scored die we pick it up a bit and what an improvement when Horner came on. I gladly take the draw but in Honesty Hibs were robbed and deserved to be in the semi final draw-1 points
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