Everything posted by RiG
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Highlight of the week?
I'd now like to submit another choice for this poll: Ian Vigurs' puss after that goal (Credit to CaleyJags.com - http://www.caleyjags.com/pa/g1213/121201_RossCounty/index.html)!
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Highlight of the week?
Absolutely, unequivocally without doubt this:
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Ross County -V- ICT
What an incredible game. The whole day was brilliant and I am still buzzing from it. I can imagine County fans will be feeling sick about losing such a late goal but there is very much a "never say die" attitude about this ICT team again. We have ground out results and fought back when previously we would just crumble and let the opposition run riot (Motherwell excepted of course!) Great pre match banter on the train with ICT and Staggies fans mixing and engaging in some harmless banter. This seemed to run over into the Mallard with a good chorus of songs being belted at the opposition fans from either side of the pub. Quite a squash in that new stand but it seemed to generate a fantastic atmosphere throughout the game. I didn't really hear much from the Jailend but you can definitely hear the supporters on the TV so hopefully the atmosphere came across well. I thought the first half was largely poor, lit up by that incredible strike from McKay. Very poor defending from a County point of view but take nothing away from the finish which was top class and will only serve to draw more attention to the lad with a number of clubs supposedly interested. County did have an effort scrambled off the line it looked like which led to a rapid ICT counter attack with McKay unable to force the ball home. Having watched the highlights again I didn't realise what a disgusting challenge Tokely had put in on Doran as he was about to shot. Disgraceful lunge onto his ankle. Always thought he was a thug... You could see that, when County emerged at the start of the second half, they had had a rocket up their backsides from Adams. They were all over ICT with some really direct and aggressive play. We were struggling to contain them and what a fantastic strike from Quinn to level things up. As soon as the ball left his foot you could see it was going in. A fantastic strike. I dashed off for a whizz so I missed the Foran goal but having seen it on TV he was offside but was also being pulled all over the place by Tokely. Had he not been getting held by the fouling mutant then he might have been able to get out of the way. Adams seems to miss this when talking about the goal for some reason. Definitely a stroke of luck for ICT all the same. Definite stroke of luck for County with Vigurs goal. Horrendous deflection off Raven that sent it looping over Reguero and into the net. Vigurs with the classic GIRUY celebration which riled some of the ICT fans but I must admit I would do the exact same if I was a player and I love it when our guys do it to wind up the opposition. Awful defending for what everyone thought was the winner. Blatant cheating by Vigurs to win the free kick but again ICT didn't cover themselves in glory defensively. We had a great angle behind the goal to see the ball being whipped in and it didn't look like the wall was properly set up at any point by Reguero and we should really have had a man on the back post for balls that come in as this one did. Cue mad scenes from the home fans as they thought they had won it only for Tudor Jones to rattle in a 40 yard effort (Rankin squiggler anyone?) that had Brown completely bamboozled. From the corner someone scored. Maybe Foran, maybe Roberts. Who knows but the away end exploded as if we had won the Cup! Great to see, as The Scarf says, a few of our players rub Vigurs face in it after his premature celebrations earlier. Ever funnier was Adams at the final whistle and he resultant gurn in the post match interview The man is clearly a very spoilt little child who is an awfully sore loser (or in this case, drawer). The guy moans about the timing of the ICT third goal but seems oblivious to the fact that if, as he claims, there was only 92 minutes to be played, then County wouldn't have had time to score their third goal. All in all I thought the game was low on quality for the most part but off the charts in terms of entertainment and drama. I can't see there being another Derby game like that with as much entertainment. Others have already made comparisons to other 3 - 3 games with late goals in Inverness. I mind Wyness grabbing a couple of late strikes to salvage a draw and there was also one where County were 3 - 0 down (I think). This game possibly goes ahead of both of them such were the lateness of some of the strikes that saw one team snatch victory from the jaws of defeat only to get pegged back again and draw the game. After the match there was some great banter in the pub and all the County fans we met were great sports over the result. I can barely remember the train back to Inverness and I was feeling slightly tender this morning when I woke up. Looking forward to seeing the photos on CaleyJags.com whenever they go up. Sadly there's no way I can get to the replay due to work commitments so I am hoping that the match is on TV. After the first 93 minutes (not 92 Derek!) the BBC or Sky would be stupid not to look at screening this match.
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crowd v county
County have shown this week they are full of lies when it comes to crowd numbers, ticket sales etc. I wouldn't believe a word they say about attendances.
- Ross County -V- ICT
- Ross County -V- ICT
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Best away supporters yet!
#CaleyAway
- Ross County -V- ICT
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1038 train service to Dingwall
They would need to do a hell of a lot more than that. It's not as simple as you may wish to make it out. The easiest option of course is to strengthen the trains already in service but that is down to Scotrail. After that, any proposed additional services would need to be run through Network Rail, consult with other train operating companies and other carriages brought in from elsewhere on given that Scotrail don't own the trains they run and quite a few are already out of service or are in use elsewhere and may not be available for immediate use. Well done on the childish retort there by the way.
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1038 train service to Dingwall
How exactly could the club have done that Dougal?
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Tokely brands booing a disgrace
Then Marty comes along and starts 'boonigging'.
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Cup game Televised
And no Craig Burely either!
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Tokely brands booing a disgrace
Don't think that's Tokely TBH.
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1038 train service to Dingwall
If someone has booked ahead of travel they'll more than likely have a seat reserved as well but that doesn't mean that on the day the train will have those reservations all set out.
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Tokely brands booing a disgrace
Welcomed back? For goodness sake he plays for our rivals now. He is for all accounts and purposes the enemy now.
- Billy McKay
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Aberdeen -V- ICT
That was definitely well received. I've been to Pittodrie with a Hibs supporting pal and when we stood up to celebrate a Hibs goal we were threatened with ejection. Utterly bizarre but it's good to see that they were much more supporter friendly on Tuesday night.
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Are We Really Favourites?
Great bit of reverse psychology by Adams. Will really motivate his players. And it's certainly better than punching them in the face like he would normally do.
- Billy McKay
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Aberdeen -V- ICT
What mad man goes to ASV at that time of day? It will be heaving!
- Can We Win The League?
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Aberdeen -V- ICT
Where to start with that!? Horrible first half. Both teams were utterly garbage. I don't think there was much to moan about with regards to our goal. Looked like Foran won the ball fairly and we were still inside our own half when we started to break towards the Aberdeen goal. Smashing ball in by Doran and tucked away by Mckay. We shot ourselves in the foot just before half time when slack play between Raven and Doran gifted a throw in to Aberdeen and we didn't defend it properly thereafter. Hayes eventually scuttled goalwards and fired the ball across the goal where Magennis smashed the ball into the goal. Second half started with Aberdeen on top and Magennis scored a fantastic second goal. With his back to goal he took a pass from midfield and turned it round the ICT defender (Warren I think) and spun him before racing in on goal. I expected him to miss to be honest but he dinked it over Regeuro to put Aberdeen ahead. After this Aberdeen were on top although I didn't feel they created really good chances despite pinning us back. Warren got our equaliser from a corner and suddenly ICT went back on top. We were hitting Aberdeen on the counter and Shinnie, Foran, Doran and Mckay were causing all sorts of problems for Aberdeen. We should have scored at least one goal before Mckay grabbed the third. I've no idea what happened. I just saw the ball trundle goal wards and celebrated the result. Thanks go to Craig Brown who decided not to play with a midfield for most of the second half which allowed us to gain a foothold on the game again. Plenty of talking points from this game. Can't wait to see the highlights!
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Aberdeen -V- ICT
- Celtic -V- ICT
To be fair, commentators on Celtic TV are hardly likely to be neutral.- Aberdeen Roll Call
This is my "home" game so aye I'll be there. - Celtic -V- ICT
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