DoofersDad

We are probably feeling a little disappointed not to get all 3 points today, but our recent good form makes it easy to forget what a hugely difficult and challenging season it has been for the club. Today's results mean that we are now mathematically safe from relegation. Instead, we are now very much in the mix for the promotion play-offs and have a cup match to look forward too after having deservedly beaten our Premiership neighbours. Anything more than what has been achieved already will be a real bonus. Huge congratulations to all at the club who have made this possible.

We were 2nd best for much of that but 4 terrific strikes was the difference. Credit to Morton though, they kept going to the end and provided a greater threat than last Friday's opponents. They had a good bit more of the possession and put us under a lot of pressure as the corner count demonstrates. Our back line played pretty well, but at times it was back to the wall stuff. A lot has been said about Allan, but tonight he looked some way short of match fit. We suddenly looked a lot more threatening when Sutherland replaced him. A win against Queen of the South at the weekend or both Arbroath and Morton losing would make us mathematically safe from the drop - not that we will be worrying about that! We are definitely the form team at the moment, so things are looking pretty bright.

Another great goal!

Wow Fabulous from Sutherland and Todorov

We are very much 2nd best this half. Hanging on.

Great goal from Todorov

Bizarre but we’ll take it

Dan Mackay should have scored. Really poor

But with the wee caveat that our 2nd came from a County set play!

Celtic's 3-0 defeat of Falkirk is no surprise but according to the BBC they had 42 shots on goal to Falkirk's 0. That must in itself be some kind of record. I'll be happy to avoid Celtic till the final.

The league sides edged them at the end. That was probably due simply to lack of match fitness. Similarly, Morton equalised in extra time against East Fife and went on to win in Extra Time whilst Dundee Utd got a winner against Partick Thistle in injury time. Nearly lots of upsets, but in the end, not very many.

Cove Rangers 🙂

Just wondering if County have achieved another first here. Are they the first Premiership side ever to have been dumped out of the Scottish Cup whilst no less that 3 Highland League sides remain in it?

Yes, I was rather looking forward to his interview. He's not usually so camera shy.

That was a terrific performance all round. The work rate was fantastic. County were trying to play the ball out from the back, as is Yogi's style, but despite some fairly crisp passing, they constantly got closed down and resorted to the long ball. Three real quality finishes for the goals but helped by some pretty poor defending. Toddy was given so much space for the first goal that he had time to recover from a slip before rifling the ball home. In the league we've not been scoring much, but those strikes must give confidence to the lads. It is as well that games are decided on the number of goals scored and not how often you can hit the ball against the top of the stand. If it was, I think we would have lost 4-2!

One you might have missed. Billy Mckay scored for County tonight in the Scottish Cup.

This was a huge win for us today. At the start of the season the number 1 objective must simply have been survival as a club and then maintaining our position in the Championship. It has been a difficult season in so many ways, but this run of 10 points from 4 games means that a win away at Morton in the next league game should dispel any lingering concerns of relegation. We've looked pretty nervy at times in these last few games, but the hard graft has taken us to a position where we've really nothing to lose. It's been a great effort. Time now to do our neighbours OTB a good turn and knock them out of the cup so that they can focus on their relegation battle.

10 points in 4 games but we've only scored 3 goals in those games. We have not been creating much at all, but in the brief time Scott was on the pitch, he demonstrated some of the quality and vision we have been lacking. We have some tough games ahead and Scott may just have what it takes to get us into the playoffs at the end of the season.

Well, that was as poor as I've seen us play, but a win is a win. The conditions were a great leveller but Buckie showed far more desire than us across the park and more quality in the final third. We will need to play far better to beat Arbroath on Saturday in what is a really important game if we want to keep clear of the relegation zone.

Very blustery conditions and a bobbly pitch make it difficult to play good football. Buckie look dangerous from balls into the box. We need an early goal into the 2nd half to make things a little more comfortable.

We look dreadful at the back

Stream looks OK to me.

Look on the bright side. At least we don't have to play Alloa again!

No. I think it's a reaction from the lads to me predicting in Gringo's NPL that we would lose these last two games!

As long as we score more goals than the opposition, I don't care who scores. Well done for the team for a couple of great wins.