Yngwie

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to be delighted at only being 1-0 down at HT! Looked somewhat out of our depth initially, but had a much better 2nd half and competed well. I fear only scoring 1 v Haiti will be our downfall in terms of qualifying, but you never know.

Well it’s a much needed winning start for us, but that second half was brutal and Haiti did not deserve to lose.

Switched on ITV’s coverage for the Swi-Qat match this evening. The good news is that an ex-manager of ICT is one of the panel. The bad news is it’s Big Dunc.

I see they have brought in Wilson Isidor after finding out his ancestry made him eligible. He was Sunderland’s top scorer in 24/25 and is very fast.

Or Costa Rica. The public holiday for the day after the game could easily become a day of national mourning.

Dull and pretty uneventful. PSG deserved to edge it but created hardly anything and looked nothing special in this showpiece match.

No surprise at all that we are interested in him, but he has supposedly had a (disappointing) 2 year offer from Aberdeen and it’s not easy to see how our offer could be better. Hope we get him though, even past his best he is still a good player for this level.

Another huge penalty call tonight which hands Celtic the advantage. I think VAR and then the ref have made an assumption that the ball must have hit the defender’s hand, but the footage shows no real evidence of a clear and obvious error.

I’d expect that Naysmith will take the best to Ayr.

I’m sure some of you will know that a Scotland fan has been walking across the USA. I see that in a town in Indiana he met a guy with a huge ICT tattoo on his chest! Hopefully link to the video works. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1923414121710772/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e

Presumably someone somewhere has a similar stage proclaiming Stenhousemuir as winners?

I’m reminded of the time years ago when Brentford (the Bees) for promoted and their rivals got relegated, resulting in the brilliant chant “Bees up, Fulham down”, to the tune of Knees Up Mother Brown!

What an amazing 24 hours that was, starting with County getting relegated 20 minutes after their fans were chanting “we are staying up”.

First time we’ve won this league I think. We’ve now won 3 of the 4 leagues, so just one more needed to complete the set.

Gutted not to be there, been on a car journey all after for a family occasion so had to make do with Radio Scotland’s very disappointing coverage. They only went to our game for goals and the penalty and the reporter wasn’t very good. 3 separate tiInes, including the full time score, she said it was 2-2. Was very confusing!

Phew, we’ve done it!

I just loved hearing the commentator confirm “Back to back relegations for Ross County” 😀

I remain to be convinced that Munro is a good enough keeper for us, but he did well yesterday. The save he made to keep it 1-0 was impressive enough at the time but even better when I see it now on the highlights.

Who was it who lost his man for the EF goal?

Yesterday was our best chance of getting promotion and we blew it. Whilst Stenny will be facing a team with nothing to play for on Saturday, we have horrible opponents in Hamilton, who are really in 3rd place on 55 points but are fighting to avoid relegation.

Such a frustrating game to watch. We offered nothing going forward for the first hour or so, then when we made attacking changes and adopted an attacking mentality (out of necessity) we looked decent. Thank goodness for Billy and his great finish. I don’t think our other attackers would even have attempted that shot, it would have been passed sideways and then backwards when they couldn’t find an opening.

I’ve been to New Bayview a few times with my daughter’s team as it was often used for cup finals, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen ICT there! Couldn’t go when we were there earlier this season. I recall about 25 years ago setting off to Methil from Jedburgh where I was staying at Christmas, but soon hit a bad blizzard and turned back. We lost anyway, 3-1 or 3-2.

Hard to tell from that video how it went in, and this ‘spot the ball’ pic from P&J doesn’t shed much more light. Keeper’s positioning looks questionable!

Were it not for the 5 point deduction, we would have become league champions yesterday. (That’s assuming of course that everything this season turned out the same as it would have if we did not have the deduction!)

Great day for us! Yes we had an easier fixture than Stenny, but we still had to get the win. Two games left, one win or 2 draws makes us champions, but let’s win it at East Fife please.