Yngwie

Yep, that’s where we are just now. And even if a handful of players would ordinarily deserve to be dropped after today’s performance, they’ll all be starting next week because they are still the best or only option we have.

FT 1-4 and Cove should’ve scored a couple more. They were just better than us all over the pitch and our players looked a bit lost and aimless at times.

Lucky to be 1-2 down.

My wife did her bit to help club funds by getting me a home top and a new scarf. Old scarf has served me well but is getting a bit ‘tired’ after almost 30 years of active service and is going into retirement now. That scarf has been present at nearly all of the momentous moments in our history but I guess it’s a case of new scarf for a new era!

Strange how they didn’t sign just him in the first place before his baffling move to Strathspey.

Another late but well deserved win, and it looked like another goal direct from a corner (was at the far end from us so hard to know for sure). We were the better side and dominated the second half in particular, with the wind behind us, but as is often the case we lacked any cutting edge in the final third. When we did have clear chances or tried shooting from outside the box, the finishing was often woeful. And it’s increasingly clear that we need a striker to challenge/replace Billy, sorry. The pluses for us were that the defence did its job, Savage won everything, Mousa made a great save tipping a long distance free kick onto the bar, and in midfield MacKinnon and Allan did a lot of impressive stuff. The fans turned up in good number (200?) and were in great voice from start to finish. Great scenes when we eventually got the breakthrough, and again at FT, and we will all be feeling good tonight.

Our scorer that evening was Billy McKay. It actually went to penalties and we won the shootout.

When a press conference takes place, can someone get a stopwatch out and calculate how many thousands of pounds it is costing the club in BDO’s fees?!

I see the administrators have racked up fees of £252,000 in their first 7 weeks. If only Gardiner and Morrison had tried boosting the club’s non-footballing revenues by setting up a firm of administrators rather than a battery farm!

I think the most relevant factor for keeping the squad together is how much Savage is willing to keep putting in to keep the club running during administration.

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Corey Patterson is in as emergency loan goalkeeper from Forres as Rebilas is injured.

Easy to see how we can catch Annan, in fact I’ll be disappointed if we don’t (unless they go on a decent run, of course). We obviously gave all the other teams a head start due to Ferguson and Administration, but Kellacher is averaging 2 points per game in the league, which is more than the league leaders have managed!

Nearly got the 4 but I’ll settle for 3! 😀

Well Montrose have scored their 2 already, it’s gonna have to be a helluva second half for us to get our 4 ☹️

David Carson has a 3.5 year deal with South Shields, after being released by Livi.

Cove home to Forfar in the next round, but if we had won I think we’d have been ball 19 and home to Clydebank.

Where was their previous ground, in Cove itself?

End of November and we are already out of all 3 cups and have absolutely no chance of winning the league. Worst season ever in that regard, yet we still have so much to play for!

Disappointing result. Love the Scottish Cup and ICT should always be in it beyond the first hurdle as far as I’m concerned. It normally takes a decent team to put us out.

Noticed that Dumbarton’s crowdfund has overtaken ours.

Actually Radio Scotland just mentioned that our game is off due to waterlogged pitch, not snow itself.

Was there any scope to delay kick off by an hour or two? I see they’ve done that at Montrose v Annan to allow a thaw to kick in. Temperature in Dumfries is currently 8C and rising.

Well we now know the answer, they will wait til the team are already there (and have spent thousands on a hotel), and the supporters are most of the way there.

12.15 pitch inspection.