Snafu

13 hours ago, CaleyTennis said:

Win this and we'll go up to 5th only 2 behind QOS with games in hand over them. 

Think it's fair to say that results went in our favour tod apart from QOS beating Dunfermline. 

 

A 2nd place finish is still achievable, not just the playoffs.

All the games yesterday were kind to us.

The team have to make those games in hand count though.

4 hours ago, lightlamp2 said:

Reputation with whom? Its gone up with the likes of hearts and other afflicted clubs. But most in the central belt never liked us anyway. They hated the journeys up north and i know plenty of other clubs fans who were happy to see the back of us when we were relegated.

Quite happy for them to hate the journeys up here and hate the return journeys even more.

Do we hate traveling down to play them, of course we don't. That's all that matters.

10 hours ago, Row S said:

I really fear that our squad is too threadbare, especially in defence, to be able to sustain the challenge for promotion. Even if we did make it to the play off with second bottom in the Premier we may be embarrassed. 

We did alright against top 6 Livingston. The team is capable of achieving promotion through the playoffs even with a makeshift central defence.

From Tuesday night we have 4 games in 11 days, if we come out of these games without dropping to many points and still in 2nd we should be within a hair width of confirming the team in the playoffs while also getting closer to last season's points tally.

1 hour ago, Alan Simpson said:

But still a lot of our fans weren't happy then either the style of play was 2 boring remember hoping they're loving our more "direct" style these days eh ! 

Yeah remember that as well, top of the league and never happy. 0-0 at home to Motherwell at 25 minutes and the complaints from the Main Stand are in full flow. Could have been to do with not knowing what do when teams sat back when playing us at home as we were back then set up very much as counter attacking team which could pull teams apart with pace. Our best performances more often occurred away from Inverness. For a year and a half before Butcher left we were playing the best most attractive football ever seen at the Caledonian Stadium, it was a joy to watch.

Last season this could have easily become one of the many goalless draws, so picking up a further two points in a game which we didn't deserve to win on the balance of play is fortunate and leaves us only 2 points off the top. Maybe it was more about everything going wrong for The Pars than our luck but its an extra two points we could be very grateful for end of season.

Nice win in the league

but did they not beat Nairn County in the North of Scotland Cup earlier in the season?

5 hours ago, AncientMariner said:

Inverness "fans," when they realise they won't be able to shout abuse at Liam anymore.

No doubt the boo-boys will start picking on someone else.

I would struggle to call these people supporters because they quite clearly aren't by definition of the word, .....''fans'' maybe even not that.

McHattie a worse signing than what we already have?

Raith Rovers fans in their relegation season never rated him.

We were playing 4-4-2 at the start of the season and it was chronic.

Lets keep 4-4-2 in the 90's and 00's where it belongs.

Even though we didn't play 4-4-2 under either Pele or Butcher

We need attacking midfielders

wtf is this, 3 points for a what?

Championship title still on.

3 hours ago, forresjags said:

Unforgivable that the squad has been allowed to be cut to the bone. Good idea to have quality over quantity but WTF is going on when we can only muster 13 first team players . No way for a full time club to be run, who allegedly have ambitions to return to the top tier.

 

 

There was a few times when in the top tier we even struggled to muster even 13 fully fit players. However now the opportunity is there for the youngsters to stake a claim for the first team.

A weekend when we didn't play a good weekend??

I'd rather we had taken the three points yesterday and had the free weekend knowing that some of our rivals would drop points.

A game in hand against the league leaders is not an advantage over our rivals, we don't have the points in the bag. When you consider that everyone below us bar the Pars gained on us and two of the teams above pulled further away it is not that good nor comfortable.

Shambles

Doesn't encourage the few that did travel to travel a distance during the week again, especially at this time of year.

Scottish football doesn't give a jot about the what keeps it breathing, the fans

Why if a match is in doubt due to weather conditions especially if one set of fans have a five/six hour journey to reach the ground can't SFA officials make a decision on whether a game is to take place much earlier similarly like they would before a match during the weekend, this is just tin pot amateur level here.

We would have won that anyway.

First of all I was very impressed with Roddy MacGregor when he came on. His run into the box and going straight past two City defenders if they weren't there to set up Doran for the sixth was outstanding and a way of opening up defences we don't see with the regulars. With MacGregor we have an attacking midfielder who can run at defenders with pace and go past them, where as with Chalmers, Trafford, Polworth and Doran they are all more or less similar in that more often they will hold the ball up and look to pass the ball about usually to the side or back. Doran is I suppose an attacking midfielder tries to run with the ball past defenders but lacks the pace to do that so looks for the short one, two, but tends to run out of room and options. I don't see MacGregor suddenly getting a regular game just yet but will have done his chances no harm and should get opportunities.

I didn't see enough of Cameron Harper to comment. Maybe he will get more of a chance in the next round Tremarco isn't back by then.

It's great, it fills you with optimism for the future with the young players coming through and young Robbie looks like another piece of the jigsaw along with Dan MacKay for maybe dare I say it our next top flight adventure.

13 minutes ago, IBM said:

Myself and three others in the North stand 

Mexican Wave??

Right, I've completely forgotten about that last game and now looking forward to tomorrow night's replay.

Strange, maybe no one else is given the complete lack of comments.

........I'll be on my own then with the whole Main Stand to myself cheering on my team.

14 minutes ago, Gregor said:

listen up folks

Oakley 7 league starts 4 goals

White 8 league  starts 4 goals

Anyone with any knowledge of football will know these stats are very good.

Stop blaming the strikers and look at the other end of the park and maybe you will find where we need to improve.

 

Its not starts or games to goals, its goal scoring opportunities to goal ratio. But yes the defence needs to improve, this was our strongest point earlier in the season but now a problem. I think the injury to Tremarco, bringing in McCart (although not entirely his fault) and having to makeshift the back four has disturbed the continuity. As experience has told us that when we don't have a settled back four historically we have struggled. Our worst seasons all have something in common, an unsettled back four.

I would have to disagree about each end of the park, the need for improvement is needed from front to back including the midfield which is our first line of defence.

2 hours ago, forresjags said:

Better technical players kicking about,the Highland League than some of the donkeys out there today .

Did we not try to sign Mitch Megginson during the summer and got knocked back for a 3 year deal with Cove?

On 11/8/2018 at 7:29 PM, Kingsmills said:

It's not a reprisal it's a proportionate and reasonable response to disgraceful conduct on the part of the player.

We have had players who have committed criminal acts in the past and retained their jobs with the club, Richies Hart and Foran come to mind. However, I can't recall any other player committing such a serious offence as this.

I can and it resulted in a jail sentence for the player. Though I'm not sure if he was already signed pending sentence or he was a free agent when 'Pele' signed him after he was released. Sandy Robertson.

Fantastic result

Who would have predicted this?

Just now, Caman said:

Nope. They're a point above us. Unless you are sitting in the Jail End just now and know something we don't.  

Yes I know, ....I was looking forward.

3 nil now!!

Goals are like buses

Just now, CableGuy said:

This is encouraging stuff..... Some effort and as it stands we just need Falkirk to level against county for a perfect weekend!  

County back to their natural place,

behind us in the league