HawkeyeTheGnu

3 hours ago, Leaky Blinder said:

I thought QP closed the space really efficiently in and around the box first half & stifled us 

This. There was a lot of frustration about lack of shots in the first half given the amount of ball we had around their box, but apart from the shot/backpass (Anderson?) we didn’t really get a look at goal, so no chance to shoot. 
 

Game was begging for the ball to go out wide and stretch them out a bit, but we just let them pack the middle.

Can we get last season’s Nathan Shaw back, please?

8 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

 

Ridgers

Duffy   Ujdur   Boyes

Davidson   Gilmour   Anderson   Harper

Welsh

Shaw   Longstaff

According to BBC we should be lining up like this???

They had Boyes upfront originally!

20 minutes ago, Robert said:

Good to see Welsh starting and Doran on the bench. Looks like a back four. Shaw up front?

Three or five at the back, no? Duffy, Boyes & Udjur in the middle, Davidson and Harper out wide.

25 minutes ago, Robert said:

I assume Duffy is injured?

Calf strain according to big Dunc. 

I’ll take a point, especially given that Partick really should have scored at the end.

On the plus side the defence looked pretty solid, but it also felt we could have played until midnight without scoring.

A front line of Samuels, Lodovica and Brooks at the end felt a bit short of quality.

Anderson and Gilmour put in some shift in the middle of the park and Longstaff looked keen to take men on.

Build up was a bit pedestrian at times and there was a tendency to pass sideways or turn back rather than try and find a man further forward. On the occasions McKay did break through, we were slow to support.

If someone can find the Shaw from the end of last season, that would be great.

Green shoots for sure, and not letting them in for fun at the back is an improvement.

No idea what the Partick love-in is all about, they looked pretty ordinary to be honest.

[Edit] Thought the ref had a decent game too. Wasn’t too fussy, or card happy and quite happy to let the game flow.

1 hour ago, big cherly said:

Hopefully they plump for robbo’s cv and management track record! He managed Derry for a ‘dos’ so thats a plus in his favour!! 
bc 

Managing Derry a plus for Rangers?

7 hours ago, tm4tj said:

In the Mickey Mouse Cup

When you are getting scudded every week, there’s no such thing as a Mickey Mouse cup. 
 

And it’s also the last national trophy we won. 

54 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

"Irrespective whether Dodds or his radio chums felt he was harshly treated (they’re all living in an ivory tower), the simple fact is Dunc managed to get a victory with the same group of players, where you couldn’t."

Ironically, Dodds team won 4-1 the last time he visited Gayfield in the Championship...

But lost 4-2 on his last visit to Gayfield. 

26 minutes ago, jed5697 said:

Get the cigars out

Or squeaky bum time

38 minutes ago, RiG said:

He did well at this level but those Hearts sides were heavy favourites to go up on both occasions IIRC. Unsure if he could replicate that with ICT.

Took Dundee Utd up too (COVID shortened season) but not sure how he’d do on a small budget. 

4 minutes ago, ICTPaisley said:

I don’t agree with you this time, we’re in no position to throw out the reserves and not care about this competition. Going out at the first hurdle like this is pretty poor and it’s not giving anyone any confidence. 
 

 

And getting splatted by a team who may well be relegation rivals isn’t a great look. 

1 hour ago, Robert said:

The officials were poor (even if it turns out that they got the offside calls right) letting some poor challenges go and allowing Dunfermline to gain 10 yards at every throw in.

Stand side linesman missed a blatant corner to Dunfermline in the first half when Boyes clipped the ball trying to shepherd it out, and it looked like he gave us a throw when Davidson sclaffed it out in the second half. 

12 minutes ago, old caley girl said:

Eye bleeding second half. It's a point I suppose 

Yeah, I thought that too. Subs were way too late, it was pretty obvious that the midfield was starting to run out of gas about an hour in. 

The trick will be avoiding relegation to league one while the fund is built. 

Can’t put ‘em in at one end and can’t keep ‘em out at the other - not a great combination. 

As far as this site goes, Scotty only refers to one person, and it ain’t the CEO. 

1 hour ago, bdu98196 said:

I hope that next season the league put contingency measures in place to avoid such a gap again or mitigations on teams for us to play. Will be pretty difficult build up after securing the League until the Conference League final having sat around for 4 weeks.

Conference League? So you don’t think we’ll win the Europa League qualifier?

1 hour ago, IcyT said:

I don't think anyone's assuming we'll win!  Certainly hoping, though.  Looking forward to getting through for it.  Possibly a good thing that it's a must win for us.  Maybe Ayr will play for a draw, and that doesn't work well - see Buckie v Brechin.  If we do score first, I just hope we don't look to shut up shop.  Can you imagine the nerves?!

Draw suits neither team, as a Morton win will see them leapfrog both teams. 

1 hour ago, tm4tj said:

Not the best part of our stats, but these are the others we have recorded so far.

The following players have played for both Inverness CT and Celtic

Scott Allan Mark Brown Joe Chalmers Charlie Christie Ryan Christie Robbie Deas Michael Gardyne James Keatings Liam Keogh Lewis Toshney

Jamie McCart?

4 hours ago, RiG said:

Joke of an offside decision. 

You'd think the linesman might have noticed Billy running past the defender after the pass was made!

19 hours ago, Duke of Inverness said:

Anyone running the gauntlet of missing the final, if booked in the semi final?

Assuming the BBC website is correct, and it’s still 3 yellow cards for a suspension, then Duffy is the only one who would miss the final if booked and we beat Falkirk. 

15 hours ago, Robert said:

Was told today that Carson is suspended for the semi as he has picked up three bookings in the cup. Do any of our stats experts know if that is right and if we are going to be short of anyone else?

According to the SFA website Carson is suspended for the semi, and is the only one of our players currently ineligible for the game. 

30 minutes ago, Robert said:

I agree with that. It was a cynical and unnecessary foul, but we see them in almost every game and normally a yellow at worst. 

It needs to be dealt with consistently, and the red card last night was out of step with how these things are typically sanctioned. And why was it ok for Tiffoney to shove Welsh in the chest?

7 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

According to Dodds in his post match interview, the ref said the red card was for Welsh raking his studs down the player’s Achilles. Should’ve gone to Specsavers!

Given where the foul took place, between the ref, linesman and fourth official they should be getting that decision right. 

Ref giving his all for Partick here.