Robert

He signed a two year deal with Cordoba in the autumn. Reading the thread, my first thought was Jordan Roberts on loan, but he joined Motherwell on loan on Monday. Mulraney?

Over 4700 virtual tickets sold already! https://ictfc.com/togetherness-ict-club-statement-on-virtual-tickets

Wow, what an enjoyable watch and a well deserved, tremendous performance and win. We bossed the game and won at Twickenham in the competition for the first time since 1983. It more than made up for not being able to watch Caley Thistle this afternoon.

Arbroath have beaten Dunfermline 2-0. They are now unbeaten in 5 games and have taken 9 points. That includes games against 2 of the top 4 teams in the league. As tm4tj has said, it puts our draw in horrible conditions in a better light.

An interesting development and a nice touch by the Federation of Hearts Supporters. I hope we manage to sell a lot of these virtual tickets to both home and away fans: https://ictfc.com/ictfc-announce-first-ever-virtual-tickets-v-hearts

I see waterlogged pitch rather than snow is the reason the game is off. Dundee must have drainage issues as I’m sure their game with Ayr was off a couple of times for that reason. All other games loom set to go ahead: typical of our luck this season!

You need to blank out the name under the old BR sign too....

Confirmation Devine missed Wednesday due to injury whilst Keatings would have missed out tomorrow: https://ictfc.com/match-preview-dundee-a-06-02-2021

That’s seven Saturdays in a row when our game has been postponed. A run of seven weekend games being off could be unprecedented. A google search gave this: mainly England but Thistle get a mention, so we are no where near a total postponement record: http://www.footballsite.co.uk/DYK/DYK25-PostponedMatches.htm As well as tm4tj’s plus side, tomorrow would have been a tough game, so having a run of three home games could boost confidence and get us in a good place for the rest of the season. Assuming they go ahead and we actually do well in them that is.

There is one bright spot believe it or not: our record at Gayfield this season is better than last season. They beat us 3-0 there last season in our only away meeting with them, and they also beat us at home before the season got suspended. Yes, we should have been able to win the game, as we should have against Alloa and Morton, but we always seem to struggle against Alloa and Arbroath. Four points out of fifteen is not good enough, and if we are to have any hope of making the promotion play offs we need to do better. Dundee away will be tough if the weather lets it proceed, then we have home games against Alloa, Morton and Queen of the South. We should be aiming to win all three of those. Time will tell!

Interesting comments from Robbo. Generally supportive of the performance this time, recognising that with the number of youngsters we will make mistakes and be naive at times. Welsh is not being as influential this season as he was when he first joined us, possibly impacted by being captain? I’d like to see Carson start on Saturday if the game goes ahead, along with MacGregor if Keatings doesn’t make it, so we have our normal 4 2 3 1 without having to push a central midfielder further forward. I also think last night showed that Sutherland should be up front with Storey playing wide.

You’ve summed it up nicely tm4tj. A draw was a fair result but both teams will feel they should have won it. The wind messed the whole game up and meant it was a game of two halves. We did pretty well when under pressure in the first half, but conceded a late goal, ironically after the wind messed up a free kick for us. After equalising so early in the second half, we should have gone on to win comfortably, but we did not really capitalise on the elements and Arbroath grew in confidence towards the end, and the post saved us late on. If anything, I think the tactical mistake we made was switching Sutherland, Storey and Mackay round after we got the equaliser. Storey had the beating of the defence whilst Sutherland is a finisher, but we lost our way after Sutherland went wide and Storey was through the middle. Like others, I’ve no idea why MacGregor is not featuring. Whilst Allardice did well, MacGregor would have been the logical replacement for Keatings when he got injured. Duffy and Harper did well at full back, with Duffy having a good long throw and Harper setting the goal up. We can’t fault the central defence in terms of the goal and they handled the pressure. We should have won the midfield battle. Time for Carson in my opinion. Up front, we created chances and with more clinical finishing could have scored more. Yet another one that should have yielded more points. A recurring theme this season!

The commentators keep picking him out as our key player. Decent effort by Harper. Possibly our best player tonight.

Good save to keep Sutherland out. Weve gone a bit flat: need to pick this up.

Doran on for Mackay.

And Sutherland just needed to get weight on Harper’s free kick and we’d have been ahead. Duffy booked.

Allardice shot very close.

Changed things round. Sutherland right, Mackay left and Storey more central. Mirror image of first half. We need to kick on and use the wind to our advantage.

Storey has ball in net but offside earlier in the move.

1-1. Sutherland. Great cross by Harper. Header in box by Sutherland.

Holding out against the wind!

Don’t write us off tonight. We’ve seen what the wind can do to games at home, and the Arbroath home game this season was a good example of that. We turned that game round and I think we can turn this round if we play to the conditions. If we don’t, our promotion play off hopes are probably gone and we need to focus on staying in the Championship.

Me and my big mouth: 1-0 for Arbroath at half time. Quick break after the wind messed up a free kick for us. Good play and finish by Hamilton. We can’t fault the defence for it. We came so close to holding out, but as Wyness101 said we switched at the toss to have the wind advantage second half so it is up to us to make use of that. We will soon see how much impact the wind had as we should have the bulk of the territory and possession after the break. I still think we can win this, but we need to play quick football and shoot on sight.

In the second we need to shoot on sight and use the wind advantage. We’ve coped pretty well so far but have been under real pressure and will do well if we go in level at half time. Storey’s pace has been our main threat. Highlight for me is the commentary team. They are great fun with some priceless lines.

Sutherland up top still and Storey wide left with Mackay wide right. Mackay has just come close with our best chance so far.