Matchday Thread Inverness CT -V- Aberdeen

[Scotty]

THE CUP FINAL THREAD Discuss the Cup Final in this thread Inverness CT -V- Aberdeen PREVIEW 16th Mar 2014 @ 2:30PM Celtic Park, Glasgow Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Go to the Chatroom Media Coverage   AUDIO   LIVE Coverage (BBC) [uK/VPN Only] LIVE Coverage (BBC Radio nan Gàidheal) [uK/VPN Only]   TEXT   ESPN BBC SKY Sporting Life   VIDEO   LIVE Coverage (BBC) [uK/VPN Only] SPFL YouTube Channel ICT Official YouTube Channel TEAM LINEUPS

 

[Tichy_Blacks_Back]

Gutted - came down to two poor pens in the end....

Edited March 16, 2014 by Tichy_Blacks_Back

[SMEE]

Well.....ict were the better team overall I would say. First half was dire....both teams equally poor. I thought ict had a good 30 mins in the second half. But severe lack of chances created. Billy mckay was practically a spectator

[Scotty]

thought we played well. we were up for it, and challenged hard for every ball. gutted we didnt snatch something before pens. 

[Potandbrush]

Bottlers

[ubern]

Proud

[Caley92]

Well.....ict were the better team overall I would say. First half was dire....both teams equally poor. I thought ict had a good 30 mins in the second half. But severe lack of chances created. Billy mckay was practically a spectator

 

Can't agree more with that, I was disappointed with his penalty too.

[PerfICT]

Gutted, but we didn't create enough to deserve it despite a much better 2nd half with some excellent football. Well done especially to Ross and Christie who were excellent when they came on. The guys played their hearts out: Shinnie was immense again, but they are all heroes!

[Pele_Is_God]

Devine and shinnie were superb, we battled well but didn't really have many chances. Question... Why did some of our fans leave before the players got their medals????

[NoIInTeam]

Good effort lads, Aberdeen losing both wingers and us only playing one meant it was never going to be expansive. Gutted but good experience for next years Scottish cup final.

[PerfICT]

Crossing was dreadful today, as were free kicks (from both sides, fortunately)!

[Tichy_Blacks_Back]

Two more big games coming up against Motherwell and Partick - will be interesting to see what type of response we get from the team....Wednesday will be a tough one in more ways than one....

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Bottlers

Too harsh the guys who missed pens this time put a hell of a lot into this game. I like to think we drew the cup!

[absent friend]

Well we all know I am a happy clapper but ..

I thought our team did us proud, how many of us thought it would come to penalties?

We were beaten by the suits upstairs that made us play a game during the week and therefore stole some of our strength towards the end.

Anyway thanks to the team for giving me a wonderful three hours with the result going either way right up to the last few minutes.

[Biggin]

Really good effort but we lacked a cutting edge and that has been missing for a few weeks shame about the Penalties although with Billy's track record from the spot recently Why was he first up

 

Thought Devine had a really good game

 

All good experience for the future  the Boys can hold their heads high

[GavICT]

just back from the game, absolutely gutted but great effort from the boys! Nick Ross and Ryan Christie made a massive difference when they came on! just wasn't to be

[Rainbow]

Disappointed about the result but delighted by the performance of all 29 men involved on the pitch (ok, Johnny Hayes couldn't perform very much). Maybe even by the managing teams. And certainly by the 50,000 in the stands. True Scottish football happens outside the Old Filth.

[uptheowls]

by all acounts you played crap. just the way john hughes' sets his teams out to play, the clueless knob. no wonder he was sacked at hartlepool. you would have won if you had had 2 englishmen...terry butcher & danny williams!!

[ictchris]

Very negative performance from us, we didn't really create a clear chance in two hours of football.  All we did was hook balls over the top to McKay and while he worked hard he couldn't  do anything with them.  We defended very well, aside from the spell around the point when they hit the post I didn't think Aberdeen threatened us.

 

It's disappointing that the best chance we'll probably get in a long time to win a cup we didn't put any pressure on Aberdeen, and if we had they were there for the taking.

[Govan Jaggie]

Bottlers

Feck off you tw@t.

[Bush]

Bottlers

Feck off you tw@t.

Ditto - complete & utter tw@t.

[Bluesman]

Sadly our recent inability to get decent service to Billy continues and goals are still like hens teeth. Not a classic by either team but I agree Aberdeen were there to be taken. Thought we might get in front when we had a good spell at the start of the second half but poor passing (get it on the ground) let it slip again. Better shape by us today (Meekings and Devine did well) and crap finishing by both teams kept the game tight. Poor efforts at penalties have to say. Anyway, pub here is decent and beer is cold so could get used to major cup finals....

Papers have Dons running a £15m debt to achieve this so Inverness are doing pretty well to be top six and finalists with a 3k home support.

[NoIInTeam]

Bottlers

Feck off you tw@t.

Ditto - complete & utter [email protected] feed the troll

[Alex MacLeod]

Bottlers

Aye very good. Such a constructive analogy.

 

Mrs M is very proud of the guys today. They tried but didn't get the finishing touch needed. Ref was too whistle happy. And probably nerves got the better of a cou[ple of penalty takers. The team did well to get to the final and to hold out for 120 mins.

[The Long Man]

Terrific effort by the whole team. Considering the negative effects of the last 2 weeks, and the way we were written off, I thought we gave it our all, and you couldn't really ask for more. Well organised, and i thought we played the better football - though it didn't always come off we looked like a team with more ideas than Aberdeen, who seemed bereft of anything other than hopeful punts. A real shame when we had the momentum at the start of the second half that we couldn't make the breakthrough - just a little bit of guile or invention would have opened the door. Billy played his socks off, was shackled by two defenders most of the time, and will be black and blue tomorrow.

Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, did us proud, penalties are always a lottery. Man of the Match Ross Draper says it all - he was immense. As were they all, you could see how drained they were by the end. Respect to you all.