Inverness CT

• Lineup: Fon Williams, Meekings, Warren, Devine, Tremarco, Draper, Tansey, Roberts, Polworth, Mbuyi-Mutombo , Storey
• Subs : Esson, Horner, Raven, Hughes, Foran, R Williams, D Williams.

Dundee Utd

• Lineup:  Eiji Kawashima, Durnan, Morris, Dillan, Knoyle, Fraser, Rankin, Dixon, Murray, Ofere, Mckay
• Subs : Johnson, Smith, Zwick, Donaldson, Coote, Robson,

 

 

Offere, McKay and Rankin - and Ofere has the first strike

What a feckin strike from Murray 0-1

Our passing and movement in the opening 15 is as good as it has been all season.

25 minutes. And still impressive. Mutumbo, Polworth and Roberts have good first touches. Storey could have equalised but good stop by Hiroshima. Arabs now concentrating on defending but we still need that finisher.

35 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Offere, McKay and Rankin

Between them they have 68 goals for ICT, which is considerably more than the whole ICT XI have scored for ICT!

Have to emphasise that the Arabs are shockingly poor

Oh dear oh dear - probably a Meekings Og - so much apparent promise but no end product and no finisher.

5 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Have to emphasise that the Arabs are shockingly poor

...but are 2-0 up. 

Useless same crap different day sorry but no atmosphere by fans at the game and shocking scoreline

Possession stats look good as per but the build is do slow. An injection of pace and width required pronto. Oh wait. ......

We have pace but why play Mutumbo and Roberts so deep. But what is the point in width when we don't have a natural penalty box striker.

Just when you think that it can't get worse the WORST player on the pitch - Ofere scores but Roberts strikes back - we're going to win 4-3

0-3, getting embarrassing. 

But the comeback is on!

Polworth nipped in 

This is the Keystone Cops of football

Pub football ??

Well that was embarrassing. defence fell apart again and our attacker played winger all night. Honestly Hughes hasn't a clue with his tactics and that was another showing of how bad a team we have become in the space of under a year. Every home game there is a lack of atmosphere? hardly any motivation for our players.

Poor.  I thought we were very one paced throughout, had an end of season feel to it which is odd considering we have places and thus prize money to play for. Taking Ryan Williams off the bench was bizarre, has barely been seen since he signed and ran around like a headless chicken in the opposite direction to the ball. Odd signing altogether.

 

The sooner we get Josh back in the centre beside Gary the better. Josh can do a job at right back but he is very limited going forward, there were at least 4-5 occasions where he hit the ball out of play when crossing.  Devine also gets caught out of position a little too often, if you watch it back you'll see him chase the ball into midfield leaving a gap behind him.

All in all a very disappointing night, I think 7th is out of reach which may cost us a player for next season.

Edited May 6, 20169 yr by Hiro

Could Yogi not have warned us in advance that he was planning to tell the players to treat it like a preseason friendly? I wouldn't have wasted my evening if I'd realised.

Well, how disappointing was that after our last two games?   Yes, we had plenty possession, but did we look threatening?  Not at all, until we were 3 down, when at last we showed some urgency.  Then Hughes takes off our best player by far . Why?? Was he injured? Not that I saw!

Really liked Roberts tonight.  Hope we can hang on to him.  Of the 3 ex ICT players in the Utd side, I think only Ofere looked the part on tonight's performance.  But I doubt we'll see him back at the dump playing for us.

As Hiro said in earlier post, I have always thought our defence looks most solid with Meekings and Warren together as centre backs.  For heavens sake get Raven back in at right back and keep Devine for emergencies.

Think we'll have to win both of our last two matches to have any chance of 7th now..

I won't be rushing to the bookies to check out the odds!

I thought Roberts was man of the match tonight!  Hope he signs soon.

Pretty humiliating that. I know the management team are the most qualified to make these calls, but I just feel it is so blatantly obvious that we need to get the spine of Warren and Meekings back together. I'm not as critical of Devine as some people, I feel he has a part to play in the squad, but as pretty much every fan seems to think, a back 4 of Raven-Meekings-Warren-Tremarco would provide more balance and a solid base. The substitution of Roberts was also bizarre, he was still looking pretty energetic. No injury crisis to hide behind tonight. Cannot wait for this season to end. 

We deserve to go down just because of this and it's 100% happening next season

Humiliating. I hope there's a realisation with everyone that tonight's result might well have cost us at least one decent wage for next season. Here we are crying out for players like Raven to be signed and an unacceptable result could well have nailed that possibility. It's ironic that Raven's absence from the optimal back four might have cost him any chance of a contract next season. Meekings and Warren central defense now please.

Utter gash again this has to be addressed or their is no doubt the crowds will dip below 2000.

To go 3 down against a manager less team who had just been relegated less than 4 days ago is unacceptable by any standards . 

Think the humiliation of David Raven was complete tonight ....leave him on the bench and bring on Danny Williams(fecking off to Dundee) Foran (probably completed 90 mins in the last 2 years) and Ryan Williams(played less than 10 mins all season).

awful night