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RIP Alan Hercher from all Dundee united Inverness Arabs. RIP sad loss so young.

Take a moment to read Caley Stan's Preview for today's match, well worth a read.

 

Lets hope there is no repeat of the  abuse Polwarth suffered at the last home game. If so, i hope the club are ready and prepared to ban those involved

Edited August 25, 20186 yr by SMEE

Inverness goal disallowed

Inverness 1 - 0 Alloa

 

Brad McKay

ICT 1-0 up (Mckay)

 

Inverness 1 -1 Alloa

First 10 or so thought we were great but no we are flat, side to side and getting slightly pulled apart at the back. Come on boys, more of the first minutes please. Too early for a sub?

Sean Welsh Pen 2-1 and red card Alloa 

Good god. Another missed Penalty, this time Donaldson.

Why's Coll taking a pen when Welsh scored one earlier in the game?  Surely he should have taken it again?

Unbelievable.

Abysmal.

A draw that should have been a win. Points dropped I’m afraid !!!?⚽️

oh my god what a laughing stock we are

Edited August 25, 20186 yr by CableGuy

2 Home games  both against 10 men 2 missed penalties 4pts dropped we cannot afford to keep doing this get the penalty takers sorted we should be sitting at the top

My first proper game of the season. Really missing the experienced, calm heads.  We should have been coasting, especially with the extra man, but instead we were the ones in panic mode for the last 15 minutes...very bizarre!

5 points from the first 3 games but should be 9!!

Should have coasted that.  Utterly unforgivable to only draw, seems like we've regressed since the end of last season.  Missing Warren's (and to a lesser extent Vigurs) experience on and off the pitch.

Edited August 25, 20186 yr by Hiro

A central defender should never have been taking a penalty. If the attacking players aren't fighting for the ball to get a goal then they have no business being on the pitch. 2 points thrown away again.

It's a worry that we cannot put the ball in the net and put teams away. Why did they start making subs so soon ? We were winning the game and both Oakley and Welsh were playing well ! Big spaces in defence. How are Alloa getting a goal from a corner. 

Im thankful we didnt lose but really if we are drawing to Ayr and Alloa at home I can see this being a very long painful season. 

We can try and paint this as an unbeaten start but really we are setting ourselves up for hard work at the end or a mid table finish and the usual "maybe next year." 

Atleast County lost though...

That was a horrible result. The substitutions Robertson made were awful. We eventually took on a natural winger who will get crosses into the box and we take off George Oakley. Sean Welsh comes off and he was far better than Polworth and Chalmers. As far Shaun Rooney. One of the worst players I've ever seen play for ICT. 

Edited August 25, 20186 yr by SteveA

Iam lost for words

Where on earth do you start with an omnishambles like that?!

 

It's easy to forget that in the three minutes before Alloa equalized their keeper made three really great saves - though, as was the theme of the day, the latter two should have been goals. And the only reason that we didn't get the three points was a complete and utter brain fart from our right-back (which I'll get to shortly). But that was just an extraordinary watch.

 

We started like the clappers, but after getting one up we eased off, giving the impression that we thought we could score whenever we liked. When Alloa got their fortuitous leveller, we panicked and we were lousy up till half time. Having been handed the game on a plate by Karadachki's minute of madness we then reverted back to 'score anytime we like' mode - to the point that Donaldson was so casual with his penalty that you'd have thought it was pre-season. Yet when they got it back to 2-2 we went to pieces and they actually had the best chance to win it after that.

 

Even though we were on top, we didn't play well for long spells. Our dip in the first half coincided with the decision to switch Walsh and Polworth, which was weird as Walsh had their right-back on toast. Yet Robbo stuck with that shape until well into the second period. Oakley and Austin continue to struggle as a partnership; I thought Austin looked dangerous today but Oakley was having one of those 'control it further than I can pass it' days. Taking off Austin, our quickest striker, for White, our slowest, was bizarre given we were ahead and playing on the counter. The other changes did counteract this a bit with Calder doing well down the left (though I thought the pen he won was soft as hell) and Doran causing havoc in the middle. However taking Welsh off (I assume due to lack of fitness) robbed us of some vital experience and nous that we could have done with.

 

But then Rooney happened. Only he will know what he was thinking - he had several goes at fouling the guy outside the box before finally deciding to shove him at the back when he was heading for the byline and in a cul-de-sac. It's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen a professional footballer do. And it cost us two points.

 

There's not a lot of positives to take from this one. At least subsequent results have shown Ayr are a better team than we thought they were and our 0-0 wasn't quite as calamitous as it seemed. But this was one almighty kick in the teeth. It'll be interesting to see how we respond at East End Park, but I'm not confident it'll be in the right way.