Inverness CT -V- Hamilton - Preview

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Xmas is coming

 

We face Hamilton Accies on Saturday in the Championship, fresh from our mauling of Morton last weekend, but can we sustain that level of intensity as we enter the heavy winter schedule? The game kicks off at 3:00pm at the Caledonian Stadium with live streaming available from ICTV at £15 if you are unable to get to the stadium. We are due Accies a doing after our lousy performance down there on 2nd October against ten men for over an hour. Let's hope we can continue to build on our performance from last weekend. If not, Raith, Arbroath, Killie and Partick are waiting in the wings...

OFFICIAL PREVIEW 

MATCH INFO*TICKETS*STREAMING

Venue - Head 2 Head

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	13	4	4	5	20	17	+3
Away	10	6	1	3	16	12	+4
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	23	10	5	8	36	29	+7

First Competitive Meeting

Jan 25th, 1997

Scottish Cup (Rd 3)

(H)

1 - 3

Most Recent Competitive Meeting

Oct 2nd, 2021

League (Championship)

(A)

1 - 2

Last 10 Competitive Meetings

1 - 2 (A)

2 - 1 (H)

0 - 3 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 0 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

4 - 3 (A)

0 - 2 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

The first meeting of the clubs this season saw Inverness fail to beat ten man Accies at NDP despite the hosts playing over half the game a man short. Lewis Smith and Andy Ryan had put Accies two up inside twenty-six minutes before Reegan Mimnaugh was red carded after half an hour. We huffed and puffed for the next hour before eventually getting an injury time consolation by he who shall not be named, but it was too little too late to retrieve the situation. That was our first League defeat of the season at the Fountain of Youth, but it left us three points clear of Kilmarnock in second place at the beginning of October. Since then we have gained a further fifteen points and remain top, but with Raith Rovers and Arbroath breathing down our neck. Accies have added nine points since that first meeting and are heading the bottom half of the table in a League where anyone can beat the rest on their day.

Other fixtures this weekend

Arbroath v Morton

Kilmarnock v Dunfermline

Partick v Rovers

Queens v Ayr Utd

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts   1. Inverness CT 17 10 4 3 25 12 34 2. Raith Rovers 17 9 6 2 27 16 33 3. Arbroath 17 8 7 2 28 13 31 4. Kilmarnock 17 9 2 6 20 11 29 5. Partick Thistle 17 8 4 5 29 16 28 6. Hamilton Ac. 17 4 5 8 15 30 17 7. Ayr United 17 3 6 8 16 29 15 8. Dunfermline 17 2 8 7 18 28 14 9. Q.O.S. 17 3 5 9 16 26 14 10. Morton 17 2 7 8 15 28 13

Last Time Out

We trounced a hapless Morton 6-1 at Cappiellow. Doran, Sutherland (2), Mckay, McAlear with a screamer and Jamieson scored the goals in a one sided affair. Ugwu replied for Morton just on the break from the spot. 

Accies drew 1-1 at Somerset Park with Ayr United in a highly competitive encounter. They opened the scoring through Lewis Smith five minutes before the interval but Tomi Adeloye headed Ayr level three minutes after the break and that's how it ended.

Latest Team News

Sean Welsh will require more time to rest up. Other than that we should have a fairly healthy squad although Roddy MacGregor was also missing last week.

 

 

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[Kingsmills]

Our last performance against Hamilton where we couldn't even salvage a point despite playing most of the match against ten men was possibly our worst of the season.

We are better than Accies, the league table does not lie at this stage of the season, and should continue our latest winning run but we will have to play a great deal better than we did at New Douglas Park to do so but what an incentive to go into the big Boxing Day fixture still leading the league.

[Robert]

I’m looking forward to this one. Hopefully we kick on from the Kilmarnock and Morton league games and win the three points with a convincing performance.

 

[caleyboy]

1-0 will do me just fine. Draws for the other runners would also help. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

Is it on? How foggy is it?  Have just driven up from Falkirk.  Clear on the high ground between Blair Atholl and Moy. Otherwise, fog everywhere.

OK at Simpson's Garden Centre.

[IBM]

10 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Is it on? How foggy is it?  Have just driven up from Falkirk.  Clear on the high ground between Blair Atholl and Moy. Otherwise, fog everywhere.

OK at Simpson's Garden Centre.

I hope so I am getting ready to go

[Jack Waddington]

26 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Is it on? How foggy is it?  Have just driven up from Falkirk.  Clear on the high ground between Blair Atholl and Moy. Otherwise, fog everywhere.

OK at Simpson's Garden Centre.

More than clear enough, foggy yes, but can clearly see the length of a pitch and more

[Kingsmills]

23 minutes ago, Jack Waddington said:

More than clear enough, foggy yes, but can clearly see the length of a pitch and more

Precisly the distance I hope that Mark Ridgers views the bulk of the action from.

[WYNESS101]

Boring first half so far not much happening. 

 

Doran has come off for Harper. I like how we play Harper on the left wing. Good to see us getting players to adapt there positions  

[Satan]

Doran was sh1t anyway.

Final ball has been awful, judging by the number of balls in the stand pre match the shooting practice was cancelled after last week's bonanza.

Tough watch so far.

[Naelifts]

Lost a bad goal there.......and then lost the stream. Hop thats not all we lose

[lizi]

My screen froze at 81st minute too but assume I missed nothing.

[Kingsmills]

I am sick fed up of watching the same thing and posting the same thing.

The number of points we have squandered from winning positions this season is a disgrace for professional athletes and coaches and is increasingly likely to cost us promotion.

I have watched good ICT teams over the years, sometimes very good, I have watched poor ICT teams  sometimes extremely poor, are you listening Mr Foran ?

However, I have never ever witnessed a team so inconsistent so that you never know what sort of performance you are going to get, not just from one match to the next but from one minute to the next.

Get it sorted Billy and soon. I don't relish the prospect of spending next season in the same division as Cove Rangers!

[Jack Waddington]

Back to the old ways of going infront, throwing away an easy second, then losing...

[jed5697]

I would describe that as a collapse. We had control of the game at 1-0. Sutherland nearly made it 2 but for the keepers heel. Did they think the game was over? Hamilton using rough house tactics at corners and bish bosh 2 goals in quick time. Had to pinch myself. Also we had time to make changes but not till desperate at end ?? 

[Yngwie]

Another abysmal result against a poor Hamilton side. Unbelievable.

[Caley Mad In Berks]

Doesn't say much for the standard of our league when it is topped by a part time side.  Shocking result today, another game lost from a winning position.

[Yngwie]

As things stand, if the league gets called due to Covid, it’s Arbroath going up!

Some folk here were critical of us after our hard fought 1-0 win there at the start of the season, but Arbroath have only lost one other match this season.

[givmeaccccc]

An incredible collapse. We are badly lacking a leader on the park who has the ability to organise the team when we hit the front. Hamilton's tactics at corners scared the crap out of us and we just couldn't cope, gutted.

[Jaggernaut]

I have now come to the conclusion that Billy Dodds is incapable of changing tactics when things are not going well. We play the same way for 90 minutes, no change no matter what takes place and subs used far too late on in the game. Simple passes were needed to just keep the ball but we just keep punting it up the park to the opposition and it just keeps coming back, it was just a matter of time till they scored, very poor. We had a chance today to consolidate our place at the top of the league, and we blew it big time. The ref was woeful as well.

[Robert]

Poor first half with few chances. We started the second half much better, and Harper was instrumental to that as he was effective playing wide left.

We deservedly took the lead when Harper finished a cross after good work from Mckay.

Sutherland nearly got a second shortly after but the ‘keeper’s outstretched leg saved Hamilton.

After then, we were shocking and couldn’t keep the ball. Hamilton pressed us hard and had us pinned back for an eternity with a series of corners that rattled us. They basically outmuscled us and once they equalised, I felt we were going to lose.

Their striker was a handful, and we struggled to cope with their quick breaks, particularly down the left in the first half.

That’s a game we shouldn’t have lost, but we could not manage it after going ahead so in many ways we got what we deserved.

We need to be more consistent.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Robert

[+Fraz]

Utterly pathetic. Go one up at home and just fold. Just bizarre, no resilience, grit or leadership on the pitch shown at all. Handed it to Hamilton on a plate after making our usual hard work of scoring.  

[KirkieRobRoy]

3 minutes ago, Caley Mad In Berks said:

Doesn't say much for the standard of our league when it is topped by a part time side. 

It's how hard you work and how well you're coached that matters most. The main problem with Arbroath being up there is that nobody at ICT can use the 'Och, we're just a wee team wi a wee budget' getout.

[+DoofersDad]

That's a hard one to take.  First half was pretty lacklustre but we came out well in the 2nd half with Harper looking far more effective than Doran down the left.  We looked increasingly threatening and then Harper was rewarded by getting on the end of a slick team move.  We continued to play well for a few minutes and  could have got a couple more.  We were well on top and looked by far the better side.  Then with 15 minutes to go we inexplicably completely fell apart.  Whenever we got the ball we gave it away and Hamilton piled men into the box and bullied their way to victory.  What should have been a comfortable victory turned into one of the most demoralising defeats I can remember.

Looking on the bright side (or the less dark side), if we had played the whole match the way we played in the last 15 minutes we would have lost 10-0 and been 3rd in the table rather than 2nd. I hope that thought has cheered you all up as we move into Christmas week!  

[Kingsmills]

I confess that the doubts I had about Billy Dodds when he was first appointed are raising their heads again.