Queen of the South -V- Inverness CT - Preview

[tm4tj]

Qualified

 

We make the long journey to Dumfries on Tuesday night safe in the knowledge that we have qualified for a play-off place at the top end of the table. Unfortunately for Queen of the South they are all but relegated, and only three wins from their final three games can offer them some hope of a miracle that will save them from the drop. Tuesday night at 7:45pm is the scheduled start for this re-arranged fixture. Our goal will be to get enough points to remain in third place to get the slight advantage of playing at home in the 3rd/4th place play-off second leg with second place pretty much out of our reach.

MATCH/TICKETS/STREAMING INFO

NO SUPPORTERS BUS TO DUMFRIES DUE TO COVID!

 

Venue - Head 2 Head

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	21	12	3	6	38	26	+12
Away	19	8	7	4	33	20	+13
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	40	20	10	10	71	46	+25

Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Queens

2 - 2 (H)

2 - 1 (A)

2 - 1 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

3 - 0 (A)

3 - 1 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

2 - 0 (H)

2 - 0 (A)

The stats are heavily on our side although over the last five meetings queens have faired slightly better with a win and two draws.

Last five Championship games 

Queens: LLLLL

ICT FC: WWWDW

CTO Report 25th Sept: Gardyne volleys us to the top... 2-1Goals from Sean Welsh and Michael Gardyne were just enough to put Inverness back to the top of the table despite a worldy goal from Lee Connelly for the visitors. Inverness deserved the win but made hard work of it before Gardyne scored a superb volley to win the points and ease the fans nerves.

CTO Report 19th Nov: He scores when he wants... 1-2The visitors opened the scoring when Billy Mckay converted a first half penalty. They doubled their lead when he added a second from a superb Carson cross but Queens forced a tense finish when Lee Connelly smashed the ball into the net to give them hope. However Inverness saw out the game to claim the points and move a point behind leaders Kilmarnock who play Arbroath on Saturday. 

CTO Report 15th Jan: Comedy of Errors: 2-2 Inverness once more failed to take advantage of the given situation by producing another abject display at home against a club staring at relegation. This time it was Queen of the South that showed up our lack of quality and Lee Connelly scored the opener in the first half with Willie Collum waiving away appeals for offside. Same old same old from Inverness in a dire first half. We looked to have got out of jail when the Queens defenders made a hash of clearing a long kick out from Mark Ridgers and Billy Mckay accepted the comical defending to prod the ball home. If ever a man needed a goal it was Tom Walsh who has been totally ineffective this season, but score he did after being sent into the box by Mckay before drilling the ball behind Josh Rae. Phew we all thought, thank feck for that! Alas we shot ourselves in the foot, or more accurately David Carson shot us in the foot as he teed up substitute Ally Roy who had only been on the park for one minute. Surprisingly we actually jumped back into second place thanks to other results, but it's a complete mystery how we have done this given the dross we are subject to at the moment.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Queen of the South v Inverness CT - Tuesday Night 7:45pm
1.	Kilmarnock	34	19	6	9	47	25	63
2.	Arbroath	34	16	14	4	50	26	62
3.	Inverness CT	33	14	11	8	47	32	53
4.	Partick Thistle	34	13	10	11	44	37	49
5.	Raith Rovers	34	11	13	10	41	43	46
6.	Hamilton Ac.	34	10	12	12	38	47	42
7.	Morton	34	9	13	12	36	43	40
8.	Ayr United	34	8	11	15	35	50	35
9.	Dunfermline	34	7	14	13	35	50	35
10.	Q.O.S.	33	6	8	19	31	51	26

Friday Night 7:45pm could decide who gets promoted

***Killie v Arbroath***

 

Last Time Out

Inverness secured a play-off place with a deserved 2-1 win over a disappointing Kilmarnock on Friday night. Killie had taken the lead through Ash Taylor with a deft finish from a Kirk Broadfoot assist, after he miscued a header. Billy Mckay levelled with fifteen minutes to go and Logan Chalmers completed the comeback with a clinical finish; a low drive from 10 yards, his fourth goal in four games. That's some left peg lad.

Queens plunged themselves perilously close to relegation when they were crushed 5-1 at Palmerston after having taken an early lead through Ally Roy. Arbroath overturned that before half time before running away with the game. The game before that Queens were unfortunate to go down 1-0 to Partick Thistle after dominating the game. Difficult to tell which side was going for promotion and which was facing the drop. Let that be a warning to the Caley Jags.

Latest Team News

Fairly clean bill of health for Dodds with only Allardice out long term.

Lee Connelly has scored in each of the three games against us this season. Goes without saying that we need to keep an eye on him.

 

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[Kingsmills]

Whilst far from the most important match we have played of late, it would be good to come away from Palmerston with all three points which would give us the opportunity to rest a few and give others some valuable game time in preparation for the vital play off games lying ahead.

[IBM]

50 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Whilst far from the most important match we have played of late, it would be good to come away from Palmerston with all three points which would give us the opportunity to rest a few and give others some valuable game time in preparation for the vital play off games lying ahead.

Very true Kingsmills and with the online TV we will be able to watch this game from the comfort of our own homes, I will be looking forward to this one.

[CaleyCanary]

Yep, not exactly vital but securing third place with a win tonight will be hugely beneficial for our play-off chances.

QotS will be/should be fired up as it is vital for them so we need to be sharp. Reckon an early goal would pretty much knock the stuffing out of them. They folded against Arbroath and I'm not so sure they have the bottle anymore to pick themselves up from that. 

[Robert]

It’s a long trip for the players on a Tuesday so hopefully they make it worthwhile and we secure third place whilst putting a wee bit of pressure on Arbroath.

A good performance and a few goals would be great but I’d settle for three points and no injuries. 

[tm4tj]

Queens starting XI: 4-4-2

Rae

Gibson, O`Connor, East, Cooper,

Todd, McGrory, Cochrane,  Connelly

Cameron, Soares Junior

 

Queens Subs :

Cowie, Paton, Roy, Debayo, Joseph, McKechnie, Nditi, Gordon, Folarin

[Robert]

Ridgers in goal and on the bench?? I see the club has corrected their tweet to show MacKay on the bench.

No Broadfoot and Mckay rested by the looks of it.

A chance for Hardy to show what he can do. 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Robert

[Robert]

I’m on the livestream but it has been buffering a bit and I’m having to refresh it. Just me or anyone having the same issue?

[+Moogthurso]

Is it on TV. Or queen's tv

[Robert]

Queens tv for £10. Stream seems ok now. 

[Robert]

1 down. We’ve not started playing yet. Queens have been on top and had a few chances. 

[Yngwie]

One way traffic so far, we just haven’t turned up yet.

[Donald1973]

***** not even trying here, we've barely had the ball for 20 seconds. Junk if we keep this up 

[No Shin Guards]

I say, are the chaps jet lagged or something? 

[Robert]

Wow! Chalmers again. 1-1.

Picked up a loose ball in midfield, ran forward and scored from the edge of the box.

We’d been getting back into it but we need to improve a lot.

There’s no point playing high balls to Hardy.

The buffering continues but they have a message on screen if you drop out of full screen saying they are having output issues and to bear with it as the stream will start again. 

Edited April 19, 2022 by Robert

[IBM]

Another cracker from Chalmers!

[No Shin Guards]

I say, Chalmers and his hair band strike again!!

[+snorbens_caleyman]

22 minutes ago, Robert said:

I’m on the livestream but it has been buffering a bit and I’m having to refresh it. Just me or anyone having the same issue?

It's not you.  And the commentators are rubbish as well.

[Robert]

The buffering is doing my head in!

[IBM]

I have been changing from A to B and its just the same crap!

[Yngwie]

Not really seeing anything since we scored, just buffering.

[FrontRow]

Buffering is bloody awful! As was the first 10 but big improvement since the.  

[+snorbens_caleyman]

From the QoSTV website: " we are experiencing output issues from the ground. please bear with us if you see some buffering for a few seconds. just let it come back automatical "

[+snorbens_caleyman]

The wet string must be drying out somewhere between Dumfries and civilisation.

[Robert]

Tried that. It’s an awful long “few seconds” so I’ve started refreshing it.