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Friday Footie Frills at Firhill

 

It's Friday Footie Frills at Firhill for a TV spectacular as we take on fellow contenders Partick Thistle in the Championship. This game can be seen on BBC Scotland, that's cooncil TV to you and me, or even better get yersel along to Firhill and cheer the lads on. It's a 7:45pm kick off as two of the fancied teams for a play-off place meet head on. We have history of course. We ended Partick's ambitions last season with home and away wins in the play-offs. Early doors yet, but both teams will be looking to keep pace with favourites Dundee at the top of the table.

MATCH/TICKET/SUPPORTERS BUS INFO

 

Venue H2H v Partick

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	23	10	6	7	37	33	+4
Away	22	6	6	10	23	30	-7
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	45	16	12	17	60	63	-3

Home advantage looks to be the deciding factor in these fixtures. We did however get the better of Partick in last seasons play-off games, winning 2-1 at Firhill:-  Advantage Inverness: The first leg of the Premiership Play-Offs saw Inverness travel to Glasgow to take on the Maryhill Magyars as a place in the top division beckoned. Neither side were able to dominate on the Firhill tattie field and they went in goalless at the break although Logan Chalmers looked to be impeded as he tried to get a shot away. Crawford opened the scoring when he got onto a reverse ball from Graham to shoot high into the net from inside the box to put Partick in the driving seat. Inverness turned it round in the second half with goals from Shane Sutherland and Austin Samuels and it's back to the Highlands on Friday night to conclude this tie. And that turned out to be a 1-0 home win for the Caley Jags.

Here's the goals from that last game at Firhill

Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Partick

1 - 0 (H)

2 - 1 (A)

0 - 1 (A)

3 - 3 (H)

0 - 0 (A)

3 - 1 (H)

1 - 3 (A)

1 - 3 (H)

2 - 1 (A)

1 - 2 (H)

Saturday fixtures

   Arbroath v Queen's Park

Cove v Ayr Utd

Accies v Rovers   

Morton v Dundee  

This Season

Partick Thistle started the season with a bang. A tremendous away win at Dens Park in a five goal thriller was followed up by a home draw against Hamilton Accies, Brian Graham salvaging a point with a late equaliser in a game that Partick always had the edge but had to battle to get their point. Last week the big Glasgow derby ended in defeat as newly promoted Queens Park stunned the visitors faithful with a 3-2 win. Makes Inverness' opening day draw with Queens feel like a point gained instead of a point lost. Our second game was a predictable no scoring draw at Arbroath and last Saturday brought our first win of the campaign by 4-1 over Cove Rangers. Austin Samuels the one responsible for most of that with a couple of goals along with Aaron Doran and Nathan Shaw who opened his account at the Caledonian Stadium.

Latest Team News

Alas, Sutherland and Walsh are out long term with Sean Welsh and Max Ram also in recovery mode. Wallace Duffy and David Carson missed out last week which left us a bit lop sided at the back. To compound that, left sided defender Lewis Nicolson has gone on loan to Elgin City until January. Austin Samuels' performance last week earned him a 'place' in the team of the week.

Eric's Partick probe

Exodus from Firhill: Mason McCready goalkeeper on loan to Dalbeattie Star. The following players had their loans terminated by parent club Rangers FC, Andy Firth goalkeeper, Lewis Mayo centre back and centre forward Juan Alegria. Loan player right winger Kyle McCallister back to St Mirren and forward Alex Jakubiak returned to Dundee FC. Three players have gone on free transfers to Queen of the South, backs Ciaran McKenna and Stephen Hendrie also right-winger Connor Murray Moving on from Firhill on free transfers are Steven Bell centre back to Kelty Hearts, Shea Gordon a midfield player now at Larne FC and forward Ross MacIver to Alloa. Zak Rudden confirmed signed for Dundee after being on loan there for the second half of last season.

Another couple of players have left, Ricky Foster is off to Detroit City and midfielder Robbie Crawford has just joined Morton this afternoon.

New faces at Firhill that have arrived on a free transfer basis.

David Mitchell goalkeeper from Hibernian: Harry Milne left back from Cove Rangers: Jack McMillan right back from Livingston FC

Another right back in Aaron Muirhead from Ayr United: Aiden Fitzpatrick from Queen of the South plays on the right of midfield.

Steven Lawless right winger previously at Dunfermline Athletic: A couple of centre forwards added to the squad are Danny Mullen from Dundee FC and Anton Dowds ex Falkirk.

Loan players in include Lee Hodson a right back from Kilmarnock, and no surprised to find a couple of Loan ins from Rangers FC in Cole McKinnon in midfield and forward player Tony Weston.

Thanks Eric, Partick Thistle keeping you on your toes I see

 

 

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[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Come on Caley - Get into those Jeggie bestards 

[Robert]

5 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Come on Caley - Get into those Jeggie bestards 

Agreed. Let’s be on the front foot from the off and play the game on our terms.

Looking forward to seeing Deas keeping that thug Graham quiet!

Edited August 19, 2022 by Robert

[Jaggernaut]

Come on the Thistle from Inverness, get into those Thistles from Partick!

[Robert]

Pitch looks good.

Unchanged team from last week but Carson and Duffy added to the bench.

Ridgers

Hyde Delaney Deas Harper

Allardice MacGregor

Samuels Doran Mackay

Mckay

Subs: MacKay Duffy Carson Oakley Boyd Shaw

Tiffoney gave us a hard time last season, having the beating of Carson, so a big night for Hyde.  

Edited August 19, 2022 by Robert

[Donald1973]

How many times do we need to learn to stick to tiffoney like glue 

[Robert]

We are lucky we didn’t fall behind in 30 seconds. Samuels need to double up with Hyde on Tiffoney which he’s been trying to do but he’s a major threat to us.

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Robert

[Robert]

Graham: 1-0 down.

Not a great surprise the way they’ve been controlling the game so far. 

[Donald1973]

Well that was coming, slack passing not defending quick enough. Hyde not doing enough 

[Yngwie]

Such a simple goal, we could all see what was going to happen but the move wasn’t defended.

[Robert]

4 minutes ago, Donald1973 said:

Well that was coming, slack passing not defending quick enough. Hyde not doing enough 

He’s out of position and it is showing so we shouldn’t be hard on him. The goal came from the other wing and too many of our players are playing loose passes which are inviting more pressure on to us.

 

[Donald1973]

4 minutes ago, Robert said:

He’s out of position and it is showing so we shouldn’t be hard on him. The goal came from the other wing and too many of our players are playing loose passes which are inviting more pressure on to us.

 

True, I didn't mean Hyde was at fault for the goal.... Just that he's really struggling in general. Missing Carson to deal with tiffoney 

[Robert]

2-0. Terrible pass back by Deas.

@Donald1973: I assume Carson is not fully fit but I recall Tiffoney murdering him last season and setting two goals up (in the 3-3 draw?).

Anyway we can’t complain about being 2 down just now. Other than the save from Mckay’s shot we’ve been pretty impotent. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Robert

[caley100]

Yep, and Hyde nowhere.  talk about shooting yersel in the foot!!

 

[Douglas Mackenzie]

We are struggling tonight especially in defence.Doran not getting in the game so far.Tiffoney and Graham causing us all sorts of problems.Samuel's doing well although probably defending more than he is getting chances to attack.Partick just not letting us play

Edited August 19, 2022 by Douglas Mackenzie

[Satan]

Loose passing, loose play. 

[CaleyCiuin]

Absolute Pi*h ! Not good enough

[SteveA]

It's unbelievable we still haven't signed a natural right back.

[Robert]

We know what Tiffoney can do. If Carson and Duffy are fit enough to be in the squad, one should have started as we’ve thrown Hyde to the wolves tonight.

He’s a midfielder with potential. I just hope tonight doesn’t set his confidence and development back.

We need to change it before the second half. 

[+snorbens_caleyman]

Hyde should have ben replaced by Carson after the first minute, when it was clear that he was way out of his depth with Tiffoney.  Might have made a big difference to the confidence of the entire defence.

If he is still on for the second half, then I'll demand my money back 

[caley100]

That performance just highlights our need for proper full backs.   I said that last season and now it's feckin painfully obvious! Hyde is v.poor and is way out of his depth. 

[Robert]

Oakley and Carson on for Doran and Hyde.

I repeat my comment above. We can’t blame Hyde as he’s out of position and inexperienced and it shows. Carson should have started so I see it as a tactical or managerial error. 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Robert

[Satan]

I think the midfield is pretty weak, lacks pace and us providing little link up with the defence or attack, hence the hoofball.

Hyde might be out of position, but both goals came from the right .

[Robert]

1 minute ago, Satan said:

Hyde might be out of position, but both goals came from the right .

Exactly!!