Cove Away 15th April

[caley100]

Yes!!!   good on ya Cammy!

[STFU]

[Satan]

The league that no one wants to win.

[caley100]

Seems that way, And....County now bottom!

[Ronaldo]

Good result boys and if things remain we have dragged PT back into things too

[Satan]

Late equaliser for Dundee, I guess they're out of reach now.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

[Bridge and a Castle]

The question now is, how much rotation before hamilton game? can we affor to rest either allardice or welsh? not been impressed with woods yet personally, personally wouldn't have him in the midfield 'pivot' holding midfielders. Delaney maybe to be rested after his knock just at start of 2nd half? 

Well done to Aaron Doran on seemingly changing the game after he came on with the winning of the penalty and the assist for Cammy 

[Yngwie]

What a rollercoaster of an afternoon. With 25 mins to go, our campaign looked pretty much over, but now we are right back in it for the playoffs.

[Yngwie]

And what an exciting league - 3 games to go and 9 of the 10 teams still have something to play for.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

1 minute ago, Yngwie said:

What a rollercoaster of an afternoon. With 25 mins to go, our campaign looked pretty much over, but now we are right back in it for the playoffs.

MATTHEw 8.6

[tm4tj]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Dundee	33	16	10	7	60	36	58
2.	Queens Park	33	17	6	10	59	45	57
3.	Partick Thistle	33	15	7	11	59	41	52
4.	Ayr United	33	14	9	10	58	42	51
5.	Inverness CT	33	14	9	10	48	43	51
6.	Morton	33	12	12	9	48	41	48
7.	Raith Rovers	33	11	9	13	44	45	42
8.	Arbroath	33	6	15	12	29	44	33
9.	Hamilton Ac.	33	7	8	18	28	59	29
10.	Cove Rangers	33	6	9	18	36	73	27

[Satan]

 

 

 

[tm4tj]

Unfortunately..........

TUESDAY 18TH APRIL

Hamilton Academical 19:45 Inverness Caledonian Thistle

That's enough to make your keekie winker twitch... 

 

[Robert]

We are due a win against Hamilton.

We need be focussed for the whole game.

A win puts us third and heaps pressure on Partick and Ayr. 

[old caley girl]

1 hour ago, tm4tj said:

Unfortunately..........

TUESDAY 18TH APRIL

Hamilton Academical 19:45 Inverness Caledonian Thistle

That's enough to make your keekie winker twitch... 

 

I'm scared already lol 

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Hamilton is a massive challenge after what has been achieved so far.  They really are a tough nut and it is quite remarkable that Tuesday's game represents by far and away our biggest challenge this season. Meantime congratulations to the Club for the result today.  We need everyone to play out of their skins on Tuesday.

[IcyT]

A much better second half - positive. Could have had more goals after the second if we’d taken shots on. Instead did a lot of little passes around the box, which did at least demonstrate pretty impressive close control.  Might have regretted that had Ridgers not pulled off a great save near the end! Was impressed by Boyd when he came on for Samuels. Neat and looked confident.

[Eagle4Caley]

49 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Hamilton is a massive challenge after what has been achieved so far.  They really are a tough nut and it is quite remarkable that Tuesday's game represents by far and away our biggest challenge this season. Meantime congratulations to the Club for the result today.  We need everyone to play out of their skins on Tuesday.

It's quite remarkable that no points againts Hamilton are the difference between us challenging for automatic promotion rather than pushing for a play-off place, and could yet cost us that too.

Also remarkable that Partick just a couple of games ago looked challengers for title and yet we could catch them.

Anyway great result again today, without Henderson. We could do with having Duffy back soon to give us the option of pushing Carson forward, if required to give Welsh or Allardice a breather

[ICTPaisley]

12 hours ago, STFU said:

Based on current form, which so many have been getting excited about, surely this is our easiest possible game?

You called it, another win!

[Jaggernaut]

Another hard fought three points at a potential banana skin. The games are coming quick and fast, and unfortunately we are running out of games, obviously hoping to win, but also to increase our goal difference.  We just have to give it our best shot, as we are in a position I didn't think we'd be in several games ago.

[CaleyHedgehog]

Just back from my technology free holiday, and what great results from the boys. 

It happens every year - the team lose faith, we lose faith, we all threaten not to buy a season ticket next year - and then ICT pull some magic out of the hat, and we all enjoy a nerve wracking, nail biting finish to the season .....keep it up boys, this is what it is all about and who knows where it could take us, both in the league and the cup.

Oh, and I got my T shirts today - thanks to all those involved ... all set for the semi final. 

[RiG]

A very good three points but a very poor performance. Cove were stuffy and got a lot of players behind the ball and challenged us to break through and we struggled for long periods of the game. Once we got close to the opposition penalty area we ran out of ideas most of the time. Very few killer passes were made. Shaw in the first half was able to pick a killer pass to find Mckay and although he found the net the linesman, eventually, put his flag up.

The opening goal was a low free kick effort from Vigurs about 20 yards out. It seemed that Ridgers possibly expected him to send it over the wall but instead is was cleverly placed along the ground into the bottom corner.

I didn't see exactly what the penalty was given for but I thought at the time it was a pull on Doran as he got in behind the Cove defence to chase down a high ball over the top. Strange that no card was given by the referee. Mckay  leathered the ball into the net from the spot to take him eve closer to Wyness' goal scoring record. Doran had a hand in the winner as well after he collected the ball in the box after a cross from the right found him. He laid it off to Harper who coolly cut inside his marker and lashed a shot past the keeper. Towards the end Ridgers pulled off a stunning save to deny Cove an equaliser.

I think we just about deserved the win but it was a game that was very low on quality. There were only about 3 or 4 good bits of football played all game which at times seemed like a pre season friendly. For us MacKay and Samuels were really disappointing and both are struggling to make things happen during matches at the minute. When Doran came on and Shaw moved to the left we looked better almost right away and Boyd was also decent when he replaced Samuels. Probably time to start them both on Tuesday.

[Yngwie]

Doran, with 366 appearances, has drawn level with Richard Hastings in 3rd place in our all time appearances list. 3 more will put him into 2nd, overtaking Grant Munro.

[Robert]

6 hours ago, Bridge and a Castle said:

not been impressed with woods yet personally, personally wouldn't have him in the midfield 'pivot' holding midfielders.

I thought he looked better when he came on on Tuesday compared to his earlier appearances.

He picked up an injury after joining us and did not have a club in the first half of the season so there may be more to come from him.

He’s only 20, the same age as Lewis Hyde, and seems to be being preferred to Hyde when substitutions are being made.