Accies Away April18th

[tm4tj]

Oh No, Accies Again!

 

Inverness make the long trek to Hamilton on Tuesday night for a rescheduled 7:45pm Championship fixture at New Douglas Park. Yes, I know, we do have to play them, but I promise this is the last time this season. We have failed to beat Accies in the three previous Championship games this season and they also knocked a young Caley Jags side out of the Challenge Cup at the height of our injury crisis. They simply have had our number this season, however we are a different beast at the moment having won five games on the bounce. The law of averages says we must beat them sometime. Doesn't it?

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Venue H2H v Accies

Pld

Won

Drn

Lst

For

Agst

+ / -

Home	17	5	4	8	25	23	+2
Away	13	6	2	5	18	17	+1
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	30	11	6	13	43	40	+3

Strangely enough, we have fared better away from home against Accies. However, as below, our statistics over the last ten meetings don't make good reading. Seven defeats and only two wins

Last 10 Competitive Meetings v Accies

1 - 2 (A)

0 - 3 (H)

0 - 2 (A)

0 - 1 (H)

4 - 0 (H)

1 - 1 (A)

1 - 2 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

2 - 1 (H)

0 - 3 (A)

Accies Have Us Sussed: Feb21st 2023: 1 - 2 The second game between these sides in three days produced yet another three points for bottom club Accies and a red card for Billy Mckay to rub salt into our wounds. Accies took the lead when a Lawson short corner fed Connor Smith who crossed in for Daniel O'Reilly to powerfully head home. Billy Mckay had a header blocked away for a corner as the pressure ramped up heading towards the interval and it paid off in the 43rd minute when Allardice drilled home from the edge of the box to level the game after a Carson cross was half cleared. Still time for Winter and JPT to combine but the latter shot wide. A deserved goal for the Caley Jags who have pushed hard to get back on level terms. Similar to Saturday, Connor Smith made no mistake from the spot after Dan Mackay brought down Rhegan Tumilty after the previous claim for handball was waived away. Billy Mckay shot wide as Inverness looked to come back again and Henderson had an effort blocked in the last minute of normal time. Billy got a yellow instead of a penalty then a second yellow followed and that just about summed up our three days of the Jackass. 
 

Pos Team Pld W D L F A Pts Table ahead of Accies game on Tuesday night. 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

Tuesday 18th April

 Hamilton v Inverness Ct

Friday 21st April

Ayr United v Queen's Pk 

Last Time Out

Inverness made hard work of overcoming injury hit Cove Rangers at the weekend. Iain Vigurs gave Bottom club Cove the lead with a low curling free kick after the interval. Ten minutes later Billy Mckay drove home from the spot to level the game and the comeback was complete a further four minutes later when Cammy Harper fired in from the edge of the box to make it five wins on the bounce. Not as easy a game as recent form would suggest, but another three points in the bag. W W W W W 

Hamilton went down to Queens Park on the Friday night when Grant Savoury scored with fifteen minutes left. Jake Davidson hit the post as Queens Park held on comfortably to leave Accies two points off the bottom. L W D L L 

Accies have won all three Championship encounters. Here's a thing. Had we won those three games then we would be sitting top of the table and Accies would be all but relegated by now. Just let that sink in how important these games have been for both clubs.

Latest Team News

Current injuries aside we have Jay Henderson unavailable for the second game of his two match ban. Wallace Duffy and Roddy MacGregor and Max Ram missed out again but Danny Devine got some game time at Cove whilst Robbie Deas was rested for the first 75 minutes before replacing Devine. Sutherland and Walsh look like they will be missing the whole season at this rate. Unless we have picked up any new injuries, then I suspect we will be along similar lines to the Cove game.

 

Hamilton Starting XI in the 2-0 loss to Morton

Fulton

Sparrow     McGowan     O'Reilly     Tumilty

Lawson

Winter     Martin     De Bolle     Smith

Ashley-Seal

[CaleyHedgehog]

C'mon boys!

Start making my optimistic (but not impossible)dreams come true tonight (The Final Three thread) - you can do it - you are TITANIUM.

[tm4tj]

So are my darts...

Oh wait, they're tungsten

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Hedgehog and dart player - what a pair of pricks Anyway in order to protect the bubble from any other potential pricks  I am en route to Weegieland with a major stash of Hubba Bubba. Looking forward to a post match “Doddsie”

[tm4tj]

 

[tm4tj]

Mathew 8.6

“Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly. Alas it's matchday and he is off to the ZLX to continue his inebriation recovery. Dodds heals a humble man with darts and great faith. If even a junior officer like Bazza can have the men under him obey his orders then Dodds with no authority above him can perform great miracles. Johndo answered and said, "Billy, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and I shall be healed. Failing that buy me a double voddie and I will see things much clearer.... 

[Jaggernaut]

It could come down to which team has the most desire, is Hamiltons desire to stay in this league greater than our desire for a playoff place?

If we play our passing game, which usually ends up in a chance or a goal, we give ourselves the best possible chance of getting the right result. 

[tm4tj]

[Robert]

Deas, Doran and Boyd in for Harper, Mackay and Samuels.

A big night ahead: let’s hope it’s a positive one for us!

We are due a win against Hamilton: let’s make it tonight!

Edited April 18, 2023 by Robert

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

All over them and Billy misses a feckin sitter. We need that goal

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

What a frustrating half of football. - in full control but only one clear chance. Officials are not helping either. I would gladly take 1-0. 

[Robert]

Half time 0-0

According to the BBC, Deas hit the post with a header but we’ve only had 4 attempts so far with Hamilton having 1.

Devine got an early booking, whilst we have committed a lot of fouls.

Hopefully IHE can give us some confidence ahead of the second half…..

Edited April 18, 2023 by Robert

[+bughtmaster]

9 minutes ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

What a frustrating half of football. - in full control but only one clear chance. Officials are not helping either. I would gladly take 1-0. 

I would rather take 0 _ 2

[Robert]

Even 0-1 will do me!

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Doran gives up two good chances as we keep control but we need that feckin elusive goal

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

We need to change up front. Doran tiring and Boyd ineffective. 

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Boyd misses more of a sitter than Billy did. Their number 9 is the biggest diver ever.

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Guess feckin what - from a free kick which never was but must make Dodds make changes- perhaps too late ?

[Robert]

We need a big reaction now to turn this round. 

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Shaw equaliser

[Satan]

Shawnaldo. 

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

Rather fortunate as Samuels slipped but got lucky -,who cares

[Robert]

We’ve come from behind to win at Ayr, Morton and Cove recently. Can we do it again?

[CaleyHedgehog]

C'mon Caley Thistle 

[IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER]

We have come alive