Wasps @ our Byke Nov2024

[RiG]

It speaks volumes of how bad a manager Ferguson is / was that we seem to have a better chance of staying up after he's gone despite a fifteen point deduction. 

[+DoofersDad]

Another excellent and entertaining performance from the lads today.  They are playing well as a team and playing a style of football which not only is more entertaining to watch, it seems to be much better suited to the strengths of the players. RiG sums it up brilliantly with his post.

I hope Davidson's injury is not as bad as it looked.  He was playing very well prior to that.  It says a lot about the change in approach that he got injured when trying to block a clearance by the opposition keeper.

[Kind of Blue]

49 minutes ago, RiG said:

It speaks volumes of how bad a manager Ferguson is / was that we seem to have a better chance of staying up after he's gone despite a fifteen point deduction. 

Let’s confine DF to the dustbin of history and concentrate on driving the team on to survival this season.

[buckett]

That was a better performance from the team than any I saw last season in the championship.

Edge of the seat stuff and a thoroughly entertaining watch.

(And the referee wasn't so bad - quite fair I thought, and he took a dim view of our blatant dives and time-wasting tactics towards the end, which, lets face it, would have had our fans howling if the roles were reversed!)

Not a bad player in blue and red on the park today, but by a whisker I'd say Longstaff on the wing and Dibaga in goal tied for my man of the match.

We're gonna make the playoffs - you saw it here first!!!

[IBM]

32 minutes ago, buckett said:

That was a better performance from the team than any I saw last season in the championship.

Edge of the seat stuff and a thoroughly entertaining watch.

Not a bad player in blue and red on the park today.

We're gonna make the playoffs - you saw it here first!!!

I agree with what I have left in your post bucket but think you been celebrating tonight and getting carried away about the playoffs  happy to be proved wrong at the end of the season though!

[STFU]

13 hours ago, buckett said:

That was a better performance from the team than any I saw last season in the championship.

Edge of the seat stuff and a thoroughly entertaining watch.

(And the referee wasn't so bad - quite fair I thought, and he took a dim view of our blatant dives and time-wasting tactics towards the end, which, lets face it, would have had our fans howling if the roles were reversed!)

Not a bad player in blue and red on the park today, but by a whisker I'd say Longstaff on the wing and Dibaga in goal tied for my man of the match.

We're gonna make the playoffs - you saw it here first!!!

Agree about the ref. Only decision I really want to see again is when their keeper took out Longstaff as it looked a definite penalty and I think the ref has bottled making the call.

Didn't like our time wasting and we ended up with silly bookings as a result. Understand why it happens but hope it doesn't cost us with suspensions later in the season.

[tm4tj]

 

[tm4tj]

[Huisdean]

1 hour ago, STFU said:

Agree about the ref. Only decision I really want to see again is when their keeper took out Longstaff as it looked a definite penalty and I think the ref has bottled making the call.

Didn't like our time wasting and we ended up with silly bookings as a result. Understand why it happens but hope it doesn't cost us with suspensions later in the season.

Looked like a definite penalty to me as the keeper just took Longstaff out with little attempt to play the ball. Only 1 of our bookings was for time wasting,  Nolan, and it looked like that was because the linesman/ref refused to let us put a sub on. The bookings for Gilmour and Billy were extremely harsh and systematic of a poor referee.

[tm4tj]

I wasn't convinced by any of our penalty shouts. The fans, including me, made more of Luis' appeal than any of the players did. I thought Nolan could just as easily have been booked for his theatrical dive. 

Good deserved win and another clean sheet. Musa took the weight off the defence with a few catches as Alloa tried to salvage something.

[Satan]

10 minutes ago, Huisdean said:

Looked like a definite penalty to me as the keeper just took Longstaff out with little attempt to play the ball. Only 1 of our bookings was for time wasting,  Nolan, and it looked like that was because the linesman/ref refused to let us put a sub on. The bookings for Gilmour and Billy were extremely harsh and systematic of a poor referee.

Looked like they were just time-wasting initially at the free kick - surely they would have decided to do the substitution when the kick was awarded, but no, the ref was wise to it. I'm all for playing them at their own game when it comes to running the clock down - but we need to work on it, it came across as pretty amateur and we were punished for it.

On two occasions we tried to chip it into the corner from free kicks and both times it went straight out of play and the ball just came straight back at us.

Could've been costly at the end as were were dropping deeper and giving up a lot of the ball.

[tm4tj]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Table after matchday 14. Off to Dumfries next Saturday
1.	Kelty Hearts	14	6	4	4	23	13	22
2.	Arbroath	14	6	4	4	17	16	22
3.	Alloa Athletic	14	5	6	3	17	12	21
4.	Stenhousemuir	14	6	3	5	17	15	21
5.	Cove Rangers	14	6	2	6	23	19	20
6.	Q.O.S.	14	5	3	6	12	15	18
7.	Montrose	14	4	5	5	12	11	17
8.	Dumbarton	14	3	6	5	19	24	15
9.	Annan Athletic	14	4	2	8	9	24	14
10.	Inverness CT	14	4	7	3	12	12	4

[buckett]

6 hours ago, STFU said:

Agree about the ref. Only decision I really want to see again is when their keeper took out Longstaff as it looked a definite penalty and I think the ref has bottled making the call.

Didn't like our time wasting and we ended up with silly bookings as a result. Understand why it happens but hope it doesn't cost us with suspensions later in the season.

Looked to me like Longstaff was waiting for the tackle and made the best of it. The way he moved his arms made his fall look just a wee bit too dramatic and the referee dismissed it as simulation.

Although delighted with the win I really wish they wouldn't resort to this time-wasting. Go for another goal instead! And ffs stop doing that carry-on at the corner flag. It's not entertaining to watch and unless you're really good at it, (Premiership standard, at least!) you just end up losing possession.

Stop it!

It's not big and it's not clever!

[tm4tj]

Dog Falls MotM Charlie Gilmour can be seen here presenting Julie with a few tinnies for the next away day...

 

 

[Charles Bannerman]

22 hours ago, RiG said:

It speaks volumes of how bad a manager Ferguson is / was that we seem to have a better chance of staying up after he's gone despite a fifteen point deduction. 

And when Ferguson arrived, Scot Gardiner went out of his way publicly to claim “credit” for the appointment.

[The Long Man]

The way I look at it is to add the deducted points back. I know it is pointless, but it does give you an idea of how we measure up against the others. That we could be 3 points off the top after a poor start and plenty of the season to play tells you how well we are doing in relative terms. If we keep this up we will catch those above in due course and then it's all to play for.

[tm4tj]

 

[Eagle4Caley]

On 11/16/2024 at 6:00 PM, Robert said:

A well deserved win.

I thought we were excellent in the first half, but was worried when Alloa had a spell early in the second when we were taking risks and getting lucky at the back.

We got back on top and Gilmour took his goal well, and you could see how much it meant to all the players.

We then closed the game out, despite the best efforts of the referee. Mckay was very unlucky not to be on the score sheet and we hit the post.

Longstaff is a player transformed now we are playing him wide again, and was outstanding when playing on the left. Gilmour and Thompson were very good too, and credit Dibaga for the clean sheet and running the clock down.

We seem more streetwise under Kellacher too.

A very satisfactory afternoon (despite the referee). 

This is great to hear …on the occasions I have seen him play live, I felt he was a decent player...it feels a bit like what happened last year to Nathan Shaw, played centrally as a 'play-maker' but losing the benefits of him being out wide.

Probably the one concern is we have just the one experienced striker in McKay.... Cairns will need some opportunities to come on as sub a bit earlier, also what's the score with Charlie Reilly, he still seems to be with us, but he suffered a serious injury didn't he?

[ClickbaitProponent]

5 hours ago, Eagle4Caley said:

This is great to hear …on the occasions I have seen him play live, I felt he was a decent player...it feels a bit like what happened last year to Nathan Shaw, played centrally as a 'play-maker' but losing the benefits of him being out wide.

Probably the one concern is we have just the one experienced striker in McKay.... Cairns will need some opportunities to come on as sub a bit earlier, also what's the score with Charlie Reilly, he still seems to be with us, but he suffered a serious injury didn't he?

MacKinnon will be our top scorer end of the season just you see. Scott has told him to have a dig if he gets a chance and he hit the post this week and put one just wide in the first half. He just sits in the pocket and has some kind of boot on him. He'll finish on 10 plus - that's my prediction. He reminds me a bit of Polworth in the way he plays but I think he has more about him.

[Yngwie]

34 minutes ago, ClickbaitProponent said:

MacKinnon will be our top scorer end of the season just you see. Scott has told him to have a dig if he gets a chance and he hit the post this week and put one just wide in the first half. He just sits in the pocket and has some kind of boot on him. He'll finish on 10 plus - that's my prediction. He reminds me a bit of Polworth in the way he plays but I think he has more about him.

Easy to see how that could happen, especially if we don’t start getting more goals from strikers.

Top scorers in league matches:

3 - Devine

2 - MacKinnon 

1 - various others including Billy

[Robert]

Charlie Gilmour deservedly named in the SPFL Team of the Week. 

[buckett]

What a great month it's been for football so far - 2 wins (and a draw) for ICT and 2 wins for Scotland!!

Can it get better?