Warriors away April2025

[STFU]

Are there not rules about deliberately fielding a weakened team? From memory I think we had to defend a scenario where we played a youth team in a cup game?

[tm4tj]

 

The result was a blow for ICT who are going to be without first-choice goalkeeper Musa Dibaga for the rest of the season...

[buckett]

1 hour ago, STFU said:

Are there not rules about deliberately fielding a weakened team? From memory I think we had to defend a scenario where we played a youth team in a cup game?

Think it was Hamilton - most of the team were wiped out by flu so the youth team were sent to play the game. They lost but it was a very credible performance by all accounts.

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

2 hours ago, STFU said:

Are there not rules about deliberately fielding a weakened team

We do not want the SFA to tell Arbroath to put out a strong team next week although our home form is currently very poor and we will no doubt underestimate them after their Annan thrashing and lose regardless. We are almost certain to assume Dumbarton beat Annan, get that completely wrong and find Wullie's boys overtake us again. 

Annan will almost certainly win both of their remaining games.  Our best hope is that Montrose lose next week and in our final game down near the Basin hope Gardyne scores a genuine own goal for us after 90 minutes of shear tension and no goals. 

[LisleRightPeg]

This is now extremely concerning. We can’t paper over the cracks. Saturday vs Arbroath is now a must win. If we are involved in a playoff I’m not confident. We are a full time team struggling in a part time division 

Edited April 19 by LisleRightPeg

[Yngwie]

If we’d won our recent home game v Annan we’d be safe now with 2 games to spare.

[Satan]

8 minutes ago, Yngwie said:

If we’d won our recent home game v Annan we’d be safe now with 2 games to spare.

Ifs and buts have provided a defining narrative to our season for the last 3 or 4 years. We must change this.

[RednBlackComeback]

As expected, the loss of Bavidge has completely floored us.

I take it there’s absolutely no chance of him appearing in any of our final 2 (or more likely 4) games?

[bishbashbosh]

14 hours ago, bishbashbosh said:

Billy scores with a great strike. 30 mins to go and we sit back and let them come at us. An easy save for our keeper,  he fumbles it and looked like when he is on the ground kicks ball into gilmour and ball trickles into net. Lots of possession 1st half, no cutting edge. Longstaff on 2nd half made no impact. 

I said this morning arbroath may make changes, boy did that make a difference. Looks like we are in free fall

 

After I posted this, on the way home, I have spoken to friends and some others at the game and asked what happened at the equaliser, “don’t know, I didn’t see it” was the comeback answer.

i have to admit I am not 100% sure I gave an accurate description of what happened due to people in front of me, players in the box, the pace things evolved, old age, seeing things,  etc.

i may have done a meatloaf, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. Pretty sure the keeper spilled the ball and I did see the ball trickling into left side of the goal. Not sure about keeper kicking ball into gilmour. Sometimes your brain tricks you into thinking you see something and you end up talking p1sh.                                                         Well my wife tells me that is what I do.

just listened to sk post match again and he says he will have to see it again.

anyhoo, I apologise to our keeper, posters on here not at the game for giving a wrong report on the goal, if it turns I was in fact, talking p1sh.

in my defence, no one on here who was at the game has posted giving an alternative explanation what happened.

grovelling excuse over in advance.

[bishbashbosh]

The plot thickens over the equaliser. Post match interview with the stenny player who they say scored.

when asked about it he laughs saying if your giving it to me I’ll take it but I was 20 yards away. Doesn’t offer a name of a team mate that scored it.

 

[RiG]

It liked like Gill palmed / fumbled the cross just in front of him and Gilmour battled with a Stenny player for the loose ball. As both slid in the ball ricocheted off Gilmour and into the net. 

[+old caley girl]

52 minutes ago, RiG said:

It liked like Gill palmed / fumbled the cross just in front of him and Gilmour battled with a Stenny player for the loose ball. As both slid in the ball ricocheted off Gilmour and into the net. 

That's how I saw it. 

[KennySim93]

Had a quick look at Arbroath’s line up the yesterday…seems like “only” 5 of them wouldn’t be in the starting 11 usually. Purely basing that off number of appearances this season. So it’s not like they changed their entire starting 11 or anything. Should we expect a similar line up next week or back to full strength and going for the win? Hoping for the former obviously!

[tm4tj]

Not starting from the title winning team that beat Stenny 4-0 the week before
Aidan McAdams GK 
Tam O'Brien CB  (captain & team of the year) 
Fraser Taylor (team of the year, 1 goal last week)
Scott Stewart (team of the year)
Sam Stanton (experienced midfielder 2 goals last week)
Ryan Dow (experienced midfielder)
Andy Winter (forward 1 goal last week)

Colin Hamilton was down as injured but he never played the week before anyway

Still disgusting as far as I am concerned.

[tm4tj]

Pic from Stenny match report when keeper denied Billy a second goal with his legs...

Just to clarify, it was the keepers own legs, not Billy's 

[caley100]

14 hours ago, LisleRightPeg said:

This is now extremely concerning. We can’t paper over the cracks. Saturday vs Arbroath is now a must win. If we are involved in a playoff I’m not confident. We are a full time team struggling in a part time division 

Very true,  And I've yet to see this season where being the professional side has given us an advantage.   

[big cherly]

15 hours ago, Satan said:

Ifs and buts have provided a defining narrative to our season for the last 3 or 4 years. We must change this.

Also if we can, restrict the excuses down to a handful. 

[bishbashbosh]

Not really bothered what arbroath did yesterday . They are not the first champions to do it, won't be the last. We should have been safe in 8th or better before yesterday not depending on /hoping another team will do us a favour.

I wonder if this was in their thinking to give squad players a game yesterday, next week and the week after........

• SPFL Rules:

  The official rules of the SPFL stipulate that only players who participated in 25% or more of the league matches for the champion club are eligible for a medal.

[tm4tj]

[ICTPaisley]

1 hour ago, bishbashbosh said:

Not really bothered what arbroath did yesterday . They are not the first champions to do it, won't be the last. We should have been safe in 8th or better before yesterday not depending on /hoping another team will do us a favour.

I wonder if this was in their thinking to give squad players a game yesterday, next week and the week after........

• SPFL Rules:

  The official rules of the SPFL stipulate that only players who participated in 25% or more of the league matches for the champion club are eligible for a medal.

Exactly, I agree with this completely. It’s our own downfall. Nothing to do with what Arbroath are doing.

 

[tm4tj]

37 minutes ago, ICTPaisley said:

Exactly, I agree with this completely. It’s our own downfall. Nothing to do with what Arbroath are doing.

 

I completely disagree with both of you. Had they fielded their usual Starting XI then I doubt very much they would be losing 5-1. On the other hand only starting with four usual suspects has given Annan a massive advantage and put our safety in jeopardy. For that reason alone, Arbroath will have made a huge contribution to our downfall unless they field a similar starting XI against us.

At the moment, given our keeper crisis, then we will do well to match Annan over the final two games. It's still in our own hands, but these are fragile hands at the moment.

[CELTIC1CALEY3]

Very important we come out of Administration tomorrow and sign some top class players who are out of contract and needing critical game time. Must play for peanuts.

[+old caley girl]

47 minutes ago, CELTIC1CALEY3 said:

Very important we come out of Administration tomorrow and sign some top class players who are out of contract and needing critical game time. Must play for peanuts.

I doubt will be tomorrow?? 

[bishbashbosh]

2 hours ago, tm4tj said:

I completely disagree with both of you. Had they fielded their usual Starting XI then I doubt very much they would be losing 5-1. On the other hand only starting with four usual suspects has given Annan a massive advantage and put our safety in jeopardy. For that reason alone, Arbroath will have made a huge contribution to our downfall unless they field a similar starting XI against us.

At the moment, given our keeper crisis, then we will do well to match Annan over the final two games. It's still in our own hands, but these are fragile hands at the moment.

Donnie, let me turn it round.

IF Arbroath fielded their usual starting 11 yesterday and scraped a win, then fielded yesterday’s team against us this Saturday and we beat them 5-1 would we be having this discussion, eg about them fielding a “weakened team”.  I doubt it.

[tm4tj]

Grapes and Bananas.