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Long time fan · Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 79 Location: Kirkcaldy

It’s the mark of a good team to win games when not playing well and that’s what happened today. The shape of our team was designed to counter the physical threat of ICT which we did, but with the down side of not having width and our more creative players on show. Top marks to the keeper for 3 really good saves in the first half, and also to Liam Dick for an all round good display and a fantastic goal saving tackle on Billy McKay.Stanton impeccable as ever, took a sore one late on and a tremendous effort by Jamie Gullan which might have been our only shot on target won the points.

A great determined display by all the team breaks the hoodoo and makes us top of the league. Keep it up lads, this might just be our year!

Ps A terrible performance from the referee and the railway side linesman. On another day ICT would have seen red cards and Rovers would have had at least 2 penalties for fouls on Jack Hamilton.

Pps Smith and Hamilton are making a huge difference to our forward line. Great signings.

Franco · Joined: 10 Oct 2019 Posts: 1196 Location: kirkcaldy

What a poor performance. All those times that we played better than ICT with little or no reward but it's today we win.....somehow! 🎉.
The formation didn't work. Vaughany is not a winger and that would have only have been successful if he had been given a free role ( but today he was off it, anyway).
Hamilton won his fair share in the air but ,without support, the attacks fizzled out.
Elsewhere , no-one seemed to be able to find his man ,even when getting the ball down from the almost constant head tennis.
Kevin undoubtedly kept us in it, but whoever awarded MotM overlooked that.
But .....we play like that and go top of the League ! Other teams had better watch out !

embow · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 5:37 pm Post subject:

robroy · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 576

Summed up perfectly Franco, to be honest it could have been 3 or 4 goals for inverness , another downside was the juveniles running on the pitch, just where are the parents

Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2590 Location: Aberdeen

embow · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:23 pm Post subject:

Just had a wee thought in that it's one year short of one third of my total life, so far on the planet, since we last won against them!😲
Scary stuff!!
And now that's me given my age away. 🥺
Even scarier!🫣
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Tam · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:51 pm Post subject:

Wow.
First half we were so poor (Honking)
Second half a slight improvement AND an absolute screamer of a winning goal from Jamie Gullan. Superb.

So many players were off form.

The hoodoo is off and we sit TOP of the League.

We the fans keep on saying what a brilliant talented squad we have now, but it doesn't show so far in our play.
The coach doesn't seem to know how we should be playing????
How to rectify glaring faults in the team.... as said before - constant head tennis, and we rarely win out of that?
Selecting a good passing side.

I am still undecided about our keeper? He brings off great saves, then boobs, doesn't hold the ball when with his height he should easily out jump an attacker? Also he is so slow at distributing the ball.

Anyway, Top of the league

Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1873 Location: Irvine

Northern_Rover · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 2725 Location: Granite City

Murrays biggest headache with a full fit squad available is getting the team selection right. For me how Dylan Easton didn't get a start yesterday after an outstanding display the week before and being in the build up to a number of our goals this season was baffling.

I get it that Smith has been scoring and Vaughan baled us out against Queens Park but these are the tough decisions IM has to make. Without Easton and or Mullen I felt we were too narrow with little service to Hamilton. Vaughan and Smith dropped deep to pick up the ball and Hamilton became isolated.

It's great though that we've developed a habit of securing points late in games turning a defeat into a draw and draws into wins late on.

Gullans goal yesterday was probably the only high point in a drab affair but what a finish and what a result.

Specky Ginger · Joined: 16 Jun 2012 Posts: 4258 Location: Dysart

wellyboot · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 2567 Location: Aberdeenshire

A crowd of just under 3000 with only a handful of away fans.
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Valleyboy · Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 417

Wonder how many were paying fans, and how many free child places? Also what was the total gate revenue for the game compared to same fixtures from last season (taking a proportion of the paid season tickets into account)? Good to see plenty fans in the stadium - other than the pitch invaders - but ultimately it’s the cash that counts. Not easy to work out and maybe in the longer term a temporary hit is worth it for the longer term gain, but still would be useful to know.

Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2590 Location: Aberdeen

Just looking at our fixtures list in the league between now and late December and they are pretty damn tough until after the 16th - with maybe just one game in that time that some might bet on us to win. We would still win some unexpected ones anyway. We would need to move up a gear or four from the last two performances, if we were to stay top - or even second - until then.

Sorry about the offtopicallity! Embarassed

StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 4025

Regards the crowd, we played ICT at home in September last season, 1,745 in attendance with a much healthier away support (in railway that day)

Similarly we played Morton last season at home in August jist like this year… 1,600 compared to this season’s 3,041

Basically we are not far off doubling our numbers which is great work

Looking at a bumper gate for our next home game too when the Arabs come a calling…

Heiner Rover · Joined: 10 Aug 2023 Posts: 26 Location: Germany

If every league match had ended after 85 minutes we would have 7 points and be 7th in the league instead of 13 points and 1st Maybe irrelevant (a game lasts 90 mins, etc, etc.) but an interesting statistic anyway.