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Rumour circulating that Lance Stroll could be retiring at the end of the season when his contract with Aston Martin ends to move into management with the F1 team.
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I fully expect despite the complete underestimation of Falkirk swatting Montrose aside last week, that Falkirk will easily be in the Championship playoffs next season and we could end up on the end of a 3-0 pumping at Links Park in the playoff semi finals with only 2 shots at goal from us in the whole game with our negative tactics and preferencial lonee Lowland League player standard. I think people overestimate how poor the Championship is right now and that there is a clear overlap in quality with the two leagues.
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It would not surprise me if Sheridan had been sold on coming to Inverness by Gardiner and Dodds and then realised he'd been done and 'wtf have I just walked into???'
At least with Queen's Park they are a less of shambles of a club and team spirit actually exists.
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Entire prefered midfield and central defence made up of loanees. There is no backbone to the first team. This is grim.
Loanees being prefered to signed players (even those with one year left) in those positions does not bode well for these contracted players to stay with the club regardless what ever league we play in next season. I can see a complete clear out at the end of season, players just wanting to go somewhere else. Continuity has always served us well, when there is chopping and changing at this club it disrupts any progress forward and is forerunner to disaster, this has been proved again and again. Massive problem with our midfield just now. I hope we can sign in at least six or seven new midfielders in the summer a couple of quality center backs, get something for a team to be built around. There is nothing in the team right now, its all currently being dismantled in front of us.
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7 hours ago, SandyCromarty said:
Yes Welsh and Sheridan have pulled you out of the shit and now you sit at the top of the league, oh hold on, I got that very wrong another wee keek at the league shows you're one point ahead of us.
And you're right Sheridan has played at an extremely high level and at his 16 career teams he's played at the following;
Apoel
Omonia
Jagiellonia Bialystok
Wellington Phoenix
Ironi Kiryat Shmona
Indeed, all these clubs play at a higher level than the Scottish Championship, with apart from WP have the possibility of European Competition and play in front of much bigger crowds. Probably even in leagues where the quality is better than all our top flight clubs bar Rangers and Celtic.
Sheridan is probably at the smallest club now in his career and at the lowest level. All clubs you mention are far bigger than Caley Th, so Caley second smallest.
I would guess that Sheridan would probably move onto another club in the summer, if he stays in Scotland I would think he would remain in the Glasgow or Cental area and play in the Championship.
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That's any concern of automatic relegation dismissed, now a huge game next weekend against Queen's Park. Pressure on them.
Our record against Arbroath is this season = 2 wins each and a draw, last season it was 2 in our favour and two draws, 21/22 was 2 wins to us and 1 to them, the three others were draws, 20/21 was 2 wins to us and a draw, 19/20 was 1 win for us and 2 wins for them.
ICT - 9 wins, 5 defeats and 7 draws against Arbroath since both teams were in the Championship at the same time, including cup and playoffs.
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Against Accies, last season probably cost us a playoff place as we lost 3 games against them and won once. Also one lost in the Challenge Cup to top it off, 21/22 it was 1 for us, 2 for Accies and a draw. Overall its 13 wins for Accies and 12 for us in all competition, 6 draws.
I also notice we haven't beaten Alloa in 5 games with them winning 2 and 3 draws, last win for us was in the Scottish Cup on the 18th Jan 2020.
Cove have only beaten us once, in the League Cup, but as we are familiar with over the last couple of seasons we are pretty good at undoing any historical hoodoos we have over other teams while still maintaining our own.
Montrose, see Michael Gardyne.
If we can't beat Queen's Park next week should we start worrying?
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There is a high chance with the strength of these wind gusts that any ball that gets above three feet of the ground is going off in the direction the wind is blowing to seek its own fortune. Could be a day that a goal will be scored directly from a corner or that a goalkeeper will score from his own penalty box. The tactic of hoofball is going to see these footballs disappearing like balloons over the Moray Firth and away behind the Black Isle. Imagine wild Championship ball ends up in the back of the net at Dudgeon Park.
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19 hours ago, Burattino Di Calzini said:
Let's not forget Schumacher settled two world titles (one in his favour, one not) by deliberately crashing into his opponent. Senna did the same in 1990. Senna, in particular, seems to get a free pass for that. They were great drivers for sure, but it leaves a nasty taste.
Prost deliberately crashing into Senna at the chicane at Suzuka to win the title left a bad taste in the mouth. Prost not even given a slap on the wrist for that. Senna had a major gripe over the powers that be, especially Balestre whom he suspected of favouritism towards Prost. There is some footage of Senna and Balestre arguing and Senna walking out of a driver's meeting absolutely raging, Senna did not like him at all. It was all very toxic.
I did enjoy the Nannini win after the clash at Suzuka, unfortunately his only one.
Prost's take out on Senna was at slow speed and under braking, Prost turned in long before the corner as Senna was right along side and hit him. Absolutely Senna had the move done. Both cars stopped at the end of a straight which went from high speed to very heavy on the brakes into a slow chicane, so both cars in a dangerous position. Senna gets a push from the marshalls, drives through the run off and gets disqualified and loses the World title to Prost who caused the accident in the first place. Senna is the one whom gets punished. I get where he got his sense on injustice from and the chip on his shoulder but it didn't justify his actions at Suzuka the following year.
Senna's was at high speed and looked like he was make a point rather stupidly and at great risk about 'pole position being on the wrong side of the grid'. Amazing that no one was hurt and no other cars were involved (I think though the other drivers knew what might happen). Funny though that another Benetton took full advantage to win.
Schumacher was a smart one, he and the Benetton management tested the rules and everything else to their limit and beyond to gain an advantage over the faster Williams-Renault and it worked. I'm hearing that Flavio isn't in the the best of health at the moment. Great character, but a big f***ing cheat.
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Bonnyrigg Rose 1-2 Peterhead
Clyde 2-1 Stranraer
Elgin City 2-1 Spartans
Forfar Ath. 1-1 Dumbarton
Stenhousemuir 1-2 East Fife
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Airdrie 1-1 Morton
Dunfermline Ath. 1-2 Partick Th.
Inverness CT 1-0 Arbroath
Queens Park 0-1 Dundee Utd
Raith Rovers 2-1 Ayr Utd
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Dumbarton 1-1 Stenhousemuir
East Fife 2-1 Elgin City
Peterhead 1-0 Clyde
Stranraer 0-0 Bonnyrigg Rose
The Spartans 1-2 Forfar Ath.
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Ayr Utd 1-1 Airdrie
Arbroath 0-2 Dunfermline
Dundee Utd 1-2 Raith Rovers
Morton 1-0 Queens Park
Partick Thistle 1-1 Inverness CT
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21 minutes ago, Mackie The Staggie said:
Looks like the Red Bull bosses are ready to swing the axes again, with Danny Ric being given a few races to improve his form before he's dumped for Liam Lawson.
Taking from that he is no longer an option to replace Perez next season. That was the whole point of him being at this team in the first place. So its going to be now whether he decides to be done with F1 before F1 is done with him. I'm sure he will give it his best shot, however no one escapes the axe warning, not in F1.
Not a surprise, everyone could see he had lost some speed at McLaren and that wasn't down to the car. He's a different level in understanding the car and communication than de Vries was but looks like not any quicker. It would also be annoying if people start trying to lobby other teams to take him just because they believe he has an entertaining personality.
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1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
I really don’t think this is the case. You’ve got six games left, and only 2 of them (this one and at home to Raith) are against teams who aren’t also currently in the relegation scrap.
Those other four games are significantly more important for you guys.
Its going to be every game is going to be significantly more important than the last one. We could go into the game at Firhill four points adrift if Ayr keep up their bogey this season over Airdrie.
Crazy that we have only lost one out of our last seven league games and sit in 9th. Far too many draws (5 out of last 7 ).
Partick's home form isn't that bad only a point away from Raith and Dundee Utd. I'd imagine the bad run is over and its all about securing 3rd.
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A BG own goal in the first 10 minutes, shut up shop, park that bus and ugleee anti football all the way and some dodgy ref decisions helping us to the final whistle and the liberation of all three points heading up the road.
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33 minutes ago, Pie Of The Month said:
6 games left unless of course you are factoring in finishing 9th and then losing in the playoff semis.
Going into playoffs when you can't score enough goals is not going to end well. Never ends well. At the moment it might be Montrose who we could be up against. When you have people telling you about the lower standard this season of teams in the playoff places in L1, that does not bode well for us, I don't believe them. Even if we get past Montrose we will certainly get pumped by Accies who seem to beat us regardless how rank they are at the time.
So we need to win, a draw is no use.
We are in the position now where we are starting to look at the other teams results to go our way. Not good.
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This is a must win for us, no chance we are going to draw our way out of 9th place and into safety. After 3 draws in this fixture it stands to reason that this one will end in a win for someone. If this was up in Inverness I would be less confident. As I mentioned before we have traditionally gone on a late season runs of wins, with only 8 games left is a case of soon, when? or never.
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2 hours ago, Grumpy Soo-sider said:
Didn't know that. I still think Smithton or the Bught area would have been a better location.
The Bught was ruled out back when the site for the new stadium was discussed back in the early 90's. It would be a nightmare with traffic and parking. Plus there was a concern among the residents with noise and trouble. The Bucht itself is not suitable anyway because no one wants anything built there, no one wants to lose any more green space and we found out how much opposition there is to change when Inverness City had a temporary pitch there, the club were not allowed to close the gate for the boundary fence when it wasn't being used as the public had right of way. So people could walk through the ground if they wanted including dog walkers. So many reason why the Bucht Park was a bad idea for a football ground especially one that had ambitions to play in the top flight.
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2 hours ago, Grumpy Soo-sider said:
Yeah - facing the prevailing wind (and rain) is a winner. The main stand could (should?) have been at the other side as should the access road.
Well that is impossible as explained earlier with the pipes running close to the opposite side of the pitch, no stand can be built there. Unless you mean the other side of the road and having the Main Stand there and which would require a floating pitch, facing east it would still be open to the elements especially in winter.
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21 hours ago, Jamie_M said:
Falkirk game also off that week despite being artificial?
Interesting point excusing Livi in the debate as an outlier whilst many are at pains to use Dundee's neglect and the burst pipe at Dunfermline in their arguments when both are also surely outliers.
No excusing bad pitches, stuff happens like weather once in a while but once a pattern of call-offs is established because of the state of a pitch then its pointless making excuses. I did say Livi should sort themselves out but they are not going to anytime soon with changing out their old rug. If they beat Celtic on the last day of the month, it might be totally worth it just for the shits and giggles, especially if Celtic and their armys of darkness blame that pitch.
Dens has been a tattie field for years, everyone knows that. Bad pitches are bad pitches regardless of whether they are grass or plastic.
Nothing is better than a well maintained grass pitch. We used to have a bowling green like surface at Inverness for years. Nairn County, Station Park was very nice as well.
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Clyde 1-2 The Spartans
Dumbarton 1-0 Bonnyrigg Rose
East Fife 3-2 Stranraer
Elgin City 0-0 Forfar Ath.
Stenhousemuir 2-1 Peterhead
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Arbroath 0-4 Partick Thistle
Ayr Utd 1-1 Queen's Park
Dundee Utd 0-2 Inverness CT
Morton 1-2 Dunfermline Athletic
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1 hour ago, Molotov said:
Other top flight games played on Sunday iirc.
You meant that weekend not that day?
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37 minutes ago, Molotov said:
“Livingston’s Premiership match against Ross County on Saturday has been postponed after a pitch inspection scheduled for Saturday morning.
Match officials looked at the artificial surface at the Tony Macaroni Arena at 9.30am, with an early decision taken to call off the game due to a frozen pitch.“
Games in the top flight with grass pitches and undersoil heating were played that day.
Just the game at Motherwell. Kilmarnock played that day and have an artificial surface. I don't see any other games on the fixture list that were played that day in the top flight. Which other game were on?
The only other games to survive that day in the SPFL whom have grass was at Firhill and the Caledonian Stadium, no one else did. The other two leagues, the only three games that survived were on an artificial surfaces, Hamilton, Stenhousmuir and Forfar, all the others were off.
I would say Livingston pitch is an very much outlyer and not a good example of all artificial pitches. Livingston really need to sort themselves out.
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