Scosha Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, LargsTON said: What's the injury Oakley actually has? Rib, no mention of anything broken. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirdcal Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I suspect that even with morton players missing, we are looking at a no lube doing. Canny score, sign 'strikers' who look scared of the ball, the walking wounded padding out the bench and a late loan for a livi fringe youth player isn't exactly helping the fear of being pumped daft 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toun Clock Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Home win, please and thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Has Samuel not been fairly decent for you? Know he's been injured but he scored a few to start Ex-player so pretty much a stick-on to score v us 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Injuries are a concern - obviously Inverness have them too - but we've tended to make heavy weather of almost all of these games as favourites to win regardless. Arbroath were in an even worse nick in January and while we clearly deserved to win, it wasn't some comprehensive pumping. If we win tomorrow it'll be hard fought even if Inverness have issues scoring goals - I'd rip your arm off for a shiter 1-0 and no injuries to lead into the Dundee United game on Tuesday night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, virginton said: Injuries are a concern - obviously Inverness have them too - but we've tended to make heavy weather of almost all of these games as favourites to win regardless. Arbroath were in an even worse nick in January and while we clearly deserved to win, it wasn't some comprehensive pumping. If we win tomorrow it'll be hard fought even if Inverness have issues scoring goals - I'd rip your arm off for a shiter 1-0 and no injuries to lead into the Dundee United game on Tuesday night. Aye pretty much this. Get through it, 3 points, no more injuries and it's been a very good week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanjo Nostalgia Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 3 hours ago, MarkoRaj said: Has Samuel not been fairly decent for you? Know he's been injured but he scored a few to start Ex-player so pretty much a stick-on to score v us Four goals and a missed penalty in his first two games, then nothing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Soup Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Just don't injure any of our key players, please and thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Got a really bad feeling about this, injuries are inevitably going to come round but Wilson, Oakley and Mullen are possibly the worst three players in the squad to lose. We simply don't have anyone who can get close to offering what Oakley does, as Raith showed opposition defences will physically dominate us without him and if any team turns up with the same mindset of Airdrie to kick us off the park and see how much they get away with, it'll be much harder to stand up to that. The whole midfield have been excellent since December, but I don't think it's a coincidence that our turnaround came with a fully fit Wilson in midfield rather than not being fit enough to last 90 minutes or filling in at full back and both Power & Gillespie have looked much better for having Wilson beside them. Blues has been in excellent form too so have to hope moving him inside comes close to replicating Wilson's contribution, but it's gutting to hear his season might be done. Even aside from MacDonald not being fully fit himself and just not being quite as good as Mullen, you only really notice how important Mullen's distribution is when he's not there. He's got a fantastic range of passing for a goalkeeper and his ability to pinpoint passes from our own box is so important to get us up the park quickly, which is doubly important when we don’t have Oakley so we're only going to get into the final third by finding attackers' feet. We'll be doing very well to get results without any of them, and with Dundee United, Hearts then Partick away in our next three it's not a massive stretch to see our long unbeaten run suddenly being followed up by or overlapping a small winless run. A win today would be massive to avoid that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthStand10 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 There is absolutely no way Inverness lose today. I have never been more confident of points in my life. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Malkmus Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 The Morton fans are desperate for this one to be called off. Losers' mentality. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Lads, just let us win and we’ll cut you in on the battery farm money 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Sadly when we have concerns about injuries we don't have anyone who can run to the police with a funny handshake to beg them to tell the SPFL to call games off on risible safety grounds, like a certain CEO we could mention. Sir Douglas Imrie's 100th game in charge of Morton today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisley Ton Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 32 minutes ago, Stephen Malkmus said: The Morton fans are desperate for this one to be called off. Losers' mentality. Eh! where you getting that from. While we dominated play v Raith, we little penetration in final third. We missed Oakley, but Muirhead I suspect will be match fitter on Saturday and will offer more. Like all Championship games never a given. Only need to look at last night as Arbroath do just about everyones forecasts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercaleyman94 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 20 hours ago, MarkoRaj said: Has Samuel not been fairly decent for you? Know he's been injured but he scored a few to start Ex-player so pretty much a stick-on to score v us He's been decent for us had a great game against Raith. Unfortunately he's been playing with a broken hand in recent games so that's obviously holding him back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Supercaleyman94 said: Unfortunately he's been playing with a broken hand in recent games so that's obviously holding him back. A broken hand? Bert Trautman played through a FA Cup Final with a broken neck. Just saying like. Edited March 2 by SandyCromarty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of B A R P Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, Dunning1874 said: Got a really bad feeling about this, injuries are inevitably going to come round but Wilson, Oakley and Mullen are possibly the worst three players in the squad to lose. We simply don't have anyone who can get close to offering what Oakley does, as Raith showed opposition defences will physically dominate us without him and if any team turns up with the same mindset of Airdrie to kick us off the park and see how much they get away with, it'll be much harder to stand up to that. The whole midfield have been excellent since December, but I don't think it's a coincidence that our turnaround came with a fully fit Wilson in midfield rather than not being fit enough to last 90 minutes or filling in at full back and both Power & Gillespie have looked much better for having Wilson beside them. Blues has been in excellent form too so have to hope moving him inside comes close to replicating Wilson's contribution, but it's gutting to hear his season might be done. Even aside from MacDonald not being fully fit himself and just not being quite as good as Mullen, you only really notice how important Mullen's distribution is when he's not there. He's got a fantastic range of passing for a goalkeeper and his ability to pinpoint passes from our own box is so important to get us up the park quickly, which is doubly important when we don’t have Oakley so we're only going to get into the final third by finding attackers' feet. We'll be doing very well to get results without any of them, and with Dundee United, Hearts then Partick away in our next three it's not a massive stretch to see our long unbeaten run suddenly being followed up by or overlapping a small winless run. A win today would be massive to avoid that. Those three are a big miss, no doubt, but Crawford (whose contribution we now take for granted) and Power have been just as important as Wilson (excellent though he’s been). We’re also now in a position we haven’t been in for a long time, where injury to a keeper isn’t a full-on disaster: Mullen has been outstanding, but if you’d told me at any point over the last few years that we’d just have to make do with Jamie MacDonald… Oakley is the big one: we can’t directly replace what he gives us, but next best is to get Muirhead back through the middle today and hope he can pull off his occasional impersonation of an actual centre-forward (and hope Oakley is back for Tuesday). Jai to start on the right, Blues (who has also been good) inside. No-one will be surprised if this is a draw… but I’m hoping we can shitfest a narrow win as a highly appropriate marker of Sir Douglas’ 100th game in charge. Mon the actual fkn Ton… Edited March 2 by The Ghost of B A R P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 No jai either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowshed Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 8 minutes ago, Jamie_M said: No jai either. Time to get rid off Jai 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chippyminton Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 2 hours ago, SandyCromarty said: A broken hand? Bert Trautman played through a FA Cup Final with a broken neck. Just saying like. Off topic, but there's a brilliant feature film all about Bert Trautmann called 'The Keeper'. Well worth a watch if you have Amazon Prime or Netflix. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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