Savage Henry Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, Les Westander of County said: Wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if Stelios starts at RB after his performance v Ayr. May not have a choice. Half the defence appears to be dead or dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 8 hours ago, Toby said: The league win in Dingwall was 2-0- a Ross Matheson double in 2000 and the cup win was 2-1 in 2003. Alex Williams double and Winters scoring for you lot. One thing I remember about the league game was that it’s possibly the only time I’ve been to a game that one of the away team’s players was awarded the sponsors’ man of the match (Matheson). Never known that to happen - especially surprised at that, given how our season panned out and what was going on behind the scenes at the time. At the cup game a Ton fan got put out at half time for going onto the track to kick a ball back to one of the subs. He trampled and jumped in every puddle on the way out, soaking the two stewards in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 10/22/2018 at 21:00, Colkitto said: Whether you rate them or not the fact is we have 5 forward players out at the time of writing. ALL have been involved in the 1st team squad this season. Our second and third choice forwards are fit and will feature; so the fitness of Ben Armour or some other bib-carrier is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Blue Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 A draw would be a good result for us on Saturday. Hopefully the same team as last week to start with tumilty in for kilday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 The joint managers are making some rumblings about having to play a development team centre half this weekend due to injuries. Now if only we had a strike force worthy of the name to take advantage of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebonce Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 33 minutes ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said: The joint managers are making some rumblings about having to play a development team centre half this weekend due to injuries. Now if only we had a strike force worthy of the name to take advantage of that. I'm glad that they might give Grivosti a chance. However it wouldn't surprise me to see Ross Draper put in at centre-back instead, if all of the senior midfielders are fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 Only issue with Draper at centre half is his positional sense, don't think he's got the awareness of what he's supposed to do all the time when he's in the back four/three but then he's a midfielder by trade so that's not surprising. He's certainly big and strong enough to do a job there if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 There must be Management faith in Grivosti, and I was happy with what I saw v Ayr Utd. Alternatively we could put Stelios in again at RB as he played longer and did really well at key moments. If Fraser is fit he can comfortably go CB or FB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 10 hours ago, Comrie said: Only issue with Draper at centre half is his positional sense, don't think he's got the awareness of what he's supposed to do all the time when he's in the back four/three but then he's a midfielder by trade so that's not surprising. He's certainly big and strong enough to do a job there if needed. I don't see why more clubs don't play a central midfielder in defence when up against a sole striker. Leave yer proper centre back on a man marking job and yer centre mid floating about picking up runners and it also gives you an extra player to build attacking moves out of defence with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of B A R P Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 ^^^^^ Kaiser Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted October 24, 2018 Author Share Posted October 24, 2018 52 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said: I don't see why more clubs don't play a central midfielder in defence when up against a sole striker. Leave yer proper centre back on a man marking job and yer centre mid floating about picking up runners and it also gives you an extra player to build attacking moves out of defence with. The less I see of Draper passing the ball out of defence, the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 9 hours ago, Comrie said: The less I see of Draper passing the ball out of defence, the better. A back four of Kelly, Grivosti, Draper and Stelios is there for the taking. It might be a good week for Morton to have all their strikers eat some poisoned food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Stelios? Hope we are taking plenty of chocolate bars with us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneThrowAway Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 The last County vs Morton game I can remember in Dingwall the Morton fans were fighting amongst themselves in the away terracing... good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopLenBrennan Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 21 minutes ago, StoneThrowAway said: The last County vs Morton game I can remember in Dingwall the Morton fans were fighting amongst themselves in the away terracing... good times. It's one of our strengths. Any jaunt up the A9 for Morton fans has the potential for fisticuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdong1929 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Seen Grivosti for the Dev Squad, at centreback and in midfield, and thought he stood out as a really good prospect. Albeit more comfortable in defence. But as everyone has already said, it would take a lot of unavailable players for Grivosti to start - lucky for him. Would be happy with any of Watson, an out of position Stelios, or a recovering Fraser at rightback. Tony Dingwall has put in some decent/under-rated shifts there, but him out of position at right back with development/out of position players at centre-back gives me the fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Act it'll be fine. Spoiler Terms and Conditions apply: County reserve the right to hope that Morton's forwards are in poor form and that luck applies. This fixture is an opportunity to discover whether our make-shift defence is fine or not fine. It might or might not be fine, nor anything resembling fine. The above statement is not a guarantee that anything will be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Agree with those saying they'd be happy with a point here, despite County's defensive problems. I'd stick with the same starting eleven, other than Tumilty in for Kilday if necessary, and if Johnstone is fit enough to appear from the bench then good. We don't want to rush him back into the team and lose him for weeks again, while Oliver has improved the last couple of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 How is Tumilty doing for you at Morton? I always thought he'd be a decent squad player for County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplemonkeydishwasher Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Is there a Ross County TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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