Savage Henry Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 County have dominated Alloa for the most part this season, but struggled almightily to score. Will it be the same on Saturday? Another last minute winner? Or will Alloa take confidence from those close defeats? Will County have two new players (oh how we need them) or will the internet rumours from Pie and Bovril prove fruitless yet again? Will Alloa? And will Willie Irvine make a comeback? Discuss politely with style and/or panache, and show your working. 1-0 County (Stewart, 82) is my incredibly lazy prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 If Willie Irvine was playing, I'd know we'd get beat with a scruffy 87th minute winner. As it stands, I think we'll bore it to another 1-0 or 2-0 defeat as Alloa try to hit us on the counter. Goodwin's no daft, he's going to try and keep it tight all game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingdong1929 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 6 hours ago, Comrie said: If Willie Irvine was playing, I'd know we'd get beat with a scruffy 87th minute winner. As it stands, I think we'll bore it to another 1-0 or 2-0 defeat as Alloa try to hit us on the counter. Godwin's no daft, he's going to try and keep it tight all game. By Law he needs to bring on Hitler at some point, he may just be the one to score a late winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereismillar Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 which Ross County will turn up ? the Motherwell one or the Queen of the south one , hopefully the latter Keep us posted on the weather near the time please you lovely Staggies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staggy4life Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Should be the same team that played in the win v Motherwell as I imagine everyone else is still suspended or injured? We're still very light of options outwit the starting XI so hopefully the likes of Cowie and Stelios are fit enough to get a spot on the bench if we don't have any new signings this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KierenAAFC Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Think we’ll struggle in this one, hardest place to go in the division I’d say. Getting Kirky and Flannigan back will be massive - two calming presences in the midfield. Not sure where Aitchison fits in the team and with no real physical presence, it’s hard for him to make an impact off the bench. A strange signing but one I’m happy and wouldn’t be surprised to be proved wrong! Take a draw... 1-1. Ross Stewart equalising with 94 minutes on the clock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 An Alloa win would be good for Scottish football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 An Alloa win would be good for Scottish football. An Alloa and Ayr double would be ideal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereismillar Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 if we play like we did in the first half at Paisley we can get something here , can do without the tactical change though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Alloa impressed me at the game in December. Some better finishing would have seen County a couple of goals up at half-time, but Alloa were a lot less open in the second-half and defended really well. The goalkeeper (Parry?) made some excellent saves, and they looked dangerous on the counter. A very well organised team with some attacking quality in Zanatta, Trouten, and Flannigan. You would expect County to go with the same XI that beat Motherwell, with guys like Mullin, Armstrong, and Semple on the bench? Although, SK/SF might fancy flinging in a more offensive midfielder in place of Spence? I'd go: Fox Fraser Watson vdW Kelly McManus Paton Draper Lindsay Gardyne Graham Subs: Munro, Grivosti, Semple, Spence, Mullin, Armstrong, Mckay It's essentially a must-win game given (a) the previous two league results, and (b) a win extends the lead over at least one of Dundee United or Ayr. I think County will scrape by with a less than comfortable 2-0 win. Would have quite fancied going to this one as I'm in Inverness but Escape From New York at Eden Court was a more enticing option 10 days ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebonce Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 @yoda Mullin will still be suspended so McManus must be favourite for the RW spot again this Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 I’d extinguished every memory of the QoS game from my mind, so I assumed he had picked up two bookings! RossStewartMania on the bench instead then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuieCounty Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 22/01/2019 at 00:44, D'Jaffo said: An Alloa and Ayr double would be ideal. On 22/01/2019 at 00:37, Granny Danger said: An Alloa win would be good for Scottish football. Call me biased but i think an Alloa win would be a disaster for Scottish football. Fingers crossed for a convincing County win against a decent Alloa side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuieCounty Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 16 hours ago, yoda said: Alloa impressed me at the game in December. Some better finishing would have seen County a couple of goals up at half-time, but Alloa were a lot less open in the second-half and defended really well. The goalkeeper (Parry?) made some excellent saves, and they looked dangerous on the counter. A very well organised team with some attacking quality in Zanatta, Trouten, and Flannigan. You would expect County to go with the same XI that beat Motherwell, with guys like Mullin, Armstrong, and Semple on the bench? Although, SK/SF might fancy flinging in a more offensive midfielder in place of Spence? I'd go: Fox Fraser Watson vdW Kelly McManus Paton Draper Lindsay Gardyne Graham Subs: Munro, Grivosti, Semple, Spence, Mullin, Armstrong, Mckay It's essentially a must-win game given (a) the previous two league results, and (b) a win extends the lead over at least one of Dundee United or Ayr. I think County will scrape by with a less than comfortable 2-0 win. Would have quite fancied going to this one as I'm in Inverness but Escape From New York at Eden Court was a more enticing option 10 days ago! I would pick Fox Fraser Watson Semple VanDerWeg McManus Lyndsay Draper Armstrong Gardyne Graham From what's being said about Semple i think we'll need him in there sooner rather than later and Armstrong will be eager to get out there and make an impression so they should throw him in. Graham needs a good run in the team as he will get a lot of goals at this level if the service is good. Its got to be a comfortable victory here after the boost down in Motherwell. 3-0 to County Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 This is the sort of game where I'd expect us to have a lot more possession and territory than Alloa, so I wouldn't be surprised if Kelly is at LB not Kenny for his better range of passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie52 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 In the good old County tradition of not changing a winning side until they start losing, I’d expect the same team as last week to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuieCounty Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 While any win will do from a County point of view, I think a convincing win at home by 2 or 3 goals would help get the confidence where it needs to be for a title battle. Here's hoping anyway! On 23/01/2019 at 15:12, Comrie said: On 23/01/2019 at 15:12, Comrie said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 11 minutes ago, BuieCounty said: While any win will do from a County point of view, I think a convincing win at home by 2 or 3 goals would help get the confidence where it needs to be for a title battle. Here's hoping anyway! Any win will do from an Alloa point of view too. County are very tough opponents but we can be positive on the back of a 6 match unbeaten league run, indeed it would have been 7 but for County's late winner at the Recs at the start of December. Have a wee concern at possible hangover from the disappointment of losing a game we should have won in Paisley last week, but this group have shown their ability to bounce back before and I'm sure they will put it behind them. Will help too that we can bring the two key men who missed that game back into the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Perrin Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 1/21/2019 at 17:37, Granny Danger said: An Alloa win would be good for Scottish football. No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 27 minutes ago, Reggie Perrin said: No A compelling and well argued point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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