Raith v Accies

[redandwhite1874]

A tricky away tie for us albeit on the back of a decent start to the season.

Raith have only lost narrowly to Falkirk in the league and Stenny in the Petrofac; and have a few ex- Accies to make it interesting.

There is a break after the Hearts game so no need to rest anyone; although anyone with a knock might not be pushed and Martin might want a younger player or 2 to get a chance?

[Admin]

Thanks for starting this, forgot we had a cup game this week!

[Gilbaldo]

According to the Accies twitter feed, it's only £10 for adults and £5 for concessions.
I would hope for continuity of selection and wouldn't change a thing.
But this will be a tricky tie, we have slipped up in Kirkcaldy on more than a few occasions and they won well at the weekend.

[WILF]

First game of the season for me, hope we play our strongest team and try for a decent cup run this year.

[Alfie Olek]

hope we play our strongest team and try for a decent cup run this year.

History doesn’t tend to support your hopes. With the Hearts game coming up I think Martin will make a few changes. Martin in goal with Macdonald at left back. Docherty to get a full 90 minutes resting Gillespie especially if he took knock and danny redmond to come on in place of Imrie. We shall see.

[YeOldeHamiltonian]

I would imagine Nade would start against his own team.

[ggr]

Good interview with Kevin Cuthbert previewing the game on the Raith Website

http://www.raithrovers.net/raithtv?vid=409

[Whiskeytown]

Has to be the same team again. Why on earth would he change it? Team should be perfectly capable of playing three games in 8 days.

[Gilbaldo]

Jon Daly is likely to make his debut for Raith after signing for them yesterday.

[accie]

Should be a good battle between Lucas and Daly.

[Tumbleweed]

Good bits - nice reception for Cat. A Nade goal. £10 admission.

Bad bits - pretty much everything else. Crap tactics (I assume we had tactics) crap performances, crap effort, crap upon crap upon crap. Why do we go to Cup games? Not interested in progressing and allowed rovers to make us look just a bit embarrassing.

I know it's about staying in the SPFL, but this was just crap. A waste of our carbon footprint travelling tonight.

[Alfie Olek]

Well Martin did make some changes with imrie and Morris on the bench and Gillespie injured. this allowed Longridge and Docherty to play from the start with Nade up front. First half was totally forgettable and we never got going. Long ridge got hooked at halftime, maybe he was injured, and Imrie replaced him. Second half we did come into it and got a few corners. Nade helped the ball into the net and after that I was getting ready for extra time but no Raith got the winner. Raith looked as though they were up for it from the off while we Huffed and puffed.

[simonswimmer]

This was the first game I've been able to go to this season, and despite the result I actually quite enjoyed the game. New guys looked great, and accies were by far the better team. Hopefully Gillespie will be back for the weekend as it seems his absence may have been the difference tonight.

Great reception for Cuthbert at the start of the 2nd half - accies legend.

[accies1874]

Really poor performance. No matter what you say about staying up we should be beating Raith Rovers. Morris and Gillespie will make a difference but Imrie won't. Hopefully this new guy's good but I'd like Redmond to come back as Imrie and Longridge are offering next to nothing. Need to really pick ourselves up as Hearts are on fire.

[H9crx]

Really poor performance. No matter what you say about staying up we should be beating Raith Rovers. Morris and Gillespie will make a difference but Imrie won't. Hopefully this new guy's good but I'd like Redmond to come back as Imrie and Longridge are offering next to nothing. Need to really pick ourselves up as Hearts are on fire.

Interesting

[redandwhite1874]

Poor stuff indeed we dominated play but didn't hurt them enough and 2 poorly defended goals have them the win. We missed the underrated Gills and Longridge was anonymous before being replaced by the more effective Imrie. After scoring there should only have been one winner but we let them back in and we were sluggish. Bringing on Boyd was a strange one and perhaps a sign we were not 100% up for this, that we kept a striker on the bench confirms that for me.
Bringing in another striker makes sense to replace Chammoro but we also need width and I am not convinced Redmond is the answer?

[accies1874]

Poor stuff indeed we dominated play but didn't hurt them enough and 2 poorly defended goals have them the win. We missed the underrated Gills and Longridge was anonymous before being replaced by the more effective Imrie. After scoring there should only have been one winner but we let them back in and we were sluggish. Bringing on Boyd was a strange one and perhaps a sign we were not 100% up for this, that we kept a striker on the bench confirms that for me.
Bringing in another striker makes sense to replace Chammoro but we also need width and I am not convinced Redmond is the answer?

Neither am I but I can't really see us bringing in any more if we get this defender too. He did alright out there under Neil.

[Accies73]

Result didnt surprise. Cup competions do not seem to matter to Accies but do to the fans especially the Scottish Cup. No surprise to see others like Dundee and Partick going out and Motherwell took to extra time, 3 points on saturday is what its all about for all these teams.

[Don van Vliet]

No real surprise, as has been stated. What is a suprise is the the stats for possession and shots shown on the BBC match report. That would imply a completely one-sided affair, with goal-keeping heroics (well we should know to expect those!).

[Bonjella]

http://www.raithrovers.net/21065/raith-rovers-2-1-hamilton-academical.htm Good Hightlights, still cant believe we lost.