Dunfermline5–1Inverness CT

Pars Trash Caley Jags


The Caley Jags started the week in fourth place but by Friday night we found ourselves down further without playing a game! Dunfermline jumped ahead of Inverness on Tuesday night after beating Stenhousemuir and on Friday night we ended up in sixth place following Livingston's pumping of the Warriors at Ochilview. Spare a thought for the Warriors with three defeats in a week and that has dented their surge up the table.

Anyway. on to today and we have the opportunity to hit third in the table just one point behind early pacesetters Stenhousemuir. There was one major obstacle in our way in the shape of Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park who will be gunning for second place given the right results. Both sides had won their last two games and the first encounter this season ended in a no scoring draw in the Highlands. Something was going to give... For Neil Lennon, Josh Cooper was out injured and of the three former Caley Jags players, Keith Bray started, replacing Cooper with Charlie Gilmour and Musa Dibaga on the bench. Plenty of fire power for the Pars with Andy Tod and Rory MacLeod starting and Rudden, Kane and Shaw on the bench. Scott Kellacher was unchanged as he kept Kerr Smith in his starting XI with Devine on the bench. Luis Longstaff was still missing but Wotherspoon and MacKinnon were named substitutes.

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Pars away 5_1

At the end of the game it was Dunfermline that climbed the table to second equal with Raith after a resounding hammering dished out to the Caley Jags who were put back in their box and sent packing. Alfie Bavidge had rifled in an 11th minute penalty after Layton Stewart had been brought down in the first half but after the break the Pars were rampant as they scored at will. Alade, Shaw twice, Abdulai and Corbally dished out the punishment on a rank rotten day for the Caley Jags who will need to regroup after this embarrassment.

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Here's how it all turned out: Look away now!

OUCH!!!!!

A tentative start was interrupted after ten minutes when Aaron Donnelly fouled Layton Stewart in the box. A booking for Donnelly and a penalty for the Caley Jags. Alfie Bavidge notched his fifth goal of the campaign from the spot to give the visitors a great start firing high into the middle of the goal. Oxborough saved a deflected Bavidge effort ten minutes later as he shot from the left side of the box. The hosts responded and Rory MacLeod saw an effort from distance blocked before Oyirworth had his header saved low down by Ross Munro. Ten minutes before the break Keith Bray was denied by Munro after he had been put through on goal by Adams Amade. Paul Allan was booked before the interval for fouling Bray in a half of few chances

HALF TIME: 0-1

The Pars rang the changes at the interval and introduced Oli Shaw and J Tod with MacLeod and Donnelly being replaced. It only took a couple of minutes for the changes to have an effect when Alade headed in the leveller from Oyirworth's cross. That stung us into action and Bavidge shot just wide before Layton Stewart tested the keeper. The substitutions were in full flow as Oli Shaw scored a second for the Pars with a header at the back post from Andy Tod's ball into the box just ten minutes into the second half. The visitors have been under the cosh since the resumption and it was no surprise when Shaw added a third after the hour. The rout continued when Abdulai headed in a fourth and Substitute Kian Corbally bagged a fifth. Thankfully the Pars stopped at that as we head homewards tae think again.

FULL TIME: 5-1 🤬