St. Mirren 1-2 Caley, and us into 9th

By: Ian Rose | May 2nd, 2009

There are days that you can do no wrong, and it was that kind of day for Caley defender Ross Tokely. Winning everything in the air, perfectly timing tackles, and sinking the winning goal in a relegation six pointer. Those are the kind of days you remember.

Caley looked the better side for long stretches of today’s match, and took the lead early on a Grant Munro goal (a good striking day for the defenders). We took that lead into the half, but lost it around 70 minutes against the run of play. The early second half was dominated by Dougie Imrie, who absolutely destroyed the St. Mirren midfield and very nearly gave us the winner. But that honor would go to Toke, and why not? Again, fantastic man of the match day for Big Ross.

After Ross’ heroics, the moment of the afternoon has to go to Ian Black, who cleared a would-be equalizer off of the line in the dying moments. Well done, Blackie – you’ll be missed when you become a damned Jambo.

This was our first win in almost a month, the last one coming against these same Buddies. Cheers, St. Mirren.

It was a day for the 2-1, as Falkirk, Hamilton and Dundee United also won by that scoreline. The shuffle at the bottom of the league continues now, as Caley jump from 11th to 9th, leapfrogging defeated St. Mirren and Kilmarnock. The standings in the bottom half now:

7. Motherwell 41 pts (-9 GD)
8. Hamilton 37 pts (-20 GD)
9. Caley Thistle 35 pts (-19 GD)
10. Kilmarnock 34 pts (-13 GD)
11. St. Mirren 34 pts (-17 GD)
12. Falkirk 31 pts (-15 GD)

So we’re still 4 points from the drop, but now with three teams below us instead of one. That’s a day I’ll gladly accept. Mon the Caley.