Valiant defeat still worth no points

By: Ian Rose | September 26th, 2009

It’s been a rough week at the office for the Caley. On Tuesday, we went to Motherwell to face our first SPL opponent of the season, and were eliminated from our first competition, as we played competitively, but lost 3-2. Today, it was a home league match to Partick Thistle. Again, 3-2. Again, we weren’t the 3.

There are positives to take from both of these matches. The fact that we went to extra time with Motherwell shows that this squad can compete with the middle of the SPL table. Today’s match was 3-0 at halftime, and we fought back and owned the second half to make a game of it. But valiant losses are worth just as many points as cowardly ones, and the points we’re dropping are points we’ll miss. Our home form continues to be rubbish, and as long as we look forward to road trips more than home stands, we aren’t going to win this league.

There is, of course, another element to the recent league slip that bears mentioning. After last week’s results, Ross County (spit) was top of the league, bringing into our minds the worst possible scenario, that in the span of two seasons, we could go from one league above County to one below them. Dundee helped out a bit today with their 2-0 win over the Staggies, but since Raith lost, County remain top. This cannot stand.

I have been a bit slow on the Caley blogging lately, owing to many factors that I won’t bother mentioning. I’ll be better. Hopefully the team will give me more to write about than a series of almosts, but not quites.