Deserved or not county had 3 difficult games in the space of 7 days and dropped 2 points.
That's a team with mental strength not like our bunch of bottle jobs.
They deserve the title.
Credit to County. They worked out how to grind out victories in this crappy league at the first time of asking unlike ourselves. They were rubbish again tonight but still managed to win. So on to Friday and let's hope we can finally lay a glove on Ayr Utd. Unreal that we haven't managed a goal against them in 3 games. Full strength team and no excuses. Get at them from the start of the game! Cmon Utd!
I would dearly love for us to get torn into Ayr on Friday night and get a decent win to set the standard for the run in to the playoffs. However since:
1 A member of the first team squad (Butcher I think) has been quoted in the media saying that we need to show that we are the best team in this league and
2. The game is on telly
Then I think we will bottle it as usual. Hopefully the team will prove me wrong.
The worrying thing is despite signing a whole new team at a considerable cost,we haven’t managed to get any closer to county since Robbie took over which was 24 games or so ago.
They have had the top striker out as well and other injuries to contend with yet are still well clear
I think Ayr will be really up for it on Friday. In order to pip us for 2nd, they have to win on Friday, win their game in hand (vs Partick) and match our results elswhere. Their vastly superior goal difference will do the rest.
Our players will be disappointed at losing out on the title. No doubt about it. But they need to get over that PDQ as there is still a lot of work to be done to secure 2nd. Starting with doing something we aint managed all season, and that is actually giving Ayr a game on Friday evening.
If we somehow construe to lose out on 2nd, I think the negativity will mean we don't even make it to the play-off final. However, if we can keep positive and finish a strong 2nd, I rekon we can go up via the play-off route.
When Robbie took over after Csaba and then a few matches under Ellis we were 4th.
At that time we were 8 pts behind Ayr, 6 behind Rossco and 3 behind ICT.
Despite losses to Ayr we have caught them up. Despite a decent record in 3 matches v Rossco they have slightly extended their lead over us