First Rd draw has been made for the CIS Cup for next season - Brechin City v Elgin City Queen's Park v Queen of the South Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Annan Athletic Stenhousemuir v St Johnstone Ross County v Montrose East Stirlingshire v St Mirren Partick Thistle v Berwick Rangers East Fife v Raith Rovers Dundee v Stranraer Stirling Albion v Ayr United Airdrie United v Alloa Athletic Cowdenbeath v Morton Peterhead v Arbroath Albion Rovers v Livingston Clyde v Forfar Athletic Dumbarton v Dunfermline Athletic East Fife - Raith Rovers... Nae luck Gordon... Ties to be played on the following dates - First round - Saturday 1 or Sunday 2 August 2009 Second round - Tuesday 25 or Wednesday 26 August 2009 Third round - Tuesday 22 or Wednesday 23 September 2009 Fourth round - Tuesday 27 or Wednesday 28 October 2009 Semi-finals - Tuesday 2 or Wednesday 3 February 2010 Final - Sunday 21 March 2010
Results from Saturday 1st August below - Most of the bigger teams in the first rd draw went comfortably through as expected. Such as St Johnstone, ICT, Partick Th, Dundee and Dunfermline. Please don't ask GordonEF about the East Fife match. I had them on my coupon and they let me down unlike Forfar and St Johnstone who came through. Great odds on Forfar for todays game. I got them at 11-10, not that it helped me overall... Saturday, 1 August 2009 Airdrie Utd 0-0 Alloa Alloa win 4-3 on penalties Albion 3-0 Livingston Brechin 4-0 Elgin Clyde 1-3 Forfar Cowdenbeath 1-3 Morton Dumbarton 0-5 Dunfermline Dundee 5-0 Stranraer East Fife 2-3 Raith Inverness CT 4-0 Annan Athletic Partick Thistle 5-1 Berwick Peterhead 0-3 Arbroath Queens Park 1-4 Queen of South Ross County 5-0 Montrose Stenhousemuir 0-5 St Johnstone Stirling 1-2 Ayr Good results also for Alloa, Morton, QotS and Ross County. Meanwhile, the misery keeps piling on for Livi...
Now now. How about your team plays for 90mins instead of 45. I had a good coupon on the go and it was looking great at HT.
Sunday 2nd August East Stirlingshire 3-6 St Mirren 5 goals for Billy Mehmet, including his hat-trick in only 17mins!
2nd Rd will be played on the 25/26th August. The draw for the Second Round of The Co-operative Insurance Cup will take place at Tuesday Lunchtime at Hampden. Included in the draw are the sixteen winners from yesterday along with the remaining four SPL sides not involved in European ties this season so the names of Hamilton Accies, Kilmarnock, Hibs and Dundee United are included in the hat with this stage of the competition still seeded based on league placings last season.
2nd Round Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Albion Rovers Forfar Athletic v Dundee Dunfermline Athletic v Raith Rovers Arbroath v St. Johnstone Partick Thistle v Queen of the South Alloa Athletic v Dundee United Hibernian v Brechin City Ross County v Hamilton Academical Kilmarnock v Morton Ayr United v St. Mirren Ties to be played on Tuesday 25th or Wednesday 26th August, 2009 Quite a few interesting ties. I'd go for ICT Dundee Dunfermline Ath St Johnstone QofS Dundee Utd Hibs Hamilton Kilmarnock St Mirren
That was a remarkable game by the sounds of it. I checked LiveScore after about 40 minutes and saw it was 3-3 with East Stirlingshire fighting back from 3 goals down. I thought LiveScore must have made a mistake at the time. One thing you can't accuse this round of is lacking goals.
CIS Cup - 2nd Round Tuesday 25th August Alloa 0-2 Dundee Utd Forfar 2-4 Dundee Inverness CT 4-0 Albion Kilmarnock 3-1 Morton Partick Thistle 1-2 Queen of South Ross County 2-1 Hamilton The main shock tonight was the continuation of Hamilton's retched start to the season as they exit the League Cup in the 2nd round up in the highlands against Ross County.
No idea. I'm in England at the minute working. Some pub in Lincoln will have the joy of me sitting in it with my bumble bee strip on for the match.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 3rd Rd Dundee vs Aberdeen Kick off: 19:45 Dens Park Stadium Falkirk vs Celtic Kick off: 19:45 Falkirk Stadium Heart of Midlothian vs Dunfermline Athletic Kick off: 19:45 Tynecastle Stadium Hibernian vs St Johnstone Kick off: 19:45 Easter Road Stadium Kilmarnock vs St Mirren Kick off: 19:45 Rugby Park Motherwell vs Inverness Caledonian Thistle Kick off: 19:45 Fir Park Stadium Queen of the South vs Rangers Kick off: 19:45 Palmerston Park Ross County vs Dundee United Kick off: 19:45 Victoria Park
Tuesday 22nd September Dundee 3-2 Aberdeen a.e.t. Hibernian 1-3 St Johnstone Kilmarnock 1-2 St Mirren Motherwell 3-2 Inverness CT a.e.t. Ross County 0-2 Dundee Utd The surprise of the night, if it is that big a surprise, is that the sheep have crashed out. After fighting back to take the tie to extra time I thought they'd go on and win it but Dundee got the winner. Hibs losing at home to St Johnstone is somewhat of a surprise as well but not so much if you'd seen the highlights of their game at the weekend in the SPL. Sure, Hibs won it 3-0 but St Johnstone could count themselves unlucky to lose so heavily in a game they played well in. ICT were reduced to 10 men with the score at 1-1 and went behind early in extra time only to level the game again. But Motherwell eventually won the tie with the impressive Forbes bagging the winner.
Wednesday 23rd September Queen of the South 1-2 Rangers Falkirk 0-4 Celtic Hearts 2-1 Dunfermline No surprises tonight although Hearts needed a penalty to squeeze by Dunfermline and QofS gave a good account of themselves against Rangers.
CIS Cup Q-Final Draw St. Johnstone v Dundee United St. Mirren v Motherwell Dundee v Rangers Celtic v Heart of Midlothian Dates for ties - Tuesday 27th or Wednesday 28th October, 2009. Celtic - Hearts will be shown live on BBC.
Q-Final results Dundee 1-3 Rangers St Johnstone 2-1 Dundee Utd St Mirren 3-0 Motherwell Celtic 0-1 Hearts
Co-operative Insurance Cup semi-final draw Hearts v St Mirren Rangers v St Johnstone The ties will be played on 2 and 3 February 2010. Anyone think there will be a different pairing in the final other than Hearts and Rangers...?
At this point both of those teams should be well motivated to perform. Both likewise have shown that they can lose to just about anyone as well.
