Date	Wednesday, 11 May 1932
Competition	Inverness Charity Cup
Fixture/Score	Inverness Citadel 3:2 Ross County
Venue	Shore Street Park, Inverness
Referee
Ross County
Manager	John (Jock) Ramage
Starting 11	1: ? Scott, 2: Thomas Anderson, 3: Dot Garrow, 4: Alister Garrow, 5: Robert MacLeod, 6: Ackie Urquhart, 7: Dick Traill, 8: Dave Cowie, 9: Ian Aird 2, 10: John Alex MacKenzie, 11: J Stewart
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the North Star. Inverness Citadel 3, Ross County 2 Goals count, and it was only in that regard that the County suffered any inferiority. Two striking features led to such an outcome: a succession of misfortunes and poor tactics. The first and most important originated from the injury to Urquhart, who was playing a scorching game at the time; it was during his temporary retirement for medical attention that Citadel scored rather luckily, the ball squirming out of Scott’s hands to hit the side of the net with only twenty minutes of play remaining. Although the County player returned, he was not the same effective force, and the fact that Citadel equalised within six minutes bestowed little merit of actual ability. Then, fortune smiled on the home team again when they escaped a legitimate penalty claim for handball and later had their winning goal disallowed for offside. Perhaps much of what occurred would have been prevented had the County’s inside forwards focused on attack rather than defence. Repeatedly, these players left their centre (Aird) to plough a lonely furrow, even when everything was in their favour—a 2-0 lead and the home defence looking nervous and erratic in their clearances. Furthermore, their inclination to drop back among the half-backs not only disorganised a department that had previously been quite capable of holding and checking the opposing forwards, but it distinctly played into the “Maroons’” hands, giving their defence the breathing space from first-half pressure under which they would surely have crumbled had it been maintained. Against a team that had a distinct County flavour, the “Maroons” found much stiffer opposition than they could ever have expected. In fact, they were so taken aback that they generally found themselves outclassed and outpaced in almost every department. The “Maroons’” stars soon saw that their usual stride was not going to function so easily against this combination of youth, and that goal-scoring was to be a more difficult proposition than in previous meetings. Hence, their movements were often “panicky” and always carried the suggestion of never achieving anything unless the visitors made a sudden collapse. On this occasion, the home team’s opening sparkle dealt no knockout blow, for Urquhart, as pivot, gave Paterson little scope to get at close quarters with Scott. If Anderson did not take the sting out of the “Maroons’” left wing, then Garrow at right-half did it, and Garrow at back, along with Macleod in front, effectively subdued the star-wingers, Mackenzie and Logie. What the home forwards could not do, Aird performed cleverly by nodding a loose cross from Traill into the net to give his club the lead. Just as coolly and smartly, he headed home again from a Stewart drive. This lead the County maintained until the interval, although Brindle had the opportunity of reducing it when he drove a penalty award against the crossbar. The “Maroons” resumed as briskly, but their efforts again faded against a defence that gave nothing away. With hopes shattered of making any profitable impression, the “Maroons” were gradually becoming more demoralised before the attack of their opponents, who were striving hard to deliver the final thrust, when suddenly, the fall of Urquhart to the ground in pain was the prelude to a chapter of sheer bad luck that dogged them to the end. The backs and halves could not be blamed; they played their part well. Among the forwards, Aird and Cowie were easily the best, the latter labouring for some time under a leg injury. The schoolboy, Mackenzie, came through a gruelling time successfully, considering his years and short senior experience. Stewart, on the left, has often appeared much more prominently, his movements not seeming to come off. On the right, Traill’s best was in the first period. The team fully justified itself and went on to prove that talent still abounds in the district, if developed on the proper lines.