Date	Saturday, 23 November 1929
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Inverness Thistle 6:2 Ross County
Venue	Kingsmills
Referee
Ross County
Manager	Thomas (Tom) Pirie
Starting 11	1: Jackie Cross, 2: R Johnstone, 3: ??? MacLennan, 4: Murdo Cameron, 5: Robert Munro, 6: Paulo Grant 1, 7: ??? Patience, 8: Charlie Cameron, 9: A Morrison, 10: Dick Traill 1, 11: Tom Young
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Inverness Thistle 6 Ross County 2 Ross County met their Waterloo properly at Inverness on Saturday, when Inverness Thistle defeated them by six goals to two. The game can be described as a fiasco in the first half, with the Ross-shire side playing a very poor second fiddle to Inverness; indeed, they hardly gave the home crowd a game, and certainly the spectators did not get value for their money. The County played as if they had never seen a ball before, and the Thistle took full advantage of their disorganisation and piled on the agony. The second half was the extreme opposite of the first, with Ross County the dominant side, and playing clever, constructive football. This change can only be accounted for by the fact that at half-time, Young was taken back to left-half and M. Cameron played at centre-forward. Before one minute had elapsed, Ross County were one goal down. Munro missed his tackle, and Smith beat Cross from close in. From the centre, Thistle had Cross again picking the ball out of the net. The County were completely off their balance, and the Thistle kept them that way. A corner by Morrison allowed slight relief to the visiting defence, but Charlie Cameron’s shot was blocked. Thistle kept on playing havoc with the opposing defence and another point came their way, a beautiful cross from Macbean being cleverly headed into the net by Smith. The resumption saw the Thistle again score, through White. The County simply could not get going, and Thistle, playing now with what looked like a winning hand, took risks, and, as often happens, the liberties they took were turned to good account, and they made the Ross-shire side look like a crowd of juniors. Paul Grant and Johnstone were the only two players to put up anything like resistance against the constant Thistle attacks, but though both fought valiantly, they could not stem the Thistle victorious onslaught, and the half-time whistle brought a much-needed relief to the sorely harassed County. With a five to nil score against them, the County gamely set out to reduce the leeway, and the team changes already mentioned infused new life into their ranks. Led by Murdo Cameron, the forward line came into something like its own, and the defence strengthened up through Young's presence in the half-line. Their first point came through Grant, who beat Macniven with a fast, low ball. Cross delighted the visiting spectators with a brilliant save, and when Murdo Cameron broke through, the Ross-shire contingent of spectators grew optimistic, but Cameron sent over. However, the centre-forward was not to be denied and he finished a spectacular solo run by beating Macniven all ends up. Much to the consternation of the spectators, friend and foe alike, Referee Mackay disallowed the point. This success, although disallowed, added the needed tonic to the County attack and Trail beat Macniven for the second County goal. County had all the run of play now, and Charlie Cameron got in some good work at this period, but little use was made of the many openings he presented to the inside forwards whose over-eagerness was their own undoing. Repeated breakaways by the Thistle forwards gave Cross constant trouble, but he was playing a strong game, and nothing resulted until a misunderstanding between Munro and Cross took place, and Smith rushed in to score his side’s sixth goal. The light grew bad at this period, and it was apparent that Cross thought Munro was to hit the ball back to him. This ended the scoring on the part of both sides, Thistle having counted five times in the first half, and once in the second period, while the two County goals were got in the second period, and they had two disallowed by the referee, all of which goes to show that the County team were wrongly placed in the first half. Cross came out of the game well, although he lost six goals. Had it not been for him, the first half might have proved even more disastrous. Of the backs, Munro was completely off his game, but Johnstone gave of his best, and under the heaviest of pressure, stood out cool and confident, tackling and kicking in masterly fashion. Paul Grant was the only player in the half-line who enhanced his reputation, and that to no small purpose. He really is a marvellous footballer, and the amount of work he got through in the first half on Saturday was phenomenal, as Macleman and Cameron (M.) were no match for the opposing wingmen, consequently giving Grant the unenviable task of keeping guard over practically the five Thistle forwards. Forward, the first half saw the County five practically spectators, but they came into their own in the second period. Charlie Cameron and Patience made a good wing, and Trail played up to form. The former was on occasions very clever and deserved the rounds of applause some of his work brought forth from the spectators. Morrison did not get enough of the ball, but what he did get he did not make as good use of it as he is accustomed to do. Trail was good throughout, and played one of his best games, while Murdo Cameron as a centre-forward was quite a change from Murdo Cameron as a half-back. Cameron's advent to the centre was the turning point of the game.