Date	Saturday, 26 April 1930
Competition	Inverness Cup
Fixture/Score	Ross County 1:4 Inverness Clachnacuddin
Venue	Kingsmills
Referee
Ross County
Manager	Thomas (Tom) Pirie
Starting 11	1: Jackie Cross, 2: Robert Munro, 3: Paulo Grant 1 (1 pen), 4: Dot Garrow, 5: Thomas Pirie, 6: Ackie Urquhart, 7: Dick Traill, 8: A Morrison, 9: A Kerr, 10: Tom Young, 11: Charlie Cameron
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from The North Star. Inverness Clachnacuddin 4 Ross County 1 The Clach have always had a particular liking for Thistle Park, Inverness, for they seem to have had a peculiar knack for many years of excelling themselves in this enclosure, and Tuesday evening proved no exception, for they laid Ross County low. They won the cup, but might have lost it. There is nothing new in cup final phases in that experience. The Ross-shire men had, up to a point, a fifty-fifty share of the actual proceedings, but immediately that point was the goal—the vital spot. In fifteen minutes we had three Clach raids—two goals, and almost a third had Young not cleared on the goal-line. Within the same period and after, the County had numerous chances—corners in abundance—and still no goals. Perhaps had Cameron tapped the ball into the net instead of driving a rasper against the cross-bar before the Clach had opened their count, matters might have been different, but nevertheless that did not have any argumentative bearing on what was lost thereafter. The Rossers' forwards were full of promise but could neither hustle nor shoot, except from long-range, which gave Mackenzie an opportunity to display his worthiness—they were frail and far too easily charged off the ball. Then, that they persisted throughout in close passing against halves and backs that did not hesitate to go in first-time, seemed to be a suicidal policy and simply courted disaster, which ultimately did come when Young nipped in and added two more goals, to make his “bag” four. The County’s solitary goal was a penalty drive from the foot of Grant. Many theories have been advanced for the County’s rout—in goals only. Certainly Cross is not blameless, for he could have prevented the last, but there were many other sinners. For example, he did not receive the usual protection from his backs, and Urquhart often hesitated in his tackling, to give Yeudall unusual rope, while Munro was just there. The intermediate line was far from its happiest vein, and here the Clach called the tune. “Pirie was not a Cameron, neither Garrow a Logie, nor Young a Clark,” that was the Clach keynote to victory. They simply laid themselves out—not unfairly but to the letter of the rules—to hold Kerr and his henchmen and to keep the ball swinging to their attack. In that, they succeeded, for Goodall and Clyne stood as watchmen over what escaped the clutches of their halves. Not so with [the County], he seemed prone to follow up his attack, and had he thrown in his full weight when the scores were only 2-1, and risked the policy of offensive instead of defensive, there would not have been the big gap between him and his forwards. Garrow was not the hustler he usually is, and out of his many tussles with Macrae, the winger had the better of the argument. On the left, Young was useful, but was inclined to give too much scope to Yeudall. Kerr was subdued, generally policed by three, with Grant good but somewhat a fraction too late in his parting. Traill was a plodder. The wingers, Morrison and Cameron, inclined more to play a solo hand than to trust in their clubmates’ abilities. In the Clach’s attack there was always a nippiness and the rewarded policy of giving the wingers the ball, who responded by always sending into the goalmouth. So that is how Clach “got away with it.” However, the bitterness of defeat was considerably sweetened by the fact that the victors played a fine sporting game, devoid of the least suspicion of those tactics that go to spoil football of its good name.