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    The Dundee United Thread 22/23

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    On 15/05/2022 at 20:38, steve55 said:

     

    I am going to make sure i do both home and away games, going to make the most of it.

    Want to avoid Norway I aint paying 15 quid for a pint...

    It isn't 15 quid. Get a pint for around a tenner. Quite good value really.

     

    Enjoying a few bevs while i am here in Aberdeen for a couple of weeks.

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    Bring back three former players

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    Our greatest player was the legend that was David Narey and he would improve any team but the defence is as good as any right at the moment (or the opposition's attack aren't so good).

    The midfield is starting to click as well but Bannon and Luggy backed up with Fuchs would be unstoppable

    Up front is where we are lacking and there is a panoply of talent to choose from.

    Big Dunc, big Kjell Olofsson, Davie Dodds (check the stats), Andy Gray(he was just before my time), Willie Pettigrew and even a pre-Celti Ciftci. Any of those guys would do the business but just for the sake of choosing a legend I will choose Finn Dossing.

     

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    Number 1 the last time...

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    On 19/09/2021 at 20:43, Mark Connolly said:

    Inspired by @EdinburghLivi's revelation that "Grace Kelly" by Mika was Number 1 the last time Celtic won at Almondvale, this thread is a chance to relive momentous results by away teams and tremendous musical choices by the British public. What was Number 1 the last time [insert random team] won at your ground?

    After another outstanding game at Tannadice today, I can reveal that Dundee haven't won an away derby since "Baby Cakes" by 3 of a Kind was top of the hit parade.

     

    The last time Grace Kelly was at Tannadice was sept 31st 1981 and No 1 was Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie. That is man near exactly 40 years ago and yes I was around then although not at that game cos it was a school night! :(

     

     

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    Your Clubs Least Expected Win.

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    On 22/08/2021 at 08:12, Mark Connolly said:

    Hard to argue with any of that, though I might add in the cup replay against Rangers in 2010. They had horsed us 7-1 at Ibrox earlier in the season with the wotsit-munching pundit scoring 5, and we somehow came back from 3-1 down at Ibrox to sneak a replay, before David Robertson's arse helped us continue the journey to eventual glory.

    No issues with any of that but the most recent thrashing of the unbeaten Sevconians with a mediocre (at best) squad and a havering untried manager WAS completely unexpected. Especially after the sound thrashing that the Sheepies gave us.

    In all these other games we had some hope that the talent in the squad would help us through (I must add that the goal scoring abilities of David Robertson's arse were previously unknown of course. Maybe it was a training ground move?) I mean who would have expected Pawlett to be a midfield dynamo with a great engine after the previous seasons of fuel starvation and dodgy distribution? I expected a loss and probably a big loss. I can't believe there were many who didn't.

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    Wishing You All a Very Happy...

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    Ah Albert Kidd day. It was also the day that the radiactive clouds created by the Chernobyl explosion emptied themselves over the UK. It is a day etched in my memory because that evening me and a few close friends were out in the rain parading about in the streets of Aberdeen in the Aberdeen Uni Students Annual Torcher parade.

    So why is this relevant to AK?

    Well, one of my friends (he still is) was down at Dens for the "event." He was of course absolutely cock-a-hoop at the opportunity for the Jam tarts to get their first league title in his memory (bearing in mind he was 21 at the time) so he had scraped together al his available cash to get down the road for the game. 

    Anyway the rest of our merry band went full student and put together a scrappy looking float and dressed up in whatever we could think of so we could prance around the streets of Aberdeen getting cash for charity and using the opportunity to embark on a speed pub crawl down the length of Union St. The route took a big circle in the centre of Aberdeen so that it ended up at the top of Union Street at which point it stopped for a few minutes. At that point we spotted a lonely forlorn figure. It was my friend resplendant is a corduroy jacket, brown trousers , a tweed cap and of course a Heart of Midlothian scarf.  I should add for the younger folks on here that wasn't fashionable even then. He had just got the train back and wandered up to try and find us. we knew the score and were almost sympathetic (he was the only Hearts supporter in our group.) We invited him up on to the float and gave him a swig of something we had stashed. I should add that the weather was sheet. It was now dark. The drizzle had got heavier and it must have been 4 degrees. At this point we didn't know that the persistent rain that was soaking us contained  Caesium 137 and radioactive iodine but we were wrapped up because it was feckin cold.

    Anyway our Hearts man didn't speak, seemingly the trauma had removed his power of speech., he just decided to remove his upper clothing, wrap a carpet round his waist, slipped his scarf back on and took up a "Britannia" style pose with a spear in one hand. in this pose he travelled on the back of a artic truck all the way down Union St in the pissing radioactive rain. Sounds bad you say but it got worse. The eagle-eyed Aberdonians including no doubt, many of those nasty, nasty casuals, spotted the scarf hanging damply on the neck of this poor traumatised man and startedlaughing and throwing coppers. I know! Aberdonians throwing money away! Strange days indeed. All the way down the crowded street he stood. Unmoving and impervious to the barbs of humiliating laughter and the actual pain of the coins bouncing off his head. The rest of us of course decided that it was his pain alone to suffer and continued on our pub crawl. 

    Once the journey was complete he got off the trailer, put his shirt and jacket back on and went home. I don't think he spoke to anyone for a week after. Of course we learned how bad the radioactivity was from the rain in the days afterwards but this man is still around and healthy as far as I know. He procreated too 

    In summary Albert Kidd caused a lot of suffering that day and in my mind I always associate him with the Chernobyl disaster but when I put my scientific side to matter I have come to a  rather frightening conclusion. In a post- nuclear apocolypse there will be two groups of survivors, cockroaches and Hearts fans.

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    Jim McLean

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    2 hours ago, Bob Mahelp said:

    Apologies for a wee bit of self-indulgence here, but there will be a few of us on this board (I'm thinking Jacks' Grandad) who were around in the glorious days of the 1980's. 

    For me, even a mention of Jim's name brings back spine-tingling, vivid memories of a packed Tannadice with it's steep terracing, and of a filled Pittodrie where games against United were the ones you looked for on the fixture lists and were the hottest ticket in town (no tickets though, get there early and queue). 

    It brings back vivid memories of adidas kit, Paul Sturrock with his socks round his ankles, of Gordon Strachan scoring penalties, of seeing 4 of the best Scottish defenders ever to play the game....Miller, Hegarty, McLeish, Narey....battling it out on the same pitch, of Dundee man (and generally fine referee) Bob Valentine taking control, of two great teams going it at hammer and tong with nobody really ever knowing who would come out on top. Of Fergie, and Jim. 

    It brings back memories of the time when the Old Firm were an irrelevance, and the New Firm controlled the back pages and the headlines on sports programmes. 

    I'm not a United fan, but Jim McLean and his team were almost as big a part of my youth as my beloved Aberdeen. 

    With his passing, another line is drawn under part of the lives of those who were involved in those wonderful years. 

    Thanks for all the memories Jim. 

     

    If i can add to that. 

    I was at Aberdeen Uni in the 80s and it was enemy territory! I was at Pittodrie for most of the New Firm games in Aberdeen between 82 and 87 and can remember clearly what Bob talks about above. great days and if only I can get "we are the Dons " out of my head it would have been near perfect.

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    The Dundee United Thread 22/23

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    Posted · Edited by sheikyerbouti

    5 minutes ago, Szamo's_Ammo said:

    With Jackson Irvine all but confirmed, a central defender and another forward seem to be the most likely signings next.

    I'm hearing the name Joe Walsh.

    Are you high on rocky mountains?

    Dang! I got mixed up with John Denver who was more of a left winger than central defender.

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