Pull My Strings
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Ffs Sandy, get on with it.
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4 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said:
Courage mon brave.
Playing teams as bad as they were will see us into the play offs.
And the DU fans for all their posturing deep down know that.
Lets them enjoy their win, tough times ahead for them.
You are terrible at this.
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28 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:
Relax man, it was only yesterday that the news came out. An international loan is going to take a few days at least to finalise.
Shouldn't really matter greatly anyway. He's out of contract next summer and will never play for the club again.
Ah, I see that it was deadline day and it go through. When's the transfer deadline for the nearest abattoir?
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1 hour ago, Tap in 94 said:
I take it that diddy goalie never got his move then?
Relax man, it was only yesterday that the news came out. An international loan is going to take a few days at least to finalise.
Shouldn't really matter greatly anyway. He's out of contract next summer and will never play for the club again.
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17 hours ago, Gmfc 23 said:
Birthday caird pish. Girfry
Grim reading on your birthday in Greenock, it appears. No tears though, these guys are used to it.
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18 hours ago, Mr.Blue said:
Kicking after the balls away?
No, kicking after the ball's away. Singular contraction.
And rolling around on the ground pretending to have been hit.
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11 minutes ago, Chippyminton said:
Cry as many salty tears as you like, make as many disparaging comments as you like.
The ref robbed you, Morton are thugs and hammer throwers, we're too physical, we're cheats, we're too in your face, Dougie's running a wrestling match instead of a fitba team, blah blah blah.
It's water off a duck's back to us. We're used to it.
Aye, that's a fair summary apart from the "in your face" bit. They aren't in your face, they're behind you kicking you after the ball's away or rolling around on the ground pretending to have been hit. I don't blame Morton, tbf. c***s are c***s. That's just their nature. Ref should be smarter though. That's the disappointing bit.
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1 hour ago, ArabianKnight said:
Seemed a very soft red. Ref was shocking today for everyone.
Meh
Not sure he was shocking for Morton, tbf. A very Dougie Imrie team and I mean that in the least complimentary way possible.
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I'm not a great fan of drums at games but for those who are, perhaps one drum's considered a beat, whereas two drums are just a racket.
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15 minutes ago, Loon From Outta Toon said:
Interested to know your thoughts on Rory Macleod joining us on loan till January.
I’ve seen a lot of praise for the young lad, so awfy excited to see how he does.
He's good. How good remains to be seen but he hasn't looked out of place in the first team squad and still just 17.
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1 hour ago, edinabear said:
Whether you like it or not it, GSTK is the British National anthem and many 100,000s of Scots consider themselves Scottish and British.
GSTK was regularly played in Scottish games right up to the 80s which I think many have forgotten.
Not sure what the Tory party has to do with anything
Bit disrespectful to Betty, if true.
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1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:
I'd rather be like Dundee and not in this diddy competition.
Not worth it, imo.
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2 minutes ago, kdyteejay said:
I thought Cudjoe was poor when he came on today.
Not sure it's worth drawing conclusions based on 15 minutes when the rest of the team had their flip flops on.
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48 minutes ago, virginton said:
No, you should definitely not expect that at all. We may have been involved in some open games so far, but a lot of that was based on circumstances like chasing the game when behind. At Tannadice the gameplan will absolutely be hard-working defensive shitfesting.
Hopefully it'll be well-organised defensive shitfesting but the flaw in that remains the lack of a right back to play an actual back four without Kirk Broadfoot (87). Nothing about our performance today suggests we're getting closer to an effective solution.
This game will be getting dinghied in any case due to the £27 ticket price, which is objectively ridiculous.
Cool, the actual ticket price is £25. Look forward to seeing you there.
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4 hours ago, parsforlife said:
What was moults hush celebration about, nobody had said anything to him and there’s no atmosphere either
Think you might have misread that one. Looked like his usual celebration which is holding his finger in front of his face and pointing up (to his mum who died when he was a teenager). It's a "for you, mum" rather than a shoosh. It does look a bit like a shoosh, tbf.
Edit: Sorry, totally talking out of my arse. Seen the picture now and it was a shoosh. As you were.
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Easy enough and we looked quite good first half. Second half a non event but decent minutes for some of the younger ones. Stirton and Constable are big laddies for 16.
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Looking forward to this. Glorious sunny day and a no pressure game. Should see some of the young guys get a start, although most of the young ones who are on the fringes of the starting XI will miss out as they are away with the u19s and u21s. Chance for Mochrie, Graham and Fotheringham to get a start. I suppose Denham should also get a game and we cross our fingers that he's learned from the Thistle debacle.
A win would be nice but not important. No interest in winning this competition.
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25 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
They have to go along with TV picking midweek dates as its part of the TV deal. They'd be punished financially if they refused.
Clearly this is a different situation.
Would any United fan have cared in the slightest if the game was on a Saturday instead of Friday? I suspect the answer is an overwhelming no, in which case whats the point?
I think you're missing the point here. With all due respect. United are not arguing that this is necessary. Nobody is arguing that. There is literally no point arguing against that view because no one is expressing that view. The position is (and this seems to be really hard for some folk to get their head around): game's on Saturday, okay cool; game's actually on Friday because we think this might be good, fair enough.
It's only Arbroath who are making this an issue and the issue, apparently, is that part time players shouldn't be asked to play on a work night. That doesn't seem to be a tenable position for a Championship club.
30 minutes ago, keptie said:The game at Gayfield was one of the TV games we had to play on Friday night. We didn't dictate to United they had to play that, unlike United dictating to us to play on Friday night to suit them. There is now a good chance personally that I will have to miss this game for "no good reason", pretty inconvenient.
Mate, United aren't dictating anything. The SPFL dictated that the Gayfield game was on a Friday night at the request of TV and have dictated that the Tannadice game will be on a Friday night at the request of United. It's a real shame that you won't be able to make the game but, on the plus side, there may be other people who can make the game because it's a Friday rather than a Saturday so it's not all bad. There are lots of people who work in retail, for example, who really struggle with Saturday afternoons. It'll be a boon for them. It's less convenient for me too because I work quite a distance away and I'm a season ticket holder at Tannadice so I've already paid for the game. But that's okay, I'm aware that sometimes games get moved for various reasons and it's not just about me.
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3 minutes ago, Tattie36 said:
Give me one single example of a team in Scotland asking to have a game time/day changed to fit an anniversary. Not even an actual founding centenary but just a name change. I can’t remember anything like this ever.
Why? Would it be less of an issue if the exact scenario had happened before?
United have asked for the game to be moved because they think they can create a bit of an event and encourage a bigger crowd. Why is that a bad thing? And why is it a worse reason than any other reason for moving a game?
To be clear here, I think the SPFL should take into account the view of the away team and that should apply in all cases. But, we don't know what criteria the SPFL use and that's a matter for them. United can only ask the question. Maybe the SPFL thought the objections from Arbroath weren't particularly credible. Having read the Arbroath statement I can see how they might have reached that conclusion.
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It's pretty bizarre the take that Arbroath seem to have on this question. No bother changing game times all over the shop to satisfy TV companies and sedentary, armchair viewers but heaven forbid a club might want to make an occasion for fans who actually attend games.
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1 minute ago, keptie said:
It's s unnecessary inconvenience to supporters for no good reason
Is it though? You're 20 minutes up the road. It's no more inconvenient for Arbroath than it was for United fans a few weeks ago and far less inconvenient than most other weeknight fixtures are for all the other Championship teams who will be asked to travel much further for the televised Friday night games.
"No good reason": you're going to a game of football, or not. It's exactly the same reason as any other game of football.
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1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said:
Is this just Dundee United finding a way to do another 'Friday night football' instalment without having to get their visitors to agree (which Arbroath evidently wouldn't have)? 27th October back in 1923 was a Saturday.
What do you mean "finding a way"? That suggests some hidden agenda. The agenda is: can we move this home game to a Friday please? No one would have given the move a second glance but for the bleating from Arbroath who, if I understand correctly, play work night games as regularly as anyone else in Scottish football. They've got seven weeks' notice. What a nonsense.
United aren't pleading special circumstances, unlike Arbroath.
Just now, keptie said:What that has to do with United being arseholes I've no clue.
Aresholes for asking for a game to be moved. Give your head a fucking wobble.
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I see our friends up the A92 are revolting ..
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Dundee United 23/24
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Would it be tempting fate to say that we are going to absolutely horse this league? I feel like it would but we horsed it in the last season we were down here and we were largely pish that season. Shankland aside, we were no better than the opposition most weeks. This time, even when we play badly, we're rarely threatened. Two goals conceded - one a pinpoint header into the top corner and one an uncharacteristic blip from Gallagher (his one and only mistake thus far from him). Even without Moult (and I'm absolutely not underestimating his contribution) we're still getting goals from elsewhere in the team. If he were injured for a long time then it might not be as much of a skoosh but we wouldn't suddenly start chucking goals in and I reckon we'd get enough from Cudjoe, Kai, Glass, and others to win more often than not. That should be enough. Rovers and Thistle the only realistic challengers, imo, but both beaten by poor teams today.
Apologies in advance for when this comes back to bite me on the arse.