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11 minutes ago, Glen Scotia said:
He applied for it whilst Ogren has been here. It was either when Courts or Fox got the job
Fuck, I'd forgotten all about Fox. *shudder*.
Those calling for Goodwin's head would do well to remember Liam Fox (and McKinnon, Laszlo, Mellon, Courts and Ross; Neilson wasn't much cop either).
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2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:
I don't recall him ever having the ball in his possession, so it's difficult to rate him in this competition...
I vividly remember one occasion when he definitely had the ball in his possession.
Edit: I see our Dee friend has already highlighted that incident.
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2 hours ago, Sarto Mutiny said:
It's great to be involved in such a big game - when we were last down here our promotion season was curtailed by Covid, so actually getting to experience a promotion battle is brilliant. Hopefully I'll feel the same at 9:45 tonight
Yeah, don't think we had a title race at all on our last visit. First three seasons our title ambitions were dead by the end of January (iirc) and the final season we were miles ahead from early on.
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Worse than Mark Birighiti?
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25 minutes ago, WhatDayIsIt said:
Tillson is great when we don't have the ball, his work rate and positioning are excellent. Tillson with the ball though is probably the worst player in United's history and I don't even mean that as an exaggeration. He knows this too as he tries his best to not be available to take a pass.
Ach, steady on.
On the final point, I think he does genuinely try to get into position to receive the ball, he just has no idea where he should be or what to with it if he gets it.
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41 minutes ago, Fife Arab said:
and sibs in the middle 
I'd be happy with that. My fear is that Goodwin goes with the "safe" option of Tillson who, to his credit, will win the ball back fairly often after he gives it away. My preference would be someone who just doesn't give it away quite so much in the first place.
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10 hours ago, Loemba90 said:
Heard Docherty injured (again), dunno if you can put Wotherspoon in his position with watt behind Moult? Or do we bring in Tillson?
9 hours ago, Sarto Mutiny said:Jim Goodwin will bring in Tillson
I'd stick Glass back in there but think he's fallen out of favour, failing which Wotherspoon could do a good job, I think.
Goodwin will bring in Tillson.
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15 hours ago, 2426255 said:
Fair play to him for resigning - pretty unusual in modern times. I stand by what I've said throughout, I like the guy even if it hasn't worked out well. He's straightforward and honest, no mucking about. When he came to the conclusion he wasn't the man for the job, he took the honourable course of action and stepped aside.
It's not a sign of honesty to blame everyone else for your own failure and then jump ship before being pushed. Quite the opposite.
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Interesting recruitment strategy from the Saudi lads, pairing one of the most prolific strikers of modern times with the worst goalkeeper in history.
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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:
Guess youll find out properly but aye, for us he seemed slower than Considine. Both in terms of actually turning/twisting and then getting up to speed was just laborious stuff. Maybe not massively slow at full speed but he'll need a head start on players to make it useful, and i dont know if hes experienced enough to read the game that well yet.
It’s rare for our centre halves to have to chase back this season. More about having to compete with the big, ugly Championship centre forwards in a physical battle. Last guy we had on loan in that position lasted about 150 minutes before being hooked and never seen again.
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1 hour ago, adamntg said:
Wiki says Findlay is on loan at Killie and is signed to Oxford.
Albert tells lies on the internet, if you can believe such a thing.
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37 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Needs work.
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2 hours ago, hk blues said:
So?
So we don't need another left sided centre half.
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14 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:
He should've said 'millions in debt while paying Tony 4k a week', that would've been funnier. IMO.
Thank you.
Well, it would have been something.
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4 hours ago, DAFC. said:
Really? If that was genuinely intended as a joke then you might want to rethink your relationship with humour.
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52 minutes ago, Loemba90 said:
Yeah our best player. Walton was fine as well but don’t think anyone else gets pass marks. Subs didn’t do anything either really. Desperately need our forward players to find some form. Also, our corners are brutal - really need to sort this seeing as we get about 15 a game.
Thought Sibbald was head and shoulders above everyone else on the park. Holt and McMann also very good.
Kai, Watt and Middleton all quite flat but credit to Dunfermline for defending well.
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2 minutes ago, Andriy_Parmolenko said:
Didn't get down for this one, but would have taken a point before the game. Sounds like we set up to be strong defensively and accomplished that.
For folk who were there, what was the consensus on MFW? A clean sheet seems a decent sign but any insight would be appreciated
As if on cue!
From a United perspective, Fagan-Walcott was very good. A lot of our goals come from McMann and Middleton overlapping on the left and he coped with both admirably.
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No complaints today. It was mostly one way traffic and I thought we played okay without making too many chances. Dunfermline sat back and defended well. Just one of those days.
Ref had an interesting one but it would be a stretch to say it greatly affected the game.
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17 hours ago, bunglebonce said:
Ayina played on the right of the back-three for United against County, in the post-split match last season. I know Jordan White scored a hat-trick of tap-ins against them, but I thought Ayina looked very good then, but also quite raw.
Promising but incredibly raw and naive. Sold a few goals trying to dribble past opposition forwards in his own box. Also, very strong, fast, good technique. He'll be a good player eventually whether he's there yet remains to be seen.
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Sounds like nobody decent is injured. Could be a tough game.
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38 minutes ago, SirJimmyofNic said:
Were not going to win any play offs, were safe from relegation, let him start building for next season and alternate playing Corr and Masson
Ffs man, you guys are level on points at the top of the league. You surely can't seriously be thinking of writing off this season and building for the future. No disrespect to Rovers but there will always be at least one bigger/wealthier competitor in the Championship. To be level on points at the top of the league in mid January is a once a decade (at most) position. You can't write it off as an incremental improvement. It's obviously not "now or never" but it could be a while before this sort of chance arises again.
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1 hour ago, skinny arab said:
Releghitti away to Killie on loan, sadly it’s only for 7 days, hopefully extended for the season
Literally nobody else in Scotland got goalie gloves? Wouldn't even need to be proper gloves, grab a fat boy off the street and give him a pair of Marigolds.
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2 hours ago, Fife Arab said:
Denham is 100% away back to Cardiff
You mean actually left the building or definitely going to be leaving?
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4 minutes ago, Sarto Mutiny said:
OK, I wasn't aware of that. I assume, and hope, that someone down south would take him on for the rest of the season.
I think it's mostly speculation, tbf, but it would make sense. I can't see any other reason why he wasn't put on the first plane back to Cardiff on 1st January.
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Dundee United 23/24
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Nah, not for me. Results under Neilson, when we won the division aren't much different than we've had this season under Goodwin. Neilson also had the benefit of Shankland scoring a million goals and the football was incredibly boring. We walked the division that season because everyone else was rancid.
As things stand, United have had three managers in my lifetime who could be considered unqualified/ virtually unqualified successes: McLean, Levein and Houston. The rest have ranged from dreadful to merely disappointing. The point isn't that you might end up with a dud but rather that almost every appointment will be considered a dud eventually. There's no rush. This dud has us top of the league which places him alongside Neilson and ahead of every other manager we've had in this division.
Not convinced Neilson was an odious c**t either. He was a bit of a personality vacuum and a bit of a snake but he's mostly inoffensive, imo. If you start with "odious c**t" for someone like Neilson, where do you go from there?