Pull My Strings
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I was impressed with ICT. They were organised and moved the ball well. We had a couple of players a little bit off it but we've played worse and won comfortably this season. Freeman looks like he has PTSD from last season, not sure if he'll ever recover; Tilson is fine as a stop-gap destroyer but I think we could have been more ambitious and put Glass in there from the start (also my feeling before the match); Watt and Moult seemed to be playing a front two, rather than Watt behind Moult which led to Moult dropping deep when really it should have been Watt. No real complaints though. Sometimes you're not at your best and the opposition play well. ICT certainly the best team to come to Tannadice this season and I would expect them to be pushing hard for 3rd/4th come the end of the season.
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1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said:
Was it not something like £1m for him and Pressley in a joint deal?
Yeah, apportioned as £750k for Pressley and £250k for Robertson. Marginally less appalling to think that we paid £1m for Pressley and got Ribertson thrown in for free but that would mean we paid £1m for Pressley and then let the c**t walk for free three years later. He was a good player, tbf, just an awful human.
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4 hours ago, CityDave94 said:
Sandy Robertson, now that's a name from the past. Both ICT and United.
An utterly pointless signing for us. Think we spent £250k on him from Coventry. Ooft, you'd expect an actual football player for that sort of money these days.
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4 hours ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said:
Can you pay at the stadium?
Well, you could buy on your phone whilst you're queuing at the turnstile but there's no cash gates. Dunno whether you can buy away tickets at the club shop. Probably not.
You're online, buy it online.
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40 seems very young to be considered middle aged. I've got another decade, I reckon, before I turn middle aged. That's predicated on living to 120 though, tbf.
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Is he out of contract next summer? They paid a fee to sign him in January this year when they already had an established first choice keeper. He must surely have been considered one for the future but then why give him only an 18 month contract, and then loan him out for 12 months of that? I ken the English clubs can be profligate but that's a very odd way to do business.
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15 minutes ago, skinny arab said:
Glass in for Moult, obviously concerned with plastic pitch given his injury history
Yeah, fair enough. Moult has been absolutely brilliant and his fitness has held up better than probably any of us could have hoped for .. BUT he's played more games this season than in the previous 4 (5?) years combined so it's only prudent to give him a wee rest every now and then. On the bench, so if we need him (as at Starks Park) he can come on but otherwise he gets a chance to rest and recover. Glass has been excellent and is unlucky to have lost his place after his own wee injury. Watt's probably in better form now than he's ever been for us so is an able deputy right up front.
Airdrie are obviously a decent team, albeit a bit one dimensional. Might be a long night if we don't get an early goal but we don't need to be chasing these sorts of games away from home. Be patient, hold your shape and they'll eventually give the ball back. I'd fancy us to be better at breaking them down than they are breaking us down. No need to win the possession stats again, just the goal stats.
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29 minutes ago, Sarto Mutiny said:
Pleased to see the manager who celebrated a 1-1 draw at Tannadice like this is upholding standards on OTT celebrations. About time
Once a Dee, always a Dee.
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11 minutes ago, kdyteejay said:
He’s not gone yet.
Think he means Asghar. The clown behind the clown(s).
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44 minutes ago, Zetterlund said:
On first viewing I didn't think the challenge on Cudjoe before his goal looked that bad, but from this angle it's a shocker. Was the Arbroath player booked for this?
Fair play to Cudjoe, if he had stayed down and rolled around a bit instead of getting up to play on, the boy could've been in trouble.
Nah, not booked. Only thing which stops it being a clear red is the fact that Cudjoe gets back up and scores. Even then, it's incredibly dangerous so might still have been a red. Thought the challenge on Middleton around 30 minutes could also have been a red - very deliberate foul from behind when Middleton was about to either shoot or roll in Watt. Not the last man but we were 2 on 1 on the edge of the box.
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18 minutes ago, Tap in 94 said:
1 very slight criticism of Goodwin last night is that I'd rather have seen what Denham and Moore could do instead of the usual subs of Graham and Tilson
Not for me. That's just playing guys for the sake of it. Denham is behind Graham for a reason and isn't our player. He'll surely be gone in January. Graham is first back up to Gallacher and Holt and needs to play to ensure he's ready to step in when required. Likewise Tilson, who we'll need when Docherty and Sibbald aren't available. We're absolutely steamrollering teams just now because the team are totally focused on winning games and keeping clean sheets. There are already lots of young guys getting regular game time. If Moore deserves a place then he'll get it in due course.
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5 minutes ago, Dundee Hibernian said:
Who played the tremendous ball out to Middleton for the sixth goal? At the match I thought it was Moult, but it couldn't have been.
Fifth goal? Easy to lose track. It was Docherty.
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Well that was fun. Think that's the best we've played this season. We've had a lot of big, comfortable wins but even in those games there have been periods when the opposition have steadied the ship, or looked dangerous, or at least held the ball for a period. This was just utterly dominant for the whole game and looking to score every time we had the ball, which was a lot.
Good performances from everyone but I was particularly pleased with Watt and Middleton. I think its fair to say that both were pretty underwhelming for the first couple of months of the season and were probably quite fortunate to keep their places every week. It's no great insight to say that Goodwin was trying to play them into form but I wasn't at all convinced that it would work. It has though. Both have been excellent since the Queens Park game and Middleton in particular looks like a man reborn. Absolutely unplayable today.
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1 hour ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Well I do apologise. I thought your club were making a big deal of the "Dundee Hibernian" thing this season and on this specific exact day. Apologies if I got the wrong idea.
That's a shocking lack of attention to detail, tbf.
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2 hours ago, ArabianKnight said:
I'd be more shocked if this game is on than if it isn't.
Don't think this rain is going to let up over the day and I don't think they've had covers on.
1 hour ago, 1320Lichtie said:Tannadice doesn’t get waterlogged very often?
1 hour ago, Glen Scotia said:Game very much in doubt I'd imagine. The tunnel corner being the issue.
Is the game actually in doubt tonight? Been a long time since we had a game called off for a waterlogged pitch. I can't recall the last one. Maybe the Rangers game which was abandoned at half time.
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2 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
I think it is an injustice because both teams should have to agree to any fixture change
I understand the reason for it was to do with this centenary stuff however and nothing to do with trying to gain an advantage
Not sure I agree but that's a perfectly reasonable complaint. One for the SPFL though rather than United.
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53 minutes ago, clashcityrocker said:
Have United sold more tickets than average with this being such a special event - I am guessing the answer is no ?
Honestly lads, what's the conspiracy that you guys keep angling at? Do you doubt that United wanted the game this Friday to give it a special feel for the club and fans? If so, what's the ulterior motive?
You might think that it's a silly reason to request a change to the scheduling (that's your right) or that the SPFL should have paid more heed to the view of Arbroath before making a decision (perfectly fair), but this persistent whining as if there's been some dreadful injustice visited upon your club because the game was moved for a reason other than the usual, bog standard ones (TV, weather, fixture clash, policing, etc.) is really unbecoming.
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Oh no, I can see the outline of that man's nipple.
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Just now, Girth said:
This on the box!?
I love a derby game.
- It is not.
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8 minutes ago, jagsfan57 said:
Aye, after the free kick had been given and still kicked him in the head. He was lucky to still be on the park just for the arm ! to Neilson’s face alone.
Aye, well you're entitled to your opinion.
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14 minutes ago, jagsfan57 said:
Maybe the Utd fans that were there can clarify whether it was the same player that kicked McInroy in the head when he was on the ground and elbowed Neilson in the face before Holt scored your 2nd goal ? It looked like Moult to me both times.
It was Moult who was booked for leading with his arm and who tried to kick the ball when your man was lying on the ground with it in his hands. Not sure there was much in either incident.
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59 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
Spot on. We really shouldn’t be criticising others for our shite signings.
Can we criticise Barton himself? I think that would be fair. Like, if I pretended to be a pilot and then crashed the plane, oopsie.
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What about Kevin Holt though, eh? I mind him, albeit obliquely, from his time at Dundee. A lanky, rather feckless left back. I did not expect this guy to pitch up from Partick in the summer. Impeccable centre half, no nonsense, tidy, and loads of goals. Cheers.
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7 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
I hope it’s too late for him, but a lot of us are thinking Goodwin can’t fail to notice those kind of numbers! Ultimately if you have a decent lead in January there would be no purpose to bringing him back though, I guess.
Only reason to bring him back would be to give him a new contract and play him. If I were Logan Chalmers I wouldn't sign a new contract. He's approaching his mid 20s and hasn't been trusted under numerous managers, why would he think that would change now. I can see him staying at Ayr or going to another Championship club and really kicking on but he's either just not quite good enough for United now or, maybe he is good enough, but it's taken longer than either side are happy with.
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Dundee Utd v Inverness CT
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Odd take on Freeman.. I've a lot of time for Freeman but his confidence is clearly shot. He wasn't a weak link defensively today, as he has been quite a lot in the last 18 months, but you'd need to squint pretty hard not to notice how many times he took the safe option, when a more confident player would have gone forward with the ball. Contrast Freeman's performance with that of Scott McMann. To me, Freeman is probably the more technically gifted player but their contributions are miles apart this season. McMann is a guy at the top of his game; Freeman is nowhere near the player he could be, or might have been.