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One other thing that today showed is the sooner the lower leagues are called the we can confirm Dillon as a full time member of the commentary time the better it is for everyone. @stumigoo, sign me up as a member of the dillo fan club.

Mellon is a genius, the decision to give Shankland zero service until after the transfer window has shut looks like a master stroke .

Bit surprised by the negative comments re Robson today, yes his crossing was pish again but defensively he had his best game in a while. Has been on a poor run of form recently and been very lucky to stay in the team but coped well today for me and is helped with Sporle playing in front of him.

Is it too early to get Fuchs tied down on a McLean 10 year contract? Wee man is like Gomis and Bauben rolled into one, already looking a key player despite not being fully fit.

If Clark wasn’t our top scorer he wouldn’t be playing but because he is Mellon feels he needs to try to find a way to start Clark, McNulty and Shanks, due to this Appere chances are severely limited. McNulty being injured recently gave Appere a chance and he did ok imo and has been harshly left out since.

Not for me, leaves Shankland too isolated and also don’t think Shankland is particularly suited to play the lone striker role

Willing to cut Mellon some slack this season as I think he is restricted by the squad he has inherited but there are some glaringly obvious problems not being addressed for me: We can’t defend set pieces worth a f**k We can’t cross the ball (not scored a header all season) Our pass completion rate must be the lowest in the league Nicky Clark is a striker not an attacking midfielder Marc McNulty is a striker not a winger (doesn’t look interested imo) If a player has a poor game fair enough, when they have several poor games they must be dropped (Robson & Reynolds) 4-2-3-1 doesn’t work with this squad I doubt most Utd fans on here would disagree with any of the above yet the management don’t seem to be addressing these issues.

What are people’s thoughts on the loan players we have, keep for rest of season or bin now if possible? Bolton showed early promise but has been a disappointment though in his defence switching between right mid and wingback has done him no favours. With no McMullan he is one of the few options we have to play wide when we switch to 4-4-2. McNulty has shown flashes of being a quality player and has more pace than any of the other forwards we have but he is not the type of striker we need with our current style of play and if we could replace him with a decent target man I think it should be considered. Also last 2 games have saw him booked for deliberately kicking the ball away after play has been stopped, given his history these are very stupid bookings to pick up and hopefully the reason for them is nothing more than frustration/stupidity.

Any chance we can spend the next week working on crosses in training, do we seriously have no one who can put in a decent fucking cross. First 25 minutes I actually felt we were getting Smith and Robson quite high up the park supporting play but not one cross came from those situations with the ball either going inside or most often backwards. Set pieces were just as bad today with Clark’s delivery being woeful. Another point away from home with a clean sheet being the positive aspect to take from the game.

Let’s hope for Dundees sake McMullan is better at crossing the road than he is at crossing the ball

Despite a good point and decent 2nd half against Aberdeen I’m hoping we go back to 4-4-2 for this game as we have in the last couple of home games. A few injuries to deal with restricting possible starting lineup, centre midfield being down to the bare bones (although not quite Adam King levels). Benji Smith Connolly Reynolds Robson McMullan Powers Harkes Bolton Shankland Aperre Wouldn’t be against Sporle starting on the left in place of either Bolton or McMullan as they are all much the muchness but Bolton has had a hand in a couple of goals recently and maybe a bit harsh leaving Clark out but felt Aperre got better as game went on yesterday and deserves another chance. Team assumes Fuchs, Butcher & McNulty all out injured.

RIP Jim, we will never again see a single person have such an impact on 1 club.

FFS Szamo has hooked a couple of whoppers there

Hamilton’s biggest mistake today was scoring, as long as it’s 0-0 we are not changing formation and both teams finish with a point. Don’t mind the shitfest back 5 approach away from home or even against the top 4 at home but against a team bottom of the league who are haemorrhaging goals it’s just not good enough. The change in shape brought about by losing a goal is what got us the points and hopefully shows MM that we are good enough to attack the poorer teams in the league. Despite some horrendous viewing today we picked up 3 top flight points while Dundee and Hearts were losing in the lower leagues, pleasing.

Whatever compromising pictures Pawlett had of Neilson he has obviously photoshopped Mellons head onto them and Mickey has fallen for it

Pleased to see Smith back in allowing Bolton to move forward, disappointed to see Butcher and Pawlett straight back although we are a bit short on options but both have been fucking garbage recently.

Correct

I agree that Sporle and Chalmers are a bit meh and was stunned with how much game time Chalmers got early season when Glass couldn’t get a look in but in more recent games they have been decent and at least attempted to take us up the park and having them back allows to vary the formation as they are capable of playing wide midfield rolls where for yet another season we are short of quality options. Also very meh players are better than very shit players which is what we have seen in recent weeks.

We had something like 20 attempts on goal at Killie and got pumped 4 nil, the last couple of games we have barely mustered an attempt but picked up 2 points in games where beforehand most people with have accepted a draw. The football has been chronic but I think there has been a realisation from MM that a lot of the current squad are just not good enough, his interviews have changed from ‘we are Dundee United, we where Champions last season’ to ‘we are playing at a higher level and need time to adapt’. As bombscare as our defence is if they just concentrate on defending and don’t try to play football they might just about do, our biggest problem lies in midfield with Butcher, Harkes and Pawlett all being utter garbage recently and while Powers may possibly be one of the slowest moving players ever he retained the ball far better than the other 3 have. Once Fuchs is ready to play and Sporle and Chalmers return from injury hopefully these additional options will see underperforming players benched. My view at the start of the season was anything above 10th was a successful return to the top flight, if we have to shitfest our way through to January we can then look at hopefully bringing in a better quality of player that will allow us to move away from the eye bleeding displays we are having to endure just now.

No, back in light training but still got a bit of pain so probably a couple of weeks before he’s back in the team

Millar and McNulty the only names being linked

If Fuchs can complete a 5 yard forward pass he will instantly become our best midfielder. Friday night was one of the worst midfield displays I have ever seen, Butcher and Harkes offered nothing offensively or defensively while Bartley and Holt strolled around the pitch dictating play. With Fuchs forced to quarantine for 2 weeks we should be giving Powers a chance, no world beater but can at least complete a pass.

A couple of seasons of Osman Sow is worse than all these combined

Sell Shankland and use the money to bring back Patrick Nkoyi to partner Sow and watch us swat the rest of the league aside. On a more serious note we beat the johnnies 1-0 in a bounce game today with young midfield trialist Hoti getting the goal apparently.