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Coventry Saint replied to Mr Gandosaur's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Awright guys, I'm stopping in Dundee for a couple of nights for a wedding at the end of next month. Could do with a food recommendation for the Friday night. We're stopping at the Hotel Indigo, so somewhere walkable from there would be ideal. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Cheers! -
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Coventry Saint replied to MeadowArab's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Nah, likely outcome now is you beating us in the playoffs for maximum agony. -
Dundee United 2018/2019
Coventry Saint replied to MeadowArab's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
I've just had to cash out my £10 6/1 bet on you guys to win the title. Managed to get £8.75 back, which was respectable damage limitation. Useless b*****ds. -
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Coventry Saint replied to Mr Gandosaur's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Well, exactly. Todd is a good player, had a horrendous time with injuries and probably needed to move to a less pressured environment to reboot his career. Obviously don't know if he's Prem standard. -
Really, that's the rub. The best squads we've assembled in a very long time came in 2011-3 (IMO). On paper it should have been challenging for the top six. We didn't even vaguely threaten to do so. But still, when you've seen the club pull together genuinely entertaining squads such as that one, it can be galling to see, as @Torfason said, a procession of utter jobbers stealing a wage. What's worrying is that we stumbled across a bit of magic, in Jack Ross, Lewis Morgan, Stephen McGinn, Gavin Reilly, Cammy Smith and Harry Davis all clicking at the same time in the second tier, but we seem to have no recipe to recreate that magic. You can start to wonder if it was a fluke. I'm about as realistic and as pragmatic a fan as you'll find - I know that our natural place in Scottish football is floating somewhere from 10th-16th, with occasional peaks above that and occasional troughs below. I know that 2011-13 squad with Thommo, Teale, Goodwin, etc, was built on the foundations of several years in the top flight, and a couple of good cup runs (semi & final in 09 & 10 respectively), not to mention the incredible good fortune of Stevie Thompson actually being a St Mirren fan. But still, as you say, it's tough to watch other teams having that success, and creating those memories. What Livi have done this season (and over the past few years, since League One) is incredible. In Saints' defence, I'd say they're embarrassing a lot more teams than just us - right the way down the Championship.
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Three key players were away - Reilly, Morgan and Davis. We had some players on contracts that just weren't good enough - some frankly baffling extensions were handed out. Stubbs pissed off the rest (Smith, McGinn), and bought complete duds in, all bar one of whom have been booted. The twist in the tale is that Stubbs was pretty much correct about some of the players. Doesn't make him any less of a c**t though
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Fair enough, I'll bow to the stats. I guess players such as Hammill skew the 'norm' slightly. Yeah, just saw that goal on Twitter. Decent! Glad he's doing well for you. As we have found, most of our squad from last season wasn't good enough for the top flight, but Lovejoy should comfortably be getting a game at top-half Champ level. Can't see you going down with a fit and in-form McShane pulling the strings.
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Yeah. I'm not concerned - we've come up before, we'll do it again. I'm completely happy being a yo-yo team as long as there appears to be some sort of strategy to it. I do worry that we've been lucky with the 6 Ms production line (seven if you count S McGinn the first time round) and that we might struggle to replicate that in future. I think serious questions need to be asked, though. I guess bringing in Gus was an attempt to ensure we have a consistent identity moving forward. That is essential, IMO. Obviously scrapping around at the bottom of the league with a terrible squad is always going to make things difficult. Lessons have got to be learnt here.