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To be fair there wasn't a hell of a lot to be excited about

Yeah fair point that was a good one for your grudge derby match

One United home game and already a higher attendance than any Championship game from last season.

3 relegations in over 90 years. What about Dunfermline?

The post was less about defending Birighitti. I have no interest in doing so. It was rather to point out McGregor's save ratio which is poor. Some of the goals against Birighitti were less about shot stopping and just plain daft errors such as the Stevie May goal or the mix up with Ayina. When it comes to pure shot stopping Alan McGregor is one of the worst in the league now. But thankfully the rumours of him coming to United don't appear to be true.

Grim reading. McGregor goals prevented ratio is worse than poppadum's [/img]

Best of luck with him. We had 2 international keepers, 1 just come from being A league in Australia Goalkeeper of the year 2 years a in a row. And it is basically goalkeeping problems that sent us down. Shocked he has waked in to another job in The Premiership.

Yes they have been. The goalkeeping calamaties have magnified this. So you are beginning to see what Goodwin was having to work with. United were sitting bottom at the end of the January transfer window and actually weakened the squad while teams around us brought players in. Every United fan knew we needed to strengthen in January window in key positions. The failure to do so especially the keeper is what has relegated us.

You don't have a dodgy keeper who constantly throws points. That saps confidence out of a team especially the defence. A half decent keeper we wouldn't be in this position.

Congratulations on promotion and it was indeed tough how it ended the previous season but genuine question Given clubs voted against reconstruction what should have happened with the placings? its very easy to say your club was hard done by its another to come up with a fair alternative solution.

Its a moot point. We are just back in The Premiership. If we stay up and strengthen our squad for next season that will be progress for us. I was just offering an observation on Ross as manager. My English team is Sunderland. His fatal flaw was too many draws from winning positions.

Jack Ross is showing signs of repeating the same pattern which got him the sack at Sunderland not winning matches from winning positions.

Kris Boyd talks about bitterness between United and Rangers but apparently it is all United's fault. He is also perpetuating this myth United's crowds dipped with Rangers being out of the league "then presided over a barren period, where attendances slid" The facts United's attendances went up after Rangers demise. Rangers had nothing to do with our tumble to the championship. United's average attendances Rangers in Premiership 11/12 7412 No Rangers in the Premiership 12/13 7663 13/14 7608 14/15 7895 15/16 8285 Rangers vs Dundee United is now filled with bitterness thanks to Stephen Thompson, says Kris Boyd Rangers v Dundee United was never one of Scottish football’s great rivalries. But events over the past decade have turned it into a fixture filled with bitterness There is no doubt who is responsible for the breakdown in relations — former Arabs chairman Stephen Thompson. It all started in 2009, when a game between them at Tannadice was abandoned at half-time due to a waterlogged pitch. I remember it well, as I was playing that day and we were leading 1-0 when the ref correctly called a halt to proceedings. In the aftermath, a row over ticket arrangements proved the catalyst for a spectacular fall-out Thompson refused to let Rangers fans use the same briefs for the rearranged game and he wouldn’t give them a refund, either. He was determined to make a quick buck by charging punters twice for the same match. It caused a lot of ill-feeling and resentment. Some fans took United to court in an attempt to be reimbursed — a case that they ultimately lost. But while that was bad enough and left a nasty taste, the animosity would be cranked up a notch three years later. Dislike became full-blown hatred in the wake of Rangers self- imploding and tumbling into liquidation. And as United prepare for their first league trip to Ibrox in nine years, that ill-feeling is still very much alive and kicking. When Rangers were on their knees, it was United who kicked them hardest. Thompson seemed to take a strange satisfaction in their demise, ignoring pleas for help and instead putting the boot in. The former United supremo was one of the leading voices pushing for Rangers not to be admitted to the top flight before they ended up in the Third Division. He played to the gallery — but at what cost to his own club? Maybe he viewed it as a chance to capitalise on Rangers’ absence. Perhaps he believed United were good enough to finish best of the rest behind Celtic and claim a Champions League slot. Maybe he thought they would get a bigger slice of the television money with the Ibrox men out of the equation. Unfortunately, the viewing figures tell you interest wanes considerably unless the Old Firm are involved. Like a lot of other club chiefs, Thompson voted against Rangers being admitted into the top flight following their financial collapse. He did it to appease the United support, when a smarter businessman would have seen the bigger picture Michael Johnston, who was Kilmarnock chairman at the time, got a lot of stick from his own fans for voting the other way. They criticised him for trying to help Rangers, but he did it for purely selfish financial reasons. Two league visits per season from Rangers are worth an awful lot of money to provincial clubs. Thompson let his ego get the better of him and then presided over a barren period, where attendances slid and United also went on the slide. He loved playing to the crowd and trying to appease punters. He did it again in 2014, when any remote hope of patching up the feud went up in flames. In a dispute during negotiations to buy Ibrox youngster Charlie Telfer, Thompson claimed Rangers only had “two years of history” Yet another cheap shot. But if he thinks that is what United fans will remember him for, then he is sadly mistaken. He will always be known as the man who took the club into the Championship, where it would take them four years to get back out. His sacking of Jackie McNamara and Simon Donnelly — and the breaking up of a talented young team — was another spectacular own goal. The resulting fire sale of top players and the low-grade replacements are ultimately what led to their relegation. And this was all on his watch. It is little wonder Rangers supporters have no time for United any more. Yet despite their conduct, I was still delighted to see United back in the Premiership this season. They are the seventh biggest club in the country and they don’t belong in the Championship. I’ve also been really impressed by Micky Mellon in the games I have covered for Sky Sports so far this season. I think he was a shrewd appointment by the new people running the club. Apart from the hammering at Kilmarnock two weeks ago, they have acquitted themselves well. They are now slowly on the up after a decade of decline — ten years when Thompson was too busy taking pot-shots at Rangers to notice that his own club was drowning.

I don't get why Hearts think they should have special dispensation from every other lower league club and train before all the other clubs. Are they seeking a sporting advantage? or have they just completely forgotten they are a lower league club now?

So happy Hearts took Neilson off us. A definite upgrade with Micky.

Oh the irony. So much for all this transparency patter.

Connolly looked questionable at Championship level.

Since the decision yesterday interesting that the BBC Sport Chief Sports 'Writer' has not written anything or tweeted about the subject he has had a lot to say about for the last 4 months. Funny that.

Micky said on the Dode Fox Podcast he has many plates spinning.

They are trully in fantasy land. Some of them were even saying the delay in the Hearts statement was because they were preparing to dissect the ruling and take it back to Court of Session.

Yet you were prepared to stop a team 33 points ahead of you from being promoted.

Tom English - end of line Hard especially on Partick big victory for United, Raith, Cove Hammer blow for Hearts and Partick Me, Dave McCormack and others critical of governance of SPFL regardless of today's decision 'vindicated' a poor choice of words from SPFL as lot of bad blood

Beattie says coming up. I suspect it will be in the sport bulletin after 4.30pm

Falkirk had a much stronger case to be miffed about missing out on promotion, not the teams at the bottom of the league who were chancing their arm to save their poor seasons.

Tom English is going to speaking soon on Radio Scotland. Be prepared for unfair to relegate, SPFL fault it came to this and ignore the 'independent investigation' conclusions of non wrongdoing from the SPFL.