To answer your question, nope I didn't go out of my way to read much of the pre-match comment as it's usually just mouthmusic and hardly worth wasting time on. More relevant tho is that I was at the first leg at Cappielow and watched a team that gave it a right good go from the off and which, had Tidser's volley been three inches lower, would have been well worth a two goal lead at halftime. After scoring a cracker of a goal early in the second half United were simply the better team; despite Morton giving it plenty of effort it was the usual failing that let us down, ie we'd struggle to score in a barrel full of fannies. I couldn't make it to Dundee in time for the Friday game but according to pals whose opinions I respect we again had the better of the fIrst half but rarely looked liked scoring, and it was only after we went three-one down on aggregate with only about half an hour to play that, understandably, the heads went down a bit. It's happened to better teams than ours in those circumstances.
I'm in complete agreement with your second point tho.