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We’ve only had two diddies before him in the last 3 seasons

I’m as pissed off at the team and Neilson as anyone at the moment, but in no universe whatsoever has this season been as bad as the last 3. Under the past two diddies there were times I thought we were never getting out of this shit pit of a league and on our way to becoming a tinpot outfit like Morton or somesuch.

Can only hope some daft mob down south sees how far clear we are and offers him stupid money without interviewing him. If Shankland doesn’t want the f**k out of here in the summer then he truly has no ambition. Hopefully Ashgar actually has a brain in his nut and gives Ogden proper feedback on how pish we’ve been.

Team sheet announcements are starting to give me the same feeling as when Lazlo was in charge.

Hope to be proven wrong but I think United’s starting line up has given me Coronavirus

Twinkle was right all along. Get Neilson to f**k

Butcher out. 3 points Ayr United

I thought the pars were having a bit of a resurgence, has the mood turned already?

There’s a reserves game on tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what comes of that .

After we pumped Sevco at Ibrox in the 2014 cup semi final, me and my mate were getting the subway back from the game and chatting through the goals. A middle aged h** sat next to us in silence, then at the first stop stood up, looked at us and said ‘a can’t listen to you c***s’ and got off and moved down to another carriage. Topped off an already wonderful day- to be fair most of the other Newco fans next to us found it pretty funny as well.

Thought that was an entertaining game of football in difficult conditions, that we just about edged. Two instances of brilliant quality for the goals. What I liked about Bingham was that he knew to get the ball into strikers feet around the edge of the box on occasion, which we barely did at all last week. He does it twice this week and we get two goals from it. Great effort from everyone tonight and we coped with the pressure well. Although he should probably have done better with the goal, Connelly was MOTM for me- played like a man possessed. Impressed by Smith again and I think we are a totally different team with Appere, adds so much physicality in the last 3rd. For me going forward this season the starting 11 should be the one we had on the pitch just after Powers and Pawlett came off for McMullan and Harkes. Gives the right balance of pace and potency upfront and sturdiness and creativity in midfield, also leaves us a pretty strong bench with Pawlett, Glass, Sporle, Powers and Reynolds all on it. As for Caley, unlucky, played some decent stuff but they reminded me of us from previous seasons; their squad just isn’t strong enough- I wouldn’t want to be in a situation where James Keatings was one of my teams main goal threats ever again. A fun stat I learned off of Arabzone commentary was that Shankland is now our highest ever scorer against ICT...after 3 games! Got me wondering how many other teams he might achieve this against, Patrick Thistle and Morton maybe?

If Caley win this and their games in hand the gap would be 9 points

I didn’t mention Pawlett and I’m not a fan of him and don’t think Neilson should be immune from criticism, but there’s a certain section of our support who aren’t happy unless they’re complaining and can’t wait to go in on Neilson at any opportunity.

Some United fans on here must have been awfully bored when we were winning for all those months- not a fucking peep from them then, and certainly not any praise for Neilsons decision making. As for the lauding of Goodwillie by a considerable number of fans on Twitter- disgusting.

Yeh, that one really stung

Pawlett should now be a subbie at most now IMO, I would have Sporle above him in the pecking order, Harkes also now below Glass. I know some people are on board with Shankland going for 3 million plus, but for me it’s a no. We still have 4 months of the season left and it gives me the fear to think of having only Sow and Appere as recognised strikers whilst trying to close out the league.

Mind when we were telling Queen’s fans to stop crying a few weeks ago because we shitfested and time wasted our way to a crucial 1 nil win on their patch? Get a hold of yourselves and take it on the chin, that could be an incredibly important point for Morton, and it was almost all 3. Some of the negativity towards the manager and certain members of the team both this week and after the Hibs game (in this regard I’m mainly talking about people on social media) has been absolutely pathetic- really starting to do my tits in.

He got a lot better towards the end of the second half when he was operating as a proper winger running at the fullbacks and not just hovering around the middle of the park. He seemed to be attempting to play as a number 10 in the first half with Harkes, butcher and powers all a lot further back, which meant we didn’t really have a wide player on the right- pretty frustrating given Hibs set up was relatively narrow. Makes me think that if playing a proper 4-5-1 we need to play glass in front of a combination of 2 of Harkes, Butcher and Powers as he is our most direct and creative central midfielder.

Powers was fine today and excellent last week. At the very least, 2 weeks in to his united career i see far more to be enthusiastic than concerned about. I hope Neilson realises that he made too many changes today and is more encouraged to have faith in players like Appere and Glass in the future, especially when so many of the players coming in to the squad we’re returning from injury. I understand, but disagree with the rationale for dropping them in favour of Pawlett and McMullan. As had been mentioned many times before by GD and others,the accommodation of Pawlett in particular can be very frustrating. However, some positives to be taken from today, not least the resilience of the team to come from behind twice and the fact that there really isn’t that much between us and a team that will finish top 6 this season.

Delighted with that. English top flight clubs have more money than sense.

Anyone know who the trialist on the bench in the reserves game is? Wardrop and Freeman also playing- wonder what position Freeman is in

We could also go 442 with Appere or Sow up top alongside Shankland and 2 from Pawlett, Stanton, Sporle Or McMullan on the wings. To be honest the more I think about it, this seems like such a heavy blow because of how good Clark has been as of late, but as long as we hold on to Shankland and the rest of the squad stays relatively fit we should have more than enough given the situation we are in.

Can we not all just chip in to bring big Pav back? Just to see him with a league winners medal (hopefully) round his neck.

Potentially, but I was under the impression that he was pretty much on his way to ICT or Partick.

Based on Neilsons comments and his Instagram, Nicky Clark’s injury isn’t good. Absolutely gutted at that, I think we need someone else in.