Steven W
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20 hours ago, Frank Grimes said:
Jeepers the crowd at Livvy v County
I think Broch v Banks o Dee had more
Reminded me of COVID times
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19 hours ago, Virtual Insanity said:
Foster good tonight, good to see cheating from both halves of the OF called out amongst others.
Indeed, although doubt Foster would have had such forthright opinions on these things prior to his Motherwell gig
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Doubt anything I say hasn't been covered already (very dubious penalty, Niskanen should have scored etc etc).
One thing I would say is I was very impressed with Baccus - best player on the park
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Hope everyone makes it home safe - quite heavy snowfall almost as soon as you leave Livingston.
Think Sadat done us a favour missing that one just before half time. Had he scored he'd have remained on the pitch despite being entirely ineffectual for 45 minutes.
Goodwin probably should have subbed Freeman earlier than he did, but on the whole pass marks to the new manager tonight.
That's twice now we've made former Harringey Borough, Concord Rangers and Aldershot man Joel Nouble look like a world beater.
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That game tonight summed up our season. Can't defend and can't score goals.
Edwards will rightly get pelters, but Fletcher is just as culpable. Got to put some of those chances away
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Don't know who's responsible, but to not have a new keeper in, a fortnight after the Kilmarnock game, is a disgrace.
Can't believe Birighitti could be back in today. Should never play for us again
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35 minutes ago, theoriginalhedge said:
For a start he has helped build and transform a club in free fall with a team who hardly won a game in 3 seasons to a team who were until last week unbeaten in the league for over a calendar year and a club with serious long term plans.
He is basically an honourable, straight talking man who , given the respect and trust , will try his best to repay it.
He earned that respect last time round at Tannadice. Why wouldn't the united faithfull want to give it another go?
I am however delighted that he is staying with us , hopefully to finish the great job he is doing.
I'd suggest hovering around the upper echelons of the Highland League (yet not winning it) probably shouldn't be regarded as success at Brechin City - but you're far better qualified to comment on that subject than I.
Anyway, and to summarise - I'd have been very content with Levein's appointment. It would have gave a much needed lift to the club as the fans would have been behind him.
However I don't think his appointment would have been the panacea that some United fans seem to think it would have been and I certainly don't think we should be spending yet more money we don't have to get him in the door.
If Levein is so good presumably someone else with a bigger, grander budget than us will come a calling
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33 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:
Giving the right person a longer contract is a cost saving, ffs. The problem at United is not that we haven't spent enough money, it's that the money has been spent badly. This is buying a cheap pair of shoes from Primark which will fall apart after a couple of wears when what we really need is a solid pair of DMs.
If Levein is the right man for the job then he's worth giving a proper contract to now. Or we can go for the cheap option and then repeat the process in the summer when money really will be tight and we're looking at another spell in the Championship.
Every managerial appointment is a gamble. I'm not sure how you arrive at the fact that Levein is a surefire certainty to produce success. If he is then Christ knows whys kicking about at Brechin City.
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26 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:
You could not be more wrong.
24 minutes ago, ArabFC said:A football fan on a football forum - you're full of insight!
Levein should be coming here long term - that should be the plan - enough of this tombola nonsense! Next out of the hat we have Jim fcuking Goodwin who we'll sack midway through next season etc etc etc etc
Sorry to tell you this, but our finances are not limitless.
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16 minutes ago, ArabFC said:
Quite frankly, the club should be asking Sir Craig what he wants and how high he wants them to jump.
Arseholes!
Spoken like a true football fan.
If Levein's demands are outwith what we can afford, and if he's looking for a longer contract than what our recent experience with managers would suggest be sensible, then of course we have no option to pull the plug.
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So with #FoxOut and now #AshgarOut it's great to know we now face a wonderfully rosy future
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#LeveinOut
(Do I win?)
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Fox officially away
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2 hours ago, Twinkle said:
We will lose this, nothing surer. I look at the other 3 teams around us and think they are capable of at least a little fight. We might have a few good players but that means f**k all in a relegation battle. Other teams will get wired in but our mob are a bunch of shitebags
County 1-0 United
Difficult to disagree with this.
Can't see anything other than a County win
Any word on who'll be between the sticks for us tomorrow?
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54 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:
Without knowing what happened at Oldham and Scunthorpe, what parallels are you able to actually draw?
Asghar controls the transfer policy and appoints the manager and coaching staff. Pretty easy to see why he's being criticised.
All I know is they began to protest heavily against their owners - something we'll be doing pretty soon.
But Ashgar doesn't control the pounds and shillings
5 minutes ago, Twinkle said:So Ogren has said he wont sack Asghar or Fox. Hes needs to f**k off as well if thats the way its going to go
My point exactly. Ogren clearly not willing to pay for sacking Ashgar and Fox, nor the re-hiring of staff to replace them
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Potentially interesting day at Tannadice with the AGM…
I’ll get a bit of heat for this no doubt, but I’ve always been a puzzled by the AshgarOut brigade. I know he has an important role at the club, but he’s neither a player or a coach and he doesn’t pull the purse strings either. But none of that is to suggest that Ashgar is blameless in all this.
However, I’ve now noticed on-line quite a few dissenting voices at Ogren’s direction of late – the man who does pull the purse strings – and there would seem to be a dawning realisation among some that Ogren is either unwilling, or unable to throw any more money at this.
To me, Ogren gambled in the summer with a series of expensive signings in the hope he’d recoup that cash (and more) with a run in Europe. That obviously backfired and we are where we are now, punting a load of players out on loan to save wages, unable to sack our hopeless manager, unable to make desperately needed new signings and selling off MacLeod at the very first sniff of a bid for him.
I worry we may end up with an owner whose primary objective now is to drain as much money out the club at any length so he can recoup the millions he’s already lost (understandable in all honesty). I’m not sure of the specifics of how the likes of Oldham and Scunthorpe got themselves in the mess they’re currently in (although I do know that it centres around their owners), but I am beginning to draw parallels with their predicaments and ours.
Hopefully we’ll get some clarity today
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6 minutes ago, mishtergrolsch said:
Oooft.
I can't believe one single player has ever cost the club as many points as that twat has
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1 minute ago, mishtergrolsch said:
I've read that Birizwicki is out for the season with a dislocated shoulder. At least we have an experienced Backup keeper...
Wait....
This would be good as he wouldn't play any more and I reckon we'd be able to get an emergency loan keeper
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Struggling to take any solace in the fact that other results went our way - but they did, so that, along with Fotheringham would be the only positives from that horror show.
Thought we had a lot possession and a lot of crosses into the box, yet for all that their keeper barely had a save to make. A different manager could quite possibly do something that team.
Birighitti must never play again for us. His mistake (he's been so casual with the ball at his feet for weeks now, it was inevitable he'd get caught out some time) was bad enough - but feigning injury to get taken off is the fkn pits!
One other (small beer compared to everything else) but the match programmes sold out today (way before kickoff too). My eight year old son has got every home programme from this season (and is doing the '83 sticker book) so if anyone is able to get me a spare I'd be very grateful
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A change in system from Fox at last - cynics will argue it has an air of Brewster's Last Stand at Falkirk about it though. They may be right.
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Since the World Cup we've played some decent stuff. But the two Kilmarnock games, and the lack of activity in the transfer window games which brought the 'AshgarOut' community out of the internet and into the stadiums and all the ill feeling towards the players and club that goes along with that, has really seen a very dark cloud hang above United all of a sudden.
A decent crowd today, and one that will hopefully get behind the team cause Christ knows those players need it - their confidence is so fragile! (boy beside me in the first half last week berated Smith every time he touched the ball, shouting at him that he's a "donkey" and "fucking useless". Smith couldn't have not heard him - would have knocked anyone's confidence that). So hopefully a good start to the game to lift the crowd and lift the mood at Tannadice. It's not a coincidence that team beat a side going for the Eredivisie title when Tannadice was packed to the rafters with the fans right behind the team.
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Today was awful. No need to go into it too deep as others have covered it all very well.
If Ogren is still interested (not sure he is) and the money is there (not sure it is) sacking Fox and bringing in an experienced pair of hands (yet more money) seems a necessity.
Interesting that the two teams that sacked their managers early in the campaign, and then appointed from within, are rock bottom of the league and were both knocked out the cup today.
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5 hours ago, Loemba90 said:
McGrath seems closest to being available but unlikely to be risked tomorrow
How do you know this might I ask? I must be getting my Utd info from the wrong places, cause I haven't a clue how any of our injured players are getting on. I had read rumours about Behich being back in Australia, but unless I've missed something nothing at all has been confrimed by the club
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1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said:
Is anyone going tomorrow? I had a weak moment earlier and bought a ticket
I'll be there. Looking forward to it
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Coronation 6th May
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Any word on if football in Scotland will be impacted on 6th May when Charlie boy has his big day?
Not seen anything at all on it, but can't imagine we'll carry on regardless (although that's what I'd like to happen)