Steven W

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

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

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

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.

Sorry to tell you this, but our finances are not limitless.

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.

So with #FoxOut and now #AshgarOut it's great to know we now face a wonderfully rosy future

#LeveinOut (Do I win?)

Fox officially away

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?

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 My point exactly. Ogren clearly not willing to pay for sacking Ashgar and Fox, nor the re-hiring of staff to replace them

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

I can't believe one single player has ever cost the club as many points as that twat has

This would be good as he wouldn't play any more and I reckon we'd be able to get an emergency loan keeper

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'll be there. Looking forward to it

We're presumably not alone, but the days of having some kind of idea what is happening with injured players seems to be long gone* (unless I'm looking in the wrong places). Anyone have any info on Pawlett, McGrath or Behich *Assuming I'd be right in thinking its The Fat Controller's fault?

I agree that we the fans could do with some answers. Ultimately that would have to come from Ogren. Ogren, for me, clearly didn't sanction spend yet more more of his money. If Ashgar could go out and buy whoever he wanted, then he obviously would. There's a fair bit of revisionism going on around how good Butcher is - typified by him being bomber out by Burton Albion

I see the latest thing for the #AshgarOut boys to get their knickers in a twist about, is us not signing a boy who couldn't get a game for Burton Albion, and had been banging their pals Mrs.

May have bypassed some, but seen that Meekison is out for the season at Falkirk. Does that mean 'Fat Tony' has managed to get Falkirk to pay our injured player's wages? #AshgarIN

Would agree with lots of this. The atmosphere in the away end last night was as sour and toxic as I can remember. Every single mistake, regardless of how innocuous, got hounded on by, what wasn't far removed from, a baying mob. Fairly sure a significant percentage of our fans revel in getting on the players' backs like that. As far as I can see our we're hamstrung by finances and we'll just need to go with what we've got. Ogren wouldn't appear to be returning to the well to dish out more cash to finance more sackings, more appointments, more signings (When a gambler has a bad afternoon in the bookies, the sensible thing to do is cut his losses and leave it at that, rather than eye up the 20/1 shot in the last that he likes the look of). None of this excuses last night as the players and manager were awful having looked pretty decent since the WC, but they look so brittle and lacking in confidence I'm not sure what constant berating of them actually achieves.