Shadow Play Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 10 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: Mulligan was missing from our whole squad today and our definite ITK guy just posted this on TDBF: When he wasn’t on the team sheet I said to my son it could only mean he is injured or a deal is about to be made with some club. Is there any suggestion he is injured? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Just now, Shadow Play said: When he wasn’t on the team sheet I said to my son it could only mean he is injured or a deal is about to be made with some club. Is there any suggestion he is injured? Mr S is usually spot on. Only thing is - I don't see in the logic in selling Mulligan if we're in a fight to hang onto McCowan. Must be some f**king offer Hearts made, but don't see where they'd play him either? Weird one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wonder Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Just now, Ludo*1 said: Mr S is usually spot on. Only thing is - I don't see in the logic in selling Mulligan if we're in a fight to hang onto McCowan. Must be some f**king offer Hearts made, but don't see where they'd play him either? Weird one. I don't know that much about him, but he's a central midfielder right? Would be amazed if we added another in there. Especially if it is going to cost a significant fee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Play Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Just now, Ludo*1 said: Mr S is usually spot on. Only thing is - I don't see in the logic in selling Mulligan if we're in a fight to hang onto McCowan. Must be some f**king offer Hearts made, but don't see where they'd play him either? Weird one. Did Mulligan not just sign a new contract? 2 years I’m thinking? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Just now, Tony Wonder said: I don't know that much about him, but he's a central midfielder right? Would be amazed if we added another in there. Especially if it is going to cost a significant fee. He's an enigma. Best position is probably CM, but played most of his football at RB for us and Scotland U21s. He's absolutely excellent when he gets running at people. Can play wherever you want him on the pitch - bit of the early Mark O'Hara about him in that he's never settled into a position. I was hoping he'd step in for McCowan if we had eventually lost McCowan though. Don't understand it at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 4 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: One of the best football stories I've ever heard occurred in today's match: f**king pissing myself thankful too, last thing we needed was a new player injured! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 2 minutes ago, Shadow Play said: Did Mulligan not just sign a new contract? 2 years I’m thinking? He has 1 year left. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 5 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: Mr S is usually spot on. Only thing is - I don't see in the logic in selling Mulligan if we're in a fight to hang onto McCowan. Must be some f**king offer Hearts made, but don't see where they'd play him either? Weird one. Aye, but 'wee rumour' is not usually how he goes about posting when it's definite stuff, just saying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wonder Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Just now, Ludo*1 said: He's an enigma. Best position is probably CM, but played most of his football at RB for us and Scotland U21s. He's absolutely excellent when he gets running at people. Can play wherever you want him on the pitch - bit of the early Mark O'Hara about him in that he's never settled into a position. I was hoping he'd step in for McCowan if we had eventually lost McCowan though. Don't understand it at all. If he can play a few positions it makes a bit more sense. But centrally we have Baningime, Nieuwenhof, Devlin, Boateng, Grant, Tait and Dhanda and Spittal can play there too so can't see us after another in that area alone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Just now, RossBFaeDundee said: Aye, but 'wee rumour' is not usually how he goes about posting when it's definite stuff, just saying. Yeah, there is that, definitely. Hopefully nonsense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I thought that Hearts were affa ace at the fitba. To be fair they've got european fitba to deal with. Ooooooops 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Play Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 2 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: He has 1 year left. In that case. Perhaps, and it’s only a complete guess, Dundee don’t want to risk losing Mulligan and McCowan for nothing at the end of the season so have decided at least one should / could leave. If it was a choice between losing Mulligan and McCowan at this stage of their careers I’d rather lose Mulligan. That’s not a criticism of Mulligan in any way as I think in a few years time he will be a truly exceptional player. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC92 Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said: If he can play a few positions it makes a bit more sense. But centrally we have Baningime, Nieuwenhof, Devlin, Boateng, Grant, Tait and Dhanda and Spittal can play there too so can't see us after another in that area alone. Yeah, doesn't ring true at all from a Hearts perspective. Edited August 10 by DC92 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Our other ITK guy that is also one that can be trusted (How we have two, I don't know) states: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insert Amusing Pseudonym Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Think we're definitely going to need another striker in based on what we've seen so far, and that's if we keep Shanks. Someone who can lead the line 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Excellent first half, and the 3-0 lead was entirely deserved. It was always going to be a different second half but I think it was more comfortable than it felt at the time. It’s just we know what tends to happen when we let a team get back to within 1, so all it would have taken was a slip, a stupid foul, a lucky break and the nerves would really have set in. How it wasn’t a red card for Taylor I’ll never know, but at least it all worked out in the end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Also, watching Naismith almost spontaneously combust at every decision that went against his team was very funny. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Play Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Here’s another rumour from a Dundee fan in the know……….Shankland and Watt have the same chef! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonty Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 On 04/08/2024 at 21:21, Ludo*1 said: Tough, tough game. Reckon Hearts will push Rangers all the way for 2nd spot and if they're as shite as I'm expecting, I wouldn't put it past Hearts doing it. We have a semi-decent record against Hearts though. Looking forward to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 38 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said: I don't know that much about him, but he's a central midfielder right? Would be amazed if we added another in there. Especially if it is going to cost a significant fee. Like Ludo says, what's going on with Mulligan is a mystery. He came back from his loan a couple of seasons back with a couple of Peterhead lads on here raving about him, saying that the sky was the limit etc. IIRC he played as more or less a RW/RWB for them. He made a few cameos at the end of that season, including scoring where he just ran straight up the middle of the pitch from our own half and curled a pearler into the top corner. We really thought we had something. He's done similar when playing in a sort of free, advanced midfield role a couple of times, but more often than not he gets trotted out at RWB/RB where he never looks anything like as threatening or capable, and for some reason he doesn't seem to get the same opportunities the other young lads do. I've always thought that he had by far and away the highest ceiling of any of the crop of youngsters we have around the 21/22/23 mark. Far more so than Fin Robertson who was playing 1st team football at 16, and even more so than Lyall Cameron who has been a fixture in the side for the past couple of seasons and earns rave reviews. Mulligan has a physical side to his game Cameron lacks, and has a habit of pulling wee moments out of the hat where you really see the inherent ability, but for some mystifying reason he's spent most of the last 18 months getting splinters in his arse or being (what is in my opinion) played totally out of position. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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