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Mr X · Dundee United

SuperMario wrote:
We should be all over John mcglynn, cannot believe Aberdeen never went for him.

McGlynn and Falkirk are a good fit at the moment, I can’t help but feel a move away from them would be a big mistake, just a gut feeling that he would flop at a bigger more expected club.

Arabdownsouth · Dundee United

SuperMario wrote:
We should be all over John mcglynn, cannot believe Aberdeen never went for him.

It's a totally different task managing a team with high expectations as opposed to one with none.

Tek · Films

The BAFTAS aftermath has shown how incredibly ignorant some people still are regarding Tourette's.

Words fail me.

SuperMario · Dundee United

We should be all over John mcglynn, cannot believe Aberdeen never went for him.

Hen Broon · Dundee United

Any dice roll will do.

dufc5 · Dundee United

kdyteejay wrote:
David_Blunkett wrote:
We could freeze this thread until the end of the season, which as things stand would be a week on Friday.
I don’t think we have any chance of beating Falkirk a week on Friday due to the number of games we’ve had to play during such a short period of time and the fact we won’t have the services of Fatah, Iovu and possibly Sibbald.

Need to make sure Tannadice is unplayable next Tuesday.

RogerTheAlien · Dundee United

David_Blunkett wrote:
We might not, but as long a I have a hole in my arse i'll never go into a game v Falkirk thinking we should be looking for anything other than a victory.

The type of attitude we should be adopting.

RogerTheAlien · Dundee United

Shedtastic wrote:
Stirton just isn't that good, I honestly don't see what people are seeing in his game that is a positive at this level, the lad HAS to go out on loan for a season, preferably to the Championship, and see how he does.

Should’ve been out on loan at the start of the season to Airdrie. We should’ve had 3 capable strikers. We ended up having 0 capable.

Tek · Dundee United

redford_must_score wrote:

But there's also a poster who says back 3 isn't a problem and there's a player in Watters?

Also weird.

I'm kinda with Finn on the first point.

I'm not sure the formation is the main problem.

I think mentality is. Unfortunately it's hard to make players 'winners', that has to come from within.

Tek · Dundee United

Shedtastic wrote:
Nothing weird about it, Watters isn't any good either but given a chance in the box he'll score even though he's a very limited player.

He doesn't even get in goal scoring positions though. I hear a lot of talk about Watters not getting service, but watch him closely and you'll see a player who positionally is very poor. Never makes runs or tries to peel off his marker. Never gives Strain/Ferry or whoever an option, so they invariably just hit an aimless ball into an area of the opposition box.

Moller was the same.

I'm not saying Stirton is ready btw. I think most would acknowledge that he could benefit from another loan.

But i also think we'd be better blooding him now and giving him game time, because Watters is clearly off in May. He doesn't even play like he wants to be here.

Stirton does.

Arabdownsouth · Dundee United

David_Blunkett wrote:
We might not, but as long a I have a hole in my arse i'll never go into a game v Falkirk thinking we should be looking for anything other than a victory.

This

Arabdownsouth · Dundee United

kdyteejay wrote:
David_Blunkett wrote:
We could freeze this thread until the end of the season, which as things stand would be a week on Friday.
I don’t think we have any chance of beating Falkirk a week on Friday due to the number of games we’ve had to play during such a short period of time and the fact we won’t have the services of Fatah, Iovu and possibly Sibbald.

Im not seeing Iovu being out as a negative tbh

David_Blunkett · Dundee United

We might not, but as long a I have a hole in my arse i'll never go into a game v Falkirk thinking we should be looking for anything other than a victory.

kdyteejay · Dundee United

Finn Seemann wrote:
Arabdownsouth wrote:
Finn Seemann wrote:

My point is that take the last 3 games. The issue has not been the formation it has been an inability to defend. I'm struggling to see how one less player at CH is going to help that. We just don't have a leader in there. It's Graham's biggest issue. I think he can get to that but he just isn't at the moment.

FWIW I do think he'll change it to a back 4 for tomorrow night. I think that was what he was hinting at in the post-match interview. For me, Aberdeen is not the team to change formation for so I think that will backfire.

For me back 3 or back 4 is irrelevant. Goodwin will lose his job on his in-game inability to close games out. We play much better chasing a game than we do winning it. That's on the manager.

Its one less person to make an individual error for one thing but more importantly it gives us more threat at the other end. We dont always have to defend like it's the Alamo, the best form of defence is attack dont they say?
On that basis let's play with no CHs...

kdyteejay · Dundee United

David_Blunkett wrote:
We could freeze this thread until the end of the season, which as things stand would be a week on Friday.

I don’t think we have any chance of beating Falkirk a week on Friday due to the number of games we’ve had to play during such a short period of time and the fact we won’t have the services of Fatah, Iovu and possibly Sibbald.

kdyteejay · Dundee United

Finn Seemann wrote:
I'm in the 'this thread does more harm than good' camp, but Macho's comments has made me comment.

I'm quite sure that our owner is not thinking about who might be next. This is the idiot who left Asghar free rein. Even if he was thinking about it, I suspect he actually has very little idea of who is in the market.

McGlynn is never going to be our manager. He had one go at a club with expectations and he's not going to repeat that. Robinson isn't doing a good job in Paisley. No way is Mickey O'Neil coming back here. The Motherwell boy is already above our reach too.

This is why this thread is stupid. Whoever we get in next will be a gamble on someone who is already tried and failed elsewhere or on someone we've never heard of. There is every chance that they'll be significantly less good than our current manager.

My thoughts exactly.

redford_must_score · Dundee United

Tek wrote:
Shedtastic wrote:
Stirton just isn't that good, I honestly don't see what people are seeing in his game that is a positive at this level, the lad HAS to go out on loan for a season, preferably to the Championship, and see how he does.
You constantly come on and criticise the young boy but say nothing about Max Watters.

Weird.

But there's also a poster who says back 3 isn't a problem and there's a player in Watters?

Also weird.

Shedtastic · Dundee United

Nothing weird about it, Watters isn't any good either but given a chance in the box he'll score even though he's a very limited player.

Shedtastic · Dundee United

I'm sure Robertson is at Ross County just now.

Tek · Dundee United

Finn Seemann wrote:
Maybe that is it - we need a better striker coach.

I've felt this for ages. We could really do with a coach for the Strikers.

No idea what John Robertson (ex-Hearts) is up to these days, but apparently he was an excellent Striking coach (as well as an excellent Striker himself, of course).

Tek · Dundee United

Shedtastic wrote:
Stirton just isn't that good, I honestly don't see what people are seeing in his game that is a positive at this level, the lad HAS to go out on loan for a season, preferably to the Championship, and see how he does.

You constantly come on and criticise the young boy but say nothing about Max Watters.

Weird.

Tek · Dundee United

Conway11 wrote:
Who would you want in?

If Goodwin departs in the Summer i would like Stephen Bradley the Shamrock Rovers Manager.

Has won multiple leagues and Cups with them and also delivered group stage European football.

A proven winner.

Stillliving · Dundee United

Macho Man wrote:
Stillliving wrote:
Remove this thread until the end of the season.
Genuine question, why?

You'd like to think that the board would have been thinking about Goodwins replacement the moment he signed. If Goodwin walks tomorrow, we would want to have an idea of who we would like to replace him, or at least for the bare minimum a list of attributes that the next manager would have.

I've backed him blindly for quite a while, but to me the cracks are appearing and I don't see Goodwin as being the type of character to change how he approaches his job. He is religiously sticking by the 3 at the back when it has been clear from August/September that its not working for us. We've won 6 (six) games out of 26 this season and that's not good enough, regardless of what he managed to do 24 and 12 months ago.

The way we defend there is every chance we could end up in the battle to avoid the play off place.
We will also be due 3 away games after the split with one of our opponents having to make a 3rd trip to Tannadice.
No UTD fan is happy the way the season is going but IMO the finger pointing and histrionics should only start if or when we are safe from the drop.

Arabdownsouth · Dundee United

Finn Seemann wrote:
Arabdownsouth wrote:
Finn Seemann wrote:

My point is that take the last 3 games. The issue has not been the formation it has been an inability to defend. I'm struggling to see how one less player at CH is going to help that. We just don't have a leader in there. It's Graham's biggest issue. I think he can get to that but he just isn't at the moment.

FWIW I do think he'll change it to a back 4 for tomorrow night. I think that was what he was hinting at in the post-match interview. For me, Aberdeen is not the team to change formation for so I think that will backfire.

For me back 3 or back 4 is irrelevant. Goodwin will lose his job on his in-game inability to close games out. We play much better chasing a game than we do winning it. That's on the manager.

Its one less person to make an individual error for one thing but more importantly it gives us more threat at the other end. We dont always have to defend like it's the Alamo, the best form of defence is attack dont they say?
On that basis let's play with no CHs...

Fuck it im in! 😋

Finn Seemann · Dundee United

Arabdownsouth wrote:
Finn Seemann wrote:
Arabdownsouth wrote:

Goodwin himself said he's tried every combination of 3 at the back and yet he still hasn't worked out that it's not working. I get that some people's opinion is that it's not the 3 at the back thats killing us, but the fact is it isn't working still. We are near the business end if the season and still he refuses to try anything else and it's annoying the fuck out of most people. Stubborn as fuck and just repeatedly shuffling his clown defenders into different sets of 3. Just fucking change it and see if it helps? What's the worst that can happen?
My point is that take the last 3 games. The issue has not been the formation it has been an inability to defend. I'm struggling to see how one less player at CH is going to help that. We just don't have a leader in there. It's Graham's biggest issue. I think he can get to that but he just isn't at the moment.

FWIW I do think he'll change it to a back 4 for tomorrow night. I think that was what he was hinting at in the post-match interview. For me, Aberdeen is not the team to change formation for so I think that will backfire.

For me back 3 or back 4 is irrelevant. Goodwin will lose his job on his in-game inability to close games out. We play much better chasing a game than we do winning it. That's on the manager.

Its one less person to make an individual error for one thing but more importantly it gives us more threat at the other end. We dont always have to defend like it's the Alamo, the best form of defence is attack dont they say?

On that basis let's play with no CHs...

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