Yes on peanuts, otherwise a wage better spent elsewhere on someone more reliable.

The Docherty situation is extremely frustrating as we've basically had a Docherty-roled hole in the team every time he's not playing.

Big task is to solve that problem, whether it's getting the man himself regularly available, or bringing in an able replacement.

Could do much worse than Love is in the Air and Beautiful Sunday. Sunshine on Leith is an awful football song, more suited to going into administration than winning.

 

CCX2 2010 wrote:

Tek wrote:

The 2nd half is a prime example of why i have never really taken to Jim Goodwin.

When it's 'make or break' and everything's on the line, he'll always, ALWAYS show caution and go defensive.

A loser mentality.

 
What would you have done differently?

Useful to look at this from Thelin's perspective at half time.

United have been able to get at our defence, and we've looked vulnerable at crosses. And we need two goals to get something from the game.

We need United to stop attacking from wide, and we need to create as many opportunities as we can to score, without getting exposed because we need to push men forward.

Goodwin perfectly obliged by pulling Middleton and Trapanovski into defensive roles, stopped attacking from wide, abandoned the middle of the park, left Dalby on his tod so we couldn't get out, and allowed Aberdeen to siege the box entire half.

Thelin couldn't have asked for a more accommodating approach from Jim.

We could instead have kept the pressure on their dodgy defence and put them to the sword.

RogerTheAlien wrote:

Hen Broon wrote:

RogerTheAlien wrote:

 
Started- Manny, Gallagher, Graham, Strain, Ferry, Holt, Sevelj and Luca last night. 8 defensive players against a team were 10pts clear of. Jim also waited till the 70th minute to change anything.

He has got a lot right this season Jim but last night was utter stinking for almost 70 minutes largely due to his tactics.

Deserves a fair amount of criticism.

Aye but should also get credit for the rest of the game where we battered them. We win that 8 out of 10.

 
He waited till the 70th minute which was too late, he makes those subs on the 60th minute and we would’ve got at least extra time.

We still should have got at least extra time, Dundee were very fortunate. However poor folk think Goodwin's tactics and subbies were, we're still winning that 8 out of 10.

Goodwin getting too much blame. Not a great first half but we win that game 8 times out of 10, just couldn't put the ball in the net. Dundee were very fortunate.

SuperMario wrote:

Heard were possibly after the boy Rauri Paton from port vale who was at Queen’s Park last season

Could have legs. He's down the pecking order there.

Long time since we had a team with so much fight. Brilliant result.

JerryDungle wrote:

Near enough all left footers are completely hopeless with their right. It’s strange how it doesn’t work the other way as much, but that’s a known thing in football that lefties right foot’s are just for standing on.

Can attest. Beaut of a left foot, but my right-foot is like a dangling appendage when it comes to kicking and tackling.

Lack of activity is grating.

SlatefordArab wrote:

Re the co-commentators.  I was over in Germany for a week and watched a couple of games in our hotel.  Whatever German channel it was on they only had a commentator, no co-commentator; I obviously could not understand them but got me thinking how refreshing it would be to go back to just having a commentator and not have some wittering half-wit making a comment about every other thing that happens.

Should have the option to mute either or both commentators.

The other McLean brother, Willie?

That was probably our strongest possible squad selected today and they/Jim still couldn't find a win when it mattered.

I don't think we're winning this league