Rooney signed for Fleetwood Town.

Be amazed if Butcher is still here next season.

Dunno where that 2nd half performance has been hiding all season but credit where it's due, we were excellent and worked our arses off. If we got that every week you'd be fucking delighted 🧡🖤

Also dunno if that team selection was a throwaway 11 or not but I thought it actually worked really well. 1st time in a while we've had some mobility. Using the 2 full backs in the back 3 helped us match runners when they played balls into channels. Badly exposed in this area on Sun.

AlwaysUnited wrote:

Do not discuss this here please.

What are you like? The internet police?
 

Tek wrote:

Tangy wrote:

I'm not sure it's fair to call the league the weakest in history etc etc. We've got The Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and ourselves. We've already done better than both Aberdeen and Hibs who's budgets I would guess are much bigger than ours.

Recruitment wise, it's easy to think we could change the entire squad in 2 transfer windows - but that's not realistic. Getting money for Appere was a masterstroke - he was so far out the picture, I'd have been happy enough for us just to not lose money on the deal (aside from the fact I really wanted him to succeed - but that wasn't meant to be)

Recruitment wise has been OK. Biamou being the only notable failure.

It's the weakest league in years. Not in terms of the teams in the league (the established big six are all in it, ourselves included).

It's the weakest league in terms of the overall quality of it. As said previously, every team from Hearts down on minus goals.

I'm bewildered how you can say the recruitment has been ok other than Biamou.

Biamou - Never started a game
Akinola - played 45 minutes 
McMann - Started well, but hasn't featured for weeks and even Sporle has came on in his position ahead of him in recent times. A player who will be off in a month.

McDonald - Hasn't improved the team.

McNulty - A very costly dud

Carson - Punted out on loan after 4 months

Eriksson - Hasn't played 1 minute.

Even Niskanen is a bit of a flop for me. Pursued him for a year, paid cash for him. Was supposed to be a pacy winger. Headless chicken all too often.

Recruitment wise this season only Mulgrew has been an undoubted success
 

Would add that Levitt has been a recruitment success and has even scored some excellent goals recently. However, he was at his most effective when we were playing 4-3-3 pre Xmas and he sat as a playmaker with Harkes and Fuchs either side of him almost acting as blockers and were mobile enough to go into wider areas to join up with the full backs

Completely agree with all of the above. The Declan Glass loan has probably finished his Utd career and yet the games he played before he went he looked like it was about to take off. The Livi game and the Hibs game he played as a number 10 coming off the left hand side and looked a real threat.

Agree too about Freeman omission being a mystery. The two real weak links in our current team are Mark McNulty and Liam Smith. I'd wager most of our attacks break down when these two get the ball because both are abysmal technically. Smith got away with it in the Championship because he played in a back 4 and didn't need to do as much attacking. He also had McMullan in front of him so his main job was to simply give him the ball. Today as a wing back he's being asked to do things he is completely incapable of doing such as open his body out to play the ball down the line, play on the half turn, go outside defenders, cross the ball, and build possession. His touch is fucking terrible and he's one of these players who can only play the way he is facing and it drives me mad when he cuts back onto his weaker foot to cross or pass, slowing our attacks down.

Tek wrote:

lifesanocean wrote:

Adam played in the Dens game.

So he did, you're right.
 

All he did was try to get Tony Watt booked and wind up our support to be fair. And he failed on both counts.
 

Tek wrote:

Max Biamou's trained for a couple of weeks.

Surely can get on the bench tomorrow? We need some sort of different attacking option on the subs bench, as there is very little to change a match.

 
Said in todays Courier that his injury whilch is a thigh problem is still keeping out for a few weeks more

Won't make any difference in Scotland because the referee's who will be operating VAR are:

a. biased as fuck in favour of Rangers and Celtic
b. absolutely fucking hopeless

Do you derive entertainment from watching us, especially recently?

It's probably Smed'um. He thinks we're pure amazing to watch.

Tek wrote:

Scott Burns writing in the Scottish Daily Express that Utd are still interested in Kevin McDonald but need to move a couple of players on either on loan or permanently.

Florent Hoti linked with Dunfermline as is Louis Appere (who is also linked with Ayr).

Also heard a bit of a rumour linking Utd with a loan move for Declan Gallagher of Aberdeen.

Heard a rumour that Hoti turned down a move to Dunfermline on loan. Not the first time he has done that. From what I heard about him at Forfar, the laddie appears to have an attitude and overinflated opinion of himself which grossly outweighs his ability.
 

Tek wrote:

Scott Burns writing in the Scottish Daily Express that Utd are still interested in Kevin McDonald but need to move a couple of players on either on loan or permanently.

Florent Hoti linked with Dunfermline as is Louis Appere (who is also linked with Ayr).

Also heard a bit of a rumour linking Utd with a loan move for Declan Gallagher of Aberdeen.

I suspect Hearts might try to sign Gallagher with Souttar possibly leaving and Halkett injured. It's whether Aberdeen would let him go to a close rival.