Tek wrote:

AlwaysUnited wrote:

Tek wrote:

100%

Lafferty is exactly the type of forward we need.
 

 
The lad has done nothing for the last few years.

Better options out there.

Apart from blasting a hat-trick against us last April, of course.
 

And rag-dolling the laddie we've just sold to Aston Villa for loads of ££££££.

It's not about who's better, it's about the different type of dimension a big, physical striker would give us. Always and Tam might not like it because they have dreams of playing everything on the deck like some sort of Man City of the north, but in Scottish football, having a target man get give you an outball if plan a of playing on the deck isn't working, like on Tuesday night when boys refused to risk passing the ball into midfield so just passed it around the back four/five whilst boys like Pawlett and Fuchs were trying control simple passes and the ball was actually spinning over their heads.
 

Watson

japanarab wrote:

Thought season 4 was tremendous. The Johnny training scene with the Rocky music was FAF. 

 
Laughed out loud at that bit. The eagle at the end signifying he had transcended to a higher level of badassery.

Butcher. Alexander likes his big hammer throwers.

Most of the 1st episode of the new series has been leaked online. Johnny and Daniel's joint efforts at training are predictably disastrous

Seen it yesterday. Loved it. Did justice to old characters. Probably the first decent MCU movie since Endgame.

Eamonn Bannon vs Dundee in a 4-0 win in 1985.

No it was 2nd half.

I thought Mochrie was poor yesterday. Slowed us down on the rare occasions we went forward. Seems to spend too much time trying to look like a footballer rather than actually just doing it. At one point we were on the break 2nd half unusually with men forward and he was in their half with space to drive forward with the ball but he stopped, turned and looked about a couple of times (by which point Hibs had got players back) then tried a cross field pass to Sporle (which wasn't even a difficult ball to play) but instead found a Hibs player about 10 yards away from Sporle and left us exposed with men forward.

Beharder wrote:

The team needs freshened up a bit tomorrow but the squad is a bit thin for it.
The young players are not making the impact that im sure TC was hoping for.
Apperre, Chalmers, Glass, Mochrie, Meekinson for a number of reasons have made little or no impact.

Agree. We're in a weird situation where we appeared to be banking on these laddies putting pressure on the experienced players and playing a fair amount of games but none of them, bar Freeman have offered anything in games. Normally, you expect young laddies to come in for 3-4 games before their form shades but Glass, Chalmers, Mochrie and even Smith have looked completely out of their depth both physically and tactically even playing one or two games. And yet despite this we are offering most of these laddies 3 year contracts. Glass and Chalmers will be 24-25 by the time these contracts run out. The two of them haven't played 25 games between them by age 21-22. It feels like they are in a comfort zone where they are on long contracts and don't appear to be really feeling the pressure to be pushing for the first team. The club are doing a lot of talking up, but none appear to be walking the walk. This is impacting on the 1st team who appear to know they've not got real competition for their places and have dropped a level.

This is not McKinnon, Ferguson, Connolly, McLaren, Cleland etc. or Souttar, Russell, Armstrong and Gauld.
 

Paul Hegarty
Morgaro Gomis
Billy Dodds
Billy Thomson
Craig Conway
Barry Robson
Craig Brewster
Ian Ferguson
Ian Redford
Paul Dixon

Honourable Mentions:
Andy Webster due to being a loan signing.
Lee Wilkie, Scott Crabbe and Fraser Fyvie all cruelly robbed of Utd careers due to injury.
Danny Griffin
Noel Hunt
Darren Dods
GMS
Scott Robertson
Stewart Beedie.

I fell asleep before half time and missed our goal. That tells it's own story about the fayre on show yesterday. We are pretty devoid of ideas without Levitt and when you add in Fuchs being missing it meant we couldn't keep the ball and we couldn't win it back even if we did give it away. Agree about Pawlett and Niskannen being off the boil. The only problem is when Chalmers, Mochrie etc have been given the chance to stake a claim they've offered nothing. The January transfer window is becoming more and more important. A striker and a couple of creative players wouldn't go amiss and punt a few of the younger ones out on loan if they are not going to put pressure on the first XI.

A review of how we are training wouldn't go amiss either. The amount of training ground injuries we are getting is becoming a real problem.