dufc2019 wrote:

Billy_Hainey wrote:

No bad passer oe the bah. Like ah ees wee chips in and aroond the box.

Canna see fowk throwin fehv pound notes , mair like twa bob.

He's not been training with the first team so good bit off I'd say.

Seems to be a problem with our best Young players, Hearing Neilson and Mochrie wont be signing new contracts and Chalmers and Mochrie been bombed not even in todays match day squad,

If you take into account freeman only playing cause Smith is injured, only youth player getting good development is a manu player ?
 

 
The problem is they are all 5-a-side popstars with no dig or ability to improvise in situations.

Thanks, appreciated. I'm fine, that's my 10 days isolation up. Back to work today though 😟

Having Levitt there appears to have released him.

Doubtful. Graham was dropped about 3 games ago and Grant said he needed to focus on defending more in games. Pars fans don't rate him.

Meekison was on the Friday night show before the St Mirren game last week and said it'd be 3-4 weeks before he'd be back from a ligament injury.

No idea about Chalmers. He's been pictured a few times at training and in clips recently and was at the JYM statue unveiling but there has not been a single bit of information about what his injury is or a timescale.

It is a massive bugbear of mine the way the club keep doing this. It's obviously deliberate.

Judging by photos and videos, Appere, Meekison and Declan Glass are all back training. That just leaves Logan Chalmers who got injured a month ago but never been any official timescale put on him or any update on his recovery progress.

£30 for adults, £16 for concessions.

Holy fuck. Disgrace. That'll end up putting off boys. Slighly lower pricing would have led to a sell out. We'll end up losing money. Spoke to a few Dee's today who said there was no way they'd be paying that given that they have kids as well.

Of course this will mean we'll get stung for the same prices for the game at Dens.

Not been binned. He's starting a university course according to his Twitter.. He thanked United and said he loved the job.

Tek wrote:

Lewis Neilson supposedly at the game today wearing a boot and on crutches. Some injury list we have.

Connolly
Siegrist
Glass
Butcher
Harkes
Appere
Neilson

Would be good to get some clarity on all of the above.

Chalmers and Meekison out too.
 

You've still not answered his question about struggling against most of the lower league teams we have played so far.

The statue is being unveiled at the Dundee game. IMHO that is the best time given Jim's history with both clubs.

I watched the game last night. Putting the horrendous stream quality to one side, I thought the laddies had a lot of the ball but did little with it. No penetration whatsoever. However, the sending off killed us. You could put together an amazing YouTube reel from boys like Neilson, Mochrie and Fotheringham who go past boys like they are not there, play wee one twos and balls around the corner as long as you edited out them running up blind alleys and pinging crossfield passes 40 yards from goal rather than trying to play a killer pass. To be fair, they were not helped by the fact the laddie playing up  front didn't really offer anything at all which meant there was no focal point. The laddie Watson played wide right and worked hard but again didn't really have a trick. Think he'd be better playing through the middle.

Ultimately what done us was two bread and butter cross balls which Neilson and Cooney lost out on in ariel duels. This for me continues to be Neilson's big weakness. For his size he isn't commanding in the air and appears reluctant to put his head in where it hurts. Just because we want to play on the deck doesn't mean our opponents are going to do the same so our players need to be able to attack the ball in the air and show some bravery.

The third goal was a great strike from outside the box when we were chasing the game. Considering we were playing with two wide players they never really once went at the full back and put a cross in. Fotheringham just cuts inside all the time. This meant we were relying on Duffy and Freeman to put balls in and they both struggled on the night although both were decent defensively. Freeman ended up at sweeper in a back 3. I was impressed by the keeper, Jack Newman and would be comfortable with him as back up if Benji leaves.

Think we would have benefited from Meekison and Robson in midfield both of whom are better than the two lads who played. Meekison is a bit more direct which I think would have helped us since

If we sign 2 strikers one needs to be a proper big target man and the other needs to have pace.

We could also do with a central midfielder who can put their foot on the ball and dictate things to add to TEK's list.

I was thinking about things yesterday and came to the conclusion that the group that played on Sunday (the Championship winning team) have done well to get out of the Fundesliga and keep us up, but have taken us as far as they can. We need a major rebuild with incoming boys with pace and who want the ball, supplemented by the young players we have like Chalmers, Mochrie, Smith, Freeman etc.