We had a thumping home win to start, thistle are in absolute turmoil.
It worries me tbh.

Same team and more importantly same attacking attitude a must.

Regarding the Thistle chaos, it might be that the turmoil stirs the players into being a more solid unit, fighting for each other.

They might be a more difficult prospect than our fans may imagine, and Caldwell, who I don’t particularly rate as a manager, is undefeated this season, and unbeaten in two games last season against us.

However, our players must have taken encouragement from the team performance on Saturday, and I'm expecting a win.

Finally, mind it's a 7:05 kick off, a bit of a rush to get there.
 

PatReilly wrote:

Regarding the Thistle chaos, it might be that the turmoil stirs the players into being a more solid unit, fighting for each other.

They might be a more difficult prospect than our fans may imagine, and Caldwell, who I don’t particularly rate as a manager, is undefeated this season, and unbeaten in two games last season against us.

However, our players must have taken encouragement from the team performance on Saturday, and I'm expecting a win.

Finally, mind it's a 7:05 kick off, a bit of a rush to get there.
 

Hate 5 past 7 kickoffs. Few folk that normally go on my bus cant because need to leave a wee bit earlier.
Ach, least we'll get last orders when back in Dundee.
 

I cant see Pawlett starting. He may not even be back in the squad. We have a history of rushing back players lets hope we dont continue doing so.

japanarab wrote:

Is Sporle injured or just no good enough? Also, if it’s Partick then surely we’ll have to wear an away kit which we’ve no even revealed yet!

Pretty poor it's not even been unveiled yet. Surely they would have had to register an away kit with the league before the start of the season.
 

PatReilly wrote:

It's the SFA each club must register their colours with: for this season we have registered an all black away outfit.

 
SPFL Pat. Rule G30. Must be registered by June1st.
Also the first and 2nd choice kits cant clash so dont know how that works with black shorts for both kits.

Marklandsvelvettouch wrote:

bowers wrote:

Looking forward to this on Friday night. Hopefully our Friday evening TV bad luck is behind us.
Thistle seem to be having a lot of off field problems that hopefully will have an effect on them come kick off.

I can see a good support travelling through so hopefully we are heading home happy.

Unchanged line up for me try and keep it going.
Think we will see Pawlett on the bench this week?
Siegrist 
Smith
Reynolds
Connolly
Robson
Butcher
Stanton
McMullan
Appere 
Clark
Shankland

 

I'd like to see Banks playing instead of McMullan and Pawlett on instead of Clark. We desperately need more creativity in midfield and McMullan and Clark are both very poor

Not sure about that. We looked like scoring every time we went forward on Saturday.
 

I'm a fan of Banks and Pawlett too but there is no way that I'm changing that winning team from Saturday.

Granted, I'm not Neilson, but I'll be surprised if he makes any changes for Friday, unless someone is injured.

Marklandsvelvettouch wrote:

bowers wrote:

Looking forward to this on Friday night. Hopefully our Friday evening TV bad luck is behind us.
Thistle seem to be having a lot of off field problems that hopefully will have an effect on them come kick off.

I can see a good support travelling through so hopefully we are heading home happy.

Unchanged line up for me try and keep it going.
Think we will see Pawlett on the bench this week?
Siegrist 
Smith
Reynolds
Connolly
Robson
Butcher
Stanton
McMullan
Appere 
Clark
Shankland

 

I'd like to see Banks playing instead of McMullan and Pawlett on instead of Clark. We desperately need more creativity in midfield and McMullan and Clark are both very poor

DU Peligro wrote:

If he goes into his shell and just one up then leave the cxxx in Glasgow I think he lives round the corner ?

 

I like your zero tolerance stance to perceived negative tactics Du Peligro.   😂😂

DU Peligro wrote:

We have a team and a striker than can attack teams. Just fucking do it Robbie!
Or we bring someone in who will attack...

 
I wouldn't be surprised if Neilson has maybe been 'advised' that we should be playing two up front this season.   🤔

Hello all, long time reader, first time poster.


Living in the south west of England now, my day to day info about United comes from forums mainly.

With that, and seeing last weeks result, I wouldn't change a thing, let the team bed more and develop it that way. I'd keep a wee eye on Clark though, but it seemed he did ok in his slightly newer role.

I'd try and not factor Partick's off field scene into the game, stick to the plan from last week and adapt from there.

The Boy McNicoll wrote:

DU Peligro wrote:

We have a team and a striker than can attack teams. Just fucking do it Robbie!
Or we bring someone in who will attack...

 
I wouldn't be surprised if Neilson has maybe been 'advised' that we should be playing two up front this season.   🤔

 
Agree with this. It came totally out of the blue. Or young Louis ignored instructions to play deeper....