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What Utd player could you never quite take to?
Gavin Gunning.
I actually think he has the raw tools to become a very good player.
But his daft as a brush nature and propensity for blowing up at opponents and even team mates used to drive me potty with him.
Always remember he shelled a cross clean over The Shed in a live telly match and when the camera focused on him he was laughing his heid off.
Added tae that all the self inflicted injuries and apparent lack of respect for the club (latterly).
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Scott Robertson.
He was great for 6 months then got injured. He never really played well again IMO until the last 6 months of his contract.
He was ok but was frustrating. Sometimes seemed that he couldn't pass the ball 3 yards at times.
Yeah yeah Industrial Estate
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TEK wrote:
Gavin Gunning.
I actually think he has the raw tools to become a very good player.
But his daft as a brush nature and propensity for blowing up at opponents and even team mates used to drive me potty with him.
Always remember he shelled a cross clean over The Shed in a live telly match and when the camera focused on him he was laughing his heid off.
Added tae that all the self inflicted injuries and apparent lack of respect for the club (latterly).
That said his 'Roly-Poly's' at Easter Road after he scored against Hibs is one of my favourite ever Utd moments.
Guy was a total loony.
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There's been plenty absolute guff over the years I couldn't take too, but ignoring them, Gunning is definitely one I couldn't take too.
One that might surprise a lot of people is Barry Robson, I honestly couldn't stand him.
Right now, I'm trying to take too , but really struggling to take to Ciftci. His attitude really pisses me off.
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Slightly surprising but I'm going to say Brian Welsh. Apart from a good 6-7 months beside Petric he was rank rotten. Another was Freddy Van Der Hoorn. He wasn't a right back, but wasn't really a centre half either. Hmm.
Too much commotion
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Slightly surprising but I'm going to say Brian Welsh. Apart from a good 6-7 months beside Petric he was rank rotten. Another was Freddy Van Der Hoorn. He wasn't a right back, but wasn't really a centre half either. Hmm.
I never thought Freddie was great either.
Yeah yeah Industrial Estate
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paul paton
LOLz.
You cannae go him eh?
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LOLz.
You cannae go him eh?
cant take to him at all mate
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Derek McInnes. Oddly I don't mind him as a manager though.
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Lee Miller just never looked like a Utd player, in fact never looked a player!
Rudi (51) was about the % of effort he put in
James Grady never really rocked my boat
Lee Mair - Fucking Nightmare
Jim (step over) Patterson, although injuries might have been an reason!
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George Fleming.....
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Could never take to Luggy's Assistant Manager John Blackley.
His dour and angry demeanour kinda summed up the doom'n'gloom around Tannadice at the fag end of Luggy's time in charge.
Same with Tony Docherty.Though for decent reasons.He tae me looked like a tracksuit Manager you would see shouting angry instructions at wee boys fae the sidelines of your local park.He just looked out of place in our dugout somehow,for me.
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Going back a bit but Doug Houston
We don't give a damn what the others say
We'll cheer on United all the way
For we are the Terrors of Tannadice
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Jamie McCunnie. He went out with a girl I knew just about the time he was making his break through. The girl told him I supported United, to which he replied "Why the fuck would you support them?!". So maybe not a case of never quite took, just fucking hated.
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Jamie McCunnie. He went out with a girl I knew just about the time he was making his break through. The girl told him I supported United, to which he replied "Why the fuck would you support them?!". So maybe not a case of never quite took, just fucking hated.
think yourself lucky...i've got a cat named after the cunt 
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Re: What Utd player could you never quite take to?
Jamie McCunnie. He went out with a girl I knew just about the time he was making his break through. The girl told him I supported United, to which he replied "Why the fuck would you support them?!". So maybe not a case of never quite took, just fucking hated.
think yourself lucky...i've got a cat named after the cunt
Lesson learned after that then? 
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deffo mate lol!
parents got a dog in the summer of 83..named him ricky after Richard Gough lol...15 year later or so he had to get put down..mither was distraught ...me and the missus got a cat so she nipped our head to call the thing ricky...no danger was he getting named after the now hun bar steward so we decided to go for an up and coming young arab who we thought at the time was the next big thing....aye smart move
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Skacel.
f ucking hated him ever since he got the number 51 at United.
w@nker.
Michael Gardyne - just plain and simply dont rate him.
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Jamie McCunnie and Jamie Dolan, the latter i regret a little only because he lost his life far too early. 
Hear their shout, hear their roar
They've probably had a barrel of ale and much, much more
Hooray, hooray, hooray, yeah
Over the hill went the swords of a thousand men
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Jason de vos....all action, sweatbands , taking throw ins, looked the damage but for all the effort he had the positional sense of stevie wonder imho
garry Kenneth and andis shala of late....horrendous
1 current players turning me into an angry wreck just now...ill keep it to myself in the hoping the good in him gets better...cause he is fucking good...
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I guess I'm one of those guys who will support a player in a utd shirt no matter what. Some of the reasons people give for not taking to players are rediculous and at times childish. Jeezo, I even forgave Mark Kerr. However, when I look back, I would say some of the players signed under the McCall/Chisholm regeim irked me, espcially those who obviously didn't care about the club and were only there to take a big wage (McInnes, L.Miller, Ritchie, Crawford).
However, I would like to know why someone didn't like Barry Robson. He is the best player to play at United in the last ten years - no argument.
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I've never got our supports absolute derision towards Paul Ritchie tbh.
Was he really that bad?
I thought he was ok personally.Certainly no Chris Innes or John McQuillan.
Now they WERE bad.
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Re: What Utd player could you never quite take to?
Jamie McCunnie. He went out with a girl I knew just about the time he was making his break through. The girl told him I supported United, to which he replied "Why the fuck would you support them?!". So maybe not a case of never quite took, just fucking hated.
I used tae see him+his wee burd floating about the EK town centre when i worked there about 13/14 years ago.He seemed to be doon there every day at one time.
The pair of them looked like a pair of lovestruck 13 year olds.And he was playing (very well) in our first team at this point.
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I think it was Ritchie screaming for off-side with his hands in the air rather than chasing down his man in the Mypa game that got a lot of people's goat.
I didn't think Chris Innes was that bad. He played well in McCall's first season although I have heard an alleged story: as we all know, United players were asked to take a wage cut at the end of McCall's first season, with McCall being the one who had to personally ask the players. McCall believes this is the reason he lost the dressing room as most players he had signed, ET had got him to do the negotiating so many of the players felt bretayed by McCall. Anyway, some refused to take the wage cut, others did take the cut (Innes included) in return for a longer contract. Not long after that, we signed Ritchie who came in on a higher wage than many that were asked to take the cut. Innes was quite rightly furious that United had told the players they couldn't afford their wages but could then go and sign more players on a higher wage. After that, he became a bad influence at the club and was quickly shifted out to Gretna.