What team would you all like to see?

My team would be -

...........................Siegrist.......................
Freeman.....Edwards...Mulgrew...McMann
Chalmers....Fuchs...Levitt....Meekison
...........................Pawlett......
............................Clark................

Subs - Carson, K.Smith, Harkes, Appere
           Niskanen, Sporle, D.Watson

*Freeman and McMann have been unable to get forward to aide the attack as the opposition have pressed us so high up the pitch on both flanks in recent matches. Only way to counter this is have two wide players pressing them on the counter to give them something to think about themselves, as Niskanen and Pawlett have been largely anonymous in recent weeks and haven't worked the opposition full backs at all. Chalmers and Meekison both done very well in the 2-2 draw with Motherwell at the tail end of last season. Our complete lack of goals would say to me that it's worth mixing up the side a bit in this respect*

douglas arab wrote:

i don't think chalmers would give any protection at all for his full back

Probably not much, agreed.

But we are again one of the lowest scoring teams in the division (joint with Dundee on 15 goals each, as the leagues 3rd lowest scorers) after being the leagues worst last season.

We need to start throwing caution to the wind a bit more. 
 

AlwaysUnited wrote:

I don't think we have any chance tomorrow. We are bereft of confidence, creating absolutely nothing, and leaking goals at the back. It's a really depressing time.

It'll be 1-0 Livi and our slip into the bottom four continues.

Gosh, crack the champagne, let's have a party!!
 

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.
 

Last edited by lifesanocean (10/12/2021 11:38 pm)

Meekison definitely has something about him, but as mentioned, so does Chalmers but he just can't seem to produce on a regular basis, injuries really have not helped him though.

Hopefully Archie can get the opportunity soon to show what he can do, don't think it will be today though.  Not from the start anyway.
 

15 goals in 18 Premiership games.

Grim. On course to register less goals than last season at this rate, when we were the leagues lowest scorers.

This desperately needs addressed in January.

Seek to the core we that result the day. Apart from a sh1te 1st half oor, we were the better team. Moreso in the 2nd half and esp. The last 15 mins.

The Harkes sitter in the 1st half was a sickener, and the miss past the left post near the end was equally seekening.

We shouldna be losing at hame to Livingston. But if ye canna score against them, then yer no gonna win.

1 thing that's boilin meh p1ss, is all this unnecessary backpassing. It costs ye 20 yards or 20 secs. Gotta be stamped oot.

Noticeable improvement t when the cheenges were made, but got to question the timing oe the cheenges by TC. Made far too late IMO.

Got to be 1 of the weirdest Refs and Linesmen seen at Tannadice. They even missed the amount oe time being wasted beh the chunt in goal for Livi. Thought they were the 3 blind mice.

The better team definitely lost the day.

MOTM for me Glass.

Last edited by Billy_Hainey (11/12/2021 10:30 pm)

smedDUm wrote:

AlwaysUnited wrote:

I don't think we have any chance tomorrow. We are bereft of confidence, creating absolutely nothing, and leaking goals at the back. It's a really depressing time.

It'll be 1-0 Livi and our slip into the bottom four continues.

Gosh, crack the champagne, let's have a party!!
 

 
Bottoms up.

Tek wrote:

Chalmers not even in the squad today.

He's finished at Utd, ain't he?

Thought he was injured. 

Billy_Hainey wrote:

Tek wrote:

Chalmers not even in the squad today.

He's finished at Utd, ain't he?

Thought he was injured. 

Not that i've heard.

He was on the bench last Sunday against Celtic (un-used). Unless he picked up something in training.

But i doubt it. Think TC doesn't rate him or his 'attitude' (the rumour).
 

A few folks blaming the ref for the result, and yeah he wasn't great, but we had zero meaningful attempts on goal. That's all that matters.