Tekel Towers » Alloa V's DUFC ~ Friday 4th October

blackandtangerine · 05/10/2019 5:58 pm

RRDH wrote:
japanarab wrote:
RRDH wrote:
Well. Weekend ruined. Fucking devastated eh. Im not doing another season like this man ...

The day the result of 22 guys running about a field ruins my weekend is the day I stop following football. Give yourself a shake.

No?

Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.

kingdomarab · 05/10/2019 6:03 pm

The day I stop having my weekend ruined by us losing is the day I stop following football.

It should hurt us and it should hurt the players too.

Angry at spending 18 pounds last night for that, 20 odd at Ayr and countless other shitey performances in the last few years but nothing I’d rather do on a Friday night/Saturday afternoon.

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MockChop · 05/10/2019 6:21 pm

Tek wrote:
Lancashire-Arab wrote:
Tek wrote:
That was fucking embarrassing tonight.

Better team won.
They seemed to want it more and we seemed willing to let them come on to us, that should never be the case - all of the top teams in the world work hard, what makes us different
Oh they definitely wanted it more.

As some of you will have seen for yourself who watched the game on BBC Scotland, the camera in the Alloa dressing room showed Peter Grant going round all his players and trying to get them really fired up and drum into them that this was a big match they were about to play.

And it showed in their performance. They were right in our faces and fancied they could take us.

Whereas i just felt from our players body language, that we could roll up to Alloa, ping the ball about at our own pace and the game will take care of itself.

Every team we play down here see's us as the big scalp and will be right up for it accordingly. When will the penny drop with us?

So so fucking fed-up and depressed with these type of flat, non displays. They always happen just when we think we are getting somewhere too.

We need to be right up for it every single week and match these teams in effort before anything else.

Agree with this. Seems there’s an attitude problem.

japanarab · 05/10/2019 11:24 pm

blackandtangerine wrote:
RRDH wrote:
japanarab wrote:

The day the result of 22 guys running about a field ruins my weekend is the day I stop following football. Give yourself a shake.

No?

Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.

You’re right. I dinna care as much as you. What’s more worrying is the players and manager probably care even less. Your super fan badge is in the post btw.

RRDH · 06/10/2019 2:06 am

blackandtangerine wrote:
RRDH wrote:
japanarab wrote:

The day the result of 22 guys running about a field ruins my weekend is the day I stop following football. Give yourself a shake.

No?

Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.

Yeah its not like im cowering in a corner all weekend, but yeah, when we lose away to bottom of the table during a promotion push after we played like dogshit... on a Friday. Fucking miserable. Cant watch any of the football. Just when in danger of a good fucking time, its there in the back of your mind.

The one saving grace is my 8v8 league plays sunday night. Better than 50 percent chance someone is getting wrecked.

kingdomarab · 06/10/2019 2:53 am

Only missed 3 games since we were relegated.

Would really like a ‘Super Fan’ badge, especially if it was signed by Tek.

Would surely guarantee me a ticket for the play-off final in May? 🤣

blackandtangerine · 06/10/2019 5:10 am

japanarab wrote:
blackandtangerine wrote:
RRDH wrote:

No?

Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.
You’re right. I dinna care as much as you. What’s more worrying is the players and manager probably care even less. Your super fan badge is in the post btw.

Thankyou. I'll wear it with pride 👍

Arabdownsouth · 06/10/2019 7:41 am

blackandtangerine wrote:
japanarab wrote:
blackandtangerine wrote:

Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.
You’re right. I dinna care as much as you. What’s more worrying is the players and manager probably care even less. Your super fan badge is in the post btw.
Thankyou. I'll wear it with pride 👍

I don't really agree with the term superfan. I get completely where B&T is coming from. It pissed me off greatly on Friday night and I'd to set straight off to work once the final whistle blew. I was a right moody fucker for a couple hours after though. B&T is obviously passionate about his team and wears his heart on his sleeve, nothing wrong with that imo. I have respect for those that pay their money each week personally.

leodis · 06/10/2019 11:59 am

blackandtangerine wrote:
Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.

I am 82 years of age, live some 300 miles away, and house-bound. When United, whose fortunes I have followed for some 75 years, play as they did the other evening, I feel wounded, betrayed. No other word for it. A lifetime's devotion destroyed in 90 minutes. It takes me until the next game to recover. I live for that day to come. After a performance like the Alloa game it is particularly hard to take when I know the manager will not take great, if any, steps to alter his thinking for future games. This blowing hot and cold has to stop. As said here already, we fans don't expect world-beating results, but we do deserve, and must demand, the manager AND players to have the team play as we know they can. The 6-goal scores show they can do it.....So come on, Robbie Neilson, get the finger out! Shape up, or I can see the owners shipping you out......

DU Peligro · 06/10/2019 1:46 pm

leodis wrote:
blackandtangerine wrote:
Just dinnae understand JA's comment. I go every week. Home and away and you better believe results like that spoil weekends. Hes thousands of miles away and obviously disnae care as much as some of us do.
I am 82 years of age, live some 300 miles away, and house-bound. When United, whose fortunes I have followed for some 75 years, play as they did the other evening, I feel wounded, betrayed. No other word for it. A lifetime's devotion destroyed in 90 minutes. It takes me until the next game to recover. I live for that day to come. After a performance like the Alloa game it is particularly hard to take when I know the manager will not take great, if any, steps to alter his thinking for future games. This blowing hot and cold has to stop. As said here already, we fans don't expect world-beating results, but we do deserve, and must demand, the manager AND players to have the team play as we know they can. The 6-goal scores show they can do it.....So come on, Robbie Neilson, get the finger out! Shape up, or I can see the owners shipping you out......

Great post. Have only managed 50 years' suffering but that was not the performance of MY team v Alloa. Get it sorted pronto Neilson.

japanarab · 06/10/2019 3:00 pm

I know where you're coming from but not one single member of that squad or staff will be feeling anywhere near that. In fact they're probably out on the lash living it up. Not a single fuck will be given. Then the bullshit stories in the Tully saying they're hurting and gonna come back stronger. All pish and wind and for that fact there's no way those posers will ruin my weekend. If it was a team full of Bowmans and Heggies then id be feeling it, but with these gimps no way.

TangerineDream · 06/10/2019 4:19 pm

leodis wrote:
I am 82 years of age, live some 300 miles away, and house-bound. When United, whose fortunes I have followed for some 75 years, play as they did the other evening, I feel wounded, betrayed. No other word for it. A lifetime's devotion destroyed in 90 minutes. It takes me until the next game to recover. I live for that day to come. After a performance like the Alloa game it is particularly hard to take when I know the manager will not take great, if any, steps to alter his thinking for future games. This blowing hot and cold has to stop. As said here already, we fans don't expect world-beating results, but we do deserve, and must demand, the manager AND players to have the team play as we know they can. The 6-goal scores show they can do it.....So come on, Robbie Neilson, get the finger out! Shape up, or I can see the owners shipping you out......

Great post that leodis. Just the 45 years of success and pain for me. The Arbroath and Alloa debacles are not good enough. Simple as that. How our team can demolish Morton and the Fun with 6 goals and then play like feking utter s.hite is unreal. Not good enough.

I am certainly not in the Robbie oot mindset yet. However he seriously needs to sort this nonsense out. Tactics , players in correct positions and playing positive attacking fitba. No excuses. There is sufficient quality in the main to do this so ‘mon tae Phuk Robbie and the players.

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leodis · 06/10/2019 4:27 pm

japanarab wrote:
I know where you're coming from but not one single member of that squad or staff will be feeling anywhere near that. In fact they're probably out on the lash living it up. Not a single fuck will be given. Then the bullshit stories in the Tully saying they're hurting and gonna come back stronger. All pish and wind and for that fact there's no way those posers will ruin my weekend. If it was a team full of Bowmans and Heggies then id be feeling it, but with these gimps no way.

Well, I don't know where you're coming from! Are you really a United supporter? You don't sound like it to me! Like many others I grouse about poor lacklustre performances, but when all is said and done, they are my team. If I was looking for some sort of glory I would choose to follow the fortunes of some more successful team. But I don't. I love United, warts and all......

arabchanter · 06/10/2019 6:26 pm

Eh've got meh "chaps up" on this debate (I don't know if non Dundonians or even younger Dundonians will have heard this before?) but basically I see both sides o' this, I think if you let it get to you, you can have a shitty weekend, and this may be through people digging you up,or just simply over analyzing the shitfest that just passed as a game o' futba.

Have watched United home and away as often possible for the best part of 55 years and I still get this hollow gut feeling when I see United get beat, especially if there's no effort seemingly given, some of our more mature supporters will remember the St Mirren and Gothenburg games, I think if you weren't fucked off and down for quite a while after that your no human, that really did keep me down for a while (but then again I was a lot younger and it was more so in quieter moments and when reminded of it by cunts at work, and it still hurts)

I was away for a few days and luckily enough (although I didn't think it at the time) I couldn't get any service so couldn't hear or watch Fridays game, I have arabzone but shant be watching it, I never watch or re-watch United getting beat, to me that's tantamount to self-harming, why would I want to put myself through that?

Anyways we all react differently, and there's no Gold, Silver or Bronze medals for feelings, it's like looking along your row at Tannadice and thinking "why are they no' as upset as I am," while the boy along the row is thinking "for fucks sake, wish that cunt would settle doon, he's doing my biscuit in" different strokes and all that.

I think the problem will be, when there's no reaction to a loss....................... that's when we're fucked.

japanarab · 07/10/2019 1:38 am

Them getting beaten will piss me off and make me mad but there's no way it's gonna "ruin" my weekend. A win definitely ups the mood at the weekend. Depends on the game and circumstances too. St Mirren final/going down with Celtic fans taking the piss that day being up there. A league defeat 8 games in can be overturned.

leodis · 07/10/2019 8:12 am

arabchanter wrote:
Eh've got meh "chaps up" on this debate (I don't know if non Dundonians or even younger Dundonians will have heard this before?).

My missus is a young thing in her 70s and sometimes puts up her thumbs and goes "Chaps!" The blank expression on the faces of the native Yorkies as they look to me for interpretation always makes me smile. But I don't bother to explain as it's a sure conversation-stopper anyway even though they don't understand it.....

PatReilly · 07/10/2019 9:10 am

"Chaps": is it not a term which is used in varied form throughout Scotland? I'm thinking it means you're not playing presently, having a wee break.

To whether the football wastes the weekend: I'm sure it used to be a whole lot worse with me, and today I claim it doesn't bother me after a bad defeat. But to be honest, I woke up during the night on Friday several times and the mind jumps back to the inept display from the players and management team.

Then you are a bit knackered the next day, so yes, a poor performance can have an effect on the weekend, even if you try to claim otherwise.

japanarab · 07/10/2019 10:12 am

Don't get me wrong. I didn't watch that pish then think hmphh oh well. I was furious about the lack of effort and Robbie's schizophrenia (surely that's the reason he goes from having them flying out the traps to that insipid shite?) But there's no way it was ruining my plans that I had with the bairns and missus.

blackandtangerine · 07/10/2019 12:29 pm

japanarab wrote:
Don't get me wrong. I didn't watch that pish then think hmphh oh well. I was furious about the lack of effort and Robbie's schizophrenia (surely that's the reason he goes from having them flying out the traps to that insipid shite?) But there's no way it was ruining my plans that I had with the bairns and missus.

We get it , ok! You dont need to keep going on about it ffs

japanarab · 07/10/2019 2:19 pm

Still angry I see. Maybe we'll win and a weekend will be happy time.

blackandtangerine · 07/10/2019 2:54 pm

japanarab wrote:
Still angry I see. Maybe we'll win and a weekend will be happy time.

I'm not angry. I just get pissed off when we get beat. Especially from a team that's bottom of the league. Its maybe easier for you cos you stay so far away. Maybe you cant relate to it as much. I get that tho 👍

kingdomarab · 08/10/2019 6:43 am

You’re not going to put the time into contributing to a fans forum if you aren’t passionate about the club.

Sadly I feel United losing does have a negative impact on my week, however, a win puts a smile on my face for the rest of the week.

Regardless, I’d much rather be losing the rag at a United game on a Saturday than anything else that comes to mind.