Quite the opposite. Really couldn't give a fuck.

Our results have been good, which is why we're 6th, which is why we'll be fine, which is why greeting after a defeat and demanding better is tedious to say the least.

Goodie Conway 2 wrote:

Our results have been good, which is why we're 6th, which is why we'll be fine, which is why greeting after a defeat and demanding better is tedious to say the least.

 
Next week it will be "which is why we're 7th".

The following week it will be "which is why we're 8th"

etc etc until the penny drops.

There is a divide between those who think the current dire standard is the best this team can produce and those who (myself included) think the current players are capable of producing better than this and are being held back by the managers approach and tactics. And yet it is the latter group who are being branded as negative.

I'm guessing you've got plenty of Friday nights free next season which is why you're not bothered.

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lifesanocean wrote:

Goodie Conway 2 wrote:

Our results have been good, which is why we're 6th, which is why we'll be fine, which is why greeting after a defeat and demanding better is tedious to say the least.

 
Next week it will be "which is why we're 7th".

The following week it will be "which is why we're 8th"

etc etc until the penny drops.

There is a divide between those who think the current dire standard is the best this team can produce and those who (myself included) think the current players are capable of producing better than this and are being held back by the managers approach and tactics. And yet it is the latter group who are being branded as negative.

I'm guessing you've got plenty of Friday nights free next season which is why you're not bothered.

 
Our next 6:
Rangers
Hibs
Killie
Well
Celtic
Aberdeen

Based on current performances, with the current setup, we’re gonna be in a fight for survival.
I know we can do better if we play to the strengths of the squad.

Goodie Conway 2 wrote:

I'm not bothered because it's just football.

That's fine, but why be condescending to people who are just concerned and being passionate about their team?
 

CCX2 2010 wrote:

It’s pointless picking the bones out of today’s game, we all knew what was coming and we all know what’s in the post next week.

Questions need to be asked and addressed in the recruitment department, McNulty will be on a decent wedge and whilst he is far from the worst that has walked through the doors in the last few years he must be asking himself why he is here.

Clearly our best player is Shankland and the limitations of our centre mids were there for all to see in the Championship last season, we desperately needed a Target man to compliment him if we were going to go from back to front and Shankland and McNulty is just not going to work.

COVID has had an impact on recruitment and we are not alone but I find McNulty a like for like and Fuchs from what I have seen so far is also much of a much. These two players won’t have come cheap and they ain’t the worst but we could have and should have bought different types of players for two critical positions.

The Ogden’s in my opinion should be looking at the performance of the sporting director and asking if they are getting value for money and if it’s a return on transfer fees then ask themselves who will demand a transfer fee in the coming transfer window that has been brought in by him.

 

Good and fair post CC.

Mellon said we had to get our recruitment spot-on and that whoever we brought in had to improve the squad.

None of the signings we have made this season have improved us imo. 

Mellon and Asghar are both culpable for that.
 

CCX2 2010 wrote:

It’s pointless picking the bones out of today’s game, we all knew what was coming and we all know what’s in the post next week.

Questions need to be asked and addressed in the recruitment department, McNulty will be on a decent wedge and whilst he is far from the worst that has walked through the doors in the last few years he must be asking himself why he is here.

Clearly our best player is Shankland and the limitations of our centre mids were there for all to see in the Championship last season, we desperately needed a Target man to compliment him if we were going to go from back to front and Shankland and McNulty is just not going to work.

COVID has had an impact on recruitment and we are not alone but I find McNulty a like for like and Fuchs from what I have seen so far is also much of a much. These two players won’t have come cheap and they ain’t the worst but we could have and should have bought different types of players for two critical positions.

The Ogden’s in my opinion should be looking at the performance of the sporting director and asking if they are getting value for money and if it’s a return on transfer fees then ask themselves who will demand a transfer fee in the coming transfer window that has been brought in by him.

 

 
I agree in some aspects although both Shankland and McNulty should be able to get goals in this league. I dont believe its the centre mids fault for the lack of creation infact the majority of time they may aswell no be playing as the back 3 simply miss them out by punting it long. Surely Mellon has seen our games from last season and is aware that we beat teams and created alot from trying to be on the front foot, playing football and getting the ball wide. The majority of our goals came from wide play - and for anyone who uses the 'but we are a newly promoted team' we beat st mirren and gave a good hibs team a run for their money. I believe it has to be a back 4 and that will allow Smith/ Robson to get forward and get the service to the strikers. The 3 either seems like a knee jerk reaction to Killie and Rangers or he is not happy to drop one of them. We seen in the last 15 minutes of the Hamilton game what we can do with 4 at the back creating more in that small time than we have in previous full matches.

It is obviously a strange season and we need to ensure survival but come on as fans surely we deserve some quality to view on the pitch. Mellon says when he came in 'we are Dundee United' yet he has us playing like Hamilton.

Arab93 wrote:

CCX2 2010 wrote:

It’s pointless picking the bones out of today’s game, we all knew what was coming and we all know what’s in the post next week.

Questions need to be asked and addressed in the recruitment department, McNulty will be on a decent wedge and whilst he is far from the worst that has walked through the doors in the last few years he must be asking himself why he is here.

Clearly our best player is Shankland and the limitations of our centre mids were there for all to see in the Championship last season, we desperately needed a Target man to compliment him if we were going to go from back to front and Shankland and McNulty is just not going to work.

COVID has had an impact on recruitment and we are not alone but I find McNulty a like for like and Fuchs from what I have seen so far is also much of a much. These two players won’t have come cheap and they ain’t the worst but we could have and should have bought different types of players for two critical positions.

The Ogden’s in my opinion should be looking at the performance of the sporting director and asking if they are getting value for money and if it’s a return on transfer fees then ask themselves who will demand a transfer fee in the coming transfer window that has been brought in by him.

 

 
I agree in some aspects although both Shankland and McNulty should be able to get goals in this league. I dont believe its the centre mids fault for the lack of creation infact the majority of time they may aswell no be playing as the back 3 simply miss them out by punting it long. Surely Mellon has seen our games from last season and is aware that we beat teams and created alot from trying to be on the front foot, playing football and getting the ball wide. The majority of our goals came from wide play - and for anyone who uses the 'but we are a newly promoted team' we beat st mirren and gave a good hibs team a run for their money. I believe it has to be a back 4 and that will allow Smith/ Robson to get forward and get the service to the strikers. The 3 either seems like a knee jerk reaction to Killie and Rangers or he is not happy to drop one of them. We seen in the last 15 minutes of the Hamilton game what we can do with 4 at the back creating more in that small time than we have in previous full matches.

It is obviously a strange season and we need to ensure survival but come on as fans surely we deserve some quality to view on the pitch. Mellon says when he came in 'we are Dundee United' yet he has us playing like Hamilton.

 
Both.  100%

Especially punting it long.

Our 'heat map' from yesterday.

Wow. Says it all.

https://twitter.com/steviegrieve/status/1335643749624524801?s=21

The irony 🤣🤣