@CCX I wasn't there, you were, but Scott Simpson on DUTV said the referee didn't whistle, he was alerted to the "foul" by the linesman. Then VAR is in his ear, he goes to the screen and awards the goal. DUTV timed the VAR delay at 3 minutes and gave the ref credit for getting it right by allowing play to continue and Sibbald to score.

In real time I thought their 3rd was offside, couldn't believe VAR gave it as on. So with our late pen maybe we got one VAR decision and lost one.

Tek wrote:

According to Dundee United Stats account on X, that is the latest goal a United side have ever scored in a 90 minute match.

 
What does X say? BBC listing it as 90+9 Pretty sure DUTV had it as 90+10 but I was off the sofa at that point 😄

A UTD side that battles to the end is exactly what I want to see.
Playing football on an old worn out carpet is exactly what I don't want to see.

Stillliving wrote:

A UTD side that battles to the end is exactly what I want to see.
Playing football on an old worn out carpet is exactly what I don't want to see.

 
Ditto, the reception the players got at the end will hopefully drive them on.

Fight until the very end although I noted some of our support chucked it at 3-1 down and headed for the exit.

I'm a little concerned about the conversion myself.
Would the Blairgowrie Baresi gain the extra two points to take it to overtime?
Sorry, we're agreed it's not the NFL.
I was shitting myself listening to the commentary (well into Saturday evening it was too) cos I feared RG would miss.
Why is he taking it?
Ok, no Holt or Moult on the pitch but I would have preferred a colt (Miller Thomson maybe) or even if Ussain Bolt had stepped up before big Ross who I was certain was going to feel a right dolt on missing it.
Cos, no two ways about it, that kick was extremely saveable had the goalie gone the other way.
And don't go telling me that big Ross sent the goalie the wrong way, had he done it would have been an illegal penalty but that is perhaps a topic for another time.
It's the goalie who sends himself the wrong way, never the penalty taker.

However all's well that ends well & it's good to know that grass will soon be growing on Rugby Park.
 

I thought we were decent across the middle.  Sibbald had a good game and Docherty did his thing.  Babunski was better than at Motherwell, but I think still needs to work with the alternative striking approach on the training pitch.  I thought Dalby and Moult looked OK together but they'd been figured out and were tiring pretty early in the second half and hadn't created as much as they did at Motherwell in more than twice the time.  Moult right place right time for the goal.  Feel for VDS as he never gets those tap-ins!

Here's where I don't get Goodwin.  He did nothing to halt our slide first part of the second half.  McInnes had worked out what he needed - puts on a young lad who had a roaming commission and we couldn't track him.  Wonder goal for the first, second he just breaks our line and is simply not tracked.  Clearly Dalby and Moult had run their race.  I couldn't believe Moult wasn't off in the first 4 changes when he eventually made them.  He then proceeded to leave him on for about 5 minutes when he was clearly injured and looking to come off. 

I thought the 5 who came on all played their part in turning the game.  Sevelj is a competent centre mid replacement.  VDS posed the Killie defence more issues than Dalby and Moult did.  Thomson totally committed and a great tackle to help set up the second (more on that in a minute).  Middleton also added to things - maybe not as effective as Motherwell, but seems a very good option off the bench.  I was also pleased Fotheringham got on - he added to the change in fortune.

That's twice now in two games that Goodwin's changes have brought us back into it from a losing position.  Maybe if he had made the changes earlier we might have gone on to win - or maybe we wouldn't have lost the second or third...

Finally the referee, notwithstanding positive comments above was shocking.  I don't think overly bias (although he probably merited the 'hun with a whistle' ditty), but he made some shocking decisions.  It was a foul the other way for the free-kick that led to their third.  Chopping off the second goal for the Thomson tackle was bizarre.  He seemed to have a very good view of it, let the play go on and then gave the foul when the ball hit the back of the net.  Yes we got there in the end with VAR, but if he genuinely thought it was a foul then he needs to blow it there and then.  If he wasn't sure then surely he gives the goal and then lets VAR say otherwise?  Then he gives (thankfully) one of the softest penalties I have seen with my own eyes (bar v the old firm) and VAR has to go with it.  I'd be fuming if I was a Killie fan.

Good game of football then topped off with some needless violence on the walk back to the car.