Away from the Var shambles and the gross ineptitude/corruption of the referee and officials.

Thought we were 'okay' on the night and probably the better team over all. 

Ferry, Graham, Sevelj, Stephenson and Strain all very good. Good to see Sibbald back and thought he looked good in his cameo apart from mis-timing the bounce of the ball at the end to let Hibs in for their 3rd. Although he would normally have had a lot more United shirts behind him and his mistake wouldn't have been quite so punished.

Thought Campbell and Paton were again poor.

Campbell just too slow and playing too safe. A few times he was in good positions in and around their box and he never once gambled and took a man on to try and get in the box and shoot or set-up a goal. Just plays the safe sideways pass. Not worthy of a start, and looking a very disappointing signing, given the hype surrounding his capture.

Paton, unbelievably, actually seems a downgrade on VDS. Neither score, or even shoot and both are ridiculously one paced, but Jort's touch and link-up are easily superior. Didn't understand the signing of him to begin with, and didn't have much expectation, but by fuck he's probably if anything shocked me at just how totally ineffectual he's been. Cannot start on Sunday.

Not seeing anything in Fiorini either. Why has Babunski been bombed out quite so harshly? First minutes tonight since December. Is Fiorini superior to him? I'd doubt it.

All three of the January signings in fact seem to be making the team weaker and Goodwin has to stop stubbornly shoehorning them into the team at the expense of others if they are not producing. They should have to earn the jersey.

Doesn't feel like many positives to take from tonight to be totally honest.

We need to really hope Ferry and Stephenson recover by Sunday and we also need Louis Moult off the bloody treatment table and on the pitch.

We didn't deserve to lose that game.
Between Thier 1st and 2nd goals I don't recall them creating too many chances.
Graham & Gallagher played well, Stephenson & Dalby were decent as well.
Crucially though Hibs subbies all impacted the game and helped them get over the line. Our subbies did f##k all.

We are involved in a scramble for 6th place, Hibs , hearts & Aberdeen have better squads and will finish above us.
6th though would for me be a good achievement and not a reason to have a go at JG for not getting 3rd.

Same referee who missed our penalty in opening day Dundee derby, he gave the st Mirren penalty that Walton saved, was the referee who awarded Kilmarnocks goal a few weeks ago from Watkins, then last night his overall performance 

Something is going on with him, it’s a fucking disgrace.

Tek wrote:

Away from the Var shambles and the gross ineptitude/corruption of the referee and officials.

Thought we were 'okay' on the night and probably the better team over all. 

Ferry, Graham, Sevelj, Stephenson and Strain all very good. Good to see Sibbald back and thought he looked good in his cameo apart from mis-timing the bounce of the ball at the end to let Hibs in for their 3rd. Although he would normally have had a lot more United shirts behind him and his mistake wouldn't have been quite so punished.

Thought Campbell and Paton were again poor.

Campbell just too slow and playing too safe. A few times he was in good positions in and around their box and he never once gambled and took a man on to try and get in the box and shoot or set-up a goal. Just plays the safe sideways pass. Not worthy of a start, and looking a very disappointing signing, given the hype surrounding his capture.

Paton, unbelievably, actually seems a downgrade on VDS. Neither score, or even shoot and both are ridiculously one paced, but Jort's touch and link-up are easily superior. Didn't understand the signing of him to begin with, and didn't have much expectation, but by fuck he's probably if anything shocked me at just how totally ineffectual he's been. Cannot start on Sunday.

Not seeing anything in Fiorini either. Why has Babunski been bombed out quite so harshly? First minutes tonight since December. Is Fiorini superior to him? I'd doubt it.

All three of the January signings in fact seem to be making the team weaker and Goodwin has to stop stubbornly shoehorning them into the team at the expense of others if they are not producing. They should have to earn the jersey.

Doesn't feel like many positives to take from tonight to be totally honest.

We need to really hope Ferry and Stephenson recover by Sunday and we also need Louis Moult off the bloody treatment table and on the pitch.

 
Agreed on the January signings. I thought Campbell would be a great signing based on his reputation at Luton and the part he played in getting them promoted. But based on his first few games here, I’m inclined to agree more with the Charlton and Millwall fans that say he’s absolutely Tom Kite. I thought he’d be a hardy wee bastard snapping into tackles and winning the ball back, but he’s usually found standing 5 yards off his man and just bounces off them when he does go in for a challenge. Don’t see what he does at all and he’s a big downgrade on Docherty for me.

If Goodwin’s insistent on playing this 3-5-2 with no width, which is bizarre when you have a 6ft4 striker who thrives on getting on the end of crosses, then we should be playing Jort or even Moult ahead of Paton. I really can’t see what that Paton offers at all, does absolutely nothing to complement Dalby.

JerryDungle wrote:

We should be putting out a statement publicly stating we don’t want Dickinson refereeing United games due to a pattern of strange decisions he’s given against us.

We’ve gotten absolutely fuck all from refs and few very dodgy decisions given against us since the Walton incident against St. Mirren at Tannadice.

 
Agree. 2 games in quick succession we have lost because of terrible and blatant cheating.

We should be asking for last nights game to be replayed unless there is a clear reason for the disallowed goal other than ‘we made a mistake’.

SuperMario wrote:

Just seen the goal, I’m even more raging, it’s a tight offside call on Dalby because they can’t draw the lines they’ve fabricated it’s hits his arm, blatant blatant cheating

Goodwin has bottled it tonight he should have fucking crucified them on the radio

What i don't get is if the goal was such a definitive handball - we all know it wasn't- then why are they even bothering to draw a line that didnt work why waste your time on that.