Im hoping that kick in the balls they got last week knocks the stuffing out of them tbh, also the guy John Jules went off with an injury that I dont see him recovering in time from.

AMB
Strain sevelj Graham ferry
Camara Stephenson sibbald
Dolcek sapsford Fatah

Goodwin pre match comments

"Jim Goodwin has warned that the condition of the pitch at Tannadice could change the style of football Dundee United play against Kilmarnock.

Heavy rainfall in recent weeks has forced the postponement of two games and left the playing surface in poor condition.

The team were able to play their Scottish Cup tie against Spartans in midweek, though the damage to the grass was visible, and with the Premiership match on Saturday and another against Aberdeen on Tuesday, there's no time for it to recover.

That will affect United's approach, Goodwin admitted.

"The pitch is not ideal and plenty has been made of that," the United manager said.

"But we have to find solutions in terms of potentially changing up how we want to play a little bit.

"You saw on Wednesday with some of the passes that were played into midfield, it's difficult for the players to control.

"We might have to change our approach slightly, play a little bit more percentage football and take that risk element out of it."

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I'm puzzled, is he signalling that we're going to play hoofball to Watters?Because the pitch didn't stop Spartans playing football through midfield?
How do you guys interpret those comments?

Last edited by redford_must_score (20/2/2026 6:51 pm)

redford_must_score wrote:

Goodwin pre match comments

"Jim Goodwin has warned that the condition of the pitch at Tannadice could change the style of football Dundee United play against Kilmarnock.

Heavy rainfall in recent weeks has forced the postponement of two games and left the playing surface in poor condition.

The team were able to play their Scottish Cup tie against Spartans in midweek, though the damage to the grass was visible, and with the Premiership match on Saturday and another against Aberdeen on Tuesday, there's no time for it to recover.

That will affect United's approach, Goodwin admitted.

"The pitch is not ideal and plenty has been made of that," the United manager said.

"But we have to find solutions in terms of potentially changing up how we want to play a little bit.

"You saw on Wednesday with some of the passes that were played into midfield, it's difficult for the players to control.

"We might have to change our approach slightly, play a little bit more percentage football and take that risk element out of it."

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I'm puzzled, is he signalling that we're going to play hoofball to Watters?Because the pitch didn't stop Spartans playing football through midfield?
How do you guys interpret those comments?

 
Sounds like hoofball to me. We resorted to it on Tuesday night but I think thats because we were already down a man and we couldn't risk getting caught out at the back again or we might have been down to 9. With Beaton the ref on Saturday anything is possible.

AMB

Iovu
Graham
Kerestzes

Naamo
Camara
Sibbald
Ferry

Ferrugia
Sapsford
Fatah

KK, Naamo, Ferrugia and Sapsford in i think will the changes today due to the heavier schedule of games.

Stirton injured?

Tek wrote:

nicolalove wrote:

Stirton injured?

Must be.

Our striking options laid bare.
 

 
Unfortunately it may well just be a reflection on how bad he was on Tuesday

Stillliving wrote:

Tek wrote:

nicolalove wrote:

Stirton injured?

Must be.

Our striking options laid bare.
 

 
Unfortunately it may well just be a reflection on how bad he was on Tuesday

 
Wasn't worse than Watters though.

Last edited by nicolalove (21/2/2026 2:16 pm)

You have to wonder if we'll get manage to get Tuesday on after 90+ minutes of tearing this up even more.

Pish penalty from Fatah.

Thought it was an okay half. Fatah looking pretty bright until we missed the pen.

Really hoping Sibbs coming off was a precaution.

Watters so pish I almost miss Moller.

Our penalty takers are fucking shite