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Glass is an odd one. He's contributed when he's played this season, but has once again completely dropped off the radar and there's been no injuries mentioned. It seems a loss in faith/confidence has been a recurring trend under previous managers, both for us and wherever he's been out on loan. I think it's time to let him move on. As for Meekison and Mochrie, I'd be inclined to give them both a bit longer, probably another year to try break through. Mochrie has had glowing reports from his loan spells but has never managed to replicate that sort of form for us. Meekison has flashes where he looks really impressive, but they're always fairly brief and insubstantial. It's hard to ignore the fact that even allowing for some rotten luck with injuries, Meekison's best run of form for us came way back in the final weeks of Mickey Mellon's tenure.

That's if the games can be played as Dundee have stopped Dens turning into a swamp at the first a bit of drizzle. Big if.

Miller Thompson aside, we were total dugshite tonight.

I'm fairly sure that McNamara didn't have the sell-on bonus at the point. That came with the contract extension he signed around March/April 2014 no?

There was a line that McNamara frequently used in interviews ahead of matches, particularly during the 2013/14 season, that has always stuck with me. He used to say words to the effect of: 'We don't worry about what the opposition are going to do; we're going to go out there and play our game.' At the time you could write that off as a soundbite intended to demonstrate his confidence in the team, especially in the promising talent. However, in hindsight I heavily suspect that really was as complicated as McNamara's tactics or gameplan actually was. You never got the sense that we had done the homework on combatting opposition teams that the likes of Derek McInnes and, most obviously, Tommy Wright did to us. Whether to put it down more to hubris or laziness on his part is what I'm less sure on. McNamara still deserves credit for recognising Robertson's potential, making the effort to convince him to sign for us and then trusting him with the left-back spot from the get-go. It's probably been forgettin by most, but we had Graham Carey on trial with us during the 2013/2014 pre-season with an eye on him playing left-back instead. McNamara saw enough in even a handful of friendlies to pass on the safer option in the experience Carey would have brought to stick with Robertson instead. Given the amazing success Robertson's had in his career since us that seems like an easy and obvious choice now. At the time though that was ballsy move by McNamara, one that I really doubt his predecessor would have made.

Maybe I'm being too generous, but Jordie Briels wasn't too bad as far as I remember. My memory is that the problem with him was he was permanently injured.

I'm not a huge fan of Tilson either, but in fairness to him I thought he put in his best performance for us yet by far on his last start up at Inverness. Granted it was a night where no-one else in our team was close to their best, but Tilson made at least a couple of crucial interventions to keep us from falling behind. Hopefully we get that version of him again tomorrow.

The memory of Brown turning up at Hampden only a few days after this was taken and absolutely strolling it in the League Cup final against us does somewhat taint any amusement I might take from that photo sadly.

Nicky Clark as well. On the odd occasion Mellon wasn't shoe-horning all three strikers into the starting line-up, it was nearly always Clark who dropped to the bench to make way for McNulty.

It's perhaps taken him slightly longer than I expected, but it seems he's on his way now...

Tbf, that's not saying much. You'll give away a penalty at Ibrox if you so much as step on a Sevco player's shadow in the penalty box.

Aye, even accounting for the deflection on the cross Ridgers seemed to take an age to go down for a cross that was well within his reach and there wasn't too much pace on it. Also, another reason to be grateful for no VAR in the championship late there...

Never in doubt...

Quite a big if.

I've noticed quite a few pitches like that this season when we've been playing...