Pull My Strings

Tbf, Wato was a player. Big, strong, good technique. You could see why he'd been at a top academy. Shame he was an absolute bell-end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wato_Kuaté Seems to be a recurring theme: goes on trial and shows up well. Gets a contract, immediately falls out with the club and gets released early. Rinse and repeat. United did well to only give him a couple of months. Still just 28 and at a club which doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

Yeah, that suggestion always seemed a bit odd to me. Luton paid a fee for him only 18 months ago and then sent him out on loan last summer. Obviously the English leagues are awash with cash but that seem feckless even by their standards.

Not for me. He's clearly still a good player but not good enough to justify keeping a guy who is constantly injured.

Not sure that makes you a particular authority on the topic, we also finished fourth two years ago.

I don’t think we need to reference that man anymore. Please.

I'd say taking two Academy players from nothing to first team regulars over the course of one season, whilst having to keep a championship winning team going is pretty impressive. Add to that Graham's re-emergence and Mochrie's match winning contributions from the bench and there's four guys who have played a significant role. Then there's Cudjoe and Glass who both made an impact, albeit for a shorter period and who now seemed to have slipped out of the picture. Meekison would surely have got more games but for injury. Seems rather churlish to look at all that and say the young guys haven't made an impression.

Jesus wept.

Most adults would be happy to call that 100%.

I think we've covered this, wee man.

For everyone other than the most pedantic 12 year old child, it is.

Ffs. It's 100% guaranteed.

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu.

Jesus Christ, no. And I agree entirely, just an observation that tactical brutality is less of an issue when there's some dweeb watching on the telly and looking to pick fault with every second challenge. If folk are getting sent off for relatively innocuous mistimed tackles, there's less scope to deliberately elbow a guy in the head or stamp on someone on the ground.

Yeah, the standard of refereeing in the Premiership is also gash, no argument there, but I think you're less likely to get away with all the fly, dirty stuff that goes on in the lower divisions because it'll be caught by VAR.

Just watched them back. First is a good jump and header from Oakley, second Holt gets in front of Oakley but then misses his header. Nothing to do with Holt losing a physical battle in either of those. United certainly struggled to cope with Oakley that day, partly because Oakley is just a big strong laddie and partly because the referee was being a bit lax in pulling him up on the dirty side of the game, but I don't think Holt stood out as struggling any more than anyone else.