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14 minutes ago, Sortmeout said:
Speaking as someone who has experienced this recently with their own club I can say there is a huge gap between those final positions.
Not sure that makes you a particular authority on the topic, we also finished fourth two years ago.
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I don’t think we need to reference that man anymore.
Please.
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5 hours ago, Junior_Arab said:
I think there are a lot of young guys who haven’t really done much to enhance their reputations this season. One of the only silver linings of being relegated was that I thought it might result in guys like Mochrie, Meekison, McLeod, Cudjoe etc establishing themselves as first team players - it could have been the making of them, but very few of them really managed to make much of an impression. Fotheringham certainly, Graham (if he hadn’t already) and Cudjoe in fits and starts have probably shown they are of the standard required but the rest haven’t done themselves any big favours.
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.
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1 minute ago, No_Problemo said:
You can just admit you don’t understand what 100% means tbh.
Jesus wept.
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Just now, No_Problemo said:
99.999999999% for me…
Most adults would be happy to call that 100%.
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Just now, No_Problemo said:
It literally factually isn’t a 100% certainty.
I think we've covered this, wee man.
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15 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
Well, except that it isn’t.
For everyone other than the most pedantic 12 year old child, it is.
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2 hours ago, ryanayr1987 said:
I know but surely you wait till it’s 100% guaranteed? Or are you going to invade the pitch every game until it’s actually happened?
Eta- Arbroath and Greenock nothing to play for…
Ffs. It's 100% guaranteed.
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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu.
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1 hour ago, Der Panzer said:
Do I detect someone pining for VAR…
I don’t disagree things get picked up but tbh - I just don’t see that as a positive. Every minor infringement is becoming a penalty as we drift listlessly towards a no contact sport imo.
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.
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42 minutes ago, Der Panzer said:
Cheers guys - I think if I was an Arab I’d be worried about him there - and I think your brief sabbatical has perhaps skewed your perception of the standard of refereeing in the top flight.
We have Curtis Main for example who just slowly ambles about bullying defenders relatively unchecked
I’ve seen bits of the young lad Graham and he looks to have a decent future - be interesting to see how he copes with the step up. I’m assuming Declan Gallagher is your other CH? Also a player I liked at Dens - how’s his legs holding up?
I’d imagine he’ll be like Joe Shaughnessy for us - wins everything in the air but perhaps legs gone a little and a wee mistake in him?
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.
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48 minutes ago, WhatDayIsIt said:
Nope. Go back and watch the three goals, especially the second and the third. Holt was completely outmuscled by him
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.
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16 minutes ago, WhatDayIsIt said:
He had a good first half of the season, he is brilliant at reading the game. If he was struggling with physicality previously that hasn't improved, George Oakley ripped him apart at Tannadice a few months ago
Nah, it was Graham who was battered by Oakley that day and, tbf, you wouldn't get away with half that shit in the premiership.
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18 minutes ago, Der Panzer said:
Do you reckon Kevin Holt is top flight standard? Especially now he plays centre half?
Genuine question - really liked him at Dens but that was at left back and often thought he struggled with top flight physicality.
He's been excellent this season and very reliable. It's a step up but I think he'd do okay for another year. I'd have Holt and Graham as the two competing for the left sided centre half slot and would expect Graham to cement that position eventually. He's a calm, solid presence.
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Let's say you need a squad of 20 plus scope for Academy guys to fill up the bench, if you keep the following: Thomson, Gallagher, Holt, Graham, McMann, Fotheringham, Docherty, Sibbald, Mochrie, Meekison, Watt, Moult, that gives you 12. You'd need to add two keepers, at least one right, centre half, another solid midfielder, and another three forwards/wingers. That's already a big job and a hefty turnover. If you don't keep a fair proportion of the guys I'd mentioned then you're quickly looking at 10, 12, 15 (whatever) new guys who have never played together before and hoping that they all work. That's a big ask and you're just giving away some decent partnerships which have worked well this season.
For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, this is a good championship team. It won't be a good premiership team but it might be the basis of a half decent premiership team which can be built on by bringing in better individuals and continuing to develop.
I've left out Middleton and Grimshaw from that squad. I wouldn't necessarily be chasing them away but I can't see Grimshaw ever being more than a stopgap now and Middleton, for all his obvious positive attributes, just doesn't seem to have the dig necessary to be relied upon.
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I'd expect both Mochrie and Meekison to be offered contracts along with McMann, Holt, Graham, and Moult. If we could convince Walton to stay too, then that would be great.
I appreciate the desire from some guys to want to make wholesale changes but I'm not convinced. Constantly replacing decent, known quantities, with lots of new players rarely works and more often than not leads to a team which is less than the sum of its parts. This team has got a bit of spirit and is solid enough to make a decent fist of the Premiership. It needs more quality but that should be building on top of what's there already and improving it rather than starting from scratch. Teams benefit from stability and that's what we should be looking to build on. Imo. Witness Livingston under Martingale, St Johnstone under Wright and Kilmarnock under McInnes for examples of what can be achieved by building incrementally, versus what United, Hibs and Aberdeen have done by constantly chopping and changing after every setback.
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19 minutes ago, KirkieRR said:
Overheard amongst Ranjurs board members in the expensive seats at Dens tonight
- Plastic Bertrand says the pitch is fine.
Ca aquaplane pour moi?
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54 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
From our win in 2018, you can’t beat a last day, trophy in a helicopter experience against Raith. Hearing Vaughn hits the post and then the final whistle goes, confirming you as champions.
So Aye, drop points this week and next and you can have a brilliant Friday night at the start of May. Something that will live with you forever.
Aye, it's tempting but on balance I think I'd prefer we just win it on Saturday. Feeling quite sanguine right now but I'll be less so if it goes to the last game. Thanks but no thanks.
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Looking forward to this. Ideally the pressure will be off after Friday night and we can enjoy the party without worrying about the result too much. I've never actually seen UNITED win the league. I was only 10 when we won the top flight and wasn't yet that into football. The 1996 the play off win was great but still, second placed. Technically we won the league during the covid season but I wasn't copied into those emails when the league was won.
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32 minutes ago, itzdrk said:
As a United fan, I disagree.
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11 minutes ago, Loemba90 said:
Are we opening the shed for Utd fans on Saturday then? ET is sold out, GF has about 300 left in bottom tier.
Surely could put the Ayr fans in Jerry Kerr - what will they have 250-300 max?Presumably there will be tickets already sold for the Shed to Ayr fans. More likely to release tickets to United fans in the Jerry Kerr, I would have thought.
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Rovers' twitter nonce now celebrating giving up on the title with three games left.
Apparently they never fancied winning the league anyway.
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8 hours ago, WhatDayIsIt said:
It wasn't a bad penalty, the keeper just dived the right way. Was the same penalty (albeit to the opposite side) that he did against Raith.
Most penalties would look shit if the keeper guesses right
No, it was a bad penalty. Previous week was further away from the centre, higher, with more power and to the less favoured side (right footer playing it to the keeper's left). Previous week wasn't a great penalty but was okay. Penalty against Queens was right next to the keeper, on expected side and no great power.
Louis' still a great asset to the team but it was a poor penalty.
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Nice to finish the season by tucking Morton up in bed. A team full of cheating cunts, led by an arsehole and followed by obnoxious morons. Scottish football: don't say we're not good to you.
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Not for me. He's clearly still a good player but not good enough to justify keeping a guy who is constantly injured.