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13 hours ago, Accent-Unknown said:
Loads of players out of contract:
- David Wotherspoon
- Louis Moult (apparently triggered an extension but nothing has been confirmed)
- Craig Sibbald (again triggered an extension but also again, nothing official yet)
- Kevin Holt
- Scott McMann
- Jack Walton (loan ends, also out of contract with Luton Town)
- Archie Meekison
- Ross Graham
- Declan Glass
- Sam McClelland (loan ends, loads of United fans want him in but I doubt St. Johnstone will let him go at an affordable price)
- Chris Mochrie
- Matthew Anim Cudjoe
- Sadat Anaku
- Alex Greive (loan ends, and may I never see him again. Shit Simon Murray)
- Jordan Tillson (loan ends, for some reason isn't listed at all on transfermarkt. not as bad as some United fans think he is but still not that good.)
So for next season we've got:
- Declan Gallagher
- Tony Watt
- Ross Docherty
- Liam Grimshaw
- Glenn Middleton
- Jack Newman
- Kai Fotheringham
If I've missed anyone it's because transfermarkt have missed them. A load of decisions to make for Goodwin in the next few months.
I hope to f**k there’s a name missing from the GTF list.
You know the fellow - hat with corks hanging from it, fragile wrists resembling a South-Asian crispy fried appetiser, perennially embarrassed look upon his face…?
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3 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said:
Happy for Chris Mochrie getting the decisive goal yesterday in a match which didn't like up to expectations, and good to see Archie Meekison rush on to the pitch at the end to congratulate him. Nonetheless, I can't see many opportunities for the pair next season at Tannadice, but hope I'm wrong.
Big changes on the way, I suspect.
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.
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2 hours ago, STFU_Donny said:
Your first point is correct but the ref doesn’t blow the whistle until the potential penalty - that’s why there’s so much confusion.
Just catching up with this now.
f**k me, that is one of the biggest stonewall penalties I have ever seen. And it’s never, ever a foul in the build up. I don’t think the ref even knows what he’s given the free kick for. He just panics because he doesn’t want to give the penalty.
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Chuffed with that, but can’t bring myself to be delighted, because it still feels like a situation we should never have got ourselves into in the first place.
Fair fucks to Raith, they chased us a lot longer & harder than I expected them to do. To match our first half of the season was particularly impressive.Still not 100% convinced by Goodwin, and a few of the younger lads we seemed to have big hopes for haven’t really done enough to suggest they’ll do a job in the top flight.
The hard work starts now - a lot of ins & outs to come before next season hopefully.
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2 hours ago, Girth said:
What minute we all saying for Rangers penalty bingo?
27th, 74th and 115th (if required) please.
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24 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
Ok, so are you still sticking by your assertion that it's an impossibility that there is anyone connected with Dens Park who has a background and qualifications in Civil Engineering, or that the club themselves have had the matter looked into by appropriately qualified people, or that perhaps they have had dialogue with the responsible local government department and perhaps Scottish Water?
Are the photographs showing previous, catastrophic failures of the local infrastructure to deal with excess water simply photoshop jobs by random members of the Dundee fanbase?
No, of course it’s not impossible. And remember, I wasn’t querying whether anyone at Dens was sufficiently qualified to make the case for antiquated sewerage or an underground water course being the cause of the your recent issues, rather I was doubting the expertise of your online fans who have subsequently presented these things as facts.
But if any of those things had been the case I think it might have been mentioned as a mitigating factor by the club by now. I suspect they might have raised it when approached for comment in tonight’s article on the Courier website, for example.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-fc/4945576/dundee-fc-dens-park-pitch-problems/
spoiler alert:
SpoilerThey didn’t. There’s f**k all wrong with the local drains & sewers. Your park’s a shit tip and your owners (perhaps understandably, if the plan is to move elsewhere. Eventually.) just don’t want to spend any money on it.
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7 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
To quote @RandomGuy. from a previous thread - "Do you understand how hills work?"
Hills “work” in any number of ways. If you’re talking about water running down them (which, if you want to be pedantic about things is probably more about how water “works” tbh) then, yes, I’d like to think I’ve a decent grasp of the basics. But it doesn’t make me Joseph fucking Bazalgette.
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3 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
What bit about the fact Tannadice isn't next to Dens Road are you disputing precisely?
The point I’m making there is that I have no fucking idea about the sewers, drains etc in that part of town, or indeed any other part of town. And I’m afraid I have a hard time believing that you or any of the other Dundee fans who are suddenly “experts” on the topic do either.
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2 hours ago, Boo Khaki said:
Well that's not really all that much of a surprise, considering water from the Tannadice pitch does not drain on to Dens Road.
All this pish about sewers, drains, burns etc that has become “fact”since somebody speculatively mentioned it in the build up to your match on Saturday…
If it was true do you not think it might have been a problem before now?
If it was true do you not think somebody from your club might have mentioned it by now given they’re now onto (checks notes) climate change as an excuse? Extremely localised climate change that doesn’t affect any other ground in Scotland obviously. I think they might have gone for the blocked drains first if that were in any way true.
So far this season Dundee and their fans have blamed referees (are we still demanding the sacking of the guy who called off the Aberdeen game?), their groundstaff, the drains, the council, house building 20 yrs ago, climate change and f**k knows what else for games being called off. And yet I’ve never seen any Dundee fan on here mention chronic underinvestment in their facilities as a factor.
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6 minutes ago, Shadow Play said:
Just read their statement. I think Rangers missed an opportunity to update us all on how many of their fans they have identified and banned as a result of the pyros last time they were at Dens. After all, professionalism appears to important to Rangers.
I think recent events have put an entirely different spin on those pyros though - maybe they were being used genuinely to signal for help by people stuck in the quagmire in the middle of the pitch, being slowly dragged under to their doom?
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5 hours ago, gannonball said:
I don't think we're too far off tuning in one day and Michael Stewart is arguing with himself.
He’s pretty much done it already. I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but a couple of weeks ago he spent 10 minutes arguing that by going for a manager from the English Championship / League 1 level Aberdeen would be showing a massive lack of ambition.
He then immediately pivoted to shouting loudly that managers at English Championship / League One level were way out of Aberdeen’s league and they couldn’t possibly hope to appoint someone like that.
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1 hour ago, Swello said:
Imagine there is a similar incident in the OF game - the SFA wouldn't dream of giving that answer.
And I can’t imagine it would get a cursory 20 secs of analysis as the very final item on Sportscene either.
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3 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
If David Dickinson has said our pitch is the Real Deal then no one can have any complaints, surely?
I think he’s definitely noticed that your pitch maintenance regime is cheap as chips…
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1 minute ago, Casagolda said:
I mean, that looks fucking horrendous.
Yep. And the pitch isn’t much better.
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1 hour ago, Theyellowbox said:
Don't know if it would be a factor in the compromise for Dundee, but having to move the game to your city rivals is probably bad enough, but if the arguments previously were the localised weather, moving it a couple of hundred yards up the road undermines that argument and spfl would level (rightly) the argument that Dundee haven't invested enough on the pitch. Moving the game(s) to Perth would at least given them the 'out' that Dundee has had worse weather.
FWIW, I think both games will be at the Scot foam.
If it does go ahead at Tannadice though they wouldn’t even have to renege on all the hospitality packages they’ve doubtless sold - they could just break the Dr Noodles suite into its 3 constituent panels and have it across the road in 10 minutes. We could even dump an old bed on top of our catering outlets if it helped seal the deal…
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1 hour ago, A Diamond For Me said:
What annoys me, though, is the arms-race of Remembrance Day commemorations. It used to be that a single silence was enough. That was sufficient, that was respectful enough. Now we need to have that (at least once) and a wreath on the pitch and a poppy printed on the shirts and tributes in the programme, for those clubs that still produce a programme. We never used to need all this extra stuff, nobody ever thougt that the simple silence was disprespectful and insufficient, but now if a club was to row back from what they must all do now, and go back to what everyone considered respectful enough ten or fifteen years ago, there'd be grumbling and huffing about it.David Squires, the football cartoonist in the Guardian, has had a few crackers on this very subject over the years:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2016/nov/08/david-squires-football-poppy-fury-season
https://www.theguardian.com/football/cartoon/2014/nov/13/david-squires-footballers-wearing-poppies
And of course who can forget Gunnersaurus’s solemn tribute to the fallen?
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11 hours ago, Thistle Bonnet said:
I couldn't face listening to a full interview with the tedious Philippe Clement on my drive to Firhill this afternoon particularly as it was to be followed by the insights of Kenny Miller so I switched to Radio 5. I got back to the car just after 5pm to hear the insights of Kenny Miller followed by another interview with the tedious Clement...so I turned to Radio 5 without knowing any of the other scores just in time to hear their full review of all SPFL results including a mention of Falkirk winning their League. Fortunately I turned back to Sportsound just in time to hear Sidney Devine
Kenny Miller instantly just sucks the intelligence out of any room he’s in.
I managed to listen to the games but turned off pretty quickly when it came to the now weekly “Michael Stewart gets really angry, shouts a lot and refuses to let anyone else finish a sentence, whilst contradicting himself every second sentence” segment, this week focussed on the Aberdeen manager’s job.
He seemed to be really (hopefully performatively) angry that nobody was putting forward any names from Scottish football before revealing that Lennon, Ross and MacKay were the best names he could come up with.
He then proceeded to question the ambition of appointing a manager of English League One / Championship standard, before revealing that such managers were way out of Aberdeen’s league. Which would surely suggest that trying to appoint such a candidate would be extremely ambitious…?
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4 hours ago, TxRover said:
When you put out a news release about something, that’s a fair statement, no?
Ummm. No. Or there would literally never be official news releases about bad things.
SpoilerUnless you think Baltimore Police Dept are boasting about that bridge collapse in their regular news releases for example?
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6 minutes ago, Moorie said:
Not that I thought it would be but rule Mciness out currently on the Sportsound studio.
unless they are going to do a higher power and Mciness will reveal its was him all along like Vince McMahon did
Hopefully that’s where the Vince McMahon similarities would end…
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7 minutes ago, sophia said:
I wouldn't be too sure about that. What you seem to forget is that he mentioned budget in every pre match interview and that would definitely be the difference
Absolutely. I’m sure that an additional £20million on his budget would have allowed him to put a player on the halfway line at corners for.
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23 minutes ago, kdyteejay said:
Don’t forget Brechin or Berwick
That might be closer to the truth sadly…
SpoilerAlthough one of the guys who invests in Brechin sold a software company for circa £100mill (apparently), is a United fan, and was previously linked with taking us over. So you never know.
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2 hours ago, Gibby82 said:
Yep. Flashing our knickers to become a feeder club for Brentford is surely beneath one of the great names of European football.
Eh? When I read about the link up I’d just assumed they were going to be the feeder???
3 hours ago, Steven W said:Also, and whilst I'm far from sold on Goodwin, does last night put paid to the "Can't win the big games" stuff that gets trotted out in certain quarters?
The only reason that a midweek match against Morton in March* is in any way a big game is precisely because we’ve made a complete arse of several other “big” matches lately. If we’d gone about our business in a remotely competent way in recent weeks we could have lost last night and not batted an eyelid. We were bound to win one sooner or later.
(*may not be a big game but it is pleasantly alliterative)
2 hours ago, Dundee Hibernian said:Think Matthew Benham is in the process of selling his controlling interest in Brentford, and has done so with Midtjylland, therefore I'm hopeful he is looking to take on a new challenge.
If he is looking to offload Brentford it could be that he’s taken them as far as he thinks he can and selling them now will give him the maximum return on his investment. Maybe he sees United where we are (hopefully at a pretty low ebb) and realises that he could improve us fairly drastically then try to sell us for a profit if/when we’re in a better place. We always laugh at guys who think they can make a profit from football, but this guy seems to have a pretty good track record at it.
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4 hours ago, Ray Patterson said:
FTFY.
I think if we go up, and that's a big if, then he's probably earned himself a go at the Premiership with us.The more immediate issue with Goodwin is that he's a bottler in the games that matter, it was the same with Aberdeen (Darvel, Hibs etc.), and in three games against Raith this season. I don't know how he can fix it, as it seems more a mentality issue than a tactical one.
It should be said though, that most seasons having 52 points after 26 games would have you at least 5 clear of the second placed side - QP were four clear with 47 points at the same point last season, so Raith deserve a lot of credit.
We’ve had several opportunities to put ourselves well clear of Raith since Christmas and blown them. This weekend being a prime example.
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That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me tonight. All season we’ve kind of squeaked along, doing just enough to be acceptable. Cup results were embarrassing but we were never going to win them anyway and it was hard to be too critical when we were unbeaten and only being matched by a Raith side that were punching well above their weight.
That hasn’t been the case since Christmas, when Raith went on the kind of run we suspected they might but we have singularly failed to take advantage. And I’ve seen nothing under Goodwin, starting last season with 5 straight defeats post split, continuing up to the 2 games vs Raith and now this that suggests he’ll come up with results when it really matters during the run in.
Off you f**k, Jim.
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What's the most "Tin Pot" thing you've seen in the SPFL
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Surely Rangers & Celtic demand this treatment at Hampden?