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  1. Thorfinn
    Take a look back over this thread to see who threw the first barb.
  2. Thorfinn
    Ah. Did someone come along and upset your forum, where you are comfortable with your friends? Where your opinions are the only ones that matter? That’s a shame. So you call for reinforcements to agree with you against the newcomer. Let’s all gang up on him for entering your world.
  3. Thorfinn
    "Utter melt". Oooh, you know how to hurt. You jumped into the discussion I was having with young Ms Yenitit. It sounded quite argumentative. Your intentions would have been clearer if you had added information to support her point of view, of course. Instead of just throwing meaningless insults. But if that wasn't you arguing, then I apologise.
  4. Thorfinn
    The fact you keep replying, with ever-reducing charm, would suggest otherwise. Losing an argument so badly hurts, doesn't it. It will be even more embarrassing to have done it on a public forum. But you can learn from this. It will make you a better person in the long run.
  5. Thorfinn
    Eloquently put. A recourse to insult is always an argument-winner. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
  6. Thorfinn
    I'm sorry, I'm going to have to challenge your premise. I don't want to sound ageist, but must insist that first-hand experience counts for something here. If you only started going to games in the past decade, or so, how can you possibly judge the merit of a team that played in the 1990s?
  7. Thorfinn
    I'm not quite understanding your garbled sentences. When you say "it was a very easy cup draw", which cup win are you referring to? And "Not exactly constitutes a good side"? I'm afraid you'll have to further explain that. You won't have seen either of the teams I'm talking about. The 1994 team was, I assure you, a reasonably good side. They played some entertaining stuff. You look to be in your 20s, perhaps? So you'll only have started following football in the 2010s, I imagine? I know you'll have read the stats and perhaps watched some of the highlights on YouTube, but that doesn't tell the full story.
  8. Thorfinn
    Aye, fair enough, it isn't exactly a miracle turnaround. I concede that. Perhaps, on reflection, describing him as "good" was a stretch. An improvement on the previous manager is perhaps more accurate. His team fought very well on Saturday. They looked like a team that was pulling together and had found a little bit of belief, especially at the final whistle. Perhaps they can carry that into their next game? I now wouldn't be overly surprised if they beat St Johnstone at Dens (if it is at Dens) and win another couple of games in the bottom six. That might be enough to get them into the play-off position. Small margins, I grant you.
  9. Thorfinn
    And . . . young people often don't have a good grasp of history, or they don't bother doing their research properly. But don't take it personally, just do a bit of reading before pressing "Submit Reply".
  10. Thorfinn
    United have won the Scottish Cup twice since the end of the 1980s. You look quite young (judging from your profile photo) but surely you knew that?
  11. Thorfinn
    "Patter"? You know, we all know, that a sarcastic, or clever (or even appearing to be clever) comment rebutting criticism gathers quite a bit of power in the Scottish football goldfish bowl. That "Raging" quip from Mulgrew will become a meme to be trotted out by United, and probably all other clubs', supporters as a stick to beat McGhee with in the future. Juvenile? Unwarranted? Possibly. But true. There will be very few people seeing the McGhee interview followed by the Mulgrew quip who won't think Mulgrew won the exchange. The diplomatic way to conduct yourself in interviews is to not show a chink in the armour that allows such jibes to hit. The managers are offered media training that preaches diplomatic language and should warn them against this. It makes for anodyne interviews, but protects them. Mark McGhee isn't by nature a diplomatic man. I don't think he is a bad manager, though. I think he would have kept Dundee up if he'd been given a whole season in which to do so.
  12. Thorfinn
    Can't argue with that. Though I think your adjective is too kind. I imagine that any Dundee supporter seeing him running on to that ball must have just relaxed. No problem here.
  13. Thorfinn
    You're going to have to give that comment some context if you're expecting me, or anyone, to understand it. Pal.
  14. Thorfinn
    So your conclusion is that Dundee being consistently rubbish is actually a strength, and United fans should feel really bad about supporting the better team? Psychologically very clever. There will be, then, plans for Dundee to get even worse to consolidate this position? Again, fiendishly clever stuff. And the players are doing it so well. Oh, if only United could be as bad as Dundee! That's clearly been our downfall over the past 50 years.
  15. Thorfinn
    That’s perhaps because every team knows they will get a lot of free shots on goal at Dens! Seriously, though, that sort of exercise is very much not in the pro licence coaching badges that are pushed at Largs. I’m not claiming that to be a good or bad thing. And I am certainly not saying that the Largs-type coaching manual is the only way to go, or even that it deserves respect. The oft-heard criticism is that coaches are made into robots. Each to his own beliefs on that one. The criticisms of that manner of shooting practice are, I believe, that there is too much “down time” for the players waiting in the queue to take their shots; and the instances of players being allowed an unchallenged one-two then a shot on goal are rare in professional football. So it isn’t a true in-game scenario, and concentration is allowed to dip in the wait time. Shooting practice is done in weekday training. But pre-game exercises are (supposed to be) all about sharpness, getting warmth in the muscles, getting into the quick-thinking mode that players need to be in for a game. They don’t work on skills, they do physical and mental prep. Or so I believe. Contradict me if you think I’m wrong. Indeed, it is a discussion that possibly deserves a thread of its own. I don’t hold an A Licence, though I have read the lit. and watched the process taking place.
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