The Dundee United Thread 22/23

[Mark Connolly]

4 minutes ago, Junior_Arab said:

When’s the draw anyway? 

Tomorrow after the last qf

7 minutes ago, mishtergrolsch said:

We're nailed on to get Killie, aren't we?

If they beat St Mirren, we will. If St Mirren win, we'll get Hibs, as it seems this season, St Johnstone have been tasked with noising up the Maureens at every opportunity.

[Pull My Strings]

39 minutes ago, Chewing Taffies said:

^^^ Absolutely bricking it.

Quite sad really. It's never occurred to me to worry about the Fun winning a major trophy. And I suspect it never will. 

[Mvondo_the_great]

2 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:

 

Quite sad really. It's never occurred to me to worry about the Fun winning a major trophy. And I suspect it never will. 

2086 is the dees year. 

[Loemba90]

17 minutes ago, Pull My Strings said:

^^^ Absolutely bricking it.

Quite sad really. It's never occurred to me to worry about the Fun winning a major trophy. And I suspect it never will. 

They have reached one cup final in my lifetime. Two in my dad’s lifetime (he’s now in his 60’s).  Needless to say they’ve not won one in either of our lifetimes.

 

I think my great, great granddad may have been at primary school when they lifted the trophy.

[mishtergrolsch]

7 hours ago, Loemba90 said:

They have reached one cup final in my lifetime. Two in my dad’s lifetime (he’s now in his 60’s).  Needless to say they’ve not won one in either of our lifetimes.

 

I think my great, great granddad may have been at primary school when they lifted the trophy.

And spent about £20 million to lose the game.

 

8 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

Tomorrow after the last qf

If they beat St Mirren, we will. If St Mirren win, we'll get Hibs, as it seems this season, St Johnstone have been tasked with noising up the Maureens at every opportunity.

Thats exactly what i thought too. And Hibs will pump us. Id rather the Fermers out of anyone in the semi so we can't do a 2016 if we get to the final.

[hk blues]

7 hours ago, Loemba90 said:

They have reached one cup final in my lifetime. Two in my dad’s lifetime (he’s now in his 60’s).  Needless to say they’ve not won one in either of our lifetimes.

 

I think my great, great granddad may have been at primary school when they lifted the trophy.

Wrong.  

[Big Shedboy]

Who do we want in the semis? I'm not sure it matters. Play like yesterday and we'd likely beat any of the others. Play like a lot of the season until yesterday and we'd struggle against everyone. 

I'd love to put St Johnstone out or beat them in the final. Smug p***ks.

[ArabianKnight]

Massive massive chance to get into either the group stages of europa league or the new conference thingy. 

 

Just the small matter of making it through the semi final, final and then the play off match

[Junior_Arab]

31 minutes ago, ArabianKnight said:

Massive massive chance to get into either the group stages of europa league or the new conference thingy. 

 

Just the small matter of making it through the semi final, final and then the play off match

It’s almost TOO easy...

[ArabFC]

1 hour ago, ArabianKnight said:

Massive massive chance to get into either the group stages of europa league or the new conference thingy. 

 

Just the small matter of making it through the semi final, final and then the play off match

Some European fitba? Inject it into my goddamn veins! 

[dundeeunited83]

That third united goal yesterday was a thing of beauty! 
 

immense performance from absolutely Abdy 

[Mvondo_the_great]

Highlights anywhere? 

[Dundee Hibernian]

12 minutes ago, Mvondo_the_great said:

Highlights anywhere? 

Whole game

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000vn14/sportscene-202021-scottish-cup-quarter-final-aberdeen-v-dundee-united

Highlights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56789587

 

Good to see the win has heightened the mood. Up til 2:30pm yesterday it seemed Mellon didn't have a clue and was going to Doncaster anyway, Asghar was the devil, his son would be next manager, McNulty was a nonentity and Harkes lacked any talent.

Hope we continue on a similar track to yesterday's performance, but we probably know that inconsistency has been the biggest issue this season.

 

[ArabianKnight]

6 minutes ago, Dundee Hibernian said:

Whole game

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000vn14/sportscene-202021-scottish-cup-quarter-final-aberdeen-v-dundee-united

Highlights

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56789587

 

Good to see the win has heightened the mood. Up til 2:30pm yesterday it seemed Mellon didn't have a clue and was going to Doncaster anyway, Asghar was the devil, his son would be next manager, McNulty was a nonentity and Harkes lacked any talent.

Hope we continue on a similar track to yesterday's performance, but we probably know that inconsistency has been the biggest issue this season.

 

As long as we line up the good games with the cup games ahead I don't care. 

Maybe worth pondering. Will Mellon decide to give more game time to youngsters in the remaining league games to keep the more experienced players fresh for the Cup? 

[Dundee Hibernian]

16 minutes ago, ArabianKnight said:

Will Mellon decide to give more game time to youngsters in the remaining league games to keep the more experienced players fresh for the Cup? 

I hope so.

[Aladdin]

As long as we line up the good games with the cup games ahead I don't care. 
Maybe worth pondering. Will Mellon decide to give more game time to youngsters in the remaining league games to keep the more experienced players fresh for the Cup? 

I would hope we wrap the first team in cotton wool and give some of the younger ones a run out.

[kdyteejay]

3 hours ago, ArabianKnight said:

Massive massive chance to get into either the group stages of europa league or the new conference thingy. 

 

Just the small matter of making it through the semi final, final and then the play off match

That’s massive right enough. 

[kdyteejay]

1 hour ago, ArabianKnight said:

As long as we line up the good games with the cup games ahead I don't care. 

Maybe worth pondering. Will Mellon decide to give more game time to youngsters in the remaining league games to keep the more experienced players fresh for the Cup? 

Hopefully he does.

[ArabFC]

1 hour ago, Dundee Hibernian said:

I hope so.

I hope not.

The players don't need a two week break!

We're playing Ross County next weekend and the semi is the weekend after that.

If there was a game midweek prior, fair enough, but there isn't.

[Granny Danger]

1 hour ago, ArabianKnight said:

As long as we line up the good games with the cup games ahead I don't care. 

Maybe worth pondering. Will Mellon decide to give more game time to youngsters in the remaining league games to keep the more experienced players fresh for the Cup? 

Until yesterday there were many of us who:

a) thought playing Shankland, McNulty and Clark together was chronic, and;

b) thought Harkes was a very poor player.

These views were reasonable based on evidence from previous games.

We had an exceptional display yesterday that showed the three strikers could work and that Harkes can play very well.  I’m happy to go with this into the coming cup game(s) if that’s what Mellon thinks and do whatever he wants in the league regardless.