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That is me finally at ht 

Off to OAM    

Same old sh1t, been dire for months, he will change it with 8 mins to go in attempt to save a point. Watkins up front is PYSH.

Atleast 25 minutes behind now   

Finally a striker is coming on yet hughes takes off what sounds like one of our best players tonight 

Right guys coming on, but would be interested to hear what system we're playing now? 4-4-2?

This is becoming a big concern, worst form in SPFL apart from relegation boys St midden,  yet yogi persists with Watkins up front yet again, when is he going to change the set up?   feckin awful Yogi, and don't give us the same old shyte in your interview please...

Edited April 8, 201511 yr by caley100

Who is our striker? Where does Yogi or anyone one think regular goals will come from? The current set up us not working.

Yup, the striker problem is affecting us, but so is the lack of ambition. What's to lose? United are even worse than us, so let them go and express themselves. There'll be no easy games until the end of the season, but please try to entertain us!

Almost right C100, but Hamilton are the worst. However, I am concerned with 1 win in 8 league games. It's just not good enough.

Thanks guys....we were (deliberately) operating over 4G tonight in an area where we know it's not the best and at 128kbps (when 32 is normally sufficient for voice only) to get a kinda "worst case" scenario for the audio transmission.  So, whilst not top notch, it should have provided all the info we need to improve things going forward.

So much for the changes, was same team as weekend!!

Tbh, its time to give Kink or Ofere a chance up front with Watkins just behind him or even alongside him.

All I can say is thank feck for United's form but we NEED to capitalise on it!!

Its about time we started winning before cup semi!

So much for the changes, was same team as weekend!!

Tbh, its time to give Kink or Ofere a chance up front with Watkins just behind him or even alongside him.

All I can say is thank feck for United's form but we NEED to capitalise on it!!

Its about time we started winning before cup semi!

Same team? Not quite! Danny Williams didn't even get off the bench at the weekend - tonight he started and played the whole match.

Commentary was a positive step forward, pity about the delays.

Too slow, tepid and far too many pass backs and play through the middle. No runners behind the defence or down the wings, no crosses into the box and nobody brave enough to shoot. The team looks like it lacks bite and confidence which is a worry and nobody wants to take control. Draper and Tansey no longer boss the middle of the park, goals have dried up and yogi no longer seems to know who the creative midfield should be from doran, Ross, watkins, williams, Christie plus we still have kink to consider.

Not looking forward to the celtic games as if we play like this they will really hurt us badly.

Be interesting to see line up for next couple of games v Celtic, surely there will be more than 1 change?

Its about time Ofere got a game, I would have a front 5 of:

Ross Christie Williams

Watkins

Ofere.

Edited April 8, 201511 yr by Shaun

I am long overdue a positive post, but can't help myself.......

 

For whatever reason our team, which has performed so well for most of the season, have now stopped performing and gone into reverse gear.

 

Why on earth buy a replacement striker and not play them??

 

Also, not starting our regular no1 goalie now he is fit could be a very dangerous game to play, if he is recalled at a crucial time or moment.     

Sub standard tactics matched by sub standard performance on a sub standard pitch.

No positives for me, came for a point against a team who are not any better than us, and in the end got what we deserved.

Watkins is not a striker, but Messi would have struggled with our set up tonight. Concerning times.

For whatever reason our team, which has performed so well for most of the season, have now stopped performing and gone into reverse gear.

 

 

Whatever made us click is no longer clicking. Or is no longer at the club.

 

What's remarkable is how the first half of the season's most highly praised trio, ICT, Dundee Utd and Hamilton have all gone into freefall since losing key personnel in January.  No wins in 6, 7 and league 12 matches respectively.  But like with sky divers, you don't really notice how rapidly they are descending because they are all dropping at pretty much the same rate and maintaining a similar distance between them.

Really disappointing result and performance based on previous posts / match reports.

Watkins is not cutting it up front, he may be our top scorer but an interesting stat would be goals per minute on the pitch, in which case I'm sure Christie & Doran would rank higher.

Hughes should get Watkins back playing in his best position out on the wing creating chances for Ofere who looks like he could be a decent acquisition if given a run of games. I'm worried we won't see Ofere at his best until after the Semi Final (let's hope it's not too late!).

Can anyone explain why Raven was replaced by Devine with 7 minutes remaining. Surely it was not tactical - if it was I'm really worried.

Why has Ofere even been dropped to the bench?  Went straight in vs Motherwell and scored.  Couldn't have done much more to keep his place.

Really disappointing result and performance based on previous posts / match reports.

Watkins is not cutting it up front, he may be our top scorer but an interesting stat would be goals per minute on the pitch, in which case I'm sure Christie & Doran would rank higher.

Hughes should get Watkins back playing in his best position out on the wing creating chances for Ofere who looks like he could be a decent acquisition if given a run of games. I'm worried we won't see Ofere at his best until after the Semi Final (let's hope it's not too late!).

Can anyone explain why Raven was replaced by Devine with 7 minutes remaining. Surely it was not tactical - if it was I'm really worried.

This season-

Minutes per goal:

Doran 208

Watkins 317

Christie 505

That was awful. Need to make changes and get back to a settled team. Passing was bad, played ball back far too often and Watkins is NOT a striker. Maybe a forward to play off a natural striker. We are only still in 3rd due to United imploding. We aren't much better. Hopefully our bad patch will be over soon, maybe in time for lunchtime Saturday??

Watkins should so be out on the wing (where he is much better) supplying crosses for Ofere who should be getting more game time. Complete lack of width or attacking at pace in forward areas. Raven was useless going forward as usual ... gets a nose bleed at the prospect of running at/skinning somebody and so just passes back. It is well versed script. He was sub'd with Devine coming into the centre and Meekings shifted to right back presumably because Josh offered more going forward. Aberdeen closed us down very quickly when we went forward because we took an inordinate length of time deciding what to do and showed little/no guile. By contrast when Aberdeen broke they had oceans of space and should have scored more. Serious lack of intensity breaking forward when behind. Even my 8 year old lad was shouting to move it forward. Seemingly nobody wants to finish 3rd. We are only holding our own because Utd are in freefall.

I was at the game tonight and it was pretty much a continuation of our recent matches but it wasn't the worst we've played in the last couple of months. I felt that the system that the players had been asked to do tonight let them down. We spent most of the time when we had pocession of the ball in our own half. In my opinion the first half especially if Aberdeen weren't just hitting hopeless shots on goal, we could've been down by two or three goals before half time.

I was quite amazed at the amount of time and space that Willo Flood was given considering most of their counter attacking play starts from him, he dominated the game IMO - Can't afford to let Scott Brown do that to us on Saturday. Shay Logan was another that I was really impressed with how fast he just darted through Doran and Shinnie.

A lot has been said about Watkins and how he is not a striker etc. I really don't buy into that theory because in all honesty I really think he can play up front because he can hold off defenders really well and has the pace to back them off but he just has nobody to support him and to play Doran up there with him wasn't the answer either. Seriously, Ofere and Watkins need to be given the chance to form a partnership.

Hopefully tonight's viewing will make Yogi go back to the drawing board because we need something to bring back the winning formula, can't keep relying too much on Dundee United's downfall.

Edited April 9, 201511 yr by ICTRoughi