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Crowd was better today because of a decent number of away fans. Poor home support but precious little for the locals to get excited about. We were the better of 2 poor sides and had more attempts on goal but stats show that despite our supposed emphasis on possession, Dundee saw more of the ball than we did. Good to see Doran play a full game. It wasn't his greatest game but at least he looks to get forward and is not frightened to have a shot at goals. I'd like to see Ofere play a full 90 minutes - Watkins is not a striker and Ofere looked far more likely to score in the brief period he was on the park. Time to rest young Christie as well, I feel. His work rate and appetite for the ball are 2nd to none but there is very little creative coming from him at the moment. As other have said, Shinnie was the stand out player and he certainly answered those who said he would not give 100% for the team prior to leaving for Aberdeen.

Yep, agree with most of what's been said here but very surprised no one seems to have brought up how much the pitch played such a detriment in how we didn't win today. I think its clear the players have absolutely no trust in it whatsoever. So many times today we would get round the back or down the flanks and when it was screaming for it to be played in first time constantly the boys were having to take a touch just to make sure they weren't going to swipe thin air. When teams like Dundee come and sit in and make no attempt to come out and play you've got to get it on the deck, 1-2's, down the flanks, try and open up the space for the forwards to exploit. On that pitch there's no chance of that. Even our usual faffing about at the back was never going to work on that surface. So many times the bobbles were killing us and seriously I wished after about 20 minutes we took Ross/Christie/Doran off (good players but on that pitch they're wasted) stuck Ofere up top with Watkins and just go route one. By-pass the pitch, get onto the knockdowns (Ofere so nearly scored late on after a long boot/flick on). Not pretty at all but I think you've got to accept sometimes when its just not happening for you and today the passing game was never going to transpire into anything effective. I've no doubts that on a proper surface today would of been a guaranteed 3 points. It's almost hilarious and depressing that the only team doing as bad in the league right now is Dundee United. 3rd place could of been wrapped up 2/3 games ago but even more annoyingly Aberdeen are only 8 points ahead and they've been rank rotten recently aswell. Even 1-2 wins from the last 5 would of put us in serious contention for second, never mind third.

On current form we're relegation fodder, so fourth place certainly isn't guaranteed! We can't keep relying on other teams dropping points.