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On the other hand might be building up to a great season next year. 5 youngsters with a full season under their belt. Better than five 30+ year olds. But I think a balance of youth and experience this year is needed.

Be interesting to see what starting 11 and formation/tactics SK starts with on Sunday. He certainly has options after some good individual performances last night. I would think Manhaswise has played himself into starting 11 thru the middle (can always move home wide if we bring Moses on) Wilson showed very well in Midfield.

You can consider Slattery and Paton as starters so every week for a long time we are starting with two out. Last night of course McGinn and Gordon missing, so Utd no worse off than us for the game.

When is it?

Some good performances tonight. Ox earned his keep. Casey and Balmer stood firm. Miller and Wilson providing some energy and skill in midfield. Kaleta putting in a solid performance. Then Mamwanhise scoring two goals and a constant thorn in the side of the Utd defense. Seddon seemed decent. Now all we have to do is convert these good individual performances into great team performances. MoM Manwanhise. Thought he would be a plus for us as a winger but playing through the middle showed what an asset he can be playing there.

Start like we did against Celtic but this time hope for a bit of luck to convert our chances.

The way we are looking now I’d take 1-1 as final score.

We need to be. Bit more aggressive at closing Utd down. Defending (not very well) too deep. Once again no support for forward players.

Aberdeen just missing a PK

We need to stop letting them stroll up to our box. FFS

Ridiculous VAR check

Yaassss

There it is now

No commentary again?

I took that from BBC site but after looking at it. It’s probably not a 3-5-2

3-5-2 ?

Ok didn’t realize his name was Tawanda. I’m familiar with him, on loan from Leicester

What’s the line up?

Ok I’ve not been paying attention. Who a Tawanda? Has he played previously?

Don’t know the capacity for the stand but if it’s a real Concern then the club could reduce it and say that “in the interests of safety, we are reducing the capacity of the stand for all visiting teams to xxxx amount”. Of course it might only affect Celtic and Rangers (perhaps a city team in a very good year) but clearly our statement is addressed to all teams 😀

Perhaps something is being overlooked or maybe it was all fine as the CEO says.

I thought we played better against Celtic than Dundee. As mentioned above I think Kaleta, Sparrow and AP showed up well enough to merit a starting position in future games. Now we just need SK to shift Miller back a bit and find a partner for AP. Or a midfield that will support and create chances for AP. Moses has shown that he can score but again we need to create the chances for him. There’s a decent team to be had from our squad but SK needs to figure out what that is and if we go with it for all games or so we change depending on who the opposition are. To be honest I’m not sure what our best team/set up is but then again I haven’t put much thought into it

Even if we get beat in this one we will still be in 5th spot, barring a heavy defeat and others winning by a large margin. So not a total disaster but as has been mentioned, the league will become very compressed, so getting a point or three will help us maintain what gap there is. A win would be excellent and see us leapfrog Utd into 4th spot. As we go through the season and get our long term injured back we may reap the benefits of having a large squad to get us through a long hard season.

I think everyone wants to win both games but as you say, winning a semi v rangers to get to a final lingers a lot more in your memory than a league win at Tannadice. you loose the semi then we are out, no final. Loose to Utd we have most of the season to recover from that. Let’s hope we beat both of them! COYW!

Positives today were Kaleta, Stam and Sparrow getting extended playing time. Thought all 3 showed up well and hopefully start again against Utd.