El Grew

Thanks Kyrk. 🤣🤣🤣

An intriguing, if slightly risky appointment from a board I didn’t think had it in them to think outside the box and all credit to them for that and for avoiding the usual suspects whose names appear every time there’s a managerial vacancy. A very warm welcome to our club Michael and wishing you all the very best in your new venture. I hope it won’t be too much of a culture shock for you. COYW.

Time to bin this thread.

Totally agree Grizzly. He’s one of those rare players who has a consistently reliable level of performance. He reminds me very much of past stalwarts like Joe Wark, Martin ‘Kaiser’ Corrigan and Brian ‘Buff’ Martin. Unfortunately he’s out for 4 months after a thigh op and he’s approaching 35, an age at which it gets increasingly harder to recover from injury.

I think perhaps St.Johnstone may be too far behind to avoid automatic relegation and St. Mirren and Hearts have too much about them to be drawn into a scrap for the play-off spot. That would leave ourselves, Ross County and Dundee as the ones involved in that and I think the next few games will go a long way to decide who will end up there. Sat 22nd February Dundee Utd v Motherwell Ross County v Dundee Wed 26th February Motherwell v Dundee St. Johnstone v Ross County Thoughts?

Good post.

That’s like owning a house without a roof.

Great post; not! FYI I do not have a problem. However I can’t be arsed getting into a debate with folk that post cryptic drivel.

I fail to see how that could have been worse

What in the name of f*ck does that mean?

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If we do end up in the play-off spot then it’s likely we’d have to play either Ayr Utd or Livingston. Not a prospect to look forward to.

No offence but I sincerely hope you are wrong about Frail. Mind you if it’s true that we now have a shortlist of two candidates and that one of them is Temur Ketsbaia then I really do fear for our future.

I’ve been watching us now for more years than I care to remember and have to agree with your sentiment. I feel our club is in poor custodianship right now. Well-meaning people they may, be but utterly lacking in knowledge, skills and know-how as to what’s required to run a professional football club. Where are the changes and the investment that the Well Society were touting about when they railed against the potential US investors? For me it’s been downhill ever since and with no sign that anyone at the club has a handle on how to turn things around. The fans are now beginning to vote with their feet as shown by our attendances. Today we had 3,973 (couple of hundred from Dingwall?) and now regularly around that mark. Today Falkirk had just under 7,500 and Raith Rovers had about 3,800!! Poor attendances, a real live possibility of relegation which would lead to a drastic fall in revenues, no investment on the horizon. Sorry for being so negative but I think it’s a very bleak outlook for our club.

He should never have been given that option!

Spot on.

Totally agree. I’d like to think that we’ll avoid the very bottom as we are still 10 points clear of St. Johnstone but I think we’re now odds-on for the play-off spot.

That the nub of it. Far too many poor players in the one squad. I don’t doubt they are all doing their best but the sad truth is they are not cut out for professional football. If there are still any doubters out there that think we won’t end up going down I trust this display will serve to dispel the doubt.

We’ve had the lions share of possession but created heehaw and we look very vulnerable on the counter. We’ll never break them down playing like this. Far too slow and ponderous in our build-up and playing everything in front of them with no penetration. No contrast up front as Watt and Armstrong are too similar. I’d take Watt off and get Maswanhise on as a foil for Armstrong who seems more mobile and fitter than Watt.

The only smoke will be from the ground-staff burning leaves.

It’s an old cliche and dear knows how many times I’ve used in reference to the Dossers, but this Saturday’s game against Ross County is definitely a must win. Lose, they’d only be 2 points behind us and we’d be sucked into a scrap to avoid the play-off spot. Win, we’d be 8 points clear of them and that should be enough to guarantee we are not involved in any relegation shenanigans. COYW!

Finishing in the top 6 and maybe getting into Europe are for the birds. The top priority for whoever ends up as manager must be to arrest the current slump and ensure we stay out of the dogfight that’s developing below us.

As per the OF usual modus operandi, they’ll be trying to get him by offering the least amount they think they can get away with. Tell them the asking price starts at £4M cash; no player swaps or instalment crap and that it’s non-negotiable!

It would help if we had a midfield! Sure the defence isn’t great but they get zero help from the midfield, which should be our first line of defence when the opposition have the ball. I don’t think central defenders should be asked to make tackles 30 yards from their own goal. That task falls to the midfield players but far too often they just funnel back on top of the defenders offering no or little protection.

It is, but it’s not helped by having no midfield to try and stop them being continually swamped.