El Grew

There’s a ball on the park and two sets of 11 players but this is never football in a million years. We need to get rid of this manager quickly before he does any further damage.

The danger signals are there now. Dundee have realised that we pose them absolutely no threat and are they beginning to look the likelier of the two to win this.

What a load of utter shite. I don’t think I’ve heard FP so quiet - they’ve just about managed to put the crowd to sleep. We've played zero football. Haven’t put more than 3 passes together. All 4 defenders when they get the ball just high punt it forward to nobody in particular. Goss, O’Hara and Donnelly not in the game and Woolery reverts back to his default anonymous. Its just as well we got points earlier in the season because our current form is relegation

Here’s a few stats to chew over or maybe stew over. All-time home league record against Dundee: P106; W47; D23; L36 Their last win at FP was in 2017. We played them twice that year at FP and lost both — 5-1 and 3-2. Their away form this season reads: P14; W2; D2; F10; A27. Their last away win was on 9th February — 2-1 against Hearts. Our league record against them this season reads: P2 ; W1; D0; L1. We won 1-0 at FP in August and lost 3-0 at Dens Park in November. They also beat us 1-0 in the League Cup at Dens Park in August.

Woolery. No brainier.

Dundee are scrapping for their club’s premier league status and their livelihoods. If we turn in another 90 minutes like last night then they are more than capable of beating us. Lose this one and I honestly think Graeme Alexander’s days at FP could be numbered.

Shocking or not suck it up because the referee decided it was a penalty and he is the final arbiter in the matter. Its really come to something when we are arguing the toss about a penalty awarded against us in the 15th minute of a home game that we should be more than capable of winning. We had 80 minutes in which to do something about it but failed miserably. We didn’t lose because of the penalty but because as a number of previous posters have said - we were sh*te!

Doubtless I will cop a boat load of flak for this, but to hell with it. IMO the following players need to be shown the door at the end of this season as they are simply not good enough: O’Donnell, McGinley, Carroll, Ojala, Goss, Slattery, Lamie, O’Hara, Grimshaw, White, Amalazour, Shaw, O’Connor, Shields, Stefford, Roberts.

And just how is he going to “improve the quality of the squad”?? There is no f*ecking money at the club to buy and pay for better quality players. The club is run on a very low budget and the manager, no matter who that may be, has to operate within very narrow parameters when it comes to recruiting players. Hence we take players on loan deals, from Irish football and trawl the lowest depths of English non-league football for players, in the hope that we might just unearth another Louis Moult. However the yield from this policy is diminishing all the time and the quality of player being brought into the club whether we like it or not is falling and will continue to do so. I’m pretty certain Alexander wanted to keep Tony Watt and his remarks about not needing another striker were just bravado, as witnessed by his attempt to get Zak Rudden from Partick before the end of the transfer window. I also think he appreciates the situation the club is in all too well. Maybe if he hadn’t been unemployed when our managerial vacancy came up, he wouldn’t have considered the job. I’ve been going to Fir Park for many years now and I’ve always thought some of the poorest footballers that I ever saw at the club, were in the middle to late 1960s, under Bobby Howitt but I have to admit, that with a few exceptions, the current squad contains far too many footballers that would struggle to get into that squad.

They’ve been playing well recently and they are pretty adept at sitting in away from home and hitting on the break. So I think we need to ensure that if and when we get chances we score with them as our defence always looks as though it will lose goals.

Dundee have been down this road before and have twice been in administration as a result. They no longer own Dens Park so have no tangible fixed assets. They are owned by two US businessmen with no apparent connection to Dundee or Scotland and who know heehaw about Scottish football. They need to watch out because they're on the same slippery slope that saw the demise of Third Lanark.

Thanks. You’re right. It was clumsily put. I meant that they’ve only failed to win on 4 occasions at home this season and that 2 of these were against us.

Halcyon days.

This result will count for hehaw if we don’t back it up against Ross County and Dundee. Must win both games to try and consolidate a top 6 place.

Rangers have only dropped 4 points at home this season and we’ve got 2 of them. One for the stattos. When was the last time we were unbeaten at Ibrox in a league season.

I’d retain Donnelly and O’Hara. The rest are deadwood. Getting rid would free up some cash.

Interesting fact re-Aberdeen. The word "Pittodrie" literally translates from Gaelic as "Hill of Dung". So the ground can be accurately described as a shit heap.

Sir Alf Ramsay won the World Cup and Jock Stein won the European Cup doing just that.

Here’s the team ready to board the bus at Tannadice with the Summer Cup in after beating Dundee Utd over 2 legs in 1965.

Tom Forsyth and Alan Gilzean from our Texaco Cup win at Fir Park in 1970.

Blood and snotters. As a game of football it was a hard watch. Stop start all afternoon with too many players (on both sides) more intent on having their own personal vendettas. Mind you I did enjoy Donnelly’s crunch on Ferguson - right in the haw maws. We were certainly the better side in the 2nd half and if Shields had scored near the end it would’ve been a deserved win. Aberdeen must have the whingeist (don’t know if that’s a word) players in Scottish football. Like last week, they complained all game to the referee every time our players made a tackle and won the ball - fairly. In his post-match interview, Goodwin said he had asked his players to stand up to Motherwell’s physical style of play. I know I’m biased but I don’t consider us to be an overly physical side. I thought that every time we tried to play football they were happy to commit fouls and stop the game flowing - undoubtedly orchestrated by Goodwin. Incidentally he has a f*cking cheek to talk about teams being physical - when he played for St. Mirren he was one of the dirtiest players around and in his time there had 61 yellow cards and 4 reds!

Apart from a wonderful purple patch under Fergie, Aberdeen were really quite an ordinary football club. Since then, and with no little help from the media, they have become the self-appointed 3rd force in Scottish football and truly believe it’s beneath them to lose to what they see as “diddy” clubs. I’m old enough to have seen our two Scottish Cup wins up there in 1976 and 1991 and I clearly remember the arrogance and disbelief that they should be losing at home to us and that wasn’t just the fans but management and officials. Well, its high time they took a large dose of reality, come back down to earth and disabused themselves of such grandiose notions. Like all the other teams they will need to work hard and earn any success.

Liam Donnelly for me. I thought this was his best performance of the season and that he bossed the midfield for most of the game which gave us a platform to play off. He totally dominated Ferguson and Brown and and he was unlucky not to be on the scoresheet just before Shields put us in front.

After losing the early goal we were really shoogly, particularly our defenders, for about 10 minutes. However after that we settled and grew into the game and from then until half-time we bossed the game and were deservedly in front. And what a great time to go in front just on half-time. I think it took the wind right out of their sails. At the start of the 2nd half we again looked a wee bit shaky for about 10 minutes. However we then picked-up where we’d left off in the 1st half and bossed the game up until the last 10 minutes when our manager decided it was a good idea to remove 2 forwards and drop deep into our own half. He’s really very fortunate it didn’t blow-up in his face. I thought everyone played really well in what were horrendous conditions. I would make special mention of Mugabi, Donnelly and van Veen. My MoM was Donnelly. I thought he had a great game and totally bossed the midfield - Scott Brown seems to bring the best out of him. Only one negative for me, was Jake Carrol. I lost count of the number of times he gave the ball away to an Aberdeen player - he even managed it from a throw-in. Specsavers?

Hoodoo broken at last.