Post Christmas Crash

[USArab]

Here we fecking go again FFS

[Chick A Saw]

Here we fecking go again FFS

How many seasons is that where we have done quite well until christmas, or a point not so long after, that we seem to just throw in the towel?

4 different managers now that i remember it happened under, and im sure that those that remember Houston will say it happened under him as well.

[RAM1971]

Someone at the Club no longer believes in Santa.

[shedka]

Didn't happen under Houston, the opposite under him, we would have a ok start then go on great runs after new year

[shedka]

Like I said yesterday

Before the injury to Fyvie at 3-0 up v Livingston on Dec 23rd having won won 6-7 and drawn one post McKinnon I didn't see anything crash on the horizon

That's why it's clear how much these injuries have fkd our season up just when we were getting on a roll and had found our best team and system

Dumbarton 0-2 United (comfy win)
United 2-1 St Mirren (much more comfortable than score suggests, worldy volley from 35 yards with very last kick making it look close)
Brechin 1-1 United
United 3-0 Falkirk (literally 3 going on 10, very flattering score for them)
United 2-1 Dunfermline (late pen for them made it closer)
Morton 0-2 United (good win on the road, well deserved abd professional)
Queens v United (0-0 when abandoned at ht but by all accounts Utd dominated, played well and looked much the more likely to win)
United 3-0 Livingston (comfortable win)


There is no doubt in my mind the team that played those games was good enough to go to the wire for the league, hugely frustrating what has happened since, the timing of it, you almost couldn't make it up

Teams know it aswell, they know we are much more vulnerable than we were, our players aren't confident either with those two out, the belief is gone, whether they believe than can get 2nd is now a worry

[darrenshedtastic]

thats the problem though. we need to stop hiding behind this fyvie and fraser being injured excuse imo.

yeah the form we had when he had them before xmas was good and certainly would have been more of a title race if we had continued that form but its football things happen! players get sold, players get injured! other players need to step up to the plate! we need to find other solutions to win games. since new year the football has been poor and look a shadow of the pre xmas team and needs to improve.

confidence can come and go but what should always be there is the fight and desire to win games! which is severely lacking in recent games

[duke_the_arab]

thats the problem though. we need to stop hiding behind this fyvie and fraser being injured excuse imo.

yeah the form we had when he had them before xmas was good and certainly would have been more of a title race if we had continued that form but its football things happen! players get sold, players get injured! other players need to step up to the plate! we need to find other solutions to win games. since new year the football has been poor and look a shadow of the pre xmas team and needs to improve.

confidence can come and go but what should always be there is the fight and desire to win games! which is severely lacking in recent games

Losing Fyvie and Fraser definately a big loss but it really boils down to the rest of the squad being full of schite or finished players and then the players being brought in on loan also being no better than what we have.
Every January transfer window for the last 3 seasons we never seem to improve on what we already have.

[TerryTheTerror]

But taking the best two creative players out of any team is going to cause them huge problems, especially if you're squad isn't that big. It's unfortunate but we can't play down the impact this has had on us, total killer.

[SmedDUm]

But taking the best two creative players out of any team is going to cause them huge problems, especially if you're squad isn't that big. It's unfortunate but we can't play down the impact this has had on us, total killer.

That's it Terry. Yeah we know we've got to get on with it without them but what a massive boot in the balls.
If Fraser & Fyvie had not departed the team when they did I would have us as two points behind St Mirren with a game in hand.
It has totally derailed us. As Shedka says, you could scarcely make it up.
But we've got to get on with it...

[Wullie]

It's been a boot in the balls, it should've hampered us, but this is a complete derailing.