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[stokearab]

No real surprises tonight. I think we know where we are as a team, bottom half.

True as in no surprise we lost. We're not ready. We're still learning. And we don't have a strikeforce.
But... I wouldn't rule out top 6 just yet. If we can replicate the two second halves from the last two games into a full 90 we might just get there.
My 433 gamble in my first post looks daft in hindsight, we should have gone 451

[TerryTheTerror]

Absolute Bollox TTT. Fuchs and Levitt were very good tonight so who drops out? Harkes?

It was glaringly obvious that we needed an out and out striker before the season started and they never addressed it,all our strikers want to do is stand on the 18 yard box and lay it back to a midfielder.

Only complaint I have tonight is the scoreline because I don't think we deserved that. Great effort.

Levitt did fcuk all first half (when I posted). Second half he was excellent. I assume the midfield got a suitable boot up the arse at half time as it was like night and day from the first.

[Chick A Saw]

It might just be the euphoria of my first game back, but i thought that was quite a good game with the difference between the teams being Hibs having players who know where the goal is, and how to con the ref!

Levitt, Fuchs, Edwards, McMann, Pawlett and Harkes i thought did quite well, but something needs done up top as the player who scored is the only one of the 3 that looked capable of doing so. We started way too slow and made the last set of changes far too late.

[A. J]

It was glaringly obvious that we needed an out and out striker before the season started and they never addressed it,all our strikers want to do is stand on the 18 yard box and lay it back to a midfielder. .

Agree, our defence and midfield do ALL the work, they win the ball and create, problem is they have to create chances for themselves cos none of our do called forwards are strong enough or streetwise. Of course when our midfield do what our forwards should be doing this leaves gaps and more often this is when teams punish us.
It's our forwards who are soft as shyte and is the only missing link.
Said it before if we had Shanks in this team we'd be flying, but no the big man thinks McNulty's the answer.
Goalie, defence, midfield is looking good tbh, up front however is the weakest in the league, sort that and top 6 is on

[Whitfieldarab]

Levitt did fcuk all first half (when I posted). Second half he was excellent. I assume the midfield got a suitable boot up the arse at half time as it was like night and day from the first.

The 20 minutes before they scored their 2nd goal we were on top, that goal came well against the run of play and Levitt was behind all our good play in that period.

Our lack of a target man is our achilles heel and unfortunately we never put a defence under pressure because we are so passive,we never look like scoring.

[Yeats 62]

This was so apparent tonight, especially with Clark.

Maybe as we don't deliver fired in balls from the flanks to the penalty spot /six yard box or from any other areas, on any regular basis, our "forwards" have maybe just gave up. There is no way Shankland turned from the deadliest to the duffest striker in Scotland nearly overnight.

[JamesMcClean]

As United supporters we do not expect to be winning every game. But what we do expect is 100% commitment and making sure the opposition know they’ve been in a game. HT I’m not saying we should have been winning but nor should we have been 3 down - that was a travesty and it could have gone south in the second half rapidly. The fact it didn’t and that Hibs frankly were grateful for the final whistle says it all. We still have some way to recover from THAT January transfer window but slowly but surely we are doing so. Rome wasn’t built in a day chaps. KTF and FTD.

[GUNBOAT]

Massive problems with our strikers but we all knew that,its already at the stage where i would sanction bringing in a player still unsigned that no club wanted in the summer window,that's how bad it really is.
It could also be argued that if there was VAR in Scotland that game is 2-2 with us in the ascendancy,its criminal that we never even attempted to replace Shankland with even a pysh poor replacement who may have managed a goal occasionally.
When you are millions in debt decisions like extending contracts for Connolly and bringing back McNulty may well come back to haunt us.

[stokearab]

We were poor first half but good to see we improved second half. The officials have had a shocking game. They have got not one but two very key decisions wrong. The problem with Scottish football is clear for all to see poor refereeing decisions week in week out. I feel sorry for all the paying Utd fans who have been robbed tonight by a referee not fit for top level football.

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