there's been plenty of debate on the performances v results stuff. It is another game where we haven't been on the front foot or dominated with service and chances to the front men very limited.
but at the end of the day, we won without even being great. 5th place and a big gap between us and the bottom, you can't help but be happy with that.
Benji- can't remember him having to make a save?
Smith- no coincidence our form has started to pick up again once hes back in the team. very reliable.
Connolly- few stupid passes/touches but in general he was decent.
Edwards- has improved a lot after some poor first couple of performances. pretty solid.
Reynolds- very reliable. no nonsense. still cant distribute the ball to united players but defensively good.
Sporle- thought he was putting in a good shift and was surprised he got hooked
Fuchs- some good moments, still too early to say really.
Butcher- that game suited him. battled away
Clark- scores the goals but i felt he wasnt great yesterday. never seems to stick much with him.
Mcnulty- put in a power of work. hardly any service.
McMullan- worked hard but couldnt get going.
Shankland- few good touches but still looks very frustrated by lack of service.
Robson- didnt do much apart from give away a pen that was never a pen.
Harkes- ran about.
Bolton- few dangerous runs without coming to anything.
Am i happy with the win? defintely
Do i feel we are playing well? no
It just annoys me that MM seems to not even want us to attack. of course be defensively sound but we were playing teams below us who are on poor form and not once did we seem to put them under great pressure! until they scored we looked happy with a 0-0. we have players to hurt teams but he doesnt seem to use them effectively.
On to the next one i suppose
I think what some posters are getting at is did we really need 3 centre backs at home against a team who are conceding goals for/like the FUN?,pardon the pun. :
Delighted to get 3 points yesterday.
I think there's very little between the bottom 8 teams in terms of ability and effort, and therefore, each team can beat one another. If we think we are a poor team, then so are the other 8 teams; so, after 15 games, I'm delighted we're above St Johnstone, and 5 points ahead of Ross Co, and LIvingston.
I agree we've got room for loads of improvement, but I think Micky Mellon has done a good job to get us where we are at the moment. We can progress, as long as we get through this first difficult season, - remember, the week the league started, we were still at court/tribunal, not knowing for certain what league we woild be in.
Couple of observations from Saturday
McNulty's exactly the sort of very mobile pest defenders hate playing against and improving with the added minutes he's getting. His defence splitting pass that led to the first goal was what Harkes has been trying to do for weeks but not achieving.
After about the sixty minute mark we slowed it down, stopped punting it forward, moved their defence around and we looked really excellent in that spell. Hopefully a sign of what's to come.
Jeando - think MM took him off in case he got sent off for a second yellow on his full debut. When he adjusts to the Scottish game I think he'll be really good for us. And when Harkes got on I think he realised just that.
A real positive was coming back from a goal down, the main negative was 5 at the back in a game like that.
Got to agree with the 5 at the back point. Not at home against the team at the bottom of the league. It could even send out signals to the opposition that may make them more attack minded knowing they might have more space playing out from the back and in midfield.
As folk have already said, as soon as we went to 4 at the back we looked more comfortable and, dare I say it? a wee bit more dangerous.
I don't mind us shutting up shop against the so-called big guns especially away matches , but at home against our closest (relegation seemingly) rivals I want to see us go for the throat early doors, let them know they are in a real battle from the first minute.
I don't want teams enjoying coming to Tannadice, I want them to hate it, but at this moment in time, I don't see much fear in opponents.
Still..... happy with the points gained already, well above my expectations, still like a wee grumble tho