FirParkCornerExile

I think he a bit of a maverick. He didn't stay long with the club he left us for and jumped to and Assistant Managers job at Holstein Keil. That doesn't happen often, giving up a managers job for an assistant managers job.

That could be fun and games if he got it.

Unless you see both McGlynn and AJ at close quarters you are in not position to say what either is and you are passing off speculation as fact.

100% correct.

Nonsense The main difference between a football manager and a football coach lies in their scope of responsibility. Managers handle both team tactics and administration, like transfers and contracts . While coaches focus on training players and developing tactics. Seeing as Falkirk have a CEO who deals with transfers and contracts the same as we do, McGlynn will do exactly the same role as AJ does for us. Jesus fuck the lengths some of you are going to defend an ingrained opinion is really quite sad. By all means dislike AJ if you want, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but for Christs sake spare us the mental acrobatics to justify your ingrained mindset. Fuck me we had the utter shite a few weeks back "has he lost the dressing room" after 7 games. I've said for sometime that I'm not convinced by AJ but I am open to the fact that he can change my opinion and those trying to infer there has been no improvement over the last 3/4 games are just being bloody minded to defend their over the top rhetoric. Like any manager AJ may turnout to be a dud , he may not but lets keep it to facts. How the fuck you know enough about what McGlynn does at Falkirk and what AJ does at Motherwell is a puzzler, cos to any even minded thinking its just pure speculation to reinforce an ingrained mindset.

No one scaped a draw at Tannadice.

I do wonder how some of our fans would cope when we went from November 1978 until November 1987 where we didn't beat Dundee Utd in 10 years. I remember like it was yesterday and the disbelief when I actually saw us beat them again.

I know you werent mate just me still having a rant about some of the reactions to what was a very good DESERVED result Apologies if it came across wrong.

They may well have edged it in some people eyes but they are the home team so is that such a shock, that shouldn't generate some of the nonsense spouted. We were worth our draw and even Goodwin grudgingly conceded that maybe the case for others watching.. Before Moornan cleared of the line and the guys fluff at the far post their keeper from two good saves from us and Priestman had a fresh air shot when he should have scored. So for me we could have been a couple up before their late chances so a draw was right. I do concede the quality of their chances were slightly better that's why their XG was 1.91 and ours was 1.75 but what do we expect against a good team IN THEIR OWN BACK YARD. **And just for the record JBA didn't win at Tannadice against a DU team that were measurably worse than the current. Version.

I'd never put myself in the Happy Clappy camp not by any measure but honest tae fuck some of the comments about yesterday are just trying to maintain a point of view already settled in some folks heads. You look at any measure of the stats yesterday we gave as good as we got against a decent DU team. Home side XG 1.91 the Away team 1.75. In case anyone was unsure we were the away team and to go to Tannadice and and play as we did deserves credit. DU as the home side should in the vast majority of games edge it just as I'd expect us to do at Fir Park. Then everyone frustrated at missed chances, as I was. For fuck sake we are at least creating the chances, it would be a real worry if we weren't creating chances. If we keep creating them it will turn. I'm nearly always in the hyper critical mode but for fuck sake go onto the BBC site and look at the stats. DU could have scored a couple near the end but we could also have been 3-1 up by then. Hanging on?? My arse.

Hanging on for dear life ? nonsence

Don't agree a draw was the correct result. Entertaining game against a good Dundee Utd Team.

Whilst neither had a bad game on Saturday, on the basis of what Ive seen this season I'm not convinced they come close to last seasons defensive partnership. To me even a 35 year old Paul McGinn is better than both of them. However McGinn is not long term. If neither show much improvement between now and the January window I'd be looking to bring in others to beef up that area and perhaps find a central defender who can play it out from the back with a bit more pace. To be fair they tried to up the pace a bit on Saturday but JGR was still painfully slow moving the ball forward as the game went on, again trying to be fair players in front of him need to get into positions that make the quick play viable. He also isnt helped by the fact he has zero pace over the ground so if he fucks up a pass he will never catch a forward running away from him. Maybe for that reason he lacks the confidence to play the quick pass but its not all down to him thats the managers job to address not mine.

I dont expect anything from this game. Right now Utd are a better team than us, their midfield is very strong. Id be delighted with a point.

Tell me a team in the SPFL thats not shit. That why there is fuck all points difference between 70% of the teams.

Really? I thought that is as well as we've played all season (finishing apart). Still room for improvement but I enjoyed the way we played today.

Thats as close to last years style than we've played all season, but still a long way to go. Girdwood-Reich had a decent enough game defensively but my god he takes any pace out the game.He slows it all down when we need to keep up the pace when pressing. Hodge has started to show a bit of drive and had a good game today. Maswanhise was piss poor, again.. We won the game in the second balls, we mopped up just about every one of then. The will to win it today was there for all to see. Good return for Priestman. Should have been far more comfortable but signs in last two games we might just be moving in the right direction.

Sadly with our defence I wouldn't be confident beating anyone right now.

"he's always shown good technique and pace" you and I watch a different player. His technique is very erratic. Watch him in the shooting practice before the game which invariably does not improve during a game. He has been murder since April. No one will be happier than me if he rediscovers his form of this time last year but I'm willing to bet he won't.

and what ?? he's been pish since April. What he did before that is immaterial in judging his contribution to the team just now. Christ Jake Hastie was on fire for 3 months, didn't stop him being utter pish. Thats not to say he wont hit the heights again but if you were judging him on his contribution this season he should have been on the bench a lot longer than he was.

I actually don't think we get the ball forward quickly, especially when playing out from the back. Just and Ward were like lightning getting forward exploiting the press. We are so fucking slow and laborious in the build up when playing out from the back that the opposition get time to ensure they have every man behind the ball closing down our options. . We do employ the long ball a bit more but 9 times out of ten we lose possession.

When you consider how many chances Manwanhise has had to shine when playing shite, Thor must wonder why the fuck he doesn't get a longer run in the team

"Performances have been persistently good..." mmmm thats over egging the pudding. There has been an improvement in the last two games much beyond that is pushing it.

We only need him to be resilient until the January transfer window so we can bring in something better that the current incumbents who are absolutely hopeless on evidence so far..

I tend to agree we had that game in the bag until the managers changes fucked it up. I'm not in the get rid of AJ camp yet but I think he was culpable last night