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This. Plus it's still early days with new players and regardless of what they do or don't do during training, trying a tactic in a competitive game is the only way to find out if it actually works. And even if it does work, opponents have this nasty habit of playing well and/or changing things to counteract successful tactics. If he's still making similar mistakes in February, that would be a concern.

Looks great. Still not a fan of plastic pitches, though.

[ ] Steelboy gets it [X] Robinson gets it

Presumably, Robinson was trying to set up a team to compensate the lack of Frear and McHugh. It also sounded from his post-match that there were a few out there today that were not 100%. Credit, again, to him for changing when he saw it wasn't working. And not just for changing it, but succesfully.

Sounds like we need a legit left winger/wingback as a backup for Frear.

Yep. 3 points was (almost) essential today. Job done.

Still time for County to come back!

Robinson said he'd be happy if we played worse this week, but won. Tactic is working so far.

I'd bite your hand off for a scrappy 1 - 0 win to get us up and running.

Hastie on loan is a good move. He as been impressive in the 20s recently and some regular first team action would be ideal.

True. In which case I hope Tanner is fit.

If he's fit, Moult should start. Like Skippy before him, I have no concerns that he won't give it 100%. More importantly, we need goals and 3 points.

From that perspective, I'm sure you're right. However, from what the Club and Moult have been saying, it sounds like the plan was always to sell him this season. Which makes sense as having a year left on a contract obviously bumps up the price. I think all parties would prefer Moult to move on now for a decent fee, but we can't make clubs buy him. What's more interesting is Robinson saying he has been speaking to a couple of targets and hopes to have new sigings in 3 or 4 days. And with a massive reading between the lines, the language he was using to describe's Moult's situation sounded exactly like the language clubs use while they are negotiating a transfer with another club. I have a sneaking suspicion (based entirely on that language) there may be a deal in progress.

That's one interpretation. Another interpretation is that we'd rather keep them for another year than sell them off cheap.

That's what I was thinking. I'd like to get 500k for him, but if all we get after moving him on and paying our cut to Les and JB is even 50k profit, it was still a great signing.

I don't think anybody knows for sure the new investors aren't charging interest too - that's the problem with these secret deals. All that was said at the time was that the deal was 'more favourable.'

That still won't stop people posting on here claiming they know the exact details of a deal.

It's somewhat similar, but as you say, on much friendlier and more transparent terms, and without the crippling debt. And we didn't need a fire sale. And we own the club. Which is nice.

That's right. The model everybody kept saying we should follow was: Borrow money to pump into the club to pay for extra long contracts at above market rate salaries Restructure your debt with investor "fans" that offer better terms Sell off what valuable players you have Pay back the "fans" big chunks of transfer fees as interest Get relegated Post another loss for the year.

2 well worked goals, and Hastie lookng good again.

If nothing else, I think recent events in Dundee proved that Utd's much vaunted youth development model wasn't exactly sustainable or profitable.

Cracking result for what is, this season, a younger team. From Twitter, it sounded like a great second half performance.

Another reason it was important to stay up for this season.

Robinson said Cadden would net us 600k or more if he walked at the end of his contract. Anybody wants him mid contract will need to offer more than that. While it's great for us, of course, it's fees like this that make it close to impossible for us to sign Scottish players over the age of 16 or 17.

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