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Good first 20 minutes, we should have taken the lead but we didn't and looked burst afterwards sitting way too deep. Our strikers were 35 yards from our goal line and Celtic's centre halves were sitting 10 yards in our half. You just can't play like that against Celtic as their players will always be better at one-twos, making little triangles, passing, winning the ball and finding space in tight situations. It's only a matter of time. You actually need to play a more expansive type of football and we didn't, at least after those first 20 minutes. First two Celtic goals came from us back pedalling far too much when we should have defended much higher up the pitch. At 2-0 it was game over and basically a training match. I assume as it went to VAR it was a red card but I didn't see anything in it from where I was. Overall a match were Celtic's overall quality, at least in a Scottish context, was clear. With the exception of Lennon Miller none of our players get close to theirs but I still would like to see a more positive attitude in general. When we are on the ball we should be seeing multiple players automatically making runs into the box and it's like maybe one will go, or maybe not. I understand that physically, mentally, technically we don't have top level players but I'd still like to see more attacking intent. Defences are poor in this league, that's including Celtic's, and if you can get that right you'll carry a big threat. Unfortunately we aren't and it's mostly tactically and systemic rather than the actual players.

All our best performances this season have been Robinson up top with two attacking midfielders in a 3-4-2-1. You obviously have a bee in your bonnet about this guy. Robinson was better first half than Watt was second half. If it's a choice between Robinson's shot stats or winning I know which one is more important. The big problem we have isn't Robinson playing, it's having 5 across the midfield with no natural attacker out the lot of them.

Yep. Poor quality match. Dundee have won it and they pretty much did nothing in the second half. Was a bit puzzled by the half time substitutes. To be fair we were poor but taking off the two strikers who had been totally isolated during the match didn't seem like the correct cure for that particular illness. Once again two up front didn't really work and we looked like we did earlier in the season before we brought in Maswanhise to link up the play. So why then take off the two strikers, replace them with another two and continue with a broken system? Overall, a match with not much quality or chances. Tavares should have finished and skied it and I think it was Lennon Miller that got off a long range shot that the keeper did well to save. Other than that wasn't really anything to talk about other than a few 18 yard boxes stramashes. Dundee probably just edged it as they had some momentum in the 30 minutes up to half time and you could say a goal was coming but really today was a big let down, even putting aside the fact that we lost.

11 of Dundee's 13 matches this season have been 2.5 goals or over. If you just count league matches of the 14 matches Dundee and Motherwell have played, 12 of them have been 2.5 goals or over. Might be a bad day to be a goal net.

Just watched the Rangers highlights to see what the fuss is about and......that Hibs penalty is nothing like the one in our game. The Souttar one should be a penalty but I don't think it should even be a yellow card. Casey's was a flat up save! 🤣

I'm going for Miller. Though Liam Gordon was excellent as well.

He was unlucky to get a serious injury right after joining Hull. These things can make or break a career. Just look at David Turnbull who's really struggled after two serious injuries.

Thought we probably deserved the three points even though most of the 2nd half we were fairly deep. Goal we lost was extremely sloppy. Looked to me like Davor just wasn't paying attention, we lose the ball and then from that passage of play we lose a goal. It was especially annoying as St Mirren hadn't really look very good up to that point and we give a goal away that shouldn't have happened and a big confidence boost to the opposition. Fortunately we got the penalty fairly quickly after that. Didn't see it myself but I was told it was a pull. Don't think I've felt as confident with Lennon Miller stepping up to take a penalty since the days of Tommy Coyne. Predictably the keeper was no where near it. After that I felt we were the better team for the rest of the first half. Second started with a bit of a disaster, not really switched on, give away the penalty and a red card. Don't think there is much argument over the decision. Think Ox got a touch to it to get it off the post. That was huge for us as it would have been a very different game if it'd been 2-2 and a man down. Rest of the match St Mirren were on the front foot but we defended well enough and had the best chance of the match with the St Mirren keeper making what looked from the other end of the ground as an amazing save. Though Liam Gordon was excellent today. Wilson looks like an established first team player and Lennon Miller was fantastic and had a couple of good chances to get a hat trick today which would have been a moment. Unfortunate that Ebiye got a start today but then had to come off so early due to the red card.

I must have dreamed he got sent off last week! 🤣 EDIT - OK, he came off injured against Kilmarnock so that must have transformed into a suspension in my head.

I think Olusanya will be suspended so that's good cos I've always been impressed by him when I've seen St. Mirren and he's on a good run of form. Of course we'll be up against three former strikers rather than just one next time......

I don't normally pay any attention to newspapers, and haven't for a long time, but I saw a Daily Record this morning and our win last night wasn't even mentioned until 8 pages in from the back page.

In a frenetic match Lennon Miller was the guy show showed calm, poise and class. It was fitting that hit the penalty with all the attributes he'd shown for the previous 92 minutes.

A game where winning was more important than a good performance. The performance wasn't bad as such but It was a very tight, scrappy match, especially first half. Was crying out for a bit more composure, only Lennon Miller seemed to be able to take a touch and control the ball. Wasn't many chances for either team but I thought Dundee Utd, maybe just edged it in overall play but there wasn't much between the teams. Scored at a great time and looked like a fantastic finish. No chance for the keeper. Second half we started the better team and had a period of pressure and most of the chances but nothing clear cut. About 70 minutes or so you could see us starting to time waste, falling deeper and Dundee Utd started looking likely to equalise. Great save by Ox kept us ahead but it was almost inevitable that Moult would score and it was a great finish to be fair. It's one of those weird things in football that it was almost a relief when Utd scored cos you always felt we'd play further up the pitch at 1-1 than we did at 1-0. Last period of the game was fairly end to end and we always looked a threat at that stage of the match. The guys that came off the bench did well, though Kaleta was good going forward in the latter stages. And we should all know that Ebiye coming off the bench gives you something up top. I'm not 100% on Davor but I thought he had a decent match tonight. On Robinson up top, we are playing a system where we have been competitive in every game, Top 6 in the league and are in the semi final of the League Cup. There's the big picture for those that don't see it.

First of all I hope you enjoyed his goal tonight. Secondly he literally has the best pass completion stats of any one in the squad. Also best stats on dribbling. Thirdly do I really need to explain the game to you? You know as well as I do that just holding the ball up for a couple of seconds can have a big effect on a match. Or just running into or standing in an area, Or putting your foot on the ball and bringing it under control. Or drawing a foul. or an almost infinite number of other actions.

Robinson does a lot of stuff that doesn't get noticed and doesn't show up in stats. I'd like to see Ebiye feature as a starter but we need to find a system and that means experimentation which loads of people on here would probably complain about if it didn't work out like in the Ross County match.

We have 4,000 - 4,500 fans and probably fewer are going to go to a match not on the season ticket. Even back in the day when it was a tenner to get in, you could just turn up at a turnstile and the quality of the football was infinitely better, we were rarely getting over 5,000 home supporters. There was also a genuine belief we could actually win a cup which I don't think really exists any more. It's not piss poor, it's just the size of our support.

It's actually nice unlike every other piece of kit this season!

We've not qualified at U21 level since 1996.

I don't think it's a old firm bias but it is infuriating. Maguire used to play over Turnbull in the U21s set up. They just don't have a fucking clue.

From watching the highlights, could Oxborough done better at the goal? Wouldn't put it in the blunder category but it seem to go under him. This was some 'glanced' arithmetic so I hope I got it right but I make it 7 out of 14 goals scored by defenders so far this season.

Definitely a good finisher. Had a decent record in Norway so I always thought he could get goals here. I like 2 up front but the issue is playing a formation where you get some attacking width cos otherwise the two forwards just end up being totally isolated like they were the last time we played two up front against Ross County.

I think we can be pretty certain he's not the White Pele. Sounded like a deserved victory. 7 points from 4 matches is a good tally going into the break, 9 matches this season and only a Butland save from being undefeated. Decent start to the season considering some of the discussion.

Wasn't that impressed by Vale first time. Certainly not enough to bring him back. Tavares hasn't cut it at a dismal Hibs side. I suppose you can offer the Theo Bair' defence on that one. For me not that exciting a transfer window but winning matches is more important than all the side show stuff.

First of all I saw people that were supposed to be boycotting in other sections of the stand so I'm guessing not all are as united on the boycott as it would appear. Secondly the atmosphere was better on Saturday. More natural, less choreographed, singing from all areas/stands and no constant drum or that intolerable with the megaphone. Thirdly I've not gone to away games for a couple of years but before that I used to go to virtually every away game and the behaviour of a section of our fans was utterly embarrasing and very worthy of police involvement. I doubt it's changed much. Fourthly, I have no contacts inside Fir Park, but I've been told by others the club has generally been fairly supportive of our ultras (in whatever iteration) and yet every time the club has asked them not to cross lines, pyro for instance, they have repaid the club with intransigence and defiance over the issues. Fifthly, groups trying to use their fan power as leverage against the club over the kind of issues that they have is the kind of self absorbed behaviour that almost all of these groups end up displaying. It's arrogant and self regarding. When supporters groups put their own interests before the clubs, especially on issues that can harm the club reputationally, legally or financially, then those fans have overstepped the mark. It's clear these types of groups always put their own interests ahead of the clubs. while masquerading as diehard fans. I'm pretty confident many of these guys will never buy an adult ticket.

Just from watching the highlights there......Tom Sparrow could have sat on his heels and we don't get that crucial third goal. I think he's done really well to follow up that mistake from Salazar cos a lot of players wouldn't have bothered and nothing comes out of it. That's a good example of the kind of things that you need to do in a game to get three points. Hopefully we can show that commitment more often.