El Grew

Absolutely spot on mate.

Cracking good cup tie. Draw probably fair result. They have better players than us but this was more like 'Well teams of years gone past that despite being up against better players, pulled as a team and hassled, harried and chased and denied better players time and space to play knocking them off their stride. Can't really understand the complaints about the ref. I thought he handled the game really well - managed to recognise the cheats in the Utd team and dealt with them straight off. Only complaint, why did he or his linesman fail to spot the a foul against Gunning when he was clearly tripped in the build-up to their first goal?

The only surprise about yesterday's result is that anyone is surprised at it. Having supported them for more years than I can remember now I know that everytime we get into a good position to achieve something we reach for the self-destruct button. At present we have far too many small and lightweight players in the side who are simply not robust and pyhsically strong enough to play in the SPL. So when they come up against the likes of Hamilton, St Mirren, ICT etc. they struggl and are too easily knocked around. McCall needs to take a leaf out of Colin Calderwood's book at Hibs. He had a terrible run of results when he arrived at Hibs but then he realised he had too many weaklings that couldn't physically match many of their opponents. Since then he's brought in a number of bigger physical players (admittedly they can also play a bit) who are not so easily knocked about and lo and behold 5 wins and a draw.

Hammer, head, nail. Does not have the physical attributes to be an SPL centre-back so was never going to make it down south regardless of the league he went to. To be fair I believe his position when he came into the first team was actually left-back, a position that I think he could play very well in even at a higher level. At a stretch he might do a job in midfield - played there a couple times for Scotand U-19s and scored I think.

The ref got the Lasley booking spot on. It was not his first foul and he did pull the Celtic player's shirt and the referee was only about 5 yards away with an excellent view of it.

Just back home. Absolutely dumbstruck!

FFS. Wind yer neck back in! Who said anything about Dundee offering a threat? I was agreeing with another poster's remarks about an entirely different matter.

What we need is a virtual fecking pitch. On second thoughts no because our virtual groundsmen would feck that up too.

Beat Celtic!!?? If that were to happen there'd be an enquiry into irregular betting patterns around Parkhead bookies! Bottom line, as I've said before is that our players are like piss poor racehorses - unable to repeat their form. Chance to get 3 straight wins + go 4th in SPL and we lose at home to a team getting their first win of 2011. Says it all. Too many f*cking losers in the team. I think McCall will be learning now that he has inherited a number of players who he will need to ship out at the end of the season. We need to get some honest hard working players in who are prepared to battle their corner all the time and not just when it comes up their humph.

Agree with you there Lip. Also consider that Dundee are regularly pulling in in excess of 5,000 fans at home games even in the 1st Division and have the same potential to be as good as their accross street neighbours. IMO JB is getting out now while the getting out is good - this whole 'new concept' of a ten club SPL is going to finally kill Scottish football off.

I know its early days and I only saw him in the highlights but from what I did see he does appear to have that wee bit of class that all real good players have. Probably just needs games now to get himself match fit.

Waiter! Large slice of humble pie here! Judging by our bookings count it looks as though we re-discovered our constitutional fortitude tonight. Well done guys.

Its odds-on Aberdeen will score at least once and therefore we would need two to win. Since we don't look like a team that can keep a clean sheet OR have one goal in us just now never mind two then we will lose.

Getting the draw for the next round of the cup the same night as the games got played and straining at the wireless to see who we got.

That actually might be be nearer the mark than you think.

Yes, its laudable that the clubs have decided to reduce the gate price but I think this is more in fear that live TV coverage will lead to nobody actually turning up and paying to watch the match - and believe me that day is getting ever and ever closer. If this game had been on a Saturday with a 3pm KO I would be going but as its on a Sunday with a 1.15pm KO and its live on TV I won't be going. IMO the SPL needs to tell the TV folk to gtf, stop live TV coverage all together and start working at getting the fans back into grounds again to watch games.

Ouch x 6! In any season taking points from the OF are a bonus and we certainly don't bank on getting any away from home and tankings are always more likely than not. Having said that, we set-up today with 4-5-1 which probably meant we had 9 players behind the ball for most of the game ("official stats" show we only had 35% possession) and with that formation I would not expect to win BUT similarly I would not expect to ship 6 goals. Players have to have good mental strength and constituional fortitude when playing the OF and I'm afraid our lot (and not just today as we shipped 4 in our previous visit to Ibrox) have shown far too often that they are sadly lacking in this, sometimes against others in the SPL. I think judgment on McCall really has to wait until we see how 'his team' performs next season. However I'm sure he has already worked out who he can rely on and who he can't so I fully expect to see a number of the current squad being moved out and replaced.

I don't know if anyone else agrees with me but IMO John Sutton is the best professional footballer at our club and a shining example to everyone at the club and to any youngsters. You never see or hear anything bad about him on or off the field. He never complains whether he's playing in poisition, out of position or on the bench. When he plays he always gives 100% shirks nothing and plays for the jersey. He Added to this is his goals tally some of which have proved to be vital. Just look how much it meant to him yesterday to get the second goal in a (with the greatest respect to Stranraer) cold, miserable, rain-soaked Scottish 3rd division backwater. . I just hope that the club can convince John that his future is with us.

Actually Findlay its 60/40 home team. But you miss my point we have made the square root of f*ck all as the aggregate gates of all these games won't add-up to much.

Very poor performance and few pass marks. Fair dos to Stranraer they played very well and with a wee bit of composure and luck might have nicked a goal which would certainly have made things interesting. Nice to see the ground improvements from the last time I was down there - auld garden shed selling the pies now replaced with a proper 'kiosk' Oh and I think they'd taken the flymo to tidy-up the terracing.

Another away draw?!! FFS we must be one of the unluckiest teams in cup competition draws. So far this season, 5 draws in the two cup comps = 1 home tie (Dundee Utd in CIS). Brechin away; Dundee Away; Stranraer away; Dundee Utd away. So barring an replay, if we are to get to a semi we will need to to do so without a home tie. It looks as though the club (yet again) won't make much money from the cup comps.

Game live on BBC. Ticket price = £20. Hassle getting in and out of Hampden. Too close to the blue nose neanderthals. Likely to get pumped. Stay home, have a few brews in comfort, watch on TV. Sorry but I just can't get excited about this game.

Seen the highlights. Penalty award was of the soft variety but tehnically correct. Craigan jumped into Duberry and had a hand on his chest; referee about 15 feet away with clear view. No complaint. Craigan = bombscare = get shot. Move Saunders to centre-back to partner Hutchison and bring in Page at right back/move Hately to right back. We are not going to win any of the two cups, we are not going to get relegated and I think the best we will finish in the SPL is 8th so we might as well make the changes now and get them bedded-in for next season.

I believe that this is correct. I also remember that it used to be taken down aabout 10-15 minutes before the end of a game so you knew how long there was to go then. First time I saw this I think it was big Peter McCloy's brother that used to take it down.

Im proud to say that I refused to go and see us when that clown was in charge!