steelboy

Surely the fact we have two Louis in the team is worthy of a song?

We're not quite at that point yet....

Same team as the previous two games. Sutton on the bench for Saints.

Boxing style public weigh in every Friday with Wee Dan's height marked up on a goal post by a marker pen.

Lasley looks far fitter than 12 months ago but it would be hard not to be.

We had a good record at Perth for a while then two times in a row McCall pissed on the travelling support by making no effort to win and now it's four defeats and fairly miserable performances in a row there. They've conceded 8 goals so far and have injury problems at the back so this should be an opportunity for us to demonstrate we can score goals.

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It's a good laugh watching Marvin trying to head them though.

I make it 8 wins? Rangers x 2, ICT x 2, Killie x2, St Mirren and Accies.

The positives yesterday that were despite Law's efforts and Taylor's no show we held our shape well and made a much better job of matching Aberdeen physically than we have over the past few seasons. McManus and Laing were both good and Hammell had a good first hour then his head went down after the free kick debacle. Ainsworth didn't get much service and it was pointless moving him to the right but he kept going for 90 so hopefully he's going to have his head screwed on this season. Dom Thomas also did well and despite being about 6 inches shorter than Johnson won more headers in five minutes than MJ did all game. McDonald came onto a game late on as well. I'd stick McDonald right up top and play Thomas, Johnson and Ainsworth in behind at Perth.

That's great. If they switch goals for points for effort we'll have a brilliant season.

I thought Moult was terrible. What's he good at? He looked miles out his depth, Keegan/Casagolda style. Taylor was miles off the pace but had a few decent touches and will hopefully improve with fitness. Josh Law on the other hand needs dropped asap, a complete liability. The bed spread mob will say it was close but United and Aberdeen both knew they only had to match us first half and second half the three points are gift wrapped.

A debate that was only ever a debate due to Dundee United's pro bono PR department at BBC Sport Scotland.

I'll be surprisde if we play anything other than 4-5-1. McDonald up top and tell him he either bucks up his ideas or forgets about his midweek flights to London.

The problem is we don't have one.

It's possible that Chalmers is a better right back than Law, it's not a huge challenge. Slating Hammell is laughable but also not surprising coming from the man who thinks there's a way to prevent opponents crossing the ball. Anything other than a defeat is a huge bonus tomorrow.

The United game was a poor performance on the pitch for me and a worse one from the manager. Barraclough has been here a while now and his Premiership record isn't looking great. The next 6 league games are sink or swim for Barraclough, he needs goals or wins or he'll be in an uncomfortable position by the end of September.

You're being a bit of drama queen here. It's 2015, not 1981. The guys in the Rangers end would have had work on the monday the same as the vast majority in our end, apart from the odd lunatic people aren't going to run on a football park to fight any more with cctv, the media coverage and sentencing even if they really wanted to.

The question has always been "could the club have done any more to prevent this happening?" and if the answer is no there is no punishment. Considering the crap that Celtic and Rangers have gotten away with over the years we should not be getting punished for this. There was a wall of stewards but if kids want to get on they will get on.

They'll just come to the same conclusion they always do, the club couldn't have done any more to prevent it.

I think we're blackballed for crowd trouble anyway.

Sorry to hear that mate. Hopefully the club send the blonde physio round to see you with some new trainers.

If Pearson is out for a month or more we can't go with just three centre mids at the club and especially not a 35 y.o, a 20 y.o just back from a serious injury and a completely unproven 18 year old. One centre mid is a must regardless, two is possibly required depending on this injury. Even if we bring in two it's still a thin squad and everyone should get their chance this season.

If we do sign Samson he'll be the best back up keeper we've had in a long time. He's miles better than Twardzik, Nielsen, Hollis, Meldrum or Corr. Signing him either means we have enough left in the budget to bolster midfield or we're worried about Ripley leaving in January and being left up shit Creek.

Just stuck us in a treble with Partick to win at Accies and Killie to win at home to Dundee. 30/1