Scottish Football

(11-12-2013 23:22 )Joey 27 Wrote:  would you support the other dundee team if they were in the champions league? i would never support Twatford, sorry i mean Watford

Yes I would Joey, however thats never going to happen, there is only one team in Dundee and thats Dundee United.

Historically speaking Dundee used to be the bigger club however since Jim Mclean took over the helm back in 1971 then fortunes were reversed.

Also I bet you never knew this either but our home kit used to be white and the away one used to be black. All that changed in 1969 when we played in Texas in a pre season friendly and because they also happened to play in white too we ended up borrowing their away kits as to avoid a colour clash which just so happened to be in tangerine which we sort of liked and immediately adopted it as our new home colour and the rest is history as to say with the black being added to the shorts later on in the 70's

East Stirling managed another 2-0 defeat against lowly Berwick, and got 2 players sent off whilst we were at it

Brian Gilmour scored a wind assisted goal from 45 yards today for Ayr United, didn't count for much as they eventually lost 4-2 to Dunfermline Athletic but still worth seeing it if you can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ykwu9jYnSQ

Brian Gilmour goal, from inside his own half wind assisted @0.30 ish mark

East Stirling managed a 1-0 win at Elgin, which shoots us back up to 3rd in the table Still 5 points off the top, but a better outlook than this morning.

Props to Stranraer, whose very late goal yesterday finally ended Rangers' 100% record.

And perhaps the less said about Dundee United the better

if it hadn't been 94th min that Stranraer got their equalizer, ref would have given them dodgy penalty to make sure they won

Well Doddle I went through to see Dundee United play Ross County in which we won 1-0 however it wasn't the same blistering performance that I had seen lately. I think that complacency was beginning to sink in so in many ways getting beat yesterday was a wake up call for us and a stark reminder that you have to work for the victory and not just simply turn up and take it for granted that you are going to rattle in 4 goals every game and dispose of the opposition that easy.

All the results from yesterday went as follows.

Aberdeen 0 Motherwell 1
Hearts 0 Kilmarnock 4
Partick Thistle 0 Inverness CT 0
Ross County 0 Hibernian 2
St Johnstone 0 Celtic 1
St Mirren 4 Dundee United 1

Again looking at the results Hearts are still failing to win against the sides they really ought to be taking points off if they are to stand any realistic chances of survival.

It pains me to say it but really good result for St Mirren, elsewhere the Terry Butcher revival at Hib's is beginning to take shape now.

In the lower leagues I think a few eyebrows may have been raised when they seen that the mighty Rangers could only draw 1-1 with Stranraer

Quote:And perhaps the less said about Dundee United the better

Like, ditto, dude Who do you think you are, Fort William?

Having watched Rangers at Forfar, Stenhousemuir & Airdrie, it is clear what teams need to do to live with Rangers, put an artificial pitch down, they have struggled on them both this season & last season