IveSeenTheLight

Of course the St J job is not yet available so your thinking that the Utd job is too big a step. from top to bottom, really.......... I'm taking the positives from Saturday and DM will use this as a reminder for the remaining of the season

I've just read Is this a "make us an offer we cannot refuse" statement. What realistic offer would Brown accept? What would the fans accept?

I fully understand and agree, however if there is a chance that by acknowledging the OldCo is inexplicably linked with NewCo and thus they need to service all of OldCo's debts, then that would be a great thing in my opinion. I understand they are still flying by the seat of their pants, month to month and hoping that they secure promotion and increased ST sales to survive. If OldCo debt pushed them beyond the brink then I would not be upset.

Well, it depends on who you think has more experience should the NI job become available. Certainly O'Neil only managed Brechin City and Shamrock Rovers, so having managed St J's to the Scottish cup and European experience 4 years in a row already puts TW up there.

Not at all. If I wanted to wind up you guys I would be making reference to UTD seeking permission and Wright not ruling it out. I think anything UTD are doing will just strengthen TW's discussions with Brown. However if the NI job was to become available, I do seriously wonder if that would tempt TW away fro McDiarmid

I can;t see TW at Utd, but I notice that O'Neil is stalling over the NI contract offer. If that were to fall through, I do wonder if TW would be interested in that role.

Ach it was just a snap back at the big bold blue 5-1, but the quip could be put down as banter of course. Hoping TW's superior tactics works well against Celtic as well. We won't win the league, we shouldn't win the league, but the longer it's possible it makes the league interesting. Who wants it over wit 10-15 games to go? 5 years in Europe in a row would be a nice achievement, but is it realistically sustainable once Hearts and Rangers re-establish themselves in the top flight.

You certainly was clinical on Saturday, although wasn;t the post from where Shaughnaysay prodded in the rebound. I actually though McLean was still offside for your second when he ran back to head that in (not making excuses as we should still have dealt with it). Being pedantic, it was never a foul by Rooney to win the header back to McGinn. Even at half time, I though we could turn it around, but you closed it out in the second half to deserve your win.

I wonder if having O'Halloran and millar out affected your team tactics on Saturday. You correctly called earlier that the HT score was not a true reflection, but you came out, scored 2 relative quick goals and closed out the remainder of the half. All the best for the rest of the season and see you all again at new year.

To be pedantic, it was 1-5 Well done again, does that make your season or will you kick on to try and get into the top 6?

I never used the word negative. I'm sure anyone at the game would have seen that immediately when you lost the ball, you got 10 men behind, dropping 20 yards to get organised and restrict us. You also made sure that anybody wide had two men on them restricting crosses. When I say you were defensively organised, it was a compliment. At times, I wish our defenders could properly clear the area and get out of the box. I only recall twice where I thought that St J got the bal down and played some good interpassing to progress up the pitch, both of which just failed at the last point to make a good goal scoring opportunity. The rest was long balls, my opinion, like it or not. It worked though as you did not win many of those long balls, but your midfield snapped up every 2nd ball. It was here that you won the battle of the midfield and the game. Your long ball game was very effective in clearing your area and gaining yards up the pitch, from which you gained advantage from the set pieces and Aberdeen dealed poorly with. You came with a plan and executed it well. I just wonder if that plan works as well if you concede the first. All the best until 2nd January when we come looking to get that crucial first goal

You'll see I posted in the Just Back From the Game Thread, I didn;t hide and congratulated you on your win.

Interesting that I am being viewed as arrogant, when I was totally complimentary and objective. I was not making excuses, I said we were beaten by the better team on the day and your victory was thoroughly deserved.

In what way, I congratulated you on your tactics, it worked well on Saturday. I was very complimentary on your result and merely offered my objective opinion. Disgree if you like, but certainly my aim was to congratulate and be objective. Incidentally, it was very hard to be objective to the Aberdeen team on Saturday, every single player was poor and did not turn up. As DM said, we were weak and naive.

You were the better team, no denying it. You deserved your victory Aberdeen just didn't turn up today. It's hard to be positive about any of the Aberdeen players performances. You nullified our team, closed down extremely well and when we did press, your teams ethic was to get the ball as far away from your goals as possible, chase down and then start again. You didn't cut us apart (although our defence was all over the place), your goals came from long range efforts outside or set pieces. Once you were ahead, you could simply clear your lines and start again. Craig was absolutely shattered, with 20 mins to go he was asking the linesman how long to go. It'll be interesting to see how effective it is over the season