Madness is Tangerine in Colour

No doubt the referee fucked that for us tonight but my god, my beloved club looks a sorry, sorry sight. Pitch is crap, team lacks quality, experience and leadership, the manager still doesn't appear to be able to get us playing in any sort of coherent style, boys clearly want away and haven't been interested since we went out of Europe, the manager looks to me like he's ran out of ideas and enthusiasm. The scary thing is, changing him now would probably result in an even cheaper, pishier option because the Chairman (the root of the problem) is only interested sucking us dry. I heard someone else say recently that this is the tail-end of the Thompson-era playing out all over again. He's dead right. The growing gaps in the stands (ridiculous kick of times and horrendous weather notwithstanding) suggest apathy is starting to set in big time. This is Mellonball with punters in. It sounds bizarre but I actually feel less invested just now than I did when we went down a few s...

Lets get straight into it: 1. The keeper has now turned into a liability and his confidence is clearly shot to pieces. He needs to be taken out of the firing line for his own sake as much as ours. His limp-wristed, one-handed punches might work abroad but are being exposed almost weekly in the more direct game in Scotland. His inability to think for himself or deviate from instructions is also putting us under real pressure in some games. People have suggested a loan in January. Scotland have four keepers none of whom are first choice at their clubs (two of them are at the same club ffs) all of whom will want to be first choice come the World Cup. Worth a shout. 2. Not replacing Pappoe when he got injured in August was a massive mistake which needs to be rectified in January. Bringing in Eskessen then allowing the media team to portray him as a like-for-like replacement was also a mistake. The boy has shown nothing so far whatsoever in any sense. I'd go so far as to say if wages ne...

  Tearing into action And there was me thinking that a good break in June would allow any and all niggles to heal setting things up nicely for a tough pre-season. But no, a pulled calf hung around for about 8 weeks, then a knee ligament injury came, went away, then flared up again triggering an x-ray and soon (hopefully) an MRI scan.  But enough about me 😄what about United???? The current state of play is: Graham (hamstring torn off bone? back November) Strain (hamstring injury: 6 weeks) Trapanovski (hamstring injury: 6 weeks) Pappoe (ankle ligaments: 6 months, loan cancelled) Nammo (injury not specified, supposedly back 'soon') Fatah (been out 3 weeks, just coming back, behind on fitness) Watters (unwell, back Thursday seemingly) Sapsford (ankle, out for 4 weeks) You could also add in Jort who had a pulled calf, missed the entire pre-season then was sold). The million-dollar question is of course: Are we just really unlucky? Or could the club be doing something different to ...

No-one's making it out (of training) alive... Slow and Steady Wins the Race As I start this we have just beaten St Johnstone again and have hauled ourselves right back in the mix, not just for any European place, but for 3rd. It's mental to think of this happening for a number of reasons, firstly because we're not pleasing on the the eye. We're absolutely brutal if truth be told. Secondly, our budget is much lower than the teams up beside us and (from what I hear) is much lower than what most people think, below the majority of the Premier League in fact. We're still paying for the lavish spending of the previous regime with 'Heads Of...' everywhere, inflated players wages and 'Consultancy fees...' of such a frivolous nature you could swim in the gravy surrounding them (as borne out by the most recent accounts). We've done well to recover from the derby debacle and, more broadly, our largely poor form since the new year. The manager and the playe...