Rate the Manager: Livingston (Home, 26 Dec 2018)

[TheDarkBlues]

How did you rate Jim McIntyre's team selection, substitutions and performance today?

[Guest]

I’m genuinely interested in peoples thoughts today. The last 3 humpings were down to McCann and his players. Does McCann get any credit for today’s point?

[Valentke]

I'll give some credit to NM for the one point and also give him lots more credit for it not being three. 

[BigG]

I’ve certainly seen improvement under McIntyre, however, this is not a hard task as NMc made coco the clown look a tactical genius.!

If McIntyre keeps this Dundee side up it would be the biggest achievement since -25 point campaign. 

[chomp my root]

The last minute change from Woods to Kamara aside, which I'm assuming he had no control over, I'd say he got it more or less right. We needed to get in Livi's faces as its the way they play, we had guys out there who were willing to do that, some not so much but that's not their game. Bringing on Nabi was an odd one I thought, maybe giving him a last chance to impress, maybe not universally popular but I'd have been tempted to replace Kamara with Spence rather than take C Miller off. Opinions will vary I'm sure. 

[barkblue]

Gave him a 3. Hardly a managerial masterclass, but when we can barely fill the bench because the squad is so bereft of options I'm not sure what else he is meant to do.

Quite bizarre reading the personal campaigns being played out in just about every thread on here this week.

[chomp my root]

13 minutes ago, Barkblue said:

Gave him a 3. Hardly a managerial masterclass, but when we can barely fill the bench because the squad is so bereft of options I'm not sure what else he is meant to do.

Quite bizarre reading the personal campaigns being played out in just about every thread on here this week.

Its almost like some folk are more into the post match sh1tfest on forums than they are the game. No..... that can't be be it...... Shirley.......

[barkblue]

9 minutes ago, Chomp my root said:

Its almost like some folk are more into the post match sh1tfest on forums than they are the game. No..... that can't be be it...... Shirley.......

Or like they actually want to create the sh1tfest.

[StobbieDee]

9 hours ago, BigG said:

I’ve certainly seen improvement under McIntyre, however, this is not a hard task as NMc made coco the clown look a tactical genius.!

If McIntyre keeps this Dundee side up it would be the biggest achievement since -25 point campaign. 

Bizzare statement since we are an almost an  insurmountable 4 points behind the all conquering Hamilton and 2 behind St Mirren.

 

[BigG]

3 hours ago, StobbieDee said:

Bizzare statement since we are an almost an  insurmountable 4 points behind the all conquering Hamilton and 2 behind St Mirren.

 

Not really, statistically only 2 teams in 20 years has survived whilst being bottom at Xmas. We have the poorest goal scoring in the league and the worst defence, a subs bench yesterday full of kids and only 2 wins all season.

maybe you see it slightly different tho, you say only 2 points and 4 points behind. 

[Travellingdee]

4 minutes ago, BigG said:

Not really, statistically only 2 teams in 20 years has survived whilst being bottom at Xmas. We have the poorest goal scoring in the league and the worst defence, a subs bench yesterday full of kids and only 2 wins all season.

maybe you see it slightly different tho, you say only 2 points and 4 points behind. 

I think I read on here recentky one of those teams was a JM team.

[Cobra]

18 minutes ago, BigG said:

Not really, statistically only 2 teams in 20 years has survived whilst being bottom at Xmas. We have the poorest goal scoring in the league and the worst defence, a subs bench yesterday full of kids and only 2 wins all season.

maybe you see it slightly different tho, you say only 2 points and 4 points behind. 

I don't think this is a stat we need to worry about. In recent years Dundee, Hearts and United had too much ground to make up from Christmas onwards so they understandably didn't survive.

The fact we are the worst team in the league half way through the season is obviously a concern and we are certainly contenders to go down but whether we were 10th, 11th or 12th on Christmas Day is not particularly significant. We're in the mix to go down with St Mirren and Accies but we're also in a decent position to get out of trouble.