Hamilton V Dundee

[charliedee]

4 minutes ago, J_Kitamirike said:

For those who were at the game, is Dieng still convincing as our number 1 keeper or should Parish be brought back in?

Sounds like he made a couple of fantastic saves to keep us in the game but was at fault for their goal?

 

Who'd be a keeper,the saves will quickly be forgotten and the error constantly brought up...you can't drop a keeper for 1 mistake.

[Cobra]

9 minutes ago, Harry94 said:

You have to agree though that Craig Curran brings a work rate and battling quality at least?

He's not fancy but I can see why a manager would want him in the team. Kenny is great finishing and has a great brain but playing a Hamilton side without Matthew Kilgallon and the team having so much possession was a different prospect than today. I would like to see Curran play with someone though.

I think taking him off hurt us tbh. I get why he did it but the ball didn't stick at all after it. Kenny won a few smart fouls etc but I think Hamilton were happy to not have Curran charging into them.

Curran's work rate is excellent and I don't have a problem with him playing off the front man but he's never likely to score so playing him ahead of Miller doesn't make sense to me.

If we're going to score goals and win games we simply have to play with a goalscorer spearheading our attack, especially when we're incapable of keeping clean sheets (even when leading in injury-time against the league's worst attack).

It's very difficult to make an impact on games when coming off the bench with 10-15 minutes remaining.

[J_Kitamirike]

2 minutes ago, Charliedee said:

Who'd be a keeper,the saves will quickly be forgotten and the error constantly brought up...you can't drop a keeper for 1 mistake.

Very true..

Saves will keep us in a game but at the same time, an error can just as likely cost us the game too.

I was curious about Dieng's overall performance. If he performed well he should keep his place, despite the error.

[Valentke]

27 minutes ago, Harry94 said:

 

I don't think Killie will waltz into Dens and take the points IMO.

I feel the same - previously I had no hope against all bar the bottom sides, I think this squad will be far more competitive. 

[harry94]

2 minutes ago, J_Kitamirike said:

Very true..

Saves will keep us in a game but at the same time, an error can just as likely cost us the game too.

I was curious about Dieng's overall performance. If he performed well he should keep his place, despite the error.

Dieng was outstanding overall - he took some really difficult crosses in awkward areas and made a great reflex save, maybe save of the season.

No way in hell he should be dropped. He made a wee half error but he was in a difficult situation. He either come for it to put pressure on it or pretty much give up and give Hamilton a pop at goal from an area where they would be very well placed to score with their numbers. It might be worse than I remember but I genuinely think we'd be 4 points worse off if Hamilton or Parish played with their aerial ability being so poor.

I'd much rather have a keeper who makes a wee half mistake every so often but generally has that level of performance.

[Valentke]

14 minutes ago, J_Kitamirike said:

For those who were at the game, is Dieng still convincing as our number 1 keeper or should Parish be brought back in?

Sounds like he made a couple of fantastic saves to keep us in the game but was at fault for their goal?

 

It was no howler, ball ricocheted back towards our goal, two Accies players were bearing down on him and he had to stretch to get there first, it shanked off him but we still had plenty of opportunity to defend our goal- MacKinnon won’t finish like that again this season.

[CW 90+3 02/05/16]

Killie will be a very tough opponent. They were the better team last night.

Jones is almost unplayable and some of their lesser names like Power are having the season of their lives.

Still, this team won away at Tynecastle and have strengthened since then so you can't write it off.

Need to beat them or Hibs. Can't keep not winning home games as time will run out eventually.

Still plenty of time just now though and very tight at the bottom.

Got to remember we'd been bottom for several months until 11 days ago and now we're moaning we didn't go 5 points clear. Still picked up another point further away from St Mirren and Hamilton gained no ground on us.

That could have been a disaster today if we lost with half a new team which has just met and Hamilton got 3 further in front of us.

[harry94]

Just now, Valentke said:

It was no howler, ball ricocheted back towards our goal, two Accies players were bearing down on him and he had to stretch to get there first, it shanked off him but we still had plenty of opportunity to defend our goal- MacKinnon won’t finish like that again this season.

That's what I thought. It took a pretty weird spin too.

Feel a bit for Ryan McGowan as he will feel he could have cleared it right after it but everyone was disoriented and trying to get their position back.

I wouldn't really be too harsh on any of them for it.

[Valentke]

I thought Curran played well, gave the Accies defenders no rest. I think staring him over Kenny on the Astro was the right decision. Maybe an argument to do the opposite against less agricultural teams. 

[bjs]

59 minutes ago, Cobra said:

It's a bad moment for us. Where are the wins going to come from before the split?

Dundee v Killie
Livi v Dundee
Dundee v Hibs
Rangers v Dundee
Dundee v Hearts
Dundee v Celtic
St Mirren v Dundee
St Johnstone v Dundee
Dundee v Aberdeen

We really need the other two to keep dropping points on a weekly basis if we're going to stay up.

I’m going to stick my neck out and say we will win two and draw two of those nine games, so will go into the split with 22pts, I actually think 30pts might be enough to stay up. Yes it was two points dropped today, but also two points dropped by Hamilton as it was there home game. There’s promise as well, McGowan looked good, Deing is a good keeper, Wright should get great confidence from his goal and Andreas looks a good presence in the middle of the park. Hopefully as they start playing more with eachother then the team will get more.

[dblair]

53 minutes ago, Iain T Campbell said:

Zero football played by either team. Typical Macintyre performance trying to grind out a result against one of the poorest teams in the league. This is how things will be in every game from now on. Zero football with the emphasis being on trying to grind out a result and they expect fans to pay big money to watch what is nothing but rubbish.

Were you at the game? 

[bjs]

54 minutes ago, Iain T Campbell said:

Zero football played by either team. Typical Macintyre performance trying to grind out a result against one of the poorest teams in the league. This is how things will be in every game from now on. Zero football with the emphasis being on trying to grind out a result and they expect fans to pay big money to watch what is nothing but rubbish.

And if we do manage to grind out results then it will be job done