Negri's lovechild

He creates a tempo for them by his near constant running and harassing of players. They don't get that first goal last week if he doesn't play. While not being a great player, as you say, they lose intensity without him and that can only bode well for us.

Yeah last night i was still of the opinion that the game should still take place at Dens, but now i think the option should be removed from them and a suitable alternative venue should be chosen, maybe a public park somewhere in Dundee as they seem to have avoided climate change 🤣

That pizza looks the business btw 🤣 Could do with a few more bits of pepperoni, but the cheese 🤤

Drainage shouldnt be an issue then 🤣

Incredible that climate change in Dundee is only having an impact on one football ground when there's ome across the road that's playable, and apparently many public pitches are fine too 🤣

They had the opportunity to help us in the Walter Smith Europa Cup final run and they refused to do so. Double standards again from our supposed professional league system.

Not missing the mark there, and rightly so. Taking away from the fact of it being an important game etc, that is twice now supoorters have travelled far and wide to get there, the money and the time coming from their own pockets. Shambles again from Dundee and the SPFL.

Exactly. It now impacts us again as we've put the training into this game. They should be fined / deducted points as it's a ridiculous situation that anyone seeing the forecast for today and the previous games at Dens would have known would deem the pitch unplayable. Safe journey to any bears who made it up there.

You have the perfect guage right next door to Dundee. If Dundee United can host a game in the exact same conditions, the fault lies with Dundee and their poor drainage that they won't pay to sort. There should 100% be repercussions for Dundee if the game is called off, and points would be a good marker as they cannot guarantee they fan fulfil the fixture.

🤣 great minds think alike

Thank God Kemar is already injured or it would be a certainty!

That's more my concern as well. Makes a tricky game a lot tougher.

That middle patch and the goals look horrendous 🤣

I laugh but you aren't far off the mark there. Silva was awful for making a meal of things at the weekend, but look at the narrative that was being spun right after the old firm game about him being a diver, yet Furuhashi (who dives a lot) is given near sainthood.

One of those guys you never hear a bad word about. My wee mum saw him coming out the hotel she worked at when he was Rangers manager, she said hello to him and he stopped, asked her how she was doing and spent the next 15 minutes talking about Rangers with her. Classy man.

Weird thing is, the stadium 100 yards across the road will have a playable pitch, which lays the blame firmly at the feet of Dundee.

Congratulations to him. One man i've got the utmost respect for. Proper gentleman.

One thing that stands out with the player sales there is how awful we have been in getting value back on players. Best part of £20 million profit on those players alone, and that's Royal Antwerp ffs.

It would be up there with the 3-0 Neil McCann game if we went there this season and beat them, especially considering how we started the season and the shambles Clement inherited.

I don't know what it's like in Dundee, but it's been chucking it down in North Lanarkshire since yesterday. If it's like that there, and continues into tomorrow there's no way that pitch will be ok to play on. And if they do play the game in those conditions, it makes a mockery of the first call off and calls into question the ethical fortitude of the SPFL.

Brilliant as usual Bobby 👍

Wee Welsh wizard so he is.

We NEED to utilise our pacy players at theirs. As you say, play compactly, press the life out of them when we need to, and we should walk away with at least a draw. We should have more minutes in a few players by the time that game comes around, Sima should be up to speed too. I agree that Lawrence and Wright need to be far away from the managers thoughts come that game

Anybody in wishaw / craigneuk that has jumpleads or a trickle charger? I've bloody drained my car battery listening to the game on the radio 😭

Happens way more often in big games than we need it to.