Livi v Dundee

This is the perfect game for us to get our first win of 2019, and score a few goals too. We need to play with a high intensity again and get an early goal to boost our confidence in front of goal, then the goals will flow again.


I think Gallagher was a booking away from a suspension before the Hearts game, so he may be suspended for this game, might see the loan signing Brown coming in if he is. Oddofin and Lamie as WB's again would be good, and hopefully Tiffoney is back fit.

Really looking forward to this game, after a weekend of no football I can't wait for us to get right in about Dundee and hopefully send them home with 0 points. Mon the Lions, put in a rip roaring performance here and take all 3 points.

Bertie Bassett wrote:Yeah a win here would be just what we need. It would ease the doubts that have been creeping in & put them in their place.

I know we have a comfortable lead over the bottom 3 but not too long ago we had a comfortable lead over Motherwell.

Only 13 games left to play and the bottom two would need to more than double the points they've taken 25 games to accumulate, very much doubt either of them will get above 31 points.

Strangely optimistic about this game and really looking forward to it. Like the look of Odoffin and think he'll be a really useful player to get the ball across the box for Hardie.

Menga is looking doubtful, according to CC's twitter only Robinson and Raffa are close to a return. You never know with Holt though, he likes making out players wont make it, only for them to be in the starting line up.

From what I read Menga and Tiffoney weren't going to make this game, but Robinson could start, or at least be in the squad for tomorrow's game.

Holt has said this kind of thing before though so both may well be in the team sheet. Dolly def wasn't as troublesome as he normally is in his last game though, his injury was def hampering him, so unless he's fully fit i'd rather have Robinson playing.

That's Motherwell 1-1 away and Dundee 1-2 home we've been done by officials not giving us a stonewall penalty, then you get Sevco being awarded 4 in the one game, 3 of which weren't penalties, it really is ridiculous that these officials are so incompetent and yet get to keep on refereeing games.

It also looked like the red card just suddenly got produced after a change of mind, Byrne walked away and suddenly Aitken chased after him holding his red card out, I honestly thought it was only going to be a yellow and thought if the ref thought it a red he'd have had the card out straight away. Didn't even make me concerned about it possibly being a red, it was mistimed but not anything that looked dangerous, complete joke of a ref.

Dundee were allowed more freedom to piss about with the ball around our box after that decision by Aitken, taking one of our main midfield player out of the game. Still couldn't see them scoring, their shooting was awful, little looping header and a peach of a free kick got them their goals though, and can see why they celebrated them so much, it was a result that moved them up to 10th place and gives them belief they can stay up.


As has been said, Hardie was isolated after the sending off too, he had to keep turning back with the ball looking for support that took 20 or so seconds to come, which gave their big No3 the chance to put a tackle in, would've been totally different if he had a player up there with him to lay the ball off to and then get himself into the box for a return pass.

Annoying as the defeat was due to match officials incompetence, we just have to move on to the next game and use that feeling of injustice to good use, motivating us a bit more against Killie. Hopefully we'll have Dolly and Tiffoney back fit for that game to give us some stronger options up front.