Livi v Dundee - Sat 20th Oct '18

Only concerns are manager of the month curse & possible positive bounce because of McCann getting punted.

On all evidence so far this season we are better than them; hopefully by the time we go to the airport to fly back we will have another 3 points on the board.

Dundee have a sense of injustice following the loss of their manager and that terrible penalty decision against Killie. They seem to create lots of chances and miss most of them, and that’ll change at some stage. New manager impact? Perhaps. But they’re already complaining about the pitch being ‘sticky’ and Livi being ‘tough to play against’. All sounds like insecurity and excuses ready for a defeat.
We’ve got so much going for us right now and a win today puts us 15 points ahead of them already. Easy team talk for the Manager of the Month.
Sibbald is getting back to fitness and pushing for some game time now. Any word on Hardie?
Another clean sheet would be great and a couple of goals up the other end. Dolly and Pittman. 2-0.

Boom! I almost cracked a smile. Almost.

Couldn’t make it today due to work. Was the performance as good as the scoreline suggests?

also seen over 2000 attendance

4 goals a clean sheet and misdemeanor ur 1st point is to slate the pitch........?

Comments about the pitch are nonsense and a complete distraction. When our games are being played in February, and others are postponed because of frost or saturation, it’ll prove to be a shrewd move by the club. The surface is consistent, unlike grass pitches which can be like a brick o e week and like a quagmire the next. Some of the grass pitches in Scotland are a disgrace. Let’s chat again in February and March.
This talk of players getting injured on artificial surfaces is also a nonsense. Correlation doesn’t mean causation! Players get injured all the time, on grass pitches too, so I wish people would stop trotting out the drivel spouted by the Bigot Brothers from Glasgow and their supporting media.

If we were sitting bottom of the league, and teams were spanking us 4-0 every week, there would be no talk about the pitch.

We know that Livi isn’t a popular club with the media or with other clubs. They don’t like that we are enjoying a period of relative success. They’d love us to be relegated because of our limited history and roller coaster existence.

Our team is absolutely amazing - most of them were playing for Livi in League One two seasons ago. That’s only 18 months ago. Now they’re in fourth spot in the Premiership. They’re the hardest working team in the league and, from what I can see, the team with the greatest camaraderie. It’s no coincidence that the results are as good as they are...........👏👏👏

Not entirely true.
Even if we had copied Hearts type of pitch we would have had to install underground heating.
This would lead to a capital cost plus a very large running cost of it needs to be used.
I will concede that we maybe could have installed a better quality artificial pitch and I am sure if the club had thought that we would have achieved our current position and the likelihood of remaining in this division they would and could have gone for a better package.
Contrary to what other posts have said the pitch does give us a slight advantage but the team are still playing out of their skins.

Sitting here in sunny Orlando watching our excellent 4 goals. They were all superb against a dreadful defence but Halketts goal was an absolute peach the delivery and flick must put this in contention for goal of the week.

Did the same on Saturday night in Calgary; it would have been Sunday morning here; I suspect your sunshine was warmer than mine but the warm glow I got watching us give them a pasting more than makes up for that. With Lithgow helping to keep a clean sheet & scoring while the ex-manager failed to do either of those things just puts icing on the cake.

And they've got Celtic next, if their defending doesn't get better it could be double figures.