This is first real test for Utd boss Csaba

WHAT happened to Dundee United at Falkirk?

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when my phone starting beeping with goal after goal going in.

There’s a danger a thumping like that can derail a promising season.

What they can’t afford to do is dwell on how it came about — just write it off and plough on regardless while making sure it was definitely just a one-off.

I totally agree with my Tele colleague Lee Wilkie, Saturday against Dunfermline is their biggest game of the season now.

And it’s the first real test for manager Csaba Laszlo after a fairly smooth start to life at Tannadice.

I expect him to get the team back on track but he’s got some questions to answer after the Falkirk game.

I know they are decimated by injuries but why make so many changes?

It obviously had a huge effect on the team.

New boy Craig Slater hadn’t started in two months and would’ve been rusty while fellow new signing Brandon Mason is a bit of a strange addition.

He’d played as a right-back in a bounce game against Dundee a month or so back and impressed but was immediately unveiled as a left-back, a position they don’t really need to fill urgently — unless Jamie Robson is off elsewhere soon.

Tam Scobbie, although not great at full-back, could fill in there if Robson was out injured or whatever.

I was surprised to hear Robson played as a right-back in the game when Cammy Ballantyne has been recalled to the squad.

He’s an out-and-out right back, albeit inexperienced.

From what I saw of him playing for Montrose, against a Championship team, too, in Queen of the South, he’s more than capable of doing a job.

Obviously Csaba sees him in training and thought against it but I certainly liked the look of him as an attacking full-back.

It sounds like the manager wants some new boys in and you can’t blame him.

To take a spanking like that from a team fumbling around for form shows there’s a fragility about the squad when things aren’t going their way.

The quick way to sort that is to spark some confidence through the team with a quality addition — finding that, though, on United’s budget might be a tall ask.

Dundee United manager Csaba Laszlo has enjoyed a bright start to life at Tannadice — that was ended swiftly, though, by a 6-1 hammering at Falkirk at the weekend.