Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Avoid repeat January woes
After that opener, United were never a threat. Another Morgan goal followed and the home team ended with a comfortable three points.
Similarly, despite taking the lead against the Bairns, once Billy King’s early opener was cancelled out, they were seldom seen as an attacking threat.
This time the points were surrendered in even more spectacular fashion and, as embarrassing as the 6-1 score in Falkirk’s favour was, the truth of the proceedings was the margin of defeat could easily have been considerably worse.
As well as six goals, the home team struck the frame of the goal three times and also missed a couple of sitters.
This unwanted ability to fall out of games completely is a problem the manager is keen to address and, if his hopes of leading United back to the Premiership this year are to be realised, he knows doing so is a matter of urgency.
As a man who’s turned round the fortunes of a string of his previous clubs in double quick time, he knows the ingredients required to win promotion.
One of them, as is the case with any successful side, has to be the ability to win on the difficult days and not just those when everything goes to plan.
Right now, that’s a skill his current charges do not possess and, unless they can acquire it soon, that feeling of deja vu might just last all the way to the end of the season.