Dundee United vs Ayr United | Matchday Programme 20

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JIM GOODWIN

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LEE SHARP

First-Team Coach

DAVID BOWMAN

Head of Goalkeeping

PAUL MATHERS

Head of Football Operations

ROSS STARKE

Head of Player Care

NIALL NICHOLSON

Head of Medical

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AIDAN CROLL

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EWAN ANDERSON

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GREGOR PIRIE

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ALLAN GARTSHORE

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EDITOR:

the gaffer

Good afternoon everyone, and welcome back to Tannadice!

It’s a massive fixture with a lot at stake.

We’ve had a great week of training and no one is getting complacent. We can’t take anything for granted. Everyone is keeping their eyes on the ball and keeping the standards high which will hopefully transpire on to the park.

I was watching Ayr against Arbroath and they got a fantastic result. Scott Brown is a great manager and has got them playing well, so we need to remain focused throughout the entire 90 minutes.

WE ARE EXPECTING A BIG TURNOUT AND WANT TO ENTERTAIN A HUGE UNITED SUPPORT. THE FOLLOWING HERE IS HUGE AND THEY’RE ALL BEHIND THE TEAM. THE FANS PLAY A HUGE PART AND THEY REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

We are a massive club with great facilities, support and structure. Although we were all disappointed with how last season ended, we’re all pleased with the progress we have made. We are on track to achieve our main objective and it is set up for a great weekend but the onus is on us to get the job done.

I hope you all enjoy the game!

- JIM GOODWIN

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the visitors

Our guests arrive in fairly inconsistent form but on the back of putting five without reply past hapless Arbroath last weekend. With their promotion play-off hopes looking slim following Airdrieonians’ victory last weekend, the Honest Men might still have one nervous eye looking over their shoulders at Queen’s Park - only six points behind them in ninth.

With 107 goals being scored in Championship matches involving Ayr this season, only Partick Thistle fans can say they’ve seen the net rippled more times than today’s visitors.

Whilst not matching last season’s heroics of reaching the playoffs, only a series of improbable results will prevent them from securing a seventh consecutive season in the second tier.

In our meetings this season, we have bagged maximum points so far with a comfortable 3-0 away win back in August followed by single-goal successes in December (1-0) and February (21). Those results mean that we are currently on a six-match unbeaten streak against the men from Somerset Park.

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Signed on loan in February, 19-yearold Joshua Clarke has featured nine times since his arrival from Celtic. A former Chelsea and Bournemouth youth, as well as Glenavon’s first-team goalkeeper, the 6’ 2” youngster also featured for Airdrieonians on a one-match emergency loan basis earlier this season. Capped by Sweden, Republic and Northern Ireland at various youth levels, the London-born shot-stopper is a multi-talented sportsman having represented Surrey at youth level cricket and was once part of Harlequins rugby union academy.

Jack Sanders is another brought in on loan from a Premiership side. The Kilmarnock central defender began his career as a youth at Wigan Athletic, featuring for Blyth Spartans, Southport

and Fylde on loan before a 2021 switch to Rugby Park. A member of the 2021/22 Championship winning squad, the 6’ 4” featured twice as a substitute against us last season.

Twenty-six-year-old striker Kurt Willoughby has spent most of his career plying his trade in the English non-leagues with the likes of Fylde, York City, Chester and Oldham. After failing to score in fifteen league matches for the Boundary Park outfit this term, he was loaned out to Ayr on February 1st. The Blackpool-born frontman made his debut in our narrow victory at Somerset a couple of days later and has scored three times in his three starts (plus seven substitute appearances) so far.

Wigan’s Harry McHugh was another face brought to the club in the wake of Brown’s arrival. The attacking midfielder, who made his Latics debut when 18, possesses excellent close control and an eye for a killer pass. The 21-year-old Liverpudlian has featured nine times for the club, scoring his first career league goal in February’s victory over Patrick Thistle.

in charge

scott brown

Appointed in January, this is the 38-year-old’s second managerial job following a spell at Fleetwood Town. Having now been at the helm for thirteen matches, the Dunfermline-born, former midfielder has overseen six wins, six losses and a draw as he sets about putting his stamp on the side.

As a player, few players in this country will ever match the achievements of the ex-Scotland international. After breaking through the ranks at Hibernian as an energetic box-to-box midfielder and lifting the League Cup with them, he set a transfer record fee between two Scottish clubs when Celtic paid £4.4 million for his services in 2007. That proved to be a bargain as he went on to lift 22 major trophies, captaining the side for the majority of them, and establishing himself as the best midfielder in the country.

A short, best-forgotten spell at Aberdeen saw the curtain fall on a playing career which saw almost 800 club appearances and 68 goals as well as 55 international caps which produced goals against Macedonia, Czech Republic, Norway and Poland. Somewhat curiously, three of Brown’s Scotland goals came in 1-0 victories with the other also being the opener but in a 2-0 Warsaw success.

one to watch

JAMIE MURPHY

At 34, the midfielder might be rated a veteran but is very much a regular in the Somerset line-up. Signed at the start of this season from S Johnstone, he brings a wealth of experience to the table from a career that encompassed no less than eight clubs as he approaches the 600 appearance mark. In addition, he has been twice being capped by Scotland.

Motherwell was his first club way back in 2007, making over 200 appearances for the Steelmen, scoring 46 goals. In 2013, he then moved south, spending five years in England between spells at Sheffield United and Brighton. Returned to Scotland and played for Rangers and Hibs sandwiched between a loan spell at Burton Albion with another loan season at Mansfield coming later. Before arriving at Somerset Park, he spent last term at St Johnstone. Apart from his wing play, he has also found the net six times, the least of which was Ayr’s only goal against Unitd coming in the first minute of our 2-1 win in the last meeting through in the west.

- By Ryan Haldane

PLAYED FOR BOTH

Derek frye

Derek Frye was snapped up by Jim McLean on the eve of season 1978/79 when the club paid an estimated £15,000 fee for the 22-year-old striker!

Frye had been amongst the goals consistently for Stranraer - with 62 goals in the previous two seasons. The dip into the transfer market arose due to a combination of things as the programme for the opening game of the campaign against Hibs explained. “The recent disasters here concerning the John Bourke *incident” and the ill-timed injury to befall Gordon Wallace left Jim McLean with an outside headache. “Left with only youngsters Paul Sturrock, Billy Kirkwood, Davie Dodds and Ralph Milne to select from, the absence of a Min striker was fast in need of emergency action.”

Hence, the arrival of the Largs-born striker. His introduction to United fans in the first programme of the campaign for the home game against Hibs did admit, it was something of a risk.

“Certainly his signing is a gamble as far as knowing whether a player who has netted as many goals as he had in the previous two seasons for Stranraer can possibly expect to continue that scoring rate at Premier level.” McLean’s view was, “The player must be given time to adjust. ”As history shows, unfortunately, it wasn’t to work out as either party would have wished.

Derek, who had begun his senior career at Kilmarnock in 1972, then moved to Queen of the South in 1975. After just four games there, his next port of call was Stranraer, where he became the Second Division’s top scorer.

He made his United debut in August 1978, as a substitute against Hibs. Starting the following game away to Partick Thistle, he grabbed the opening goal in a 1-1 draw.

It proved, however, to be his only goal of a United career that endured a meagre 13 matches. By the second half of the season, Davie Dodds was being preferred for the striking role and Derek was soon out of the running for a first team place, spending much of the remainder of the season in the reserves.

Indeed, in a programme article just before Christmas, the player expressed his disappointment at not making the hoped for progress, stating, “The time it has taken to adjust to full-time training and the higher standard is disappointing.”

In July 1979, he made his final appearance in tangerine in the 3-0 win over Dunfermline in the Dryburgh Cup and, almost exactly 12 months to the day after his arrival, Derek was transferred to Ayr United, where he was to spend five goal-laden years scoring 60 goals,

Moving on to Clyde for three years, he continued to score at a prodigious rate. Single-season spells played out Frye’s career in the late 1980s, with time at Airdrieonians, and returns to Queen of the South and Stranraer. In 1992 he moved into management, firstly at Queen of the South, and later at nonleague Annan Athletic with an assistant manager role at Rowan Alexander’s Gretna side until 2004

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3PM Saturday 30 March 2024 | Tannadice Park | cinch Championship | Attendance: 10,336

The Terrors do their talking on the pitch, running out comfortable winners at Tannadice.

Dundee United produced a stellar 90-minute display to defeat fellow cinch Championship title challengers Raith Rovers at Tannadice.

Just seven minutes had elapsed when Tony Watt struck to draw first blood in favour of the hosts, cushioning a Louis Moult knockdown beyond Kevin Dabrowski from the left edge of the six-yard box.

Having teed up his strike partner earlier in the match, Moult would go on to write his name on the scoresheet in the closing exchanges - sending the ‘keeper the wrong way from the spot after being hauled to the turf by former United defender Keith Watson. Converting with conviction, it’s the 31-year-old’s fourth goal in six league appearances throughout March.

With five matches remaining until the winners are crowned, the Terrors now sit four points clear of the Kirkcaldy outfit.

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3PM Saturday 6 April 2024 | Hampden Park | cinch Championship | Attendance: 3,109 United ran riot at the national stadium to take all three points!

Dundee United recorded their second five-goal victory on the road this term as the Terrors mauled Queen’s Park at the National Stadium.

After a frustrating opening 45, which saw Louis Moult denied from the spot amongst other guilt-edged chances being spurned by the visitors, the deadlock was finally broken by Kai Fotheringham on the stroke of half-time.

Moult would make amends for his penalty faux-pas soon after the restart, lobbing the onrushing Calum Ferrie to give his side breathing space, whilst Ross Graham nodded home his first goal since April 2022 from an inviting Miller Thomson corner.

As the match approached the final quarter, Fotheringham struck once more in unorthodox circumstances to take his tally for the cinch Championship campaign to 11.

Craig Sibbald was the man to deliver the final blow, seeing his venomous strike from the edge of the area take a deflection in a congested six-yard box to wrong-foot the ‘keeper.

Jim Goodwin’s side, hitting form at the right time as we approach the final stretch of the cinch Championship season!

THE EARLY DAYS

With the centenary of the name change from Dundee Hibernian to Dundee United having taken place in October, throughout the first half of the season we looked back at matches between visiting clubs and the Hibs. During the second half, we’re highlighting the first-ever league meetings between United and our Championship rivals.

Within two years of taking over as manager, Jimmy Brownlie had taken Dundee United from the brink of oblivion to Division One. He then guided them – albeit narrowly – to safety in season 1925-26 but the following campaign proved a bridge too far and the Black and Whites returned to Division Two.

It was the mark of the man that Brownlie, having been ‘encouraged’ by the club board to allow several of the more prominent players to be sold for financial reasons, that he took it as a challenge and set about re-building a new team. It was never likely he would be able to guide his revamped squad straight back to Division One, but he certainly gave it a good go, United ending season 1927-28 a very creditable sixth (out of 20). They were a mere two points behind runnersup Third Lanark, who finished nine adrift of that season’s champions – who were Ayr United. The Honest Men had been a Division One club from 1913-1925, losing their place as Dundee United arrived there. After two years at the top level, the return to the lower level meant that they met the other United for the first time. That took place at Tannadice on 10 December 1927, and these were the teams that day:

Dundee United: Alex Johnstone; Bill Taylor, John Dorward; Jock Kay, Dave Walker, John Bain; Micky Campbell, Johnny Hart, Harry Michie, Jacky Kay, Jock McDonald.

Ayr United: Bob Hepburn; James Purdon, Willie Fleming; Willie Robertson, Denis McColgan, David Turnbull; Jimmy Nisbet, John Simpson, Jimmy Smith, Billy Brae, Tommy Kilpatrick. Manager, Archie Buchanan.

The first half saw the home side build a number of attacks, none of which they were able to finish. As the Sunday Post said,

“The halves kept the forwards on the move, but the latter seemed to want to walk the ball into goal and a stout Ayr defence declined to consider any nonsense of that sort.

United ought to have turned round with more than a one goal lead. Had there been an opportunist in the forward line there might have been a different tale to tell. As it was, the Ayr goalkeeper never had a really decent shot to handle.”

However, to the relief of the 10,000 crowd, Brownlie’s men finally made the breakthrough and it was winger Jock McDonald who forced the ball into the net after a goalmouth scramble.

It was a different story after the break. Ayr dominated and soon equalised through insideleft Billy Brae. By mid-way through the half they had forged ahead with a quick double by ace marksman Jimmy Smith (see below) who very much showed the Dundee United forwards how to take a goal.

That made the score 3-1 and it remained unchanged as Brownlie watched his side lose their unbeaten home record. Just how impressive an Ayr United team this was would become crystal clear in the return match at Somerset Park in April.

By then they had wrapped up the league title and had also become the first club ever to score more than 100 goals in a Scottish League season. They put on a masterclass, particularly Jimmy Smith, who scored four of his side’s goals as Dundee United suffered a 7-1 drubbing.

Billy Brae (left), scorer of Ayr United’s first ever goal against Dundee United Jock ‘Smiler’ McDonald (right), scorer of Dundee United’s first ever goal against Ayr United

on both sides

Willie Fleming was the only player involved in that first match between the Uniteds whose career involved both clubs.

GOAL MACHINE

He emerged as a centre-half with Vale of Leven (then a Scottish League club) in 1922 and two years later was signed by Celtic. There he was used as a centre-forward and scored four goals on his debut, but failed to claim a regular place and was allowed to leave for Ayr United in 1925.

His first season at Somerset Park saw him score 20 times but his manager, Archie Buchanan, thought he was better suited to a defensive role and played him at full-back, a position he retained for the rest of his career. He was part of the Ayr team that won the Division Two championship in 1928 and he remained with them for the following six seasons in Division One, playing more than 300 games for the club.

He was 33 when manager Jimmy Brownlie brought him to Tannadice in August 1934. Willie played in all but four of the 34 Division Two matches that season (when United finished fourth), as well as four Scottish Cup ties. Despite that, he was freed at the end of the season and then announced his retirement.

The six goals that Jimmy Smith scored in the two league meetings with Dundee United in season 1927-28 contributed to a feat which today sees him holding a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

The centre-forward joined Ayr United in 1927 after being freed by Rangers and in his first season with the Honest Men he scored the scarcely believable total of 66 goals in 38 Division Two matches, as Ayr romped to the Division Two title. That was a British record then and it stands to this day; indeed, it’s impossible to imagine it ever being exceeded.

He continued to be a prolific marksman in Division One, scoring almost half of his club’s 65 goals on their return to the top level. That attracted the attention of Liverpool and, though nobody at Somerset Park wanted to lose the jewel in their crown, a transfer fee of £5500 – huge for that time – saw him depart for Anfield in September 1929.

Any doubts as to his ability to transfer his skills to Division One in England were soon dismissed as Smith scored twice on his debut for Liverpool and ended the season with 23 to his credit. Despite approaching 30, he scored a further 14 times the following season before moving on at the end of it.

7.45pm Friday 12 April 2024 | Cappielow Park | cinch Championship | Attendance: 2,423

We extended our lead at the top of the table with a stand-out performance in Greenock!

Dundee United moved to within touching distance of the cinch Championship title as they recorded yet another emphatic victory on the road, this time seeing off Greenock Morton on the banks of the Clyde!

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1974 - ARBROATH 1-2 DUNDEE UTD | LEAGUE (DIVISION ONE)

This fixture was the reversal of the midweek clash at Tannadice which United had won comfortably, but there was no such luxury on this occasion. Archie Knox fired us ahead after 15 minutes capitalising on a defensive error. Equally, John Fletcher’s leveller stemmed from some slack defending by the Tangerines rearguard. And it was against the general trend of play that substitute Sandy White grabbed the winner six minutes from time when he netted from 12 yards.

1983 - CELTIC 2-3 DUNDEE UTD | LEAGUE (PREMIER DIVISION)

There was an overhanging sense of disappointment following United’s failure to reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Additionally, after United’s defeat at Parkhead two weeks earlier, the team trailed leaders Aberdeen by three points and Celtic by two points in the title race, prompting many pundits to label United’s season as good as over. Ahead of this rearranged game, Jim McLean called for his players to show character – and boy did they deliver!

Packy Bonner and Roy Aitken got in each other’s way in defending an Eamonn Bannon corner and the ball spun to Paul Hegarty who knocked it home after 14 minutes. Celtic hauled themselves back into the game via a penalty which Charlie Nicholas converted seven minutes from half-time. After 52 minutes, Davie Dodds was pulled to the ground by Murdo MacLeod and Bannon restored our lead from the spot. Things got tougher for United when Gough and Provan squared up to each other, which resulted in the Celtic man being cautioned and Gough sent off. Pressure had been building and Tommy Burns swept in the equaliser. United went back on the offensive and with six minutes remaining, in a display of brilliant technique, Ralph Milne controlled the ball on his chest before lobbing it into the net to secure the points.

1993 - DUNDEE 0-4 DUNDEE UTD | LEAGUE (PREMIER DIVISION)

The final derby of the season turned out to be one of the most onesided for years and culminated in us equalling our biggest win of the season. The Tangerines stamped their authority on this game from the very first whistle and forged ahead after eight minutes, Paddy Connolly taking advantage of hesitancy to net. The second goal was a real gem. Christian Dailiy picked up a loose ball on the halfway line and found Michael O’Neill wide on the left. By the time the Irishman had delivered his cross, Christian Dailly had advanced up the park to crash in a diving header from six yards out past the helpless Mathers. Billy Dodds then had a penalty claim refused and was then sent off for an off-the-ball incident with Freddy van der Hoorn as the Dundee skipper vented his frustration. The second half was virtually one-way traffic though it took a blunder by Mathers to give us our third goal as he fumbled Gary Bollan’s 35-yarder over the line. Two minutes later Billy McKinlay released a through ball down the middle, enabling Dailly to run through and score.

2019 - INVERNESS CT 0-2 DUNDEE UTD | LEAGUE (CHAMPIONSHIP)

United sealed second place in the Championship with a 2-0 away win against Invernes. United took the lead on 27 minutes with a fabulous goal. Ben Siegrist launched a free kick up the park. Pavol Safranko headed the ball on to Nicky Clark, who also headed the ball on, this time to Peter Pawlett. The winger backheeled the ball back into the path of Safranko, who volleyed home from 18 yards. Four minutes after halftime, the lead was double as Paul McMullan met a long ball cut inside his marker and dinked the ball over the keeper.

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