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United left Easter Road with a point after a fairly poor and scrappy performance by both sides and I think we'll be delighted to do so, particularly after a weekend where a lot of the teams above us dropped points.

We were very poor for most of the game and I think you have to look at the selection as a starting point. I've got a bit of sympathy for the manager as his first choice midfield pairing of Flood and Murdoch are injured, but the side seemed so disjointed and for most of the first hour we didn't really lay a glove on Hibs. Having said that, for all the possession the Leith men had they did very little with it and we actually defended quite well, the only lapse coming at the opener when Durnan took a step to his left anticipating a pass which left a gap for the striker to exploit. Keatings was a thorn in our side for much of the game but Cummings was well-marshalled throughout - I don't really see the hype with him to be honest, he's a bit of a poor man's David Goodwillie imo.

A big part of our problem is Murray, and his inability to hold the ball up. He offered nothing yesterday and he never at any stage allowed us to release pressure and build attacks. We were notably better after he and Van der Velden, who was very poor, came off. I feel like I'm going to say this every week, but how we could do with a big target man to hold the ball in, particularly when we have Andreu who is at his best when he feeds off a main striker. At the moment the Frenchman is struggling to get into games because he doesn't have anyone to play off of.

We were much better after the changes though and I think ultimately we deserved the draw courtesy of big Willie's header from a Fraser corner. Fraser was once again the target of the social media moaners and I just don't get it. I don't think he's amazing or anything like that, but he's one of the few players who always looks to get on the ball. Folk were mumping and moaning about him on twitter and yet he was much better than VdV and I didn't see a single negative tweet about him - a mate of mine was actually moaning about him getting taken off. I was pleased to see Fraser get the MOM award and hopefully he continues to do what he does - just slightly better!

Anyway, very pleased with the point in our hardest game and hopefully we can get Flood and Murdoch back soon to really strengthen our team ahead of two winnable home games.

Mon the Terrors.