Let's just say I wouldn't be the founder of the Lee Maddison fan club.
I believe Steven Tweed has improved immensely this season, but it has become a habit for Dundee fans to pick on him, as they are all waiting for him to make a mistake.
Unfortunately for Steven he does have the tendency to make at least one howler in a game.
The fans forget about all the good things he's done up until this happens. A lot of his timely headers, or tackles are forgotten about, for one mistake. The big difference this season is, his slight lapses in concentration, aren't costing us goals any more.
Come on Dundee fans let's give Steven a break and encourage him, not critise him for the sake of criticisms sake. After all he's a solid part of the Italian revolution at Dens, it's not his fault he ends up being Steven (Amoruso) Tweed.
I'm not a great advocate of the Bobby Glennie, punt the ball as far over the Stands as possible, to clear your lines tactic, especially not with the talented and skillful players we now have in our ranks, but Steven I'm sure the fans would forgive you doing this, if it helped get you out of a sticky situation.
By the way if anyone checks the Opta Rankings. Steven Tweed is quite
high up them, for saving tackles made.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joris.E.
To: BoabL@blueyonder.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Subject: Tweed Debate
Hi,
I'm writing from Germany. Steven Tweed is just playing as a test player for MSV Duisburg (my favorite team, Second League in Germany). At the moment they're playing more than worse, so they invited Steven Tweed. We urgently need someone in the defense (four league matches 13 goals against!). He must play in a new system, we have a new coach Pierre Littbarski, he was world champion (1990) as a player and he wants to play a four-on-a-row defense (sorry, I don't know the english translation).
When I read your comments, we shouldn't buy him. What's the problem with him?
Joris E.
Subject:
steven tweed
Date:
Wed, 14 Feb 2001
From:
"Ronald Mills"
To:
BoabL@blueyonder.co.uk
Ronald's View
Steven Tweed is the weak link in the dundee defence the quicker we can get shot of him the better.
As for him
improving this term, he only looks better because he is playing in a much improved side.
Bring back Ireland and
Wilkie, and get rid of Tweed before he costs us more points than he has already.
El Tweed
Totally agree. Get off his back. He's come on leaps and
bounds this year.
Dave Webster's View
STEVEN TWEED
I would extend my points to take in Shaun McSkimming as well, another
player who often feels the brunt of the Dundee support when things aren't
going right.
What a lot of people forget is that football is a team game. In order for
a team to perform well it needs players with varying talents and abilities
in different positions on the field of play.
For example no team would survive if it put 11 ball players on the park,
unless these ball players also had hardness and tackling in their
repertoire of skills. Bonetti has tried to balance his side with just the
right mixture of talented "skill" players like Nemsadze for example. But
Georgi couldn't in a month of Sundays do what the likes of Tweed and
McSkimming do at the back for Dundee. Neither could they do what he does.
They are there for their commitment and their tackling abilities in a
Dundee team based on a passing game, and this requires a large amount of
skill. Without the likes of these 2 guys (and Barry Smith) the visionary
players in midfield and up front would be unable to do their stuff.
I didn't see Tweed last season as I worked on Saturdays but what I've seen
so far this season, he is not letting Dundee down. 3 goals against in 6
league matches proves this point. As Boab said he does daft things, maybe
twice in a match, but give the guy a break. The Scots players are
adjusting to a style of play they probably haven't been allowed to perform
since they were kids.
Scots football has suffered for so long from the
attitude that our young players have to learn to clear the stand with a
huge punt out of the park when danger threatens.In the 80's and 90's true
talent was stifled as teams worried about relegation in a 10 team league.
I have gone on about the Largs Phenomenon on other pages, I won't waste
space on it here. But I have ran kids teams and I have seen geniuses
turned to workhorses the minute they become professionals when a lot of
their true skill is held back at the instructions of Management. Results
became more important than entertainment!
Now with so many foreign players coming in the tide is
slowly being turned and we have seen at Dens our own Scots players trying,
very successfully in my opinion, to play a continental passing game, and
this can only be good for the game.
Give Steve Tweed a chance. He must be aware of how he's rated by his own
fans and it must be nerve racking for him.
I'm behind Boab on this one. Support the whole team, not just part of it.