Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin has been speaking to the media as his side prepare for Saturday's trip to play Falkirk.
Here are the key lines:
- On being back in action after having three games postponed, Goodwin says "We're all really excited. Players train in preparation for games. The boys have prepared really well all week and the training has been of a good standard. Hopefully they can put that into the game against Falkirk."
- Goodwin "knows how good a team Falkirk are" and says they have shown their ability in recent years as they have risen through the divisions. He says the players have a real understanding of what manager John McGlynn wants from them.
- The manager says his side have to make sure they do both sides of the game well, noting Falkirk's "pace and energy", attacking flair and how they are "defensively, a tough nut to crack".
- Despite the late goals that ensured a heartbreaking defeat at Easter Road, Goodwin said his side played well and the performance was "one of the best of the last couple of months". He wants his players to take confidence from that and play to the same level but add consistency.
- Ambition to reach the top six makes it a "huge game" and United have to go into it with the mindset of trying to win. Though the gap from United to Falkirk and Hibs is 14 points, he pointed out his side's two games in hand and insists they're "very much in the fight".
- Goodwin says nobody at Tannadice is happy looking at the league table and admits the recent run of results is "not good enough" but he believes there is important context to four Premiership defeats in a row.
- Looking ahead to a busy schedule, he says his squad is almost injury-free and Amar Fatah and Pan Camara are serving the last matches of their ban. The manager says he will have to manage his squad carefully through a busy spell of five games in three weeks.
- Goodwin says the unprecedented amount of rain means nothing could be done about recent postponements but work is being done to get the ground ready for the next matches.
- An offer "out of the blue" for Nikolaj Moller was "too good to be true" considering United signed the player on a free last summer.