Source: Team_Talk
Webster wants Tangerines fight
United's form has dipped alarmingly since Levein quit to take charge of Scotland a week and a half ago.[LNB]From looking a safe bet to qualify for the Europa League, the Tangerines have garnered only one Scottish Premier League point and one goal from their three matches under caretaker boss Peter Houston.[LNB]Saturday saw them lose at home to north-east rivals Aberdeen for the first time in four years, a result that came hot on the heels of Wednesday night's 7-1 thrashing at Rangers.[LNB]Asked if United's season was in danger of unravelling, Webster - who is on loan from Ibrox - said: "It had better not.[LNB]"Sometimes, when you're not playing well, it's the mental side of things just to grind things out.[LNB]"As an individual and a team, if you're not playing well, keep battling away and try to do the right things and things will always come good."[LNB]The mini-slump appears to have highlighted the need for chairman Stephen Thompson to appoint Levein's successor as quickly as possible.[LNB]Houston, who has ruled himself out of the running for the role, yesterday revealed one candidate had already been interviewed, with more to follow this week.[LNB]Webster, who has been skippering the side in the absence of Lee Wilkie, said: "The chairman and the board will obviously have to take their time making the right decision.[LNB]"It should place a bigger emphasis on the players to take a bit more responsibility.[LNB]"The players haven't changed. It's an easy excuse to say the manager's left if we get beaten.[LNB]"You should have the mental toughness just to get on with it.[LNB]"Some games you'll win and some games you'll lose but sometimes it's the manner in which you lose the game that's disappointing."[LNB]Houston admitted his players may have been feeling sorry for themselves yesterday following the result at Ibrox.[LNB]Webster said: "It will have some effect. How much you let it affect you is up to the individual.[LNB]"It's like anything; no matter how negative it is, you try to take the positives out of it and work even harder.[LNB]"Going to Ibrox, it was always going to be extremely difficult to get the three points.[LNB]"But it's things like last week at home to Kilmarnock, drawing 0-0, like losing 1-0 (to Aberdeen).[LNB]"Our home form's been not what it should."[LNB]United were beaten on Saturday despite playing against 10 men for the final half an hour after Davide Grassi was sent off for lashing out at Webster.[LNB]Aberdeen's winner arrived as early as the 15th minute courtesy of Charlie Mulgrew's fourth goal of the season.[LNB]"It's a great three points for us," said the defender after helping his side bounce back from a hat-trick of defeats.[LNB]"We played well first half, passed it well. Second half, going down to 10 men was disappointing."[LNB]Mulgrew agreed with manager Mark McGhee that Webster should have seen red for provoking Grassi.[LNB]"If you send one off, you've got to send the other one off in my opinion," he said.[LNB]"It would have been a big issue if we hadn't got the three points."[LNB]Mulgrew is free to sign a pre-contract with another club this month, with negotiations over a new deal at Pittodrie finely poised.[LNB]"I'm just putting it to bed for now, maybe speak about it again in January at some point," said Mulgrew, who insisted he was taking reports linking him with big-spending Dundee with "a pinch of salt".[LNB]"I'm just concentrating on playing for Aberdeen and giving my all at the moment."[LNB][LNB]
