Micky Mellon: Last News

Dundee United picked up their first win of the campaign. Reynolds first goal in Tangerine and only his 14th in a career which started at Fir Park way back 15 years ago separated the sides in a flat affair in South Lanarkshire.

Micky Mellon has them going the distance in training so they can give rivals the runaround. The Terrors marked their top-flight return with a 1-1 draw against St Johnstone in Mellon’s first game in charge.

Dundee United will need to learn quickly to handle life back in the top flight after one slip cost them a flag day victory. The Tannadice men squandered their lead against St Johnstone despite playing the second half with a man advantage after Michael O’Halloran’s red card.

Auchterarder Golf Club's Daniel Bullen shines to win Faldo Series event“I am happy with the dressing-room, they’re not quiet but we don’t have too many lairy ones!“Liam Craig is probably the lairy one and the rest of them all speak, they are a good squad for that.“You want that, I’d always encourage them to be vocal, you want to hear their voices.”When Davidson takes his place on the Tannadice touchline, he will glance to his side and see another man starting a new chapter.Micky Mellon, previously boss of Tranmere Rovers, takes charge of a Dundee United side vying to make their mark in the top-flight having earned promotion last term.Saints, who are set to unveil their new home kit today, can surely not start any worse than 12 months ago.A

Dundee United at Auchenhowie this afternoon.Manager Steven Gerrard has spoken about the need to trim the fat from his squad and is unlikely to have been impressed by the result.With the first team taking on Motherwell at Ibrox in the evening, a B team took on Micky Mellon's side in a bounce game.The Rangers squad included a number of first team players, with Calvin Bassey, Jordan Jones, Greg Stewart and Greg Docherty all starting the match.It was the visitors who took the lead though, with a familiar face doing the damage, former Gers man Nicky Clark converting a penalty after just six minutes.The hosts soon levelled things though, with Josh McPake scoring on a Greg Stewart cutback.It was all square at the break but United established their

Premiership.But he faces a huge task to repeat the achievement when the Tangerines last returned to the top flight after a spell in the second tier.The Tangerines couldn’t have hoped for a better campaign after finishing best of the rest behind the Old Firm in 1996/97– despite a horror start to the season.United took just one point from their opening six fixtures and at that stage a quickfire return to the First Division looked more likely following promotion via a play-off the previous season.But there were better fortunes after a managerial change with Tommy McLean replacing Billy Kirkwood and sealing a European place.It will be a tall order for United to do the same this season after four years out of the Premiership but new boss Mellon

Rangers hoping to host Hamilton at their Auchenhowie training base on Friday.

United’s new boss this week.It will see the Scot return to manage in his homeland for the first time, as United look to make their mark on the Premiership.Mellon was on sporting director Tony Asghar’s original short list after Robbie Neilson’s shock return to Hearts came about last month.The experienced boss has five promotions on his CV from his time in England with Fleetwood Town, Tranmere and Shrewsbury Town and he has also been the subject of interest from Sunderland and Swansea City over the last 12 months.Mellon’s Tranmere side suffered relegation to League Two after the league was called on a points-per-game average, even though they were three points from safety, had a game in hand and had won their previous three games on the