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Yeah think so- just a longer process I think.

DFCSS have rejected Keyes's share offer.

If you want to feel really old then take your age, minus one year, Google what was happening in the world that many years before your date of birth. That world event will be closer to your DOB than today. For me Bambi is released at the cinema; Japan declares war on the Netherlands and Princess Elizabeth registers for war service.

The championship winning side wasn't it? Edit: it would have been 28 years from Dundee winning the league to that St Mirren game but it's almost 29 years from that St Mirren game until now.

https://dundeefc.co.uk/news/james-signs-on-loan/ Right back

Signing incoming...

Mods- mon tae f**k eh? Unhappy Dundee fans? Surely no? Mike Martin was on about Utd's new owner reviewing "cost synergies" between the clubs so I imagine a ground share is a stick on- which it should be in this day in age in a two-club city of Dundee's size. Ideally the wee Hibs should never have seen the light of day in 1909- but here we are.

His goals kept us up imo but wasn't willing to fight for his place when Moussa came in. That or McCann made the environment too hostile for his liking.

They are making funds available for this window- quite how much that will mean Keyes had to find personally I'm not sure. Cut and run isn't an option as far as I'm aware. If the choice is a binary one then is imagine it is more likely to be invest or tell the manager that any funds he frees up are his to use. Couldn't comment on Utds situation - you lot have been strangely quiet (apathetic?) about the whole takeover saga.

For all they mock us about the Bennett/Dens situation Tannadice and Gussie is not theirs to sell though is it? I'd be ok with a groundshare but we seem to be too far down the road for an equal partnership - As Nelms said - we'd welcome them as lodgers. They refused to get in from the start - which was the council's preference. I'd miss Dens but it really has outlived its usefulness. No point in having a stadium with character if it doesn't work for you.

No, it's not listed according to the council website. It'll be demolished, no doubt, making way for a housing and retail development.

I'm certainly not in the know but I always thought Keyes's timescale was ambitious. They've invested money in the acquisition of the land; the council are desperate for it to happen; the city needs a decent multi-purpose stadium venue so I'm still hopeful. I'm just worried that any delays will inevitably mean a scaling back of the stadium plans. However, delays mean more time to say our goodbyes to Dens Park!

Melville played him like a fiddle. The number of unread pages made me wonder if the club sacked Boyle and hired Dodds after all. Tbf Tibbermore has played a blinder here with limited material. It almost makes me wish we were playing this weekend, almost.

I expect the media will have the knives out now after the club snubbed their pal. More so.

The whole 'getting rid of deadwood' after relegation theory only works if you are a club the size of Hibs or Hearts. You get rid of the wage thieves and have a budget that dwarfs your rivals. Lapsed fans return in droves to see a winning team. If you are anyone else it's a constant battle to avoid a death spiral.

You'd have to be clairvoyant to know exactly when such a situation would arise and what percentage of the debt the remaining rent payments make up. It was essentially a masterstroke by Bob Brannan in using his contacts to restructure DFC'S debt. He soon spoiled it all by handing the keys over to Calum Melville however.

I've never understood what a director of football brought to a club but I'm beginning to think we need someone in there to advise Nelms on the football side.

Which, if true, means Dodds never refused an offer of employment from the club he tried to liquidate- kind of undermines his previous stance somewhat- I'd he hadn't already done that in his newspaper column with his view on Oldco's demise.

For me it was the fact he was raging that his vote against the CVA was made public. He never wanted anyone to know he voted to end the club. In his newspaper article only a couple of years later he said that Rangers should not be allowed to die when they fell on hard times. Chisholm isn't nearly as hated despite his vote. I think it's the fact that he's an outspoken wee fud that riles the Dundee fans first and foremost. He was a marmite figure long before the CVA due to his unashamed stint at Utd previously - he was a cult hero in his time at Dundee - he's entirely entitled to have chosen Utd of course but he shouldn't expect any favours from Dee fans.

What would offend me more than any merger would be the lazy, unimaginative naming of the new club as Dundee City. Very civic but altogether insipid. Dundee FC was very nearly called Juteopolis- that would have been fucking smashing. Anyway, Dundee FC doesn't do mediocrity- if we're not surviving relegation to the third tier after 25-point deductions we're signing World Cup superstars. These last few years of top-flight football and boardroom stability have been the most uneventful in my 30 years of supporting the club. The roller coaster will no doubt start again when the new ground development falls through just after Dens is bought back. The Americans, before doing the whole Ron Dixon absentee chairman thing, sell Dens to the highest bidder to cut their losses, leaving us homeless fighting relegation to League 1. (The club, of course, being relegated in the all Dundee play off final the year before). McCann will be sacked, eventually, but he wont go quietly -insisting that the team was about to turn the corner and he wasn't given enough time. Unfair dismissal claims and lawsuits commence but, in a stroke of luck, Dundee escape costly legal battles after McCann's lawyers file their claims against the wrong city club. McCann, you see, has returned to Sky Sports by now and CAN'T TELL THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DUNDEE AND DUNDEE UNITED. Jocky will be wheeled out his nursing home to take charge of the Championship playoff final against Arbroath. Jocky ultimately saves the club from the utter, utter ignominy of third tier football but is sacked the following season while the club is 5 points clear at the top of the league. Can't fucking wait.

I'd like to add that the documenting of a user's posts to evidence their obsession of their rivals borders on, well, obsession.

Clean sheet. Three points. I bet McCann fielded an illegible player.

Did we just...win?

Caniggia to return to Dundee in Nov at an event at the Whitehall. Tickets are £33. https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/exclusive-argentina-legend-claudio-caniggia-to-return-to-dundee/amp/#click=https://t.co/0K5gpw4F3H

Jose is on a shoogly peg - perhaps method in Nelms's madness in hanging on to McCann after all?