This Charming Man

Oh you handsome devil.........

Nowt a better feeling than The Dee's performance cheering you up however Spud, imho. Remember back in the day with my best mate when we had won and heading home, when parting company one of us would say, "Sporting Post tonight?", to which the other would always reply, "Fucking right", lol. Eeeh, here's to our younger vibrant days.

The lad Jakubiak was signed as Kane Hemmings straight replacement in what now seems like a lifetime ago by the clown 'manager' James McPake. Sheridan, unlucky with his injury October 2021 in fairness, however both are now sponging from our club and are merely lower league free transfer material. Get rid please, waste of a salary x2. Thank you.

Sadly Spudgun, due to the fact we still have a James McPake team selection in the main, most or all of your listed free agents would be an improvement imho. With hindsight, the McNulty feller is open to healthy debate, lol. We already specialise in low goal-scoring strikers. If fitness was not an issue, I'd welcome back Nicky Low, there again, no we'll leave my other thoughts there. If Gary Bowyer's hands are financially tied, have the balls and say so. It's not as if you're going to be here long term and owe John Nelms' anything. Cue the red dots again for a painfully honest opinion. Truly hope I'm wrong, that is all. Now 9.21pm, tick fucking tock. Regards

No slouching, stand straight and hands out of your pockets young man.

Recall reading in the press they were to pay a development fee for Zura due to his young age when arriving at Dens. £75k I think, they paid half and when we later entered admin the cheeky bigoted arse wipes attempted to claim the £37.5k back! In '84 they bid £200k each for Cammy Fraser and Iain Ferguson respectively, Dundee naturally refused and it went to a transfer tribunal decision. The decision, yeah £200k on the dot for Ferguson and £165k for Fraser, lol. Thankfully they are merely a memory now, realistic tribute act however. Regards

Good luck with the potential appointment of Michael O'Neill. Having watched Stoke City's fortunes (Mrs TCM's club) for the thick end of 20 years, not an appointment I would overly recommend, imho. Mind you, if the footballing side fails, he is, or was a fully qualified Financial Advisor, however not much call for that service at Tannadice either. In fairness to him, he did a wonderful job at Stoke dealing with a squad containing some vastly overpaid/rated players on ludicrously long contracts and brought the club back to a more secure financial footing bearing in mind the strict Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules down there. Don't recall any major fees being paid during his tenure, the pressure was always on to get players moved on. The club is not short of money being owned by the Coates family (Bet365), just not allowed to spend it The footballing side as I say, was never overly convincing, however he was unlucky with numerous major injuries to key players at important times over the last two seasons past. Merely an observation.

Fair comment my man, he had a number of decent early saves and was afforded little or no protection throughout. I, against my better judgement watched Jack Hamilton at Dens leaving a scorch mark on my memory banks. Now he could truly single-handedly, excuse the pun, consistently end your gameplan before anyone was even warmed up! Regards.

Good poster, read many a posting on different threads where he's imparted good, sound advice to guys in need of it. Enjoy the hills my man. Regards.

Y'know what @johnnydun, I would be tempted to agree until I witnessed Ayr United's performance incorporating Lee Bullen's selective recruitment from the same gene pool. Obviously this was from my armchair so I dare not cast any questions over our own recruitment quality, or lack of. As I've previously posted, no negativity allowed on our thread it would appear. I do not seek to purposely upset anyone of a non realistic opinion on such a bleak evening. Regards

Poor team as we already knew, now supplemented with more poor signings it would appear. Happy clappy lads can continue to paint a happy picture, however the reality is somewhat very different. 7 points from 15 in the lower tier, less than a 50% return, absolute embarrassment. Promotion my arse, consolidation the realistic target, waken the f**k up John Nelms. English lower league failed manager, lovely chap though. Reality check required. Regards.

The club are too scared I'm afraid. Well WGS anyway, that's for sure. Easy 3 points for a hard working, organised team of Honest Men, lol.

Not as huge as the gap between Grayson and the match ball for the best part of the first half, lol. Honking performance in central mid, early days however. Mon young Mr Robinson.

In fairness to Billy Dodds, always appeared to stand his round whilst drinking with Alan Dinnie in the Breadalbane Arms in Constitution Road back in the day. Also braved Fat Sams on a Saturday evening after scoring the winner for us at Tannadice, only to receive a smack in the chops from some sad act Dab creature of the night. However, that was then, this is now, f**k 'im, imho. Regards

C'mon you Honest Men, you know you really want to ask @Ludo*1 regarding the neutral venue encounter. How times have changed for these two gents in our Dark Blue collective memories.

Interesting early test for both sides. Pleasant weather hopefully and live on tv, what can possibly go wrong, lol? Regards

Yeah, hands up and also admit I believed Jack Ross was easily the best option available to us in our recent managerial search. That is fact, he was at the time. However, how much entertainment is he providing making a right old 'James Hunt' of things at Tannadice? The large 'ex cop' across the road manufactured Thomas/Tam/Tom's departure to facilitate Jack Ross's appointment at any cost in the hope he would give them 2 years of solid consistency and then appoint his son as head coach. The fact our neighbours fans are too thick to read the room and his plans for their club is not our concern. Regards and couldn't give a f**k if they go pop, tbh.

Could be worse, imagine actually being a DAB, fucking unimaginable in the extreme! However...........................................................................

Yep, cheers to that my man.

Oh I agree 110% @The Derry, he's been more than competent at right back so far this season and is a player who's commitment I admire. He just happens to have proved previously to be the best option at defensive left back we have at the club at this time I'm afraid. Good guy living the dream, imho.

Choppers' young lad Jack Wilkie and midfielder Ewan Murray have both now secured loan deals at League One Peterhead under Jim McInally's canny management. Cast our minds back to when Charlie Adam made his very early appearances for us, Ewan Murray played and scored against Peterhead in a pre season 4 - 0 friendly win at Dens in 2020, aged only 15 for goodness sake. One for the future and no mistake. Going by previous comments on here, sooner see young Tyler French going RB, with Lee Ashcroft (if fit) taking his place in central defence and Cammy Kerr playing LB. Jordan Marshall I'm afraid would be dropped meantime, Kevin Holt (now at Patrick) would have been a better signing again from QOS at LB if I'm honest. Chapman, McGinn and Lawlor should be out on their arse imho prior to the window ending if common sense prevails. Regards.

Assume the Steven Fletcher money came from the goalkeeping budget, lol. 5 - 0, not even half time, ffs. It's like Brazil against Alan Rough, priceless!