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I might be accused of putting a dampener on what's probably a good sign but is anyone else concerned with how the board are doing (outside of the team) and the stuff dee4life have been putting out? I read Bennett wasn't going to sell the stadium to anyone but the fans but now not only is it not sold to the fans or the club it's sold to our owners business. Hopefully they actually do get an application in soon.

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Terrific news. Now the money (that the fans group signed up to - preposterously) being spent on upkeep of the ground will actually be a much more attractive thing to the owners now it's back in their hands.

Can only trust them, they've not done us wrong so far and no reason to believe they will now. Posting malicious "what if" messages online will only feed in to the lunatics hands.

Dee4Life (the rebranded one) would be well reserved to keep quiet. They won't, because they enjoy disharmony - although will claim they want anything but.

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1 hour ago, derrybiy said:

I might be accused of putting a dampener on what's probably a good sign but is anyone else concerned with how the board are doing (outside of the team) and the stuff dee4life have been putting out? I read Bennett wasn't going to sell the stadium to anyone but the fans but now not only is it not sold to the fans or the club it's sold to our owners business. Hopefully they actually do get an application in soon.

 Bit pedantic I think. The business that owns the club has bought the ground back. 
 

John Bennett though, what a guy!

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Kevin MacDonald is the new Bradford manager, at least temporarily. 

Glad things seem to have worked out for him within the game after his struggles.

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1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:

Kevin MacDonald is the new Bradford manager, at least temporarily. 

Glad things seem to have worked out for him within the game after his struggles.

Not sure I can forgive him for wearing that tangerine shite though.

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On 03/10/2023 at 17:20, milkydfc said:

Any idea what our allocation will be for the Aberdeen game? Before the season started, I remembering reading that Aberdeen were looking to slash all away allocations to 350, not sure if they went ahead with it or not

You read wrong. Aberdeen are planning to remove the segregation fence, not done yet, to give the option to reduce away allocations depending on the opposition. Dundee will have the full away allocation of around 1800 for the upcoming match.

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Glad to read this. Sounds like we won't be homeless at least.

"Dundee will continue to play their home games at Dens Park until their new stadium is completed at Camperdown Park.

Dens Park managing director John Nelms revealed this afternoon plans over the move to a fresh new complex had changed.

Back in 2021, Courier Sport revealed the club’s plan at that time to buy back Dens Park and then sell it to help finance the building of their new home.

In between leaving their home since 1899 and the new ground being ready, the idea of a groundshare at somewhere like St Johnstone had been considered.

However, almost two years on Nelms revealed the “economic environment” had changed and, right now, there will be no need to groundshare.

Vision

That’s after club owner Tim Keyes and Nelms, through the company Dark Blue Property Holdings, bought Dens Park from local businessman John Bennett.

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How a Dundee FC stadium at Camperdown might look. Image: LJRH Architects.

A “significant step” in their plans to move to Camperdown Park.

Nelms told the press: “It’s a good day for Dundee Football Club.

“Dark Blue Property Holdings, Tim and I, purchased the stadium – it’s the next step in a whole series of steps we have to take in order to have our vision of a new stadium for Dundee Football Club and the city in place.

“Now having the stadium and the lease that comes with that stadium (Dens Park) we are able to maneouver much easier.”

Continue

The club aim to have their planning permission application submitted by the end of this calendar year.

But what does the purchase of Dens mean for the club and the club’s home for the past 124 years?

 
Dundee owners Tim Keyes and John Nelms.
Dundee owners Tim Keyes and John Nelms. Image: SNS

“Right now it’s about maintaining the stadium (Dens Park) until the other stadium is built,” he added.

“I’m not sure it’s a good financial plan to own two stadiums! But that’s where we are at, at the moment.

“We will continue to play at Dens and continue to keep it up and running, the best we can.”

‘Last ball kicked at Dens…’

So, no redevelopment?

“At this moment in time, no,” Nelms added.

“Before we said we might, I repeat might, have to play at a different facility. The economic environment at that time posed that we might have to sell Dens in order to have the funding to build the new stadium.

“At this point in time, that’s not the case.

“The idea is we would kick the last ball at Dens, the very next kick would be at the new stadium.

“But we’ve been working at this since 2016 and things have changed multiple times.

“We will continue to take the steps we need to to make the football club better and better.”

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At the very least goves McGhee , Tiffany and the Mexicans another 2 weeks to get back into it, still no news on young Reilly at this point he’s either had a big surgery at which point just come out and say that or he’s just not been fancied 

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