Orbix Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 5 minutes ago, mcjimbob_dfc said: I’d present this is an inconvenient truth to the idea that Dundee have not invested anything on their pitch to prepare for this coming season… but there’s very little rationality around the entire subject so I doubt it matters. https://dundeefc.co.uk/news/work-underway-on-new-pitch/ Plus I assume Tom English (even when challenged by a rare moment of sanity by Michael Stewart), the Motherwell manager and - with a rough guess that the daily statement from Ibrox is slavering that the rules that have been broken relate to a lack of maintenance - The Rangers, believe this definitely didn’t happen. The rules don’t provide a minimum investment amount though. They just give the minimum standard the pitch and ground have to meet. Saying ‘but we invested a token amount’ to not meet the standard still means you haven’t met the standard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 23 minutes ago, Estragon said: Has there ever been a historical occasion where Dens Park has been so pivotal in a team losing a league title before? Help me out #dees. Celtic could have won the league in 82/83 had Dundee not lost their home match on the final day. I forget the rest of the details 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WattersIsGod Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 3 hours ago, bennett said: What's the longest match thread on PnB, this surely must be a contender by the time the game gets played. Dumbarton vs Stirling Albion last season was postponed so many times the match thread reached 49 pages which was certainly a league two record ..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Play Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, Arab_R_us said: I mean it might happen i guess Given your obsession with all matters Dundee FC I would have thought you’d realise that there has been amended plans for the stadium submitted since this image was created. 1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said: The game going ahead 3 miles away on a local park is more relevant IMO. Is it possible that the Riverside pitches, being nearest the river, have a more sandy based composition (and thereby drain easier) than a pitch on a hill 2-3 miles away? I’m no expert on the matter, hence the reason I am asking yourself. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 minute ago, WattersIsGod said: Dumbarton vs Stirling Albion last season was postponed so many times the match thread reached 49 pages which was certainly a league two record ..... Best username on this thread imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, Mr Heliums said: Absolutely admire the brass neck of a club that was sold for a pound to someone already banned as a company director, failed to submit its accounts and sold only 250 season tickets before spiralling into liquidation, criticising another club as 'unprofessional'. That was a totally different club mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Mandate plastic pitches Sorted, no complaints to be had 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, Arab_R_us said: Dundee fans on here having the cheek not to be mortified by their club tonight and actually trying to fire back Ah bless - you're trying so hard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 minute ago, Shadow Play said: Given your obsession with all matters Dundee FC I would have thought you’d realise that there has been amended plans for the stadium submitted since this image was created. Is it possible that the Riverside pitches, being nearest the river, have a more sandy based composition (and thereby drain easier) than a pitch on a hill 2-3 miles away? I’m no expert on the matter, hence the reason I am asking yourself. I’m just guessing here, but the referee deciding whether Riverside is playable may be working under less stringent conditions than a Premiership referee. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pens_Dark Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 4 minutes ago, Shadow Play said: Given your obsession with all matters Dundee FC I would have thought you’d realise that there has been amended plans for the stadium submitted since this image was created. Is it possible that the Riverside pitches, being nearest the river, have a more sandy based composition (and thereby drain easier) than a pitch on a hill 2-3 miles away? I’m no expert on the matter, hence the reason I am asking yourself. I think his obsession is just with being an utter gimp. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 2 minutes ago, Binos said: Mandate plastic pitches Sorted, no complaints to be had Livingston v Aberdeen postponed twice within a few weeks a couple of seasons ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjimbob_dfc Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Orbix said: The rules don’t provide a minimum investment amount though. They just give the minimum standard the pitch and ground have to meet. Saying ‘but we invested a token amount’ to not meet the standard still means you haven’t met the standard. Fair enough. Do you know what the investment was? Does anyone have any details? Was a contractor charged with bringing it up to an “certain standard”? Is a full pitch being relaid a ”token gesture”? All I see is a repetition that nothing was spent, nothing at all. Which is clearly not true when the whole pitch was relaid at the very least as soon as last season ended. Who would know this, if not the “journalists” who, live on air, declared that not a penny has obviously been spent? There’s a drainage problem, that’s clear and it’s been accepted by the club is needs addressed. It could be under the pitch, under the stand, on Dens Road… it doesn’t matter. There’s literally nothing the club can do mid-season when this became apparent. The club have said they will have it sorted which will presumably require the pitch to be entirely ripped up again. Edited April 10 by mcjimbob_dfc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Surely it's time somebody launched legal action against the SPFL for admitting member clubs to the top flight whose standards of facilities fall short of SPFL requirements. Dundee's Texan owners have loads of money. I'm sure they could afford to do it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sortmeout Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) Maybe if Dundee hadn’t flown so many South Americans over and ruined the environment when they won the lea……no sorry when they won the cu……sorry made the top 6 then this wouldn’t have happened. Edited April 10 by Sortmeout 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior_Arab Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 2 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: Well that's not really all that much of a surprise, considering water from the Tannadice pitch does not drain on to Dens Road. All this pish about sewers, drains, burns etc that has become “fact”since somebody speculatively mentioned it in the build up to your match on Saturday… If it was true do you not think it might have been a problem before now? If it was true do you not think somebody from your club might have mentioned it by now given they’re now onto (checks notes) climate change as an excuse? Extremely localised climate change that doesn’t affect any other ground in Scotland obviously. I think they might have gone for the blocked drains first if that were in any way true. So far this season Dundee and their fans have blamed referees (are we still demanding the sacking of the guy who called off the Aberdeen game?), their groundstaff, the drains, the council, house building 20 yrs ago, climate change and f**k knows what else for games being called off. And yet I’ve never seen any Dundee fan on here mention chronic underinvestment in their facilities as a factor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Just now, Junior_Arab said: All this pish about sewers, drains, burns etc that has become “fact”since somebody speculatively mentioned it in the build up to your match on Saturday… If it was true do you not think it might have been a problem before now? If it was true do you not think somebody from your club might have mentioned it by now given they’re now onto (checks notes) climate change as an excuse? Extremely localised climate change that doesn’t affect any other ground in Scotland obviously. I think they might have gone for the blocked drains first if that were in any way true. So far this season Dundee and their fans have blamed referees (are we still demanding the sacking of the guy who called off the Aberdeen game?), their groundstaff, the drains, the council, house building 20 yrs ago, climate change and f**k knows what else for games being called off. And yet I’ve never seen any Dundee fan on here mention chronic underinvestment in their facilities as a factor. What bit about the fact Tannadice isn't next to Dens Road are you disputing precisely? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1 minute ago, Junior_Arab said: So far this season Dundee and their fans have blamed referees (are we still demanding the sacking of the guy who called off the Aberdeen game?) David Munro? Absofuckinglutely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Squonk Posted April 10 Popular Post Share Posted April 10 Dear Official Statement Writer, Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Dundee Football Club notes the contents of your statement earlier today and our flabber was gasted at your use of the words ‘negligence’ and ‘unprofessionalism’ in the context of an event precipitated to a large extent by the weather. It seems to us that words such as negligence and unprofessionalism should instead be used sparingly to describe truly seismic events such as standing by watching your 140 year old football club plunge into liquidation and become defunct. Dundee FC has had its own flirtations with insolvency over the years, but we’ve always managed to stop short of falling into the abyss that is death by liquidation, unlike your predecessor. Negligence and unprofessionalism could also be used to describe reliance on a governing body to concoct a secretive five way agreement document, laden with non-disclosure clauses, that pretended liquidation somehow hadn’t affected your original football club, despite everyone with an IQ higher than a dung beetle knowing otherwise. While the comedy value of those events to the rest of Scottish football might be immense, Rangers Football Club, old and new, are and were a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace, and that’s before we even consider the behaviour of the knuckle-dragging sectarian ‘minority’ that follow follows your club, or your club’s need to make money from them. Negligence and unprofessionalism might also describe a football club that cheated its competitors on an industrial scale for more than a decade and hid details of players’ earnings from the governing body, events that warranted title stripping or even expulsion from Scottish football, but which barely gave rise to a slap on the wrist. Against that magnitude of negligence and unprofessionalism, it would be entirely unfair for the authorities to punish Dundee FC for the vagaries of Scotland’s weather. Finally, I will be issuing Rangers* with an invoice in respect of the man hours spent by our staff this afternoon picking up the toys thrown out of your pram. Fondest regards, Nelmsy, Dundee FC. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Diamond For Me Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 What's all this about Burns? I'd have thought William McGonagall and Mary Brooksbank were the poets of choice in Dundee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 54 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Matchday #33 never finishes simultaneously. Completely true - but they've usually had the decency to complete Matchday #32 first.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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