Folk always looking for the negatives. People get too worked up about celtic and rangers. I think its a good thing and as smeds says it gives us a chance to blood youngsters if we're comfortable in any games. Gotta be a good thing.

No sympathy for Hearts or Thistle. Fuck them. Brought it all on themselves.

Tangy wrote:

Defo not keen but each to their own.

It will be interesting to see what commercial impact the strips have after the success of last years.

The home top (to me) is bog standard united - had I asked my niece to draw a united kit - thats what she would have drawn.

The away is still a guess but purple is going to be a hard sell (if that is to be believed) and if its the pattern on the hoodie then it will be the marmite of football straps...either loved of hated.

Either way its starting to get about wearing how ill prepared we are for the season. 9 days to go and we have not started selling our home shirts and the away shirt is seemingly forgotten about. It may sound petty but in these hard times, id imagine selling a few thousand shirts at 50 quid a pop would help matters.

Even the release was a massive dissapointment. Leaked on sky and a half arsed press release from us.

I guess folk are still furloughed but I wonder if ifs all going south since we punted big malky and didn't replace him...is David Southern available?

Both dundee strips are on sale. Same manufacturer as us.
 

Tek wrote:

bowers wrote:

Jesus fuck

I like that tbh.

Bit different.
 

It's actually rancid.
 

smedDUm wrote:

blackandtangerine wrote:

The lack of communication coming out about this and the season opener is baffling.

Are we not all on tenterhooks tho B&T?
I imagine there will be a flood of info coming out as soon as humanly possible.
It feels bizarre tho that  there's our return to the Prem in 9 days time & we canna go!
 

I'm on about the streaming TV service. Most clubs have it sorted.  As per usual our communications are dire.
 

PatReilly wrote:

Snacks94 wrote:

Is Fotheringham a Utd fan?

Doubt it Snacks. He lives in Larbert.
 

There's Utd fans in Larbert Pat.
 

Nommi57 wrote:

The nick indeed , wtf is wrong with u people oh look at the collar look at the socks its a football kit bunch oh weans.

I'd hazard a guess and say it's because they might want to buy it but don't want to splash out money on something they don't like.

Incidentally, weans. What a horrible word.
 

Macbonzo wrote:

blackandtangerine wrote:

smedDUm wrote:

With all that's going on I'm surprised we're getting a strip.
Macron btw dodgy Italian mafioso look out for global collapse.
That's me with a horse's head in my bed

I'd say most Italian clothing and sportswear manufacturers will have some links to organised crime in them. 
 

 
What's your authority? Or is it just based on what you think happens in Italian business.

I'm really not trying to pick a fight. I live and work I in Piedmont and I have never encountered any Mafia influence. When the autostrada bridge collapsed in Genoa 2 years past all my Scottish in-laws jumped to the conclusion it was a Mafia contract. The reality they were all applying a stereotype. I think there is hardly any Mafia influence north of Rome.

I'm sure someone will google it now.

A good friend of mine lives in Liguria. Just outside Albenga. Sampdoria fan. he's my authority. There are more organised crime gangs in Italy than just the mafia. Juventus main ultras group are controlled by crime lords. Massive racket on tickets that the club backed until recently,  Also have their fingers in many other pies. Drughi are now banned from the stadium.  

Beautiful wine from Piedmont. Gavi especially
 

Tek wrote:

blackandtangerine wrote:

Tek wrote:

20 if you include Adam King and young Jake Davidson, yes.

But i think both will be back out on loan Smedz.

18 who could be considered first team 'ready' and 2 or 3 of those (as i say) kids themselves.

We need bodies in, there can be little arguement there surely?
 

He's just in the door. Give him a couple of days to settle in and I'm sure signings will be made.
 

I wasn't suggesting they were made immediately.

But we do need to act fairly quickly regards one or two positions. 
 

patience Tek, patience.
 

Tek wrote:

smedDUm wrote:

Tek wrote:

We do not have a big squad.

Currently have a 1st team squad of 18 players.

But 3 of them are boys with just minutes under their belts or none at all (Glass, Mochrie, Freeman). And that's also including both our Goalies.

We can barely make up a starting XI and bench even allowing for a FULLY fit squad.

Madness not to make 3 or 4 signings in the next month.
 

Actually there's 21 in our 1st team squad, well there's 20 on the Fishul which doesn't include Mochrie. Then I'm sure there are another 3 or 4 more Freeman/Glass/Mochrie types away to graduate. I think it's important to give kids a chance. There are some diamonds in there & you need your Appere types to get a chance.

Yeah we're 4 years out of the top flight & we're going to get some sort of culture shock regardless of how many squad players we have but I would not be setting my sights on Europe. More realistically I'd bite your hand off for 6th but being outside that, 7th, 8th or 9th, would be first season back success for me. The season after - top 6.
 

20 if you include Adam King and young Jake Davidson, yes.

But i think both will be back out on loan Smedz.

18 who could be considered first team 'ready' and 2 or 3 of those (as i say) kids themselves.

We need bodies in, there can be little arguement there surely?
 

He's just in the door. Give him a couple of days to settle in and I'm sure signings will be made.
 

finn_dossing wrote:

kdyteejay wrote:

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/tannadice-to-tynecastle-walk?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp_guide_do

He is doing a Tannadice to Tynecastle walk in aid of funds towards legal expenses

says on the funding site that its tynecastle to tannadice, so which is it? i dont mind giving money for tynecastle to tannadice but i'm not giving anything for tannadice to tynecastle. 

It's been changed from Tynecastle to Tannadice for obvious reasons. Don't see what difference the direction makes to whether you donate or not. Bit of a bizarre comment. 

UniDundee wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

LarsErikKjell wrote:

 
No? You said you fear for us. I was just wondering specifically where this fear came from?

Let's just say the jury is out for me on Asghar and as he seems to be the only show in town now, I fear for us.  His handling of our manager recruitment does nothing to re-assure me.  For example, trying to sign Messi might look good for the papers, but it isn't going to happen and therefore it isn't a case of too much ambition...

I don't get Asghar either, I have been very cautious regarding the approach our new owners have taken from the start. I rang alarm bells about MB last season and now he is away.  Despite being called a Dee from a few - I'm still ringing alarm bells about our finances - it's unsustainable, it's just basic maths. Ogren publicly stated he wants to make profit from our club, that simply will not happen. Unless there is a massive new TV deal and/or we can have a bigger stadium with more fans then it won't happen. If it was that easy in Scotland, many more clubs would start making profits and many more rich men would be involved.  We are already over £5m in debt (to Ogren), 133% wage to turnover, we are spending money for project brave for an army of staff that delivers what? More and more clubs are pulling out of project brave, it's a Malky project, same as the guy before him MW project. 

When Ogren realises he won't get profit, then what? I'm grateful, as our club was on its knees with ST & MM but I would prefer a sensible plan. 

I don't expect everyone to agree with my post. I still think we will end up with a Jon Daly/Barry Robson type manager.  


 

You do realise the full story of the 133% do you?