It's Spin Pat that's all, how grateful we should be for what we have.

IF this bollocks was ever to happen  (it won't) you wouldn't be alone with being done with football.  I'd never be at a senior game again.

PatReilly wrote:

I know it's the hated Spencey, 

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/363358/exclusive-spence-says-it-may-be-time-for-dundee-clubs-to-merge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 


but what if someone actually has an interest in bringing this about? I'd be finished with football.

 
I'd chuck it too. Absolute media talk and reader grabbing pish.

Would take a hell of a time to work. At least a generation and the combined club would struggle or die in between.

If that's an attempt to make the current look better than the worst case scenario  it's not going to scare us into appreciation.

I worry about shit like this tbh.

Is this type of column an attempt to test the waters or strike fear into the support in a 'be careful what you wish for' type of way?

Either way,not good.

A merged Dundee club can fuck right off.

IKEA FC for me.

What if... The BNB Septic tanks offered the baldy snake his asking price?

Story goes the Chuckle brothers only backed down from selling out to wee jim when they realised no one would drink in their pubs if they went through with it

St doesn't have business interests in dundee, he could just cash up and **** off to Oz or somewhere.

he's just saying something controversial to try and remain relevant in the media

as with most people on here, I would also be finished with football forever if this happened.

The spell working for ST hasn't improved his journalistic skills then , back to same old pish at Dee C T is he ?

So glad I don't buy their papers.

A merger will never happen for the reasons it failed previously, they realised it would never work, doomed to total failure.

One football team in the town from a number angles would be best and the most efficient model! Money rules football and clearly a single focus for income and expenditure has to be a more viable option.

But ...merge with the  BNB's.....NEVER

Football in it's origins was never about money, it was about the game and 100+ years of tradition, history and rivalry will not be allowed to be forgotten.

Only in the US where they came to the game seriously in recent times has a league structure been set up to suit a financial model in locations organised to maximise fan base.

It must be shit over there though, it's just an organised game of football , no more, no passion, no history.

There will only be one team in Dundee if there's a total and abject failure of one of the two.

BNB's have had a couple of good tries but buckets saved the day, they might need more than buckets next time.

ST is perhaps trying it from a different angle, stupidity and incompetence, if he succeeds i' ll certainly never be going to Dens to watch football.

Meantime, c'mon United , a win today and feck Jim Spence and the Courier shove your merger where the sun don't shine.

This is the level Spence has sunk to, making up lies and printing garbage like thisvto deflect from the fans being severely pissed off with Thompson and the shambolic transfer window.

He's wrong on 2 counts for starters. Dundee's population is 148k no 160k, and Aiberdeen's population is 81k bigger at 229k.

The cynic in me wonders if this is just a ploy to try and move the "agenda" away from United's performance in the window which created meltdown on the various forums. Doubt if there is any support anywhere across the great divide for a merger and why raise this now

Was it Jim Spencer gettin' the pelters today during the game? 

Noticed a couple of boys got "escorted" out during the game in the 1st half today in the Jerry Kerr?

BennyBoy wrote:

Something is definitely going on, there's more than meets the eye here. On Friday we had a pre-view to Jim's article - and that generated a lot of chatter before it was even out. We then had the actual article which generated even more chatter not just online but I believe on the radio too (but I didn't hear any of it). But what's raised an eyebrow for me today is a follow-up article on the subject from Jim reaffirming his stance. I am wondering if Jim has been asked by somebody to broach the subject to see what the reaction is. Is this the start of genuine plans to merge?

Chris,that is my fear too as i stated above.

His piece is 'testing the waters' and bringing talk of a merger back into public consciousness after a few years of it not being discussed at all.

The 'liquidation' word has been used on this and other forums and platforms over the past year.

Maybe this is seen as a last-ditch option rather than that doomsday scenario.

Maybe not.Maybe I'm reading far too much into it.

It worries me though that someone who had Thompson's ear (probably still does) is stating such an opinion strongly.

We as a club 'sleepwalked' towards relegation.I hope we aren't sleepwalking into something much much worse should we fail to get promoted.
 

BennyBoy wrote:

they simply didn't believe it would happen.

 

The huns still don't believe it happened.


A merger won't happen, folk point at ICT as a success, it was only a success in boosting the crowds at Ross County.

And I can't see how administration would benefit anyone connected to the club. 

But you are all correct that we should keep as much of an eye on things as we can, and the club itself should be seen to be more open if they want our custom.