Tekel Towers » Jim McLean statue

tangerine72 · 31/3/2019 8:24 pm

Really not meaning to be negative here. I'm in my late 40's. Seen us in every trophy winning game. But i genuinely think people dont give a shit about this. I give a shit. But really dont blame young arabs.

TheShed · 31/3/2019 8:47 pm

tangerine72 wrote:
Really not meaning to be negative here. I'm in my late 40's. Seen us in every trophy winning game. But i genuinely think people dont give a shit about this. I give a shit. But really dont blame young arabs.

I do give a shit, this should have been done years ago without fans fund raising for it.

While MB is involved and they’re planning a statue with no resemblance to Jim I can’t justify donating.

Dyce_arab · 01/4/2019 9:09 am

TheShed wrote:
While MB is involved and they’re planning a statue with no resemblance to Jim I can’t justify donating.

same here, no giving that screw ball a penny

Tek · 27/4/2019 2:28 am

Like this video.

Wee Jim ❤

MockChop · 27/4/2019 6:48 am

I’d like to think there will be a bucket collection at our home play off game(s)

Our biggest crowds & the last chances to get a good whack in, for a while.

lifesanocean · 27/4/2019 8:52 am

tangerine72 wrote:
Really not meaning to be negative here. I'm in my late 40's. Seen us in every trophy winning game. But i genuinely think people dont give a shit about this. I give a shit. But really dont blame young arabs.

I think you've hit the nail on the head tbh. It's a bit like the 'Ehm no goin back' brigade who have rattled off about a dozen different excuses (Ray, Thompson, Csaba, Mike Martin etc) but are still not going to games. The reality is these people don't give a fuck about Utd and see it as a passive experience to be entertained without being willing to put up with the highs and lows. Cunts like that should fuck off to watch Man City, probably more to their tastes.

You could also apply this logic to the reason why there is still only about 600 who have joined the Foundation which is piss poor even compared to clubs like St Mirren and Motherwell. It's like an ever-declining pool of people are being repeatedly asked to dig into their pockets for the club, Foundation, the statue etc. It is unsustainable the longer we stay in this god-forsaken league. The only way it will change is to get promoted asap.

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PatReilly · 27/4/2019 10:22 am

Tek wrote:
Like this video.

Wee Jim
https://youtu.be/h3Lq56QvPVg

Still get a shiver whenever I see Raphie's goal.

kdyteejay · 27/4/2019 10:55 am

lifesanocean wrote:
tangerine72 wrote:
Really not meaning to be negative here. I'm in my late 40's. Seen us in every trophy winning game. But i genuinely think people dont give a shit about this. I give a shit. But really dont blame young arabs.

I think you've hit the nail on the head tbh. It's a bit like the 'Ehm no goin back' brigade who have rattled off about a dozen different excuses (Ray, Thompson, Csaba, Mike Martin etc) but are still not going to games. The reality is these people don't give a fuck about Utd and see it as a passive experience to be entertained without being willing to put up with the highs and lows. Cunts like that should fuck off to watch Man City, probably more to their tastes.

You could also apply this logic to the reason why there is still only about 600 who have joined the Foundation which is piss poor even compared to clubs like St Mireen and Motherwell. It's like a ever-declining pool of people are being repeatedly asked to dig into their pockets for the club, Foundation, the statue etc. It is unsustainable the longer we stay in this god forsaken league. The only way it will change is to get promoted asap.

Great post. Agree 100%. I honestly also can't understand why more folks don't join the Foundation.

bowers · 01/5/2019 2:53 pm

I notice that the £30k has been hit this afternoon

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/Jim-McLean-statue

BennyBoy · 02/5/2019 10:17 am

In the last 14 days, £1,536 has been raised.

Average of £109 donated per day.

bowers · 28/6/2019 2:08 pm

UPDATE

Our target for the Jim McLean Supporters Tribute statue is £70,000.

Thanks to your support, we have £35,817 received and pledged (June, 2019) which takes us to 50% of our target.

Jim McLean’s family have been fully involved in discussions
about the statue.

Alan Herriot, our sculptor, is finalising the maquette (600mm) of the statue based on revisions to drawings which have been shown to fans.

The maquette will be cast and brought to Tannadice so that fans can soon see how the statue will look.

We have offers from local companies and Dundee United
(Peter Carmichael, Stewart Jamieson, Dean Milne) for help with the foundation and groundworks.

Our target date is spring 2020.

Fundraising to date:

Auction items at DUFC Hall of Fame dinner raised £600;

Dundee United Business Club raised £3,180 through a Race Night at Club 83

Jim McLean Tribute Awareness Days at Tannadice - bucket collections raised £1,416 (March) and £2,003.91 (May); our next bucket collection is planned for the Dundee Derby at
the end of August.

Andy Warhol style T-shirts sponsored by Jimmy Fyffe, JF Kegs, are available to buy from Club 83, Balmore Bar, Frews Bar, Groucho’s, the Arab Barber in Lochee and the Trading post at Tannadice (£2,117 raised to date)

DUBC are running the Jim McLean Exhibition at Tannadice every Wednesday from 11am (over £200 in donations to date), continuing through to December

£255 from raffle prizes including signed Jim McLean t-shirts and signed DUFC top.

£150 from bonus ball auction of signed Pavol Safranko t-shirt

Pat McCarron raised £270 through the sale of badges

A Bob Servant print and items donated by Neil Forsyth was successfully auctioned on line.

Dundee United Supporters’ Foundation raised £1000 from the sale of posters and £900 from the sale of a signed Nadir Cifti ball that was kindly donated by Jim Devlin.

Mark Ogren and DUFC have pledged £5,000 and Arab Trust have pledged £1,500

Over 530 individual donations have been made through Just Giving or directly, including through the DUFC shop.

To all of the above, our warmest thanks. A record is being kept of all donations.

Plans for next stage of Fundraising:

Fans can continue to donate through the Jim McLean Supporters’ Tribute link on Justgiving. (Details on the flyers and Business cards sponsored by Terry Walls of
TEW stationers.)

The next bucket collection will take place at the Dundee derby at the end of August

DUFC plan an Open Community Day at Tannadice in August;

Jim McLean T-shirts are still available to purchase

Jim McLean Golf Day at Alyth on Friday 30th August being run by Denis McGurk

ULT are planning a Fashion Show in September

Further Quiz Night and Race Night are being
planned.

We have a number of donated items to be auctioned including: a Celtic FC football signed by the Treble Treble team; a football signed by Jim McLean and
the players from his era; a signed DUFC shirt; a signed Hibernian FC shirt.

The Jim McLean Tribute Steering Group thank you for your continuing support,especially as we move into the next phase of our Fundraising.

George Haggarty Chair

bowers · 23/9/2019 5:00 pm

The total must be touching or over 50k by now?
The steering group have been going to update the total publicly for 2 weeks now without doing so but one of them has posted on facebook earlier about this.
Over 7k was raised at a golf day a few weeks back and other fundraising stuff outwith the total on the just giving page is to be added.
With things still to happen it is not far away.

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leodis · 23/9/2019 5:58 pm

Is that it? I would never recognise him. Sorry, but not impressed.....

Dyce_arab · 23/9/2019 7:22 pm

leodis wrote:
Is that it? I would never recognise him. Sorry, but not impressed.....

you're at it

Tek · 23/9/2019 8:14 pm

Dyce_arab wrote:
leodis wrote:
Is that it? I would never recognise him. Sorry, but not impressed.....
you're at it

I think he must be.

The model looks great.

TheShed · 23/9/2019 8:53 pm

Tek wrote:
Dyce_arab wrote:
leodis wrote:
Is that it? I would never recognise him. Sorry, but not impressed.....
you're at it

I think he must be.

The model looks great.

It does look good imo. Sooner it’s done the better.

leodis · 23/9/2019 8:58 pm

Tek wrote:
Dyce_arab wrote:
leodis wrote:
Is that it? I would never recognise him. Sorry, but not impressed.....
you're at it

I think he must be.

The model looks great.

The smile had me fooled!

leodis · 23/9/2019 9:05 pm

I really dont think it looks like the man.

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leodis · 23/9/2019 9:10 pm

Where is it to go? Rename the East stand in his honour, the Duncan Ferguson Stand (his sale paid for it) or the 1983 Stand or whatever, and situate the statue near to it..

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bowers · 24/9/2019 5:11 am

i believe it was to go at the top of the East stand ramp, lit up at night so it can be seen from the bottom of ramp through the locked gates. Not sure if this is still the case?

Agree about renaming the stand and calling it the Jim McLean stand. More so that the statue will be right outside it. I and many others have said for some time now that the East stand should have the Thompson name removed from it.

blackandtangerine · 24/9/2019 5:19 am

Should never have been called the Thompson stand in the first place.

leodis · 24/9/2019 8:36 am

bowers wrote:
Agree about renaming the stand and calling it the Jim McLean stand. More so that the statue will be right outside it. I and many others have said for some time now that the East stand should have the Thompson name removed from it.

Yes, that certainly makes sense.

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leodis · 24/9/2019 8:38 am

blackandtangerine wrote:
Should never have been called the Thompson stand in the first place.

Agreed!

Dyce_arab · 24/9/2019 11:17 am

blackandtangerine wrote:
Should never have been called the Thompson stand in the first place.

agreed loon

Shedtastic · 24/9/2019 1:11 pm

I liked Eddie, he loved the club.