Dundee Football Club

[stevek1969]

We won the Alba Cup last season , i think with not getting promoted Walter Mitty Mellvile lost interest and the club dwindled,god only knows how much debt there would have been if we did get promoted.

Last season we averaged just under 5000 for a home game more than most of the Premier teams so we are a big club and would be a sad day if we went down the tubes.

 

[CrapHacker]

Last season we averaged just under 5000 for a home game .....so we are a big club

Sad.

Have Scottish crowds always been so low ?

What about suggesting the Scottish league is used as a feeder for the English leagues ? So part of the running costs could be carried by a richer club. I mean a few million is nothing to Chelsea or Arsenal, and it could mean their youngsters and reserves get a regular game, whilst keeping the Scottish leagues afloat.

 

[19th]

Dundee were also one of the clubs that had the honour of employing a player many people rate as the best player ever to play for a home nation, he's the only player to win the league in Scotland for three seperate teams and none of them were the old firm.Hibs,Hearts and Dundee.His name was Gordon Smith, the gay Gordon and, according to my dad who watched the likes of Edwards,Matthews,Finney & Moore for England as well as the holy trinity for United, he was a match for any of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Smith_(footballer_born_1924)

When I was very young this footballing God, Gay Gordon, visited his relatives in our village and I KICKED A FOOTBALL WITH HIM!!

Granted he was in a suit and it was only a wee ball BUT I DID! This was a time when gay meant gay and not gay as in gay!

I hope Dundee come through this - it is not the fans fault if a club is mis-managed - and whilst we, Caley Thistle, were on the receiving end of Dundee's buying SPL players and paying SPL wages to win the fight to get into the top Scottish League and the cash that this offers in comparison to the First division - they are a club with a super history and a large potential fan base.

They stole the Alba Cup from us but we stole(strolled!) the league and I bet they wish it was the other way round!

 

[CliveW]

Dundee's contribution to the fabric of Scottish football over the last 60-odd years justifies their existence.

Tell that to the tax man!
Instead of buying players last year they should have been paying the bills. Common business sense.

 

[John_Findlay]

Football is probably now at the stage the property market was at a couple of years ago. This growth is unsustainable financially so the bubble will burst and sadly it will take some teams with it. I'm afraid most club owners just aren't getting their addy uppies right.

I have to say I'm with thecraw on a few things though. As far as I'm concerned you could burn every football ground in the UK to the ground and make them into Asdas for all I care. I'm sick of the whole football culture, from top to bottom. And at least it would make conversation in the pub a bit more interesting.

 

[viscount17]

It's a tragedy that football in Britain has reached this point.

not really, I see this as inevitable. there have been too many clubs feeding in too small a trough for too many years - and this is true of all British football, not just in financial terms but in the availability and quality of home grown (and theoretically) cheaper talent.

even TV money was never going to stave it off for long as there was never going to be an equitable distribution and the only way to get a bigger share was to move up, and the only way most saw of moving up was by buying.

as to owners, have any of them made a profit in the last few years and if not, why do so many think they should keep shelling out?

for now, rugby is safe, but for how long can they hold the line on wage caps?