Dundee should have a full squad for the visit of Falkirk to Dens Park. Matt Lockwood will return after illness, Tom Brighton should play again with Leigh Griffiths set to say farewell before his transfer to Wolves. Sean Higgins will miss out due to his red card last week.
Jocky Scott has been appointed as Stirling Albion manager, our ex player/manager gets my best wishes apart when we play them. It will add some spice to the fixture.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Dundee Earn Vital Draw at East End Park
Dunfermline Ath 0 Dundee 0, East End Park, Division One, 15/January/11
Dundee earned a vital point at East End Park on Saturday with a hard fought 0-0 draw. With Leigh Griffiths in England with Wolves over a future transfer deal, manager Barry Smith played trialist Tom Brighton, the ex Clyde, Millwall and St Mirren striker done well by reports. I missed the game due to work so can't comment too much. I seen the highlights on DFCTV so the team done well. The only down point was losing Sean Higgins to a second booking early in the second half. He has to maybe calm down a bit as our squad is not big enough for that just now.
The reports also say the Dundee fans backed the team superbly as they have done so since administration. I think everyone has pulled together and say we can do this.... And Together we will.
Match report Here
Dundee earned a vital point at East End Park on Saturday with a hard fought 0-0 draw. With Leigh Griffiths in England with Wolves over a future transfer deal, manager Barry Smith played trialist Tom Brighton, the ex Clyde, Millwall and St Mirren striker done well by reports. I missed the game due to work so can't comment too much. I seen the highlights on DFCTV so the team done well. The only down point was losing Sean Higgins to a second booking early in the second half. He has to maybe calm down a bit as our squad is not big enough for that just now.
The reports also say the Dundee fans backed the team superbly as they have done so since administration. I think everyone has pulled together and say we can do this.... And Together we will.
Match report Here
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Dundee 0 Motherwell 4, Dens Park, Scottish Cup 4th Rd, 09/January/10
In this Scottish Cup 4th Rd tie at Dens Park Dundee were well beaten by 4 goals to nil. Motherwell got off to the perfect start scoring early through ex-dee John Sutton on 3 minutes when he shot past Rab Douglas after Murphy done well on the wing. Dundee did come into it and Griffiths was unlucky when he was ruled offside he looked on to me. Motherwell's midfield done a good job on giving Dundee's midfield no room to create much.
Second half and with my thoughts we got to half time and still only 1-0... lets have a go...but Motherwell got their vital second goal when again John Sutton scored with a cool finish on 47 minutes. After this The Well were happy to sit on their lead and hit on the break. Leigh Griffiths was really unlucky when he hit the bar from a free kick which took a big defection from a well player. Soon after Sean Higgins went in with a wreckless tackle which ended up players getting booked on either side. Dundee had a few chance but failed to take them and Motherwell killed the game with a good goal Jennings scoring with a well placed header from a corner on 81 minutes. And to complete the scoring Murphy scored for the steelmen with another cool finish.
Dundee tried their best today, maybe just a off day for them. The league will be more important now, so starting with Dunfermline next week the focus will be on to get more points to close the gap at the bottom.
Dundee: Douglas,Irvine,Lockwood,McKeown,Weston,Forsyth,O'Donnell, Stewart (Benedictus 63)Harkins,Griffiths,Higgins. Subs: Gibson, Benedictus, Webster, Ross Carnegie, Mcintosh
Second half and with my thoughts we got to half time and still only 1-0... lets have a go...but Motherwell got their vital second goal when again John Sutton scored with a cool finish on 47 minutes. After this The Well were happy to sit on their lead and hit on the break. Leigh Griffiths was really unlucky when he hit the bar from a free kick which took a big defection from a well player. Soon after Sean Higgins went in with a wreckless tackle which ended up players getting booked on either side. Dundee had a few chance but failed to take them and Motherwell killed the game with a good goal Jennings scoring with a well placed header from a corner on 81 minutes. And to complete the scoring Murphy scored for the steelmen with another cool finish.
Dundee tried their best today, maybe just a off day for them. The league will be more important now, so starting with Dunfermline next week the focus will be on to get more points to close the gap at the bottom.
Dundee: Douglas,Irvine,Lockwood,McKeown,Weston,Forsyth,O'Donnell, Stewart (Benedictus 63)Harkins,Griffiths,Higgins. Subs: Gibson, Benedictus, Webster, Ross Carnegie, Mcintosh
Ref: Conroy
Att: 4,285
It was good to catch up with some Motherwell mates before and after the game, we have known each other for around 30 years so we had a few beers together. Here's to the next Dundee v M
otherwell game.
From the left. Calum, Paul, Jim and George in France when Motherwell played AS Nancy in Europe.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Dundee 2 Ross County 0, Dens Park, Division One, 03/January/2011
Dundee kept their unbeaten run under Barry Smith with a hard fought tussle with Ross County on Sunday. The low point was the injury to Darren McCormack who suffered a broken ankle after a tackle involving Craig Forsyth who was blameless things like that happen in football and we all hope he makes a speedy recovery.
Dundee started the game very well and after a sweeping move involving Irvine, Higgins, and Griffiths who set up Craig Forsyth who shot over when really he should have scored. The game swung from end to end and Ross County had a couple of shots which were too close for comfort. But Dundee kept their shape at the back and got their reward on 28 mins when Forsyth made a run into the box and was tackled from behind to which the ref gave a penalty. Up stepped Matt Lochwood and he gave the staggies keeper no chance with a high placed shot hit with some venom. Then not long after that Forsyth made a great run to the byeline and when he hit the ball across the goal it just needed a touch to make it 2-0.
Second half now and the game started at much the same vain, but after just 5 mins McCormack clashed in a tackle with Forsyth in which straight away you knew it was a bad injury. A full 7 minutes of treatment was needed. The game then got a bit nasty with some wreckless tackles going in and in one 5 minute spell 5 players were booked. But at least Dundee players kept their composure, and played some nice one touch football. Ross County did miss a great chance when Barrowman headed wide when it looked easier to score.
Dundee wrapped up the points when after great play in a flowing move started by Harkins and with some clever play led to a wee chip from Griffiths putting Harkins into the box and he finished with a fine shot. In the final few minutes County sub Kettlewell got his second yellow card with another needless tackle. So that was that another three points. Next week we have the Scottish Cup tie v Motherwell to look forward to, and live on SKY with a 13:15pm kick-off.
Dundee: Douglas, Irvine, McKeown, Weston, Lockwood, Robb, Harkins, O'Donnell, Forsyth (Stewart 90), Griffiths, Higgins. Subs Not Used: Geddes, Benedictis, Mcintosh, Rennie.
Att: 4,725
Ref: F McDermott
Dundee started the game very well and after a sweeping move involving Irvine, Higgins, and Griffiths who set up Craig Forsyth who shot over when really he should have scored. The game swung from end to end and Ross County had a couple of shots which were too close for comfort. But Dundee kept their shape at the back and got their reward on 28 mins when Forsyth made a run into the box and was tackled from behind to which the ref gave a penalty. Up stepped Matt Lochwood and he gave the staggies keeper no chance with a high placed shot hit with some venom. Then not long after that Forsyth made a great run to the byeline and when he hit the ball across the goal it just needed a touch to make it 2-0.
Second half now and the game started at much the same vain, but after just 5 mins McCormack clashed in a tackle with Forsyth in which straight away you knew it was a bad injury. A full 7 minutes of treatment was needed. The game then got a bit nasty with some wreckless tackles going in and in one 5 minute spell 5 players were booked. But at least Dundee players kept their composure, and played some nice one touch football. Ross County did miss a great chance when Barrowman headed wide when it looked easier to score.
Dundee wrapped up the points when after great play in a flowing move started by Harkins and with some clever play led to a wee chip from Griffiths putting Harkins into the box and he finished with a fine shot. In the final few minutes County sub Kettlewell got his second yellow card with another needless tackle. So that was that another three points. Next week we have the Scottish Cup tie v Motherwell to look forward to, and live on SKY with a 13:15pm kick-off.
Dundee: Douglas, Irvine, McKeown, Weston, Lockwood, Robb, Harkins, O'Donnell, Forsyth (Stewart 90), Griffiths, Higgins. Subs Not Used: Geddes, Benedictis, Mcintosh, Rennie.
Att: 4,725
Ref: F McDermott
Award for Leigh as well...
Leigh Griffiths was named young player of the month, he has been in great form lately. Sadly for us Dundee FC fans he will likely be sold to ease the club forward, and out of administration. I just hope we get a decent fee for him, but l feel he might have to go to England for that to happen.