He cited a lack of communication between the board and the fans as the telling factor,while calling for a monumental restructuring of the club from the top down.
At present the supporters society have three reps on the board-Maurice Kidd, Eddie Devlin and Fraser McDonald and hold a 52% stake in the club.
But Harris was angered that he was not told of the decision until mid day yesterday and no dialogue had taken place between the board and the society,he was also disappointed to hear of Barry's departure second hand rather than from one of the fan reps on the club board.Harris believes the supporters have the right to know what is going on at the fans owned club,to find out this kind of news second hand is wrong,they should have had dialogue with us but they chose not to,the whole structuring at the top of the club is wrong.
Some people at the club have too much to say,and some seem to have no say at all-it is wrong,There are too many chiefs it is unhealthy the way decisions are taken at the top,Harris who is staying on in his role as Dundee supporters club association chairman,met DFC CEO Scot Gardiner yesterday.It was then after the news broke that he offered his resignation from the society post.Harris is keen to exonerate Gardiner from the decision making process,the fans need to know-this decision was solely down to the club board,Scot just delivers their decision,he has no say in it,we need to go about restructuring the way that the club is run.
Football fans are the lifeblood of any club,without the fans clubs would not exist and that has to be remembered,at the end of the day Dundee FC will outlast us all,the club is bigger than any one player/board member or manager,for the clubs sake we need to act,Harris admits he was disappointed by the sacking of Smith,we would be in the second division if it wasn't for him,all we can do is to wish him all the best in the future.
As a DFC supporter i would definitely have kept him in the job,it would have made sense to at least give him to the end of the season,but its not a decision that I'm qualified to make-that's well beyond my powers ,it is a strange decision given the fact that we backed him a month ago,tomorrow is another day i hope as a club we can move on from this.
