Blast From The Past

St Johnsone Photos

Dundee 2, St Johnstone 1, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Premiership, 21-April-18

Dundee Manager Neil McCann made three changes Cammy Kerr, Paul McGowan and Craig Wighton came in for Lewis Spence who was on the bench and Roarie Deacon and Josh Meekings who were out injured. 

Dundee got off to a perfect start scoring inside the first  minutes a Holt free kick was sent goalwards by O'Hara and hit the post went along the line and Sofien Moussa was on hand to tap in to give the Dark Blues the lead. It was just the start the Dundee fans wanted and they got behind the team.

St Johnstone came back strongly and Parish had to make a couple of saves as the Perth Saints looked strong in midfield. As the first half came to a close Dundee came close twice with Wighton and Kamara both had good efforts which just went wide of the goal.

Craig Wighton again was unlucky early in the second half when good play he was denied by the Saints keeper, then he saved well from a Simon Murray pile driver. Saints came close when Miller hit the bar. Moments later Murray was again denied by Clark in the Saints goal this time diving full stretch to push the shot behind the game.

With only five minutes to go Saints scored when MacClean scored from around eight yards out , it a sloppy goal to lose. But three minutes late Dens went wild when Cammy Kerr's high cross was headed home superbly by Sofien Moussa. 

With three minutes stoppage time to go the crowd got  right behind the team to see out the time and seal three massive points for the Dark Blues. It was not a great game to watch but the players all dug in to get the result.

I was pleased for Sofien Moussa who has worked his socks off for the last few games and deserves his goals today. It was also great to see Craig Wighton back after being out injured for nearly a year,  and the young striker had a great game.

Dundee: Parish, Kerr, Caulker, Kusunga, O’Hara, Kamara, McGowan (c), Holt, Wighton, Moussa, Murray (Leitch-Smith 84) Unused Subs: Ferrie , O’Dea, Aurtenetxe, Wolters, Spence, Scott.

Att: 5,592.

Ref: Don Robertson. 

On this Day in the  1899-1900 Season Dundee drew 1-1 with Sunderland in a friendly game at Dens Park. McDermott scored for Dundee in front of a 5,000 crowd.

Season Ticket Prices

Dundee FC have announced Season Ticket Prices for Season 2018-19.

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Gate prices for 2018/19 are as follows –

Adult – Premium £30, Cat A £26, Cat B £24

Students/O65’s/Disabled – Premium £22, Cat A £19, Cat B £16

U18’s – Premium £15, Cat A £12, Cat B £10

U12’s – Premium £8, Cat A £5, Cat B £2


My views are it will be hard on the DFC fans who go to 70% of the games and have to pay £30 for games v Celtic, Rangers ect. They might just miss out on these games and watch them on the TV

Myself I can't plan much until the fixtures are out, as I work every second weekend and it will affect the price I pay for my Son as well. 

Post -Split Games

The SPFL today released the post-split fixtures for the Ladbrokes Premiership.

Dundee’s post-split fixtures are as follows –

Sat 21st April, 3pm – Dundee vs. St. Johnstone

Sat 28th April, 3pm – Motherwell vs. Dundee

Sat 5th May, 12.30 – Dundee vs. Hamilton Accies (Live on Sky Sports)

Tues 8th May, 7.45pm – Ross County vs. Dundee

Sat 12th May, 3pm – Dundee vs. Partick Thistle

News From Dens

In the last two games before the split Dundee earned a 0-0 draw with Celtic at Parkhead. Which was a hard earned point for the club. Then on the Saturday they were beaten 4-0 by Rangers at Ibrox. I missed both games due to work. I suppose a point is better than nothing at least the teams around us  did not gain any advantage. 

Team v Celtic,  Parish,Caulker, Meekings, Kusunga, O’Hara, Kamara, Spence, Holt, McGowan (Wighton 87), Deacon (Moussa 65), Murray (Leitch-Smith 76). Unused Subs: Ferrie (gk), Kerr, Aurtenetxe, Wolters.

Att: 55,768.

Ref: Alan Muir. 

Team v Rangers.  Parish (Ferrie 84), Caulker (c), Meekings, Kusunga, O’Hara, Kamara, Spence (Wighton 57), Holt, Deacon, Moussa (Leitch-Smith 74), Murray. Unused Subs: Kerr, Aurtenetxe, Wolters, Scott.

Att: 49,142.

Ref: Greg Aitken.  


Players Sign Up 

Genseric Kusanga, Lewis Spence, Josh Meekings, Dan Jefferies and Cedwyn Scott have signed new deals for next season which is great for the club. 

Hearts Photos

Dundee 1, Hearts 1, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Premiership, 01-April-18

Dundee earned a 1-1 draw with Hearts on Sunday which they fully deserved. Manager Neil McCann made two changes with Jon Aurtenetxe and Simon Murray replaced Kevin Holt and A-Jay Leitch Smith who were on the bench along side Craig Wighton who was in the squad for the first time this season.

Hearts started well and scored on two minutes when a good passing move set up Callaghan who fired a shot home to the joy of the Hearts support. Dundee attacked from then on and caused the Hearts defence a lot of problems, Roarie Deacon went down in the box but was adjudged to have taken a dive and was booked for the Referee. Soon after the Hearts keeper saved well from Murray who had tried a chip shot. But on 27 minutes Dundee were level good play from O'Hara set up Deacon who's cross was bundled home by Sofien Moussa at the back post. Dundee fully deserved to be level and they continued up to half time pushing Hearts back.

Second half started and Darren O'Dea was replaced by Genseric Kusunga  Darren was injured in the first half and had tried to carry on. Dundee had a great chance when Caulker's header was cleared off the line and Moussa followed up but his was shot was turned round the post for a corner. With ten minutes to go Kevin Holt came on for Jon Aurtenetxe and soon after Simon Murray raced clear but instead of passing back to McGowan he went for the shot which went wide. Near the end McGowan was again unlucky when his rising shot just cleared the bar.

Dundee had to settle for a draw in the end but it could have been all three points, Hearts did not do much today and all the Dundee players gave their all. It was good to stop the run of defeats and it was much better to watch.

Dundee:Parish, Caulker, Meekings, O’Dea (c) (Kusunga 54), Deacon, O’Hara, Kamara, Aurtenetxe (Holt 80), McGowan, Moussa (Leitch-Smith 84), Murray. Unused Subs: Ferrie, Kerr, Spence, Wighton

Ref: Kevin Clancy.

Att: 5,496