Good To See...........

 It was good to see Dundee playing a game at Dens for the first time in six months, they beat Peterhead in a closed door friendly. Paul McGowan scored after 40 minutes. Manager James McPake was happy with the performance and it will help the fitness of the players.

Dundee Sign Charlie Adam

 Dundee have signed Charlie Adam on a two year contract, a very good signing for the club. Charlie has played for Ross County, St Mirren, Rangers, Stoke City, Liverpool, Blackpool and Reading. He has also played for Scotland. 

The Midfielder will wear Number 26 this season, and Charlie trained with the club this morning after signing yesterday.

Charlie did play for Dundee as a guest for the Julian Speroni Testimonial.

Betfred Cup Games....

 Dundee will start the Season with two Betfred Cup games, first they play Forfar Athletic at Dens on Tuesday 6th October.  Next up will be a visit to play Brora Rangers at Dungeon Park. 

The other two game will be played in November Cove Rangers at Dens and a visit to Easter Road to play Hibernian which will be live on Premier Sports.

Blast From The Past

 

Great team really enjoyed watching them during season 1981-82.

Betfred Cup Draw

Dundee will play Hibernian (Top Seeds), Forfar Athletic, Brora Rangers, and Cove Rangers. We have been drawn into Group B as 2nd seeds for the 2020/21 Betfred Cup Group stage.

Tough getting Hibernian as they have started the season well, but a good group of games which will test Dundee and their new look team.

Dates and games will be announced later this week. 

Kane Leaves...............

Kane Hemmings has left the club by mutual consent, his second spell at Dundee was not as successful as the first time. Kane scored 10 goals last season after arriving in 2019.

Alex Signs..................

Dundee Football Club have signed Alex Jakubiak on a two year deal. Striker Alex joins after leaving Watford at the end of his contract in the summer. Alex came through the youth ranks at Vicarage Road and went on to make his debut in the English Championship at the age of 17.

He went on to have nine loan spells during his time at Watford. Gaining experience in League One and League Two down south. North of the border he scored 7 goals in 18 games for Falkirk.

His most recent loan spell saw him back in Scotland, this time in the Premiership with St. Mirren. He opened his account for the Buddies in the Scottish Cup against Motherwell before seeing his time in Paisley cut short by the premature ending to the season.

He joins Dundee on a two year deal and will wear number 7. 

Blast From The Past.......

Danny Signs.......

Dundee have signed Danny Mullen on a two year contract after the striker was released by St Mirren. 

Danny has been at St Mirren for three years after joining from Livingston for a reported five figure fee.

Danny will wear number 9 at Dens and l'm happy enough with this signing. 

News From Dens Park

Its been a tough period for Dundee Football Club due to the virus and ending of the season early. Next season will be tough as we will have a smaller squad. All the pressure will be on Hearts to win the league. I'm sure the fans will back the club and do what they can to help during this time.

Player wise Andrew Nelson has left the club, along with Josh Meekings. The players also took a wage cut to help the club so it has been tough for them as well. Loan signing have all went back to their clubs. I like Berra so likely he will get another chance at Hearts after they changed manager a few weeks ago.

Hopefully we can get some players in before the start of the season One so far Central defender Lee  Ashcroft signed after being released by Dunfermline Ath. Lee has signed for two years so it's  a good signing for the club , he has played a lot of games in the last five years. Lee also played for Kilmarnock and played at Dens in 2013  making his debut.

As usual the fixtures are not great for me, with only able to go to six home games without taking Holidays. I 'm sure i will take some the only down point could be Friday night games when the games gets switched from Saturday to the Friday night and I'm off the Saturday and down to work on the Friday. So for me to buy a season ticket will cost me around £42 a game if l manage 6 games it will go down the more i can go to. Say at most 10 games it's still £25.50 per game so maybe can manage that. With the virus we don't know when we could go anyway and that is not great for us Dundee fans.

Dundee start with Hearts (away) and will face twice away from home , Twice at Inverness CT and Queen of the South so again the Scottish league do nothing to help Dundee FC.

Anyway that is my rant over and I  look forward to hopefully seeing some games this season.

My New Blog

Seeing I'm at home for the lock down l have started a new blog for my DFC programmes the link is below:

https://mydfcprogrammes.blogspot.com/

Games Off

Dundee's future games have been called off due to The Corona Virus, hopefully it will clear. But if not I hope that it does not have a massive effect on my football club. Only time will tell.

My Programmes From The Past

Dundee lost the game 5-1, Doug Houston scored for Dundee in front of a 9,083 crowd at The Dell.

Dundee 2, Ayr United 0, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 10-March-20

Dundee beat Ayr United 2-0 in a entertaining game last Tuesday night, they got off to the perfect start when Kane Hemmings scored after a neat flick on from Paul McGowan. Dundee had numerous chances in the first half but failed to put the ball into the net. Ayr were unlucky a couple of time when good football could have seen them level the game.

Second half and the game was still end to end with Dundee maybe looking more dangerous in the final third. Maybe the turning point was when Ollie Crackshaw replaced Andrew Nelson and the Dee looked to finish the game. The second goal came late on , but it was well worth the wait to finally for me to see Dundee win at home this year. 

A big mistake from Mark Kerr and Dorrans picked the ball up and  fed Ollie Crankshaw who scored his first goal for Dundee to seal the points. Again another clean sheet for the team, l also thought Christophe Berra was immense and has proved a great signing. Also Connor Hazard has done well on his second spell at the club on loan.

Dundee: Hazard, Meekings (c), Forster, Berra, Elliott, Dorrans, McGowan (Robertson 77), Byrne, McDaid, Hemmings (Ness 90+3), Nelson (Cranshaw 73) Unused Subs: Sharp, Kerr, Field, Cameron.

Att:4,670

Ref: John Beaton

Ayr United 0, Dundee 0, Somerset Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 7-March-20

In the first of back to back game Dundee came away with a deserved point after a 0-0 draw. The highlight was a Connor Hazzard second half penalty save. It did not look much of a penalty whemn I seen it on YouTube. Anyway a good point on the road, another clean sheet. Looking forward to the game on Tuesday when both teams meet again this time at Dens Park.

Dundee: Hazard, Meekings (c), Forster, Berra, Kerr (Elliott 62), Dorrans, McGhee (Nelson at half time), Byrne, McDaid (Field 74), Hemmings, McGowan. Unused Subs: Hamilton , Cameron, Crankshaw, Robertson.

Att: 1,758.

Ref: Steven McLean.

Dens Round Up

Dundee will play Arbroath on the 24th of March, happy with that date as I'm dayshift at my work.

Dundee 0, Alloa Ath 0, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 03-March-20

Dundee drew 0-0 with Alloa at Dens on Tuesday night, it was all Dundee during the 90 minutes, but they failed to put the ball in the net. With Inverness winning 3-2 it means another 2 points dropped. The next two games are vital when the club play Ayr United twice firstly away this Saturday, and at home next Tuesday. Kane Hemmings missed the game due to illness.


Dundee: Hazard, Meekings (c), Forster, Berra, Elliott, Dorrans, McGhee (Crankshaw 69), Byrne, McDaid, Nelson, McGowan. Unused Subs: Hamilton, Kerr, Ness, Field, Robertson, Cameron.

Att: 4,356

Ref: Mike Roncone

Queen of the South 0, Dundee 0, Palmerston Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 22-Feb-20

Dundee came away with a massive three points winning 1-0 thanks to a Jordan Forster goal on 72 minutes, a much needed boost and another clean sheet means the hard core Dundee fans went home very happy.

Dundee: Hazard, Meekings (c), Forster, Berra, Elliott, Dorrans, McGowan (Kerr 80), Byrne, McDaid, Nelson (Crankshaw 68), Hemmings. Unused Subs: Hamilton , Field, Robertson, Cameron, Strachan.

Att: 1,126 

Ref: Don Robertson.

Dundee's game against Arbroath was called off due to a waterlogged pitch, very heavy rain on Friday night made the pitch unplayable.

Dundee 2, Partick Thistle 0, Dens Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 1st- February-20

Dundee beat Partick Thistle 2-0 at Dens Park, two first half goals from Kane Hemmings sealed the points for the Dark Blues. It was a welcome boost for the club.

The only down point was the injury to Ross Callaghan which will rule the midfielder out for most of the season. I missed the game so will give the details of the game.

Dundee: Hazard, Meekings (c), Forster, Berra, Elliott, Dorrans, Callachan (Nelson 76), Byrne (Robertson 64), McDaid, McGowan, Hemmings (Crankshaw 90+2). Unused Subs: Hamilton, Field, Cameron, Strachan.

Att: 4,860

Ref:Colin Steven

Photos From Morton

Morton 1, Dundee 1, Cappielow Park, Ladbrokes Championship, 01-February-20

Dundee made five changes from the team which played at East End Park, Ollie Crankshaw made his first start, Connor Hazard was in goal, Jordan Forster and Shaun Bryne returned to the side. Christophe Berra making his debut. Jack Hamilton, Lyall Cameron and Josh Meekings returned to the bench, Paul McGowan and Jordan Marshall are out injured.

Dundee started well and came forward putting some decent crosses into the box. Graham Dorrans should have scored from six yards but somehow put his shot wide. Five minutes later it was 1-0 Dundee when a great forward ball from Berra found Kane Hemmings who controlled the ball and finished with a neat shot across the keeper from 10 yards.

Dundee kept up the pressure and looked like they would extent their lead, Morton levelled soon after Hazard made a good block save but McAlister followed up to score from eight yards.

It was end to end with both teams having chances to take the lead , but it was all square at the break. 

Second half and it was mainly Dundee on the attack and Morton were reduced to 10 men when Jacobs was sent off for a foul on McDaid. Christie Elliott came on for Ollie Crankshaw who had been booked earlier. McDaid was unlucky with a shot and Elliott fired one just wide off the post.

Dundee kept going forward but they could not break down the Morton defence. So it ended in a draw which was about fair as Dundee were a bit square at times and too slow getting the ball forward.

I enjoyed the refreshments at the game and were priced well for the fans.

Dundee: Hazard, Kerr, Forster, Berra, McGhee, Callachan, Byrne, Crankshaw (Elliott 54), Dorrans (c), McDaid, Hemmings. Unused Subs: Hamilton , Meekings, Robertson, Anderson, Cameron.

Att: 1,643

Ref: Bobby Madden

Transfer Window Update

Players In: Ross Callachan from St Johnston (Loan), Ollie Crankshaw from Wigan Ath (Loan), Connor Hazard from Celtic (Loan),Christie Elliott from Carlisle United (Loan), Christophe Berra from Hearts (Loan), Tom Field from Brentford (Loan) 

Players Out : Josh McPake (Back to Rangers), Callum Moore to Stenhousemuir (Loan), John Todd to Falkirk (Transfer), Danny Johnson to Leyton Orient (Transfer), Calum Ferrie to Falkirk (Loan)