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Dundee FC; Melville wants out!
Topic Started: Sep 20 2010, 10:49 AM (6,031 Views)
Art Vandelay
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We've been running in arrears with them for 19 months and they are now demanding full payment for the outstanding amount, which is something around £250,000...and they are being completely inflexible, with no room for negotiation at all.


Translation: "The bastards won't accept 5p in the pound like our other creditors had to"
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So, to summarise, they've barely paid a penny in tax since the CVA. Creditors gave them a parachute and they chopped it up into rags -- rags they used to mop up the benefactor cash they kept spunking while in accelerated freefall.

f*ck'em. I'm bored of the whole Dens Park pantomime. I really hope they fold. No flowers, no poems, no sympathy, just f*ck off.
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As a weegie I've never been bothered about Dundee in the slightest, so I would not give a monkeys if they went bust - sad for those Dundee fans yes, but it has no impact on me as a United fan. Any time we got really bothered about the derby in my lifetime (bar the final hgame of the season 82/83!!) was confirmation that there wasnt much else happening in the season.

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Amid all the Dee-baiting on EFF, Stewie Griffin gives some insights into what it all might mean.

And rumours abound that they're about to go into administration again. Tomorrow.
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Art Vandelay
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whatsthatonyourback
Sep 26 2010, 08:31 PM
Amid all the Dee-baiting on EFF, Stewie Griffin gives some insights into what it all might mean.

And rumours abound that they're about to go into administration again. Tomorrow.

Interesting stuff. It does make sense that liquidation is very unlikely, as they can downsize to a level that is sustainable, in a way that Livvy have done (although they were demoted two divisions).

I do miss the derby, but I miss it less each season we go without one. The Aberdeen game is the real derby these days.
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whatsthatonyourback
Sep 26 2010, 07:31 PM
Amid all the Dee-baiting on EFF, Stewie Griffin gives some insights into what it all might mean.

Exceptional post, that. Thanks for pointing it out.

A Little sympathy is restored. It's a hoisting by financial idiocy, not hubris. Still, administration and a few years in the wilderness seems a fair and just outcome.
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Yagan
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I just hope they die. They deserve no less. As for all the mourning BNBs, well :lol: .

Long-term, it will make United stronger.
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Yagan
Sep 27 2010, 04:09 AM
I just hope they die. They deserve no less. As for all the mourning BNBs, well :lol: .

Long-term, it will make United stronger.

My opinion too. Any sympathy I had for them has long evaporated - they've behaved horribly from top to bottom-feeding fan over the past ten or fifteen years, and thoroughly deserve to go out of business.
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I'm not sure. I think something might have to give, but I'd now rather see them in some shape still around, even if not SPL. The odd cup game would be great still.
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Sep 27 2010, 04:09 AM
I just hope they die. They deserve no less. As for all the mourning BNBs, well :lol: .

Long-term, it will make United stronger.

Very long term. This current generation will be lost to the game, it'll be years before United notice any consequent increase in support. If ever.
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I am afraid my affection for my DFC supporting friends tempers my antipathy towards the other team and therefore I cannot in all conscience wish for their demise.









aside: I can :rolleyes:
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Art Vandelay
Sep 27 2010, 08:35 PM
Yagan
Sep 27 2010, 04:09 AM
I just hope they die. They deserve no less. As for all the mourning BNBs, well  :lol: .

Long-term, it will make United stronger.

Very long term. This current generation will be lost to the game, it'll be years before United notice any consequent increase in support. If ever.

I dunno, Rangers and Celtic were minnows till Third Lanark went bust.

Actually where did all the Thirds fans go? Clyde continued their slow slide down the pan. QP remain a rugger type old boys club playing football. Partick Thistle?
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Can't help but think that, when a club folds, it's like the fans being released from a life sentence. It is, however, extremely hard to kill football clubs -- just look at zombies like MK Dons and Airdrie United. Dundee FC will abide in some form, even if that means their derbies are against Violet.
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Art Vandelay
Sep 27 2010, 08:35 PM
Yagan
Sep 27 2010, 04:09 AM
I just hope they die. They deserve no less. As for all the mourning BNBs, well  :lol: .

Long-term, it will make United stronger.

Very long term. This current generation will be lost to the game, it'll be years before United notice any consequent increase in support. If ever.

Always the point that Bob Crampsy made when people used to discuss why clubs like Albion Rovers, East Stirling or the Angus clubs didn't either merge with their local "bigger" side or with comparable sides within a couple of miles. I remember friends of my Grandpa telling me they had not been to watch any club side after Third Lanark went bust, and that had been about 25 years when they were telling me.
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Yagan
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It's not just 'potential' fans from the RIP'd Dundee though - it's things like advertising and sponsorship. It's been oft quoted from Tanny in the past that many companies are unwilling to take out advertising/sponsorship/hospitality for just one of the Dundee clubs for fear of alienation, can't afford two (or have to lower their budget by 50% for each club) so just don't do it.

That WILL make an immediate difference.

DFC RIP (fingers and toes crossed). :banshk:
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