STFU

Did enough for the win...just. Hopefully not a season of scraping by and hanging on. Wins are great, but fans deserve/need to be entertained. Controversial view, but I'd take an entertaining season over a promotion one. Fingers crossed for both

Lot of fragility in the squad. Everything crossed that we don't get any (more) early injuries and do get a flying start

Does this suggest that Charlie Christie doesn't think Dodds is the kind of manager who will give young players a chance?

I hear you and I know we always get told this, but the evidence doesn't seem to support it. I cite Hearts, Dundee Utd and, dare I say it, Rangers! as examples which immediately spring to mind. Clubs who, in recent years, have been forced to use squads full of younger players and have done pretty well in doing so. Sadly 2 of those clubs resorted to old habits when finances improved and I suspect Utd will do likewise as well. Do they/we all think they were lucky with the younger players and fear slipping if they continue on that road? Where are all the reports of ruined careers?

A signing like this excites me. At the start of their career and every chance they are keen, looking to prove themselves and not just chasing a final wage. Same reason we should be bringing more of our own youngsters through sooner. Who knows, maybe if we show willing to give a chance at first team football a bit sooner, then they may sign their contracts and not disappear out the door for virtually nothing when they turn 16

Not a lot. I thought that was pretty clear from my post. Action, not words. Given how good he is at kicking things down the road, perhaps he should be pulling his boots on and contributing on the pitch. Reading between the lines, it sounds like we're not going to make the £500,000 per concert he claimed we missed out on during Covid and that we'll be doing well to make any money. That's worrying if we've put together a business plan which depends on that income. Apologies if the reality of the situation is a miserable one.

I really like that and suspect it could outsell the gawd awful home shirt.

Because he's kicked lots of balls and has shown that to be the case? The whole "judge me on what I do from here, not what I've done till now" is the same BS argument being used to keep Boris in power. I'm not sure a playing career that's been in constant decline is any indication that "he's not a bad player", quite the opposite. I think Jock is justified in his appraisal and he didn't actually say that Boyd shouldn't be given a chance, however it's for the player to perform and change minds, not to expect nobody to judge him on what he's achieved (or not) till now.

Maybe our CEO should do less talking and more actual doing. Fed up of seeing his face in the paper when I'm having my breakfast and reading his 'blah blah blah'. If it's not pie in the sky ideas and promises that aren't being delivered, it's stories of 'poor me', how hard done by we are and it being everyone else's fault.

I wouldn't put these players in the unidentified/unrealised talent category. They are guys who, as you rightly describe them, are jobbers. They have obvious talent, but bounce around clubs because they generally only perform at any one place for a short period of time or they have a knack of pissing people off and get moved on. The genius with many of these signings is that if we get a good first season or so out of them, then Ross County come calling and we offload them before they turn sour.

Do we though? My feeling is that we've only had two managers who've been consistently good at this, and those were Paterson and Butcher. Others managers have, of course, found players of this nature but it feels more like it's been a numbers game with a lot of misses for each hit.

We're at home to Cove on 2nd January

Apologies if it looked like I was asking you to justify your attendance, I was merely clarifying if you were a carpark user. Our observations on the facility are very different. I used it for most home matches and often was arriving fairly close to kick-off due to work commitments and have been turned away as it was full. I've also had a ticket (successfully overturned) for parking on the verge as a result....oops. The stewards are terrible at emptying the car park (often not helped by the idiots driving), but they do a pretty decent job of packing them in there to begin with, in my view. Buses from the social club are great for those who choose to go there, but even two double deckers is only 100 people...about 5% of the average attendance. I live in the city, and for me to get a bus to the town centre and then from there to the stadium would be about £5 return and close to 50 mins each way. If that became my only option, I'd find something else to do with my Saturdays.

Why would the parking not be required? Have you ever been in there on a matchday? They line the cars up bumper to bumper in order to get as many in as they can and cars often get turned away as it fills up. These people then resort to parking elsewhere. Not always sensibly and ending up with parking fines. The club moans that the people of the city don't do enough to support them, but constantly throw obstacles in the way. It took over 20 years to get a single bus running from the town centre to the stadium on a matchday. The chances of getting a bus system that can be easily used by people from all over the city is less than slim.

I hear ya. We have a Sporting Director who we're told is there to focus on spotting targets for the manager. If he wasn't lining up options for us to move on for both promotion and non promotion scenarios, then that would have been a dereliction of duty. Ultimately, it's who we have come kick off on the first competitive match that matters, but being frustrated at the lack of any movement or news of any movement is understandable.

Looking at the success Dundee Utd had with youth players recently and others in the past (notably Hearts), then I think we need to be bold and recruit from within. We have adequate experience in the squad to support these lads and help them transition to the pressures of first team football.

Thank you. I note that you make no comment on the veracity of my comments, choosing to attack me, yet again, because I fail to comply with your required level of positivity. You, sir (I assume), are a bully. You wade in with little jibes to undermine anyone who dare have different views to you, and in doing so leave the door open for others to join the pile on. I have witnessed you doing this with other posters on here, some of whom come across as being quite young, and you seem to have now turned your attention on me. You come across as a sad old man, probably with a professional/managerial background, who has retired and misses the power which you once held in the workplace. When people react to you, you then use that against them. That is what you have done here. My sarcastic post is a result of your previous digs at my positivity and now you use that to attack me further. It's not nice when people make assumptions about your character from a few forum comments is it? If you wish to disagree with me, please do, but I politely ask that you stay away from attacking my character....and I will do the same.

And the Pope's a Catholic....neither of which have anything to do with where Centenary Club proceeds go.

So we've signed a Duffy, a Duffer and a Duffed? Great work by Billy. The opposition will be quaking in their boots already

Information on the website says there's still the big bonus draw. However that was last updated for 2018/19. Any details on how much it actually contributes to the club these days? A google search only turned up talk about how much it allegedly pays Charlie Christie and him being provided with a Mercedes as a company car.

Woohoo, we've got nearly a million of debt and all signs are that we continue to spend beyond our means. We're so lucky that the much talked about deal with ILI will be enough to wipe that out so we can start running up debt from zero again. Praise be to Jesus, what a time to be alive and supporting the mighty Caley Jags.

Everyone. Credit where credit is due, our CEO can fair spin a tale and suck people in. On the further subject of directors funding losses. I wonder if the current crop are done and this is why we are looking to recruit further in this area?

I don't understand your question.

Thanks for pointing that out. Reading more info, the claim that losses are reducing seems a little far-fetched. Whilst true, it appears that the losses have reduced by about £10k and hardly worthy of a headline. Correct me if I'm wrong on the following, but it would appear that our losses are much as they have always been, our debt is more than it has been for a long time and the only trend we're bucking is being the only club in the Championship to have returned a massive loss for that year, despite getting £500k (?) of taxpayers funding? Kinda feels like we've been taking the ****, no?

Not sure the concert excuse stacks up. There's a high wall to the rear and side of the west stand, so the stage already has to be built higher than a roof would need to be. A roof could also be added slightly further along, closer to the North Stand and away from where the stage is erected.