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  1. On TV duties As culpable as most for where we are now IMO Vanity project DSC
  2. Neil McCann believed he brought in players who he thought were the same class as the players at Serie A sides like Milan and Juventus but the fans could see from the offset that most of the new additions weren't good enough. Our defence has been a shambles and it doesn’t really matter who seems to play there, nothing really changes and that is testament to the amount of goals we have shipped so far this season. 60 in total so far and that is unacceptable for the club. When you are not scoring goals, you expect your defence to at least keep a few clean sheets. Our goal difference could be the difference between staying up or going down. You could put our performances and results down to McCann's duds, but I feel that both managers have to take responsibility for our results as well. While McCann could be excused for being inexperienced, you cannot excuse some of his team selections, formations and tactics, as at times they were bloody awful. I'm not sure that given more time the results would have started to change under McCann and I think we could have been left trailing at the basement of the league. In all honestly, the shock was how long the board actually let him go on before changing. After McCann was sacked, John Nelms was in the news saying that we needed to bring in a more experienced manager, but in good old Dundee fashion, we couldn't even do that right. When the club appointed McIntyre they surely knew that the new boss would want his own assistant and that would be Billy Dodds who would bring a lot of baggage with him and there possibly would have been an uproar from the Dundee faithful. I honestly thought that Nelms and Keyes were shocked by the response and even though Dodds had been interviewed, the board quickly backtracked him out the door. Judging by a lot of the fans’ reaction, many were surprised but not shocked by the appointment of McIntyre but were secretly hoping that we would have brought someone else in instead. I, like many, were hoping that with the arrival of a more experienced manager we would start seeing improvements on the park, better team organisation in each area of the team, improved fitness, much better tactics and formation. But truth be told, this really didn't happen with a lot of fans bemoaning that nothing would change until the new boss got his own players in. In all honesty, while there has been a little improvement, it hasn't been enough and I have to ask, how long will it take before we actually start seeing the improvement on the park? After the January transfer window we had another mass exodus of players leaving and coming in. We have fielded more players this season than we have played games, and it has been another year of rebuilding due to management failures. I dread to think how many players we have had on our books since we were promoted to the Premier league in 2014 and the amount of money we may have wasted by getting players with long term contract off the books. Surely the board need to have a long hard think about the transfer policies and willingness to back managers in this way. We practically have a whole new team from the one which started the first game of the season. Gone are many so called McCann duds and McIntyre seems to have been prudent in his transfers, mostly on loan players who seem an upgrade on the departing players. Yes there are signs of improvement since January, but it still seems that we are no more organised in defence and over the last two games we have shipped eight goals. However, we seemed to have addressed our goal scoring issue, with Nelson looking to be a more natural goal scorer than Moussa or Mendy. Wright and Dales give us much better attacking options and Curran will harass anything that moves. But has McIntyre put together a team that can survive the drop? I guess we will have to wait and see. View full blog
  3. Looking back, as I have been, over Dundee FC’s 1996-97 season for the occasional ‘from the scrapbooks’ blogs, it’s difficult to take in the turmoil the club was going through at the time. Having just missed out on silverware the year before, top players (Morten Weighorst, Neil McCann, Jim Hamilton) had been sold to balance the books. With erstwhile owner, Ron Dixon, often so far out of the Dens Park loop that the remaining board members couldn’t find him and beleaguered boss Jim Duffy finally having enough of bailing out his DFC charges and heading off to Hibernian (and taking Chic Charnley, Paul Tosh and Lee Power with him), stability was in short supply. On the park, the aforementioned Charnley had been sent off in a 7-2 reverse for allegedly ‘lamping’ his own team mate, in what was John McCormack’s first game in charge, while the arrival of lower league goal machine Eddie Annand still couldn’t refuel the Dark Blue’s title tilt – or even their play-off push. It was a crazy time but I’d argue that this season has been equally maddening, saddening and ridiculous. A fact all the more bewildering when you factor in that off the park we have been, arguably, as stable as we ever have across the past four decades. A manager has been handed his jotters, we’ve built and then destroyed an entire new squad and then assembled another one. We’ve offered the first boss of the season a mentor just days before punting him and the new man at the helm wanted to be assisted by a guy who can maybe best be described as Dark Blue public enemy number one. And don’t even get us started about the on field guff we’ve been asked to endure. Neil McCann made Dens Park a sanctuary for the untried tippy-tappy underachievers from home and abroad. A remarkably one dimensional squad created with no goal threat and absolutely zero ability to keep the round thing out of the net at the other end. Over and above that, individual errors – missed back passes, missed penalties, missed sitters and defenders being posted missing, meaning that Dundee seemed to miss the point – and the points – almost every week under Cardie-man’s reign. His time had come, but we stumbled on and on and on… Experience was required and when it didn’t appear in the guise of Jim Jefferies (how many near misses can you have??), it arrived in the shape of ex-DAB and wee Billy’s best mate in football, Jim McIntyre. Taking control to the theme tune of Orange Juice’s ‘Rip It Up (And Start Again)’, McIntyre initially tinkered and toiled with players who were either clearly not good enough or clearly not interested enough to turn around our fortunes. With a full first team’s worth of players either frozen out, or out on loan, the transfer window opened and players began being pushed through it, as others clambered in. A new keeper, two new centre backs (one who got injured immediately…) a new right back. One, no two, make that three, four, maybe five midfielders arrived and a strike threat and battering ram partner also made an entrance. And yet still The General made all the headlines as he battered in a goal at Tynecastle and gifted points away on an almost weekly basis at the other end. Call it what you want, but losing last minute equalisers at Hamilton, missing a last minute game winning penalty at home to Killie, gifting Hibs four goals – and outplaying them for long stretches of a game – can only be called one thing: Relegation Form. Going to Ibrox is never easy, but with McIntyre exposing his inability to know whether to stick or twist (we didn’t defend in numbers and we didn’t support the front men well, so what exactly did we do???), the 4-0 drubbing was more worrying than a usual Glasgow disaster should be. With Hamilton and St Mirren suddenly hitting some sort of form, as we let what little impetus we had built up all too easily slip away, the signs are not good. However, from the appointment of Neil McCann, to the assembling of a squad of gifted footballers that had no idea how to win games. From the third massive turnaround of players in two seasons (let’s not even look at Hartley’s latter days) to the club, once again, writing the manual on how not to appoint a manager, and not forgetting the Glen Kamara transfer debacle, this season has been an abject lesson in how not to build stability on the park, or to cement a place in the top flight. Hence, the real surprise, is that we still have our destiny in our own hands. We still have Hamilton and St Mirren to play often enough between now and the end of the season that ‘6 points’ will regularly be up for grabs. We have undoubtedly improved under McIntyre. In fact I’d say without him we’d already be as good as relegated. We do seem to now know where the goal is and do seem to be able to compete against most teams in the league. What we have to do now is shake off the ‘relegation form’ and turn draws into wins and learn how to keep it tight when we have to. We also need to stamp out individual errors – yes I’m looking at you Genseric. Jim McIntyre himself has said we are in for a roller coaster ride right up until the closing day of the season. Was it ever any different? View full blog
  4. Dundee have announced the appointment of Jim McIntyre as their new manager on a one-year rolling contract following the departure of Neil McCann the previous day. View full news article
  5. Last week was the most vocal I have ever been towards a manager of Dundee and despite saying that a win over Hamilton would paper over the cracks of our problems, Neil McCann deserves a reprieve for this week of any criticism. Continue reading by clicking the link below. https://theeaglesbeak.com/2018/10/02/dundee-grab-first-win-of-the-season/ View full blog
  6. After netting Dundee’s first goal in their victory over Hamilton and opening his own account in a Dark Blue jersey on Saturday, on-loan defender Andy Boyle was full of praise for Neil McCann for having faith and sticking with his style of play . View full news article
  7. Dundee Manager Neil McCann has reluctantly admitted that there is interest from in the Dark Blues Midfielder Glen Kamara, with Rangers and Celtic both in the hunt for the Dundee Ace. View full news article
  8. Neil McCann has told his Dundee players that their performance last night was “unacceptable” after they threw away a 2-1 lead against 10-man Killmarnock to lose 3-2 last night. View full news article
  9. Following Fridays defeat at home to Aberdeen, Neil McCann felt that his Dundee team deserved to take something from their encounter. View full news article
  10. Rangers have been taking their sweet time in finding a replacement for the sacked Pedro Caixinha and it seems the list for the toxic post is getting shorter and shorter as the days go past. View full news article
  11. After securing their first clean sheet of the season and Dundee’s first at home since December last year, Neil McCann has now set his sights on sorting out the problem at the other side of the pitch, scoring goals. View full news article
  12. Neil McCann was furious that Anthony Stokes never received a red-card and has labelled John Beaton’s decision to only show him a yellow for hitting out at Jack Hendry as ‘outrageous’. View full news article
  13. Neil McCann has insisted that he won’t change the style of play he wants his team to play and is convinced that the wins and point will follow. View full news article
  14. It seems that there is some good and bad news coming out of the Dark Blue camp regarding our injury list. View full news article
  15. After seeing his team taste defeat on the opening day of the season, Neil McCann has urged his players to put their disappointment behind them by firing the club into the quarter finals of the League Cup. View full news article
  16. Dundee tasted defeat in the opening game of the season against Ross County at Dens after a lacklustre performance. View full news article
  17. Faissal El Bakhtaoui and Sofien Moussa may have fired Dundee to victory over Buckie Thistle in the League Cup but manager Neil McCann has blasted the players over the performance they produced on the pitch. View full news article
  18. Neil McCann is 'delighted' to get the win against Raith Rovers in last nights dramatic few minutes of the Betfred Cup View full news article
  19. If the rumour mill was visible to the eye, I would urge every Dee out there to get out, beat it with a stick, throw stones at it and most importantly, burn it to the ground. View full news article
  20. Well, it’s been a busy few days for everyone associated with Dundee. View full news article
  21. Dundee have tonight appointed Neil McCann as their new permanent manager following a hectic few days. View full news article
  22. A decision on who will take up the manager’s position at Dundee is expected to be made by early next week. View full news article
  23. After suffering his first defeat as Interim Manager, Neil McCann wasn’t about to try and hide his frustration at the final whistle. View full news article
  24. After guiding Dundee out of the bottom two by picking up seven points from a possible nine, Neil McCann has no regrets about stepping into the Dens Park managers chair. View full news article
  25. This morning’s press reports are indicating that Neil McCann is set to turn his Interim Manager title into Permanent Manager. View full news article
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