Good Luck to the Dees

[GiBlue]

I would just like to give good luck to The Dees for the season.

My Dad who supported Dundee having first gone to Dens in the 1930s passed away in July so another season ticket upstairs instead but I’ve got mine and I’m sure he’ll be shouting us on from above!

Cant say I’ve seen as good a team as he did in fifties and sixties but he never lost faith and neither should we !

Dundees league this season nae bother 

Mon the Dees get intake them 

GIBlue

[Billy Campbell's Ghost]

I always think of my Dad when there is a minutes silence at Dens. I look across to where he stood in the stand enclosure, almost greet, but hold it back. Well said mate. We all have family who have been there. It’s in the blood.

[Reverend Lovejoy]

7 hours ago, GiBlue said:

I would just like to give good luck to The Dees for the season.

My Dad who supported Dundee having first gone to Dens in the 1930s passed away in July so another season ticket upstairs instead but I’ve got mine and I’m sure he’ll be shouting us on from above!

Cant say I’ve seen as good a team as he did in fifties and sixties but he never lost faith and neither should we !

Dundees league this season nae bother 

Mon the Dees get intake them 

GIBlue

Sorry to hear about your dad Gi, hopefully it's an enjoyable season and the team give your dad something to be proud of from the highstands.

[Gedee]

It's the "association factor" for me...

Generally, I think it might have been possible, away back 70/80 years ago, that Dads' Roles may have been entirely different in them days (maybe mair aloof)...although I could be mistaken.

My own dad didnae tak me to loads of games at Dens. And I am not so sure just how frequently he went himself. He also went fishing a lot. And although he took me along a few times, he basically seemed to prefer going on his own...And leaving my brother & sisters to "get on with it"

(I think I may have been of a generation when "touchy-touchy" love or any signs of love fae dad wis something as bairns maist o' us didne expect fae the "man o' the hoose"...even it it wis there)

But he did take  me to my first game at Dens in the early 50's in the Cup game against Rangers, when Dens was totally sold out and the crowd knoked doon a lump of the wa' and a gate tae pile intae the gemme. .. think eh wis 9-10yrs at the time and had tae be hoisted ontae my dad's shithers tae prevent being crushed by the mad crowd (vivid memory) And the first time he took me fishing (vivid memory) And the first time he took me up to his allotment, well below the age of ten years ..Jist aff the City Rd (anither vivid memory)...

And it's these moments that led me on to my love o' DFC; my love o' fishing; and my love o veg gardening....Have I ever mentioned my Prize Winniing Organic Tomatoes

My own dad, died suddenly at 54 years, just before my 21st birthday (Always felt, that was just no right)...Just before I felt I had at last earned his respect, we had started to build a real "dad-son relationship" and he started taking me & my views & opinions a bit more seriously).

I've added above "stuff" no for any sympathy, or to make this topic a bit aboot mehsel'  But just to show how the bond/connection/association/memories, can all come back again to all of us. And lead on to other stuff, when someone mention their own memories aboot te club/team we a' love...Maybe others can take this further?

I think it's maybe something our American Owners have yet to pick up on

Thanks for an excellent post GiBlue.

Look efter yirsel, freends & family

 

 

 

[ThelegendthatisBeto]

8 hours ago, Billy Campbell's Ghost said:

I always think of my Dad when there is a minutes silence at Dens. I look across to where he stood in the stand enclosure, almost greet, but hold it back. Well said mate. We all have family who have been there. It’s in the blood.

I'm like that when up wi the bonnets plays, be even worse today because the wee man uses his season ticket for the first time and his grandad isn't there to see it

[Reverend Lovejoy]

26 minutes ago, gedee said:

My own dad didnae tak me to loads of games at Dens. And I am not so sure just how frequently he went himself. He also went fishing a lot. And although he took me along a few times, he basically seemed to prefer going on his own...And leaving my brother & sisters to "get on with it"

(I think I may have been of a generation when "touchy-touchy" love or any signs of love fae dad wis something as bairns maist o' us didne expect fae the "man o' the hoose"...even it it wis there)

Sounds just like my own dad. I think I took him to mair gemmes than he took me until the mither put the kibosh on it for leading my dad astray in some drinking establishments (allegedly).

[Billy Pirie]

I consider myself to be very lucky. My auld man started taking me occasionally when I was around 5 years old, 2 years later I would be a regular at games. If my Dad never took me (he had started getting into golf big time at that point) then my Grandad stepped up to the plate or my brother who was a lot older than me. The latter never happened much as quite rightly a 14 year old didn't want lumbered with a wee brother when he could be in the middle of the choir in the SE. Either way I was always taken to Dens until such time a few years later where I was trusted to go with my mates. Both Dad and Grandad are long gone but I'm forever grateful for raising me as a Dee

[Prince Buster]

1 minute ago, Billy Pirie said:

I consider myself to be very lucky. My auld man started taking me occasionally when I was around 5 years old, 2 years later I would be a regular at games. If my Dad never took me (he had started getting into golf big time at that point) then my Grandad stepped up to the plate or my brother who was a lot older than me. The latter never happened much as quite rightly a 14 year old didn't want lumbered with a wee brother when he could be in the middle of the choir in the SE. Either way I was always taken to Dens until such time a few years later where I was trusted to go with my mates. Both Dad and Grandad are long gone but I'm forever grateful for raising me as a Dee

Parents and grandparents give us so much (I never had grandparents but as a grandparent myself now I have to include them), time, wisdom, knowledge the list is endless and we have to be grateful to them for that.

As Dundee fans we have that one extra thing to be grateful to them for. Not many of the fans of the lot over the road above the age of forty can claim to have three generations of the club in their blood.

[Gedee]

I would never describe myself as an over-private person ...

Quite willing (usually) to discuss my many faults & misdeameanors, as weel as my few better points.

This forum (DBF) is especially grand for me, because although I try to show sensitivity, it appears I'm allowed quite a bit of scope & freedom for my "mental  & mair, on the edge stuff"

Respecting & understanding others with a more private disposition, threads like this usually allows others to bring to the forum, more of their private, personal life, as well as giving a bigger insight to themselves & families...present, and those sadly not with us.

Without giving too much away, it's always good to get to know...

Just that wee bit mair of Our Fellow DBF Members background

Which brings me roond again, to the present political situation

ONLY KIDDING

[Gull83]

It was my grandad for me also who took me to Dens from a young age. It’s the away days I remember best as a kid tho. Sitting in the car with him and his 3 mates as they would debate players, managers, tactics etc…. Just sitting absorbing it all, happy days

unfortunately him and his mates are no longer around but I often look over at there seats in the Derry and give them a little nod of appreciation.

[Chickadee]

2 hours ago, Prince Buster said:

Parents and grandparents give us so much (I never had grandparents but as a grandparent myself now I have to include them), time, wisdom, knowledge the list is endless and we have to be grateful to them for that.

As Dundee fans we have that one extra thing to be grateful to them for. Not many of the fans of the lot over the road above the age of forty can claim to have three generations of the club in their blood.

Spot on PB. My dad first took me to Dens in 1968, when I was seven, as he had become fed up of me pestering him to take me ! When the "new" stands were built behind the goals, my son got his first season ticket at four-years-old,  and he, I and his grandad have had the same seats ever since. My dad will be ninety in a couple of months and still attends every home game - in fact, my son and I are just getting ready to leave to meet him there today.

When Tommy Gemmell was in charge and I was moaning about the standard of football we were watching (after selling Gordon Strachan as he was "too good for the (then) First Division" ), I asked my dad how he could stand watching how poor we were after he had seen the Championship-winning greats, he told me that "Ach, ye just have to be here to watch the jerseys" - i.e. no matter what the quality of the players, the Club is more important.

I lived through yinited's success, and my son has lived through the wee haters' cup wins (we live in Perthshire), and we have had to endure the slagging from friends for that, but we have never wavered from our allegiances.

It's in the blood, and we wouldn't have it any other way !

[GiBlue]

Cheers for the replies folks, my entrire family all Dees to the core but I’m the only regular attendee.

Even gave my son a middle name of Dundee (would have been F.C. too but maybe to far )

Anyway our Dads have gave us our habits and thank god it didn’t involve day-glo

Mon the Dees

GiBlue