Merger Plan In 1999

[Cobra]

Were folk aware that a deal was done for the Dee to merge with the dabs? A badge and kit were submitted to the SPL. I didn't realise how close we came to losing our club.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dundee-dundee-united-were-days-6963001?

[Ludo*1]

There was an article in the Evening Tele a few year back. I'm sure it was crazily in favour of United and more of a takeover. We were to play in Tangerine, at Tannadice and be called Dundee City.

[Cobra]

There was an article in the Evening Tele a few year back. I'm sure it was crazily in favour of United and more of a takeover. We were to play in Tangerine, at Tannadice and be called Dundee City.

That's my understanding of it as well. A bit like Inverness Caley and Thistle. It was called a merger but effectively a takeover.

We must have been in really bad shape for Peter Marr to agree to that. Strangely though that all came just before the Bonetti era. I don't know how we could go from financial meltdown and almost losing our club to spending millions bringing in quality players from around the world.

[Abdul Latif]

A badge and kit were submitted to the SPL.

Yet it's never come to light?...

[chomp my root]

Yet it's never come to light?...

Hmmm, what would you put on a merged Dundee City badge ?

I'd go with Deewok bumming Terry the Terror.

[offshoredee]

Roger Mitchell....attention seeking at it's finest....

[Abdul Latif]

Roger Mitchell....attention seeking at it's finest....

Agreed.

If there really was a new badge and strips etc they would have been seen by now.

No one has ever seen them because they don't exist.

[Densparker]

Agreed.

If there really was a new badge and strips etc they would have been seen by now.

No one has ever seen them because they don't exist.

Probably it's in a shoebox in Jim McLeans wardrobe!

[Cobra]

Agreed.

If there really was a new badge and strips etc they would have been seen by now.

No one has ever seen them because they don't exist.

Why would the former SPL chief go public with a claim that the deal was done and there was a new badge and strips in place if it wasn't true? For a start, he'd quickly be made to look like an idiot if Peter Marr or someone from United or the SPL board came out and said he was lying.

He's given an interview to the BBC and I don't see anyone rushing to contradict him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/35027630

I imagine the reason we never saw the badge and strip is because the people involved wanted to bury the story as soon as it was decided to call off the deal, given the strength of feeling among fans on both sides.

[chomp my root]

Why would the former SPL chief go public with a claim that the deal was done and there was a new badge and strips in place if it wasn't true? For a start, he'd quickly be made to look like an idiot if Peter Marr or someone from United or the SPL board came out and said he was lying.

He's given an interview to the BBC and I don't see anyone rushing to contradict him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/35027630

I imagine the reason we never saw the badge and strip is because the people involved wanted to bury the story as soon as it was decided to call off the deal, given the strength of feeling among fans on both sides.

Entirely plausible but that it didn't happen is the main thing. 

[JoeCovenant]

Why would the former SPL chief go public with a claim that the deal was done and there was a new badge and strips in place if it wasn't true? For a start, he'd quickly be made to look like an idiot if Peter Marr or someone from United or the SPL board came out and said he was lying.

He's given an interview to the BBC and I don't see anyone rushing to contradict him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/scotland/35027630

I imagine the reason we never saw the badge and strip is because the people involved wanted to bury the story as soon as it was decided to call off the deal, given the strength of feeling among fans on both sides.

I hate to burst your bubble there, Cobra...

but...

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/football/dundee-fc/former-dundee-owner-peter-marr-dismisses-merger-claims-1.914337

"...when contacted by Courier Sport yesterday, Marr said: “It’s total nonsense.

The former Dens supremo also brushed off suggestions about a new badge and kit saying: “If there was, I never saw it.†"

[Abdul Latif]

Also if Marr was supposed to have been apparently selling the club as part of the merger, why would he have been submitting the kit and badges? Surely the dabs would have done that.

Major gap in the plot there IMO.