Fermer's Game

[Dodbroon]

Home games at McDiarmid Park and Tannadice have not been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch.
John Nelms should forget about his new stadium development vanity project at Campy Nou and spend substantial sums of money getting the Dens Park pitch drainage system problems sorted once and for all.
Goodness knows when this game is going to be played as we now have three postponed league games to be played before the split after the first week in April.

I agree about spending money on Dens. It is an embarrassment. I've watched the weather, both forecasts and data from the past few months, and as I have posted elsewhere take nothing away from the lack of investment and pathetic state of our pitch but we have been very unlucky that the worst weather spells have fallen on numerous occasions on the overnight before and run up to a game. Dundee United and St Johnstone who may well have better pitches than us have however not been subjected to nearly the same extent to bad weather so close to match day. Aberdeen cited difficulty in folk getting safely to their recent home game as the reason that their game was off but Pittodrie was not playable that day. Also St Johnstone played recentkly at home on a park in far worse conditions to that at Dens when the Aberdeen game was called off. That was down to two referees with differing opinions as to what is playable in a wet Scottish winter.

Your research is usually spot on but we have FOUR postponed games to fit in. Aberdeen home and away, Hearts away and St Johnstone home.

[islaydarkblue]

I agree about spending money on Dens. It is an embarrassment. I've watched the weather, both forecasts and data from the past few months, and as I have posted elsewhere take nothing away from the lack of investment and pathetic state of our pitch but we have been very unlucky that the worst weather spells have fallen on numerous occasions on the overnight before and run up to a game. Dundee United and St Johnstone who may well have better pitches than us have however not been subjected to nearly the same extent to bad weather so close to match day. Aberdeen cited difficulty in folk getting safely to their recent home game as the reason that their game was off but Pittodrie was not playable that day. Also St Johnstone played recentkly at home on a park in far worse conditions to that at Dens when the Aberdeen game was called off. That was down to two referees with differing opinions as to what is playable in a wet Scottish winter.

Your research is usually spot on but we have FOUR postponed games to fit in. Aberdeen home and away, Hearts away and St Johnstone home.

I had forgotten about the Hearts game which was cancelled because Hearts were playing in a league cup semi final the same weekend.
We then took the opportunity to move an evening home game with Livingston during December to the same weekend as we were due to play Hearts at Tynecastle.
Thanks to the current state of the Dens Park pitch I now scan the weather forecast for days before a home game and if a period of rain is not forecast for the Dundee area the night before a home game I purchase my ticket.
I normally purchase my ticket on the day before a home game as there are problems getting it refunded if the game is cancelled because of weather conditions or a waterlogged pitch.
Last season I was told in the ticket office that no refunds were issued until after the rearranged game had been played.
This season I was told that if a home game is cancelled refunds will only be issued after the date if the rearranged game has been announced on production of your ticket for the original game.
This gives me the impression that the management of Dundee Football Club are only interested in season ticket holders because they get their money up front usually before the start of each season.