Starting off away up in Dingwall.

First game at Dens is against the men from Cumbernauld the following week.

Pars and Lions home double-header on 13th/20th September.

First game against Saintees is in Perth on 27th September, followed by a trip to Maryhill.

No Boxing Day fixture, but surprise surprise we're in Dumfries on 27th December...

Home to Pars on 3rd January.

Last game of the season is home to those Maryhill people.

Thats brilliant, great first game, whole weekend! My birthday is away 2 days after Christmas again? What a joke.

We will win that...just for the fact it's a game closest yo my birthday and we usually win them...

Clash with United on 17th January - us vs. 'Ton, them vs. Steelmen.

Tell you what, you can clearly see they fixed the other eight clashed by moving our fixtures about - we've got four occasions with two away games back-to-back.

Already my eyes are drawn towards the third last game of the season. Dundee vs Saints at Dens.

I'm happy enough with our start, three home games in the first five and a trip to Firhill before the pitch might become a mess. Disappointed that for the third season running we'll play County and Queens away in the space of eight days.

You got a link to your fixtures, EF?

Dundee's fixtures

Copied and pasted straight from the SFL site, who were surprisingly quick!

http://www.scottishfootballleague.com/res/...0809/Dundee.htm

We'll be playing at Hampden that day

Thinking about it, I'm not really happy with being away 2 days after Christmas again on another marathon trip. Also Raddie, we have the 2 big trips in the first month which is harsh, but in 8 days? Screw that.

See you there

In theory, we should take 12 from 12 in the opening 4 games, against the two newly-promoted sides, the side that was in the play-offs and the side that just missed the play-offs by the skin of their teeth.

Only in theory, mind...

Well jinxed. I now expect us to be fighting for 7th place after the first 4.

Actually it wasn't cut and pasted from the SFL site - every club got their fixtures sent to them in html format to use at ten o'clock, Dundee gave them to me this morning so we could pick out bits for our headline story - we had it written and ready to go at 9.15am - but had to wait for the SFL to post them on their site first - the SFL were very quick though, much quicker than previous years and with virtually nothing leaking out in advance - the way it should be.

Ah, no. I always take care to start my posts with "in theory" and "on paper", because that's the reality of the situation and is no doubt what Alex Rae will say. But he, like me, will acknowledge that things don't always go as they should...

Well it looked copied and pasted then

Presumably the SFL just uploaded the simple html files and linked to them...and interestingly, last seasons are there as well, which could prove interesting for next season... Not that I want it to concern us of course...

It would do - it's the same html

Jeez, I'm only kidding.

Some people can be a bit too serious...

Not really - there's 3 times when we've got two away games in a row, and 3-4 seems about normal for most seasons. I's expect most of the other clubs in the league to be the same, this year and every other year.

These 4 games are the perfect opportunity for Dundee 2 show there intent for the season
ahead take 12 points stamp their authority on this league and hopefully go on a long unbeaten run! This is only my opinion and hope though so will probably never happen!!

Who gives a f**k about only Dundee games?

General nonsence for this crap, unless you want one of these threads for every team in the league.

Does the SFL (and SPL) really try as hard as they should to give clubs alternate home and away games? It makes life simpler for clubs and supporters, and it really matters to people on a tight, weekly budget.

In March Dundee have two home games within 4 days, then 4 weeks till the next home match. The first of those two home games in Queen of the South. Can you imagine anything dafter? We have only one midweek fixture all season, and the SFL make it on a Tuesday evening only 4 days before another home game, and it's Queen of the South! How many Queens fans will be able to travel? You couldn't schedule a fixture much better if you were trying to keep the gate down.

Looks like we're going to have to end your promotion dreams once again. Doing it on the last day will be even better.

True enough - but these fixtures put a lot of pressure on Dundee to hit the ground running. Dropped points early on are going to raise questions about Dundee.

f**k off alfie you tedious c**t

Title decider last game of the season at Dens?

Question is would gadgie mcall sanction a guard of honour for the dees?

I would encourage it. Guards of honour are a dying breed in football.

Would Alex Rae sanction one for us? I don't think he likes us for some reason. No idea why.

It is an impossibility to give everyone alternate home and away fixtures - the nearest thing possible is to arrange it such that no club can have more than two home games or two away games in a row, which is what happens. These things inevitably happen - last season we went a full month without a home game due to having an international break then two away fixtures. There were moans about it at the time, but there wasn't anything that could be done - some team was always going to have that situation.

Sure it isn't the best that you're due to play QOS midweek, but Queens (and Ross County) have to play someone meaning that however it works there's always going to be a reasonably long trip involved for someone

I completely understand what you're saying about it being difficult for some folk when there are spells in teh season when games work out awkwardly and indeed it's happened with me plenty of times. However, it just isn't possible to get it any better - every year there are some complaints about certain fixtures and indeed I'm not exactlly delighted at having away trips to Dingwall and Dumfries on consecutive weekends in December, but it's simply the way it is that it isn't possible to make it more convenient.

Sure, I would fully accept all that if I had confidence in the SFL's abilities. However, this is the first season they've tried to avoid clashes between Dundee and United, and they've done that only in response to Dundee's persistent moaning, so I really don't buy the argument that they've done all they could.

y the f**k did u click on this thread then u clown?

Enjoy Dingwall !