Views? On the player, not the place.

none reallly...malta is pretty bleak.

I don't believe he's there.

Until it's reported i'll choose to believe this is a rumour.

Dundee only have 1 trialist over with them and that is the eastern european with champions league experience

Darren Young was bad enough but Jim Lauchlin

Edited for your benefit.

There are 3 trialists in Malta.

Two who played in England last season. One of which trained with the squad last Monday and Tuesday the other met up with the squad in Manchester before flying over and the third who is the guy with Champions League experience.

That's why i don't think Lauchlan is there.

Is there anybody thats not in fucking Malta with Dundee???????

Me

Absolute pish

I thought the Dees were trying to sign up the entire population of China in the big push for promotion.

Didn't work last time, did it?

I really hope you sign him in your quest of building for the second division. It really makes no sense for your club to sell it's decent players onto the bigger Tayside clubs and then trawl about after gash like Young and maybe Lauchlan.

One we didn't sell the other was out of contract as well. We didn't really have a choice mate.

And pray tell farmer boy just exactly who are these BIGGER Tayside clubs ?........A wee pointer fer ya Dundee FC have won more major honours than the other two also rans in Tayside put together ...hope that clears things up for ya ....now jump on yer John Deere and F*CK OFF !!

never impressed wasn't up 2 scratch really(jim and malta that is)

Im just back from Malta and I saw him at the airport. He has put on a few pounds. Must be all the Subways? Ps saw Mark Yardley as well

That was your reflection in the glass doors you fat idiot.

This isn't lauching very good for Dundee.

Wen he was at county was pretty solid
Gve the whole back line confidence
God influence both on and off the pitch
Leitch came in didnt think the same then he was gone
Then we were relegated

I'd imagine if Tommy says it isn't true it probably isn't.

However, in case it does happen to be true................. you could do worse. Wee bit unlucky with us Lauchy and never really let us down when he was on the pitch. Spent far too much time injured, isn't very quick and doesn't actually win headers but he reads the game well, talks it even better (he organises his colleagues very well) and usually does enough to prevent opponents getting clean headers even if he doesn't often win them himself. Actually thought he and JT formed a fairly solid pairing (though completely without pace) early season and had Lauchlan not picked up the injury he did they'd probably still be playing, he'd most likely have got a new deal and Andy Aitken would most likely not be here now. Instead he spent the season injured until the last month and Aitken knuckled down, got back in and rediscovered the form of old. Which made Lauchlan pretty much surplus to requirements.

Decent guy, I'd wish him well wherever he ends up. Still good enough to play first division I'd say though probably could do with some pace beside him.

Jim Lauchlan is that the fat tanned guy ? if so



Oh Fucking Dear

* PUSHES PANIC BUTTON *

This can't be true. I can't believe someone as bad as him is still playing professional football. I still get nightmares of a defence with Lauchlan and Gary Bollan.

One of the worst defenders I've ever seen. One of those players for your club that you actually laugh at they are so bad.

From the "Sub" lime to the ridiculous.

Slow and not great in the air.
Gives away far too many daft free kicks around the box.

At last a thinking mans Skyline Drifter.

Good for you when you're playing us and want someone to come on in the last ten minutes to hoof it into touch and keep the score respectable. ;-)

Decent, hardworking bloke though if not the most creative. Can't find a bad word to say about him really. Oh! Found two: Subway Franchise.

Fantastic defender, I really hope you sign him.

Just like Sol Bamba

If you look at Queens form of last season, when he was in the team, they were looking as if they were relegation candidates, when he was injured and/or left out of the team, they went on the kind of run we as supporters dream about, and we all know how their season ended up.

Coincidence???

I think not.

The guy was, is and always will be a liability. Thank f**k he's never played for us.

Another minus for all you Dundee fans is if he does sign, there will be a shortage of sunbed space in the city for you all.

He's better than his brother! I always thought Lauchlan was a really good defender when he broke through in a good Killie side in the late nineties but things seem to have been going downhill for him since then. Dundee have two good centre backs and whether it's Webb or Lauchlan, as a third choice centre back, they aren't bad. The main thing if they do sign him though, is Dangerous Dave hasn't built him up to be something he isn't, like he did with Worrell and Young.

Your forgetting Lyle has left, there is plenty of sunbed space in Dundee now.

I thought Dundee had Sean Webb,ex St Johnstone defender.Midfielder Neale McDermott ex Fulham and Newcastle and a Czech midfielder with them in Malta.

All fit the descriptions mate. Where did you hear those names?

Seriously that's absolute rubbish.

Jim Lauchlan played FOUR league games for us between 25th August (when he was freed from suspension) and 22nd September (when he aggravated a groin injury playing against Thistle). In the three full games he actually played we won two and drew the other.

Doesn't exactly fit with your agenda does it?

He has his attributes and he has his flaws. There are a lot of worse players around than Jim Lauchlan.

It's not all that often an opponent stands out to be laughed at because they are so bad, but Jim Lauchlan certainly did that when we played Queens on the last day of the season. It would be greatly amusing if Dundee were to sign him, but I very much doubt there's any chance they will.

I too thought he was quite good when he was at Killie (and remember they had a pretty good defence at that time as well) but since going to Tannadice and onwards he really does seem to have gone downhill.

Just wondering how it feels when supporters laugh at your whole team ....

There are certain players that i never wanted to play for Queens from recent times, and two of them did last two seasons, Bingham and Lauchlan.

Lauchlan is one of the worst defenders i have seen in the first division when he played against Queens. I always fancied us for a goal when i saw him in the opposition line up. I could not believe it when we signed him - total liability. His organisational skills generally get attributed to him in that he shouts at others as he is unable to do anything himself such is his ineptitude. He makes countless mistakes and is not comfortable on the ball at all. He is neither a stopper nor a footballing centre half - he is just utter gutter.

I remember watching the scotland under 21s in Prague in about 1999 and i think it was him and Scott Wilson of Dunfermline at the back - we let three goals in that day too. Shambles even as a younger player - i never thought he would get any better.

As for Bingham - I just hated the guy and never wanted to see him in a Queens jersey. All he did was moan at other players and was someone i didn't like so was gutted when he signed. Here's hoping we never sign Tokely..........

If Dundee sign Lauchlan and play him then they can kiss goodbye to any serious promotion hopes. This guy is not what you need and anyone who thinks he is has never seen him play regularly. I was totally delighted when he left Queens - total waste of a wage over the two years he was at the club.

At least Bamba has potential.
I don't see Lauchlan going to the Olympics, maybe the pie festival?

I guess if Bamba plays like an amateur...

Davie who runs the Maltman Dark Blues has them ocupied

Lauchlan was badly exposed once Canning left Ross County. Canning and Lauchlan was a very strong partnership and they worked very well together. I didn't think he was that bad at County, however with the loss of Canning there wasn't a defender that adept at covering for Lauchlan when he was out of position due to a loopy moment. If Dundee were to sign an ex County defender you would be better signing Webb, however Lauchlan isn't as atrocious as some have made out.

I see the News of the World have named Webb and Neale McDermott as trialists as well as saying the guy with Champions League experience is Czech.

This leaves me to think why would the paper name these two but not Lauchlan, which leads me back to thinking there is no truth in this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_McDermott

Looks like it's confirmed one of the trialists is Neale however anyonecan write on Wiki!

Aye, Gavin Swankie, thank f**k.

Is everyone rather jealous that Dundee are on more than a coach tour for pre-season??? Where are Saints???? Arbroath?? Tayport??? Portabello beech???

Using top of the range, premiership facilities in the midlands if you must know...

You forgot to mention Kevin McDonald, Paul Dixon, Scott Robertson, Robert Snodgrass, Chris Innes, Charlie Miller and Gary Holt....non of them going either.

Lets see now...would I rather my team went by coach to a state of the art sporting centre or flew off to an all inclusive equivilent of Benidorm???

Yep, very jealous indeed.

I'm a Fergie fan incidently and wouldn't thank you for a John Deere.

Dundee were indeed relatively successful in the dim and distant past, I remember someone kindly reproducing old black and white photographs recently of those heady days five decades ago.

Still......its got to be better than having no success at all.

I'm sure we've all been in that situation at some point - I've certainly laughed at Dundee and most other clubs at various points in time.

However, not all of us can know what it feels like to be such a p***k that half a forum laughs at you personally. Perhaps you can tell us?

If you say so NEEDLE DICK ............JUST LOVE PERSONAL ATTACKS now trot off tae bed wee man xx