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Any chance of this being off? We are looking to go since the Diddly Dees are incapable of getting a pitch ready for a match after normal Scottish weather.

Dundee should be doing everything they can to get this played or they’ll miss out on the Perth Pound.

1600 is a decent support, shame it’s unlikely to be much bigger given the ridiculous situation as already mentioned by others. It’s 2023 FFS, e-tickets should be the norm instead of folk having to faff about during the holidays to go and collect tickets from McDiarmid. Hopeless stuff from Dundee. I was able to purchase a ticket at Almondvale the other night 15 mins before kick-off. E-tickets were available too. This game shouldn’t be any different.

First game I’ve been to this season and sadly won’t be my last because I’ll be at Dundee away. A dreadful game of football with dreadful officials. I was so tired from the previous days of festive boozing pre match that I considered sleeping through the second half, instead I opted for a HT coffee - and the coffee was disgusting.

Dundee Station to Dens = 40 min walk. Dundee Station to new stadium = 1 hr 15 min walk. It's actually 15 mins quicker to walk from Invergowrie to the new stadium location. There is no doubt that away days will not be the same and probably worse off. Football fans don't mind the 40 min walk to Dens and dipping in and out of pubs along the way but 1 hr 15 mins with less pubs to go to is far less appealing and folk will end up getting buses or driving.

Are you sure you don't support one of the Glasgow teams? That wasn't very Christmassy, was it Tam.

Well, well, well. Dundee have unveiled a new design for their new stadium. What I will say is that this design is better than the old one but personally I'm disappointed in the predictable lack of variation of the stands. The main stand looks impressive but it would have been nice to make it two tiered to give the ground a bit of character. Hopefully some of the corners will be filled in with seats. Dundee would be wise to take inspiration from the likes of Tynecastle and make the stands close to the pitch and incorporate safe standing areas. Mods, can you please move this topic to the Premiership forum - Thank you @Andy Dufresne

Fine save from Roos

I really hope Rovers manage to sustain a title push and ultimately gain promotion. It would be great to see Rovers do what Queens Park failed to achieve. The Premiership is in dire need of some new faces, I'm sick of seeing the same teams get relegated and then bounce back up again.

In agreement with the majority here that he is a ginormous fud however I do agree with his comments regarding the product on display. It is shit, there is no denying that. The standard of football alongside the price of a ticket these days is the main reason why I rarely go to games anymore. I've got more important things to spend my money on, especially at this time of year.

£25 is too expensive for Scottish football at any level. Twenty's plenty.

Was considering going along to this as a neutral* but I’ve sacked that idea after seeing the eye-watering price for a brief. £25 for a second tier match is taking the absolute piss. *supporting Rovers from the home end

Another fabulous win for the Blues. The togetherness and fight shown over the past few games has been incredible. UTFT

Questions regarding the stand redevelopment: is the overall capacity of Somerset Park going to drop upon completion of the stand? It looks like a fairly sizeable area of terracing has been lost to the new build. Also, are there any future plans to redevelop other areas of the ground ie the main stand?

Stinking idea. Besides, they shouldn't be looking to introduce any major changes to the game until they've fixed (preferably scrapped) the absolute farce that is VAR.

That sounds lovely that does.

Will be looking to get to that one to tick The Excelsior off. A tough dra’ indeed.

A tough draw for SJFC but content with it as it’s a new ground to tick off. I missed out on The Excelsior that time our final match of the our First Division winning season was postponed late due to a waterlogged pitch. Stand out tie for me is Spartans Hearts. Will Spartans ask Hibs to hold it at ER like Bonnyrigg moved their cup game vs Hibs to Tynecastle years ago? Celtic Buckie is a laugh, just typical. Superb trip for Buckie fans though. Be interesting to see how many away fans make the long trip down. Struggling to get excited over any of the other ties.

Brora or Buckie away please. Mon the dra’

Aberdeen with only themselves to blame, idiotic behaviour shirt pulling in the box against a side where the officials will be looking for any excuse to meticulous analyse the slightest incident via VAR.

Fourteen nil Zero goals scored, 35 conceded. #jobbers

This is legitimately a great idea. It’s the kind of thing that would make the news. “Scottish football supporters club together to buy 3rd place ‘Diddyship’ trophy.” It would be a great way of expressing our complete disdain towards the current set-up. Every season a ballot could be held to send one lucky member of P&B to the Diddyship Champions stadium and award them the trophy.

Today is my 15th anniversary as a member of The Forum. On this day in 2008 I would have been signing up to P&B for the first time on one of the school library computers. 15 years later and I’m still here. Remarkable. How do I plan to celebrate this special day I hear you ask? A few weeks ago I became a home owner for the first time. My new #perthshire home needs renovation work before I can move in, so I’ll be continuing that today. Here’s to the next 15 years

I honestly think Aberdeen should have threatened to boycott the match before agreeing to these prices / allocation. Make a massive scene and draw unwanted attention (from the SPFL’s point of view) to what is an utterly ridiculous situation. The longer nobody takes a stand the longer the pandering to the Old Firm will continue.