Dundee 2
Clydebank 1
League (First Division)

Manager's Programme Notes

Our victory over Scottish Champions Aberdeen in the Bell's League Cup quarter final on Wednesday evening was an occasion of achievement and pride.

It was a major achievement to match the Champions man for man, move for move, on their own ground and eventually beat them It was a matter of pride that our lads pro duced the play to match the occasion and got such wonderful support from the fans who travelled north.

Just before this notable cup win we had recorded our first away win in the league since last November and we are hopeful it will be the first of many. It puts us into the top half of the league table and all our efforts will go into stretching our pre sent league run. But although league results have been satisfactory recently the standard of our play leaves a little to be desired.

Our run of ten games without defeat has been very satisfactory from the results viewpoint but league performances have also shown up deficiencies in our play that everyone at Dens Park is fully aware of and we are working hard to put them right.

We now have a set of portable goals and this is something I feel will be very important in training as one of our failings has been the inability to score goals in numbers relative to the level of our play. On occasions we have had most of the play yet failed to score. I feel the players get some joy from hitting the ball into the net and scoring goals and this is an important factor in training.

We have also taken delivery of video equipment to enable us to go over our games by seeing them again on the T.V. screen. This highlights slips and mistakes and the good points-the staff see during games and enables them to show them to players and talk about them. This leads to general improvement in the side. Many people do not believe in video in football but I have become accustomed to using the equipment and I find it can be a great help towards pointing out specific points to players.

The question many supporters are asking about new players coming to Dens. Park is a very tricky one because we are fully aware that we need to strengthen the team. But the money being asked for certain players I have made inquiries about is completely outwith the range of the Dun dee finances at the present time. We will always be striving to improve and the players we buy or succeed in bringing to Dens Park must be better than the players we already have. This is not to say the players on the staff cannot work harder at their game to improve their play and so save Dundee the expense of buying new men.