Boss McCann life into Dee?

to watch as well and made them a danger with Saturday’s winner for Haber coming from a McGowan cross from the left.

The Canadian international also missed a sitter from a Faissal El Bakhtaoui centre in the first half.

Message

The players have certainly bought into the manager’s message in a big way.

His experience of working in television combined with coaching obviously has its benefits in communicating and it seems the players are 100% clear on what they have to do on a Saturday.

Whether Paul Hartley’s message wasn’t getting through or it was just that his time was up, the players didn’t react in the same way and that got them into trouble.

The players all seem eager to work hard for McCann and each other and that’s the biggest difference.

Defensively over the last two games, they have looked much more solid and deserved their clean sheet on Saturday — the first since the turn of the year.

Fans

It’s clear Dundee fans l ove Neil McCann even more now than they did before, if that’s possible.

Coming out of retirement to aid the Deefiant effort was impressive enough. But if he is to save the club from what some thought was a certain slide towards the relegation trapdoor, it can only cement his massive reputation among the fans.

Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership rivals Kilmarnock 1-0 at Rugby Park on Saturday.