Huge questions on every Dens supporters’ lips

DUNDEE are on the brink, balance tipping over the relegation threshold with seeming inevitability.

The number of points they are adrift is now bigger than the number of matches they have left to save themselves.

Five points to make up with four matches remaining along with the hope St Johnstone’s recent good form deserts them.

After Saturday’s draw at Dens, Callum Davidson’s Saints have now picked up eight points from their last five matches – gain half that many in the four games remaining and the Dark Blues are pretty much toast.

Can they survive?

Dundee are now asking for big favours from the rest of the bottom six while also needing to beat those same teams.

But there are still 12 points to play for, still opportunity to get out of trouble.

To do so they will have to show form unlike anything Dundee have mustered since November/ December, where they won three out of four.

And St Johnstone have to lose, lose, lose.

There’s a reason the bookies have Dundee 1/20 on to finish bottom of the Premiership.

The odds are overwhelmingly against the Dark Blues.

So, what next then?

Dens managing director John Nelms has already stated he has two budgets set for next season – one for the top flight, another for the Championship.

If, as looks likely, it is the latter, the playing budget would be slashed.

But the majority of the current squad is contracted beyond this term.

And that leaves the club in a decent place heading to the second tier.

As always, the Championship will be a long struggle, but this Dundee side would be favourites to come straight back up.

With no big-spending side like Dundee United or Hearts in their way – play-off dependent – the Dark Blues would be a big fish in that pond.

Add goals and that squad is a good one for that division.

Who is in charge?

This is the biggest question for Nelms to answer.