Poll’s response don’t like way

AN overwhelming majority of respondents to a new survey of Dundee fans is unhappy with the way the club is being run, with a large number indicating t hey w i l l not buy a season ticket for the new campaign.

The poll was conducted by the group of supporters who wrote an open letter in March calling for change at Dens Park. It asked fans a number of questions relating to the running of the club.

Five hundred responses were collected in a 48-hour period over the weekend.

Tele Sport has been told 339 respondents (67.8%) were seasonticket holders in the campaign just finished while, of the remainder, 14% said they have owned a season card in the past five years, but no longer do so.

Just under one-third (147) said they intend to buy a season ticket after the club’s relegation to the Championship.

A similar number (152) remain undecided, but 40% of respondents (200) said they have already decided not to shell out for the coming campaign.

Of those surveyed, a clear majority of 414 (82.8%) said they were either unsatisfied or very unsatisfied with the running of the club, while only 22 (4.4%) said they were satisfied or very satisfied.

Tele Sport understands price/ value for money, standard and frequency of managerial appointments, quality of football and concerns over the running of the club were the most frequently cited factors influencing respondents’ season-ticket decisions.

Many provided additional comments which will be sent to the club today along with full results of the survey.

A further source of anger was the decision to promote a price freeze on season tickets for the coming campaign – despite the Championship season featuring one less home game than the Premiership.

A discounted “early bird” period which ends before many people receive their wages for the month of May also led to fans accusing the board of being out of touch.

Speaking on behalf of the group behind the survey, Ross Day, a founder of fundraising Dark Blues fan group the 1893 Foundation, said: “The results of this survey show there remains a real level of discontent among supporters.

“It goes deeper than results.

Forty per cent of respondents to the fan survey said they had already