Dundee managing director John Nelms insists under-pressure boss Neil McCann will still be in charge for this weekend’s game at Hamilton – but he admits the dire situation the club is in at the moment is “very concerning” for him and fellow owner Tim Keyes.
The Dark Blues slumped to their seventh straight defeat on Saturday, losing 3-0 to Hibs at Dens.
McCann’s predecessor Paul Hartley was sacked when his team endured a similar run of losses, albeit much later in the season.
Now, after the disastrous start to this campaign, it would be fair to say the vast majority of Dundee fans believe McCann should suffer the same fate.
However, Nelms insists the team have not received the rewards some of their performances have deserved so far and that Dundee are in a false position at the bottom of the Premiership table.
When asked if McCann would be in charge at Hamilton, Nelms said: “Yes.
“It (Dundee’s current situation) is very concerning, of course it is. But if you look at the squad we have on the park and the work that is going into things, everything across the board, it is a much bigger picture than where we are.
“I do think it is a false position we are in.
“We should have at least got a draw if not a win at St Mirren, we probably should have got something out of Aberdeen. St Johnstone we had an offside trap that broke down and we probably should have had something but at the end of the day we haven’t got those things yet.
“So it is concerning and we are always monitoring it but we are where we are.”
Despite Saturday’s 3-0 scoreline, Nelms again felt McCann’s men deserved more from the game.
He added: “If you watched the team play today, we played well.
“We haven’t come away with the points we wanted obviously.
“If you look at the whole body of work, the team does well but we haven’t collected the points.
“Now that’s their job so we are looking at it, we are constantly monitoring that.
“But I thought we played brightly today. There were a couple of things that didn’t go our way that when you are in a position like this, that’s the way it goes.
“It is very hard to get out of that rut but if you look at the whole body of work, the Motherwell game was the one where you go, that wasn’t our best.
“But beyond that, we have to start collecting points, we have to be a little less naïve and a lot more street smart.
“It was a hard one today. Hibs are pretty much a top-six team with a much bigger budget than we do.
“But I thought in the first 25-30 minutes we were the much better team by far and then it evened out.
“I never felt we were the second best team today.”
