Dundee chief executive Scot Gardiner will wait on the call that he hopes will confirm the Dark Blues are an SPL club again.
Over the tortuous months of the whole Rangers newco saga, Gardiner and the Dens Park board have kept their own counsel over the prospect of a return to the top flight.
Now he has spoken out to ask for the club’s fate to finally be decided today when the SPL teams gather at Hampden and for Dundee to be invited in.
”We are hoping for a very speedy conclusion to this matter now that everyone has voted and that someone can come out and tell us where we are going to be,” said Gardiner.
”Now there should be nothing to stop there being a speedy conclusion.
”I expect that someone should be calling us to let us know whether we will be concentrating on winning the First Division or whether we will be in the SPL.
”We finished second in the league and we should be the team going into the SPL on sporting merit. It is pretty clear to us that Dundee should be the candidate club.
”We didn’t get involved in any discussions and didn’t feel we had to put our case because we felt it was a black-and-white case pardon the pun, with Dunfermline being the other team obviously!” said Gardiner.
”If Rangers had gone into liquidation before Dunfermline were relegated I am sure it would have been an open-and-shut case for them. However, that didn’t happen and sporting merit dictates that with two teams relegated from the SPL the first team (Ross County) and second team (Dundee) go up to the SPL.
”That is what we would expect to happen but we are in extraordinary times so who knows? The SPL 11 will have to decide, with an 8-3 majority needed to invite a club in. So, for heaven’s sake, someone now step up, get a grip and make the call.”