Gladram

Giving it everything? Did you watch the 96 minutes? Half the squad walked back to our half during them breaking for the 2nd goal watch it back again, if that's giving it everything then my god I'm glad you're not a manager,  before this game they have fought very hard and looked like they wanted the results , today wasn't the case , dont make out like they played like the last few weeks because they haven't 

Never good to lose against that rabble, but we’ve got bigger fish to fry.

They are not a “creditor” at all. There is no contract between the parties no invoice for services or products. This is a speculative claim for unproven damages. If I sent in a claim for a stiff neck from watching hoofball  in the Boro fixture at Pride Park would I become a creditor? 

I did say one of the best I'd seen. We all see the game differently.
Completely different player to those you mentioned. All great players for Derby but I really enjoyed watching Hughes vision, control, passing, ability to dictate a game, intelligence on and off the ball, link up etc. 
Perhaps his only fault was not being perfectly matched with the British game.  A yard of pace from being a top player but still one I could watch all day.

All about opinions mate.
Mine is that Will is one of the best players i've seen in a Derby shirt and I go back to 1970. 

I think part of it just comes down to the way he plays.  He doesn't really do "big things".  After a game, you might remember the 30 yard wonder strike from your attacking midfielder, or the inch-perfect goal saving tackle from your centre half, but the 20 perfectly-weighted and timed passes that Hughes played into forward's feet will just get forgotten. The biggest, most consistent criticism of Hughes you see on Twitter and messageboards is "he never does anything".  
It makes him easy to replace in the team too - if you need more goals, it's easy to take Hughes out for a goal-scoring midfielder, you get overrun in there you take him out for a tough-tackler etc. It takes a manager that's very confident in his approach to the game to stand up and say "we will score more goals if we have Hughes in the team passing the ball, than a midfielder that just scores goals" and "we will keep more clean sheets if we have Hughes helping us keep the ball, than a defensive midfielder tackling people".
Don't get me wrong, I also think he's one of the best players I've ever seen play for us too.  But there seems to be an English mindset about what players should be doing on the pitch ("strikers just score goals" etc), and players that don't do those things get overlooked.

I think covid has an effect in that it has broken the pattern of regular attendance for many fans. Very few of the people who sat round us have returned since the break. I'm sure they aren't all victims of the virus, but once you get out of the habit of attending you might question why you were still doing it.
Have to say new faces are drifting in to our stand and they are noisier and more engaged with the football - it's fun! 

I get that you're trying to encourage people to turn up, but you're possibly approaching the situation in the wrong way.
I'm sure there are plenty of valid reasons that people can't attend matches even if they wanted to. Doesn't mean they aren't supporting the team to the fullest of their ability. It's not about bothering to turn up.
For example, I haven't been to a match this season, but that is down to quite a few factors. I don't live anywhere near Derby any more to make a season ticket good value, I have other financial responsibilities that I need to prioritise (young family) and I've recently taken a pay cut in order to secure a new job that I needed to get my mental health back on track.
There could be any number of perfectly valid reasons that the "missing 10,000" aren't there every home game, but it doesn't mean that they matter less than the awesome fans that are there home and away and supporting the lads from the stands.
They get my support every match in the ways that I can support them - screaming at the TV, paying to watch on Rams TV, educating my kids to support The Rams even though their classmates all support Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal...

The flip side to this is “isn’t it amazing a team bottom of the league with massive points deduction, probably going to be relegated, in administration and probably can’t strengthen the team much anytime soon still getting 20k a match.” Oh and in covid times. Oh and with fiasco about buying tickets etc. I would expect any team to pull in fewer numbers with these sorts of things happening. 

The £250 million figure been banded around includes £160 million Morris loaned the club which he won't get back. It may not be that high but it was reported to be £100 million when he was still hoping to sell the club.
The owner loaning a club money is the standard way of funding them. If things go well they get their money back, if not it's written off.

Not factually correct, MM has no loans owing from the club.

The two things we must do - or at least Wayne must - is to say that while we can mathematically stay up then that is what we must try to do. Sport occasionally throws up strange results. It’s one of its beauties. 
The second thing is to learn the lesson of our 11 point season. We went into the next in a bad way. League 1 is a tough, tough league and we need to go into it in as good a place as we can. That means continuing to do as well as possible, not chucking the kids in but giving the ones that can cope the opportunity to develop their skills and career with positive experiences, not losing regularly. We play the best team we can, every match, and sort out next season when it comes.
And we fans not only need to continue to support the team as we (largely) have done, we also need to keep reminding the world of the incompetence of the EFL and their minions even when our garden is rosy again. As it will be.

Of most importance is to finish this season as a good, confident and winning team with building blocks in place. Maybe we go down five points adrift, but it sets us up for the climb back. Clubs that struggle to return quickly are the ones rebuilding, especially in confidence. This next six months defines us for the next five seasons.

I agree with what you say but the original question was why the appeal panel hadn't mentioned  ICAEW, I was attempting to answer this. They didn't reexamine the evidence just looked at the procedure followed and decided there was an error in law.

Wasn't the phrase"an error in law" by not giving additional weight to the expert witness?
 

The appeal didn't reexamine the information. It was looking at the procedure followed. Primarily the weight of evidence from each side and decided that the EFL had an expert witness who said our amortisation policy was wrong. We didn't counter this with our own expert. Therefore they should of accepted the EFL's experts evidence.
They're knowledge as accountants shouldn't have any weight. They're there to judge on the information presented at the hearing.

I get the feeling this Kirchner guy knows he’s unlikely to be the highest bidder and so is trying to win over the fans instead. Not sure how much weight that’d carry with the administrators, but it would explain his antics so far.

Derby County will not fold as a liquidation scenario is in no-ones interest, certainly not HMRC.
The stadium being held outside the club actually helps us at the moment as without that the club has little in the way of assets to liquidate.
Most of the senior players only have contracts running to the end of the season, so there is little value there if any, maybe £1m tops for Lawrence.
The only players of value with contracts going beyond this season (Buchanan, Bird, Knight, Sibley, Bielik, Jowiak, Ebosele & Stretton) might fetch £15m or so in a liquidation scenario.
What other assets are there to sell other than 2nd hand gym equipment, computers, etc?
Absolute max of assets held by DCFC would be £20m to £25m all of which would go to MSD as the secured creditor, the new loan to see us through the next few months (probably also from MSD) and the administrator to cover their fees.
HMRC would likely get nothing in a liquidation so they will ultimately cut a deal with the administrators, it's almost guaranteed.

Give it a couple of days. Don't want to put them off this early ?

We have to remember he's played more games for us this season than the prevoius 2 or 3 in total. His match fitness and therefore influence will fluctuate, he'll be better in games we have more ball possession. 
Keep the faith in his natural ability, he's got something the others don't, pure natural talent.

We have to remember he's played more games for us this season than the prevoius 2 or 3 in total. His match fitness and therefore influence will fluctuate, he'll be better in games we have more ball possession. 
Keep the faith in his natural ability, he's got something the others don't, pure natural talent.

We have to remember he's played more games for us this season than the prevoius 2 or 3 in total. His match fitness and therefore influence will fluctuate, he'll be better in games we have more ball possession. 
Keep the faith in his natural ability, he's got something the others don't, pure natural talent.

I disagree. This season is far from done. The outcome inevitably will be relegation but it allows us @ 10 months to prepare for next season. We can offload players we don’t want or can’t afford. Blood players who will be needed next year and scout players who will be great in league one. We can build momentum and togetherness amongst fans and staff alike and hit league one with all guns blazing!!! This is probably the most important period in our recent history, far, far from done 

There’s chasing a ball and effort and then there’s tactical closing down and setting traps. Baldock’s role out of possession sets the tone for every other player in the side. 
Dont underestimate it. Im sure he’d prefer to be playing for Man U and getting 20 touches inside the penalty box and 3 tap ins every game…

I'd guess they're sending the Birmingham tickets out first. I think the ticket office only work Tuesday to Friday.