Half Fan Half Biscuit

1 hour ago, Bobby said:

Which would then give the green light to every other football cub to potentially only pay 1/4 of what they owe, the whole point of HMRC changing their creditor status was to stop this happening. 

But presumably all other clubs are up to date with HMRC, or at least up to date with their payment plans otherwise they’d be under transfer embargo’s?

6 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Or can we? Binnies?

Can’t see anything on the Club’s site about this Binnie bid. Is it officially accepted and they’ve moved to preferred bidder status?

7 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Was an excellent block and the rebound was just ahead of Byrne at the post.

I don't think we were at our best but we weren't as bad as all that. The ref was all for giving them push and shoves but not us, particularly up front. But they weren't that good and they can choose from god knows how many front players. Think we didn't quite have the experience and nouce at times. But not disheartened by the display.

TL’s chance in the first half goes in and we probably get a point. 
 

Forest march on to 7th place at seasons end. 
 

As for pushing and shoving, just a thought - are the referees seeing our white shirts standing out and therefore watching them and ignoring the opposition’s?

Someone on Boro forum saying it’s all down to Derby hi-jacking their bid for Waghorn. 
 

But if you were Waggy and you had to choose between playing for Lampard or Pulis surely there is no contest. 

7 minutes ago, Gritstone Ram said:

So we’re not getting any TV money? Jeez it just gets better.

EFL rules really do kick you when you’re down don’t they. 

And Sky keep choosing us for TV!

Not holding out much hope for national media helping with this. More interested in pushing Rooney for the Everton job. 

14 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

So if someone with good results against us is out of play off place or relegated (eg peterborough away) as a result of efl taking those points away they wont make a claim now the pandora's box is open?

Surprising Peterborough haven’t  put a compensation claim against us already. 

7 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

No it will cause them even more grief/claims if they do it mid-season

So why give a mid-season deadline?

I’m beginning to think the EFL board will be delighted if they can take our golden share away on 1st February. 
 

17 hours ago, I know nuffin said:

… us playing a depleted team for the rest of the season will not compromise the league

They’ll probably come up with something like “you aren’t fielding a full strength team so for all the remaining games of the season we’re deducting you 1 point and awarding it to your opponents”

40 minutes ago, CBRammette said:

The question is do Gibson and the other person really want to be the people who ensured Derby are liquidated? We know how we got to this point but those claims seem to be the sticking point in our survival. Now the momentum on this is building a little do they really want that backlash for them and their clubs?

TBH I don’t think they would give it a second thought. 
 

DCFC would be gone and they would carry on. Won’t have actually lost anything themselves. 
 

And would there really be a backlash?

Can’t see anyone in the national media currently investigating the veracity/legality of the claims - too interested in the PL. 

Have DET even expressed an opinion or are they just regurgitating tweets/articles they find online as usual?

1 hour ago, Gritstone Ram said:

My email to Parry has come back undelivered. Has he blocked us?

Probably the Inbox is full!

Or any message that mentions Derby has been marked as spam. 

Wonder if WR wishes he could have given Morrison the 6 month contract and Jagielka 12?

1 minute ago, Barney1991 said:

Well quantuma said a statement later today which could still happen or another simple deadline they can’t stick too maybe? 

Won’t they have knocked off at 4?

POETS day. 

WR no doubt angry because he could see the glimmers of hope we might still be in Championship next season.

Will probably now have to pick up the bits left after January window and put in place his plan for L1.

11 minutes ago, Arsene Titman said:

Nixon tweeted 7 mins ago that Zoom call from admins to club staff is imminent

That’s about as useful as him telling us what he had for breakfast. 

10 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

The big elephant in the room is the fact no preffered bidder has been announced tonight.

Rooneys comments today suggested to me it would be tonight, "we will know BY tomorrow".

 

If he’d thought there would be an announcement today surely he’d have said “BY tonight”. 

4 minutes ago, StrawHillRam said:

Back to the preferred bidder/ Ashley thread now then

That's more depressing than this one isn't it?

Just now, Caerphilly Ram said:

Need to stick with Plange and Joz from the start in the league and keep using Ravel and CKR as impact players so we can keep gaining points in the league. 

Precisely.

26 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

I'm wondering if the trouble with the wording is to do with the phonetic alphabet, Oscar and Foxtrot but not necessarily in that order

It's quite easy actually.

Soon everyone will be quoting you Tyler!

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What surprises me is that Mercedes didn't make more of this on Sunday night:- 

All competing cars must reduce speed and form up in line behind the safety car no more than ten car lengths apart.

Verstappen clearly violated that rule by running alongside Hamilton even if he didn't overtake hime before the restart.

If one was being cynical one might think the FIA were keen to have a different champion than Hamilton. 

Well I’ve just looked and the last part of petition is calling for him to be stripped of his MBE, which seems a complete waste of time as he doesn’t have one of those. 

5 minutes ago, CornwallRam said:

From what I've been able to ascertain, the new rules effectively give HMRC the power of veto on a CVA. They used to just be another creditor, with the same voting rights, so a CVA could be agreed without their consent if the other creditors agreed on a pro-rata voting share. 

The different versions arise from this being the first administration since the rules changed. No one knows how hard ball HMRC will play it. Some think they will only accept 100% and will be happy to make an example of us. Others think they will actually just maximise the pay back, so they'll accept 25% if that's the best offer, rather than get say 10% from a liquidation. 

Others think they will want to be seen to do their bit to save the club and won't even exercise their new rights - which I'd say is unlikely. 

But 100% of nothing is nothing. I expect there's a deal to be done.