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Whenever I see EFL I just think Awful. 

21 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Some on here will say we are only level on points with the bottom three☹️

I thought we were Wayne Rooney's Derby County - that would put us in the bottom three!

8 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

Mel needs to fall on his sword. Look at what you have done to this wonderful football club.

If Mel fell on his sword, who would pay the ongoing bills until a takeover goes through?

4 minutes ago, dcfcollie said:

Might be a really stupid question but.. if they are supposedly finding us guilty of not filing our accounts properly according to accounting practices. Then why aren't the HMRC after us as well?

Depreciation and amortisation aren’t relevant when it comes to determining taxable profits or losses. 

44 minutes ago, CornwallRam said:

I think our biggest threat is that a points deduction for next season could easily trigger legal action by Wycombe and Shef Wed. Wycombe as the obvious victim and Wednesday from the 'unfairness' of our transgression being punished later than theirs. 

That could seriously affect the beginning of next season, maybe even forcing a delay.

If they apply it to last season, the only aggrieved club is us, and we can't appeal and might not be able to afford to make a legal challenge. That's a far better option for the EFL.

I wonder if the delay is them trying to find an interpretation of the rules which applies the points deduction to last season?

That would be OK wouldn't it?

We finished on 64 points last season.

Realistically, surely we can’t afford to pay off the 2 years left on WR’s contract, especially if we do go down to L1?

Was leafing through Telegraph Sport section for Percy’s article and saw the headline 

El Drama adds to Derby quandary 

. . . but it turned out to be about horse racing. 

2 hours ago, Spanish said:

Anybody else wondering why is there a delay?  Are they waiting to see if we are relegated before making a final decision.  Stay up 3 point penalty this season, relegated 3 points next?  It is all very odd and not reassuring in the slightest

 

 

As the EFL seem to love us so much, it will probably be 3 points this season and 6 points next. 

Pedant alert . . .
 

According to Google Translate this thread should be properly called

el Condado de Derby 

2 hours ago, Rampage said:

Florist lost and all our rivals have more difficult games today on paper than us. Big one today if we can win it.

Doesn’t look like that message made it to most of the players on the pitch today. 

Biggest laugh was from Billy Davies's excuses in his post match interview.

4 hours ago, Charlie George said:

Companies House has several Derby County related companies showing accounts as overdue as from June 2020.

In normal times they would be 9 months overdue - Co House gave every company an automatic 3 month deadline extension when the first lockdown was in place.

13 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said:

I dont know, was just thinking of possible reasons for them not to be published and the outstanding appeal against them makes the most sense to me.

Maybe they have been filed just not been published until the appeal has been completed? Not sure if that is possible or not.

As soon as they are sent to Co House they go onto the public record. There is usually a delay of a few days before they appear online if they are sent in by post.

Maybe the auditors won't give an opinion until the EFL case is determined, so the accounts can't be filed.

Maybe the auditors won't give an opinion until they have proof the directors have demonstrated the Club can survive another 12 months.

Alternatively, the accounts might have been signed off but the directors have simply chosen not to file them yet.

Seemed appropriate to have one of these tonight. 

I've got so used to watching RamsTV when there was no chance we'd lose, not sure I'll cope with the stress.

Never understood why we rushed to sign Bent and Ince last summer.