Philmycock

I like the way he plays almost as a sweeper at times..really helpful if the centre backs get turned..

Not done a thing wrong in two tough games. Strong shot stopper and safe hands with crosses. Quick to tell the defence to get out today as well.
Looks a keeper!

What really annoys me is when a weekend fixture gets moved to Monday. I have a season ticket and accept that I cannot make week day games as I don’t live in Derby during the week. But Monday night is not a weekend. I can manage a Friday night but Monday night is just infuriating.
duck off Sky. I hate everything about that company.

First time in East Stand Upper last night (next to those rowdy away supporters ?).
Brilliant atmosphere, thanks to one and all. ?

Something weird happening here.
Wednesday night home match v Reading. The Rams on minus 2 points, in administration, without an owner and massive uncertainty over the future, against a poor team with a tiny away support and yet we had an atmosphere at times that was as electric as anything i've felt in my 50 years as a Ram.
Hairs stood up time as stood in the middle of the South Stand and heard the roar build up from the East and West stands, never felt that raw passion and support since the Baseball Ground years. No play off or promotion glory to get excited over, just survival, backs to the wall Derby support.
Proud af to be a Ram tonight.
 

ITK: billy.sharp@sheffutd.co.uk has registered his interest 

ITK: billy.sharp@sheffutd.co.uk has registered his interest 

They couldn't even organise a protest last time we were in the mire

Once a red dog...

Cough, cough @DarkFruitsRam7

Once a red dog...

Beautiful day isn't it Mrs Baldock?

Sorry @Tamworthram, I meant you can get in for free! 

Mel Morris is getting such a hard time at the moment from everyone in the press and around the club. Maybe they are right to be blaming Mel for many of our sins, but I’m just not 100% convinced that it’s justified.
 
What is he guilty of exactly….
 
So he spent £200m trying to get DCFC to the premier league (tell me if you had that much money that you wouldn’t - even for a second think about doing that for Derby)
 
He spent a fortune on players some of which have not been particularly successful (as many many chairman have across the leagues)
 
He supported our academy, growing young players that have gone on to be sold or are playing in or around our first team - with more on their heels.
 
He gambled again by bringing a premier league legend in as manager and nearly made it, only losing in the play off final.
 
He stretched every rule he could whether that’s accounting wise by pushing expenditure into the academy rather than the football team, playing with agents fees, playing with amortisation, arranging a real with a betting company and selling the stadium to himself. He did those things to try and defeat financial fair play. If others around him were stronger, perhaps they would have convinced him otherwise. I have worked for chief execs like this and you have to be strong to challenge. With any rules people will try and find loopholes and many accountants make a career and a huge amount of money out of doing just that. I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying that if there is not enough challenge then people will bend the rules … and Mel did it with the aim of competing with other clubs and getting DCFC to the prem … and how many fans were complaining at the time?
 
Once he’d blown his millions naturally he looked for a buyer to take over … in the process cutting the wage bill drastically over a period of 2-3 years to make the club more sustainable and more appealing to a buyer (“its a clean slate your starting with”). He nearly did this twice and unfortunately covid got in the way. Tell me anyone, anywhere in business that even brought covid into their business plans three years ago. No one could have predicted it and guess what? It cost me Morris apparently £1.25m a month, another £15m then. 
 
DCFC reportedly has multiple potential buyers now … where were they before? Well I would hazard a guess that they were just waiting for Mel to do exactly this … and Mel may well have thought that the best thing for the club would be to swallow the pill, get the deductions and start again with fresh, wealthy owners. Whether that’s in the championship or league one.
 
I’m fact I would even suggest that they were putting pressure on Mel to go into administration so that they could buy DCFC at an even cheaper price.
 
Look, Mel did a huge amount wrong, with the Keogh debacle, Sam Rush, believing fake sheikhs and Eric alonso, poor communication, being too bullish, supporting dodgy signings, firing managers, even the final option of administration was another error in my view … I just couldn’t justify myself plunging the good employees of DCFC into financial difficulties, wage cuts job losses etc if I could genuinely afford to keep the club afloat (Rhys just my view, clearly not Mels). But I honestly think the vast majority of what he did was in his view in the interests of DCFC.
 
Perhaps I’ll be proved to be completely wrong. Perhaps he’s one of the worst crooks known to mankind, I just think right now he’s the fall guy, he’s getting a huge amount of stick and he’s suffering because of his poor communication and his failure to properly say sorry.
 
I just wonder, I really do if he did this because it was the only option left on the table that would ultimately secure DCFC a strong and prosperous future, potentially, eventually back in the premier league where we belong.
 
I really hope the above doesn’t offend anyone. I really wouldn’t have taken the drastic step myself and I can’t support Mel on doing that, I’m just saying that in his head perhaps  he genuinely thought he was doing what he thought was right for DCFC.

Totally shellfish.

Very mediocre as I remember and kept out by George Williams.
I must confess I thought it was more, but  on looking it up, he only played 25 games for Derby over 3 years never scoring.

Told my mum she doesn’t have to buy me a birthday present if she goes to the game.
Her and her partner are now going.

Can't be there on Wednesday but will buy on RamsTV instead of the sky red button, only a few quid but every little helps at the minute!

Or they're just glory hunters ? 

Or they're just glory hunters ? 

Some people genuinely aren’t able to go. Some people aren’t that dedicated and just can’t be arsed.
It’s not that deep and you’re wasting time and happiness by having a go at each other.

Wembley Bamfords the lot of em, half-fans, glory hunters. But don't have a go at the precious lot, you'll get the snowflake crowd on your back