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One would like to think in any auction someone has to start the bidding, and the bidder who most wants the club the most will pay the most, and that in my eyes can only be a good thing.

Being at the game yesterday It was only about 7pm when I got back and listened to the Radio Derby Spotscene Podcast.  Ed Dawes's heartfelt , almost passionate call for fan action comment, about a need for more consolidated action was something that really hit home and my did he mean it. Its been a long time, maybe 30years since Graham Richards's  "this team is going nowhere" report that a BBC commentators comment had hit me so deep. Despite some of the negatives ED gets occasionally, Ive already emailed My MP (Andrew Bridgen NW Leics) and he's begun tweeting in DCFC support, this needs Parliament to break up this EFL witch hunt and corruption.  well said ED, everybody, do something... but can we please have a post match consolidation report like Graham used to do. 

Or the bloke from last night who said "you know" more times than Andy Cole did in his whole career. Why ring in if you can string a sentence without "you know" 100 times .. almost as bad as the Snowflakes ... Like, like ,like, like.  Just saying.

4 minutes ago, Ilsonram12 said:

                    Roos/allsopp 

   Ebosele cashin Davies Williams

                Watson  Bird 

Knight         Hutchinson    ?????

                     Stretton/CKR

At the moment that's if we can keep Knight, Bird or ebosele.

Byrne, buchanan bielik, Jozwiak,Lawrence etc will all go either end of contract or nominal fee, its a major reset and not sure the players there will cut it in a tough league 1.... 

 

 

But wasn't it league 1 that Bielik caught the eye with his performances for Charlton?.,  

51 minutes ago, ToonTom said:

I've signed-up to this Chat to add my two-pennys worth on My Cashley.

So I'm a Barcode and proud and have been since my first game in 1971 - a drab 0-0 at home to Man City, pretty much a portent of the next half century to come. I loved seeing SuperMac and Tudor and the likes. Signing Shearer was amazing, as was coming with one game (March 4, 1996) of winning the Premiership. What Keegan showed Newcastle fans was what was possible. Just like Cloughie showed Derby and Forest fans what was possible. So it's inevitable that you hark back to those days and wish they would return. And then you get accused of having unrealistic expectations and you realise you just should have kept your mouth shut 'cos you can't win that 'argument'. Newcastle fans do not feel 'entitled' - any more than Derby or Forest fans feel 'entitled' - they just have memories of past glory days and wish they could come back. The hysteria on Barrack Road on Thursday evening was a combination of profound relief at getting rid of Cashley and also the return of hope that we might enjoy the glory days of The Entertainers back (even if no trophies came our way again like the last time - it was still fantastic to be a part of).

Anyway, to Cashley. Derby right now is a good fit for him. It's 'local' (to SDHQ) so that makes sense investing in the community, and he absolutely will run the club's finances tightly and profitably. Initially and for a few years you might feel relieved, but as the years go by you'll start to notice that there's no real investment going into the club so everything starts to deteriorate - the ground, the training faciltiies, the academy, and very soon the football. If you are in the Premiership (where you should be), you'll have season after season of worrying every day about relegation so never actually enjoying the football and - if he installs a Steve Bruce as manager one day - you'll have to watch lifeless, unattacking football at its very worst. So no expectations of any kind whilst your club falls apart from the paint downwards.

I've been in Derbyshire for just over a decade now. Pride Park is an outstanding ground and the club deserves to be in the Premiership. Cashley can secure your Championship place and the long-term future of the club, but sadly that level of security potentially comes with a massive price in the case of Cashley. Ironically, we might suffer the same consequences at St. James' but that's a wholly different debate, I suspect.

Well said chum. I've been to up to SJP on three occasions, both as a fan and on corporate bash's and found the whole Newcastle experience the best I have had in football, (apart from a lime pickle eating competition in the curry house which was in Viz,which I won, but regretted it later.. but thats another story). Fans who genuinely, a bit like rams fans are from their town/county and ones who wherever you are in the world are free to engage in non hostile banter with.  

What I'd give for a stable few years, be comfy in the mid table and building organically. Shizen, if we can maintain the nucleus, Bird, Sibley, Eboslele, Knight and built a team, not a group of individuals then bring My Cashley on, steady as she goes... While we all enjoyed Mels gamble while it lasted, the words of Sir fred Browning stand true "I always thought it was a bridge too far". 

Bring me happy days, a few pots in the Brunswick before and after, a happy saturday night not miserable as f@@k like we have been.

Despite our -2 points,  compared to last year are we really that far off?, This time last year we were shockingly bad and no sign of improvement. This year we are different,. Vector out our appauling second half season,and if we continue/improve  will our current points rate actually see us higher up than last year, discuss. 

This time last year we were still on nil pwants and looked completely and utterly sheeite. I was in the south stand the  first time for many a year on Saturday and saw the game from a completely different angle (yes know....90 degrees ) but we looked better than I'd seen us for ages in first half and genuinely should have been out of sight for florist. Second half... well if Fozzy had won at least one of his headers from Goal kicks we might have created a bit more in cutting out their front two/mid but I digress;  happy with the points so far ...yes deffo , but 8  not 13 .. should have held out for at least 1 at Peterborough. TBH For me It's worth more points in starting to see something forming here, four weeks ago I was genuiely worried we were where florist are or worse, but cut out the defensive lapses and  the heart stopping goal area tippy tappy, but to actually think we've got a team going on.   

Reminds me of Stevie Howard, all you want is honesty and endeavour , you don’t need to be a fancy Dan to draw the hearts and minds of Derby supporters. In the end ,All travellers find a place to call home and  l just wish he’s around long enough to hear the appreciation pride park offers to grafters. I’m in, sorry for not believing g at first Col.