Ram@Lincoln

15 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

But a lot of those attending will have been season ticket holder’s wouldn’t they? Or have you taken that in to account?

Exactly. An uplift of circa 8-10k per sell out, even if at a averaged entry of £20 that's only £400k, or 1 week of the losses per month. Selling more tickets is 100% profit as there's no extra unit costs. Let's keep filling the ground!

7 minutes ago, TuffLuff said:

Is it worth pointing out that Gibson’s extra security talk before the game was just more smoke & mirrors nonsense in a long list of smoke & mirrors nonsense from the bloke?

He had a couple of rows empty around him and two armed police stood at the entry to the directors box. Then above average numbers of police and stewards around the Derby fans, these then turned rather heavy handed after the match as they craved to manufacture the headline that we were up to no good.

3 hours ago, TexasRam said:

You must have some influence @David

 

If the design is embroidered on to the hoodie then I'm so buying this one! Love it!

6 hours ago, seths-cap said:

Pretty sure it was Simon doing a lot of the scouting.

I don't mind the odd Connor Sammon's when the likes of Martin, Ward, Forsyth and Eustace being given new life too after getting left to rot by former clubs and not forgetting the Scottish scouting trips to get Bryson and Russell. There isn't any club that'll have 100% success rates, on the large, Clough had a very good record for signing players who would last the length of time, and if they didn't they were cheap enough to flog on without too much effort. I'd much rather that the likes of Camara, Blackman, Anya etc being bought for big money on big wages, barely playing and leaving us for free/being paid to leave.

58 minutes ago, Wistaston Ram said:

Same with me. I sent another e-mail (after the 10 working days in which he was supposed to reply) saying how disappointed I was not to get a reply.  I highlighted that our problems were now national news and have implications for football wider than the Derby area (he is the Crewe MP). 

I'll send a follow up to my email then, good thought. 

I emailed my own MP circa three weeks ago and haven't heard a peep from them. Highly disappointing not to even get a "Thanks for your contact, we wish you all the best, kind regards. MP". Looking at his general voting record, he's as blue as they come. Votes to keep his cushy job with benefits and to tax us all to death. 

15 minutes ago, Rev said:

He's left now. 

I believe Steve Bould gave Derby the nod about Plange.

There was a interview somewhere with Jake Buxton, he got the tip off from his relationships within the Arsenal setup. An odd link but there you go, it's definitely worked out -just a shame it isn't longer.

There's plenty of cctv cameras at the ground, hopefully we still have the staff to get the idiots banned and fined. 

29 minutes ago, ollycutts1982 said:

Why use that photo where the ground looks in disrepair??

Does anyone local own a jet wash? I did think the last time I was at the ground it needs a good jet washing all over. If I'm selling a car, it has a full wash and valet. Sure we can't be fancy with it, but surely there's a local commercial jet washing company that could spare a day washing even the worst bits down?

The stalling has seemingly come from the South West lower section being opened up to ticket sales. Only had block B opened and not block A yet. Let's get every seat sold and filled, will be a great sight for sure!

Need to concentrate now on the North East corner. Block F lower has 5 rows at the front all pretty much unsold. Then the blocks immediately above have a lot of empties. Circa 600 now left to sell, there's 270 just in NE block F and G.  

9 minutes ago, simmoram1995 said:

Very interesting developments…

boro are allegedly around 10-15 million in breach of FFP so I guess the settlement will be very similar to what they actually want - funny that “ crap we’re in breach let’s get some money in quick” 

 

as for another potentially guilty party , Notts Forrest have just sold Carlvalho to olympiarkos for a fee reported to be 14.5 m rising to 18 m funny that for a player they’ve barely played gets a large figure transfer and just so happens to be the other club the fat Greek owns! I love a bit of FFP democracy… what a joke 

 

 

That'll get overlooked with the Forest guy on the EFL board. Wouldn't surprise me if the profit made on the player is equal to whatever losses they have over the FFP limit. Absolutely corrupt the lot of them. We get 9 points for something that we were proved to be not in the wrong, just using different methods, yet forced to change to avoid any foreseen competitive advantage. This independent regulator needs bringing in asap, let the EFL manage the fixtures and that's it.

2158 tickets left as of 10.40am. Majority being in the North Stand upper and lower block A - it's time to concentrate sales there as a few seats per block isn't going to make a visual difference, but the majority of a block definitely will!

45 minutes ago, WystonRam said:

3143 left online as of 1600 today.

 

3105 left as of 4.45pm today, so circa 1 ticket sold every minute. Google tells me there's 5565 minutes until kick off, that's enough to flog the rest! A lot of blocks with under 10 tickets in each. The major block is still North upper block A, and the lower block A.

46 minutes ago, R@M said:

I've just seen that Huddersfield are hosting one of the European legs of Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer's joint world tour this summer. How on earth have they managed to book that? This shows there's a demand for stadias to host concerts. VIP tickets are £575 each, lots of money to be made there!  https://hellamegatour.com/
 

6 minutes ago, Wistaston Ram said:

I'm not sure it is as low as 31.5k capacity - Just a few unoccupied seats for Sky I would imagine.  I noticed very little segregation between away/home fans v Sheff Utd.

Hasn't the reduced "sold out" capacity always been 33,010 since the away fans got moved?

7 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

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Wow, thanks for the great snapshot here, much appreciated. Sounds like we have a few highly promising players in each intake. Hopefully there's a couple first team fringe players produced each year to then kick on in their second year with the first team. The likes of Hanson and Rawson would've been adequate backups instead of the highly paid hasbeens we had.

Absolutely staggering to see the progression that the majority of the squad has made into the first team. Huge kudos has to be given to the youth structure and also to Rooney/co for believing in these players. Do we have the next generation coming through for use in the first team in 1-2 years or are these players all being snatched away by the likes of Liverpool and Man United? Obviously we're currently pushing all the better kids though as necessity, we just need to keep the conveyor belt turning.  

I'm sure we'd all much rather have a bench filled with own our crop with a sprinkling of experience than a bench full of £20-30k a week "earners" with more in reserve. It simply isn't sustainable as we know, and we need to keep the great camaraderie between fans and players up as much as possible.

13 minutes ago, Bubbles said:

 

Isn't that just blatant tapping up by Everton in going direct to the under contract Rooney?

Can we listen again anywhere? Sounds like a cracking interview, as always with Curtis.

On 15/01/2022 at 09:32, Crewton said:

£100,000 has been suggested which, if true, would make Rooney's claims of "derisory bids" entirely justified. 

Having spoken to someone incredibly close to the administration team, I'm told the offer was "low five figures" with no sell on clauses, similar to Shinnie.

If we get £100k for anyone regardless of current/potential talent or contract length I'd be extremely surprised. This is very grim indeed.

As has already been said, please do NOT donate on this petition. Your donation isn't going to the club. It's going to Change to pay their server bills, that's it. They are very crafty.

This petition does nothing, get it on the government website and then they'll have to respond. 

My nephew was a ball boy yesterday. There were 2 behind each goal and 4 down the sides. As already said, they sit behind the hoardings on the track around the pitch. They've been instructed not to go over onto the pitch during the game due to covid reasons. 

That's it surely? 2 minutes in on the below. @Owen87ITK reels off the names of the coaches to Justin Walker asking about their dynamics as a coaching team, no mention of Given. Justin Walker then name checks everyone in his answer, likewise with no mention of Given. That's the proof right?