Ram@Lincoln

On Saturday, despite having a car park season ticket for the new season, myself and many others had parking tickets issued by the council. On the club website here; https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2022/07/202223-season-ticket-information-confirmed it says that pre friendly matches are included.

However, I received a parking ticket from the council despite my proof of purchase of the car park season ticket and the information from the club above. Fortunately, following appeal the council have now cancelled the ticket. However, they are saying that friendlies aren't included in the car park season ticket and a separate parking ticket is needed, when the club say that the car park season tickets are included.

The council's logic here doesn't make sense, if the club has got their terms wrong with the council and friendlies aren't included, then fair enough the fine stands and it's to be taken up with the club for false information (and letting me into the car park with the car season ticket). On the other hand, if the club is correct and the friendlies are included then why is the council saying otherwise and only letting me off as a seeming favour due to the facts I have presented to them from the club website?
Following the game, I saw a number of cars with tickets on and the car park steward said he'd had many people complain to him. Hopefully everyone can get their ones cancelled.

The Park and Ride Bus transfer component of the deal does not operate when there is a batch on for obvious reasons m, but the ‘parking’ component of the deal still operates. The DCFC operatives on the entrance to the South Car Park will tell you that if you have a Mi Park on line booking, you should park on the Upper Car Park behind the Arena, but that’s cobblers, if you have a Mi Parking on line booking, you can park on either upper or lower car park - your parking contract is with Derby City Council and not DCFC. I can’t verify or proof it , but might it be a case whereby DCFC might have block booked a load of spaces with Derby City Council at £3.10 a space or lower and might be selling them through the club at £10 a space ?. 

We have no reliable reports about why Duncan has disappeared off the face of the earth, but we have media reports, a farewell message from the player and "banter" from his new club that tells us reliably that Buchanan has signed for another club whilst under Contract to Derby County Football Club. Fans don't care about the nuance of whether, legally, he was entitled to tear up his Contract, or whether he needed the money for some noble purpose. All they see is a player who's been nurtured by the club and given every opportunity to shine walking out on a contract he willingly signed, at a time when the club was at its absolute lowest point, and doing so in a way that seeks to ensure that the club gets zero compensation for the time, effort and money expended on him. Fans are therefore entitled to draw conclusions on his character based on some pretty damning evidence. 

Part of the problem is wardens are incentivised to issue fines.
On private car parks, it's a money making enterprise.
On auto systems, they default to issuing fines if possible.
Ker-ducking-ching .
Also, if it's private land, they can't issue a fine, they don't have any authority to do so. They try to make it look like one, but it's effectively saying your parking was a breach of contract and the charge for that is £x.
Once had one for overstaying in a motorway services. I had the receipt from the hotel for the stay, so ignored it and it went away, but I was hoping they'd take it further so I could start sending them invoices for my time in responding to them.
"Please find attached evidence that my stay was in fact in compliance with the stated terms of staying in the car park. As by contacting me in this manner you have implicitly accepted that I will respond to your letter, you have also implicitly accepted that a reasonable administration charge will be made for my response. As such, I enclose an invoice for £100 to be paid within 30 days. If payment is not received within 30 days, a 100% uplift in the administration fee will be made to cover additional costs incurred by myself in recovering this money.
Kind regards etc. "

You have a ticket card with a hanger on that goes on your rear view mirror. On arrival to the car park there are stewards at the entrance that check you are displaying the correct car park ticket and then wave you in. Occasionally depending on how busy it is, they'll direct you to a certain section to park up. As @Keepyuppyhas found, it seems to be significantly cheaper to pay to park on the councils system not by buying a season ticket from the club.

He didn't impress for me, but as said neither did anyone. The problem will Diallo and anyone else coming in, they have very big boots to fill from Ebiowei and pre January Ebosele. All these young wingers will always be compared against them, the stage has been set and they have to perform to the high standards we now expect. Granted, this is a high pressure environment, but we have shown to be the club to give the youth chances and a place where the youth can prosper.

Agreed, it's not worth the DET getting involved. For me, the issue is sorted. For the others with tickets, I hope they manage to get theirs cancelled too. It does seem a confusion between the club and council, I just hope it's clarified for the weekend. As said, I've written to the council asking for clarification so fingers crossed get it in time. If I do, I'll post it here.

I've written back to the council and to the club's supporter liaison officer to see if clarification can be gained. As you say, the council seemingly are trying to save face and know they screwed up. My concern now is when I return to the car following the Leicester game, am I going to get another ticket and have to go through this faff again? 
It seems like a utter waste of time to all involved as Derby provide the council car park stewards to vet each car going into the car park on a match day. If you don't have a valid car park ticket then you are simply turned away. The car park is now £180 so isn't exactly a cheap way of parking, but with the money (hopefully) going to the club and the guaranteed parking space it's worth it for my family.

Agreed, it's not worth the DET getting involved. For me, the issue is sorted. For the others with tickets, I hope they manage to get theirs cancelled too. It does seem a confusion between the club and council, I just hope it's clarified for the weekend. As said, I've written to the council asking for clarification so fingers crossed get it in time. If I do, I'll post it here.

Think boro away was terrible, Blackburn another. He had great ones like west norm at home, think was his debut. But the bad ones were that bad made it like playing with ten. He definitely needs to be a lot more positive and play more centrally.

It would be nice to hear from David Clowes even if it's just a 5 minute RamsTV interview in the week before the opening day.
Is this something in the pipeline @Owen87ITK ? and if so it would be good to pass on the thanks of thousands of Derby fans!

I’d like as many pundits and publications as possible to give that sort of safe answer. Lowers expectations and will keep us under the radar longer.

Is it just my inagination or is the club engaging more with local media now? Seen things mentioned as being said in Derbyshire Live articles that don't correspond to other interviews, and the above is Rosenior (hope we drop the Rosie stuff tbh, unless he gets an assistant named Jim!) talking directly to Radio Derby outside of a match day?
 
(I'm guessing, maybe these are just taken from the usual sources?)

After much anguish I’ve decided not to renew my season ticket. Although my first game was nearly 70 years ago,  due to finances and distance I’ve only had a season ticket for 4 seasons. I’m so pleased I managed it for at least a short time.
My health now means I can’t manage the train to Derby from Bristol and back  in a day. When I do come to matches it’ll mean staying several days with my daughter and going to games with my son and granddaughters. I can’t always manage this and the expense of season ticket plus train fares is now too much for me.
However, I’ll be there v Oxford with my son and 3 of the kids - in spite of difficulty getting my son’s ticket as they said he was 122 years old so couldn’t purchase an adult ticket!
It’s been a rough old time for the club but I feel things are on the up and I’ll be at PP as often as I can.

Stearman will not start a single game at right back this season.

I wouldn't bother. This poster seems to have a agenda against Sibley.
Thought they both did okay cosidering they were only on the pitch for 15 minutes, Stretton a little unfortunate not to score.

C’mon @RoyMac5, as neither of them scored 5 minute hat tricks or smashed in a screamer from 45 yards in only their second pre-season outing, they are therefore clearly terrible…. ? 
I thought Stretton linked play well a couple of times, once was straight after he came on if I recall correctly. Be good to see more of him and Sibley in the next game. 

Except Stretton nearly scoring and doing really well holding the ball up, and Sibley looking lively and setting up Stretton. Yeah, okay.

Fozzy has the armband, btw. Surely that contract has to come soon?

It's so good to be back on the forum and reading discussions about teams and football again. I read all the above comments and I feel like I've arrived back in my football home!! ☺️

Quantuma reduced the width so it was cheaper to mow.

I think it’s ignorant to be expecting Top 2, but you would have to expect to be in the top 6 considering the squad we’ve put together and the players coming in will be very much expecting that of themselves anyway.

A goal is a goal, whether it's a tap in or a wonder hit from 30 yards, it's still worth the same on the scoreboard. If a striker is consistently scoring and getting us 20 plus goals I'm sure nobody will be concerned about them. In League One as has been proven over and over, teams that go up have a proven goalscorer in the 20's and someone else in the teens, a 40 goal return from two players. If Collins can be that main man great, I'm not complaining.

The love for Wisdom came from when he was here on loan in 2013/14 and was bloody excellent.
Unfortunately the 2017/18 Wisdom wasn't a patch on the 2013/14 version.