AndyinLiverpool

34 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Not sure what tangible assets we have left quite honestly, the majority of our squad will be out of contract come the summer 

The club has virtually no assets. It has the name and the golden share and some players. Most of those player will, as things stand, be leaving in the summer, stripping the club of most of the assets it has left. 

The club is all but worthless.

12 minutes ago, JoetheRam said:

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

The most irritating, camp, hammed up pile of crap I've ever witnessed. 

Struggling to think of a film I've disliked more. Made me genuinely angry whilst watching it. Jim Broadbent has to be the most punchable man ever recorded on film.

No single Rams player has ever been so bad so I'm giving it a 4-1 home defeat to Scunthorpe under Non-league Nigel out of ten.

Bang on. I thought I was the only person that really hated it. Thanks.

and a horrible miss

Well done Harry

35 minutes ago, David said:

 

Points deductions for not paying staff?

7 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

That is the worst case scenario. I truly hope something better happens. 

No. Worse would be that current players disappear at the end of their contracts and the club gets nothing.

9 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

How do they justify seizing his assets!? Pretty sure he left Russia and lived in England then Israel to be nothing to do with Putin. Where do they draw the line? Does my Russian mate Dimitri need to worry about his building/maintenance business in Lichfield? 

He still makes duck loads of money out of assets given to him by the Russian state. Hard to imagine he would be allowed to continue that if he was anti-Putin.

40 minutes ago, scout's dad said:

Thomas is cross

2 minutes ago, nottingram said:

 

I struggle with legal language but I assume this section means the money can be paid re. broadcasting but is then immediately frozen. (6.2 and 6.3)

I’m probably misunderstanding.

So we can still buy Chelsea shirts? Thank God.

3 minutes ago, ariotofmyown said:

The bbc saying broadcasters can show any Chelsea game. Presumeably for free?

So Sky, BT and Amazon can profit from the games but none of that money can go to Chelsea.

I think I've decided to be amused by this.

1 minute ago, DCFC Kicks said:

It was incredibly depressing hearing Chelsea fans chant Abramovich's name the other day. Integrity and morals are non-existent in football today. As long as your team is winning and your owner has a lot of money he's a hero and nothing else matters. Where the money comes from doesn't matter. 

The morally correct thing would be for all Chelsea fans to refuse to support their team in any way until they have a new owner (they won't). All broadcasters, Sky, BBC etc. should refuse to show any Chelsea games (they haven't), and Sky continue to make money off showing their games, and no one is criticising them for doing this. All Chelsea players should refuse to play or get their dirty money wages (obviously they won't).

Yet Sky, Chelsea fans/players continue with the empty gestures, like holding up a Ukrainian flag before games, then everyone feels better about themselves and just continue on.

I imagine that now the assets have been frozen, they can't acquire money through TV, so in effect can't be on the telly.

42 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

(iiii) Payment plan put forward to PB who says duck off

(iiiii) Q go back to their office and drawing board

(iiiiii) Meanwhile PBs are looking at where we're going to finish at the end of the season

(iiiiiii) Accountants for the PBs are now telling their employers that the new figures don't stack up

(iiiiiiii) DCFC meanwhile are 2 games to go and 3 points behind Reading after Peterboro and Barnsley are relegated

(iiiiiiiii) New offers are put forward again to Q as the trapdoor looms

(iiiiiiiiii) Q are now up poo creek as they left the paddles in the office

(iiiiiiiiiii) Reading win their next game, DCFC lose and are relegated

(iiiiiiiiiiii) Substantial lower bids are put in, Q buy a new drawing board

(iiiiiiiiiiii) Q finally have no alternative but to liquidate DCFC

(iiiiiiiiiiiii) New pheonix club is formed and accepted in the National league

(iiiiiiiiiiiiii) DCFC has a new owner, A consortium from DCFCfans message board

(iiiiiiiiiiiiiii) The new Chairman is B4ev6is, Who says DCFC as is good hands and will be all now looking forward to next having the 1st game all sell out....Come on Derby County!

 

Roman numerals really are a thing of the past

3 hours ago, IslandExile said:

I like Mount reminding the Leeds fans of the score.

I remember Gazza, playing for Newcastle at the BBG, doing something similar moments before he was sent off.

I always liked Malone's utterly convincing, 'I got the ball' plea.

2 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

This thread just keeps getting better and better.
Thanks to all involved.  A true work of art!  Bravo.  ??

 

(... and I can't wait to see how it ends! ?)

My guess is that Man City don't buy Rodney Marsh and so romp away with the title.

Just now, Yani P said:

Ebiowei great skill curls one goalbound just wide..

Over here in pedant's corner, we are wondering if it can be goalbound if it's wide. ?

Blimey.

That ball to Gatting

Part of the Australian team when I started watching cricket along with Lillee, Thompson, the Chappells et al.

If you have time, look up the video of the notorious underarm delivery against New Zealand, with Marsh behind the stumps going, 'No mate' in disgust.

23 minutes ago, Yani P said:

I can't think of any scenario where we lose this game..will be an easy 3 points..

I say

Just now, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

And there red cards weren't deliberate which is the main point.

I think Morrison's might have been

3 minutes ago, PistoldPete said:

Like the banker stearman or the banker Morrison?

a little bit like them, yes. Only he is much more important than either of them and the captain.

58 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said:

Good to see him there tonight with the team

He's supposed to be on the pitch. Remind me why he isn't...

3 minutes ago, desirelines said:

Yeah, losing Jagielka has been so detrimental to our solidity

That banker Lawrence has had a massive effect in the last few games

Take the draw at this stage?

Do Cardiff have any fans?

1 hour ago, BaaLocks said:

If there was a 40 mile convoy coming up the Old Kent Road and all we were able to do was hand guns to anyone willing to pick one up I might have done, and I think others would have done as well. The likes of people being asked to defend Ukraine make Pike and Manwaring look like Judge Dread and Captain America - all it will bring is bloodshed in the name of what? I don't say Ukraine has to accept being part of Russia forever, but I do say grand heroics in the name of valour is not the answer - play the long game, painful though that might be for the next few years.

Again, and call me a Putin apologist if you feel that it helps but I don't think comparision with Hitler are really valid. Putin is nationalist / expansionist but he isn't a genocidal lunatic. There is no final solution or the like on the table here. For Ukranians he is the devil, and that is the least they could be expected to call him, but he is not planning gulags, death camps and gas chambers.

It isn't a comparison between Hitler and Putin - it was between Churchill and Zelensky. Both knew they were speaking not only to their present generations but to future ones too. Meekly (or even pragmatically) surrendering now could doom generations of their citizens to tyranny. Going down fighting might inspire future generations.