curb

Nooooooooo, the end of football for me.

53 minutes ago, curb said:

As much as I love beer in all its glory, isn’t there somewhere else where you can discuss it, and leave this thread for the endless Takeover speculation?

I’ll take that as a ‘no’, then.

As much as I love beer in all its glory, isn’t there somewhere else where you can discuss it, and leave this thread for the endless Takeover speculation?

1 minute ago, atherstoneram said:

Who has estimated the loss to the city of £100M or is it a figure someone has plucked out of thin air.

It’s a Steve Gibson finger in the air job.

5 minutes ago, 1967RAMS said:

Not the case. The admins will file to liquidate us if all avenues out of this mess are exhausted and we have no monetary means to keep operating 

Or the EFL take away our league membership because we can’t fulfil our fixtures, which would mean no takeover could happen.

33 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said:

The club I imagine. Quantuma mentioned it here: https://ramstrust.org.uk/wp/scg-quantuma-meeting-thursday-20th-january-2022-11am-via-ms-teams/

Good spot, but that’s understandable in normal circumstances, but if not selling them meant we went out of business, then it could be the best option. It’s just like a preferential bidder staking the money to keep us going, whoever buys us would know that money is already spent. They wouldn’t be putting any more in, it just means the money they would have put up would be needed next season. 

4 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said:

No, the money is ringfenced and released per game in that season I believe. 

Ring fenced by who?

It would be a big gamble for fans buying a ST not knowing who, or even if, we have an owner next season, but I’m sure the majority, like me, would purchase one to give us the breathing space, and scupper the EFL plan of pulling the plug without having to make a decision on the parasite’s claims against us.

34 minutes ago, Bobby said:

But aren’t you still losing 1 million a month, surely (and it’s not just Derby) out goings have to be less than incomings.?

This is where the whole “allowed to lose £39million over three years “ falls down, teams actually work to that, Why? Surely they should be working at at least breaking even. It only takes a minor blip to screw it up and put teams over.

wasn’t it Risdale who included qualifying for the champions league every year in Leeds Budget?

It has taken QPR 7 years to get anywhere near sustainability and we are still losing money each month, sooner or later players and more importantly agents are going to have to come to terms with receiving less money or half the league will end up in the position you are currently at.

 

 

So for a start you have to accept that you are never going to compete with the six or seven clubs that are getting parachute payments every season, which is a massive gap in income, plus the clubs who have currently signed players that they can’t afford. 
Any club unilaterally looking to break even are going to be at a huge disadvantage and would be lucky to be in the top half of the Championship, let alone think about promotion.

There are only so many rough diamonds you can find in the lower leagues, and as we have found recently, having a great academy doesn’t get you anywhere when the recent rule changes mean Liverpool or Chelsea can poach your best prospects for peanuts.

6 minutes ago, Yani P said:

We will see how true that is with how your fans behave at the weekend....

Careful, they’re threatening us with Gibbon masks.

Imagine the trauma.

3 minutes ago, scout's dad said:

 

Solicitor on RD said MFC wouldn't do it as they know it would be laughed out in a high court?

Of course it would, that’s why he’d rather see us liquidated first.

2 hours ago, BoroWill said:

There absolutely is a standard amortisation policy used by football clubs.

Although the one used by MM wasn’t, and still isn’t against any EFL or general accountancy rules, the policy MM used was passed as OK by a DC which made up of experts in the field of accountancy. So, under pressure from Gobshite, the league appealed to an LAP, which consisted of no experts in the field, who unsurprisingly found it breached a general accountancy policy which doesn’t even mention the amortisation policy used by DCFC, which incidentally had been signed off for three years by the league themselves. Finding us guilty retrospectively also gave us no opportunity to adjust our spending to bring it in a line with a different method of amortisation.

oh, and the original claim by Gibbon face was against the stadium sale, which we were also not guilty of breaching any of the current EFL rules.

14 minutes ago, vonwright said:

Well perhaps but we (and the MPs) at least need to put focused pressure on the EFL on this point. Even if we accept there are a number of obstacles to a sale, this removes a massive one at a stroke. MFC and WW get their claims heard in an impeccable legal forum. And Morris is potentially liable, not the ruined club he left behind. We need to push them on this because (assuming it is at all legally possible) then explaining why it's a bad idea is going to be very, very hard for them.

I agree with you 100%, but the only way they’ll have a chance of winning is in their kangaroo court.

17 minutes ago, vonwright said:

The EFL needs to put very public pressure on them to accept this as the 'pragmatic' solution everyone claims to want. 

But of course they won’t, this is the EFL we’re talking about after all.

16 hours ago, Big Trav said:

i actually helped liam make this video after i brought it up to him. His video is amazing

You could have told him to spell check the title ?

39 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

You must be new around here ?

 

Odd isn't it? I'll always follow my beloved Rams but I don't even watch the Premier League games anymore. I don't much bother with the CL either save for the final stages and even then, only if there's domestic interest. I remember religiously watching MOTD as a kid, even when Derby weren't involved. Not watched it years, though I do, I confess have other 'hobbies' these days. TBH, if this is the end of Derby County, and FWIW, I'm certain it's not, I'd walk away from the game and never give it a moment's thought.

Same

52 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

It was Pontius Pilate who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus there was no Caesar alive at the time of his death keen Bible student that I am

Allegedly

Barnsley Peterborough and Reading have won two games between them in their last 10 matches.

Two wins in 30 games.

Theres no reason to think that will change drastically.

51 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

I cannot think of a single reason why they would do that, unless it's to save face the the rest of the world's population.

Money, 33,000 turning up tomorrow, 2-3000 at away matches and on TV every other week.

They want to kick us, kick us some more, kick us while we’re on the floor, but not wipe us out completely, because

money 

Have we invited the Sheff We’d band to play the great escape as we march along?

16 minutes ago, DenbyRam said:

York to Boro unaffected as far as I can see ?

Ok just passing on info

33 minutes ago, Ellafella said:

Good one. I remember seeing said Nig on one of those Ibiza programmes; last thing I heard he was very ill but hopefully fully recovered now. Lovely footballer. 

He does discos in the Neptune. 

Replacement busses between York and Newcastle on the 12th is going to make a poo journey even pooer. 
 

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/01/check-before-travelling-as-upgrade-between-york-and-newcastle-takes-place.html

6 minutes ago, David said:

Does anyone have the link to the article which spoke about is being offered a place in League 2 if liquidated?

It was a Nixon tweet

Does going to watch Grimsby a few times in 70s count?
It was only when I couldn’t get to see the rams, and my gran lived there.

other than that no, I haven’t even got a least worst team.

and my dad took me to the BBG when I was 5 and put me in the boys end, and my first away game when I was 8, St. Andrews 1970.

and his dad supported The Rams, not sure about his dad though, he died in the first war.