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500 left, on sale today for those with 5+ and away membership

Rosenior seems to be a fit for the club, strangely enough it was Manky Mel that brought him in, but rather than recognise his abilities he preferred to keep him in the shadow of his celebrity managers. Meanwhile Rosey has been able to step back, bide his time, and look at the club without the pressure of being manager. If he’s successful I think he’ll want to stay and build something special here, whereas with MM’s celebrities you always felt that we were a stepping stone to something bigger. Again, I’ve no evidence for any of that and it’ll probably come back to haunt me, but, yes, it feels good.

“Go West, young man” as some wise person once said.

Dont go east, you’re likely to bump into some right knob ‘eds.

42 minutes ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Also, I thought they produced figures that massively failed P&S rules but have tried to pass off the excessive losses with crazy covid concessions? 

Have they got away with it or am I talking rubbish? 

They do appear to have got off with writing off huge losses, yes.

Unless someone points it out to the EFL in three years time, and threatens to sue them.

38 minutes ago, glyn1957 said:

1. Can anyone tell me how i would find out how many away games my grandson and i went to last year because i cant seem to find it in my account purchasing history .   Im not going to as many this year just going to accompany him ,we have both tried ticking of the games but are stuck on 19 or 20 . cheers all.

E-mail the club (ticket office) and they’ll tell you, I got a message back next day.

Alternatively, keep logging in and when the ‘buy’ button turns blue you’ll know you can get in to purchase them.

If a non gambling company is prepared to sponsor us for a similar amount then I would prefer it if we chose them over a betting company. It’s not stopping people from betting, if that’s what they want to do that’s up to them, but we would appear more empathetic towards the problem, which wouldn’t be a bad thing. 

2 hours ago, Crewton said:

I'm not blaming the new owner. Does it even look like I'm complaining? I've claimed no preferential treatment whatsoever. I'm simply suggesting that changes might be worth thinking about for next season that perhaps simplify the priority system, give opportunity for a small % of occasional away travellers to get to some of the smaller grounds, and possibly allow all fans to plan their journeys and/or stopovers with greater certainty and more economically. 

Is that controversial? 

I wasn’t specifically having a go at you, but at the general moaning about the allocation. No offence intended ?

20 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

They might use a different method next season so it might not matter how many you go to this season 

I would very much doubt it.

Do people who are complaining realise the commitment these people who go to 15 or 20+ away games in season?

Especially last season when they got very few results for their efforts.

The cost is massive, for me and my lad to go to an away game you’re looking at something between £100-250, hotels, train fares, fuel, food and drinks etc., but time commitments as well, you’ve got to make it your priority above virtually everything else in your life.

Blackburn away on a Tuesday night when we’ve lost however many away games on the trot takes massive commitment.

id gladly give up my ticket if I got one and someone in the 15-20+ bracket didn’t.

6 minutes ago, Crewton said:

I take your point on most of those (not sure about numbers for some you've quoted though) and it's great for people who's lifestyle allows them to attend allot of away games, but I'm just a bit wary of the club making going to away games a closed shop for those with the commitment and circumstances to attend them regularly. 

It’s not the new club owners fault that we’re going to smaller grounds, there has to be some way of dishing out tickets, and it wouldn’t be at all fair on someone who goes to most away games to miss out to someone who rarely goes. There’s no easy way of saying it’s hard luck if you fancy a day out at Forest Green.

I disagree, if we’re playing inverted full backs then I can’t think of anyone more suited to the role than JK.

13 hours ago, David said:

Just existing will cause salt levels to increase within fans bloodstreams this season. 

As we know, too much salt is not healthy, so I feel it's important to raise awareness this season by highlighting fans that have dangerously high salt levels.

So let's kick it off with this Oxford United fan that hasn't taken losing today well.

 

Yet they’re the ones calling themselves ‘little old Oxford’. ?

Although most of the comments I saw were quite complimentary, so I guess there’s always one.

Good turn out and noise from them, so respect for that, and yes as someone else has already said, hopefully more of the friendly banter without it going OTT like some in the Championship.

2 hours ago, Seaside Ram said:

I just looked at this , my question is ... who is the Derby “fan” on there slagging us off and basically kissing those Wendie fans asses ???

I’ve been wondering the same, sounds like a red dog in disguise.

9 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Stadium’s been jet washed

It wouldn’t be if Ashley got his sweaty mitts on it.

10 minutes ago, LazloW said:

Here’s an idea. Now that we’re out of administration and hopefully on a more stable and sustainable path, why don’t we Derby County supporters take off our amateur detective hats, stop stressing about every aspect of our finances, business plans, the machinations of the EFL, the finances of other clubs, what our wage limit is and so on and so forth and, I don’t know, watch and enjoy some football?

Just a thought.

Eh?

You mean, talk football?

1 hour ago, PistoldPete said:

Agreed. Why isn’t this business plan open to scrutiny by fans? Don’t we have a right to know where our season ticket money will be spent.

You’re buying a series of tickets to football matches, you’re only right is entry to those games, and that’s conditional.

3 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

we should get compensation

Somebody close to WR paid a £1.6m wage bill last month to keep us alive.

Personally I don’t think he owes us anything.

Unaware of what had gone off earlier in the day, we walked into a mob of West Indians on London Road and a couple of mates got badly beaten up. It wasn’t your usual football fan fight, we thought we would be ok because we knew they weren’t Portsmouth fans, but we didn’t know they were just out for revenge and any football fans would do.

Didn’t Mel warn us against signing too many good players as it cuts off the path to the first team for academy players?

?

1 hour ago, Anag Ram said:

Hoping that if we get a few quid for Lawrence and Knight, we might be able to use a bit of it to fund a quick pair in midfield and attack.

Appreciate that first priority is staying within business model and paying what we owe but we need some pace to add to the guile.

 

How much do you think we’ll get for the out of contract Tom Lawrence?

We need to ride this wave of positivity for all its worth.

Quite bizarrely this last 9 months could be the best thing to happen to us for a long time.

A galvanised club riding the crest of a wave of optimism.

Fluck the haters, they’re just jealous.

4 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Really?

He was driving towards the stadium, red Range Rover at about half 2.

Most probably has nothing to do with the club however.

Yeah, saw a few Bentleys and an Aston Martin.

Ashley was probably looking at the new go outdoors, it’s quite an impressive shop tbf.

4 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

I saw Mike Ashley in Derby yesterday, driving over Pride Park.

Most probably visiting one of his many businesses.

But still, I saw Mike Ashley.

There were a lot of expensive cars in the area yesterday.

4 hours ago, angieram said:

He could offer to build an extension to their car park - I hear they sell it out regularly. 

Actually, they only sold it out the once.

4 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

All this talk about a media career. Don’t doubt it will happen in due course. But right now I think he wants to sign - but on the right terms -  and so mention of a media career strengthens his hand in negotiations with the club 

It didn’t sound like that at all, it sounded like he wants to sign for another year, but when he’s finished he wants to go into media. 
He said he’s not interested in coaching, but didn’t rule it out at some point in the distant future. He’s probably only saying that in case the media career doesn’t come off. 
my guess is that his contract he signs with us will give him the leeway to start doing media work, similar to what RSav did in his last season.