Comrade 86

*checkmate
What's your point there big fella? You're morphing into Bazza the Ram it seems.

So we have the Appleby consortium with just over £40 mill on the table versus Mike 'I've got £28 mill in a bank account ready to go' Ashley. Two other bidders allegedly sit in the wings. Both Appleby and Fat Mike want the stadium but only one wants to pay Quantuma's fees and the other is suing them for not affording him PB status despite lodging the lowest bid they received.
Tough call ?

So we have the Appleby consortium with just over £40 mill on the table versus Mike 'I've got £28 mill in a bank account ready to go' Ashley. Two other bidders allegedly sit in the wings. Both Appleby and Fat Mike want the stadium but only one wants to pay Quantuma's fees and the other is suing them for not affording him PB status despite lodging the lowest bid they received.
Tough call ?

So we have the Appleby consortium with just over £40 mill on the table versus Mike 'I've got £28 mill in a bank account ready to go' Ashley. Two other bidders allegedly sit in the wings. Both Appleby and Fat Mike want the stadium but only one wants to pay Quantuma's fees and the other is suing them for not affording him PB status despite lodging the lowest bid they received.
Tough call ?

If Mike Ashley is so desperate to be our owner, why doesn't he just put in a bid that makes him the highest bidder. He is probably the richest man in the process so quit f***ing about.
I would imagine that this is designed to make it impossible for quantuma to accept any bids until this is settled, thus putting off all other bidders, leaving him a free run to get it for cheap. 
In my opinion putting Derby fans through further delays and worry will just mean that he will be roundly disliked before he's even walked through the door, and it's hard to imagine he will be left with anything more than a shell of a football club.
He may at that point give himself a massive pat on the back for driving a hard bargain but I'm not sure that more than handful of Rams fans will share his enthusiasm.

So we have the Appleby consortium with just over £40 mill on the table versus Mike 'I've got £28 mill in a bank account ready to go' Ashley. Two other bidders allegedly sit in the wings. Both Appleby and Fat Mike want the stadium but only one wants to pay Quantuma's fees and the other is suing them for not affording him PB status despite lodging the lowest bid they received.
Tough call ?

Maybe he wants to make sure his bid is given a chance - after all if he was going to be PB...

Be more credible if he or his lawyers came out and made the statement instead of hiding behind journalists yet again

He can sue someone in the blink of an eye, but it takes him more than a week to update his bid. Priorities, eh?.. ? 

How do you know he hasn't. It says in the article by Percy that he has.
What's your information based on? Don't really care if you reply.

Laugh all you like, how do you know he has the paperwork, carry on @RoyMac5always look forward to your replies.

Wondering why Ashley has waited 5 months to launch his legal action against Jackson ?

Everything reeks to high heaven, including @_derby5hiire’s intentions

It's almost as if he was made the preferred bidder because he was offering the most money.....

But seriously, looking forward to stroll sr deciding to sack stroll Jr for poor performance and crashing a lot. As in, that Drive to Survive episode is going to be fun.
"I am extremely angry. I have never in my life backed an inferior product and at Aston Martin lagonda and congnizant Aston Martin F1 team we strive for the best. That's why we're proud to announce Sebastian vettel and Pierre Gasly as our drivers for the 2023 formula 1 world championship"
"He didn't even phone me"
 

Senna is a docu but Rush is a straight out movie. And yes and yes. It kinda has to be given the amount of F1 nerds out there like myself ?
Also check out Ford vs Ferrari
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/

Agree with all of that.
Kyalami is a great track (have a look on youtube) but it's not Spa or Monaco (and it does have it's lingering association with SA's less enlightened times). I know the Monaco debate, but I'm for keeping it as a unique relic ad a unique challenge even if it's qualifying that's the heart of it. Las Veagas just isn't the same (IMO).
The problem with chasing the money from sportswashing and emerging markets is, having your F1 race is valuable because it's the same championship as Monaco, Spa, Monza, Silverstone, Suzuka, Interlagos - it's not becuse it's in the same championship as Bahrain, Sochi or the Miami Dolphins car park. You could get a baby/bathwater situation. Nascar's current decline after it's unstoppable rise a few years ago for example (never got it myself, I tried, but give me BTCC any day).

Spa and Monaco are arguably both iconic races but I fully agree with your thinking. Given the choice between the two, it'd be hands-down in favour of Spa. I used to love the glamour of Monaco but it just feels tired these days and seldom offers much in the way of racing drama.
I did worry when Liberty took over and I think there are clear signs that the concerns I had are playing out. Sprint races, sport-washing and the uptick in street circuits, none of it sits well with me to be honest. F1 will end up simply going where the money is with the actual racing  and F1 tradition becoming secondary concerns. It rather feels like the beginning of the end to me. As for Drive to Survive, it was initially fascinating but is slowly becoming more akin to a bitchy soap opera than anything informative. Genius marketing in some regards, but at what cost? 

Quite a bit I'd say. The royalties from Jolene alone must be a million a year at least. ?

I like the idea of a GP in Africa to make it a properly global calendar. However, a race like Monaco staying on the calendar and Spa dropping would be a massive duck you to the viewership. They might as well explicitly come out and say "It's about the commercials first, Netflix second and the racing third. Nobody watching on TV matters in the slightest"
Moncao is a terrible, terrible circuit. Spa is wonderful. This is mental.

https://the-race.com/formula-1/f1-eyeing-2023-kyalami-return-but-spa-may-drop-off-calendar/

True story.....

Here's a puppy teabagging a cat

I'm pretty sure Curtis is under contract until the end of June, so he's still a Derby player. And our "retained list" must be the biggest open secret in football history.