BrainyRam

I know he is not everyone’s cup of tea but I really like him and I like him being manager of derby 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

Sorry if someone's already posted but just seen this on Twitter from Amanda Solloway which indicates CK has an extension to Monday. - hopefully it means an outcome is near.
https://twitter.com/ASollowayUK/status/1525128424754405376

As per the above post please can someone  start the petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/check  I would do it myself but living in Oxfordshire I don't have the email addresses for 5 supporters to get a petition started

As per the above post please can someone  start the petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/check  I would do it myself but living in Oxfordshire I don't have the email addresses for 5 supporters to get a petition started

If I am honest I listened, nodded and shook me head at times but in reality I am not really bothered one way or another about what he said. It changes nothing. We are where we are and the real damming bit there is nothing we can do about it. Like a gambler Mel (and most supporters) thought a bit more and we will win the prize of promotion then another bit and another. A very large percentage applauded him taking that next bet, not that we could stop him, and the next. Now the money has run out and the future is bleak. Bemoaning Mel will get us nowhere. Supporting the team will. I my mind the notice and support against WBA and Stoke are the reason OUR team got  those 4 points. When the players started flagging WE got behind them and both lifted them and drove them on. The worst bit is that we are again waiting to see how OUR club is punished, waiting to see and praying somebody buys us before the administrators can sell out assets off in a fire sale. Hoping Wayne and the management team are allowed to stay and all the rest of it . All we can do , and I urge you all to do it, us support OUR team and drive them on so that even if we are relisted we are relisted as a confident winning team that can take that into next season and bounce straight back

So first of all this is no defence of MM. Like most I am fuming, but let's not let emotion get in the way of reality.
Players value depreciation at championship level is not relative to premiership and as MM pointed out if you under value an asset then sell it you get a tax bill, so whilst the EFL don't like it, technically MM is right. Not the first time the EFL are wrong and it won't be the last.
As for Lampards team, years 2 and 3 don't matter as they left of their own free will, so there was no cost. In fact we got a pay off so made a profit.
WE didn't get the rub of the green and MM made mistakes, big mistakes, but he tried. That is all now history. We need to move on, support the club and the players and together, with a fair wind and a pinch of overdue luck, we will come out of this.
 

Some posters think that Mel can do no wrong. Some think that he is a victim and some think he is a villain. Some prefer to think that the truth lies somewhere in between. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

As a long-standing season ticket holder who would love to be in a position to attend the Forest game I find some of the comment about not bothering to go really offensive! I bought a season ticket for 2020-21 which has rolled over to 2021/22 but due to not wishing to jeopardise the health of my very elderly and frail father cannot currently entertain the thought of attending a match. If my season ticket hadn't rolled over to this year, I would be purchasing one anyway despite knowing that at present I can't attend because I fully support this club at all times - hence why I've already purchased membership that I don't really need. 

I know we're all deeply frustrated by the lack of communication from the club and the apparent problems we're going to have in the new season due to EFL shenanigans, but my God some of you need to grow up - the club could easily arrange a streamed session where they didn't allow questions and simply presented a carfully worded set of statements that told us nothing. Instead, they're offering to talk to fan respresentatives with the understanding there may be some elements that are sensitive and they don't (at this point) want to make public - and you're all crying like schoolgirls because you can't go to the meeting or becasue someone might find out more than you do......

I would also like to address the talk of being gagged tonight as I have been contacted several times over the last 24hrs by text/Twitter DM and Forum pm’s.
Can I ask you to think why I would survey the forum for questions if we were gagged?
So then David, good meeting?
Yeah great!
Can you tell us what was said regarding the takeover and if Mel will fund the club going forward until a buyer is found?
Nope, I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.
Can I ask you to think why the meeting was announced through the local media if we was gagged from reporting back?
If this was a meeting where we was all gagged, for what reason would they announce it through the media?
Also, myself and reps other groups attending, what would be the point in giving us information if we was not allowed to share it with you?
Yes, there maybe lines which are requested not to be repeated outside this room, I don’t know, let’s say for example we’re talking revenue and I’m asked how the pandemic has affected my ad revenue, what the impact has been online, it would be requested that this doesn’t leave the room as I shared my personal numbers.
Now some might say I want to know that information, I would say, well you start sharing your pay slips and bank statements online then I’ll talk and share mine publicly.
This might be a poor example given that tonight will be dominated by financial questions, however I assure you we will not be sat on vital key information.
I should be used to this, as I said earlier I always expected criticism from these meetings, Twitter is littered with fans looking to discredit a meeting that hasn’t even happened yet, they don’t know what questions will be asked and what answers will be shared.
Could understand if criticism came after the minutes were shared and fully expect that, but at least give us all attending a chance.
Given the amount of private messages I’ve received and having to respond to I just wanted to address being gagged so I can quickly link back to this post.
Honestly I’m worried all the ads I will see now across other sites will be S&M and leather masks! Please stop!
Apologies for another frustration filled lengthy post, but the good news is I’ll be up and on my way in a few hours so you’ll all be safe unless someone starts and I have signal on the train.
All your frustrations have been noted and I have no doubts will be conveyed to the club tonight. 

The name of Derby County has been radically sullied in the press of late, some of it very unfair. Does the Club have a communications strategy to set the record straight over some of the issues eg how we cheated relegation? How we fixed our accounts? How we sold the ground to ourselves? What we value as a Club eg fairness, community spirited, ambitious. 

What can we, the fans, do to help at this difficult time?

Derby County Football Club belongs to you, but also to the people of the city and the community of fans around the world. And many are very worried for the club's future. What are your plans for the club if the worst happens and you cannot find someone to buy it off you?