Abu Derby

Said it before many times, and I'll say it again. The DET has absolutely no journalistic merit at all. None. They only care about dedicating the maximum amount of screen space to adverts as possible and churning out the highest volume of 'articles' possible. Most of it is copied/pasted from twitter and/or taken from work other outlets have done. 
Absolute rubbish.

Person X hasnt spoken to media in 2 or more days = "BREAKS SILENCE" 
Person X said one banal thing, we've all known for the past week as he got into his car = PERSON X'S REVELATIONS WILL LEAVE Derby FANS SHOCKED" 
Its up there with "FANS OF EASTENDERS WILL BE SHOCKED BY HOW ETHELS PUG WILLIE LOOKS NOW"
Playskool clickbait journalism. It could be done by a bot, or by a trainee/apprentice. More likely its done by a 50 year old journalist who can't believe what happened to the job he used to love....

Who is the headline writer for the DET, why is talking now called “Breaking Silence”, sensationalist slightly?
 
Headlines as original as the articles

Of those left, I'd have thought Bradford is the political favourite. Levelling up, Northern Powerhouse etc 
 

You were saying? 

I saw an item on one of our fourms where Marcus Evans may throw his hat in the ring to take over at your club.    Listen up and do whatever you can to ensure this never takes place.    Evans may be a businessman, he may have involvement or control within other aspects of industry but has never, and can never, hope to succeed within ownership of a 'football' team.
His 14 years with us came at a heavy price.   Took the club name down to third league status for first time in some half a century, appointed one crap manager name after another, time and time again, did not invest in new players  and never spoke out or was seen to be seen when the fans really needed help at it's most.    At times it seemed he just didn't care.
Was kept in place with us for far more years than what was necessary.  Came on board after Sheepshanks in 2007 and was expected to steer the club back to something achieving, but took the club in the opposite direction.    Fans were overjoyed when he finally left in the summer although some were thankful for his services.
Don't allow Derby County to follow this route, forewarned is forearmed.    It looks like we'll be playing you again next season and while i'm looking forward to it and wish it once again at higher level, do whatever you can to make sure Evans is not coming back to Portman Road when you make the trip over and do the right thing, hire someone else to take ownership.    Mike Ashley too, can't really speak for that name but realize he has amounted a lot of hostility and anger with previous clubs he's been involved at.  
 

That is a depressing list.

Told you that he was in Lidl. Eying a bargain in the middle section. Monkey metal pair of pruners. 

Told you that he was in Lidl. Eying a bargain in the middle section. Monkey metal pair of pruners. 

No , I'm sorry , I maintain my stance from my earlier post . IT WAS A JAPANESE WET SUIT ! . 

Told you that he was in Lidl. Eying a bargain in the middle section. Monkey metal pair of pruners. 

This whole ''Newcastle deserves this'' that is being played doesn't really work for me. I fail to see how Newcastle fans deserve anything more than we do, or Sheffield Wednesday, or Forest, or Leeds, or Villa or any other club. Mike Ashley wasn't that bad and they never had a particularly tough time of it. 

Does this now mean they can break the FFP rules and overspend as much as they like? Be interesting to see if the PL/FA keep an eye on that one. 
 
I bet a certain person at a nearby club will be watching how much they spend!

I am writing this, largely out of frustration, but I feel I need to get it off my chest.
My dad was a season ticket holder for 50-odd years and he died of cancer in September. (I joined him as a season ticket holder from 1987)
He had renewed his ticket for the 2020-21 season before the pandemic hit which was carried over into this season.
In April, when he knew he was too poorly to go again, he wrote to the ticket office advising as such and would therefore prefer a refund to the ticket for 2021-22.
He received a response saying that the club could not provide a refund as the deadline had since passed.
As a result, I wrote to the club in July to see if an amicable solution could be found to transfer his ticket to my friend who would pay the difference from a 65+ ticket to a standard adult one, then paying my dad for the rest of the ticket.
I heard nothing.  I chased again twice and still heard nothing.
In an attempt to try and sort it out before the season ticket deadline (after my dad had recently died and after Derby had gone into administration), I went to the ticket office and was advised the process would be that my friend would have to buy the ticket in full and my dad could get a refund on his seat, due to his death.
I therefore paid for my friend’s seat (which was my dad’s seat) in full for my friend and gave details with regards to getting a refund.
This week, the SLO contacted me to say that it would be possible to upgrade his seat to my friend and to contact the ticket office accordingly, in response to my email sent in July.
When I explained what I had already been told by the ticket office, I received another email advising that due to the administration events, no refund could be given at all.
So, Derby County have taken my dad’s money and my friend’s money for the same seat, have given me conflicting information and are now reneging on returning my Dad’s refund (which would have obviously gone to my mother).
I have requested that I get his season ticket back but for a different seat, as I can either bring someone else, or sell it on to recover some of the cash, but have had no response so far.
I can’t express how poorly I have felt Derby have handled this, (effectively costing me over £300) and it shows how much they valued my dad as a “customer”, when their lack of providing the correct information or acting in a timely manner could have seen this resolved.
Overall, I’m really saddened that this becomes my Dad’s final legacy with the club that he loved.

I guess MMs counter argument would be, would you still be paying your electricity bill on time if you lost your job and had no income?
I think the most annoying thing about this is that MM has said this is all purely down to Covid which lost us £20m income. Well if that's true why is he supposedly leaving us with £60m of debt and not £20m?

He’ll be gone next year, not wanting to ply his trade in League One. Ditto Jozwiak. 

Because HMRC did not chase up any debts during Covid and MM obviously saw this as a good opportunity to run up debt that he would not be liable for.
He used HMRC as a cheap source of financing and left DCFC to pick up the tab.
Forget anything else he did that was good for the club and his sob story about writing out cheques every month, basically he thinks it is righg for the taxpayer to bear the cost of his mistakes.
 

I wonder if the DET is going to create a separate article on each bullet point of the Rams Trust report? ?

This snippet from last night's meeting really pisses me off: 
"They are also fighting legal charges – for the Middlesbrough charge, lawyers has already been engaged  on both sides."
If this doesn't demonstrate Steve Gibson's malicious nature, nothing does.
What an absolute waste of administrators' time and the club's money. Talk about kick a man when he's down! 

I won’t ever give money for Tickets to this Gibson fella - Middlesbrough away is never going to happen for me anymore 

A mystery British interest you say..... ?

 

We did, 2- 0.
 

A) I thought it was illegal to dispense petrol into a container other than a 5l plastic can, or a proper metal Jerry can?
B) Quite a tidy arse mind, so I'd let her off.

I bet you particularly used to love pulling out into the middle lane to spend 15 minutes overtaking a 1/4 mile long lorry cos you're doing 2mph more than him.......?

He shouldn’t have got into that car. He did. It’s his fault. End.