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I'm not sure he's bothered or and/or has that much class about him tbh, if the way he acted when playing for Man City's U23s against us is anything to go by.

They're not coming down though. Nailed on for Europe.
At least that's what an acquaintance, someone who hadn't mentioned Forest at all in the 7 or so years I'd had them as a 'friend' on Facebook prior to January 2022 thinks.
The few football related posts he'd put up before that were all about Man Utd (he lives there), occasionally wearing a 'red devils' replica shirt, nary a piece of broccoli in sight
In the past 8 months though almost all of his posts show him proudly displaying his support, fully part of the 'BOXT Brigade' (previously known as Fairweather Fans of Forest)

 

They're not coming down though. Nailed on for Europe.
At least that's what an acquaintance, someone who hadn't mentioned Forest at all in the 7 or so years I'd had them as a 'friend' on Facebook prior to January 2022 thinks.
The few football related posts he'd put up before that were all about Man Utd (he lives there), occasionally wearing a 'red devils' replica shirt, nary a piece of broccoli in sight
In the past 8 months though almost all of his posts show him proudly displaying his support, fully part of the 'BOXT Brigade' (previously known as Fairweather Fans of Forest)

 

They're not coming down though. Nailed on for Europe.
At least that's what an acquaintance, someone who hadn't mentioned Forest at all in the 7 or so years I'd had them as a 'friend' on Facebook prior to January 2022 thinks.
The few football related posts he'd put up before that were all about Man Utd (he lives there), occasionally wearing a 'red devils' replica shirt, nary a piece of broccoli in sight
In the past 8 months though almost all of his posts show him proudly displaying his support, fully part of the 'BOXT Brigade' (previously known as Fairweather Fans of Forest)

 

The bog standard carpet gets laid once, then forgotten about.
The professional carpet... or "Pro", informally...  gets repeatedly laid, regularly and often.
 
#wonder no more ??

Wildsmith 7.5 - Not the hardest saves but good handling... mostly!
Oduroh - 7 - Starting to look a bit more confident and imposed himself on the game 2nd half. Improved positional sense.
Rooney - 7
Forsyth - 8 - Captain's performance, not much else needs saying.
Roberts - 7.5 - Just a very good footballer. Gets it, plays well, works hard. Composed.  Gets an extra half mark for that ball to Dobbin
Smith - 7
Knight - 7
Thompson - 5.5 - Frustrating ditherer, slow to react the danger encircling him. I wish it was just this match, but it's a regular feature.
Sibley - 8
Dobbin - 7.5 - Really like him, just doesn't seem to have a shot on him!
McGoldrick - 6.5 - Controversial? Lost most of his aerial battles for the ball and looked leggy throughout (fully expected given fitness levels), a few flashes of quality mixed in but some missed opportunities to play the killer pass as not yet up to speed.

Subs:
Bird - 6
Hourihane - 6 - Luxury player, decision making more hit and miss than expected. Played too safe once when he had (I think) Collins running clean through into a near-empty WBA half and passed it back to the defence instead. Put in a cross for Collins but....
Collins - 6 - Good pressing. Not sure if the late cross from Hourihane was overhit or he didn't quite read it right?
Barkhuizen - 6
 
Defensive Unit - 9 - One of the biggest things that stood out for me was how well we dealt with WBA's set-pieces and just how many different players popped up with clearing headers and blocks. Everyone on the pitch wanted that clean sheet, we looked very well organised despite it being a thrown-together line-up.

The problem is, every one of these extra requirements just make it harder for legitimate buyers to actually complete a purchase.  If Quantuma had insisted on this, and the £5m non-refundable deposit, and every other suggestion in this thread, there's a decent chance that we'd have to got to May with no interested parties at all and Quantuma would have started liquidation proceedings.  Don't forget that at the point Kirchner was named preferred bidder, negotiations with credits weren't even complete (since HMRC etc wouldn't commit to anything until they had an actual bidder to talk to).  So you're asking buyers to hand over millions without even knowing for sure what they're buying.  And I'm sure "The purchaser has pulled out because conditions imposed by Quantuma made a deal unviable" headlines would have been treated wonderfully by Derby fans.
The problem is that none of the other bidders were offering anything like enough either.  Ashley was apparently offering low £20ms for the entire thing, stadium included, which was nowhere near enough.  At least Kirchner had what appeared to be a viable plan to get a deal over the line.  You can say it was a poor choice by the admins, but you're basically criticising them for not liquidating us months ago.

And hit an incredible cross field pass in the first half that led to fantastic move. Had his best game for us last night imo. 

Wildsmith 7.5 - Not the hardest saves but good handling... mostly!
Oduroh - 7 - Starting to look a bit more confident and imposed himself on the game 2nd half. Improved positional sense.
Rooney - 7
Forsyth - 8 - Captain's performance, not much else needs saying.
Roberts - 7.5 - Just a very good footballer. Gets it, plays well, works hard. Composed.  Gets an extra half mark for that ball to Dobbin
Smith - 7
Knight - 7
Thompson - 5.5 - Frustrating ditherer, slow to react the danger encircling him. I wish it was just this match, but it's a regular feature.
Sibley - 8
Dobbin - 7.5 - Really like him, just doesn't seem to have a shot on him!
McGoldrick - 6.5 - Controversial? Lost most of his aerial battles for the ball and looked leggy throughout (fully expected given fitness levels), a few flashes of quality mixed in but some missed opportunities to play the killer pass as not yet up to speed.

Subs:
Bird - 6
Hourihane - 6 - Luxury player, decision making more hit and miss than expected. Played too safe once when he had (I think) Collins running clean through into a near-empty WBA half and passed it back to the defence instead. Put in a cross for Collins but....
Collins - 6 - Good pressing. Not sure if the late cross from Hourihane was overhit or he didn't quite read it right?
Barkhuizen - 6
 
Defensive Unit - 9 - One of the biggest things that stood out for me was how well we dealt with WBA's set-pieces and just how many different players popped up with clearing headers and blocks. Everyone on the pitch wanted that clean sheet, we looked very well organised despite it being a thrown-together line-up.

Great value for a tenner! ?

A message to all those who could have gone tonight but chose not to - mistake - that was extremely enjoyable 

Feel like Ed Dawes made his mind up about this style of play years ago. No patience for it and expects us to be nothing but world class at it.
Breeds such unnecessary negativity when it’s overly pointed out again and again.
 

It’s almost like if Sibley starts occasionally he might actually do something. 

The media's obsession with putting out articles about people who've joined OnlyFans and the amount of money it's made them.

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

Should have more than enough with Sibley starting. 

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

Signed for around £4m in January 2022
19 PL appearances with a single goal and zero assists in a team finishing 19th last season
4 Championship appearances this season
Sold for £16m in August 2022
The EFL will make sure the deal represents fair market value though, right?
(Transfermarkt has it as £3.6m and £17.1m, so just the 4.75% increase in value)

Signed for around £4m in January 2022
19 PL appearances with a single goal and zero assists in a team finishing 19th last season
4 Championship appearances this season
Sold for £16m in August 2022
The EFL will make sure the deal represents fair market value though, right?
(Transfermarkt has it as £3.6m and £17.1m, so just the 4.75% increase in value)

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

I see what you did there, very good ?

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

Also note PPS is a cashless stadium now, so only card & mobile payments accepted.
(when it was announced we were going cashless the website didn't actually mention the ticket office, just  'Concourse Refreshment Kiosks, Betting Stations, and Hospitality facilities', but I'd assume it must also include ticket purchases)
Are you going along tonight, or will it be a kashless stadium too?

Not quickly necessarily. But before we return to the Championship.
 
Owning a club in L1 - especially Derby under an EFL business plan - is relatively low risk and I’d think there’s a part of him which will enjoy it despite his desire for a low profile. But his Saturday afternoons at PP are important to him and he’ll know many fans will turn on him if we don’t get promoted before long.
Owning Derby in the championship is a different proposition.  Parachute payments, he knows how stupendously wealthy several other owners are and he’s seen what rams ownership did to MM (a much wealthier man). Plus he knows that tens of thousands of people in derby expect a good owner to take us to the PL (especially given what our noisy neighbours are now enjoying). 
It was no secret that he was a reluctant buyer of the club (albeit he may have been an enthusiastic buyer of the stadium for £23m !). In fact the big (largely unnoticed) reveal in his video interview was that the decision to buy the club after CK crashed and burned was in part driven by a desire to protect the value of the stadium (already purchased). 
 
Best scenario for DC overall might be for us to narrowly miss promotion this year, then for us to run away with the title in 23/24. Then he has time for a leisurely sale of a championship club that (I think) would be free of EFL constraints. 
We’ll see ...