Fla Ram

Duped is the right term, we all wanted to believe in the local boy made good.
Turns out he was a shithead.

That statement blamed everyone and everything apart from the 1 person who is ultimately responsible and that's Mel Morris. He's led us down this path with his dodgy accounting methods, overspending and egotripping to the point he's killed the club. Surprised that statement didn't blame a casino as he put all his money on black at roulette and lost or blamed us for not buying enough tickets. 

He's an utter coward who still can't take responsibility for the absolute mess he's left us in. 

Can see us falling to League Two.
This is an absolute catastrophe not least because it was entirely avoidable if the club had been managed correctly. 
Mels reign will be remembered as the worst in our long history. 

I’m absolutely gutted… but at the same time absolutely fed up. 
 
being a football fan should be about going to watch your team play every Saturday but between the EFL and Mel that’s been ruined for me.
football should never be about politics but here we are. 
 
EFL… I hope you’re happy you’re getting what you wanted.
Mel Morris… I hope you’re happy, you’ve ruined the club you claimed to love and ruined many people’s lives who will lose their jobs whilst you bail out.
absolutely disillusioned with everything Derby County atm. The laughing stock of the football world. 
 
Mel Morris OUT. 

The really sad thing about this is not only has Mel screwed up……….he’s also turned us into a club that screws over it’s creditors!
Awful

I lived in Leeds when they went into administration. People with small businesses who had very little lost everything. Same in Leicester I imagine. Look at those clubs now, both paying wages of over £100k a week and sod the little people.
It’s these people I feel sorry for and those decent people who work within the club who won’t know if they will be paying their mortgages in the next few months. Meanwhile the likes of Sam Rush, bang average players like Ikechi Anya and so many agents we probably couldn’t count them will all be sitting in their mansions no doubt not giving a poo. Football is completely broken and I am sick of it. Thanks Mel, thanks Steven, thanks Keogh- super work. 

Bradley Johnson was way ahead of the curve with that one!

The amount of people who must have been lied to during this whole façade that's gone on for what now? 18 months or more? It's staggering.
Fans, players, Cocu, Rooney. I feel sorry for each and every one of them. We were painted the picture that the EFL were the enemy, they're the ones we have to blame, we're the victims. Yet we embarrass ourselves on a regular basis, drag our name through the mud, for what reason? To save face temporarily? To make Mel Morris and Stephen Pearce seem like good people, "one of the lads"?
In my opinion, both are completely odious who should be downright ashamed of themselves and any involvement they've had with this Club. I mentioned in another thread that a positive would be having the EFL off our backs and being able to start afresh without a knock-on effect in to next season in the third tier. Another huge benefit will be having these two gone from our Club, and I hope neither dare show their faces again.
I can appreciate good-intentions and effort that doesn't pay off, or naivety that has lead to mistakes. But to turn such a positive position in to something so catastrophic, and then try to blame anybody but themselves is cowardly and disgusting. This Club will go on without them and will be a far better place for it too, good riddance.

You mean to say Morris didn’t tell the truth. What a chuffin surprise that is! 

I find it utterly insulting this part ''We cannot stress enough how devastating it is to be forced into this position. We all – the owner, the members of the board, and our staff – are true Derby County supporters.''. Get in the bin. You took a club in a wonderful position and you ran us into the ground. Bamfords. 

Protest tomorrow then
Don't care that he's kindly requested we don't. This is pathetic work by a directorship of millionaires to refuse to finance the club

He could, he just doesn't want to.
Fair enough, he's losing money and he can't sell because buyers don't want to purchase the debts
Administration is a low trick. Gets him out of it, but shafts everyone else
 
 

Take the season ticket money, own the stadium, then calls in the administrator.
Any last sympathies and respect for Mel have gone.
Without being crass, I'm glad my Dad isn't witnessing this. 

Considering he's almost certainly launched us into league 1, administration (not seen in my lifetime) and a fire sale of the few players we've got left how on earth can it be above a 0? 

He’ll never be able to show his face at a Derby county game ever again. 
 
I think that says it all 

?
 

Can’t win Rooney really.
Last season he was bemoaned for not having a system, and most matches trying to match-up with our opponents.
This season he has developed a system, agreed ill suited to a number of our players, but at least he wants to try to play football. However it seems a good few now want him to change things to match-up with our opponents.
He has 15 established players, a good number on low wages, and a large number of inexperienced youngsters. The team spirit looks good, and at times last night played the ball around nicely. 
We lost last night because of one horrendous mistake, one unfortunate bit of luck, and because most of our forward players were off their game (Sibley, Lawrence and Baldock didn’t really contribute a great deal).
Rooney should never have come to the Club, blame Morris for that. We should, a club of our stature, have a pretty decent playing staff. We haven’t, blame Morris for that. 
Now though is a time to get right behind Rooney and all the players. Nothing is going to change until Morris goes, so let’s back our team to the hilt not undermine everything they are trying to achieve.

I'll bite - even though I normally ignore your more obvious arsey comments.
Square pegs? He's expecting both Jags & Curtis to be ball playing centre-halves - not something that they are naturals at....He's picking Roos for his ball-playing ability - something he may show in training, but something he's incapable of doing in pressure situations.....He's playing Bird & Shinnie next to each other which, as we've seen over many games, limits both of them....He's playing Morrison to give us quality going forward, but Morrison is then having to drop back to in front of the centre-halves to get the ball because Bird & Shinnie aren't doing the basics as CDMs...Last night he played Sibley on the right which dramatically limited his effectiveness....He played Tom Lawrence who at times looks more like a square peg than a professional footballer - always on his heels and more often looking for a fight rather than looking to hurt the opposition with his play....
As far as shots on target, maybe we did have as many as they did - who scored the most goals and got the 3 points?
 

Hiring Phillip Cocu who has an excellent record of bringing through and developing youth was exactly what we needed given our situation.
The biggest error was immediately undermining him by bringing in Wayne Rooney as a platform for him to go into management.
Mel did it to raise the profile of the club so he could sell it. It has backfired spectacularly.
 

Today’s the first time I’ve thought ‘uh-oh’ 
barely anything going forward.
the passing round the back gives me heart palpitations every time, we basically gave birmingham the 3 points tonight.
we need to be more creative, smarter and not pissarse about with the ball. 
it’s going to be a long old season.
COYR!

I the only person I blame is Mel Morris.
No intelligent chairman would employ Philip Cocu who has no experience of this league or the football in this country.
No intelligent would they replace him with a novice when we were in dire need of a solid experience championship manager.
If Mel runs the club properly and is at all interested he makes better decisions.

The thing that's annoyed me most of all over the last 18 months is that teams don't even need to work hard to beat us. We give points away like we don't need them.

Welcome back Jason Knight!

Don’t always agree with Rams Trust but I think this letter is much better than the last one. Questions posed are legitimate and fair. I very much doubt it will get the desired response though. The more time passes the more concerned I am about the clubs future. 

Absolutely sick of this now , EFL, if you are going to punish us then do it , stop this bullshite of adding more and more to the charge sheet and give us your best shot , as for Mel , pay what you owe and stop making the job so hard for Wayne , his staff and the players and also EFL and Mel the fans are suffering with all this crap that no one can make any sense out of , but i dont suppose we come into either of your thoughts , one very fed up Rams fan