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Did they tell Mel when the fun stops, STOP?

Or Shakin Stevens..
This old scouse..

I like this, you could just keep adding more heroic gestures:
He sponsored our school, he sponsored our school ...
He donated his kidney, he donated his kidney ...
 

I like this, you could just keep adding more heroic gestures:
He sponsored our school, he sponsored our school ...
He donated his kidney, he donated his kidney ...
 

I like this, you could just keep adding more heroic gestures:
He sponsored our school, he sponsored our school ...
He donated his kidney, he donated his kidney ...
 

I like this, you could just keep adding more heroic gestures:
He sponsored our school, he sponsored our school ...
He donated his kidney, he donated his kidney ...
 

I like this, you could just keep adding more heroic gestures:
He sponsored our school, he sponsored our school ...
He donated his kidney, he donated his kidney ...
 

He paid for my car, he paid for my car, Wayne Rooney, he paid for my car.
or
He rescued my cat, he rescued my cat, Wayne Rooney, he rescued my cat.

That short segment just added twenty quid to our debt, (just over a minute for two blokes each charging £500/hr).?

About time! 

Well, you'd have to choose a lucky year, for the Chinese betting market, obviously.

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but I personally think "buying a football club" and "responsible owners" are mutually exclusive.

He might have this bit right, unfortunately:
"People say they will put it into administration and somebody will come in and buy it because it is Derby. But how many points will Derby be faced with being deducted this year? More saliently, they are going to be faced with further deductions next year.
"In likelihood you would be buying a League Two team with an accumulated £50m debt. There are only so many people in the world who are out there and willing to do that."

Its pretty dispiriting reading some of these replies. In the situation we find ourselves in, there seems to be a blind faith that a benevolent group of 'investors' will come in & make everything alright. Have we not learnt anything?
In normal times, Derby earn circa 30m turnover...some of it TV money but majority ticket sales & merchanise sales. To put into context, our non-TV turnover will be top 5 in the EFL & in terms of overall turnover, only the clubs with parachute payments will exceed that. The point here is that we have a massive advantage over most at this level & hence the balanced budgets a Supporters Trust would be required to run  would be a realistic ambition to financially run a top 10 Championship club. For those thinking this would be our ceiling, I would argue a) its a damned sight better than where we are now & b) being in that group would keep us in the hunt for a playoff spot especially if we have a breakthrough moment with a very good manager or youth crop/savvy transfers coming good
In terms of organising it, yes the Ramstrust would be the vehicle. I spoke to the Football Supporters Federation back in May about this & they confirmed support/advice would go to Ramstrust as first refusal. Reality though is the supporters trust must be representative of the fanbase hence elections & people being held accountable i.e. the current group can be moulded away from what people perceive them to be at present
The best practice of Trust ownership currently are AFC Wimbledon, 4th in League One with a new stadium. Much smaller fanbase than us & rose from deep non-league. It can be done. We dont realise how powerful we are as fans & our club has a bigger reach than most.

I think it’s clear from many of the replies that when people think of “fan ownership”, what they have in mind is forum polls selecting the team sheet.
 
The most disagreeable fan base in the country could make a success of running their club if the set up is correct.

That is pretty shortsighted. If Ramstrust became the vehicle then everyone would become members of Ramstrust, not just the current small group, and you could vote in a professional leadership! The name of the vehicle doesn't matter. What matters is that it includes provision for fan membership and voting for a professional management team.
 

That is pretty shortsighted. If Ramstrust became the vehicle then everyone would become members of Ramstrust, not just the current small group, and you could vote in a professional leadership! The name of the vehicle doesn't matter. What matters is that it includes provision for fan membership and voting for a professional management team.
 

That is pretty shortsighted. If Ramstrust became the vehicle then everyone would become members of Ramstrust, not just the current small group, and you could vote in a professional leadership! The name of the vehicle doesn't matter. What matters is that it includes provision for fan membership and voting for a professional management team.
 

That is pretty shortsighted. If Ramstrust became the vehicle then everyone would become members of Ramstrust, not just the current small group, and you could vote in a professional leadership! The name of the vehicle doesn't matter. What matters is that it includes provision for fan membership and voting for a professional management team.
 

That is pretty shortsighted. If Ramstrust became the vehicle then everyone would become members of Ramstrust, not just the current small group, and you could vote in a professional leadership! The name of the vehicle doesn't matter. What matters is that it includes provision for fan membership and voting for a professional management team.
 

Yep. Completely miss the big story, then take it out on Rooney because the people you should be holding to account won't talk to you. Journalists are so scared of having their 'access' revoked that they end up failing to do any actual journalism. But what 'access' do they really have? They just get a free ticket to the match and all these meaningless press conferences. I wish someone had been actually holding the club to account over the last few months rather than cravenly going along with the 'nothing to see here' line. 

I'd go for the tried and tested 6-4-0 fromation as we camp in own half and await the inevitable. Obviously though, my tactical nouse is useless and WR will go for a innovative 8-2-0 with the 2 midfielders dropping back to help the defense.
 

Oooh baby do you know what that’s worth 
Louie Sibley is the best on Earth! 
 
belinda Carlisle - heaven is a place on earth 

Not easily maybe, but if other clubs can then we could too. But perhaps more to the point we didn't have to be run at such a big cost.
 

Matchday 3 – Saturday 21st August 1971 & our first away trip of the season, down the road to newly promoted upstarts Leicester City.
35,640 crammed into Filbert Street to see the mighty Rams win 2-0 with second half goals from Alan Hinton (penalty) & Kevin Hector. Couple of names of interest in the Leicester team – 22 year old Peter Shilton in net & David Nish, who joined Derby the following August for a British transfer record fee.
 

Programme of the day not really a patch on ‘The Ram’ but here you go…

And early League table after the game – Derby in second place behind surprise leaders Sheffield Utd (they finished 10th in the end)