mike93rh

If Mike Ashley was to take over, I'd call it a day on football.

A signed Tax return for 2017/18?
A signed DCFC seatbelt?

After the embarrassment of the Ipro stadium name I'd rather we not venture down that avenue again, unless it's something really good.
I'm surprised Mel didn't get the stadium called The Love Honey stadium, a right big Go F$#K yourself to all the fans.

Given how our form goes off a cliff any time a Derby manager wins MoTM this simply looks like another dirty trick from the EFL.

That will make the club harder to sell.
 

I think we can't read too much into what the administrators say. They won't jeopardise a sale by telling the warts-and-all story, certainly not to the paying public. 

I liked him, sorry to see him go.
He struck a nice balance between the serious stuff, and the lighter side of the game, and his articles on race and racism, and mental health, were eye opening and thought provoking.
Yet my favourite will always be his day with Private Derby, muddy cowboy boots and all.
Cheers Ryan, hope you stay involved, but most of all I hope you're well.

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

 

The good old DET with another exclusive about nothing 

Tomori, Wilson and Mount.

Nope 

Allsop……………..8. Four great saves.
Byrne………………7. Battle ship.
Forsyth……………7. Match winner.
Stearman………..7. Solid
Davies…………….6. Windmill.
Shinnie……………7. Fork-lift.
Bird…………………7. Angle-grinder.
Morrison…………7. Speed boat
Knight…………….7. Big graft.
Lawrence……….6. Milk-float
Baldock………….5. Bicycle.
Stretton …………6 scooter. 

Imagine being in the slightest bit arsed about other fans' opinions of us?
We support our club and that's all that matters.

Imagine being in the slightest bit arsed about other fans' opinions of us?
We support our club and that's all that matters.

My aren't we precious!!!
So we want to fill pride park, but only if the people meet the standards set by a certain few.
Get over yourself, Derby fans are no better than fans of other clubs up and down the country, no worse either. 
We have idiots and it seems we have some perfect angels who think videoing fellow Rams to get them banned just as the club needs all the money it can get, is a good idea.
I wish I'd been born perfect. 

It’s a strange one really, a few years ago Newcastle fans were singing “so F off Adam Johnson, you’re going down for noncing, you’re a pedophile” I actually thought that was quite funny, but at least it was factual.
I personally don’t get embarrassed by the actions of complete strangers, I don’t understand why anybody else would, but maybe that’s just me. 
 
Are we disliked by the majority at the minute? Yeah probably but it’s because we’ve been in the papers every week for the last 18 months for various reasons. People will tell you we’ve been “cheating for years” but can’t actually tell you what we’ve done. Most will point to the stadium sale in which we were actually vindicated in. We’re not disliked because some lads have too many sherbets are sing daft songs, especially a song that was started by Newcastle fans (funnily enough) and has been plagiarised by ourselves and sheff United fans but likely many more.  

This is a forum for us Rams fans to vent Malty, so your opinions shouldn’t offend anyone. Personally I think Morris is the worst owner we have ever had and has absolutely no regard for the feelings of the fans, coaching staff, players or employees of DCFC. I think the revelations from Rooney about the lack of communication and perceived lack of contrition for what’s happened from Morris tells you everything you need to know about him as a person, let alone as an owner. 
In my view he has put the club into administration in order to avoid liability for the mess he has created and to preserve his own personal fortune, not because it’s the best thing for the club. 
 

Surprising view given your username...
In all seriousness, the 'war on drugs' has merely resulted in widespread drug use & a very profitable & very violent organised crime problem. The countries of Latin America have suffered horribly from the US led blacklist & no amount of tough action will change that. And those countries with death sentences still see drugs consumed & supplied...why? Money talks & bribery/violent coercion will always ensure supply.
To the subject in hand, there's a couple of things at play here. Firstly, lockdown easing has released a lot of very bored teens/early 20s & boundaries were always likely to be pushed in terms of substance abuse (coke, booze, pills) & general lairy behaviour. Saw similar from some England fans in the summer. Secondly, with Derby in particular...we are in a Leeds-type siege mentality with the threat of liquidation, humiliation & all the emotion that brings. Whilst I dont for a second condone some of the really grim chants or aggressive behaviour, I do understand why some simply dont care what they say or do. 

If you pick and choose when you’re open minded then you’re not really open minded. 

Our overspending was before his time, so by that logic shouldn’t we just forget the whole points deduction thing and get on with our lives!? It was a feeble excuse that should have been challenged. 

Did you watch his press conference? 
I usually agree with you and have been pretty anti-Rooney until 7 days ago. But this gets top points for trolling and has put me in the invidious position of liking @MuespachRamposts!
Rooney can have lots of things levelled against him but if that press conference was the result of PR advice and he was posturing to the camera then I would be astounded. His PR team would surely have said 'be statesmanlike and rise above it' anyway. 
You could feel his change of tone when Mel was discussed. He obviously feels incredibly angry that he is now steering the ship but wasn't been given the common courtesy of the facts. He clearly has had staff coming to him and asking about their livelihoods and he has been in the dark. Some fans were speculating it was all a plan that Mel had made Rooney part of, but obviously that wasn't the case. Staggers me Mel has basically left him front and centre without giving him the heads up.
Nothing about paying for equipment and leading the team through an almost impossible situation seemed contrived to me. He made a comment about the players finding his 5min talk being more useful and heartfelt than Mel's 45mins, I don't see him pushing that idea as something that promotes him as a football manager, it's a personal thing that shows him as a decent bloke only.  It's also easily checked by asking the players. Clearly that comment was made to him by several players. 
As an aside, Mel's leadership has finished now.  No avoiding the conclusion it's been a shockingly bad period in retrospect. Like a drunk in Vegas constantly chasing his losses it's now come to its logical outcome. What remains to be seen is whether he wakes up with a banging head and realises he can show responsibility and good faith by slowly nursing the situation to its best possible conclusion (I still believe he will) or whether he is more akin to a Maxwell Mk 2 and having bleed his company dry he walks away from the situation with no self awareness or contrition. 

He's adopted us as his own
He's adopted us as his oooooown
Wayne Rooney...
...he's not 'really' of our own but he's not ducked off in the face of severe adversity and he's slagged off the bloke we all currently very justifiably dislike more than anyone else in the whole world and as he's doing a great job this season that means any valid criticism of him last season was obviously completely wrong and even if he did possibly undermine our previous manager and seriously underperform as a player none of that matters now and if you bring it up you must hate Rooney and be a fully fledged member of the Mel Morris fan club because there's no such thing as the middle ground between agreeing with certain decisions which have been made by Mel made and backing him 100% in everything he does and I could probably go on but can't remember exactly what I've already written or would write if I was thinking clearly and hadn't drank a number of beers..
...he's one of our own. 
 

Oh for goodness sake. If he'd have said well we'll just accept it then you'd have said 'not showing much fight'!