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Absolutely brilliant - just love this club. 

Lawrence - deserved headlines.
Excellent from Thompson and Ebosele.
Non stop from Knight.
But, my oh my, unsung heroes in Davies and Shinnie.

Yes but to be fair to Roos, he showed great spirit too after that awful moment.

Incredible win when you look at it a little closer.
That’s a team who are one of two running away with promotion already. Only lost once this season. Not lost away from home before today & only conceded one goal.
We didn’t get lucky, we were full value for the win. Proud.

Feels so important - top performance from Captain Tom, raw energy from young Liam, Max’s set pieces and passing outstanding, Knighty a permanent threat…

I’ve got a tear in my eye - so proud of every one of them today. Love this club so much - COYR!!!

Bursting with the pride, this is the best spirit i've seen in a Derby team. Can we have another poll 

What a crazy game. Tremendous spirit.
If anyone has forgotten why we love Derby County today was a reminder.

Take a bow son. 
 
50% of the starting 10 outfield players today from the academy. 
 
Somebody said earlier this week that we should scrap the academy - I’m not so sure. 
 
My mates lad plays in the academy and said to me recently how well all the staff have handled the situation and it’s as if nothing has happened since we went into administration. That only comes from great leadership. 

This may be the worst analogy I've seen on this forum so far.
No one takes on a mortgage as a gamble, it's a long term investment of low risk for both the borrower and the lender, and the basis of our home owning society.
Mel's done the opposite, gambled with money he does have, then walked away to let taxpayers, businesses and quite shamefully, in my opinion, two different ambulance services bear the pain, one state owned, one a charity ffs.

You don't think a £700k payment to someone 'with a view to them taking up a football related role' that never existed and a £1m payment for becoming a club ambassador as sweetener for Craig Bryson signing a new contract were questionable deals? Really?
SR winning a case against his dismissal doesn't mean these things didn't happen.
It doesn't really matter who ultimately signed them off, and just because they weren't legally a breach of FD doesn't mean they're the sort of deals you want your club entering into.

I’m twice Wayne’s age.
Never achieved a fraction of the success he has already had in his career.
Never had to face the kind of relentless pressure he has faced in the past twelve months.
Rarely had to face the managerial responsibility he has to face.
Never in the glare of the world’s press.
And all whilst knowing that he could walk away with his head held high at any time.
Thank you Mr Rooney.
Yours respectfully
Steve

Considering for many years Rooney was mocked how he came across in interviews (and to some extent, still is to this day with the “errmm” comments), I’ve been nothing but impressed with his manner, positivity and the way in which he has conducted himself as our manager in interviews.
We are now seeing the benefit from all the years of experience, he has had handling the media spotlight; so much so, he’s starting to shine with his honesty, integrity and determination to our cause. The jury may still be out for some on his managerial credentials to turn around our fortunes, but he his beyond reproach on his leadership in handling the current situation we are in.
Like you @LeedsCityRam I so hope he’s here and given a decent chance of managing without his hands tied. Some say Cocu had bad luck and never got a fair chance. Rooney has had an even worse stacked deck.
For all his off field antics the media love to trip him up on, as a manager he’s maturing immensely and I’m optimistic all this learning on the job, will be to our benefit next season. He’s no quitter for sure, let’s see if his winning mentality can get us somewhere on a reasonably level playing field to everyone else.
 

If we can believe reports in the papers Captain Tom will be allowed to leave for free in January. Rooney will have to pick a new captain when he sees which players are still with us. We can debate all day long if Tom was good value for £37,000 a week, but getting that amount off the wage bill could help us keep Knight.

There may be, but the admins have gone pretty quiet about the multiple bidders piece and thus far, we only know that Chris is happy to take a punt irrespective of sanctions / relegation. This might be simply because others are working under NDA but until Quantuma confirm as much and we get to see the cut of their jib, Chris remains in pole position in my mind.
I don't really get this whole, 'he's too brash, too American' thing anyway. I think he was simply trying to have the craic with us fans and make sure we knew where his heart is. I'll not be issuing any character judgements based on such limited evidence anyway. He obviously took onboard the criticism in any case as he's dialled things down most recently. I take that as a positive thing, though I concede that others may take more persuading.

Hoping the small number of naysayers will cut CK some slack now. The fact that he's looking to press ahead despite recent events really ought to be heartening and he does seem a genuine guy who is in it for the long-haul. We all need to rally around him and make the guy feel welcome if he does put up as seems very likely. 
COYR

This guy seems the real deal. 
 
Anybody that looks at our club in a positive way in the state it’s been left in needs all the backing we can give. What a guy. 

The ordering of the posts there made it a bit of an emotional roller coaster to piece together ?.

We literally didn't break any rules as they were written at the time.
This complex for taking nothing into account but your hatred of one individual is beyond strange.
Acknowledging the faults of other parties isn't absolving Mel Morris of blame for his own actions.

Wycombe's claim is fallacious anyway.
By their logic, Sheffield Wednesday should have had THEIR original points deduction of -9 applied at the end of the season in which it was determined - 2019/20 - that would have relegated SWFC instead of Charlton. Instead, the Tribunal decided that the purpose of the EFL's regulations was not to punish teams by relegating them without the hope of saving themselves. So they determined that it should be applied to the 20/21 season instead (it was then reduced to -6 points on appeal), which meant that Wycombe finished in 22nd place instead of 23rd. Thus, Derby's PD being applied last season would not have saved Wycombe anyway.
I hope Quantuma are all over this, because Couhig's claim is the biggest load of crud out there, except perhaps for Gibson's claim.
Still, at least it demonstrates to a few people that claims that other club owners want to put DCFC out of business are not fanciful or a symptom of "victim culture". They're not trying to punish Morris now, they're trying to punish US.
 

Should recoup that easily when we sue QPR and Villa. Villa broke the rules in 2019 is he suing them ? 

We can, and no doubt many will, argue about the treatment of our Club by the EFL all day, but what should not be lost today is that if Morris hadn’t put us in to Administration a couple of months ago, whilst clearly still a very wealthy man, and committed himself instead to accepting 9 points punishment for our P&S indiscretion, we would still have a Club today that had a chance, a good chance, of being in the Championship next season.
Morris bought a brilliant Club and Team, and in 6 short years ran it into the ground, and ultimately ran away to let someone else clear up the mess. 

So, if stick to the business plan we'll be relegated, but we don't stick to the business plan we'll still be relegated, but with a potentially better squad?
Is it me?