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i dont mean to be rude but "no hint of what was to come" ?
this has been brewing for months, some just chose to ignore it. 
i do not want to see Mels face again, he is not welcome at our once great club

I understand that tonight many questions will be asked, both of the club and myself. 
Tonight as the news was broke, I was sat in the pub, still am, it's hit me hard as I'm sure it has you all, I was not expecting it, there was no pre warning, no hint of what was to come.
I also understand that over the years my opinion has been questioned, it's something I have had to deal with, sometimes poorly, but with the best and honest of intentions.
Tonight I am hurting, just as much as you all, this is the club I love, the club I adore, the club I have tattooed on my hand for all to see with pride. 
I love this club, please just think when posting over the next few days, weeks in anger, myself, the moderators, we do not deserve to be on the end of your anger or frustration.
Today is a dark day for the club, but as fans, we need to to stick together. We are Derby County, every one of us and we will move forward as one.
Once a ram, always a ram ?

We don't need demonstrations at any games.
Now is the time to show the football world that Derby County have one of the best fan bases in the country. Loud and proud boys and girls all game tomorrow. 
Let's show any possible buyers that they have a great club to come into, not a toxic one. 

Where are the Mel defenders now… hate to say I told you so…
Man is a total disgrace. Even has the ducking nerve to call himself a “fan” in that statement. Hope he gets everything that’s coming his way tomorrow. Lies and more lies.
I’ve not posted for a long time because I’ve been so angry about what’s been going on. So so angry that one man can destroy a football club we all hold so dear. And the worst thing? He won’t even take any ducking responsibility. Utter disgrace.
I’ll be there tomorrow, in full voice against against our supreme overlord (without any NDA on what I say). And I’ll keep going, because this is my football club.
Hopefully one day Mel will be gone, and never darkens the doors of Pride Park again. Once we’re got a proper owner who’s worthy of this great club, I’ll be back. For now I bid you all farewell…

Have to say, this is the lowest I've felt as a Derby fan. This feels rock bottom.

I feel sick. I had no idea, no pre warning that this was coming.
This is my club. Our club. Gutted. I don't know what to say.
I'm off to get drunk. Very drunk.
Sorry.

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. 

Don’t get the dislike towards Waghorn. Not the greatest player, or the smartest, but he always gave his all & scored some very important goals for us.
We overpaid for him, but that’s not his fault. He’s moved on now & doesn’t really deserve  the grief to be honest. Marriott seems to get a lot less grief, and did very little for us compared to Waghorn.

Almost single handedly kept us up final game of the season. Ill admit not the best finisher , but come on is he really that bad?

Death by a thousand cuts.
Sorry, the 'n' doesn't always work on my keyboard.

Nothing to do with luck. If that had been Derby missing those chances,  they would have been slated for crap finishing and not called unlucky.

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What was lucky about it?
Our defenders are there to defend and our goalkeeper is there to keep the ball out of the net.
Our defensive players and goalkeeper, between them, did their jobs brilliantly.
Don't remember anything too lucky happening for us.

Poor refereeing again, 3 times in the second half a blatant foul on a Derby, picked up by the commentator, wasn't given and led to a dangerous Albion attack. Also, he made us take the throwins from the correct place, but allowed their long thrower to do it pretty much from where he liked, again picked up by the commentator a couple of times. He even hurried us up on a couple of throws but let their player spend half an hour, polishing the ball.
But a fine rearguard action by our defence, with Roos playing well and a special word for our fans who backed the team throughout, completely overwhelming the home support.

That was a proper backs to the wall performance. 
Davies and Jags may be the oldest central defenders in the world, but we couldn't have done that without them.  
Special mention must go to Roos who was my man of the match. I never thought he would be able to withstand that amount of pressure. 

Roos certainly had his weetabix, his wife’s weetabix, his kids weetabix and half his streets weetabix before he turned up tonight. 
played like he was possessed 

say what you like about Rooney but he has this team playing for him that is 100% sure...brilliant..

Good point. Not a pretty watch, but WBA have so many quality players for this division.
Roos haters can log off for a while. He earned that point for us.

They scored from a couple of mistakes, a poor back pass and an unlucky deflection into a players path. They didn't even make their own luck.

Prefacing this by saying I have no insider info and have heard nothing
But if I was in a situation where I felt the EFL were being unreasonable and trying to force us to accept sanctions with seemingly no reason I would fight it - However if I was also trying to repair relationships with the EFL and show good faith to them I would be doing it in private - I wouldn't be shouting about it, I wouldn't be telling the fans how unreasonable the EFL are being and I wouldn't even make a single comment which could be construed by the EFL as being negative/aggravating 
It's frustrating for us not hearing anything - But I don't blame Morris for not saying anything - I think if he were to come out and let everyone know what the hold up is I suspect it would out the EFLs back up and make them dig their heels in further

I think you’re being over generous to the club here.
I have had a great seat on the half way line for many years and been prepared to pay a premium for it. Would I swap that for a seat looking at the corner flag for the same price? No chance.
I agree free RAMS TV was an unexpected bonus last year, I’m not sure why they needed to do that?!

The model for Championship football is "you'll get tons of money if you make it to the premier league" which is obviously not a healthy one. The only alternative model is "accept you are a lower league club, and have lower league players or sell to fund" - there's not a model for competetive and sustainable. Even the much lauded Bretford were on a sell to fund model, they made it work, but you can't run a whole system on the basis of everyone selling to everyone else, Brentofrd only made it work by selling to clubs chancing on the premier league dream, if every other club was trying to pull the same as Brentford, the market wouldnt be what it was for Brentofrd.
The economics of football are hopeless, the championship is a good example of how broken they are, and DCFC are an example of what happens if you fail. Take all the moral hand wringing out of it (for i do believe a lot of it is partizan and somewhat flexible), Derby's main crime was to fail. If we'd succeeded apart from a few grumbles, we'd have been welcomed to the Prem and talk would only be of the team that did it.
 
 
 

It’s hard to argue against anyone saying “Mel doesn’t really care anymore”. I’ve tried to defend him, but he’s currently looking like the kind of owner we used to think the like of Abramovic was… a bored rich man wanting a toy. He’s now lost commitment. Probably has a starving Christmas puppy somewhere. 
 
feeling decidedly annoyed for Rooney now.