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The truth is Mel Morris turned Derby County from a solvent well run club with a talented squad into a penniless train wreck heading for League One in 6 short years while he cleared off with the majority of his personal wealth intact. We should be taking out a private prosecution against him the bar steward. 

Can’t think why he should consider himself as the new owner just yet. Apart from his random tweets and visibility I’d like to know what his proposed strategy is should he take over. 
Either that, or remain silent like the other bidders. 

Keogh is a disgrace.
Mel gets criticised for sacking only Keogh, but to be fair, Mel's hand was forced. Sacking all 3 made no sense for the club.
Losing the Keogh tribunal was the worst case scenario and the money was gone whichever way you look at it, either on Keogh's wages or a settlement. Sacking all three would have thrown away the large investment made in Lawrence and Bennett - transfer fees, academy development and wages - and any value they retained as an asset.
Keogh's self-inflicted injury finished him there and then as a 'top' Championship CB that could command the £25k/wk in his contract. Lawrence and Bennett retained a value and were still physically capable of performing in their roles. 
We could have gone down that season due to a shortage of CB's, and that entitled idiot would have kept on collecting his money. If we had sacked all 3, we would have also been short in attacking areas. 
If Keogh had any sense of duty to the club and the fans, he would have accepted the generous reduced terms offered and got his head down. He didn't, and the world saw his true colours. We lost a key member of the first XI and a top earner through their own conduct, yet retained the liability for their wages and were unable to replace the loss to the team. 
I'm glad Keogh was sacked. It makes me sick that the entitled so and so was rewarded for his disgraceful behavior. Its even more galling that he considers he has some kind of moral high ground.
I can't stand the sight of him anymore.
Mel's biggest mistake on this one is that had this happened at Middlesbrough, Gibson would have sued the breweries and car manufacturers for costing them promotion.

I'm in Derby General Hospital ward 51, After having heart surgery, Ther surgeon says i'm a lucky fella...as the amount of blood loss from my bleeding heart after reading this next production of Jackanory could have meant me having no heart at all for fallen football players.
1. He goes into the Joiners Arms with other Derby players...OK
2. He never saw Tom Lawrence...OK
3. He wasn't overly intoxicated after the death of his Nan...OK
4. He gets into a 4x4 as there were other players in the 4x4...OK
5. He didn't think Tom was Rat Arsed...OK
6. Ambulance personel tells him he's been in a RTA...OK
7. He was in incredible pain...OK
8. Derby sacked him for Gross misconduct...OK
9. He never thought of suicide...OK
So in just those 9 short observations...who was actually at fault Mr Keogh? Telling all and sundry might clear your conscience, But in essense it's all down to you...OK!
 
 
 

Has, his mum got the mascots job now ?  Fair play to her for mucking in. 

Did Steve Maclaren’s accent raise a semi? 

That is ridiculous. The Telegraph are a joke

Woo Hoo!!!! - big day today!!  ? - I got a reply to my email (sent to the Ticket Office on 29th July - so a smidge under 2 months!)....Unfortunately, it just stated that due to the club being in Administration, they can't answer any of my questions....?
At least they're not ignoring me completely.....?

Nobody needs £111 million, especially from having hardly anything before. 
 
111 people could have a million each and the world would be a better place. 

I just hope it’s a consortium that buys us not just one person. Have a proper board made up who can challenge each other’s decisions. The one problem Mel had is he didn’t have a board to challenge him on his decisions. To say no we shouldn’t be doing this we should do that. Instead he had a yes man ceo finance supposedly guru who messed around with our amortisation and has got us crippled when instead of running along with it should have challenged Morris. If had been the case and Morris hadn’t of got a free reign I don’t think we would be in this mess. Instead Morris just did whatever he wanted and now we are in the doom

A phoenix club in the same colours same badge and retain our honours I'd be fine with. I wouldn't even see it as a new club. Just the same one
Much like AFC Wimbledon

Proud moment on ignore from a mod.   How many more facts do you need to see?
Yes I've been going on for ages because I was worried where he was taking us and received a fair amount of criticism for saying so.  You and others were not and I wont forget being accused of not being right minded. 
I even sent you a PM about a shirt auction because I knew you had expressed an interest in the past.  
I have always tried to treat everybody's comments with respect even if I wholeheartedly disagreed with the stance and I won't apologize for having my own views

I'm another one that loved the fact a rich fan took over and has tried to bring success, the academy on the face of it was the right thing to invest in, raising the profile of the club with the gamble on Lamps was something I applauded, giving a young English ex player a chance (I'd still love Jody Morris to be involved again down the line) and it nearly worked, it wasn't Mel that screwed up the team selection for the final!
But
Talking of his health, take a moment for the health of some of the 25k+ fans, not everyone is resilient and can shrug their shoulders at the situation,  some (maybe only a few hundred) rely on the Rams for socialising, camaraderie and a purpose, you can already see some people struggling with the uncertainty,  @B4ev6isis a perfect example of people that live and breath the club, take a moment and think about their wellbeing,  because a certain MM hasn't. Let alone those that have been in furlough from the club for best part of 17 months and are likely to now be out of work!
Even if he has a grand plan (I'm still clutching at straws) to somehow allow DCFC to carry on by using the administration route, the way he has run the club in the last 2 years is appalling, and if he ends up sitting in his Palace with PP and the Academy buildings still in his name, and no club.... I don't know how he can sleep at night.

We didn't get any more points because it was the last game of the season, we still got one.

And Rotherham didn't get any less because they conceded with two minutes to go, they still got one too.
It's utterly absurd to say we stayed up because of one piece of luck when there will have been times when bad luck cost us points throughout the season just like it did Rotherham.
We stayed up, Rooney was in charge, ipso facto, Rooney kept us up. Argument over.

13/14 - GSE's building finally bears fruit and we ahave a young competetive exciting team. Me goes "oh hello"
14/15 - A second go is derailed by injuries. Mel takes sole ownership. McLaren is sacked for disloyalty.
15/16 - An awful lot of Mel's money is burned on an unsuccessful attempt to get to the prem.
16/17 - Hendrick is sold against manager's wishes. Vydra and Anya come in to little effect. Peason is sacked very quickly. McLaren does a resuce job but is also sacked because ol Sankie has a charming smile.
17/18 - Tom ince and Will Huges are sold. Rowett does on a more limited budget reach the play offs. Derby fans see that rarest of phenominoms, a defense that knows what it's doing, for a season. Chairman Mel tells ol Snakie there's no money left. Before.......selling Vydra...and....
18/19 - sells himself Pride Park for substancially more than anyone previously thought it was worth. Then spends the money he paid himself on hiring Frank Lampard, loaning three very good prspects and signing some "not very good value" players for a last role of the dice.
19/20 - the need to be more rational flickers for a moment, Cocu is signed on a long term deal to bring through youth and start building towards sustainable sucess. moments before he also announces, "I've also signed Wayen Rooney on a really fancy sponsorship deal and promised him he gets to be mananger next" by the way, all the budget is in Wayne Rooney's wages. EFL "Issues" start to hover around.
20/21 - It's bad. Cocu is Sacked. It's still bad. We stay up on the last day. Thanks to a goal at Cardiff.
21/22 - into Admin.
Well, ultimatly, it's been a ride. Ultimatly, it's ended in disaster. If that were all there was to it, it'd be sad, but we'd all live with it.
BUT
This has not just been a ride.
This has been a story of ego, mismanagment, utter idiocy, poor decisions, and ultimatly, the fact that all this is a result of decisions Mel Morris has taken.
On a 1-10 scale it gets 1.
What is most rage inducing is that, with even a tiny bit of sense it couldve not worked out and ended as a 6-7 for trying and failing, it wasn't boring, but it did not need to end in disaster. Even now, as look down the barrel, it's decisions taken by Mel that have robbed us even of a chance to get something sorted.
OK 1 is too generous.
 

I dont use this forum much, but this is what I said last season, I felt it was clear then
My masters included business and because I love footy, I focussed on club finances, we did the exact same things all clubs do when it goes tits up,(sell few assets they have, expect manager to get results despite undermining him with transfers and etc.). The only thing is we have wasted a lot of money on court cases
The short term is going to be difficult, with a major problem next season, if we get relegated will we be offered concessions on rent for Pride Park and perhaps even training ground. How do we make up the reduction in TV money. 
Also there is a huge lack of transparency by the club who keep making out they victims of a witch-hunt, over who owns the training ground and stadium. 
The long term is going to be much better now imo, the only thing we have going for us:
New owners,
Debt to Mel Morris should in theory be reduced unless Mel Morris is a Giant rick and still expects the holding company to pay back its debt to him but the club(subsidiary company) not to pay the debt back to HMRC and other
Also reduced wage bill, though at the expense of local people potentially. Wayne Rooney's wages may also be off the books. Which will help
With Mel you never know what the next step, he's like a poo chess player who is 3 steps ahead but forgets what's his next final move is 

Average number of points to be crowned champions: 94 points
Average number of points to reach play-offs: 74 points
Average number of points to avoid relegation: 47 points
At our current rate of 7 points from 7 games we're on course to finish on 46 (excluding any points deductions), just another 38 nil-nils and a sneaky 1-0 somewhere and we'll be fine. 
 

I'm still saying God Only Knows by the Beach Boys. Don't change anything. The lyrics fit

I know Mel, why not hold a meeting that only the select few can attend, then tell them all to keep what's said secret, and keep all the other 99.999999% of fans in the dark.
I suppose someone worth half a billion pounds can do what they want without a care for us mere peasants.
You may have had good intentions when you bought the club, I for one was looking forward to drinking in the East Stand fan park extension and watching the Oasis reunion under a retractable roof.
Now it seems all I've got to look forward is Fleetwood on a Tuesday night.
What the duck is going on? Duck. ? 

Bit harsh here pal. I think the OP is just expressing his sentiment and sadness at our current state. I don’t think he has demanded action - but merely expressed his dismay and the need for something to change.
From the outside looking in - most of us surely share this sentiment. Equally, as we are on the outside most of us don’t have sufficient information available to us to begin to know what that right course of action is.
Maybe Mel Is playing the long game and maybe he’ll be proven right and we’ll be ok in the end but right now it’s hurting to see our great club in this horrible horrible place.

Not free - part of a membership. These tickets were offered, agreed and paid for and have been taken away without the courtesy of an email or explanation. I found out by reading a post on here by someone who knows someone in the club. A friend of mine found out last Saturday when he was unable to buy a ticket for his lad for Birmingham on Friday, he simply didn’t know the season ticket had been cancelled because the club has never directly contacted us.
This decision has left parents with no recourse to a refund for their adult season tickets and now having to find extra money which they may or may not be able to afford. If the club had announced their intention to discontinue these ‘free’ tickets with effect from next season then I doubt anyone would be complaining. Hopefully that puts it into some context for you. ?

Oh, that's excellent news. Thanks for sharing. 
I am very tempted myself! 

I managed to relocate eventually.... I think they were sick of me asking and all of a sudden I think there's been a change of policy.
Will cost a few quid to your phone bill but it is possible.

You don’t think changing the pricing structure, when there were 8000 existing season ticket holders who had paid under the existing one, was a decision that perhaps was best left until the following season in the interests of fairness? Personally I think it would have made a lot more sense
I also don’t think the argument that you should pay more because you got something that the people who paid less also got is a particularly good response or valid argument either. 
£75/£100 obviously isn’t a great deal of money to some but it is to others and it can be the difference between going and not going. I think some on here don’t always seem to appreciate that.
Personally I think @DCFC1388and @ck- as well as the countless others, including myself, who have exactly the same issue should be either offered the difference between what they paid and what they would have done if they hadn’t helped the club out by leaving their money in it during the pandemic, or have the Rams Squad season tickets, bought in good faith, honoured. 
On a separate note I would like to applaud you both on receiving an email back from the club though ?