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I thought, apart from the debt that no-one has confirmed, it had been confirmed the club is running at a sustainable level at the moment. If that is the case I would hope we can agree a deal with HMRC to pay the debt back as presumably we are paying the HMRC the PAYE at the moment?

1-0 Mighty Rams, Davies

Question is what type of owner do the fans want?

If we are run sustainably we will be mid table championship team when we recover from the current mess.

Or an owner that splashes the cash once every three years with losses but stays in FFP - we could be in this situation again.

An Owner that completly bankrolls the club and blows all the rules to get to the PL - we could be in this situation again.

I thought we had the perfect owner willing to spend to the FFP limit but fund teh club - how wrong I was.

What's changed with Mr Morris? We've been losing £39m over three years by design under him to sail as close to ffp as possible. That's over £1m a month. Why pull the the plug now?

We needed someone on the board that could have stopped this lunacy. Someone stopping them and asking where the money is going to come from?

They wanted to punish us last time with points didn't they? But reluctantly agreed, based on the outcome of us doing not a great deal wrong other than not making it clear what we were doing, to give us a £100,000 fine expecting to nail us this time.

Shame we can't up and move to the Belgium or Dutch League. Might win something and drink some decent (Belgium) beer....

I wonder how we are financially now, in terms of being self sufficient. I know we lost a load of money due to the pandemic but I had a look at 2018 and we had a revenue of just under £30m I think. We now have a smaller squad with a low budget. I wonder if we are now actually self sufficient and as such Mr Morris is happy for this to continue until January.

Its not said if teh accoutns will be published or not before the decision is made. You would have thought we could have visibility of them now the EFL have confirmed we met the deadline?

I'm hopeful this is what the EFL want to give us but we're going to appeal. But, like numerous people have said, it's all hearsay until we see the accounts.

Great point tonight. Seemed like tremendous support from our away support watching on TV. Maybe that's what got us over the line.

Masks are not compulsory but are advised to help stop the virus spreading.

The vaccine isn't compulsory but advised to help stop the virus spreading.

We are due a bit of luck and beat Norwich at their gaff last year when we got some. WBA 0-1 Mighty Rams.

Not sure if this is in the right place but I wanted to make Derby fans aware of the recommended guidelines - including wearing a mask. The TVs in the stadium advise wearing a mask but the vast majority of people do not. I can see us not being allowed in soon and mask wearing may help prevent that, but more importantly may prevent us losing more family/friends to the virus.

https://www.efl.com/news/2021/september/keeping-fans-safe-at-efl-matches/

Mistake by Buchanan and a lucky deflection pass gives them the goals.

I thought it was good to see a bit of fight in Lawrence.

Another day we would not have lost but we need to be more of a threat.

I still think with this squad, if we are not adrift and Bielik gets fit this year we'll stay up.

If Bielik plays tonight we win.

I hope its like the home kit but yellow replacing the white ?

Didn't leave on 42 yesterday to get a beer. Left when the whistle went just to try it again. Queue was massive when I got there. Queued all half time and did not get served. What a joke. My lad went down in the second half to get a coke and all shut.

Much less covid risk going down early in my opinion. Hardly anyone wearing masks again despite the TVs asking everyone to again.

I've got mine sorted. We renewed last year so mine was free. Had to pay for the 9 year old - last year Rams Squad membership gave a free season ticket but no biggy really (they refunded the Rams Squad payment ages ago but I need to check still). I also got a free one for my five year old.

First time we have three in the immediate family ? So we are adding extra to the attendance COYR!

Interestingly I was told I cannot upgrade the 5 year old ticket if my 11 year old daughter occasionally wants to come instead. They are non exchangeble or something or other. Seems daft to me as the 5 year old will not be at mid week games and the 11 year old likes any reason to stay up late!

I talk to people who have been to the game or seen it on TV and its like they have been to a different game. We all see it differently.

Covid measures - not sure it makes sense. People will queue up at half time anyway and I like to have a pint at half time, I very much doubt it will be having an impact. If anything it will make the half time queues longer. If we do not want people in the concoure then we should not sell food and drink down there. Not putting the game/highlights on the TV whilst you are having them makes no sense to me.

If I could get a drink quick enough during the half time interval and not leave a couple of minutes early I would.

Not alot of point 5 going on despite the messages on the screens:

5. Supporters are advised to wear a face mask, face covering or face visor within the concourse, toilets and walking to their seats.

Enforcing this would make more sense to me but I suppose we need to decide what level of preventation we go to. I'd rather do what I 'normally' do at the ground but wear a mask.

Apologies if I've missed a thread as Saturday was my first home game this season. Went down to get a pint on 42 minutes and the game wasn't on the TVs in the concourse in the North stand. Anyone got any idea why? 

I guess this extract from the 2021/22 Seaon Ticket FAQs explains the Rams Squad season ticket issue:

'Are Rams Squad Free Season Tickets still available?

Rams Squad membership has been discontinued in favour of a new Club Membership Scheme. However, the Club has introduced FREE Season Tickets and FREE Match Tickets for Infants (Age 2-5 Years) in all general admission seating areas which must be part of a paired seats purchase and be accompanied by a Parent/Guardian Age 18+'

I'm struggling with my lads rams squad season ticket. I renewed both last season, got the tickets for both the next home games, tried to renew the season tickets online and there was an £87 charge. Thought I'd made a mistake, tried to renew again and my lads in no longer available?

Emailed yesterday so hopefully they'll get back to me

The other thing is here that we are going to need all three centre backs to play games during the season. No way Davies and Jagielka will be bale to start every game. So Stearman got some more time to play in the team which should help going forwards.

Morrison was shot anyway so Rooney had to do something. This time it worked it might not next time. I was worried when Forsyth came on but I thought he did OK.

Stetton might do it - he instinctively smacked that one in quite nicely