richinspain

Isn't it about time you moved to Gibraltar? You wouldn't have to purchase flights every other week then?

Great result for us last night, both Bournmouth and the baggies drop points.........I will start a relegation watch thread when I see what Cov and the dogs do.

Before this thread gets into a contest about who is the better fan ….
This season we really do need to fully adopt the siege mentality as supporters and players together. Millwall like to do it, the difference is that everyone does hate us at the moment (including most of ourselves).
 
So during the game let’s forget about the way our club is being decimated and focus on appealing vociferously for every decision - including ones we know shouldn’t really go in our favour- back the players even if we go behind and let the EFL know exactly how we feel. It’s us against the world - make Pride Park as hostile as it can be for visiting teams, you never know, it might make the difference.
 

Summer always sees lower crowds - its peak holiday time and many will be away especially those like us ahead of both sets of exam results unusually next week, some will be committed to playing cricket for a couple of weeks yet (how dare half fans do something with their time) and surely this year the pingdemic/covid cases/caution will affect numbers a little or a lot. Also unfortunately some will just have got into the habit of doing something else they enjoy more on a Saturday.  Many also cant afford it each week especially if wanting to attend with kids. It is a very expensive day.
However, some of you please stop the superiority if you are lucky enough to be able to go each week. And yes I mean lucky. Many cant do that ever or at certain times of their lives. Doesnt mean "these plastic half fans" dont refresh their phone every 2 seconds waiting for news, get butterflies leading up to the game, feel jittery for every second of every game and be depressed/grumpy when we lose.  season tickets wont work for us this year but we will be there whenever we can home and away and we are not less fans because of it

Must be a certain type of bloke thing (not sure that’s a positive though!!!) because I thought exactly same as @richinspain???

Nice to get a relatively positive article for a change. 
I know what Tom has been through, having lost both my parents as a teenager; glad I didn't have to mourn and live though my mistakes in the public gaze.
I so want him to succeed as captain and help Derby to better times. 
Good luck, Tom.

I read @iRam's post and thought three goals and attacking football. 
God only knows what you thought but you need to get out more! ?
 

Great post …. There’s going to be a reasonable crowd for the first time in a long while. We need to make the RIGHT type of noise .. forget the protests, forget the in fighting. We are all in this, every cheer counts.
We talk casually about “academy lads” .. Some of them have been playing 1st team football for a year now - in a echoing mausoleum - Meanwhile they have got stronger, growing, learning, they know what a fight is. Now; the first for many of them … they are going to have 20,000 fans on their side. Lets show them what we sound like and what it feels to have a stadium urging them Forward …. Let’s lift them to the ceiling, Let’s do this ! ????????????

Prove them wrong. Us against the world, let’s get behind the lads today.

Don't be so hard on yourself, I'll do it for you. You're a complete fool.
 
but a good one
 

I reckon he got home, unfolded the bit of paper he'd signed, only to see it was deeds of ownership rather than an NDA.
That's why he let Bris back on the forum, in return for putting him up for the next few years.

I'm pretty sure David has quite a detailed writeup which will go through the meeting in full and disclose everything that can be disclosed.
Rather than release their own minutes, in which obvious boardroom bias would dominate, the club is allowing him to convey to the fans his fair judgements and observations from the evening, in as much detail as he possibly can.
I suspect for his own benefit and for the benefit of this forum, he has requested that anything from that writeup that violates the NDA is removed before it goes public. This essentially means that all of his notes and recollections are in there in full gory detail, and only the things that are legally required to be removed will be omitted.
I shouldn't have to tell you this, but that is a good thing. Once again, there's so many valid things you can have a pop at Mel for but this isn't one of them

Have the attendees actually said they have to submit their reports or in our case, is it David wanting to clarify, on behalf of his forum, to ensure there are no misunderstandings prior to release? I've not seen any of the other bodies represented at the meeting indicating that they had to forward their reports before letting them out into the public domain.

I’ve spoken to David, he’s done his report, sent it to the club to check it’s ok with them.
The clubs not managed to get it signed off yet. One can only assume that they have other pressing matters, players contracts etc if you read what Mr Nixon has said.
I’m assured that there is some further detail to what’s already been released by the Punjabi Rams and Jim Wheeler on Radio Derby.
I was worried that everyone was waiting with baited breath only for the exact info to be in David’s report that was already out there anyway.
Please try and see it from his side, he’s piggy in the middle, and wants to make sure everything is ok with what’s in his report.
As far as I’m aware, due to David having to leave just before the end to catch the last train he missed an agreement to let Jim Wheeler do a piece to RD this morning.
But, that’s not what we go to the charter meetings for. We go to ask questions and to report to our members, not be a face to a joint statement. 

David never put our name to a recent open letter to the club, and will never do so.
So please be patient, the timescale is out his hands, and he’s getting grief left right and centre on Social Media. In my opinion non of the other groups who were there are.  But that comes with us being the biggest group of Derby County supporters on the internet.
He’s losing his hair, what he has got doesn’t want turning grey.
 

Dude - chill your boots
There's a good chance one of our former owners funded the club using money stolen from his companies employees pensions
Morris hasn't got us on a great state but he's far from our worst owner