Ramzabac

Over 6300 sold (and counting) ? 

Done for me and Mrs ramszabac. Plus an old school mate has bought the seat next to us and will be traveling up from Gloucestershire with us. 
 

Done for me and Mrs ramszabac. Plus an old school mate has bought the seat next to us and will be traveling up from Gloucestershire with us. 
 

Done for me and Mrs ramszabac. Plus an old school mate has bought the seat next to us and will be traveling up from Gloucestershire with us. 
 

We should be OK, just as long as we stock up on Werther's Originals and install a few beds in the changing room. The rate we're going the lads won't need a half time team talk they'll need an afternoon nap! 

Derby County. Saved.
The joy, the relief.
Mine won’t be the only story like this, but after the passing of my Dad, who was a dyed-in-the-wool Ram, former steward home and away, the love for Derby County takes on another meaning. It’s a link to family - past and present - for so many, and to lose it would be heartbreaking all over again.
To see it saved means the world. And I’m celebrating with a Derbyshire whisky.
I was listening to the 'emergency' Sportscene. I shed a tear when Ed Dawes came on in tears. I fully lost it when the Punjabi Rams representative (who's name escapes me, my apologies) was talking about the laying to rest of another member (again apologies) whose proceedings mirrored my Dad's. I'm in tears again, typing this.
I really hope we as Rams never have to go through this again. I hope no fan ever has to go through this.
We have our club back. Don't EVER take it for granted.
Much love to one and all. My only regret is that I wasn't first to break the news ? I'd just got home from work, but seriously, this forum has been a haven - to know I'm not the only one who's life has been dominated by this one subject.
I can't wait for that 30th July vs. Oxford. Win, lose, or draw - it's going to be one hell of a party. Let's sell this mother out.
Peace ✌️ love ❤️ and Derby County ?

A day as important as any in our history. Think we all knew we were on the brink but having had so many near misses & given how long the entire process had dragged, it feels magical to finally have closure.
The suffering this fanbase has had to experience for the sum total of one Championship playoff final defeat has been an absolute disgrace, particularly set against the blatant cheating from some of our peers who fluked the promotion we couldn't. Well done all for keeping sane during what has to rank as the most unfathomable combination of vindictiveness & incompetence experienced by a club of our stature. The fact we not only kept going but rallied in the face of such adversity just shows how bloody strong this club & its fanbase are.
Thank you David Clowes. As you rightly said in your incredibly humble & impressive opening statement, words are cheap & you want to be judged by your actions. And the fact is that by your actions, you have saved this football club & acted like the true DCFC fan you are. Whilst the majority of us will remember this when times are tough, lets be sure to remind the sack 'em all now/where's the ambition/celebrity obsessed berks that we seem to have amongst our number where we would be without him.
Oh, and to Quantuma, the EFL, Mel Morris, Steve Gibson, the other parasite & all the charming tinpot oppo fans who revelled in our misery last season. There's a lot of comeuppance coming down the track for most of you - I can't wait to see it
 

Pfft do stress all the straight jacket stuff.
Typical of them, bunch of Bar stewards. They can all rot.

Quick bit of research yields the following:
The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where DAVID CLOWES holds a current appointment equals £30m, a combined total current assets value of £536m with a total current liabilities of £137m and a total current net worth of £346m. My guess would be that while David is the front man, the new owners will effectively be the Clowes family as a whole.
For those already worrying that he / they have insufficient net worth to run a club like Derby, consider the relative wealth of Brentford owner Matthew Benham, a tiny fraction of the Clowes fortune. Consider too that Benham had to borrow £700k to fund the majority shareholding he took when he bought Brentford in 2012. Like Clowes, Benham too, is a lifelong fan of the club he has now established in the Premiership. Not all 'fan-owners' then are of Morris' ilk, so let's be balanced in our thinking. Some may say Benham is an outlier and an anomaly but the facts do not bear out this opinion. My view is rather that he simply adopted a model by which even clubs with modest fan bases can operate without losses AND enjoy success. For interest's sake, some net worth figures for a few Premiership club owners, correct as of 10/2021:
Brentford – Matthew Benham (£3m)
Norwich - Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones (£23m)
Burnley – Mike Garlick (£62m)
Watford – Gino Pozzo (£93m)
Leeds – Andrea Radrizzani (£344m)
If Clowes is successful in his bid, then let's then give the man a chance to show that he intends to run the club in the way it could and should be run. There is absolutely no reason that DCFC can not break even within a few years and then turn a profit from then on. Look at the 30K +++ crowds that turned up towards the end of a post-Covid season with the team nigh on certain to be relegated. There are few clubs in the entire league that would top those numbers and the willingness of the fans to get behind the club, aligned to a measured and analytical approach to recruitment, can prove to be the cornerstones upon which a resurgent Derby County can be built. Our support was the absolute envy of the League last season, despite 3 years of ever gathering gloom and ill conceived hostility from outsiders who chose to hate before they thought. Let's not forget that. Equally, let's be respectful to and supportive of the players who ran through walls for us, even those who now choose move to pastures new. We should be, and I believe most are, grateful for what was a herculean effort from a team where a good few were earning a fraction of the wages they could command elsewhere and all played week in, week out under immense levels of pressure and uncertainty. They gave us all they had and IMO, they now owe us nothing.
Let's also look out for each other; I've tried to remain calm and upbeat throughout the last couple of years as have most, but the strain of the last few months has understandably stretched nerves to breaking point. A lot of us have expressed anger and lashed out and I'm one of them, but the truth is that lashing out at those around the process, or worse still, at other fans, serves literally no purpose. I should know better.
As we now look to the future then, akin to most fans, I suspect, I remain concerned that this may prove yet another false dawn, but this does have a rather different feel about it. We will know by this time next week whether the deal has legs, at which point we can hopefully once again begin to dream about a more positive future for the club, the fans and the wider community. In essence, the healing process can begin. Of course I am hugely biased in my view, but it's something I strongly believe; there is something quite unique and special about this club of ours, even in the darkest of times. They say that it's always darkest before the dawn and I'm sure I can see some narrow slithers of light ahead and this for the first time in several years. Perhaps a bright and beautiful new dawn will follow, perhaps something less than that, but let's try to be present, upbeat and supportive and not simply look to others. We have a huge role to play if we choose to accept it and these next few years could be some of the best in long while if we temper our expectations and rediscover the unity and passion we showed when times were hardest.

This s*** show is going on for a while longer I think as the parties try and get the best deal. £50m is what is needed which is over the odds. 3 parties involved but they’ve obviously not satisfied all creditors otherwise we’d be hearing about it. All we have is a highly competitive bid from Appleby which Natalie says is over £50m, and Ashley who is saying I have £50m ready to go - a big difference from bidding £50m, and Morgan is still involved supposedly.
With this level of interest it will take sheer bloody incompetence for Derby to be liquidated from here, but this has dragged on so long that we can write off next season now, we just have to make sure we don’t fall any further down the pyramid.
Leigh Curtis in the DET is spot on, get the deal done it’s the fans that suffer. Problem is it’s a bad deal.

Question- This thread has been great and I have followed it while wearing out the refresh button. So apologies if I have missed the answer/views to this question.  It seems to me that next Thursday when the fixtures are announced will be crucial and whilst I hear that the EFL are not demanding the sale of the club will be concluded by then, we are highly unlikely to be out of administration, so will this be a clear indicator of the EFLs position and intent? 
Will they:
1. Include us in the fixtures?
2. Do what they did last season and show Derby or Mansfield, but with a similar knock on down the leagues? 
3. Not include DCFC (promoting Mansfield) on the principle that we cannot guarantee to fulfil our fixtures. Clearly this would be the nuclear option
4. Another option?
If the EFL are hell bent on protecting what they see as the ‘integrity’ of the league through a full and guaranteed fixture list for L1 clubs, then either they have been given confidence one of the bidders will come through soon and keep us in the L1 fixture list or we are close to the threat of expulsion. 

Well its safe to say that he doesnt use this forum then.

8 new ones for me. living in Gloucestershire we have some local games as well. Bring it on. 

Is anyone else logging thinking 'i'll just check the updates thread and not bother with this thread' then as soon as their their is no update start combing through this one for clues.
I'm a hopeless case.
 

Having also done plenty of witness work over the years i completely agree from what i have read. Also CR's barrister highlighted the various changes of statements by RV and will damage her case. In my experience of civil trials, Judges do not take kindly to witness who keep doing that. 

That’s my read on it too. Monday suggests they think there will be some serious movement this weekend, and they need a business day to put everything through. I think any other scenario would be either another week extension and fingers-crossed, or mutual agreement it isn’t going to work and Kirchner walks away.

Davies and Bird for me, absolutely no questions about it.

Take Davies out of the team and you're left with Stearman as the only senior CB. Bird has been the senior CM throughout the season and has played excellent, removing him would leave a huge hole as shown during his suspension.

I was dead level with the Preston sending off and there's no way any other Preston player was going to stop Lawrence from having a clear goalscoring opportunity. I thought the ref would bottle it though. 
Bird sending off looked fair too. 

If the club was "worth" £50million we wouldn't be in this mess. The administrators wouldn't be squeezing the small number of interested parties for every penny, and we wouldn't all be pleading with Morris to do the right thing and soak up a £20million loss.
How much other clubs have sold for isn't really relevant: different circumstances, different short and long term prospects, different reasons for buyers having an interest, different assets.
Read the market: we aren't worth £50million. The consensus seems to be we are worth about £30million - and that's if you include a stadium which we were assured was worth upwards of £80million.
Morris needs to understand this isn't a negotiation - it's a request for him to cough up a very large sum in order to gift the stadium and stop the club he claims to love slipping into oblivion, because of his own recklessness. 
Perhaps he won't (or can't) do that, but let's at least have some honesty. If the club goes bust no one is going to pat him on the back for his tough negotiating skills and tell him "You were right to walk away, the club was worth so much more than bidders were offering!" They'll be no club, devastated fans, and he'll still owe MSD £20million.
 
 

Q have had to navigate the unexpected intransigence & deviance of the EFL / Gibson in finding themselves unable to name a PB since before Xmas - and again for months afterwards, due to the constructive and intentional ambiguity over the parasite claims; then they have seen off the Binnies and especially Kirchner's low-sided pram antics, IMHO probably a good weeding-out.
Then latterly, they have needed to instruct bidders (again) to re-present or amend their bids to submit them in a single, clear and uniform format, set out as requested - to prevent flankers and hidden conditions/clauses and for Q to be finally in a position to compare the bids exactly and directly. Let's hope it's now happening and that the 'chosen ones' meet all the thresholds.
Q's communication inconsistency and flawed deadlining have vexed us all - but they have had to disentangle Mel's mess, create a data room, produce a template for unambiguous bidding amid all the crap from the EFL and disparate approaches from would-be owners.
Bleedin' nightmare, that's for sure....now we might just be close to seeing some daylight.
 
C O Y R
 
 

If we finish behind Barnsley we will be relegated anyway.

I am currently overseas in the USA having already missed the Peterborough match and will miss the Millwall match as well as the Cardiff game and yesterday I was walking along wearing my Derby county shirt with great pride and this American chap with his wife stoped me saying how wonderful Derby county were doing and he had been following along with all the events whilst he obviously knew all about Wayne Rooney he was incredibly impressed with the way the side and the fans were performing. We talked for about all things Derby county for about 20 minutes which was lovely. He had heard of Sherwood forest but not Nottingham Forest. 
The world is watching our story unfold and what a season to be a fan.

Credit to @Animal is a Ram ??
 

Questions Sent To The EFL
https://ramstrust.org.uk/wp/questions-sent-to-the-efl/
 
(will try and post direct links where possible now, page full of tweets can be slow loading)