Grimbeard

Although I'm still processing my grief concerning the loss of the 'Abu Derby County' thread, I'm encouraged by the 'El DerbyCo' thread thus far. 
We've had far right Spanish politics, unsubstantiated Twitter rumours, smiling Indonesian businessmen, a debate on Ryan Conway's reliability and mention of Jeremy Corbyn.
The old thread was often completely random and off-topic, and this one is keeping on the tradition. Love it!

Some observations -
It looks like at points this thread was subject to a coup attempt to turn it into the politics thread. 
Should the term WASP not now be considered a bit racist? Just asking.
If the bloke really is dubious I imagine he will be boiled alive by the Media and Social Media, and I would HOPE the EFL tests would flag him up.
I think Mel was great - he did his best to blast us into the Prem - it didn't work, mainly as we didn't get the rub of the green. Thanks Mel. I can't imagine he would sell us into a bad situation.
I will wait and see, I don't think the dice have stopped rolling yet. 
 

Bull poo. All matchday revenue goes to the club. The only grey area is money generated on non-match days due to hiring of rooms for conferences, etc...
There is absolutely no way Mel would put everything he possibly could to keep us right up against the P&S limit to then cut our spending power by over £10m per season.

"Look forward? They already have mate. Every single club!"

He doesn't, none at all. He's a teacher after all, why would he? He does speak some obvious bollards that he isn't pulled up on....
The cheek of it, a journalist asking questions of the very person who may have some answers! Granted, he may not be honest but it's a better start than trawling Sheff Wed forums as per Maguire.

Deporting immigrants who break the law is a standard approach in many countries.
Angela Merkel recently voted against same-sex marriage in the German Parliament, where the ruling party are her Christian Democrats and therefore religiously influenced conservatives. 
In my experience it's standard for anyone on the left to label anyone who disagrees with them "far right". It's the nature of the polarized societies we live in, driven in large part by social media algorithms. 
I'll judge him as I find him.

That's ok, I'll buy two.  (just to the right of the director's box).

It never cease to amaze me how suddenly people become experts in business, finance and football takeovers - when in reality, their only expertise is on kebabs, eBay and Amazon. 
All I care about is being able to watch my team, hopefully do well, be entertained - and that’s it. 
I’ll just chill my beanz and watch other ‘know it all’s’ go in to sizemic meltdowns ?
 
 

I think the only 2 things, imo, Mel has done wrong in his spell is
1/ Sacked Mac the 2nd time
2/ trusted certain managers with a poo ton of his cash.
 

May I respectfully remind you that, in this instance, you are not actually required to vote... or even to put it to a vote.

First he cosied up to the Leeds fans, now he’s after a Forest love in. 
I vote ban.

why? 

In what way?

Why would we do that? A very good player for us, who, as far as I can see, did very little wrong.

Why would we do that? A very good player for us, who, as far as I can see, did very little wrong.

You are Bobby Zamora and I claim my £500.

Why would we do that? A very good player for us, who, as far as I can see, did very little wrong.

People still banging on about him being a liability (with his perhaps one or two mistakes every few months) are somehow forgetting that we're Derby effing County, not Real Madrid. What do you honestly expect?
 
Me personally, I want someone who wears his heart on their sleeve, always puts a shift in, and cares about the club as much as I do. Keogh was all that and more.
 
For him not to be considered an absolute legend by all Derby fans shows how unrealistic some of you are.

If it's true he's won the case, personally I'm absolutely delighted for him. Always seemed pretty obvious he'd win in the end to me given that Lawrence and Bennett committed much more serious misdemeanours and yet were treated far more leniently by the club. Made it difficult to come to any other conclusion other than that Keogh was sacked because unlike the other two, he was unlucky enough to get injured
His sacking was quite possibly just another FFP manoeuvre in the first place because now it's a 'just' a legal bill rather than being on the wage bill.
Personally the unfairness of way Keogh was treated led to me feeling less of a connection with the club. It just seemed like a totally ruthless way to treat a very good, dedicated player who'd been with us for years and always gave absolutely everything every time he wore the shirt. This outcome goes a long way towards redressing that historical sense of injustice.
 

This time next week we could be level with Forest Rodney.

Yes - me for one

According to the doomsayers on here Forest have been sitting on a squad that sounds like it's capable of qualifying for Europe. Only a matter of time before they are challenging the likes of Tottenham and Arsenal for CL places.