Tombo

The best sort of forum atmosphere for me is one where we don't do the decades-old "Wrist Slasher vs Happy Clapper" discourse and just let people express their thoughts, feelings and emotions whether good or bad, for better or worse

Supporters are aware that the club is very much up for sale, but what is the plan for the next few years should a takeover not come to fruition?

Yeah cya

2 hours ago, ilkleyram said:

No doubt they’ll tell us soon enough when we can order tickets for the Huddersfield match and the bar code on the tickets will allow us through the turnstiles in the normal way.

How you can say "no doubt" with anything at DCFC right now is beyond me.

I have read that. I'm sure Jim has read that. Why is the situation crystal clear for every other club in the league except us?

40 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

Jim Wheeler from the Rams Trust who was singularly underwhelming and is obviously unable to read.  His point was that, as a season ticket holder from last year (20/21) he didn't know from the club how or whether he would be able to get tickets to go to matches because the club hadn't told him.

You can argue whether it is the correct decision or not but you only have to read the club's statement to understand how you can get a ticket for the matches and which order they are going to be sold in.  The fact it is being done online and tickets printed at home means that they can concertina the process into a much shorter timescale

You obviously are unable to listen. The point is that they have told 20/21 ST holders that they will get their free ST for this year, and that their current cards will not work. Yet there is no sign of a new ST card being sent out yet, a week and a half away from the game.

As things stand, no fans will be able to actually get through a turnstile

We might actually stay up if we can bag him on loan for even half a season. No offence to CKR

Could be another Jordon Ibe.

Could be another CKR.

Both were written off as finished/problem players.

Absolutely none of you actually know what Shay does/did day by day so to speculate on his abilities as a coach is pretty baseless, just because we had a bad season last year. The buck stops with the manager with regards to results. His coaches do what he tells them to do.

21 hours ago, Duracell said:

I would defend the Athletic actually, I have been meaning to re-subscribe because Conway genuinely puts stuff out there about us that you can't get anywhere else. He's often the first to break stories too.

They have some amazing journalists full stop.

Maybe somewhat off topic here...They have a very long article on there today covering the story of the entire "55 years of hurt" which I've found a great way to get ready for tomorrow's game.

The entire "England National Team" story from 66 to today and it just reminds you why the crop of players we have now are so special. They have as much talent as any England team we've ever had but a lot of attributes we've not seen from an England team in half a century.

Very much worth the money imo

It is also worth mentioning that similarly to the way that the mainstream national press work with the government, access is everything.

I imagine the Derby Telegraph have a direct line to the club...but they wouldn't do for much longer if they published stories that the club were not ready to be seen by public eyes yet.

Therefore they are unfortunately reduced to mouthpieces for the club.

But I suppose they say that they are given accurate and correct information from the horses mouth, and they are free to report, comment and analyse that information however they see fit. So in their defence that is how their role has changed with reference to the club.

It might possibly, very likely, almost nearly, probably, very slight chance that it could be coming home....maybe

The arrogance of this French team gets totally ignored and yet according to the Croatians every nation steps up a gear when they play England because we're so arrogant.

France will win this tournament and they won't even need to try.

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

It was more the 'they've been lobbying'.

I mean, do you really blame Wycombe? I don't 

1 hour ago, tinman said:

I think we all know when DCFC will release the accounts.

 

15:01 on 7th August!

The accounts to be read out loud on the PA system at half time on the 7th. Would love that

I can understand why other clubs are laughing at us right now but they won't be laughing when they are next.

The EFL is supposed to be a democracy, where clubs have a say in their own futures. Instead it's more like mob justice that instigates witch-hunts against its own member clubs to purify the leagues. It's insane

I just don't know what the EFL are hoping to achieve. Is FFP still about protecting clubs from going bust or is it just a set of rules with no purpose?

Dragging this out is stopping us getting the takeover that we desperately need. This could make us go bust, so where does this even relate to "sustainability" anymore?

22 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

How many clubs, when being purchased, have 14 first team players, 1 of which has an ACL injury and the another has ongoing issues which has written off the best part of 2 years of football.

They are going to need to chuck a few quid at it to get us competitive.

The business is extremely lean. There are debts, but we are a good prospect for a potential owner nonetheless. 

How many clubs have this little deadwood while simultaneously having a few sellable assets in our young players? Plus the owner is desperate to sell and the club is getting a worse press every single day.

Someone who knows their football and their business knows that we are a very good prospect. A low level Championship club fighting off relegation, with low wage costs but high quality Premier League facilities?

We have the platform to climb the table again, if we can very quickly put this mess behind us

20 hours ago, Steve Buckley’s Dog said:

I understand your sentiment but please don’t forget the fans. We ARE the football club. I remember Clough on ITV, speaking in front of fans protesting against Maxwell, saying that we would be here long after Maxwell was gone. He was right.

Maxwell, Morris, Keogh, Glenn Skivington...we have and will see them all off and will be left standing. We are Derby. We are here because we care and all the mud and poo being thrown at us from all sides can slide off as far as I am concerned because, as much as I dislike it at the moment, I am bonded to and love this football club. So Gibson, EFL, bitter Leeds fans and the twitterati can all sod off. 

Of course, but I'm not particularly proud of the fan reaction currently. The way the fanbase have been tearing strips off each other lately.

I think I just miss being in the ground at this point. I used to be proud of Derby and its fans. And after a win proud of the players. It made my heart swell. There's really nothing like live football.

And throughout this saga I've just felt passive. I love the club, it's in my blood and always will be. But I've just felt like there's nothing I can cheer for. Nothing and nobody I can be proud of. At this point my loyalty is to a club crest.

Insane to think. But I know what you're saying. We'll be back from this. It's not the first crisis this club has had and it won't be the last.

I don't think there's a single thing about this football club I like at the moment. The players, the coaches, the management, the current ownership, the potential future ownership... all of it is a bitter disappointment.

I've been critical of the way we've conducted business and where that has left our finances but on this particular charge I still maintain that I don't think we've done a hell of a lot wrong morally.

Finding it hard to laugh at this now. At first our misery was such a joke all you could do is laugh.

I can't even do that now

57 minutes ago, Ramos said:

That or just so much money that losses aren’t a concern. Maybe the two go hand in hand. 

Of course. I did only say "wary" though, not that we should never trust them at all

As a general rule, you should be wary of anybody who actively wants to own a football club as they are money sinks and make precisely nobody any money. Anyone who actively wants to be in that business has a screw loose.

He seems to always get subbed off for Hector-Ingram as well, and you always see him giving JHI a few words of encouragement on his way off.

He'll make one hell of a coach one day if he fancies it.

I think he came in to be Waghorn's experienced backup and since sinking down the table it sounds like he's up for the challenge.

Not to say that he wasn't motivated before, but he strikes me as someone that thrives on having something to prove and a bit of a challenge. The bit in the Rams TV interview where he said he looked at the table and said to himself "we can defo do this" just made me think he absolutely thrives on this. He's not happy being where we are but he's pumped up to help change things. At this stage of his career he always has to find new challenges.