WharfedaleRam

Banks, Bonetti, Shilton, Corrigan, Parkes........!!!!

Dove Inn all day long - great pub! Can't be there tonight. Wish em well, enjoy the Dove and bring back 3 points.

Getting a Penalty ? 

Stick these along the goal line.
 

Picture of the Derby support today.
Also during the minutes applause the Derby fans were excellent and applauded throughout.
Well some fellow fans.

There does need to be a consistency in the application of penalties, not just the level of penalty but also the timing.
Birmingham 'suffered' a 9 point penalty towards the end of the 18/19 season, which blues fans continually moan about to me, but this was given towards the end of March when they were 12 points above the relegation zone and only an outside bet for the play offs. Although it dropped them close to the relegation places, their mid table form was sufficient to keep them up. This penalty didn't relegate them or prevent them getting into the play offs.
Sheff Weds were given their penalty at the start of the season and although it ultimately resulted in their relegation, they at least had all season to do something about it.
The scandal of Derby last season was that the EFL were trying to punish us post season and not give us any chance of avoiding relegation.
Punishments must be consistant and must be issued by a certain date or passed over to the following season.

The problem here is that most of the people who've formed an opinion of us know very little about what's actually gone on, and are basing their views on sensationalist headlines, untrue and/or misleading write-ups telling only half the story, and what they read on that poo stain of the internet known as Twitter.
All they read is that we've broken some rule or other, that's enough to condemn us. Never mind that we've only broken a rule because the terms of engagement have changed, or that ultimately it's boiled down to one person's opinion overruling multiple others on a technicality.
I think it's summed up by your line about us being viewed as seeking an unfair advantage, we simply haven't - we've sought a competitive advantage, which isn't the same thing at all.
A lot of our actions have been an attempt to even out the genuinely unfair advantage gained by teams in receipt of parachute payments, that gained by those who've blatantly set out to make a mockery of spending limits - clubs like Villa who basically just bought every single sought-after midfielder in the division at one stage - or that gained by a club like Wolves signing Champions League quality players & managers from a closed market (and as such at well below market value) while deferring a massive chunk of their wages until such a point they achieve the inevitable promotion signing those players/that manager would bring. Throw in those with owners of two clubs in separate counties trading between themselves for good measure.
We've doubtless gone too far with it, of course, hence ending up in this position. Nobody is saying we're blameless or that Mel Morris hasn't well and truly messed it up, but an unfair advantage, really? It's nonsense.
In saying "The EFL and its constituent clubs currently view your club with so much suspicion" you make it sound like there are far more clubs who are emotionally / morally invested in our situation than there really are.
The only people to really speak up are Boro, Wycombe & Rotherham. There's little evidence that there's a whole host of clubs baying for some sort of justice - plenty of evidence of fans of other clubs doing so, but they're mostly hypocrites who've forgotten their own club's past misdeeds.
Nobody really seemed to have a problem with us until one chairman went running to them to complain about us after we pipped his team to a play-off spot (because our £4m striker gave us an advantage over them that their £15m striker didn't give them over us!).
Without that and the Kieran Maguire writing letters to the EFL about our amortisation policy it's debatable whether or not the EFL would ever even have opened a case against us.

I am sick to death of our club dieing with a thousand cuts!
I want a fresh start with all punishments done with, not kicking the can down the road constantly. The only reason we’ve been suffering all of this for so long is because no one in authority at dcfc has the class or honesty to put their hands up and say fair cop. We are a disaster of a club with no respect whatsoever for anyone else. If we held our hands up and showed a modicum of humility the EFL etc might be a little more sympathetic to our plight imo!

I kind of agree regards the lopsided nature of it, bit like Old Trafford, plus the view/distance from the away end is terrible. But unlike OT, which never fails to disappoint regards the atmosphere, SJP has so much going for it. Its location is absolutely critical; city centre, easy walking distance of stacks of pubs/restaurants in every direction, just its location high and overlooking the city centre as a monument to its surroundings is majestic - it's an atmospheric and brilliant football stadium, and I love going there, if only for the banter with the Geordies, who can always had a great chat with. I've been there loads down the years and never fail to have a good time, win (rarely) lose (frequently) or draw (occasionally). Moving to a new ground would have to mean out of town, and you just lose everything that's great about going. 

It's all totally obscene and outrageous but it's great fun seeing all the so called big clubs whinging about it. Football is finished in England but at least the north east has joined the privileged party.

Would the 77 year old former rock guitarist from the sixties rock group Yardbirds have enough money to buy us?
 
 
 
 
Oh... hang on... let me fetch my glasses...

The other Premier League clubs are unhappy
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/oct/08/angry-premier-league-clubs-demand-emergency-meeting-on-newcastle-deal

I am writing this, largely out of frustration, but I feel I need to get it off my chest.
My dad was a season ticket holder for 50-odd years and he died of cancer in September. (I joined him as a season ticket holder from 1987)
He had renewed his ticket for the 2020-21 season before the pandemic hit which was carried over into this season.
In April, when he knew he was too poorly to go again, he wrote to the ticket office advising as such and would therefore prefer a refund to the ticket for 2021-22.
He received a response saying that the club could not provide a refund as the deadline had since passed.
As a result, I wrote to the club in July to see if an amicable solution could be found to transfer his ticket to my friend who would pay the difference from a 65+ ticket to a standard adult one, then paying my dad for the rest of the ticket.
I heard nothing.  I chased again twice and still heard nothing.
In an attempt to try and sort it out before the season ticket deadline (after my dad had recently died and after Derby had gone into administration), I went to the ticket office and was advised the process would be that my friend would have to buy the ticket in full and my dad could get a refund on his seat, due to his death.
I therefore paid for my friend’s seat (which was my dad’s seat) in full for my friend and gave details with regards to getting a refund.
This week, the SLO contacted me to say that it would be possible to upgrade his seat to my friend and to contact the ticket office accordingly, in response to my email sent in July.
When I explained what I had already been told by the ticket office, I received another email advising that due to the administration events, no refund could be given at all.
So, Derby County have taken my dad’s money and my friend’s money for the same seat, have given me conflicting information and are now reneging on returning my Dad’s refund (which would have obviously gone to my mother).
I have requested that I get his season ticket back but for a different seat, as I can either bring someone else, or sell it on to recover some of the cash, but have had no response so far.
I can’t express how poorly I have felt Derby have handled this, (effectively costing me over £300) and it shows how much they valued my dad as a “customer”, when their lack of providing the correct information or acting in a timely manner could have seen this resolved.
Overall, I’m really saddened that this becomes my Dad’s final legacy with the club that he loved.

There is no point him trying to sue the club because if we are in Administration he would have nothing to gain. Even if he could prove a case - highly unlikely - and won, any award would rank as an unsecured creditor and get 2/3 of 3/4 of 5/8 of FA. If as part of Administration the club was bought, it would be bought by a different entity, and the entity to which Gibson would be suing would cease to exist.
If he should proceed with any case I cannot see the EFL would permit it under their membership rules. There would be anarchy. Would the door be open for us to sue QPR for instance.
IMO it is no more than sabre rattling, and Gibson trying to look hard to pacify his own entitled fanbase who are fed up with Championship football and Warnock’s brand of entertainment. The bloke is an irrelevance and we should ignore him, rather than give him the time and profile he seeks.

Well, if it comes to it, there's always the nuclear option.
 

There are no circumstances in which this is appropriate! 

There are no circumstances in which this is appropriate! 

Just booked my hire car in advance of the Middlesbrough away trip…??

0-0
No RGS.

Soon by the look of it.

He's just looking for something to do given the Bilsdale TV transmitter's been down for a week or two.
He might as well sue us for not giving them the ball back from a throw in, in our three goal comeback to get a draw at PP in 2000!

DCFC 1884 to 2021.
Gone but never forgotten. 
RIP

We c n't even af ord pr per y pr nt d T hirts

One for Mel: "I spent £200m and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a football ground)"