eccles the ram

Go, Walk out the door cos you’re not welcome anymore

What a piece of garbage.  He came to matches..he saw what this club meant to the City and the fans...he saw the passion and the raw energy of what is a fantastically loyal fan base.. I wish him nothing but bad luck in every business venture he undertakes.  A total classless waste of oxygen.
 

My patience has run out now for CK. Quantuma as well. We HAVE TO MOVE ON!!! Enough is enough. Get all the proposed bidders together (on line) and give them an ultimatum. Whoever is the highest bidder by Thursday evening at 5pm ( not Friday as another day is wasted) then you are the one to move forward. No CK bullshitting, no Q (having to ask an approval from MM) sidestepping. GET IT FRIGGING DONE FOR ALL THE DCFC FANS WHO ARE CURRENTLY TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT. WHAT A FRIGGING LAUGHING STOCK WE HAVE BECOME!!!! Still UTR!

My patience has run out now for CK. Quantuma as well. We HAVE TO MOVE ON!!! Enough is enough. Get all the proposed bidders together (on line) and give them an ultimatum. Whoever is the highest bidder by Thursday evening at 5pm ( not Friday as another day is wasted) then you are the one to move forward. No CK bullshitting, no Q (having to ask an approval from MM) sidestepping. GET IT FRIGGING DONE FOR ALL THE DCFC FANS WHO ARE CURRENTLY TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT. WHAT A FRIGGING LAUGHING STOCK WE HAVE BECOME!!!! Still UTR!

This Nixon fella only  talks in passive aggressive riddles.  I truly believe he knows considerably less than he attempts to make out, to a point I’m not sure he knows any more on the Derby situation than the average fan.
 

My patience has run out now for CK. Quantuma as well. We HAVE TO MOVE ON!!! Enough is enough. Get all the proposed bidders together (on line) and give them an ultimatum. Whoever is the highest bidder by Thursday evening at 5pm ( not Friday as another day is wasted) then you are the one to move forward. No CK bullshitting, no Q (having to ask an approval from MM) sidestepping. GET IT FRIGGING DONE FOR ALL THE DCFC FANS WHO ARE CURRENTLY TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT. WHAT A FRIGGING LAUGHING STOCK WE HAVE BECOME!!!! Still UTR!

My patience has run out now for CK. Quantuma as well. We HAVE TO MOVE ON!!! Enough is enough. Get all the proposed bidders together (on line) and give them an ultimatum. Whoever is the highest bidder by Thursday evening at 5pm ( not Friday as another day is wasted) then you are the one to move forward. No CK bullshitting, no Q (having to ask an approval from MM) sidestepping. GET IT FRIGGING DONE FOR ALL THE DCFC FANS WHO ARE CURRENTLY TEARING THEIR HAIR OUT. WHAT A FRIGGING LAUGHING STOCK WE HAVE BECOME!!!! Still UTR!

Emergency sportscene Talkin "nothing has happened" would be my guess.

Is there another Sports Special moan in tonight on RD?

I'm sponsoring/hosting a Ukrainian refugee family through the Homes For Ukraine scheme.  33 year old Mum, 9 year old daughter and 5 year old son.  Been here 3 weeks now and settling in well.  It's exhausting but fulfilling. The stories they tell of their experiences bring tears to my eyes even as I type this.
Wondered if anyone had a spare Rams shirt for the kids, that they're prepared to let go?  Think there's a chance of them becoming lifelong fans.
I'm prepared to pay obviously, but a suitable donation from me to a Ukrainian charity instead might be a nice way forward.
Let me know what you've got!
Thanks

Wales v Ukraine 
 

POLAND AWAY IN WROCLAW 
SEE YOU SUNDAY  ?

Sing along to this Derby County Flag.
“When You See A Crowd I See A Flock”…………………………..
The Housemartins - Sheep would be a great song for our fans to sing and for our team to be welcomed on to the pitch.
Now you can sing it.
Brilliant flag.

Forgive me for barging in on your messageboard but I come in peace as a Bury fan. I have never posted on another club’s board before, this could be my first and last time. 
Firstly, the very best of luck. In cases like this it’s the fans, the innocents in all this, who suffer. We feel your pain, we too have been through the mill and beyond. 
Bury FC, the original club, were kicked out of L1 (having just won promotion) by the EFL in late August 2019,  about 3 weeks into the new season, our first half dozen fixtures were postponed so there was no record to expunge. The club was subsequently placed into administration. It remains in administration to this day but is effectively just a shell, awaiting ultimate liquidation with debts of over £12M. 
If scenario 1 above had happened we would have been reinstated at tier 6 in the pyramid. It didn’t, scenario 2 happened, and a “Phoenix” club called Bury AFC was formed by the fans and funded by the fans. It was admitted into tier 10 of the pyramid, the lowest level under FA auspices. Last season, the first full covid free season, it won promotion losing only one game. The highest home crowd was 1,885, not huge but enormous in a league where 100 or so is the norm. We ground share with Radcliffe AFC, another non league club within the borough of Bury. 
Bury AFC is not of course strictly speaking a Phoenix, but is referred to as such for ease of reference. It carries probably about 60pc of the original fan base. Not everyone has got on board but the majority have. The vibe is brilliant, partly as we are successful on the pitch of course, so never be afraid if this is your fate (it won’t be), you would still have a gas in “non league”, there are so many pluses compared to the EFL which make the match day experience highly enjoyable;  and with your fanbase you would quickly climb back up the pyramid. 

A highly unexpected turn of events happened more recently when a very small group of Bury fans emerged from nowhere with no mandate from anyone, but having apparently got strong connections with the Conservative Party. With the help of a wealthy businessman-fan now living in the USA, and with the financial help of the government which has provided up to £1M of matched funding (“levelling up”?), and the potential help of the (Labour) council, that group of fans (calling themselves Est 1885, the date of the founding of the original club) managed to buy the ground Gigg Lane, which had been subject to a charge for a loan of some £3.5M, and had fallen into a state of some disrepair. So Est 1885 have a ground but no football club, and Bury AFC are a football club with no ground (of their own). Talks are ongoing between the two with a view to a merger down the line. 
A word about the EFL. Yes as useless as a chocolate teapot but presumably facing the chop or severe reform following the government’s fan-led review. Remember the EFL is in essence the 72 clubs - it gets its power from the clubs, maybe it is useless because the clubs have only ever favoured light-touch regulation of themselves for obvious reasons, so have never given the EFL the powers it really needed to provide effective governance. 
So the very best of luck and whatever happens - there is no need to despair. 

It’s disgusting that people can be treated this way ( I have a small business) but the fault is in a system where a man with the worth of around 500 mill ( even if it’s dropped considerably now ) can run up these debts and walk away , I don’t think it says too much about Ashley that he wants to be saddled with as little as possible of another man’s debts when buying the club and saving it from going under , even if it’s for the motive of building it up to make a long term profit , do you really believe ck or any of the other bidders are not trying to pay creditors as little as they feel they can get away with ?
not one of those bidders is buying the club for the motive that they feel the creditors have been wronged and they want to step in and do the right thing for them, certainly ck is doing the absolute least he can without incurring a points deduction which impacts on his business plan,
the creditors and derby county have been shafted by Morris we should not and can not judge people like Ashley and the others on them not wanting to pay for Morris mess ,anyone buying derby is buying another man’s debts and a business with next to no worth and assets apart from a decent fanbase which gives potential for future if run properly 
 

Was going to write something about Birch visiting Derby but then again I will take the EFL stance and decided I couldn't be bothered!

Really torn on the EFL statement & whether this is a positive step.
The EFL are clearly not expecting Kirchner's money to land - that must be the first assumption here. The second point (and one that I agree with them on) is that Quantuma need external oversight on both their actions & communications between bidders & interested parties. Whilst we all acknowledge that Quantuma as an insolvency practitioner have to follow insolvency law, there have been a number of allegations levied at them from well connected journalists that they have not concluded sales earlier this season despite apparent agreements being reached. There are also unsubstantiated theories abound that Quantuma are prioritising admin fees over anything else, something that can not be proven given the opaque nature of all the discussions to date.
In summary, it is clear that there is a total lack of confidence in Quantuma & given the timescales, I do agree the EFL should be concerned at how long this could drag on. The problem then comes with the role of the EFL, an organisation so hopelessly tainted by their incompetence, agenda driven petulance & fact that they are easily manipulated by parties without DCFC's best interest at heart. That may or may not include one or more of the current bidders.
Two things do strike me though. Firstly, this is Quantuma's last ever gig in football administration - they're finished after this. Secondly, there will be a conclusion to this in the coming days & I do believe it will result in the club being sold. I do hope that any brinkmanship tactics the EFL employ (specifically around threats of expulsion) are kept private with Quantuma for the benefit of fans' mental health.
 

You just feel this is what the EFL want. They were ridiculed last time, now they want to use it to show they are actually helping us for once.  But if it wasn't for EFL this would all have been done and dusted by January.

One thing I total agree with is that there is an agenda going out there. Who's agenda and why looks like one to rubbish everyone except perhaps one bidder. Having lots of Money does strange things to people who just want more and more so they can drool over their bank accounts and assets and never spend it.

I am hoping 5pm Friday anyone seriously interested's advisers would have been given full access to everything. It now seems like who can get their ducks in a row fastest and at least matches CK amount to avoid reopening talks with creditors wins.  If CK money clears i think he really needs to do something to regain credibility with fan base and explain these last couple of weeks

Fixtures out on 23rd, player(s) back training in two weeks time, 5 contracted players and a load of under 23s. No sign of a breakthrough is it time for a show of solidarity again and quickly!!!!!!?

Fixtures out on 23rd, player(s) back training in two weeks time, 5 contracted players and a load of under 23s. No sign of a breakthrough is it time for a show of solidarity again and quickly!!!!!!?