MackworthRamIsGod

Just my opinion, but to me it was blatantly obvious when Stevie Mac stopped having an influence on teams selections and tactics and that was the Cardiff game.

To me that was Rooney trying to be his own man and boy did it backfire.

After that we didnt recover and we stayed up based off that fact other teams kept us up and absolutely nothing that Rooney did.

I am interested to see who he is able to convince to come to the club, players and staff, but tactically i think he is more Phil Brown than Alex Ferguson.

21 minutes ago, Sheikh n Bake said:

A quick Google search shows that Cristiano Ronaldo is the 5th most influential person in 2021. He currently has over 92M followers on Twitter.

I'm not claiming that footballers SHOULD be role models like you insist and I'll agree with that. However, you can't surely believe that they arnt influential to young people regardless of whether they should or shouldn't be? 

Would you accept someone like Lee Hughes (Ex Notts County player) into our team? 

Just look at Coca-cola having 4 billion wiped off their share price just because Ronaldo moved 2 bottles out of the way.

3 minutes ago, Sheikh n Bake said:

We can hope not.

Let's build a team that our young fans can look up to and have as role models. 

I think if the team is full of kids it will be them looking up at us ?

3 minutes ago, Rample said:

Avoids the hassle of folks buying shirts with names on in the next week or 2 only for them to be sold immediately after.

 

I also wonder at the minute who you would choose to put in the shirts for the adverts for fear of the players not being there much longer.

CKR is nailed on obviously to be used, but can we expect Jozwiak, Lawrence etc to be here come kick off in August?

5 minutes ago, loweman2 said:

It will be announced with the new take over, it’s all done and the video has been made.

What is all done, preperations for the shirt release or the actual takeover?

27 minutes ago, Charlie George said:

Plenty of other clubs having kits launches,most notably Hull City yesterday who are also supplied by Umbro.

Doesn't appear to be any forthcoming news on ours as yet. Given the position the club is in that's quite some loss of revenue. 

 

 

Umbro have been asked by a few fans for a potential release date and Umbro have responded with no dates have been set.

Clearly the next season and even basic things like our new kit being released by Umbro hinges on a takeover, any takeover.

1 hour ago, BucksRam said:

The irony is this whole thing has had such a detrimental affect on us already, including soft embargoes, no doubt negatively impacting any takeover, demoralising staff and players, on top if all the problems created by covid not least financially, you could argue we've been punished enough.  But the EFL won't or don't see it like that.  

I think the EFL will and do see it like that, that is the point.

Rick Parry knows exactly what he is doing.

If the takeover doesnt materialise then relegation is pretty much nailed on and then we do a Bolton for a few years.

If the takeover comes through and the Americans give Rooney the funds he desires, then I would expect to achieve a comfortable 15th placed finish.

At least when we are relegated to league 1 we will have no dead wood and low wages, we will be the envy of the football league.

1 hour ago, Topram said:

Derbyshire telegraph said it wasn’t think week but surely it has to be before the fixtures come out next week?

BBC radio Derby said they understood it was this week.

Someone is fibbing.

1 hour ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

Nope.

Much more likely that he takes over the squad come the new season when Wayne quits for lack of funds.

Well that is exactly what I'm waiting to happen so was surprised to hear he could  be going.  Hopefully just pub talk but we will see.

I've heard he will be out the door by the season start, anyone else heard the same?

Ted leonsis and his band of merry men will be waiting the outcome of the EFL charge before deciding to go ahead with a deal, perhaps.

2 hours ago, Curtains said:

It’s absolutely not a problem.

You can’t make players stay for Academy football and they are not ready for Championship regular football yet  

We are being called a joke for not signing established players so the fans can’t have it both ways

We have signed a youngster from Arsenal and one from Chelsea who are very good prospects.

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=40170

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=40169

Fair play, it's all about balance.

1 hour ago, StrawHillRam said:

Everything that DCFC do ends up being an utter shambles 

Total train wreck

We deserve better or at least professionals who know what they are doing

The club is an absolute mess, we are in a situation now where young lads who have been with the club for so long, who can see we give youth players a chance, are refusing contracts and looking to move on.

Delap to Man City you can understand, Gordon to Liverpool you can live, the 4 lads being poached by Man United is just about bearable, but if we lose Brown and Ebosele at a time when they have every chance of breaking into a threadbare first time it will go someway to show just how bad things are at the minute.

1 hour ago, Tombo said:

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

Let us pray that is what happens and quick.

1 hour ago, angieram said:

I think they might have to offer that to some if the capacity is still much reduced. 

My take is that the reluctance to sell anything is because they've got about 11,500 of us already paid up and hopeful of getting to every home game. Even that might not be quite possible if capacity can't increase so they might offer that option and see who takes it up (quite a few of the more vulnerable, imo.)

Is it as many as 11,500? That does pleasantly surprise me, I thought I'd be in a select couple of thousand who kept tickets.

The club is falling apart.

Rats deserting a very clearly sinking ship.

28 minutes ago, JfR said:

There's reports from Switzerland that I think are saying that Archie Brown will be joining Lausanne-Sport
https://www.lematin.ch/story/ca-bouge-du-cote-du-lausanne-sport-183407787498

Fantastic, another upcoming highly rated youngster leaving...is Ebosele next?

Just now, EraniosSocks said:

Has Liam “Championship Anylast” Rosenior been released 

He is half way through scouting 2000 players ready for a busy transfer window...we need to be ready.

11 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said:

In terms of a new owner, we are in a decent position for them to take over with such a low wage bill compared to previous years plus unlike the past 2 that fell through we know we have Champ football for next season.

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.

39 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

My ? Henry says 6, 3 suspended conditional on us submitting the accounts in the format they would like….

Which would then trigger a further charge I would imagine.

If they are looking for a fee, unless they offer store credit I'd imagine we won't be in the running.

Then there are the little issues of their manager and chairman possibly not wanting to do any kind of business with the rams.

9 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

Erik Alonso's on another planet. Reeling off names he'd have signed had he taken over. It's all nonsense. Maybe he did have a bank account full of money, that doesn't mean any of it was actually his or that any of it was going to find it's way to DCFC.

Simple fact is he couldn't answer the relevant questions and he's been sacked off, making him the second time wasting chancer to take Mel for a ride in less than a year.

There was a story knocking about that Rooney wasnt convinced by Alonso and he had suggested signing players who couldnt even get a work permit, I suspect the 2 players mentioned would fit into that category.