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Sibley and Lawrence need to be jettisoned.
Crawley and Burns are lucky there aren’t more pushing for their place. I’d keep Bairstow even though he’s hit and miss.
Can’t see why Hameed is in the squad if he’s not deemed better than these clowns. I like Malan as a player but even he has struggled lately.
There’s no quality first class cricket in this country any more so it’s no wonder we aren’t producing top batsmen.

At least we have two established centre backs, I presume it will be because they are the only two who would accept the 4.5k a week wage. I'm pleased Curtis is one of them.
I'd like to find a way to sign Morrison to over the next couple of weeks too. 

They are Derby players. Let's get behind them.
They have showed incredible dedication in signing for way below the going rate, so I for one applaud them and I am not going to use words like 'god awful'. 'Thank you' would be more appropriate.

Tbh I’m not sure why everyone keeps saying protest - Mel has made it clear he’s trying to leave and has been for two years. I’d get a protest if we had a Chairman who wasn’t  budging but he’s clearly trying to get out - so what will a protest actually achieve? 

People need to realise this isnt a choie of Stearman over Jagielka, a 3rd keeper over a striker etc - it will be we have signed the only free agents willing to accept 4.5k or lower.
Hopefully we have paid HMRC so it's a case of waiting for the EFL to remove that embargo, once they do we can sign all the other triallists on wages up to 11.5k. So it is now down to whether we have paid & just waiting for HMRC to process/confirm so the EFL remove the embargo, if that is the case the triallists may be happy to wait a little longer. If we haven't paid then I don't see them hanging around for much longer.

Right. I’ve had time to let the disappointment sink in (we’re all used to it now). My positive spin to get us through the weekend… you don’t have to agree.
Weve signed some players to fill out the first team for the first fixtures. A couple of experienced CBs and a goalie who is decent enough back up.
The transfer window is still open for the rest of the month and we have to get this embargo stuff sorted in the next week or 2. Once that is done we are hopefully able to sign more players with less/no restrictions.
These signings aren’t the end of our transfer window, there is still time to add more quality (which we desperately need) in time for the window closing.

Probably because all the decent triallists will want more than 4.5k a week so we have signed the only one's willing to accept that type of wage.

I am massively disappointed id of liked Carroll Morrison and Jags but credit to the 3 that signed all could of gone elsewhere and got more money 

Perhaps its down to the embargo rather than our budget?

Pretty sure Marshall will go. Nothing concrete except my feelings that his mysterious injury/illness when players weren’t paid followed by a massive drop in form second half of last season. Not sure he really wants to be here tbh.

Like I said, every actual accountant that's looked at them thought they were fine...
The original DC with an accountant on it explicitly decided to ignore his evidence because he had no experience of practical accounting.  The LAP with no accountant decided his lack of experience made him perfect for the role. DC2 came back and said that there was basically no reason for the club to think what we were doing wasn't fine.

If any of us are still alive. ????

Perhaps nobody else wanted to sign.

looks like there's been a mini rush of tickets being sold. about 2,000 sold since yesterday morning.

Sorted now, my mate is taking his partners Grandad. He's 90 and not been out properly since pre-covid, hopefully a decent day out for them ?

Potential new signings only have to be completed by 12:00. They don’t have to release it to the press by 12:00. 
 
Knowing this forum though I fully expect a fully meltdown at 12:01. 

There's been lots of hysteria here and on social around midday today as some kind of do or die moment. That's only for tomorrow's game, where the only real shortage is at CH.
We can still get players signed until the transfer deadline on September 2nd. 
Plenty of time to get this sorted, even if it means playing a younger side for the first couple of games. 
Folk need to calm down a little. 

Correct. And let's not forget how unthreatening we were without him when he was out injured.
The inconsistent tag gets thrown around a lot with him, and it has been so often with our creative players over the years and shocker, they're Championship wingers. Nature of the beast. If you're asked to be the main creative force and make things happen, some weeks you're going to be a bit crap.

Since 2015, only Tom ince and Johnny Russell have scored over 5 goals consistently from the wing other than lawrence and Russell done it 3 seasons and failed 2 seasons , so he is unfairly treated In my opinion too , he had his worst season stats wise this season but let's be honest everyone did ?‍♂️

Nonsense in my opinion. I don't even think he'd be in the top 50 worst signings in the last 20 years 
Andy Griffin, bob malcolm, jon macken, danny mills, clod davis, eddie lewis, craig fagen, jordon stuart, nick blackman, jacob butterfield, liam dickenson, paul connelly, albentosa, pereplotkins, blessing kaku, efe ambrose, earnshaw
Thats just off the top of my head. He gets unfairly criticised in my opinion.  
 

I think he gets unfairly called out & is one of our better players.
im not on the wind up 
We looked better with him in the side than without him. He can be inconsistant which is frustrating But if he wasn't he wouldn't be playing for us. 
There isnt anyone better than him in his position at the club. Im not sure why people want rid of him. To get rid would weaken us. Makes no sense  

Well judging by our history of coming up with unique and inventive chants that other fans end up copying cos they're so jealous of our creativity, my money is on either...
One Kamil Joswiak
There's only one Kamil Joswiak
One Kamil Joswiak
There's only one Kamil Joswiak
(Repeat)
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Or...
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Der der der der
Kamil Joswiak
Der der der der 
Kamil Joswiak 
(Repeat)

You keep on saying this so, instead of making us wait, why don't you tell us the real state of the club and where you got the information from?
Either that or just admit that you have no idea yourself other than what we all already know via the media.
You clearly have no understanding of the financial information already in the public domain, so unless you know an insider you are clearly just making a throw away comment with no basis.
Do you seriously believe he was using drones to spy on training? ?
Do you not think that cameras may have been used for analysis of player performance or something?

I listened to Radio Derby Sportscene at 6pm tonight - very disappointing. Jim Wheeler’s phone line dropped and, while efforts were made to reconnect, Simon Long ( podcast writer), who didn’t go to last night’s meeting, launched into a rant which told us nothing new. Jim Wheeler then came back on the line but couldn’t get a word in due to Simon Long’s rant, which was a pity because I sensed that JW had a more positive take , having been at the meeting. JW managed to say a little more before Ed Dawes wrapped up the discussion with half the programme left. Pretty much a waste of time as I was hoping for a bit more news on how the meeting went.

'Enormous pressure' is being a neurosurgeon, a midwife delivering babies day on day out, or an ambulance driver arriving at the scene of an accident.
Enormous pressure is not worrying about whether Derby may or may not sign anyone ahead of the first game of the season or how to tell people what was said in a meeting.
People need to get a grip on reality. 
Derby have been in various messes before and come through them...fortunately they were pre twitter and fan entitlement or there would have been armageddon.