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You obviously don't go to the Carabao Cup early rounders at home to the likes of Carlisle, the 10,000 of us who bother to go make a far better atmosphere than some of the 27,000+ crowds we've had full of expectant hangers on.

I get that the world's moved on, and I am not part of that (never will be).
But the further we move away from what really matters in football, eleven men each side on that pitch, supported in person, an opportunity to win against the odds and be part of something special, the more I feel that football as we know it will soon be gone forever. VAR, playacting on the field, off field politics and the way that money completely dominates the game. 
Next generation won't need or be able to experience football in the flesh, it will all be virtual reality where only financial input will count as a measure of a fan's loyalty. 
 

Nurse! Nurse!

seems somebody came up with the idea in 1982 ???
 

No way I'd be letting Jason go for £5 mill. We've not been relegated so the vultures can either stump up some decent cash or he stays with us. Frankly, given the fact he came through the academy so cost us fook all and won't be on a fat contract either, I'd be telling Brighton and anyone else to jog on unless they make a silly offer. Some of our young lads have just come through an absolute baptism of fire and I'd expect them to be far stronger players for it with that experience under their belts, assuming Wazza decides to play them to their strengths this time around.

You obviously don't go to the Carabao Cup early rounders at home to the likes of Carlisle, the 10,000 of us who bother to go make a far better atmosphere than some of the 27,000+ crowds we've had full of expectant hangers on.

Don't know if Festy or Watson play yet. Doesn't seem to be on FreeSport. But live on YouTube.
 

Both can be creative players. Lawrence has the ability, Jozwiak has also shown when player a certain way he can be a threat too (his form for Poland has been good recently) at this level, you can’t complain about having those 2 as your starting wide men. We were the 4th worst team In the league last season. To upgrade every position will be too big an ask. The priority positions have to be centre back and forward, you would imagine. Start there and then think about other positions.

Don’t you believe it one_chop, I reckon people will be so up for seeing the team in the flesh last season’s poor finish (on about the last 15 or so games) will be pardoned. Look at the atmosphere those that turned up at the ground to wish them well against Wednesday generated...I envy anybody that can get back to the ground for a live game, I hope they have a blast.

Messaging Appleby cost me an extra £5-6 on my bill ?

So much talent, yet so little return. Marriott just can't be arsed to train and as such, he's not going to get the game time he needs to be match sharp. He never seems more than half fit and is constantly picking up niggles as a consequence. He's had a bunch of chances now and just doesn't seem to care about football that much and Derby County even less. It's gutting to feel this way as I was so certain he was going to be the next Bobby D, but I fear his ship has sailed. If he doesn't show up to pre-season raring to go, I'd be shipping him out to anyone who'll have him just to get some of his wages off the books.
Having been sympathetic to Jordon's issues, I saw a video recently where far from acknowledging the support of the club, or the fans for that matter, he seemed to be saying that there was no support at all, at least until that fateful Insta post that had everyone hopping about. He actually came across as pretty resentful that there'd not been more done for him at Derby, but this is a football club and I'm not entirely sure what he expects. Also seemed to resent that fact that he'd been questions raised over his frequent lateness for training. Having believed he'd be an epic signing, I'm now fast losing faith that he'll be even remotely meaningful for us. He says he's in a better place now and good to go, but I'm not feeling it to be honest. To my mind, the club, the fans and the coaching staff HAVE tried to be supportive and patient, now it's up to Jordon. If it's not to be then fine, but don't be making out that you've not been given a shot, nor that most fans have not been encouraging and patient.
As for Duncan, well he's just vanished into the footballing ether. I'm not sure he's even had an U23 start yet, let alone threatened the senior squad. When he has, it's been hard to see what all the fuss is about. Perhaps he needs a run of games, but one has to then ask, why, if he's the 'wunderkind' we were led to believe, has he not been able to secure a few more starts?  Perhaps he's not as good as the Scouse faithful and he himself thinks? The only mitigating factors I can see being there's a some decent players in front of him to dislodge for him to be starting games, but that hardly bodes well for his senior career.
All in all, three depressing signings thus far for me, with little to indicate that this will change soon, if ever. Historically I've always been super supportive where the players are concerned, but this is a season where I'd really like to see one or two more kick on. The way I see it, it's the last chance saloon for two of them. Duncan, at least, has time on his side, but if the other two fail at Derby, I can't see other clubs rushing in to take a flyer. 
Sorry for the less than cheery post! ?‍♂️

Isn't that Jamie Vardy?

Isn't that Jamie Vardy?

Think it means loans and frees are ok. Any transfers requiring a transfer needs to be justified. For instance we sold The 2 players to Sheff Utd for X, then we could use say 70% of the incoming fees to purchase Jozwiak thereby we aren’t spending what we don’t have. 

Come on @loweman2, rescue this topic, get your balls out 

It doesn't matter how low we've got, or much further we sink,  I still don't want us to sign Adomah. Never have, never will. I'm not 100% sure of why that is, I've just never rated him, at all, and it genuinely surprises me when he has a decent run of goals.
The decent run always fades away though, he always seems to end up out of favour pretty quickly. I remember him being kept entirely in the pocket of a 35 year old Chris Baird a couple of years ago, who probably had one of the easiest games of his life.
As for the CKR comparison - It's one thing being called a journeyman for going off on your travels around the world, playing in multiple leagues, experiencing different cultures etc and then using what you've gained to become a stronger person and player, it's another thing knocking around the same league for years never really changing or developing - CKR is a much better player at 34 than he was at 30, I doubt Adomah is a better player at 33 than he was at 28.

Always felt like FFP or P&S do nothing to tackle the problem they were set out to achieve.  They were implemented to stop teams overspending, gambling on success but failing and crumbling.  It hasn’t prevented this, it’s just made it more of a gamble. In the Championship, overspend and pull it off and you get promoted and face no punishment, but fail and you’re left in a worse position than you would have been without FFP. Before you’d be in a financial state, now you’re in a financial state, face a fine, transfer embargo and points deduction.  I’m sure these are intended to act as a deterrent so that people stick within the rules, however, they won’t and they’ll constantly try and find loopholes due to the lack of a level playing field. 
 
a fairer way to level things out would be to set a transfer budget that all clubs have to stay within. You can spend more than say £20m on players in a year and every club has an overall wage limit to stick to. That way, even those with parachute payments get no unfair advantage as they have the same wage and transfer budget. That said, they’ll need to ensure contracts given in the prem at suitably structured to include a wage reduction should they get relegated. 
 
I am no expert so feel free to rip the idea to shreds if it’s actually nonsense. 

What a true gentleman & outstanding leader of our club what he did for us last game of season means everything to me!! I'm sure with out Curtis in them last 10 mins we would of conceded a headed goal with out dout and been relegated!! What a truly wonderful suprise for me and my boys with him coming into our work while on holiday in Devon!! made 2 people very happy on a very busy day. Total  Respect for this man and were lucky to call him a ram!! 
Ps does this mean I'm itk as he not going coaching yet got one more season in him!! I did ban him from dance machine to make sure ok for next year ????

This company doesn't have any obvious connection to DCFC, other than Mel is a director. It is owned by MSTART (MEDICAL AND SPORTING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TRUST).
Another non-story from Kieron Maguire. Gellaw companies are those off-the-shelf ones set up by Geldards solicitors, who work for Mel.

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It's about time this forum developed some sort of poo thread filter.

At least we won't lose by an innings ?

At least we won't lose by an innings ?

I’m not here to try and change your opinion, ultimately none of us know what it’s like to work under Mel behind the scenes so we can only build our own opinions from what we see and hear. 
One thing though, Keogh, we might not have acted by the letter of employment law but I back the decision 100%.
He was the club captain, those responsibilities apply both on and off the pitch, Lawrence going through a tough time with the loss of his mum, Bennett a young lad still, Keogh should have known better, he let this club down big time.
Even had the offer to take a pay cut, whilst rehabilitation took place at Moor Farm, which the club would have covered as they did his surgery.
For me, completely tainted his time at Derby, hope he enjoys the money, I have no time for him now at all.

I think you’re way off personally. That’s the figure the media have portrayed.
I believe he has standards that he expects and not someone you want to cross, knows what he wants, has his vision but never got the impression he’s closed minded to others opinions.
Would you want a weak minded owner with no vision that is easily swayed by any other voice? 
There’s a topic somewhere in the Football forum, Frank Lampard still full of praise for Mel, his character and human side.
Scorned managers will probably tell a different tale but that’s natural when you’ve been given the sack.
I’ve met him several times and spoke with him even more, take my opinion as you want it I guess.
Tend to avoid these type of conversations now as it’s just a pile on which I find a tad unfair despite the situation we find ourselves in.