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Tom, she has already agreed  to arrange a meeting with the Sports Minister on this.
A good way to encourage Amanda's involvement is to stress the mental health impact of all this on us as fans, she is very supportive. 

Those who find the paedo/sex offender chants acceptable need to have a cold hard look at themselves in the mirror. Your equivalents a few years ago used to think chants about "pa*is" "w*gs" "ni**ers" and general sexual slurs about gays and women acceptable too. 
A wind-up can be both funny and effective - I remember the BBG crowd winding up the likes of Alan Ball and Gazza to the extent that they both got themselves sent off - they didn't have to accuse them of being paedos to do that. 
Be a bit more creative and a have a bit more decency lads. You're proud of your team, have some pride in yourselves too. 

I’m not an apologist for Mel Morris, and I wish he’d stuck to what he said he wanted to achieve , rather than compromise it by wasting millions on poor value players. So what am I suggesting he did right? Let’s look at the contribution of the academy yesterday, and acknowledge that for all his other failings, he left us something to be proud of. Just a shame he made such a spectacular mess of the rest of it.
 

Sat here in bits again. My dad is really really ill and his bad days seem to coincide with bad news Derby days. He is Derby through and through and I'm not sure he understands or is aware of the off the field stuff now but I know later watching those goals on Quest with him how he will light up as little else makes him do now. That is why we have to save our club. It is not about amortisation, stadium sales, law suits, points deductions, etc. it is about watching those goals with my dementia-ridden dad and seeing his happiness for a few minutes later knowing we're off the bottom. The wonder of dementia is he will have forgotten tomorrow so we can do it all again several times. So duck the EFL, Morris, Gibson and the nobody chancer from Wycombe. We are better people than all of you and how dare you threaten the existence of our Derby family. 

Rooney absolutely brimming with pride in his lads and desperately trying not to smile ?
Gotta say that for all the madness surrounding this club, this has been my favourite season in fookin years. Our kids playing with the same ferocity and passion as the battle hardened old warriors. Things you love to see!  ?

As a fully grown man, i bought a Rooney shirt with all the logos on and framed it. Was hoping to put a few photos in it and get him to sign it. After his playing time and start to his managerial career, i initially thought I'd wasted my money and there wasnt going to be any good memories of him...
How wrong was I?! Bloody love this bloke now. The longer he stays during the tough times, the more he grows on me. He owes DCFC very little (gave him a shot at management i guess) but treats the club as his own. Top man.

You are very brave to share that.
I wish you the very best and hope that you are feeling better now.
I've talked on here before about Ying Yang.
Just keep in mind that when things seem really bad, they will get better again.
It works the other way aswell, of course. It goes in cycles. But the important thing is to remember that it does always get better again.
It will for us too ? and I know it will for you.

Obviously not sure how this will end up, but hopefully with the Government installing an independent regulator of Football, and the English Football League in general, and of course our Club surviving.
I have been more sympathetic than most to the EFL as to how they have behaved throughout this sorry story, as they have been more than less implementing the rules of the member clubs. Let’s, none of us, go back over all that again though. We are where we are, and that has all been debated and regurgitated to death.
Where I am now though is that the EFL has gone too far. When they made their decision on points deductions, embargoes, spending limits etc., that should have been the end of the matter. Middlesborough and Wycombe should have both been told the decision has been made, and no other actions by member clubs were allowed. They may actually have done that, but clearly they are still allowing those two tails to wag the dog, perhaps under some threat of counter claim otherwise against the EFL themselves. Who knows, but whatever it is it is clear that their rules are not fit for purpose. They certainly aren’t fit for Insolvency matters, because the EFL appear to be proposing that their member rules are superior to statute.
The next few days/weeks will be very interesting as to see what action might be taken against the EFL, by Administrators (under the power invested in them to complete their legal duties, rather than as Club representatives), by Creditors, by a preferred bidder, or even by a supporter/supporters group. Hopefully someone will fund an action through the Courts for injunctive relief to put a stop to the impasse. I wonder too whether Quantuma are now considering muddying the water further by making a claim against QPR, dragging them into the mix. After all any footballing claim for compensation does not have to be legally sound it seems to be heard, it just has to be within the scope of the EFL Rules (so no statute of limitations, etc). The EFL, and their interpretation of the rule book, are backing themselves into a corner on this, or being backed into a corner by Gibson in particular, and I think there is some advantage to us now, and football governance in general for the future, that there is little wriggle room for them left to manoeuvre without counter action by someone outside of the member Clubs. There is a significant amount of money at stake here, and I think shortly the EFL will have to blink when it goes to the next step. I think MSD might move first on this, for what worth.
I am resigned to tier 3 football next season, but I remain confident that there is a preferred bidder (hopefully Ashley who is a legal pit bull) who will save us from liquidation, and who will ultimately push us forward  in the right direction in the pyramid. What is important is that as part of the legal process against the EFL it has to be also made clear that any claims Boro and Wycombe want to make against the Club are made through the Courts not via a LAP arbitration. I am almost certain Gibson and Couhig would not try on their claim via a Court of Law, but what have they got to lose by going to a LAP? Vexatious, spineless Bamfords.

Wayne speaks well of Walter Smith in Walter : A Life In Football on the bbciplayer.

Made me smile. I hope its Ashley too, but rather than take a pragmatic viewpoint I hope he comes in wanting to take Curly Sue for a really good short back and sides.

They can cause as much trouble as possible, they already are, but they can’t get themselves on a creditors list.
They haven’t provided goods and services, they haven’t been granted a court order for damages. This is commerce and law. 
The only thing they are is a commercial risk for a would be buyer. 

It’s interesting to note ..have we seen a notice of legal action  served on Derby County by either club ? Has any legal action been started ? It’s a Damp squib, paper tigers, vexatious nonsense. I am staggered (but not surprised) that the EFL has been so dilatory, incompetent and weak. They should, by any reasonable judgment, have told Boro and Wycombe to stop challenging their authority and damaging the reputation of the competition. ( Is there a possible points deduction for doing this ? ) 

Looks like someone left their landing light on.

That's a good question, and the answer is a hard one.

Looks like someone left their landing light on.

That's a good question, and the answer is a hard one.

That's a good question, and the answer is a hard one.

That's a good question, and the answer is a hard one.

Looks like someone left their landing light on.

No, an actual fighter jet, stuck about 20 feet above the ground on a pole. It was a De Havilland Vampire, my mistake, the Vickers vampire was a WW1 fighter.
They had the engine out on the ground next to it.
That was probably the best part of 25 years ago.

I think you've put this in the wrong thread @Rev.....
A Penis, a Penis
The greatest inflatable that I possess. 

Me is well blessed! I was going to have to watch on Sky, then my wife said she’d arranged a day out so I’d have to watch a re-run. But then I got some DCFC socks, a hand-painted BBG picture and tickets to the match, with chauffeur so I can have a few!
Indeed, ‘tis my birthday!!!

"Disappointed"
 

 

Everyone is really growing into the challenge.
Well done Wayne, his staff, all the players from the rookies through to the 600+ game old stagers and especially you maniacs who roar the side on, forcing them to believe, to have no doubts.
Oh, and phuk the EFL.