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If we are still contracted to pay Rooney £90k p.w. for 2 years, then Sam Rush really has got a lot to answer for. Jeez.

If we are still contracted to pay Rooney £90k p.w. for 2 years, then Sam Rush really has got a lot to answer for. Jeez.

To be fair, her recommendation was that she wanted someone considered under Rooney rules.  After an extensive search process Mel Morris opted for Wayne rather than Colleen, but I understand for a short while Mickey was his first choice.

To be fair, her recommendation was that she wanted someone considered under Rooney rules.  After an extensive search process Mel Morris opted for Wayne rather than Colleen, but I understand for a short while Mickey was his first choice.

To be fair, her recommendation was that she wanted someone considered under Rooney rules.  After an extensive search process Mel Morris opted for Wayne rather than Colleen, but I understand for a short while Mickey was his first choice.

To be fair, her recommendation was that she wanted someone considered under Rooney rules.  After an extensive search process Mel Morris opted for Wayne rather than Colleen, but I understand for a short while Mickey was his first choice.

If we are still contracted to pay Rooney £90k p.w. for 2 years, then Sam Rush really has got a lot to answer for. Jeez.

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If we are still contracted to pay Rooney £90k p.w. for 2 years, then Sam Rush really has got a lot to answer for. Jeez.

Whooppeeeeee

How about the 20,000 season ticket holders all turn up at the same time, at the EFL hq, with a fiver each, to pay the fine?

How about 40,000 all throw in £25 or what ever they could afford, that would raise £1m or possibly more. Pay the fine and give us a little bit for the transfer market cash.

I like the idea in principle, but the maths aren’t working for me. If 40,000 chipped in £2.50 that would probably work, although not probably over the next few months as there are a lot of birthdays in my family during July and August.

I'm blaming Jamie Paterson still

I really don’t see why the EFL are a disgrace, we “bent” the rules, I think we would all agree we broke a number of rules. Therefore we should take whatever punishment they want to dish out. I think only one party is a disgrace and it’s Derby County Football Club. 

Marriott, Josefzoon, Anya, Malone, Butterfield, Johnson, Blackman, etc.
As my mum always says, it’s better to give than receive.

Taking the pizza innit.

It appears that the EFL has retrospectively changed their rules on depreciation (because they had’t realised there were different ways to work it out) and have therefore found us in breach of the new rules (that didn’t apply when we originally submitted the accounts and when they signed them off). In any other walk of life, they get laughed out of court but in the football world they’re allowed to make things up as they go along….

It seems strange to me that the EFL can instruct a club to re-submit accounts which were audited. This suggests that the auditors didn't spot that the accounts didn't comply with accounting regulations. could we sue the auditors for negligence?

Maybe its just me but I can't sit here and cry about the EFL after the way we've been operating for the past few years. 
Rolled the dice, failed multiple promotion attempts and have tried loophole after loophole to try and straighten out since. How many non-parachute payment clubs were giving Darren Bent (and the rest) tens of thousands a week in this division? Sold their stadium to themselves? Signed a player through a sponsorship deal? Registered player amortisation different to the required standard? 
I just can't sit here and say we've tried our best to avoid this mess, its been coming. 
If that view makes me less of a Derby fan than the super supporters are, so be it. I'll support the club where ever it ends up but I'm not going to lie about its shady activity post 2014. 
 

that's because you haven't been on here long enough.....

Are you for real.Never read such rubbish.

This saga now just comes across as a vindictive face-saving exercise by the EFL and payback for all Mel's sniping at them over the years. We've made it easy for them by streching and bending the rules - giving them a convenient stick to beat us with.
You're not telling me that we accidentally used an accounting practice that no other club uses and then failed to highlight it properly in our submitted paperwork.
Mel & everyone else at DCFC thought they were cleverer than the EFL, which probably is the case but if you continually tread on the beast's tail, you're gonna get bitten at some point.

Noticed some people having a go .
We are Derby fans and we should stick together and back the Club 
Its easy to be derogatory about the owners in this situation but the real enemy is the EFL 
They are an absolute joke of an institution and don’t get me started on Steve Gibson and Wycombe Wanderers