EulogyForEvolution

Translation from the government side:
"The Minister for Sport has so far done duck all but hopefully will get around to it at some point soon."

Just to echo what some others have said, urgent questions aren't always granted. Far from it. Credit to the Speaker for selecting it. 

Lindsay Hoyle is a Bolton fan, so I'm sure he understands the seriousness of the situation, especially given what has happened to his club in the last decade.

Here is the order paper for Urgent Questions today:

1. UQ - The role of the military in dealing with migrants crossing the channel. (Heappey/Healey) 

2. UQ - Fraud in the Coronavirus grant schemes. (TBC/McFadden)

3. UQ - Matters of EFL (English Football League) governance surrounding the administration of Derby County FC. (TBC/TBC)


UQs starting at 12:30. Here is a link to the stream from the Commons:

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/bedf5521-3dfe-471b-9e3c-ba77488214db

It's still TBC at the moment but I would be very disappointed if Nigel Huddlestone isn't there to answer it. If he is there, I am looking to here a strong commitment from him to get involved immediately.

I work with MPs and can say from personal experience that Margaret is fantastic. She will be doing everything she can on this.

The only problem comes in that she doesn't belong to the party of Government. The Minister for Sport should already be on this. He shouldn't need nudging. One of the biggest football clubs in the country is about to disappear because of a technicality being harshly applied by one of the sport's governing bodies. Nigel Huddlestone shouldn't be doing anything else today.

As it happens I've just landed! Beers are on me. Thanks both ?

2 minutes ago, Mick Harford said:

I'm in Romania and it's on, EDIT: I think I can see @Bald Eagle's Barmy Armyin the corner 

3 minutes ago, Bald Eagle's Barmy Army said:

Just got to Romania and it's on in the first pub I've walked into 

Just now, Bald Eagle's Barmy Army said:

Is this not being played on RamsTV

It looks like they might have tightened the international restrictions for viewing. I've tried to watch it from the US, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan and South Africa. I'm incredibly jet lagged right now and still no closer to watching it.

7 minutes ago, Rammy03 said:

maybe something going around

Yeah, Newcastle job interviews. Him and Stevie Mac as number one and two. What a pairing ?

I think if he's going to develop we need to find a position for him and stick to it for a while. 

It's good having a utility player but he has a lot of potential and it would be a shame to waste it. He's already played this season as a full back, a wing back, a winger and a striker. 

I think his pace would be a bit wasted in the CDM role but I get your thinking. 

Just got his first call up for England. 

Good on him. He's part of a centre back pairing at AC Milan that haven't conceded a goal in 350 minutes of league football. Very well deserved and I wish I could live in some alternate universe where we got to keep him!

 

4 hours ago, NottsRam77 said:

It was a red and it was a penalty

we worked manfully, should have could have got something from it but ultimately two stupid decisions have cost us 

I wasn't arguing about the penalty.

The red card is arguably a little harsh. Sharp had released the ball before Roos fouled him and Jags was covering. I can see why it was given, but I could also easily have seen advantage played and them being given a chance to shoot. 

Honestly, when will we get a break? 

Poor Curtis. He was a ducking rock. I feel like he put his hand up to tell the ref he was being pulled and the ball hit it...because why wouldn't it? It's Derby County. 

Daft from Roos but a harsh red card. 

We go again. Plenty of spirit in this side. I'm with them all the way. 

7 minutes ago, TexasRam said:

It screams to me we don’t have the cash to pay them, either through income or from the owner. It’s really frightening now and the silence makes it so much worse. 

It screams to me that Morris has had his fun and has took his ball home when it got dicey...due to the poor decisions he has made, I might add. 

He threw money at it for years without any sort of concrete plan, hoping against all hope that we would get promoted. That never ends well. 

All he wants to do now is sell and save as much money as he can in the meantime. Hilariously, if he invested a bit more to keep us ticking over and in a more healthy position, he would probably find it easier to secure a sale and save money in the long run.

An idiot and his money are easily parted. 

4 hours ago, David said:

5k a week wages and I'll sign. I'm not greedy.

I feel like you're underselling yourself there. You'll probably play for them as much as Ben Davies has and I'm sure he's on much more. 

I swear there's a carbon monoxide leak in that dressing room whenever we're 1-0 up. 

We were the much better side, but we need to be able to score more than once a game or we're going nowhere. 

I was pretty stunned Jozwiak came off. Probably our brightest player in the second half. Ravel and Sibbo looked knackered and Kam was still fresh. 

We lack the killer instinct but some of the play was excellent. 

Liverpool owe us after stealing Kaide Gordon for duck all. I hope they feel guilty enough to throw us a couple of mil for David ?

Just dropping in to give full credit to the team and the management for a great win last night. I remain a little sceptical of the tactical direction of the team, just based on how thin the squad is, but it was excellent to see it all come together yesterday. If can put together a consistent run I would be delighted to eat my words - more performances like that would make me a happy man.

I thought Bird & Jozwiak improved massively - Joz really deserved that goal - and Jags & Baldock made a huge difference in their debuts. My personal MOTM was Curtis; his positioning is next level. Great all round, long may it continue. 

2 hours ago, Barney1991 said:

                                          Roos

                           davies     stearman

       Bird                                                      Shinnie

           Byrne        Morrison                                       

Ebosele                                  Lawrence

 

                                                                                  Forsyth

 

                                           Stretion

From the last game it will be somwething like this but with different personnel maybe

That is spot on ? Maybe Lawrence dropping slightly deeper. Did you build that through their heat maps from the last game?

I give credit to Rooney & Co. for staying to see the job through, but I really wish they would just stick to a simple formation with wing play and overlapping full backs. The players we have available are just not good enough to be trading positions all game. 

It might have worked for Rooney in his career, but he had Paul Scholes and Ronaldo around him to make it work. It doesn't work with a team average second tier players.

The answer for me is...I wish I could stop caring but I can't.

It's a running joke between me and my girlfriend that I'm like Michael from Arrested Development when he proclaims "I'm done with this family" or "We're going to Pheonix" with how often I proclaim I'm done with this club (emotions tend to run high after a loss like the one at the weekend).

I was having a conversation with my football WhatsApp group the other day - there is a big range of fans on there from Arsenal to AFC Wimbledon - and all of them agreed that there are few worse clubs to support. It's embarrassing being a Derby fan at the moment.

A few things recently have almost tipped me over the edge. The poaching of our academy products for next to nothing before they even play for us being one of them. This season should probably be the breakthrough seasons of Delap and Gordon in our team, but we never really got to see either of them even play, and now we're begging for one of them back on loan. The greedy bar stewards seem to be demanding a loan fee of more than double what they paid us for him. It begs the question, what is the point in trying to do it the right way? You could argue that the academy is the only thing Mel Morris has done right amongst all the deception and the shady practices, and even then the top talent gets plucked out before they even pull on a shirt for the first team.

Then we have the well documented troubles with the club. I was so proud of the team towards the end of the Clough era and into Mac 1. Since then we've become a laughing stock. I'm as guilty as anyone for enjoying the ride at some points, but it doesn't change the fact that Mel Morris has run the club into the ground. My contempt for him and the various embarrassing sagas could have finished me off, but they didn't. 

I feel like I would be happier if I could turn it off, but there is just no chance of that happening. It's like a shitty relationship you know in your heart is not good for you but you just can't leave it. No matter how many times I say I'm done, by the time the next game comes around it's all forgotten and I'm ready to get my heart broken again ?

For someone who has done very well in business, Mel Morris seems to have very little grasp of what you should get back from a bad investment. 

From a business point of view, he has ran this club into the ground. He has spent something ridiculous like £40 million plus on players who went on to leave for nothing since he has been in charge. He has done poor business when selling our players on (Will Hughes as an example). He sacked Richard Keogh for being a passenger in a car that crashed in a drink driving incident, which would have been fine if not for the fact that the players who were actually driving didn't face consequences. He has one of the worst records I have ever seen in football for hiring and firing managers. We have been a circus since he walked through the door.

He 'had the EFL on strings' and went to war with our governing body. A war which we were only ever going to lose with the 'creative accounting' he was trying to slip through. He has then been caught trying to flog us on to anyone who comes forward, regardless of how dodgy they appear to be, to the point where he was stitched up by a journalist pretending to represent ducking criminals wanting to use the club to launder money. 

Now he refuses to agree to fund the club if he cannot secure a sale, leaving us in an embargo with a management team of novices that he can't afford to sack and club morale at rock bottom. Everyone knows we can't compete this year. Everyone knows whose fault it is.

But yeah...hold out for the big bucks Mel ? I'm sure someone will come and bail you out. 

Just do the honourable thing and let the club go to someone decent who makes an offer. It's the least you can do at this point. You're not exactly going to run out of money and you will live the rest of your life in a level of opulent luxury most of us can only dream of, and that would still be the case if you let the club go for 20p and a Freddo.

6 hours ago, OUTSIDER said:

It's back against the wall at the moment and any sacrifices have to be made for long term of the club, Knight, Lawrence, marshal, joz and sibley. 

We going no where except down with this team so at least shake up and look at free market 

Jagielka Carroll Delap and good shout with robson-kanu 

Rooney would be better gone and SMC should get and earn his money this time he owes us big time 

I'm assuming SMC is Steve McClaren? He owes us big time? 

The same Steve McClaren who came back to us and got sacked less than a year later for no reason other than to make way for Gary Rowett?

He do you figure he owes us anything?

We've faced a covid-depleted Huddersfield and Peterborough (who for my money are nailed on bottom 3) and managed to come away with 1 point despite going 1-0 up in both games. 

The draw with Salford was nice in mid week, but it shows how far we've fallen getting excited by that. 

Rarely has an owner ducked a previously well run club up to this extent. I wish he had never laid eyes on us. The only solace I take is that at least we didn't do one of those behind the scenes documentaries.

Roos  5

Byrne   2

Forsyth   4

Stearman    6

Davies    6

Bird   6

Shinnie   5

Morrison    6

Ebosele    6

Lawrence    5

Kazim      3

Stretton   6

Sibley     7

Jozwiak   1

Just now, StrawHillRam said:

I think it might be quite short. Gone by Christmas

Agreed. I have never felt less optimistic ? We are utterly, utterly ducked.

duck this. Just duck it. What a goal to concede.

I ducking hate supporting this club. I really do ?