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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I ducking hate supporting this club. I really do ?

Only a matter of time this. They've got their tails up and the player they are scared of has been taken off.

Yet another boring half of football. Ebosele was bright but as soon as they noticed he's literally our only avenue of attack we had nothing.

Neither Lawrence nor Morrison are playing on the left, so we just have no one there. Both are dropping back to pick up the ball between the defenders with Bird and Shinnie.

It seems Rooney is also asking Bryne to play as an inverted wing back, which means we miss his overlaps - one of the best parts of his game.

I'm not sure this new identity he wants for us is going to pan out. I like that he's trying something new but we could do with keeping it simple with how thin this squad is. 

Yet another boring half of football. Ebosele was bright but as soon as they noticed he's literally our only avenue of attack we had nothing.

Neither Lawrence nor Morrison are playing on the left, so we just have no one there. Both are dropping back to pick up the ball between the defenders with Bird and Shinnie.

It seems Rooney is also asking Bryne to play as an inverted wing back, which means we miss his overlaps - one of the best parts of his game.

I'm not sure this new identity he wants for us is going to pan out. I like that he's trying something new but we could do with keeping it simple with how thin this squad is. 

Yet another boring half of football. Ebosele was bright but as soon as they noticed he's literally our only avenue of attack we had nothing.

Neither Lawrence nor Morrison are playing on the left, so we just have no one there. Both are dropping back to pick up the ball between the defenders with Bird and Shinnie.

It seems Rooney is also asking Bryne to play as an inverted wing back, which means we miss his overlaps - one of the best parts of his game.

I'm not sure this new identity he wants for us is going to pan out. I like that he's trying something new but we could do with keeping it simple with how thin this squad is. 

The difference this man makes to our team is unreal. If he's half the player he was last season he will carry us to safety. 

The ideal scenario would be having enough points to not need him. To be able to let him come back into the team gradually over the course of the second half of the season through a mixture of appearances from the bench and some starts from centre back would be the dream. 

I worry that we will be forced to rush him back, but hopefully we don't, even if we are in trouble. There aren't many like him outside of the Prem and if we can get him back to full fitness he will eventually be worth a lot of money to us - either through leading a promotion push or from a big sale.

The difference this man makes to our team is unreal. If he's half the player he was last season he will carry us to safety. 

The ideal scenario would be having enough points to not need him. To be able to let him come back into the team gradually over the course of the second half of the season through a mixture of appearances from the bench and some starts from centre back would be the dream. 

I worry that we will be forced to rush him back, but hopefully we don't, even if we are in trouble. There aren't many like him outside of the Prem and if we can get him back to full fitness he will eventually be worth a lot of money to us - either through leading a promotion push or from a big sale.

The difference this man makes to our team is unreal. If he's half the player he was last season he will carry us to safety. 

The ideal scenario would be having enough points to not need him. To be able to let him come back into the team gradually over the course of the second half of the season through a mixture of appearances from the bench and some starts from centre back would be the dream. 

I worry that we will be forced to rush him back, but hopefully we don't, even if we are in trouble. There aren't many like him outside of the Prem and if we can get him back to full fitness he will eventually be worth a lot of money to us - either through leading a promotion push or from a big sale.

Scored the winning goal for my Derby side in the 2026 Champions League Final against Athletico Madrid. 

Sign. Him. Up.

Kaide Gordon Guthrie Stand.
Two birds, one stone.

With my infinite (ahem) football knowledge I feel duty bound to compensate for some of the schoolboy errors made on this thread by suggesting the following formation.
Knight
Knight   Knight   Knight   Knight
Knight   Knight   Knight
Knight   Knight Knight
Admittedly harsh on Whittaker but you're welcome.

With Rooney on top form that formation looks cracking to me, EFE. Maybe Ibe for Waggy. Forsyth on a good day.

Marshall
Bryne  Davies  Clarke  Forsyth            
            Bielik   Knight
Waghorn  Lawrence  Jozwiak
                 Rooney

I think that's probably our best team on paper. It's a hard one to call, though.

It'll be interesting see how Ibe does, how our promising youth develops, and how things change when we bring in a striker. 

Marshall
Bryne  Davies  Clarke  Forsyth            
            Bielik   Knight
Waghorn  Lawrence  Jozwiak
                 Rooney

I think that's probably our best team on paper. It's a hard one to call, though.

It'll be interesting see how Ibe does, how our promising youth develops, and how things change when we bring in a striker.