BucksRam

At my age I can probably only manage one......oh, you mean the car. 

At my age I can probably only manage one......oh, you mean the car. 

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COME OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON YOU MIGHTY ducking RAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSS
Wifey, fresh underwear please

Had a similar response to my email to which I have responded as follows, with Margaret Beckett again CC'd:
Dear Mr Parry,
You infer that bar Derby County, every club in the country adheres to straight line amortisation policies – this is simply not true and it’s staggering that you would suggest as much. In 2015/16 Aston Villa were relegated from the Premier League, which allows a P & S loss of £105 million over three years, which then tapers down to £39 million over three years in the EFL Championship. It was therefore in Villa’s interests to put as many costs into their 2015/16 accounts to be absorbed by their Premier League P & S limit. Villa achieved this by charging an extra £79.6 million as a cost in the expense for impairment of the stadium and players (labelled ‘intangible assets’ in their accounts). No investigation was deemed necessary and no sanctions applied. There are too many other instances to list so I simply offer this particular one to illustrate that where the juggling of player values is concerned, there is one rule for Derby and another for everyone else.

If, as you claim, this amendment has been introduced ‘so there is no room for doubt’, does this not clearly infer there was doubt at the time the policy was in use? And given this has now been highlighted as a rather grey area, do you still maintain the sanctions applied are fair and fitting? Might I also ask what the EFL stance is on club’s selling their debts? Likewise, the pricing of players moving between clubs under the same ownership? The fact is that the EFL has spent over 2 years and no small amount of member club funds bringing Derby to task when a simple amendment, akin to that applied this week, could have been made as early as 2018 along with a request that Derby adopt a straight-line amortisation policy from thereon out.
It is also worth pointing out that the EFL, who claim to have ‘several accounts monitoring practices in place’ was made aware of the fact Derby County were using the ERV amortisation policy in 2018, yet chose not to bring this up with the club itself until 2020 by which time the relevant P & S period had closed. Had you not delayed the process until the 3-year period had elapsed, Derby would have been in a position to address the P & S threshold breaches through player sales or other means. Waiting until 2020, when the EFL was itself under threat of litigation from Middlesbrough FC, meant that Derby were not afforded any opportunity to bring either their accounting practices or their FFP overspend into line. With these facts in mind, I ask you again, do you still maintain the sanctions applied to Derby are fair and fitting?

Frankly, if the EFL is to retain even a shred of credibility, the sanctions applied to Derby County need to be reviewed immediately as the punishments far outweigh the ‘crime’. Failure to do so would result in the not unfair assumption that the current EFL board has brought the League into disrepute and that as such, those in question ought to be considering whether or not their positions remain tenable.
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The way I see it, this is absolutely NOT the time to be easing up on these clowns. Their actions this week yet again compromise the club's chances of survival in the Championship and as long as they continue to act in this fashion, we must keep boots firmly on their throats.
We fight to the end!
 
 

By the way, can we please not boo Marriott? A) He will score if we do and B) He gave us one of our greatest moments in our recent history with that goal against Leeds. 
It may not have worked for him here, but for that goal I'll always be grateful to him. 

Wilko and out 

For 7 Eleven's sake, please stop. 

Agree.  I suspect there's many a bloke who owes a huge amount to the woman at his side, even if many wouldn't admit it.  It's maybe a cliché but to mis-quote Elinor Roosevelt, behind every strong man is an even stronger woman.  It's true for me anyway!

A good recap of his career and a reminder of just how good he was so young, he came from a caring family but was obviously a boy of the streets, maybe if he hadn’t of had football in his life it could have worked out very differently with his admissions of alcohol and his temper, he obviously had the right people around him in David Moyes and later on Alex Ferguson but it is very apparent that he owes everything that he has to Coleen, she has been a massive rock for him through everything and stuck by his side, she understood him from when they were kids and has pulled him back into line many times.

Full time - Reading 1-3 Derby.
5 wins out of 6 in the PL Cup. Should play at home in the next round, will find out the oppo soon.

The Hunt
I enjoyed it. Dark and highly satirical schlock horror.

Boss Level on Prime. Don’t read the blurb, just watch it. It’s a kind of morph of Live.Die.Repeat and Groundhog Day, but is thoroughly entertaining in my opinion. 
 
Kinkladze/10

HA!  Just a twinkle in his father's eye.  Crawley / Chorley - similar. Not. Clearly I need to finish work, get a beer and relax. 

I get that.  There is always that little niggle that asks wtf Gibson should get a penny from this, if indeed he has. However, I'm trying to ignore that and focus on the fact we finally (hopefully) get a wriggle on. 

I get that.  There is always that little niggle that asks wtf Gibson should get a penny from this, if indeed he has. However, I'm trying to ignore that and focus on the fact we finally (hopefully) get a wriggle on. 

We’ve probably fallen foul of the’No accord on a Friday’ rule and been docked further points.

Gobson just been seen bombing about smoggsville in his new Accord

"Accord on a resolution" made it sound to me like they might not have all the details thrashed out, but they have enough sorted out to know that the club and/or its new owner won't be liable. 
And frankly, that's all I care about. If Mel's having to pay Gibson £100million and hand-wash his car every week, so be it. Don't care. Let get the club sold and move on. 
(PS I suspect we'll find out a lot more via inevitable leaks to journalists, sooner or later.)

Maybe the 'accord' is to agree to a bare-knuckle fight, in a cage, at half-time.

Accord - An agreement that settles a dispute, generally requiring an obligee to accept a compromise or satisfaction from the obligor with something less than what was originally demanded. Also often used synonymously with treaty.
Suspect that word was chosen deliberately. I assume here Mel was obligor. 
Either way, this seems to be great news and on a Friday too

You have a chance to drink hand-pulled Wainwright or Doom Bar, yet choose lager?? Pfft!
 

I'm in tears with relief. I know it's only one step, but I didn't think we'd get there.