IronRam 140.6

28 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

Which seasons did we run at breakeven? ?

"Break even" wrong choice of word - "relatively sustainably" then. Your boy Mr Clough resided over that period of rebalancing I think. 

The only way I see to make quick money in football is cash in on the leap from Champ to Prem. 

Run at break even (we did this once upon a time) and hope for a manager to put a team together that can do it (we did this once upon a time - 2014) At the same time on  a shoestring (our  academy is threatening to do this already), then cash in on the guarenteed Prem Riches before you have to start financing gold plated Bentelys. 

Walk off with a double your money investment.  

1 hour ago, StrawHillRam said:

And also by Michael Bublé

And also Muse. ?

Or swap our great big Rams flag for another, just as big ,with the P&S  accpunts returns of one of the many other teams that cheated their way out, that the EFL forgot to hound. 

A new cheating teams balance sheet every week. 

Sure someone on here has the maths work all done already 

1 minute ago, David said:

 

That's what happens when you live in the dark ages and  be so swashbuckling to try and use a phone to speak to an actual human. Change is not good. 

Better fire up the batmobile then hadn't I?

Thank you Mr Dave. 

We're we supposed to pick up ST cards in order to get in today? 

Got today's games in my reservations list but can't access a mobile ticket of any type to get in. Dont tell me I'm not going now? 

Ticket office closed aswell ?

12 hours ago, David said:

Mr Poppadom is the type that pulls his tape measure out when Eastenders is on to check the length of skirts on screen.

Too short, a strongly worded letter goes into the BBC.

Will write to his local MP if his bin collection is delayed by a day, the MP now has him blocked on all social media.

Watched 5 episodes of The Bill and thinks he now has a law degree.

Has a neighbourhood watch sticker in his window and won't return any footballs that land on his property.

Turns his underpants inside out to cut back on his washing.

Goes to bed with a teddy like Mr Bean and his entire wardrobe contents is beige.

Probably couldn't even tell you who the current Bristol Manager is but has read the EFL regulations 6 times already this week.

His biggest life achievement was completing a Sudoko in under 5 minutes but still yet to have kissed anyone since his mum as a kid who he still calls mummy.

Has masterful debates with himself in front of a mirror.

On 20/07/2021 at 16:44, Red_Dawn said:

We'll be lower half of the table, potentially in for a relegation fight. 

But lets be honest, you're in the 5hyte far more than we are. 

That bluster is all well and good but lets see where you are after 10 games. I still can'y get relegation odds on you from any betting company. 

I like this post/prediction. Its literally on a knife edge.....

11 minutes ago, ColonelBlimp said:

18769

Can't believe its that low. I've seen what looks like similar fan concentration around the North stand that has been given as 23k +

The classic diversity workshop tag line "White stale and pale" when referring to middle management.....

At my company that means me.

......who was a teen in the early 90's, where we spent the decade "loved up" championing and upholding Grunge, Britpop, Acid House & Ibiza dance movements. Also didn't dress like  blockbusters contestants like every young un seems to nowadays! 

Sorry who is stale???

That sums up my frustration with Roos he can't even get sent off with any venom. Billy Sharp  should have broken ribs now. Instead Roos limply wafted out a timid leg and got sent off. 

He is so feeble for such a big bloke. 

I'd clear the debt and apply a 100 year caveat that DCFC shoukd pay me a very small percentage of INCOME anaually for the entirety of that period. Say 2% which I think is about 600k currently.  If we are as big as we say we are it's a pittance. I just want to see football, not balance sheets, the slimey businessmen can deal with that, without the football being adversely affected.  Anything over the initial loan can go into locL grass roots.

23 hours ago, DCFC27 said:

Genuinely the more I think about what Mel has done, the more it makes my blood boil. 
Mel is reportedly worth £515 million! Source Sunday times. Lets assume they’re wrong and he’s “only” worth £200million. The man has more than enough to run the club in (his word) “Perpetually”. 
This really is a man who has the means to pay but won’t. He’s openly admitted gambling on promotion yesterday! 
 

At the very least he should be made to pay off the clubs debt, and leave the club how he found it. My understanding is the club under GSE only had the mortgage outstanding on the ground and it wasn’t a significant number. 
 

I don’t think we should protest at the games as I don’t feel it’s fair on the team. Could we organise a march through Derby city centre to the ground on a non Matchday, try and get some national press to take notice and apply some pressure. At worst we might disgrace him to the nation…

 

What someone is worth and what they can access are two very different things. You may have  200k house and a 20k car but you don't have 220k until you sell it and clear any credit. Jeff Bezos, is worth 120bn,  but only when he sells absolutely  everything to do with Amazon. Which would make upwards of probably  100,000 people redundant! And that's assuming everything would sell. 

I'll bet the 200million spent is the majority of what he can  access.

50 minutes ago, CWC1983 said:

Sounds like the company that owns the ground is also going into Admin. 

Really?!! That's grim if so. Wowsers. 

Administration clears debts that investors don't want to take on. Mel loses loads on DCFC, part of the deal is to pay off Dell out of his own pocket. Takeover happens for a quid. New investors can invest in the team not historical debt. In a years time the ground gets sold back to the club for 70million and Mel gets his sale price. 

A very shyster way of doing it. But I would probably do the same if that's what I was left with.

8 hours ago, duncanjwitham said:

We're really not talking about "loopholes" are we though? Certainly not in the sense of finding some gap in the law that the authorities didn't intend to be there.  The EFL rules say we have to comply with FRS102. Our accountants (and seemingly every other accountant that's looked at it properly) think we do comply.  We just happen to do things a little bit differently because (shocker, I know! ?) companies choose to organise their accounts in a way that suits the way they want to do business.  You can't have flexibility in the rules and then have a toddler-tantrum when not everyone produces exactly the same thing.  And let's be clear - that flexibility is there by design, because those rules cover a multitude of different business-types that do different things in different ways, so you'll never get a single uniform set of rules from something like FRS102.  So we're again back at the same thing I keep saying - if the EFL want accounts produced in a very strict and controlled way, they need to write the rules for it and publish them.  You can't have the situation where the EFL are enforcing rules that aren't written down.

I see it like the downforce argument from F1 a decade or so ago. Downforce made the cars go quicker round bends, so teams started getting creative with ways to apply more. 

Eventually other teams kicked off with those pioneers that got creative to get that edge. The powers that be then had to put it down in a structured method that all had to follow. 

The best most famous ones mentioned by the OP don't have reference to any particular team crammed into the lyrics in order to personalise it. 

I personally find that very cheesy. Just pick an anthem and go with it.

Me? There's plenty of chanty 30 sec sections in Supersonic by Oasis as there is with Come As you Are by Nirvana. lyrically it is very love hate! Sound familiar.....

 Bit tenuous I know but I was reminded by a pal recently of a season in the MRA when I scored two bona fide rocket headers from outside the box.

Being as we are on the subject of goals, I can't ever remember seeing in the professional game, a header being scored from outside the box. Especially with the GK still in his goal anyway. Anyone recall any? 

14 hours ago, Maxpowerrules81 said:

Lee Mills v Bolton in 95 I think. One of them matches you could get into with your bus pass from school! 

An absolute screamer too, bet there can't be many better debut goals than that one. 

2 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Wales I think

Now you say that....

Kevin Ratcliffe?

2 hours ago, duncanjwitham said:

Honestly wouldn't surprise me if we're fine with straight-line amortization anyway, but we're insisting on submitting basically what we submitted before because it's a matter of principle now.

Is the jungle drums rumour I have heard via the wider football community. 

It's sounds like it's a similar argument as to the covid one as to when we should or shouldn't have locked down etc etc etc. 

6 hours ago, BodminRam said:

Oh go on then Uttoxram, here goes.. Now living in Cornwall, i grew up in Ripley, where i spent my schooldays at Benjo`s in the 70s avoiding the Dirty and tree fans at lunchtime however when caught i would always reply when asked who i support  Derby, usually this led to a kicking as they were older, but then out off the mist i would hear the chant ossie enders and i was saved ( good days ) wouldnt happen today, so when i moved to Cornwall i joined the Andrew for 27 years which meant going to matches was hard, now finished in the navy, me and one of my converted sons will support the mighty rams for ever through good and bad times ( normally bad ) for ever

 

Best supporters in the world 

How have you survived 27 yrs in the Navy and lived.

You might wear silly ice cream seller uniforms, but out of all the foe I faced during my time in the Marines, the most daunting was a mess deck full of thirsty Matelots who had "manipulated" the three can rule!

You lads were phenomenal drinkers..

Tup three jack. 

7 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

They already said after august 16th even if some has cov19 they will no longer need to self isolate at all.

July the 1st 1916 over 100,000 men climbed from the safety of muddy trenches at the behest of a whistle blast administered by  "those in charge".

19,240 didn't see another sunrise. 

The cavalier attitude doesn't always pay dividends....

13 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:

"You're going home in a linearly depreciated ambulance ".....?

"Straight line method..."

"What a Bamford, what a Bamford!"