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Allsop mucked up and it cost us 2 points just like the Stoke keeper who mucked up and gained us two points 

I expect Roos back in on Saturday whilst I expect Marshall to have left the club by January 30th 

5 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

I watched SK Rapid Vienna Vs Lask around 4 years ago, Went for a hot dog at the ground and was told I had to purchse tickets from the ticket machine as cash was a no no, An Austrian next to me paid with the tickets he had and I paid him cash back.

It's a crafty way to make extra loot, If you're a little under or over the toatal amount then you have to purchse more tickets, With no change given, Having said that I gave the fella €10 for 2 hot dogs that were €7.50cents

I hope you asked for a receipt 

3 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

 

Big financial backer could easily be translated in JP Morgan 

Any positive result away from home is a good result - yes I would take a draw but a 3-0 win sounds much better 

We have to play the ball in between the central defenders and the full backs to be attacking in open play which needs the midfielder to actually pass it and hope the winger/ full back get to it - Morrison was poor at that last night but he can do it and even if it’s 50/50 you should still release it and our players will should still be moving for it and Bird can be just as guilty at not passing it through, Watson  appears to be the one who plays the more through balls but he hasn’t had as many minutes in big boy football.

From what I remember Marshall let an horrendous goal in against forest and then feigned injury in my opinion to get himself substituted and I am fairly sure that’s the way Rooney saw it as well - he will only play if the other two are unavailable but I expect him to be gone by the end of January 

3 hours ago, Anag Ram said:

Just mates from his GCSE maths retake class.

I am old enough to know that Isn't actually a real qualification is it? 

3 hours ago, simmoram1995 said:

Just sat in the Yard at Stephen Pearce just walked in with a group of 10 people showing them round , possible buyers at the match ? 

Selling the furniture probably 

Allsop costs a fraction of the price of Marshall who is one that should be leaving in January - Allsop is experienced cover but Roos is better 

Allsop - Roos was unlucky to lose his place and I assume he will be back Saturday 

Byrne - played very well

jagielka - excellent 

Davies - excellent 

Buchanan - excellent 

shinnie - ok

Bird - decent 

Morrison - what a frustrating player - gets into some great positions to play people in and then doesn’t pass it so many times tonight

jozwiak - he has great control but he needs to input a lot more with the ball 

Knight - him and Lawrence made and scored our two goals tonight 

Lawrence- I am his biggest critic but that position suits him a lot more as he will get a couple of chances a game to use his ability there 

disappointed not to get the 3 points tonight especially as we scored two good goals and at least one of theirs was totally avoidable 

12 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

What a refreshingly honest interview from a player.

Wasn’t it just - the government should get him talking to others professional players about getting vaccinated 

First time I have ever heard we played like Barcelona from someone totally unbiased.

3 hours ago, basilrobbie said:

The more we hear from this administrator, the more I worry. Can they not just get on and do their job discreetly? The people who did the job at Wigan were exactly the same.

I hope for your sake as fans that the points situation gets sorted quickly. These interminable delays and appeals and counter-appeals do the club no favours.

 

Mel Morris did his job discreetly! 
 

we are only appealing the administration points deduction which should be done soon enough 

meanwhile we haven’t actually been charged with anything else so we can’t have a hearing and we can’t have an appeal - I accept that the EFL don’t fancy doing the legal arguments over amortisation in a court and want a out of tribunal settlement but there seems to be a clear disagreement over that.

1 hour ago, Carl Sagan said:

If Newcastle and big Saudi money and the Premier League lure come together and make an approach for Wayne, of  course he'll go and he'd be mad not to. Huge opportunity for anyone who believes in their own ability.

He could say it's good for Derby and he's helping us, given then much-needed compensation we would receive. 

As has been said, it would be a tribute to how well he's done in near impossible circumstances this season. It would also be a hammer blow to us. At the start of the campaign I did not want him in the job, but he's surprised me and played the hand he's been dealt incredibly well. But he will also know there's a limit to how long you can get away with it when you have such poor cards.

He can’t fail here though - I think Newcastle will go for Gerrard when they sack Bruce amicably ?

Pure journalistic speculation 

would be a nuts decision by Newcastle and relegation as he would be sacked by January 

he is in the perfect place for him currently 

1 hour ago, VulcanRam said:

35 goals and 37 assists in 100 starts and 120 overall appearances. That's some return.  

He’s been good everywhere he’s been - we could do with his shooting currently 

5 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

Exactly . If I was a judge and Efl tried to claim COVID wasn’t a force majeure I would dismiss the point in two minutes flat and award all costs to Derby.

Job opportunity - I hope you get the role 

The club also had to refund season tickets and match tickets as well as club memberships on one and a third seasons to those who wanted it - personally they paid me back the full amount of the unfinished season whilst last season I paid in full which results in this season my ticket was already paid for - net result the club is missing one full season and 18% of income from the original covid hit season - if that was just averaged against 8,000 fans it’s a total mess of missing money - yet we had 18,000 to 20,000 season ticket holders originally 

1 hour ago, Reggie Greenwood said:

I’ve not seen anything from Brewster for Sheff Utd or England U21 that would improve us. Just looks disinterested every time I’ve seen him play. Think I’d rather stick with Stretton than Brewster 

I don’t mind Stretton at all, the likes of Brewster has scored goals in the championship and has pace and if England’s leading scorer can get him performing here it would help us enormously 

2 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

The headline for Nixon’s latest article is: “The English Football League are demanding that Derby County’s administrators prove they have enough funds to last the entirety of the campaign.”

Not clear if this is the EFL upping the anti after our appeal. Or whether it’s the point that even if we do a deal on points, we can’t buy players unless we can show we are financially stable.  Hope it’s the latter. 

Are the EFL interested in the other EFL clubs and their ability to pay their bills until august as well?

We have extremely limited options up front so they are looking at scraps and in all reality we need one of the premiership clubs to actually turn round and say we can basically have one of their underused centre forwards for next to nothing in January just like the kind of deals Reading FC had of Chelsea in the summer - there are players out there at those clubs so Rooney and his connections could prove to be extremely important.

Actually there are some sat doing nothing in the championship - the lad £20 million pound Brewster at Sheffield United would be more than useful for us in January and if we got him scoring goals and it would ultimately be good for Sheffield United as well 

8 minutes ago, rammieib said:

Oh a Nixon tweet which means nothing but pretends to mean something. Bloke is a clown and so many fall for it.

He’s got you talking about him though ?

I say again ask for ten examples from the EFL of how an appeal can be successful?

I suspect they won’t allow aliens abducting a teams players and owner to count because you should plan for it happening eventually 

1 hour ago, Ramifications said:

Sibley struggled against the big central defender. A bit of a tall order really for him. Lawrence should have been the centre forward, maybe he lacks the aerial ability but he has the right instinct. Such a shame we didn't capitalise on the first half possession. We looked a cut above. Great day out though, especially for £5 entrance. I actually expected a bigger crowd. 

Sibley has generally been at his biggest threat when chris Martin was laying the ball of to him - he just needs a similar forward to make some space for him.

Just now, Cook1988 said:

If only we had a 20 goal a season scorer, we'd be top ??

A couple of ten goals a season would help 

Well a good point away from home is a good point 

if we had a decent centre forward then who knows what we could be doing 

we have actually been very unlucky away from home with hitting the woodwork this season 

Officials do seem to have been conspicuously bad when it comes to awarding obvious decisions to us such as penalties but that isn’t going to change is it and it makes us so much better to be still getting results.