TF Ram

So now any chance of liquidation looks extremely slim, you’re moving on to WW3 and let me guess, Derby getting nuked by Putin to scupper our plans of starting the new season? Gotcha.

I can't believe he's buying the club only to close it on Tuesday.  ?
 
 
/s

Check who’s at the door mate 

Graham Richards is/was a COMMENTATOR
Craig Ramage, and Eric Steele were/are employed as SUMMARISER
There is a difference. The Commentator only needs to be able to describe in simplistic terms what is going on during the event he or she is commentating on, The Summariser should be an expert in the subject/event that the commentator is commenting on and be able to provide a more detailed analysis that the commentator would not know. With this in mind, Ramage sadly provided no more information than Dawes did, so was effectively pointless/ineffective in the role. Steele on the other hand, was able to add something to the coverage that Dawes could not. Steele was effective and successful as a Summariser.
The summariser is there to provide a better understanding of the event, not be a loud, churlish, happy-clapping comedy act.

Thank you, appreciate the messages, day to recover now then we go away for 2 weeks where I'm not planning on reading any kind of social media.
Once I'm back to reality I'll respond to all PM's, mentions, forum issues and even the mod room.
Apologies I've been awol, It's been a stressful time as the venue changed ownership and some of what was planned went tits up, even down to this mornings private breakfast, waited until 10.30am for my sausage!
With the takeover, relegation being confirmed, took myself mostly offline for my own mental health.
Was an amazing day, topped off by seeing @Boycie showing us his moves on the dance floor at the end of the night.

B4, please read this carefully as it’s been said a few times and you look very silly ignoring it! 
 
it does not matter how much money we want to spend or how rich the owners might be, as part of the deal we will be limited by rules on how much we can spend on players and wages! 
 
There are businesses only being paid 35p (over 3 years) for every £1 Derby owe them.
 
To put this into context, pretend I owe you £1000. Now imagine I’m only going to pay you £120 this year, £120 next year and £110 in two years, you won’t be getting the remaining £650 I owe you because I say that I can’t afford it. Now imagine that at the same time as paying you only £120, you find out I’ve spent £2000 on buying the same thing you sold me but from someone else. You’d be upset right??
well, to prevent this happening, EFL force clubs coming out of administration to sign up to a business plan limiting spending and budgets. If the club doesn’t stick to it, point deductions and embargos happen. 
 
So please please stop saying Derby will spend decent money. We wont. It’s not allowed. 

Sounds like we could be very clowes to coming out of administration. ???

Good for Keogh, letting bygones be bygones and all that…

Heard today it is a joint venture between French connection (FC UK) and the actor Mel Gibson. Will renamed the FC UK Gibson stadium.?

Surely people are seeing this the wrong way round?
It's not about us feeling reassured, it's about Chris Kirchner feeling reassured enough that the ground purchase will happen, that has persuaded him to sign up.
He is the one taking all the risks.
We all said that you can't buy a stadium in a few days - heck it's taking months to get a simple house purchase through at the moment - but he must know the money and motivation is there to get the deal completed.

Whatever happens in the future, we have spent many months staring into the abyss with very few parties willing to save us. So called ‘fans’ have chucked us aside and let us rot, where without intervention we would have died.
So whatever does happen, whether the next chapter of Derby County is successful or not, I will never forget the act of saving this Club that I love with all my heart. Hundreds of thousands of people love this Club as much as me, if not more, unfortunately none of us had the money to save us. A couple of sharks have circled trying to get their hands on a carcass, but we’ve only really had one realistic prospect of having a custodian with pride and admiration for what he is buying. And with the exchanging of contracts I hope for all our sakes that the storm clouds of the last however many months it is, are finally parting. We have finally (and hopefully) got our Club back.

I know and not forgetting the Notts Forest, Leeds and every vindictive fan who has wished the worst for our club.
Decided to give it a while longer and no family or friends are awake to share with! Just lying in the dark listening to a noisy deer (who must be celebrating) and reading my phone and feeling a teeny bit tearful. 

Just to confirm some genius hasn't hacked Chris' Twitter to pull a cruel (but clever) prank on us all ... Mrs Kirchner has also had her say.
 
 
 
Unless she was hacked too ......

Just landed in Vegas to this news….. it’s 4pm in the afternoon here and 40 degrees ? ☀️…. Time for a cold beer and raise a glass to the new gaffer ?? ? 

ROFL! #COYR
 

We've had that many extensions, we could give Kieran Lee a run for his money.

So what are we all thinking will happen today?
My money is on 'An Open Letter To Chris Kirchner From BAWT'.

So exciting, what time do we think the extension will be announced?
I'm going for 5pm.

So do we ?

Ah, the mythical Ashley offer in January where he claimed through the media he was preparing a £50 million offer, presumably intending to scare off other bidders. It didn't work. It never happened. He then allowed CK to take PB status with an offer nearly £20 million below what his media chums claimed he was willing to pay. He's full of shyte and has yet to lodge a formal offer according to Quantuma and this despite all the BS PR 'I'm still interested' guff. He's now claiming to have made a restructured offer, despite not submitting a formal bid in the first instance and with the period of exclusivity still being in place. Had he honoured his word and offered £50 mill in January, there's a fair chance we'd still be in the Championship. Let that sink in for a moment.
As it stands, Quantuma are adamant that there's been no contact since last year so I think it's fair to assume that in respect of Derby County, he's nothing more than a stalking horse who is quite happy to see us go the wall whilst shafting every creditor, merely to save a couple of million of his reported £2.25 billion fortune. CK may not have his experience, nor his financial wherewithwal, but he's at least put his money where his mouth his and with the club teetering on the edge, I'll take actions over words all day long.

Good luck to Steve in his future endeavours!
Hopefully his successor will continue the trend of claiming all transfer rumours are “wide of the mark”

Good luck to Steve in his future endeavours!
Hopefully his successor will continue the trend of claiming all transfer rumours are “wide of the mark”

Good luck to Steve in his future endeavours!
Hopefully his successor will continue the trend of claiming all transfer rumours are “wide of the mark”