Kinder

He comes across really well in his interview. Seems very intelligent and hungry to kick on with us. Should be a key signing.

Four comments about Eiran Cashin?
Best signing of the night, imo. 

I love it. Gives a good taste without having that extra strength over powering taste. It’s one of my favourites. I like Jaipur too best served as cask from the pump. 

I’ve got 6 of these left in the fridge. Carries its strength really well for me, doesn’t taste like a 10% beer. I really like like it, smooth and the bitterness kicks in later. What do you think?

A special beer for a special weekend.

Feel these guys need their own recognition threads. Feel like transfers as they could have gone elsewhere but chose to stay with us.  

It was Cashin, Cashin did me. The announcement on the Radio yesterday and Ed got me close, but the tears, it came with Cashin. I'm like some kind of kid at Christmas now. I dont know a deal about the new players but it is new blood and will energise us. Let's get Curtis officially done now!

This is the future I'm hoping for as well. Anticipation and delight. Rome wasn't built in a day, but Pompeii was destroyed in a day. It takes longer to re-build than to destroy and we have to be patient, encouraging and positive going forward to play our part in the rebuild..
Also on the 'new' list is a new first-time manager. He seems a good guy and I really hope he makes a success of the job.  We've also got a new owner whose letter to the fans was such a lesson in humility, lack of ego and class - I really believe we have got a good one here.
COYR! ????!!
 
 

Hoping they’ll announce this by revealing Curt in the new season’s shirt, wearing the armband.

We've signed a footballer???
 

Wednesday fan here.
Joe Wildsmith first broke into the first team at a very young age about 5/6 years ago when Kieran Westwood got injured.
It was the season we got to the playoff final and Joe was very impressive when he played for us, tipped by many to have a bright future in the game.
Since then we have had a whole host of managers, the side has got progressively worse and when he has played in recent seasons, he’s had a pretty woeful defence protecting his goal. As such his confidence has taken a bit of a battering and he has made the odd error.
That said, if he can get a run of games at Derby and you can get him anywhere near what he was like a few seasons ago, he’ll be a very capable a league 1 keeper for you this season.
Also he’s still relatively young for a goal keeper.
Best of luck to you with the takeover, really hope you can get things sorted and start to move forward as a club again.

Could have done without the last line!

Anyone else having a good drink tonight? I’ve shared a bottle of bubbly with Mrs Kinder, had a few Thornbridge beers and I’m now tucking into a Macallan. 

Had a lovely bottle  Zinfandel with my tea followed by several ‘common’ but nevertheless enjoyable Doom Bars later.
Stayed off the malt (and my head is the better this morning for that decision).
UTR

I had a low-key Tesco celebration - a bottle of St Bernardus Abt 12 followed by a Chimay White (Tripel) and a tot of Jim Beam.
Today, I'm breaking open one of my last two 75 cl bottles of 2015 Straffe Hendrik Heritage.

Anyone else having a good drink tonight? I’ve shared a bottle of bubbly with Mrs Kinder, had a few Thornbridge beers and I’m now tucking into a Macallan. 

This tweet sums it up so well

This. Exactly this. I haven’t commented at all on this but have been reading this thread every day since it started. I know the trials and tribulations we’ve been through and how this has affected us.
like NottsRam77 I thought I’d been dealing with it okay. Carrying on the day to day and all that. But hadn’t realized the extent it had actually affected me….until last night.
As the news broke the sense of relief was unbelievable for sure, but suddenly I found my eyes welling with tears. Genuine tears. Then hearing Ed Dawes on RD also in tears - live on air - it sent me completely over the edge into floods of them. 

Once I’d composed myself I allowed myself a quiet glass or two and raised a toast to David Clowes and our great club. 

So the great re-set has begun and with it a recalibration of our expectations. At this point I’m just happy to still have a club. And for it to be run properly. This whole episode has been a truly humbling experience for us all and one I do not wish to live through again. And one I wouldn’t wish on any fans of other clubs, in spite of some of the disgraceful attitudes from ‘followers’ of other clubs. 
So if we find ourselves in a situation where we are losing 3-0 at home to a team like Forest Green Rovers on a miserable rainy Tuesday night, I’m going to give my arm a pinch and remember that things could have been very different and we may not have actually been able to witness it. And then hold on to the hope that better days will return.
Because make no mistake - those better days will come.
UTR ????
 
 
 
 
 
 

As I reflect on the DC takeover I see it as the end of an era. An era that initially promised so much but ultimately only delivered one trip to Wembley Stadium.
The cost of this day out was enormous. It cost the good name of our club. It cost our country millions in lost tax revenue. It cost our club's suppliers money. It cost the livelihood of loyal DCFC employees. It decimated the fruits of our academy's labour. It drove a wide wedge between our club and its governing body. It damned nearly killed our club.
Was I caught up in the previous owner's bullpoo and untruths? Yes, to my great shame, I was. I believed him when he told us we were being run within our means, that we were complying with p&s or ffp. I thought he's "one of our own", he won't see any harm done to us. I was taken in by him, I was very wrong.
Thankfully that era is now over and a new one begins. I hope, as with myself, many fans have had their reality well and truly checked and had a recalibration of their expectations.
What is important is the survival of our club, our family heirloom, the love of which we shall proudly hand down to our children and grandchildren.
Thank you Mr. Clowes for giving our club, our heirloom a future.

Had a bottle of wine so sorry if I'm not completely coherent but thank god for that. I've shed a fair few tears once I saw the news, the sheer relief of seeing in black and white (so us) that derby county has been saved. The club for all of us means at times everything and I keep thinking back to that fulham home game for that perspective.  Relegation almost a certainty, but a momentous last stand by the players who dug out a performance and fans who created an absolutely unreal atmosphere, you'd have thought we'd have won the league but we'd merely delayed the inevitable relegation. To me that game was the essence of what the club meant, everyone standing as one, giving everything on and off the pitch, passion backed by an almighty roar and thank god we've got the security of that happening again next season. 

I honestly thought post Kirchner that it was pretty much it for us, I could envisage a scenario when it was too much money compared to assets and no-one would spend the necessary amount to dig us out of the enormous hole Mel left us in. DC's statement sets an excellent tone but also makes reinforces perhaps how close we were to extinction. DC bailed us out when it seems like no-one else could or would. He deserves our full backing next season whatever happens on the pitch as we should just be grateful we can return to pride park, with pride at remaining a founder member of the football league. 

Derby County. Saved.
The joy, the relief.
Mine won’t be the only story like this, but after the passing of my Dad, who was a dyed-in-the-wool Ram, former steward home and away, the love for Derby County takes on another meaning. It’s a link to family - past and present - for so many, and to lose it would be heartbreaking all over again.
To see it saved means the world. And I’m celebrating with a Derbyshire whisky.
I was listening to the 'emergency' Sportscene. I shed a tear when Ed Dawes came on in tears. I fully lost it when the Punjabi Rams representative (who's name escapes me, my apologies) was talking about the laying to rest of another member (again apologies) whose proceedings mirrored my Dad's. I'm in tears again, typing this.
I really hope we as Rams never have to go through this again. I hope no fan ever has to go through this.
We have our club back. Don't EVER take it for granted.
Much love to one and all. My only regret is that I wasn't first to break the news ? I'd just got home from work, but seriously, this forum has been a haven - to know I'm not the only one who's life has been dominated by this one subject.
I can't wait for that 30th July vs. Oxford. Win, lose, or draw - it's going to be one hell of a party. Let's sell this mother out.
Peace ✌️ love ❤️ and Derby County ?

Massive thank you from me to all of you lot on this forum. This club has impacted my mood, it's given me highs and lows over the last 18 months but you lot have always cheered me up.
I've thought about binning this forum off, I've thought about binning football off entirely. 
Two things changed my mind, taking my three year old daughter to a couple of games last season (she loved it and the thought of not being able to do that again was a killer), and this forum.
Perversely, it's all sparked the love of it all in me again and I cant wait to see where we go from here.
Thanks everyone. Me and my little one look forwards to attending games for years to come.