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I’d be quite happy with 5th ?‍♂️

I’ve voted. Means something to me personally as I started my working career at Derby Carriage Works on Litchurch Lane, my Grandad worked his whole life in the Railway. Crewe and to a lesser extent York I think have legitimate claims but Derby is the centre of most things rail, still a huge railway presence with many rail consultancies and train operators with offices on Pride Park, not to mention Derby Carriage Works and Etches Park depot still going strong under Alstom now, it makes sense for it to be Derby.

Of all our players he is the one I want to keep the most. 

Of all our players he is the one I want to keep the most. 

Of all our players he is the one I want to keep the most. 

Of all our players he is the one I want to keep the most. 

Of all our players he is the one I want to keep the most. 

He’s very good positionally, protecting the back four and covering for those who go on runs from midfield. Trouble is, we don’t have many who make those runs. Our midfield tends to play it safe. Max is a good passer and possession is important.
One of those that only truly gets appreciated when they’re not there. 
However, we do need a different mix in midfield and somebody has to go if we’re to change things.

Here’s an idea. Now that we’re out of administration and hopefully on a more stable and sustainable path, why don’t we Derby County supporters take off our amateur detective hats, stop stressing about every aspect of our finances, business plans, the machinations of the EFL, the finances of other clubs, what our wage limit is and so on and so forth and, I don’t know, watch and enjoy some football?
Just a thought.

I've voted. My Dad worked for BR at Derby for 32 years and two of me brothers did apprenticeships there. Its always been a Railway town/city.

I’ve voted. Means something to me personally as I started my working career at Derby Carriage Works on Litchurch Lane, my Grandad worked his whole life in the Railway. Crewe and to a lesser extent York I think have legitimate claims but Derby is the centre of most things rail, still a huge railway presence with many rail consultancies and train operators with offices on Pride Park, not to mention Derby Carriage Works and Etches Park depot still going strong under Alstom now, it makes sense for it to be Derby.

Yes to all of that. I found it particularly tough to deal with as the timing mirrored my dads sudden decline with dementia. The day we went into admin was the first "come now please" urgent call from my mum. Derby was mine and dad's thing together and unbelievably bad Derby news usually coincided with bad dementia days. Dad is now stable, settled and as happy as he will be in lovely residential care right near us and he still loves to chat Derby although often muddled. He has told the care staff some horrendous tall stories about it all! Attendance obviously reduced a lot last year in the circumstances (hence my total annoyance at those making comments about part-time fans - just count your blessings you can attend when you want) but was so happy to get season tickets on the first day of sale. Really excited about the season ahead.

So, we're starting to look back at Mel's tenure, the last few seasons and almost going out of business.
I have to say that the threat of Derby County, the club that has been such a big part of my life, being liquidated was mentally and emotionally debilitating.
Sure there are far more serious things happening in the world but I personally found it really tough to deal with.
Nevertheless, thanks to many people - especially David Clowes, of course, but also Rooney, Team Derby, everyone at the club, and the supporters (more of them in a moment) the Rams have survived and can start to look forward again.
So now, knowing that the worst is over, we can start to look back and pick out the truly good things that came out of the past year.
The supporters.
Unbelievable. Fantastic. Superb. Remarkable.
There are no words that do justice to the pride I feel to count myself as a Derby fan.
I'm so sorry that my circumstances meant that I wasn't able to be on the walk, at Moor Farm on relegation night or at Blackpool but my physical absence doesn't make any of those events any less than real stand out moments.
The petitions, the lobbying, the campaigns, the support from other clubs' genuine supporters was outstanding.
The togetherness though, between fans, players and club.... I've never seen anything like that before and I doubt we ever will experience anything quite like that again. Beautiful.
Knowing that Derby County has come through it all and survived, I believe we can now look back and say "that was a great season".
Thank you.
COYR ?

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

Yeah, giving him a 2 year deal suggests this one is with a view to being involved with the first team ASAP.

Caught up with an article in the athletic and all the comments from obviously misinformed rival fans who from some of the comments didn’t read the article. Usual theme think about the tax man, needs to be made public what we have/haven’t paid etc.
However the main crux of the article is Clowes has paid c£60m all including £3.7m for Q and £22m for stadium.
I can’t remember where our football debts and unsecured creditor debts stood but didn’t think they were huge, HMRC was anything between £29m-£36m. Taking away Q and Stadium, that’s £34.3m towards paying off the debts. Assuming football creditors 100% and unsecured creditors 25% and Mel got nothing (except paying off MSD),  I can’t see any scenario where HMRC has got less than 50%, potentially could even be 66% or 75%. 
So in other words these rival fans can jog on as this would be by far the biggest percentage of debt paid off in recent administrations. 
 
Not that it matters now anyway.

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

It’s not arrogant to say that. You only have to look at League One last season to see it was a league divided into two.
Plenty of established bigger clubs followed the bottom half which are clubs who have floated between League One and Two.
Unless there is a heavy points deduction or unique circumstances (like what happened at Bolton), then we simply can’t end up near the bottom.
If we do then we will have simply drastically underperformed.
No club of our size should struggle in this league. Even Ipswich haven’t struggled despite missing out on the top six they’ve been nowhere near the bottom end.
I’m not saying we are set to walk the league or should be guaranteed top six. I’m saying we should be guaranteed to not struggle or threaten relegation.

Caught up with an article in the athletic and all the comments from obviously misinformed rival fans who from some of the comments didn’t read the article. Usual theme think about the tax man, needs to be made public what we have/haven’t paid etc.
However the main crux of the article is Clowes has paid c£60m all including £3.7m for Q and £22m for stadium.
I can’t remember where our football debts and unsecured creditor debts stood but didn’t think they were huge, HMRC was anything between £29m-£36m. Taking away Q and Stadium, that’s £34.3m towards paying off the debts. Assuming football creditors 100% and unsecured creditors 25% and Mel got nothing (except paying off MSD),  I can’t see any scenario where HMRC has got less than 50%, potentially could even be 66% or 75%. 
So in other words these rival fans can jog on as this would be by far the biggest percentage of debt paid off in recent administrations. 
 
Not that it matters now anyway.

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

To be fair it would be a joke if Rooney gets Freedom of the City and David Clowes doesn’t.

Caught up with an article in the athletic and all the comments from obviously misinformed rival fans who from some of the comments didn’t read the article. Usual theme think about the tax man, needs to be made public what we have/haven’t paid etc.
However the main crux of the article is Clowes has paid c£60m all including £3.7m for Q and £22m for stadium.
I can’t remember where our football debts and unsecured creditor debts stood but didn’t think they were huge, HMRC was anything between £29m-£36m. Taking away Q and Stadium, that’s £34.3m towards paying off the debts. Assuming football creditors 100% and unsecured creditors 25% and Mel got nothing (except paying off MSD),  I can’t see any scenario where HMRC has got less than 50%, potentially could even be 66% or 75%. 
So in other words these rival fans can jog on as this would be by far the biggest percentage of debt paid off in recent administrations. 
 
Not that it matters now anyway.

We'll take him but I still think we need more pace in the side