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2 hours ago, JoetheRam said:

Starting line up next season:

GK: Clough & Taylor Statue

 

RB: Rammie

CB: Private Derby

CB: Derek from Chad

LB: Walking Backwards Man

 

RM: The King of Rome

CM: Robert Lindsay

CM: Robert Maxwell's Re-animated Corpse

LM: Owen Bradley

 

CF: The Steve Bloomer Bust

CF: Kenco Coffee Cup

 

I bet we'd still do better than last season.

I like the sound of private Derby ?

2 minutes ago, Ramarena said:

Waggy and wisdom are off as they’ve already got contracts with other clubs.

Several ITK’s were spreading this rumour in the latter stages of last season, stating it was the reason for their poor performances as they didn’t care anymore and it was nothing to do with the management!

Maybe so, but I do not believe for one minute they would just give up and not care. Contracts can be cancelled at any time and if they were to 'just not care' as you have stated, then they would do their reputations unmeasurable damage.

1 hour ago, sage said:

I'm not saying our approach was ideal, but I suppose we thought we could sell them with a year left on their contracts if we didn't get promoted in the first 2/3 years of their contracts. It's not unreasonable to expect some return on £3-6m signings on 3 and 4 year contracts but that didn't pan out. We should have been buying players a couple of years younger on lower wages, but it is what it is.

I think we are around £4m over our FFP loss limit. If so, just not buying Blackman or Anya would have meant we were ok.  

Hmm I would have thought the EFL would have taken sympathy and realised our worth dropped as soon as we bought those two

35 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Won't be allowed back into Holland until Covid restrictions lifted.

 

Unlike the thousands of Euro fans then???????

10 hours ago, Dimmu said:

I'd like us to play with 5-3-2 which is most common tactic in current EURO's.

 

                        Marshall/Roos

Byrne        New       New       New      Buchanan

                Bird      Sibley     Shinnie

                     CKR       New/Stretton

Sell all the wingers and Knight and use the money to sign striker and CB's.

This happens all too often and I constantly have to point out that you are not allowed to field 13 players at the same time. (We still wouldn't win anyway)

@Curtains are you about to have a debate with yourself? ?

13 minutes ago, Rev said:

I always thought that the first Cocu had seen of Derby was when he returned from pre season in Florida.

 

Poor sod, leaving Florida and finding Derby. ??

9 hours ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

Fixtures are released Thursday, that truly is a day to start panicking when you see our threadbare squad without a kit to wear away at West Brom first game of the season.

If this happens, I for one will want to know if you are ITK. 

9 hours ago, r4derby said:

I think if the major issues (takeover, punishment etc) aren't sorted by the time the preseason friendlies kick in, we can start to become a little nervous and ask questions.

Those are so important for us to know what to do next season and how we are going to approach it. Will we be able to afford wages for new signings? Do we have to sell first?

The squad isn’t awful. It just needs some players in important positions (CB, ST)

You wont get much for thruppence hapenny.

I truly think that the EFL probably don't have much grounds to punish us but they can delay the outcome in the meantime keeping us under an embargo. - The downside from that the potential new owners are maybe hanging on until the outcome of the EFL findings are published. 

This way the EFL can hurt us and really ruin our season without actually giving out any real punishment.

Interesting thoughts.

I would argue we do currently have half the team of academy players, the problem is they aren't good enough as a collective.

To achieve this you would need to churn out at least 5 or 6 players every couple of years that are of championship standard and hope we keep them all.

Any academy would be lucky to produce one or 2 that are capable of staying the course in the championship in a decent team, every few years. 

All young players develop at a different rate and most will never make the grade.

I personally think that if you want to be successful you should intergrade one maybe 2 academy players at a time not 5or 6 9unless they are Will Hughes standard or above)

On 30/05/2021 at 00:25, RadioactiveWaste said:

Also suggests Brighton might sing Knight.

Loan him back with Matt Clarke for a year ?

As long as he remains a Derby player, we should sing knight

1 hour ago, DCFClks said:

Jack Wilshere just released by Bournemouth 

It would be classic Mel if we signed him.?

 

23 minutes ago, MackworthRamIsGod said:

It would be classic Mel to sign him then sack him.

Classic Mel if he bought him in as manager

2 hours ago, Rammy03 said:

McClaren is still here people 

5 minutes ago, Donnyram said:

Listening to McLaren the same applies to Derby.  Need players in and a good start to next season....

If he knows what Man U should do, then it makes me wonder what his role at Derby really is. 

5 hours ago, one_chop said:

It doesn't interest me in the slightest. How BBC Sport put the women's results at the top of the page I'll never know. 

I don't object to it in any way whatsoever, however the way women are chosen over men to be pundits and commentators just stinks of political correctness. 

Each to their own but not for me.

Apart from the rest of your sentences!!

I don't watch ladies club football but love watching England ladies and as has been alluded to, none of the pretentiousness of the men's game. Obviously they are much more robust than any male. 

20 hours ago, Sparkle said:

Blindingly obvious link and probably true - whilst the money would be decent would he want to move down there if he has family?

The Welsh aren't that draconian you know. ?s are allowed in

3 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

I lived in Scotland for a while. Not always a great experience if you were from south of the border.

A couple of friends visited and we went for a drink and a meal at the big hotel on the eastern bank of Loch Lomond. All so looking forward to it, the splendid view and a magnificent meal.

All they had on the lunchtime menu was pizza!!! No traditional fayre, nothing.

Ah well, at least we can enjoy the view of the loch over drinks. We just need to pull back these curtains. Behind the curtains was surely a stunning view of the water, but no - just a wallpapered wall.

Then the pizza arrived - one of those kids pizzas....microwaved, so extra chewey.

I hope it was battered as well

20 minutes ago, OUTSIDER said:

please be America against DC, miami etc 

 

but probably be stoke burton 

Is this a local team?

29 minutes ago, minesahartington said:

Would hope Manchester United, Everton and DC United but expect Belper, long Eaton Ladies and Tamworth Shrews

Tough start then

6 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

So according to Board Of Directors Response To Open Letter - Blog - Derby County (dcfc.co.uk) the preseason games are being arranged:

"In addition, we are finalising our pre-season arrangements and expect to be able to announce our games programme in early June."

Who are you guessing we'll play  people? #COYR

Burton

6 minutes ago, jimtastic56 said:

We can’t get too exited. Again. Mel has shouted from the rooftops that the business he wants to sell has lost £200 mill in 4 years. We as Rams fans do not have the spending power equal to some clubs . We get cheap tickets and don’t buy enough shirts. Mel is desperate to sell and could end up with very little. 

Didn't someone once say. If you want to become a millionaire, start off as a billionaire and buy a football club.

Pretty sure Mel would have realised buying a club would lose him money in the long run

11 hours ago, Ambitious said:

He's a nuts out on the table, win-at-all-cost billionaire who hired Tom Glick to a very senior role with the Carolina Panthers. He's worth $12bn. He's got a very good reputation in the US - a good guy by all accounts.

Let's hope all his accounts are good

Just now, MackworthRamIsGod said:

According to the Athletic the EFL want a points deduction this season.

As if the EFL have waited until the season ended before deciding how to relegate us.

They operate like a footballing mafia.

If true, I have said this before. Had we been relegated of our own accord would that have been the end of the matter?

The EFL seem to want to see the outcome of our season to maximise our punishment.

Either way this has been bought on ourselves. (Enough said) 

3 minutes ago, eccles the ram said:

These last three years, aside from the odd stand out game (Leeds game especially), have been an absolute mare if you support this club of ours. This fiasco involving Erik Alonso is so unbelieveable I hear Stephen Spielberg is thinking of making a film out of it! What with this, the EFL appeal and now Keogh what has happened to DCFC? Can't think of a film title  except perhaps Deep Impact! Any others?

If the film generates money, then I am all for it.

And for what it is worth, if it chronicles the last 7 or so years then the film should be "the good, the bad and the ugly" Starring Mr Hanky the Christmas poo

Might have been said already.  I think the EFL have just got it in for us and being mardy because they didn't get us first time round. Why wait until we are safe to announce this? Makes me wonder if they would have let it lie had we been relegated and because we didn't go down then they just want to make it as difficult as possible 

46 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:

On that basis why sack Cocu then? Wazza’s record is worse...

Exactly 

2 hours ago, Abu Dhabi Ram said:

Rooney is not the man to take us forward. If anyone can provide any evidence that I am wrong, please go ahead 

However it is exactly what you are proposing that has got us in this mess. Poor ownership,  and managerial merry-go-round.  We need to stick with someone and give them.time to weed out all the players  from the previous 7 managers and build a team by one