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As for Dynasty, I would be open to that as well. Shout up who is and I'll get a new league set up.

Hello Chaps
Apologies for the long term absence, been a fairly tumultuous couple of years off the pitch for Leicester Ram unfortunately
The Dynasty league was something I was very happy to do when I was basically unemployed
I’m now exhaustingly employed, living in London and have been dealing with a lot of really unfortunate family/personal life stuff - it’s not a environment which is conducive to the rigours of fantasy football commissionership
Sadly, I’ve lost a lot of interest in the NFL and now Derby. Been a tricky few years and what really put the nail in the coffin was that my uncle, who was the person who got me into football, made me a Derby fan and I had my season ticket with, unfortunately died of a heart attack in April - it’s been pretty devastating
I quite frankly (and this is no reflection on any of you who are all a great laugh and have always been a pleasure to deal with) couldn’t give a f*** anymore
I’m just not really interested in dealing any of this and hope people understand. I was going to see how I felt closer to the start of the season and see if I wanted to pick it up again but I’m on a much needed holiday this week and have had a bit of time to think about a few things - I know that I won’t want to do it again. I feel bad because it’s really not *that* much effort but I’m a wasted spot in the league and the past season really reflects that , I would feel very bad for whoever takes my team on lol
I know there were others in the league who weren’t interested in carrying on as well so I would suggest that either:
Someone else can take my spot as commissioner and can find owners for the other teams
Or I’ll nuke the league and you guys can start fresh with potentially a smaller group of the committed ones? That’s what I’d suggest, you’ll have the fun of a draft and maybe have more of a laugh with 8 of you having a better share of the players?
Apologies to those who put together some great teams and were looking forward to it continuing, I wish things were different - I owe you a beer if I ever meet you in the Brunny!
Cheers
@David @Carnero @Ambitious @jimbo jones @Mr Tibbs and all the others in the league 

Born in Derby, moved to Liverpool for uni and then moved to Manchester afterwards for work. One day soon I might be writing this from Australia...

Born in Derby, moved to Liverpool for uni and then moved to Manchester afterwards for work. One day soon I might be writing this from Australia...

I'm in, and don't mind doing some commissioning if needs be.
I'd suggest if we're doing a longer draft maybe bringing it forward a little - the long drafts can take a week! Was it last year we had unlimited clock and someone was away camping for a full weekend? ?

Or an additional defender...
 

Or an additional defender...
 

Go and have 10 minutes to yourself or a cold shower and come back to the forum when you can behave

Criticising @David over this is ridiculous. He has always been a lazy, useless sod and he isn't going to change now. Learn to live with it 
 

I appreciate this doesn't mean much - But as a minor show of solidarity I've decided to retire my traditional Batman icon in 'favour' of my own stupid ugly mug
Now people will have a better idea who is spouting such stupid opinions - Feel free to say hello if you see me at the football (although I am a fairly generic fat, beardy, glasses wearer so you may get someone else) 
Not going to claim my name (Chris) as my username though - As I feel that @David is the only forum resident who can pull off the Beyonce-esque single name thing

You lot are something else. ??
Appreciate all the messages, especially the one that said I’m young. Whilst I hear all the you have nothing to apologise for messages, I feel I did and couldn’t just swan back in here like nothing had happened.
Now I have addressed it and the football is back, hopefully we can all draw a line under this episode and move on.
This is a time when we all need to be together right now.

Dropped you a follow on my new private Twitter account, had to see who you’ve been drafting this time 

Doesn't matter mate, just snidy little digs that aren't worth your time.
 
I did get this incredible response though:
 

I'd imagine it was a case of "this contract isn't the final execution version yet, it's our standard template. Take a look through the terms, run it by your agent, and we'll add the figure we've already discussed when we're able to all sign it together"

I'd imagine it was a case of "this contract isn't the final execution version yet, it's our standard template. Take a look through the terms, run it by your agent, and we'll add the figure we've already discussed when we're able to all sign it together"

I'd imagine it was a case of "this contract isn't the final execution version yet, it's our standard template. Take a look through the terms, run it by your agent, and we'll add the figure we've already discussed when we're able to all sign it together"

Interesting - I watched that but don't recall that point, although it's undoubtedly true for them. 
Ironically, I'm working in a private equity backed venture now and my job (CRO) is to do just that. Let's see if I last till Christmas..... ?
But seriously, the point is not to avoid taking any risk, but to be aware of the possibility. So you get "no regrets" decision making. From the snippets of the meeting reported so far, it sounded like Mel was full of regrets. 

Bizarre isn't it? 
In my business life I'd be looking for a risk and compliance director now, and previously probably the chief operating officer to design the control framework. 
For a 30m + turnover business worth a couple of hundred k investment. We had a COO who seemed to be responsible for papering the players contracts and nothing much else.... ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Far as I can gather the delay is DCFC still trying to make the accounts look like we pass P&S and the EFL going err.....you didn't count that like that last time.....

Just a normal evening then 

You mean we all didn’t do that before? Just me then…

I’ve spoken to David, he’s done his report, sent it to the club to check it’s ok with them.
The clubs not managed to get it signed off yet. One can only assume that they have other pressing matters, players contracts etc if you read what Mr Nixon has said.
I’m assured that there is some further detail to what’s already been released by the Punjabi Rams and Jim Wheeler on Radio Derby.
I was worried that everyone was waiting with baited breath only for the exact info to be in David’s report that was already out there anyway.
Please try and see it from his side, he’s piggy in the middle, and wants to make sure everything is ok with what’s in his report.
As far as I’m aware, due to David having to leave just before the end to catch the last train he missed an agreement to let Jim Wheeler do a piece to RD this morning.
But, that’s not what we go to the charter meetings for. We go to ask questions and to report to our members, not be a face to a joint statement. 

David never put our name to a recent open letter to the club, and will never do so.
So please be patient, the timescale is out his hands, and he’s getting grief left right and centre on Social Media. In my opinion non of the other groups who were there are.  But that comes with us being the biggest group of Derby County supporters on the internet.
He’s losing his hair, what he has got doesn’t want turning grey.
 

My little input regarding the academy involvement.
When Mel took over, he started investing heavily in the academy, which he knew would take a number of years to bear fruit. Investment went into the first team in his 2nd season, which theoretically wouldn't impact the long term prospects of the academy. Involvement of fringe academy players was reduced under certain managers (Pearson, Rowett). I believe Mel has previously suggested he was misled during the interview process Academy products were involved a lot last season, but Buchanan and Sibley in particular should have been used a lot more than they were Minutes given to academy graduates in the league

 
Bad recruitment
This could fall under the manager, recruitment or even Mel.
15/16, Pearce/Shackell - Signed both at the same time (4 and 3 year deals respectively), only for Shackell to play in the first season and Pearce to play in the second, with minimal involvement in the other seasons. Why didn't we sign just 1 of them, with Rawson in reserve? 15/16, Olsson - Warnock and Forsyth already at the club with Lowe on the fringes 15/16, Blackman/Camara - We already had Ince, Russell and Weimann, with Bennett on the fringes 16/17, Anya - We already had Ince, Russell, Weimann, Blackman and Camara on the wings. One of the most pointless signings of all time. 18/19, Malone/Cole - Forsyth and Lowe. We also had McDonald on the fringes. 18/19, Jozefzoon - With Wilson, Lawrence, Waghorn and Bennett already as options, we should have given minutes to LThomas, McAllister or JML 19/20, Hamer/Dowell/Paterson - all pointless loans  

Dave's statement will be released in 48 hours.