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13 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:
Depends what you call British I guess. They're owned by an American company.
and quite possible manufactured in an sweat shop somewhere in Asia
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On 23/02/2024 at 22:36, Comrade 86 said:
How were they to know that the funds he proofed were embezzled though? He met the evidential burden of proof and also provided proof that he'd transferred the cash, which we now know he did. Had he not put the money he stole in Bitcoin in order to try and make his ill-gotten gains harder to retrieve, the deal might actually have closed. Worth recalling that he took Goldman Sachs for $24 million too and they would have had a far deeper dive into the Slync.io accounts and Kirschner's good standing than the EFL and Quantuma ever would have.
Many would consider Quantuma's glaring incompetence to be indefensible. However, I appreciate that not everyone necessarily feels that way.
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A really decent young player and a natural finisher. Probably needs good mentoring to bring out his best.
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Quantuma were pretty gullible being taken in by Kirchner, but they weren't the only ones. The 'honourable' local MP's also jumped on the bandwagon, then typically slithered under the door when the truth emerged.
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22 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:
Complicit in?
If it's not obvious to you:
The reckless and chaotic financial management that brought humiliation and dishonour to a once great football club, and almost its total demise.
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Barnsley 2 - 0 Rams
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5 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:
I'm not a lawyer but I find it hard to believe that Morris still has an NDA so wide-ranging around Pearce that he can't shed any light at all on how he felt while performing that job. I would think it would be very hard, if not impossible, to make an argument that Pearce's feelings on job performance and environment are part of confidential company information. As far as I am aware NDA's that are too broad or pertain to information which could not be considered confidential can be broken and have been. There is also a question that if he did sign an unbreakable NDA then there would also surely be questions as to the viability of his use in his position in the post-Morris era as presumably Pearce also couldn't discuss these issues with Clowes either. I find it odd that everyone just seems to have accepted this explanation with seemingly little to no probing at all, including local journalists.
I think the sooner leaves the club the better. He helped drive the club off the cliff edge and repeatedly went on media shows telling us all everything was hunky dory when it wasn't. His discussion on radio derby where he says 'he'd rather not discuss the mel era' just shows his problems. I find it staggering that someone that high up in the club could comfortably state that given the trauma that the club and the fanbase went through. A trauma which he helped create and would have failed to mop up without a last minute local businessman saving his backside.
Either the bloke was incompetent or he lied. Those are the two choices he's left with tbh. Our amortisation policy which he helped deploy was a recipe for disaster aside from the moral questionability of such a practice. Clowes kept him on for god knows what reason- perhaps he's a nice guy who believes the best in everyone or maybe he saw a giant organisation in an absolute state and needed someone to steer the ship for a year or two while he got more acquainted with it. However, the day Pearce leaves, either mutually or not, will be a day I'll be celebrating.
Totally agree. There's no way that SP wasn't complicit. To suggest otherwise is rather fanciful.
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On 19/02/2024 at 09:31, Ram a lamb a ding dong said:
Second place really is there for the taking
Not sure that's the Derby way 😉
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Rams 1 - 1 Stevenage Collins
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14 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:
Sacking a manager who gives us promotion would counter "stability, integrity, progress". Upon promotion, the manager will be given a chance to prove themselves.
Yes Warney will definitely be manager/head coach next season, which ever division we are in. If it is the ch'ship there are going be some tough times. It'll have to be a case of facing one challenge at a time. Primary objective, accrue more than 11 points 🙏
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On 13/02/2024 at 16:51, angieram said:
We did touch on it a few days' ago in the What questions would you ask? thread, @Caerphilly Ram.
But I agree it warrants its own thread and I predict it will be very busy on here later!
I'm biased because I have talked to Stephen Pearce on quite a few occasions at meetings and also heard him at the September fans' forum. I find him open and approachable - and actually, quite humble.
Do I think he deliberately fibs? No. Do I think there are things he won't ever be able to talk about legally? Yes. Mel Morris will have hired the best legal expertise to make sure of this.
But your response to Pearce and what he says is coloured by how you feel about his involvement with our previous owner and I feel that sadly he is unable to change that perception simply because he can't answer some of the questions people want to know the answers to.
My experience is I know that the previous owner wasn't honest with us and was definitely the one pulling the strings, that makes me prepared to give Pearce a chance. (Cue John Lennon song!)
I genuinely respect your opinion, and as you suggest, an individuals perspective will be influenced by their thoughts on the way things operated during Mel Morris's tenure. However, the vast majority would agree, that the financial management was totally shambolic.
To the many people who've taken an interest, the whole thing with Pearce will seem odd. It's hard to imagine that someone so closely involved in what was without doubt, Derby County's darkest days, is actually still at the club. In most organisational changes (non football included) of the scale of what has taken place at DCFC, a top level restructuring would (at some point) see a wholesale clear out of the previous administration. Pearce still being at the club is strange enough, but to suggest that he can barely utter anything of relevance due to NDA's seems ridiculous and only fuels suspicions.
It seems only a close knit group of people are aware of the motivation behind keeping SP at the club. It should be remembered that the loyal supporters played a massive part in saving the club, ensuring that it was worthwhile Mr Clowes getting involved. If the fans had turned their back, there would be no DCFC. Makes one wonder, if Mr Pearce has ever considered that it would be better to walk away, rather than apparently being muted by NDA's, and tainted by associated with the previous administrations murky finances. That's probably the honourable thing to do, but perhaps not in the world we currently live in.
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1 hour ago, Returning ram said:
Based on @Ghost of Clough figures, we have a wage bill of 14m, if that's the figure we are paying our players in Div 1, then based upon this article, we will have no problem competing from a financial point of view.
Well I don't know if the recent revelation that the club is currently losing +£6m a year has been confirmed, but if so it could be difficult to break even in the championship, with inevitable increased wages. Most championship clubs are (or were) carrying significant debt and the combined debt of EFL Ch'ship clubs was in excess of £1.5 billion (2022). Derby County's owner has referred to sustainability, so hopefully the club intends to operate within a financial framework that ensures such.
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3 hours ago, bimmerman said:
Who's have thought, after Wembley domination a few years ago and just missing out, we're talking about parking the bus at exeter away! Strange old game eh?!
Indeed
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13 hours ago, Tamworthram said:
Weren’t there enough experienced players in the box to prevent their player having a free shot from just about the penalty spot?
Apparently not, and it isn't an isolated incident. It's either something that the manager hasn't been able to eradicate through coaching, or the inability of the players to concentrate and manage games. A bit strange considering one thing we do have in the team is lot's of experience. Perhaps just a case of more inconsistency generally in L1.
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On 10/02/2024 at 19:12, Tamworthram said:
Are we all assuming that Warne was telling porkies in his post match interview when he said Nyambe was feeling an injury?
Irrespective of whether Warney was being economical with the truth, the situation obviously wasn't managed particularly well. The outcome being 2 valuable points lost.
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Exeter 1 - 1 Rams Collins
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1 hour ago, Sparkle said:
Unfortunately you have nailed it - Are we any better than last year - er No - have we gained any better players? Hmm not really Have we lost any better players ? Well yes in my opinion McGoldrick and Knight - have we been served with a feast of entertainment at home to the paying home fans? - Absolutely not in my humble opinion
Achieving both success and entertaining football was always going to be a stretch once Warney was appointed. Nevertheless, considering what the club has gone through recently, many (including myself) would be willing to sacrifice a season (or two) of attractive football, just to get out of a dire L1 and have a crack at surviving in the Ch'ship.
As others have pointed out, despite being 2nd in the league, we are not very convincing at the moment. Perhaps this group of players (and probably the management) just aren't quite good enough / ruthless enough to win the crucial games that could secure an automatic promotion place. Chucking the game against Shrewsbury being typical, there are many other examples. In all likelihood we will be relying on teams around us messing up, if we're to avoid the dreaded play offs.
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21 hours ago, kevinhectoring said:
Plenty of drivel in this interview. And when he does talk about the football, why can’t he just say he loves NmL’s pace without saying how much faster he is than Collins. It’s just so unnecessary
Yes, in terms of the interview waffle, the phrase 'less is more' springs to mind.
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Rams 2 - 0 Shrewsbury frgs Collins
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The Rotherham brain drain continues. Wonder if their NHS nurses and doctors are also emigrating to the east midlands?
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1 hour ago, Jourdan said:
I don’t mean in the sense of Clowes has said ‘we must sign X, Y, Z.’
I mean it in the sense of the financial support Clowes has provided. I think he has wanted to back the manager and give him as reasonable a budget as possible.
Obviously the strategy is dependent on the business plan. Let’s see how things pan out in the summer where hopefully we’ll have more financial freedom.
To make any inroads towards 'financial freedom' someones going to need to come up with a strategy to move the club away from being a loss making business. Just my thoughts.
Barnsley FC v Derby - Match Day Thread
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Agreed, but I would add that the defending could have been better. Particularly the 1st goal where Phillips was given too much time and space. Then again, it's typical of the general inconsistency of players in the 3rd tier.