CROSSWORD

About 3,600 remaining, so circa 25,500 home seats taken so far?

Hi all,
Newport County fan in peace. Just wanted to pop on your forum and let you know for those who are travelling down, that there is a pub called "The Excelsior Club" It's literally a 5-minute walk to the away terrace along Corporation Road. It has the normal range of beer, cider and lager on draught at competitive prices, in addition, it has a good range of bottled ales and ciders. We welcome away fans and its free entry. We do not serve food, however there are many food outlets within range of the club and we are more than happy to allow you to bring food onto the premises. I'll stick around the forum all week to engage with other fans. 
Any questions regarding parking etc fire away and i’ll do my best to answer. 
Regards

My first away game since my brain haemorrhage 3 years ago. I’m absolutely exhausted from standing up for the whole game - I realised I had a choice, I could either stand up or sing! I stood up.  Non football fans are amazed that I consider it worth it to go to a match at the cost of several days knackered. My response is, I can do something I love and pay the price or not go anywhere and be miserable! A simple choice for me!

The problem almost entirely coincides with Warne taking over. It can't just be that we have 11 braindead players in our team or that the ref is always wrong, it wasn't an issue under Rosenior. I can only really conclude that the way we currently set ourselves up and play the game invites more pressure on our box, or the shape of the defence invites opposition players to run in to certain areas, and those are the areas in which we are giving away penalties.
The players have to shoulder some responsibility and make better decisions, but that also extends to the manager and the way we set up in my opinion.

As many have said, I was very disappointed with the style of football on Saturday. Lots of route one with the ball coming straight back at us into midfield where there was no Derby player to be seen.
Derby's goal was a classic example of what I want to see. Running at players with the ball (NML), pushed out wide (to JK), taken to the by-line and then crossed or laid back. Perfect goal.
After that, it was very boring to watch. I could probably stomach not being entertained if we win every week but I can't remember Derby playing like this since I stood in the Popside.
I do find PW's personality quite refreshing. He is charismatic and engaging in his interviews. I would imagine he brings more energy to the dressing room after a string of quietly spoken managers.
I will certainly not make a judgement of his style based on the one game I have watched but Saturday was not playing to the strengths of the players.

Mainly disappointed in some people's reactions tbh.
The one's who seem all of a sudden to have turned from patient with Rosenior, supportive of what he was doing and willing to let him make mistakes while he finds his feet, now full of how they never liked his style in the first place, how he's got a great League One squad and is underachieving, they don't like how pally he is with some players, how they talk about stuff together rather than him being the clear leader etc. (Probably forgetting Rooney's meetings with Davies & Jagielka)
We saw it a bit with Rooney too tbf, bigged up so much when he was here that it felt like people were willfully blind to his mistakes and brushed them under the carpet, but when he left all of the doubts started coming out. Well, most of them, he still has a few hangers on who've applied massive double standards to his time against Rosenior's.
I suppose it's just the way some cope with change as supporters, but some of the things people are using to justify Rosenior leaving & Warne coming in are rather a stretch and feel somewhat forced, and any potential problems with Warne are already being whitewashed.
There's a lot of talk about Rotherham's budget being small, used as a defence against them being relegated every time they go up. First time (I think) he got them up they came down with the worst record ever at Championship level (23 points). Even our decimated squad last season got to 34 and that's with a 21 point deduction!
I'm not bringing this up to have a go at Warne, but I do find it interesting that it's hardly even been mentioned. He was allowed that season by their board and by their fans, however catastrophic the performances on the pitch must have been to accrue so little over 46 games. He won't get anywhere near that level of patience here, obviously. I'm a bit worried though, looking at how some people's true colours have so quickly revealed themselves with Rosenior, that he won't have very much time to make his mark here at all before people turn on him.
I'll wait and see how it goes. I've criticised some of the decisions Rosenior has made and very much advocated needing a different approach away from home - which ironically he may have found in his final home game - but I've also been supportive of the idea of letting him learn.
I'll just continue doing that with Warne, but my gut feeling is still not great tbh and I hope we aren't adrift by January if results plummet while he figures out how to manage a larger club, and how to play direct football when we don't have a striker at the club who can play as a target man.
 

Guilty of allowing more time to the Charlatan Yank. I’m sure they didn’t mean to cause the damage that it could have.
Frustrating thing is this, if they’re have told Dickwad to put up or shut up earlier, Mr Clowes may have stepped in earlier and possibly saved a few players leaving due to indecision.

Paul Jewell never had a Plan A. 

The team has been thrown together in a short space of time. I think it will be Christmas time before we can really judge how the team is doing and where we are. Big rebuilding job and LR needs to be given time ?

Started out as a genuine converation and now its gone "The Derby way".
Always happens ...sigh!

I think we are all on his side .
Along as he’s working hard for the team that’s fine .
 

Started out as a genuine converation and now its gone "The Derby way".
Always happens ...sigh!

Started out as a genuine converation and now its gone "The Derby way".
Always happens ...sigh!

He's still contracted to Forest. Grabban is a free agent now, which is probably where we are looking for recruits. 
I think we're probably going to struggle in the loan market without the ability to pay loan fees - we can only offer a platform for players to play in a possession-heavy side. It would be important to some teams, others I'm not so sure - especially when they could get fees from elsewhere. 
Difficult - We've done very well to do what we have in all honesty! 

Roy McFarland 5'11"
Colin Todd 5'9"
And they're the best we've ever had or ever likely to have. End of discussion.
Get Cashin on a long term contract as soon as possible - he will be great for us ?

Spot on, ram59!
Yes, it's a sad fact that more than half of all UK acquisitions destroy shareholder value in both the acquiring company and the acquired company. This is usually due to incompetence in the Board of the acquring company, be it the wrong strategy in selecting the acquisition and/or bad decisions in the administration of the takeover. Only our Brian could walk on water (sometimes), which the ego of many acquiring leaders prevents them from realising.
Less publicised than the corporate damage, is the personal damage done to the blameless individuals caught up in the wreckage. Your story is a good example, sadly. But the damage to DCFC and its fans, is one of the more publicised examples.
The success of our fans in helping the phoenix rise from the ashes with a long-lasting emotional and political campaign, is an inspiring role model which will not often be repeated. This is not least because Mr Clowes has shown a complete lack of arrogance. He behaves not like an avaricious owner but like the caring custodian of an essential institution. We must wish him well in finding like-minded backers!
It will make a great film when DCFC wins promotion. Whether that would helpfully be to the financially bonkers Premier League, will be an interesting question one day!

There are many 'successful' business people like MM, but are they successful or have they just been lucky in 1 venture. I feared that this was the case with CK and I'm glad that we dodged that potential bullet.
I have been personally caught up in such a position, a guy makes a mint by selling his company, buys out my aging parents leaving me to stay in the business with my small shareholding. He also buys several other small businesses, with the intention to join them together and grow into a massive company. All very well, but from day 1 of the take over, I knew that he didn't have a clue on how to run our company and I suspect the others too. Things quickly went downhill and I brought up solutions at group meetings, which were ignored. I was 'rewarded' for this with instant dismissal without any reason, without any notice, without any pay, without any holiday pay and 3 children and a mortgage. By the time I won my unfair dismissal case, the group of companies had gone bust and with it so had my shareholding and any payments awarded to me.
Did the guy intend this to happen, no, but success in 1 venture lead him to believe that he was a good businessman and that he would be successful come what may.
Without a lot of bad luck along the way, MM could well have been successful at Derby, but he wasn't clever enough to realise when to pull back and stop chasing the dream, much like a gambler keeps betting money he hasn't got in order to recover his loses and make his fortune.
I don't believe MM had any malice just ambition, bad luck, arrogance, desperation and finally self preservation, in that order.

The last two/three years were malicious, he absolutely knew what he was doing by not filing the accounts and using the HMRC as a credit facility.
Also, putting the club into administration but not the ground was calculated. 
No doubt he was out for himself in the end, otherwise he wouldn’t have left the club in such a state of health to protect his own assets. 
He goes down as one of the worst owners in English football league history, definitely our worst ever owner which includes the likes 3 Amigos and Robert Maxwell. Some doing, but neither of those brought us to the brink of death like Mel - albeit for not want of trying. 

The man is an absolute ??
My wife was a waitress in a pub local to him and he was frequently one of the most arrogant, rude, condescending and demanding customers she has ever encountered.
A proper "Do you know who I am?" attitude and I simply do not think he'd be a good fit in terms of managerial ability or cultural fit.

We have to offer Rosenior first refusal, he might not be the right long term option, however given the timing of all this we are left with little choice.
There will be a list of targets which he will have been involved with the discussion, likewise renewals with those that are expiring, a plan going forward and we have to stick to that as much as we can.
We don’t have the time to create a new owner vision for the future and conduct a thorough interview process.
Bring players in, give us a squad to compete and use this season to get appointments behind the scenes right and review the first team management next summer.
Oh and please, please please no Nigel Clough, it’s been a rough year as it is, a return of Nigel would destroy the remaining bits of my soul right now. Thankfully he hasn’t spoken that fondly of his time at Derby, I hope that grudge he has is as strong as ever. 

DC is the man who has stepped up to save Derby County, providing a short term loan to the club and taking the ground from MM's hands. Let's forget about MA now, he had his chance...
 

I don’t know what you’ve posted... I’m complaining about MM who has ruined the club and made it unsellable. 

Some saying that DCFC, a League 1 club, is not worth £50m. All I will say is that owning that badge is priceless.

I wonder if the EFL ever question if their punishment of a Club and its supporters for the financial mismanagement of a previous owner is actually reasonable, particularly as it is possibly so severe as to actually kill the Club but the transgressor is in no way affected.