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In case we can't resign Allsop?

Good to see us get a mention on this list of great football commentaries (#5 in the list).
I can remember the first time we had a video recorder at home in the 80s and I had that Franny Lee clip, I'd spend ages watching it over and over again. Proper iconic 70s football.
https://www.cfclassics.co/media/tv/commentaries/classic-football-commentaries.htm

I wash my hands of you

First we'll peel them with our little metal knives , arr arr arr ! (You have to be a certain age )

First we'll peel them with our little metal knives , arr arr arr ! (You have to be a certain age )

I think the model for kirchner seems quite sensible. 
(perfectly sensible) then use the income of the club to pay down the debts over three years. (via player sales, and maybe even an operating profit?
 
we have les than 5 legacy contracts, so the majority of the contracted players under the League one pay cap, coupled with hopefully decent attendances and a manager capable of getting a lot out of not very much.
 
the end of the season and those existing contracts will be a watershed moment for the clubs finances. Maybe thats why hes keen again once we were down. big club so decent ticket receipts, therefore minimal need to bankroll club running costs next year which allows a bit of wiggle room for new players.  (appreciating new players become an asset anyway) 
 
in champ (in2-3 years) look at the club raising  financing to buy the stadium off the council at a favourable rate and then sell the club for 60 million 

We could get Sweeney Todd to do the catering chaps ??

Fair play to the Wigan fans ........God help him if he has to come to our gaff 

I think she’d seen the photo of you on the beach @Mucker1884 ?

Leeds would have taken more.

I'll settle for having a team to watch and be thankful for small mercies after this season 

???? how impatient ? 
He'll be back when there is something to tell you , isn't that what he said ? 

I agree. He came on yesterday and, in a meaningless fixture, really tried to drag the team back into the game, always wanting the ball. I think this is another case of Rooney calling it right - all Ravel needed was to be supported.

I don’t dismiss the extent Gibson contributed, what I maintain is, that the solution lay primarily with the EFL.
If we stick to the insistence that it would have been a tribunal issue ( not something I agree with entirely, but perhaps it is in the EFL’s rules ) then it could have been dealt with within days by the EFL at the time it happened. Long before we were in Admin.
Outside a clear claim for damages against Derby in court; which Boro did not pursue, Then it really is simple. The EFL failed to act, and did so on multiple occasions. 

Football creditors have reduced.. did Kieran Maguire mention that? Thought not. Considering that is a 100 p in the £ debt that is most significant. 
 
the increase in MSD debt is not news . 

Mr Maguire Has been a busy boy hasn't he ?   Has he yet hinted to the EFL about the dodgy goings on down the A52 at Florist ? ......didnt think so. Kharma is a dish best served cold . I will laugh my socks off when it comes home to roost.

Mr Maguire Has been a busy boy hasn't he ?   Has he yet hinted to the EFL about the dodgy goings on down the A52 at Florist ? ......didnt think so. Kharma is a dish best served cold . I will laugh my socks off when it comes home to roost.

Mr Maguire Has been a busy boy hasn't he ?   Has he yet hinted to the EFL about the dodgy goings on down the A52 at Florist ? ......didnt think so. Kharma is a dish best served cold . I will laugh my socks off when it comes home to roost.

We haven’t even got the box for the bits of the jigsaw to go in now... ??

All the very best for the coming season and beyond.I hope Rooney sticks by you with a decent owner on board he has a good a chance as anybody to get you back up.Your fans have been superb through this crap period.Things can change very quick in football and sometimes for the better, look at us in the so called best league in the world the Premier league for another season.Although my opinion of  the PL ( I’ve missed 2 games this season )is it’s the fatal attraction of clubs who risk everything to get to the tv cash when for us fans it’s a bland predictable bore fest unless you are a top 4 club the rest just make up the numbers.I won’t shed a tear when we eventually get back to the championship a far better and more competitive league to play in.Hope to be playing you at Pride Park again soon.

There are going to be a lot of clubs in trouble next season, the same fans that are jumping for joy at our predicament will be the same ones throwing a hissy fit toward  other fans laughing at their club when it happens to them. 
Birmingham is a prime example, Bristol are in big trouble, as are Boro 
chickens are coming home to roost ladies and gents, I hope you had a good laugh at our expense because it’s coming for you to
 
 

I am a great believer in the last laugh never actually being the last laugh!
There's always another laugh just around the corner.  Someone else doing the laughing.  Someone else being laughed at!
 
Our time to point and laugh will come again.
 
... which is nice!  ?

You’re going to be gutted this morning, and rightly so.
But it ain’t all bad.
When we dropped out of the old 2nd division into the 3rd in 1984 things were in many ways, worse.
We didn’t (quite) have the financial issues, but we had a horrible team and the entire season was utterly depressing and devoid of hope in a way this season hasn’t been.
My personal highlight of an utterly depressing season was meeting Dave Watson in a Little Chef on the A1 after we spanked Cambridge away 3-0 in the FA Cup. That was pretty much it for ducks sake.
AND we had not just relegation, but the ignominy of losing to Plymouth in the FA Cup quarter-final to contend with after we had dragged them back to the BBG.
We all thought that we’d bounce right back when we did get relegated and the arrival of Arthur Cox just emboldened that belief.
An opening day away loss to Bournemouth, when Bournemouth then were more like the equivalent of Exeter now, didn’t dissuade us.
Of course, we didn’t bounce back and ended up outside the top 6.
But we had some BRILLIANT away days that season, Hull, Lincoln, and the last game of the season at Newport spring to mind.
It was a whole lot more fun than the previous season because we were, for the most part, competing and you could see what Arthur was trying to do.
There’s something fun about going to smaller clubs and taking the place over. Those of you who travel to away games know that the camaraderie is special.
In fact, the adversity that we have faced this season has developed that camaraderie, only it’s done it at home.
I work online and use social media a lot and the admiration for Derby’s support, especially those of you who travel away is a delight to read. I’ve even read genuine Forest and Leeds fans say they’re impressed.
And what’s not to be impressed about?
Forget the trolls who are loving this, the REAL football supporters appreciate and understand what Rooney has dragged the club through and the guy is universally respected, exponentially more so than when he was merely an excellent player.
He’s now an excellent ex-player and an excellent human being. Time will tell if he can become an excellent manager, but the signs are promising.
The second year under Arthur we did come up and that season was even better for road trips..
I’ve seen Derby beat Benfica, Real Madrid, every top English club multiple times and Forest many times. But if I were to list the best 5 games I’ve ever attended, Derby at home to Rotherham in the old 3rd Division on a Friday night would be up there.
That game with that penalty that took us back up to what would now be the Championship was a raucous, intense and then delirious atmosphere ending in an effing celebration comparable with any I have witnessed - although to be fair, my memory is a tad blurry because we did hit the pub hard.
I doubt there was a Liverpool fan that got anything like the joy from beating Man City in the cup semi or will get more if they win the thing, than we Derby fans got from squeaking past Rotherham that night.
The fact is, winning is just fun, no matter what division you are in. And beating adversity is fun too. So much more satisfying and enjoyable than just delivering on what’s expected.
Somebody posted that they hope we're not that team that thinks they will bounce back up.
I don't really care if fans think that. It's totally irrelevant.
What is relevant is what WR thinks and what he allows his staff and players to think.
And I have no doubt whatsoever that he'll not allow that entitled type of mindset to creep in.
The good news is we have renewed hope for a stable club, a very promising manager in place, an Academy that is flourishing even if it is being pillaged and some wins to look forward to.
We are where we are, so we may as well embrace it and have fun. And you will have some fun, I promise.

Forest boys make more noise when they play with Tonka toys ?