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48 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

 

As much as I would love to hear the South Stand Belting out Pete's classic. I don't think it would catch on as a chant. 

Binge watching Glastonbury over the weekend, got me thinking about some new chants for our new era.

With respect to Macca, i'll start with chanting Dave Clowes to Hey Jude (fits perfect).

Can the more musically creative ones, come up with some more.

2 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

A Message to you Rudy.

David Clowes knows don't argue.

7 minutes ago, Sussex Ram said:

A few people have mentioned this, but it’s important to remember that the search for a manager is bound by financial restraints. To take a manager under contract elsewhere, in almost all cases we will need to pay compensation. Even if we take a manager who is currently unattached, do they have agents to pay? A signing on fee? I’m less convinced on those last two points, particularly in League 1, but nothing would surprise me.

I am guessing that the Clowes loan didn’t budget for a lump sum for a new manager. If the budget isn’t there, the administrators won’t (legally can’t?) spend more than they need to.

Given Rosenior is under contract for one more year (I’ve assumed this), if he wants the job he will get the job. Bear in mind that players arrive for preseason training on Monday, and someone needs to be there to put the cones out and hang the nets up etc. ? so if it’s not Rosenior then Quantuma need to act very fast. And that’s not exactly their style, is it?

Also- we are still in administration, and may be so for some weeks/months yet. I really hope that’s not the case, but I’m prepared for the possibility. It means this season is going to be all about survival and consolidation. So it feels neat to me to let Rosenior have the last year of his contract, and then we reassess next summer when things are more “normal”. Not that I can remember us being “normal” for such a long time now.

True, got to be Rosenior, if he wants it. (For the meantime anyway). If he doesn't then Daz Wass i'm sure will step in again.

On the playing side of things, fretting about a manager is not the most important thing now, we need to get a side together that can compete in the new season and try and halt a slide.

This year is 1984 repeating itself over again, so expect Eddie Howe to leave Newcastle and to take over at Derby the next day!!☺️

2 minutes ago, Crewton said:

Doing promo interviews for his Sex Pistols TV series. 

He could drum up some decent Bodies though.

5 minutes ago, S8TY said:

Mark Warburton 

knows how to get a side playing decent football on a low budget or Clough back 

Warburton has just gone to West Ham as assistant.

50 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Norman Hull

Are you there Norm? Your time is now

6 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

where's Paul Cook right now?

1 minute ago, Anag Ram said:

We couldn’t afford the embalming fluid 

1 minute ago, Unlucky Alf said:

And Nixon

or

18 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

I will @Shipley Ram.  Quick trip over the Moor!

Bar t'At ?

7 hours ago, Dave Mackay Ate My Hamster said:

 

I bet Cockerney Mike is seething though.

LOL he was born in Walsall!!

Went to school in Bucks.

8 minutes ago, Amberram said:

Gosh Bree has lost a bit of weight!!!

4 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

Folk are funny aren't they Kev? If the last few years of EFL intercessions taught us anything it's that their assistance is absolutely the superhighway to a sustainable future. I fully agree that Quantuma really should make room in their Holborn HQ for Rick and Trev to hotdesk daily if required. I mean look at the speed with which they sanctioned us in the first place. Only three years after the event. Then the 2 years it took them to find a few blokes who actually thought we'd done something wrong. Then the blinding rapidity of their dealing with Gibbo and Cowpig's grievances. 

How anyone could doubt that they'd soon have this mess sorted is utterly beyond me. 

Brilliant PMSL.

On 30/05/2022 at 04:00, ramesses said:

Top Gun: Maverick

A trite, superficial, adolescent melodrama involving a series of cartoonish relationships with an undemanding ‘Boys Own’ adventure tacked on the end.

The mostly boring and self-pitying first two thirds - 0/10

The more action focused final third - 5/10

The big budget special effects - 8/10

Exactly this not a patch on the first one. Not worth the three year wait.

Special effects saves it a little, Jennifer Connelly a lot. (not her acting lol)

38 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

I don't think they do. 

Fans love success. I doesn't mean over-spending. You could say last season was a success of sorts. It made me very proud of my Club. That's the feeling most fans want, it usually comes with winning things - I hope we can try and win the Papa Johns trophy, I still remember winning the Watney Cup! 

 

That day is up in my top 10 days of supporting Derby.

51 minutes ago, Dean Saunder’s hat trick said:

How have we offered Ebosele a contract? He’s off surely? 

We still hold his registration until the end of the Month, Until then he can only sign a pre contract agreement with Udinese, the terms of which we don't actually know.

1 hour ago, Elwood P Dowd said:

Neighbours finishing hardly counteracts all the bad things that @admira lists out in his dream but it does prove good things do happen ?? 

Rack off Bouncer !!!

1 hour ago, Woodypecker said:

'Not smart' in that way (allegedly provoking Gibson) doesn't mean not good overall - we were playing well and in with a chance of survival....was Rooney supposed to publicly bemoan our fate and say 'We're ducked', like Paul Jewell did?

Wayne's spirit of defiance transferred to players and fans.

IMHO, the EFL wanted 'assured relegation' anyway and engineered the January player exodus / sustained embargo, this after blocking Q from naming a PB when EFL cronies doggedly elected to ignore the issue of parasite creditor status, nixing any takeover.

So after the EFL spun out the calendar, they now finally realise it's 11.59 pm, and decide to intervene. Bucket-load of shyte. 

 

Exactly this.

7 hours ago, Crewton said:

I thought the selections for these games had a random feeling about them, and the performances reflect that. Whether he'll learn from the mistakes, and decide to actually play to the squad's strengths (and play in-form players) remains to be seen. It's too late to change managers before the World Cup anyway and I really don't see an obvious candidate who's likely to have a positive impact with only two warm-up games before the competition. He's got to do something to put this right if he wants to win back the fans, so we can only hope he recognises that. 

Step forward England's saviour:

3 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Yoohoo ,free ride on the big one.

12 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

Occam's razor

His transaction was investigated by the AML and didn't clear

Yes my one and only assumption also. No reliable audit trail on the dosh!!

5 hours ago, 1903 said:

Forgive me for barging in on your messageboard but I come in peace as a Bury fan. I have never posted on another club’s board before, this could be my first and last time. 
Firstly, the very best of luck. In cases like this it’s the fans, the innocents in all this, who suffer. We feel your pain, we too have been through the mill and beyond. 
Bury FC, the original club, were kicked out of L1 (having just won promotion) by the EFL in late August 2019,  about 3 weeks into the new season, our first half dozen fixtures were postponed so there was no record to expunge. The club was subsequently placed into administration. It remains in administration to this day but is effectively just a shell, awaiting ultimate liquidation with debts of over £12M. 
If scenario 1 above had happened we would have been reinstated at tier 6 in the pyramid. It didn’t, scenario 2 happened, and a “Phoenix” club called Bury AFC was formed by the fans and funded by the fans. It was admitted into tier 10 of the pyramid, the lowest level under FA auspices. Last season, the first full covid free season, it won promotion losing only one game. The highest home crowd was 1,885, not huge but enormous in a league where 100 or so is the norm. We ground share with Radcliffe AFC, another non league club within the borough of Bury. 
Bury AFC is not of course strictly speaking a Phoenix, but is referred to as such for ease of reference. It carries probably about 60pc of the original fan base. Not everyone has got on board but the majority have. The vibe is brilliant, partly as we are successful on the pitch of course, so never be afraid if this is your fate (it won’t be), you would still have a gas in “non league”, there are so many pluses compared to the EFL which make the match day experience highly enjoyable;  and with your fanbase you would quickly climb back up the pyramid. 

A highly unexpected turn of events happened more recently when a very small group of Bury fans emerged from nowhere with no mandate from anyone, but having apparently got strong connections with the Conservative Party. With the help of a wealthy businessman-fan now living in the USA, and with the financial help of the government which has provided up to £1M of matched funding (“levelling up”?), and the potential help of the (Labour) council, that group of fans (calling themselves Est 1885, the date of the founding of the original club) managed to buy the ground Gigg Lane, which had been subject to a charge for a loan of some £3.5M, and had fallen into a state of some disrepair. So Est 1885 have a ground but no football club, and Bury AFC are a football club with no ground (of their own). Talks are ongoing between the two with a view to a merger down the line. 

A word about the EFL. Yes as useless as a chocolate teapot but presumably facing the chop or severe reform following the government’s fan-led review. Remember the EFL is in essence the 72 clubs - it gets its power from the clubs, maybe it is useless because the clubs have only ever favoured light-touch regulation of themselves for obvious reasons, so have never given the EFL the powers it really needed to provide effective governance. 

So the very best of luck and whatever happens - there is no need to despair. 

Good luck on your way back up. 

Obviously we have a connection through "that" FA Cup final. 

In my view the governance of football needs to be removed from any club self interest altogether and be completely independent, doubt it will ever happen though

5 minutes ago, kevinhectoring said:

Don’t say we’ve lost it 

It's lost down the back of Rick Parry's sofa, and when Ashley gets the go ahead, it will suddenly get found by Peter Ridsdale.

27 minutes ago, TuffLuff said:

Call me cynical but where was the EFL help a few months ago when we were still in a shout of being in the championship for next season?

The only thing the EFL is bothered about, is their image, this is a PR stunt. If Derby get liquidated then reflects very poorly on the policies and organisation of the league. They want to be Little Jack Horner.