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20 hours ago, angieram said:

Love that they obviously cam here and "shut up shop" against us - just what we did at their place this season. Some things never change in the ebb and flow of football!

If I remember rightly the Telegraph's headline was 21-0,the corner count. 

On 23/09/2021 at 15:15, Grumpy Git said:

Well EDF are a French state owned company. I believe it's illegal in Germany (and maybe France), for a foreign power to own any utilitiy business?

All the current tossers in the government worry about is winning their seat at the next election and where their next free lunch is coming from.

Yes the law was changed in 2001 to allow EU registered businesses to supply utilities in the UK and certain other member states didn't reciprocrate. I said at the time it would be a disaster in the making.

16 hours ago, ossieram said:

Don't tell me there's a beer shortage! 

23 hours ago, Mr. P said:

On 20/09/2021 at 14:26, RoyMac5 said:

A Derby fan was on with Naga Munchety R5 earlier today. My partner heard it I didn't, but said she was somewhat 'unprepared' and when the talk of overspending was broached she was asking if that was down to Rooney wanting to spend! The Derby fan put her right apparently.

Muncchetty is a dreadful journo When she calls the day on breakfast time. I turn my phone on just to make sure she's right. She's what they call an earpiece journalist with some divvie feeding questions into her ear, Jeremy Vine, Victoria Derbyshire and Emily Matlis are similar.

That's the reason they get into trouble they mis-hear what's being played into their earpiece, and don't listen to the answers they are being given.

A few years back we were listening to Vine at work and he asked listeners to ring in if they still drove a 30 year old+ car.

An old dear rang in and said she used an 1970's Jag for her daily drive.

He asked about the car she told him a few details, and then he asked if she still drove it!!!

i just hoped it was the producer taking the p**s out of him.

11 hours ago, 1967RAMS said:

I disagree. This season is far from done. The outcome inevitably will be relegation but it allows us @ 10 months to prepare for next season. We can offload players we don’t want or can’t afford. Blood players who will be needed next year and scout players who will be great in league one. We can build momentum and togetherness amongst fans and staff alike and hit league one with all guns blazing!!! This is probably the most important period in our recent history, far, far from done 

Phenomenal Post we need to keep thinking and acting along these lines. 

Think i have persuaded the other half to go and she's a red dog!!!

3 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

Well done to the players the staff and the supporters today 

Before the game I actually was tearing up looking around 

Anyway let’s give some teams a football lesson this season we all know we will be in the third division next season if we are here at all.

We will be here mate one way or another

40 minutes ago, vonwright said:

Yep. Completely miss the big story, then take it out on Rooney because the people you should be holding to account won't talk to you. Journalists are so scared of having their 'access' revoked that they end up failing to do any actual journalism. But what 'access' do they really have? They just get a free ticket to the match and all these meaningless press conferences. I wish someone had been actually holding the club to account over the last few months rather than cravenly going along with the 'nothing to see here' line. 

Bring Graham Richards out.

He didn't mind being banned.?

5 minutes ago, StrawHillRam said:

Survival is on

Cue this

1 minute ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

I for one welcome Carl Sagan as our new overlord.

Cosmic!

9 minutes ago, MuespachRam said:

 by the way, isnt Shinnies hair a thing of beauty....so thick, lucious, full bodied and well groomed....he looks just like those photos that were in Ivans Barbers at Ripley in the 70's and 80's...

And now there's a coincidence we trying to remember his wife's name the other but with no luck. 

2 minutes ago, JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta said:

2-0 as I start moaning ?

Keep moaning dude, keep moaning. 

As I said yesterday he has blown it, but we have to turn the anger into something positive. The only people it will hurt is the fans, players and employees if we don't. 

4 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

 

We know for certain that Wassall ceased to be a Director of the Academy on 8th September, and this is in the Academy thread. I think it's likely this means he's gone, but some of us are still clutching at straws that it means he's allowed to stay on at the club as an employee.

Carl is there a proper source for this? I can't find one. 

2 hours ago, Sparkle said:

Rooney can’t fail - he really can’t and it would be best for us if he stays - he might need to work for minimum wage for a bit though 

No problem, he has just trousered 21mill by liquidating his image rights company less cgt of course. 

45 minutes ago, ilkleyram said:

Somewhere in the UK somebody, probably an accountant, is waking up this morning and is about to become the most important person in our (footballing) lives.  Our Administrator.

They will have a number of tasks but the first job after introducing themselves will be to understand the figures and then work out a way of reducing and closing the (roughly) £300,000 per week difference between our income and our expenditure.  Most of that will be in wages and most of those wages will be largely untouchable because they relate to the players.  So some tough decisions will have to be made should any players be on a pay as you play contract, or near to an appearance generating payment to the club they left to join us, or a bonus payment or, indeed, anything else that serves to increase our outgoings. There will be negotiations with the players about taking reductions in pay, short or long term.  Some may be more willing than others. Wayne might find that the Administrator is helping him to pick his team.

Then there will be those whose wages are not so protected - the canteen staff, ticket office staff, groundsmen, physios, Academy staff and the rest.  If anyone leaves they won’t be replaced even if that means that pitches at Moor Farm don’t get mowed or prepared, even if the Cat 1 status is lost. Staff on furlough won’t be coming back, redundancies will happen.

After that comes the extraneous costs.  16,000 crowds?  Shut the North Stand.  Ticket prices? Up £5 per seat and £10 for away fans. New equipment for the gym? Cancel the order.

Alongside all that will be a wish to sell the club as a going concern.  There will be interest - from the numpties who are taking the mickey to those who are genuinely interested but have no money and (hopefully, please dear God) maybe one or two consortia who genuinely have an interest and have the resources to back it up.  But football’s general situation and ours in particular could, just could, generate no interest at all. If that’s so then the game is up.  

And what about the other players in this saga.  Expect FA from the FA, the custodians of our game, and nothing from the Department of Media and Sport or local Councils nor from the source of all this, the Premier League. There will be a collective shoulder shrug.  Sad but not our problem guv. The gleaming, sparkly football family's latest divorce. The PFA will want to ensure that their members are sorted out first and foremost.

Expect no positive help at all from the EFL.  They will hand out point deductions like confetti; they will apply their rules extra rigorously to try to prevent us from being taken over by the 3 Amigos part 2 - it will be slow and silent; they will take their time to agree a 2 year business plan should we successfully gain new owners and then monitor it strictly; they will make it impossible for us to buy German centre halves or even pay Shaun Barker fees; they will ensure that our ex-captain is rewarded for his drunken escapade.  They genuinely won’t want to lose us from the leagues (though they won’t care if we fall through them as Bolton did) but neither will they go out of their way to help.  It’s too important for them to have a big scalp to draw the others into line and to be seen to be acting tough rather than to go out of their way to be helpful. Good luck Reading and Swansea and others.

So if we are to have new owners they will themselves have a tough job to sort through all that lot.  It will take time and patience from them, and especially from us.  

We can help in the short term - buy home match tickets even if you’re not intending to go to the match, buy a new season ticket if you can afford to lose the money; help Wayne develop a siege mentality - us v them; support the players on the pitch, make them feel loved and wanted; pressure the EFL at the appropriate moments; pray to whomsoever your God may be for a bit of luck; hope that ‘the emergence of a financially sustainable picture’ means what it suggests and makes us attractive to a buyer; avoid the rumour mills on Tweeter and the rest (they’re really not good for your health)

We could do with Wayne staying, for this season at least.  His name will help to make us more attractive around the world; we are lucky that the transfer window is 14 weeks away; we will probably need the players to be flexible about their pay; and above all we will need a good Administrator, preferably one that will help manage the EFL, the PFA and generate interest from buyers.

Buckle up for the ride.  It might get rough.

Good post Ilkley, I am hoping Gerald Krasner and his acquaintances are appointed.

He has a good record for rescuing football clubs in the same position that we find ourselves.

but you are absolutely right it will get worse before it gets better.

Just one further point It may be better to out the money in the club once the administration has gone through. This way the current owner and directors won't be able to appropriate it.

But you're absolutely hang on. COYR

9 minutes ago, Dava75 said:

Thanks for clarifying- not sure I’d have referenced him as a king - but I get your sentiment …. and I’ll be there mate fighting alongside you COYR ?

Yes mate I can't be bothered with this pound of flesh from Mel rubbish I hope he does the same as Jeff Mostyn did at Bournemouth and keep putting funds into the club after Administration, but I am sure this will just cause issues with EFL. As a fan base we need to be supporting Rooney and the team now.

Getting angry at the departing owner won't solve any issues. Energy needs directing to onfield matters

COYR

7 minutes ago, Dava75 said:

Care to elaborate on this reference?

Yes Dava, if we do go down there will be 15000 plus of us fighting to get the  club back to where it belongs. Not incessantly moaning about what might have been. COYR

# time to fight.

3 minutes ago, atherstoneram said:

People still trying to defend the indefensible, now that's mature.

Can’t see we're I have defended anyone, a lot of fantasy goes on in your head doesn't it

Just now, atherstoneram said:

Blah blah blah

Very mature. 

1 minute ago, atherstoneram said:

Nothing to stop MM putting his own money in if he cared about the club that much

I guess you don't know much about the way businesses are financed he couldn't do it without a load more issues arising with the EFL. 

8 minutes ago, Sparkle said:

The EFL certainly don’t appear to have made any actions to actually help us ?

The EFL have a track record for not supporting it's own members. We are just the latest in an ever lengthening queue. From Bury to Wigan and all the alphabet in between Now is the time to fight back. I hope Morris gets out then sues the balls off them. I would. 

The king is dead long live the King 

17 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

And think the mufhaduckers forgot about Dre...

Is this the man: