Patrick Rams

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

Eh? I haven't seen a single poster on this whole thread who has stated we are too big to go down.Not one.

Well it's not, it's 4 points ?
If we get no more points and Rotherham get 3 more points, who stays up?
 

No. Points count. It is 4 they need to make up.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

Correct... because they have appointed a proper football manager...it always helps.

Correct... because they have appointed a proper football manager...it always helps.

Correct... because they have appointed a proper football manager...it always helps.

Correct... because they have appointed a proper football manager...it always helps.

You could always dedicate your time and energy to celebrating Forest's promising promotion charge?
I'm not sure what you'll do from the start of September onwards, but it's better than nothing.

Don’t think Reading had anything to play for when they beat us on the last game of the season and kicked us out of the play offs did they ?

With you there Patrick (although I reckon I was there for around 30 games) Don’t know if it’s the old rose tinted glasses syndrome but they were special times for me looking back and comparing the game today. 

You're just getting old like the rest of us mate.
We saw the best team in the country for 6 or 7 years bitd.
Promotion, Two League titles, European Cup runs, semi-finals, yet Sam Longson ended up pilloried for giving his all to DCFC, a generation later, Lionel got abused for throwing his fortune at his home town club, Mel has done the same, tried to live the dream, failed by the skin of his teeth to take his boyhood club to the promised land of the premiership. Mel watched the Longson/Clough years from the Popside, if he's failed its not for the want of trying.
Keep the faith fella, there'll be another golden era before we're done. ?
These Derby men have tried, they have given us some absolutely brilliant times and some poor times, that is the history of DCFC.
 

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

I was so so lucky to have attended all 42 games that unbelievable season.Well there are some advantages to being an old git! Fantastic memories.

Quite common in most clubs. The candidates all had suitable CV’s ... None of us were fundamentally opposed to any of the appointments at the time. We might have had a dislike of either Pearson’s 1970’s PE teacher mode or the razzmatazz of Lampard but they were all typical of football. We have had every variety with the exception of trying to recruit the sort of tough guy agricultural manager with a “proven record” (although Pearson might fit that bill) . where everyone would have moaned about the lack of ambition.
The transfer policy “errors” started with Bryson and Hughes being injured in the same match which lead to panic buying at inflated prices. At the time, these were seen as bold, supportive and positive moves. Your are eating hindsight by the KFC family bucket load.
The financial state of the club ? .. Mel filled it with money .. some spent well, some badly .. We haven’t had a fiscal mismanagement situation or anything “taken” from the club by Mel. We got in a mess on FFP and Mel coughed up by buying the stadium and paying the club money for it.
Sam Rush ? Is Mel really responsible for another man’s ethics ? ( or lack of them ? ) 
The fiasco ? .. Someone broke their pledges or didn’t meet their obligations .. it wasn’t Mel. Maybe Mel shouldn’t  have trusted them but good business and life is defined by trust. You have to start somewhere. Has anyone thought about Mel here ? He has obviously had some serious health issues yet he hasn’t flinched from being a DCFC man 
yes, for sure, be sceptical or wary of new owners, we all are, we care about our club, but Mel has been a straight shooter from day one. Some of the things he’s done or wanted to do didn’t work out but he is trustworthy beyond doubt . Now maybe those he has trusted are sharks .. but that’s a different story. 
 
I cannot believe how you have such a judgmental attitude to a guy who has given his best efforts and a shed load of money to this club. Your judgement is littered with an astounding lack of logical analysis. 

Mel's reasons for selling are his own but why on earth should we just 'trust mel' after we've had a failed takeover that lasted what felt like a lifetime because they couldn't come up with the money? 

Please tell me you're joking... the EFL's 'fit and proper' persons test basically led Bury to extinction and got Wigan into financial ruin. It's clearly  nowhere near sufficient enough to ensure proper custodianship of a club.