SillyBilly

6 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

We won’t get this many tickets again till MK dons in November.

Aye, moreso thinking of the midweek games where can still potentially sell out even if allocations much reduced.

Local one for me so looking forward to it. Looks certain for a sell out, really hope we can get a win as sets us up for some good continued away support numbers then. With 3k coming down, need to retain as many as possible for future away fixtures. Positive feedback loop if we can keep the momentum going. I think the fans have another massive part of play this year if we're going to do anything.

3 hours ago, Rambam said:

I wonder if the lack of segregation sections is here to stay. It looks great. Much better, and increases the capacity. Of course it could be inviting trouble. 

Invariably will depend on fixture. Given we haven't played Oxford in 30 years it was never going to be a grudge match. If we draw 'Boro in the cup I'd suggest it'd likely be more significant, save that or have a riot on our hands.

Seems quite benign so far as Twitter goes. I am sure, given fan base size, we have at least 3-4x the trolls on Twitter if we cared to post them too for sake of balance?

Lifted my mood no end to see us win again in a new season, in a new era. Think today is what we ought to get used to. I don't think the likes of Hourihane will be afforded the chance to boss games, it'll be a scrap and we'll need them to produce that one piece of quality in the 90 mins to make the difference. We have some good quality for this league, as long as we show as much fight as the teams playing us and don't get bullied, we should be confident our quality will win us a lot of games. Delighted for Clowes today too.

40 minutes ago, ram59 said:

I'm speaking from past experience, going back a few years I've had my seat 'sold' to someone else and had to contact the ticket office to make sure there wasn't a repeat, on a few occasions I've had people insisting that they were in the right seat, until I've shown them my season ticket and then on producing their ticket for either a different row or inexplicably a different block altogether!  There have also been a number of times when, asking someone to check their ticket has been sufficient and I haven't had to produce my ticket.

Probably me. No accident. When buying match tickets, we simply used to buy the cheapest tickets and then sit wherever we wanted (best view) given very rarely does PP sell out. So before the game if ST holder turns up we'd simply move to other empty seats around. Appreciate that may violate a moral code for some but I never was particularly religious. Few years ago mind and I have more money now.

8 hours ago, CaptainOx said:

For the opening day, just over 2200 of our initial 2300 had been sold at 10:30 this morning. General sale opened today.

Edit - just been given 793 more. 

 

Great support. Hope you don't enjoy the day too much though! 

Wouldn't personally ever go to a friendly or watch on TV, brief check of the result is about the level of my interest. It is a effectively a training exercise at the end of the day. In todays heat as well not sure what level of football you can even expect to see.

Just read the Glassdoor reviews of his staff over at Slync. Seemingly all the while he was trying to buy us his loyal staff in his business weren't being paid and were fobbed off, repeatedly as well. Dim view of him trying to buy a football club while they were borrowing money to pay bills as no salary landing. Makes you wonder how on earth we got this far with such a chancer. Emperor has no clothes sort of guy quite obviously, ultimately his celebrity lifestyle and his ambitions don't match up to his actual wealth. Compare and contrast to someone like Clowes. One gets up at 5am most probably looking over property deals while another is on the golf course tweeting.

My expectations even immediate post-takeover were low for the season i.e. consolidation. Fair to say I am thoroughly impressed by the speed and quality of signings we have made, I'm trying to be realistic though and therefore top 2 talk should likely be concentrated on Ipswich/Wednesday and leave us to our own devices. Suits us to have the pressure on others. I'd be really happy with the playoffs but most of all I am just excited to see us play and be competitive and see what happens. Shame we had to be relegated to feel this way but the Championship was becoming stale too after such a long stint, I'm looking forward to seeing us up against some other names for a change. I've no delusions of grandeur either, we're a League One club as much as any other so fair game.

13 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Weird. When giving the police a description of somebody, skin colour is almost the first you’d use. Describing skin colour is absolutely fine because there is nothing wrong with being any skin colour. So why would it be offensive?

 

 

yes, the only way you defeat racism is by making the colour of skin as insignificant as whether they wear glasses or have freckles, or whatever for that matter. I would imagine it is actually highly offensive to a lot of people of colour to suggest offense on their behalf by use of a factual physical descriptor. Really quite patronising attitude IMO. I do wonder if society will ever be capable of maturing without being led by the 1% offended-by-everything expressing faux outrage on behalf of someone else who isn't actually offended. 

I like the fact we've not heard a peep from Rosenior since his appointment as interim, shows he is 100% focused on getting players in and getting the club back up to speed. All for more of that until first whistle on opening day given the advantage the other 23 teams in the league have had on us. 

We need to financially all do our bit to support Clowes and the club now. He will have overpaid way beyond what the club is worth to do this. Thank-you Mr Clowes, whatever happens from here, you will always be the man that saved Derby County in 2022, noone can take that away from you!

Please no John Terry. Don't care if he is good or not. It'll be our third celebrity appointment in recent years and his profile will again overshadow the club. I think Warnock is definitely retired this time so I don't think it'd happen but he'd actually be my no. 1 choice. Plenty of names being banded about though that'd be worth looking at. If we were a competitive Championship club Dyche would have been a great option, sadly we have to dial down expectations commensurate to our position so even actually Warnock may be a step too far.

6 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:

If that's true then it's total hypocrisy from Mr Rooney after moaning like a drain about claiming  he wasn't told by Morris about certain vital developments at the club. 

Not really, there are protocols. I've bought and sold businesses where people who have worked for the business for X years have subsequently bitten at me because they didn't find out until it was done and sealed. You can't and don't say anything until something is finalised with the person/parties it needs to be finalised with. In this case Rooney and the administrators would have a conversation before anybody else. Once that has happened then guaranteed the news will leak within minutes to just about everybody and you've lost the opportunity to inform on your own terms.

Shocked on the news first coming out. On reflection I think it may be just what we need. We draw a line under the debacle and Rooney leaves with our best wishes. Excellent job done restoring some pride. I did feel like he hadn't managed us under the same conditions of expectation as others have, and consequently think the love-in might have preceded a mighty reckoning once our fans want a few wins and he fails to deliver. Those who claim otherwise...no patience in football, as evidenced time and time again. Hero to zero very quickly. We'll see his managerial credentials elsewhere ultimately and like Lampard before him, I want him to do well. The good thing for us is we can bring in experience, personally I'd like an older hand in who knows his way around the lower leagues. A low profile name might be just the tonic we need to bringing some closure to the circus of last few years.

1 hour ago, The_Sheriff said:

Surely appleby is our best option. Ashley is a vulture who stripped newcastle of their academy and revamped the concourses with 20inch tvs instead of 40 ?

Newcastle fans will have expected to win the Premier League every year and be protesting if they're not. We expect to consolidate in League one first of all, eventually get promoted from League one and have a good stab again at promotion to the Premier League in time if we can get back to Champ level. Big difference IMV. Ashley seems a pretty competent guy to get us up the leagues given that is where he will make his money. I will be thankful to anyone who rescues the club at this point, GSE included, but I reckon Ashley will put the burners on a lot more quickly than GSE to get us up the leagues. Could be wrong, we'll see..

People like him never do. I've been shafted by his type before in business (lessons learned), people who talk a very good game and self-promote constantly actually need to be put under masses of additional scrutiny IMO. What are they compensating for? Usually turn out to be the emperor with no clothes types. Most successful people I know, genuinely successful, don't behave like this, because they don't need to. Whichever we look at it, it was always going to end in tears as you can't own a football club and post proficiently on Twitter, sooner or later it will turn nasty. Best of luck to the guy I say, we dodged a bullet.

3 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

One of the consistently most vocal critics of Q has been Krasner, who was Wigan's administrator  Wigan's admin took 9 months and they went through three preferred bidders. Wigan didn't have EFL charges or Boro and Wycombe claims to deal with. Not sure that Q are doing any worse a job than he did. 

Don't see the two clubs as being comparable in size. Doubt someone like MA would be interested in Wigan to extract revenue from. Even with our gargantuan debts we're still more appealing which automatically makes Q's job easier. Same with Bury et. al too for that matter.

1 minute ago, atherstoneram said:

Sorry but if the EFL are thinking along those lines they simply expel us from the league and not get involved in insolvency actions but they are cowards and dare not do that,they don't want to be seen as authors of our demise.

 

To say Trevor Birch an EFL board member will have an active role in this with him being an insolvency practitioner raises a huge Red flag regarding conflicts of interest.

I simply don't get the axe to grind stuff with the EFL so I'm not on the same page; probably gives me company only with a very small minority of Derby fans but there we have it. The problems are and were Mel Morris, and since he left, the administrators, admins that haven't been up to much; opinion formulated there on the basis that results speak louder than words and the results are and remain poor. Creating bogeymen of the EFL, I can understand the emotion behind it, but I think it is precisely that, emotion. Think their Statement today is wholly necessary, putting feet to the fire is vital at some point.

Bit of moot point IMO regarding EFL meddling. The club is nothing without EFL membership, to its creditors, to its supporters, to its owners. This is not a conventional business so it is not a conventional administration process. And I agree with the EFL fully actually FWIW in their latest statement, there are 23 other clubs in League one that deserve clarity on their competition for next year. Time has ran out for everyone so it is put up or shut up time. 

I would also agree the administrators are doing a simply fantastic job and I also retract all prior falsehoods, verbal and written, for the prophet of Quantuma and do solemnly regret my blasphemous past. 

My strong preference is with MA, he has the money and there is absolutely no value to Derby County for him with us being a League One or Championship club so he is motivated for 2 promotions at the very least before turning the taps off.

Kirchner I have doubts full stop over whether his pockets are deep enough for this venture; that is not to say he can't pull the cash together to get the deal done but I worry that he is straining every sinew of his finances to just get himself over the line. He obviously can't afford the stadium and once he realises the reality of running a club i.e. lose vasts amount of money every month for the privilege of being roundly abused by fans, then he may get tired of the trainset and the inevitable waning publicity once the deal is done. MA has experience of being an owner so he knows the score already. And Newcastle fans are more demanding than Derby fans too.

Personally I'd rather a billionaire "skinflint" own us than an owner who turns out to be an emperor with no clothes once the tide rolls back. I also think the business like way he is approaching this, as much as some fans don't like it, is the reason why a) he is successful and b) he can trusted to prudently run the club. Every penny he shaves off is enough penny in the kitty to get the club back up to speed. He hasn't become that wealthy by blasé handing over cheques to admins for £3M who he doesn't rate, nor seemingly does anyone who has worked with them by the sounds of it.

52 minutes ago, Dan_Ram said:

I wont be aiming both barrels until I hear an explanation form the horses mouth.

This position is beginning to look like a bit of a luxury to me given how long in the tooth this has been going on for. I mean just how long are we sit to on the fence for? Reserving judgement seems to have been the default currency of dealing with Kirchner, waiting for something to happen... No harm in another 24 hours, another week when we've come this far? Lines have be to drawn at some point though IMO and clear deadlines set and call people out if not met. Most difficult thing to do is to pull out once you are invested in, time, money as well as emotion too. At the end of the day players wages are being paid by a kind benefactor it seems, neither Mel or Kirchner, it can't go on. I don't consider myself up to anything at all and yet my own businesses turnover a multiple of what Slynco are reported to turnover and I know I couldn't fund the club for a month so fair to say I was suspicious from the off. The money isn't there from traditional sources - it seems we're waiting to see if a kid did good on a crypto bet. Being proved very wrong here would be a relief incidentally so I don't mind if Kirchner does have the last laugh, providing he hurries up in doing so.

34 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

I don’t understand what is in it for Chris Kirchner to attempt to buy the club if he doesn’t have the funds. Why go through all this? If he has funds tied up and can’t budge then that’s another matter. 

 

Same reason rubberneckers do things like scope out houses they can't afford and waste estate agents' time (yes they exist). Makes them feel powerful/feeds their egos if only for a fleeting moment as attention is lavished on them because the other party thinks they have money. Until the game is up. 

I have come across them too many times to count in business. I have a sixth sense with it now. You have to be vigilant of not investing time on people who have a lot of ambition, talk a very good game but when it comes down to it have no or limited cash. And cash, or access to it, is king. In fairness, a quick credit check, companies house search can eliminate 90% of them.