Gee SCREAMER !!

32 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

Anyone else wonder if the reason that the Administrators have not announced a preferred bidder, and CK has today called Morris a proper duck job, is that Morris is now seeking some better out turn for fully releasing ‘his’ stadium asset? 

Is Sam Rush involved with the Appleby bid ?. If their the preferred bidder, based on past history, I can't imagine he would be up for parting with his stadium asset at a poor return.  That means the cost increases for them all and back to reviewing creditors as the parameters have changed.  

14 minutes ago, Mick Harford said:

 

Improved his offer today.  Gave that a long time to be considered then.!!! Think he rang up at the office party, then had a meltdown 10 pints later as he was asked for more funding.  Inexplicable hysterics really.  Don't really want his apologies do we.  

54 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

I sincerely hope it's a very Happy New Year - well, for everyone on the planet.

It's been an awful couple of years through the pandemic. The threat of war between Russia and Ukraine is scary. As though all of that isn't bad enough, climate change will have the biggest ever impact on humanity.

That all said, what keeps us all going is our shared love of football and, in particular, of Derby County. Football, sport, entertainment gives us a release from the stresses of our everyday lives. And yet, currently, supporting the Rams only seems to add to the stress.

Let's hope we get a new owner soon, put administration and points deductions behind us, and start building an entertaining and successful football club once again.

Finally, I just want to thank the Forum Admins for providing this platform. Thank you to all posters for your contributions - whether you are optimistic or pessimistic about the future - or no matter how you feel about Tom Lawrence - I have enjoyed reading your posts. Thank you for keeping the club close to me.

Very best wishes to you, your families and your friends. 

COYR ?

 Merry Christmas to all.  Lets hope next years a better one on and of the pitch.  Unless you happened to win the Euro millions this year and bought your own private island hence the moniker, then your sorted.

Special Feliz Navidad greetings to Gibson, Couhig, The EFL, Our fan club at OTIB and fans of any other club who come on here on the Wind up on pretence of sympathy.  Have a drink on us ya ball bags.?

7 hours ago, Anna said:

(Sorry if this should be in a different section of the Forum!)

I was just in Subway where I live in Burnley wearing a Rams hood. One of the chaps working there said to me "Come on the Rams". Folks in Burnley are pretty friendly and I thought this was just a show of support considering our present situation.

Turns out he's actually a DCFC Fan, and it got me thinking... are there any other ones dwelling in Burnley?!

(Awaits oncoming insults regarding Burnley!)

That was your first mistake.

1 hour ago, Rev said:

He's going to drop his interest, isn't he?

Sounds like it.  There's ways to sound like it though.  His formal offer was only 2 weeks ago. Very unprofessional.  Sounds like Alonsos evil twin.  

1 hour ago, Premier ram said:

  Wycombe bigmouths other guise

OR

6 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Last night Asda Sinfin a good few not wearing masks...including some staff, As for the poor sods being tasked...it's not happening, Asda will not marshall or enforce mask wearing, After the last mask wearing enforcement Asda staff were being verbally and in some cases physically attacked.

Is there a social divide here and an educational divide...yes in some quarters imo, It serves both afluent and the less well off areas of this area of Derby.

Aldi in Chellaston...it's a full on mask wearing by all.

They all have access to TV and media and ability to put a mask on.  

2 hours ago, Crewton said:

Kieran Maguire's podcast today has an interview with Couhig. I expect he'll be on TalkSport sometime too, pushing his hard-done-by claims. 

Great.  Sure he'll be be drumming up his usual disparaging baalocks with no grounding to feed the twitter numptys.  Why he gets any airtime on Radio Derby I don't know.  Let's hope the bigmouth from Wycombe says something to further negate his ******** claim.  No doubt his mate Kieran will do his best to help him retract if he does,  bloke lives of sucking blood from Derby County.

2 hours ago, Crewton said:

It's more a question of "do you want to set a precedent?"

Can any club feel smugly secure in the current climate? There's quite a few reliant on someone buying their star player(s) every season in order to fall within FFP guidelines, many reliant on "soft"loans from individual owners, some owned by Chinese businessmen subject to the whims of their Government.

Biters occasionally get bit. 

I don't expect any of them to do anything but put the boot in, but I don't blame the supporters groups for asking the question.

Wycombe -  get up by default, accuse us of cheating and have this beauty on record avoiding dropping down to there true station - sanctimonious shithouses.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29475533

36 minutes ago, Hordh said:

Blame Morris for the way other clubs are behaving. He rode roughshod over the rules. 

I'll blame supporters of other clubs such as yourself for believing what they read on twitter.  What Mel Morris did or didn't do is irrelevant, when concern over the life of our club is put forward by our supporters  and then derided with screams of liquidation and laughing emojis by the great brainless masses who support clubs in this league with a guest appearance from Leeds United.  If it's on twitter it's true....duhhhhhh

46 minutes ago, Eatonram said:

Fair point Bobbster, in that no one can say for sure that QPR cost us promotion by their overspend......just as no one can say for sure that DCFC cost Boro promotion or Wycombe relegation by our much smaller overspend.....The difference is that DCFC are being sued and QPR were not, despite us argueably having a stronger case. What Galls is that we have been publicly lambasted far more than any other Club, denied Covid loans and now being sued for far more than the fine you actually paid and yet not a single Club, even previous transgressors like QPR have offered the slightest support. In fact what did your striker do at Pride Park a few weeks ago?

Blackpool were pretty good to be fair.  I would happily force feed most supporters of other teams in this division a huge poo sandwich using our accounts for 18/19 as the bread.

Just now, sheffieldram said:

In 7 games through March into April of the 2018/19 season Middlesborough lost 6 games in a row and drew one.

If they want to sue anyone they should sue themselves for picking up just 1 point out of a possible 21 during this period and they fell short of sixth place by one point plus our goal difference was better.

Apart from that are they saying that if they had reached the play-offs they would definately have won the semi and the final.

Can anyone really take their claims seriously???

Against a relegated team on the last day.  I have a feeling that he might be trying this ruse to get some cash he can use against his own impending FFP cluster.  

8 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

That's all a bit medieval now and a bit heavy to carry.  I might get one of these instead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/germany-cafe-lockdown-social-distancing-pool-noodle-hats-rothe-a9518846.html

13 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

I think find vaccines do work and so do the boosters if people just get them done maybe just maybe cov19 will go away.

Yes they do.  Not said otherwise mate.  Not quite as reliably protection wise as before though, so hopefully there working on that. I did think they should offer boosters to anyone who wanted one back in September mind, then we wouldn't be having this mass panic to jab people as quickly as possible to try and limit impending doom after Christmas.  Your protection is low  for 8 days I believe if your having that booster now.

30 minutes ago, uttoxram75 said:

Maybe we should accept the vaccine doesn't work and use common sense instead. People in the 16th century knew not to get too close to those who were coughing and sneezing.

I'm not sure about that . I think they wore massive beaks stuffed with herbs and perfume and assumed that would do the trick.  They also carried sticks to hit people with if they got too close.

8 hours ago, Coconut's Beard said:

They could, but in reality were never going to. As I said weeks ago the notion that we'd tell these clubs to 'do one' was pure in the sky and no matter how nonsensical the claims appear to us they will need to be dealt with pre-sale, nobody is going to dish out £50m+ to buy a club if there's any lingering doubt whatsoever about further legal action and multi-million pound payouts.

That's an easy gamble to take when it's not your money. Are you 100% certain of the above and willing to risk millions of pounds? Just because every logical conclusion we can come up with points towards their cases having no merit doesn't necessarily mean that's how it would play out. Been there, been screwed over by that.

How many times did we go over all the P&S stuff? How many conclusions based on logic saw us getting away without points deductions? How many people saw the judgement of the first disciplinary panel, thought through all the logic and were sure that the EFL's appeal would fall flat on its face? 

Other clubs aren't going to step in and help us out, they're all in it for themselves. This is where it's common to mention the possibility of us paying money to these leeches opening a can of worms for other similar claims, but does that truly hold up to scrutiny? 

One difference between these two claims against us and any potential claims people think it would open up for us (or others) is that we're seen to have deliberately hidden our real outgoings over a number of years. Yes other clubs have shown a more flagrant disregard for the rules but because they've been open about it they've been punished 'accordingly' (pah!) and on time.

Ultimately our messing about over amortisation and our not filing accounts on time makes us appear to be the ones responsible for the failure to punish us in any of the last 2-3 seasons (while we point the finger at Boro and the EFL for delaying things), and that's why others think they have a case against us but nobody else is worried about it setting a precedent.

We can't claim against QPR, Villa, Bournemouth if their punishments were applied at the earliest opportunity and they've done nothing to disguise their spending. 

...and there's that logic again; logic would surely dictate that someone who has disregarded completely and outright broken the rules should be treated more harshly than someone who's tried to stay within the rules but find a way to work around them, but how has that worked out for us so far?

Of course they are.   How many others are hiding their poo under the bush.  Thats the biggest hand to play, they won't want this going as far as court proceedings. 

2 hours ago, 86 Hair Islands said:

I'm not seeking accountability, only to make sure that Quantuma are aware that the early platitudes are becoming a fading memory, for the little such notions appear to be worth.

By the same token, I'm sure the creditors share our hope that the required processes are being undertaken in a timely fashion since Quantuma will receive their fees in full prior to any disbursements being made to those who were owed money before the administration process began. 

They worry me.  I dealt with administrators daily for a number of years and in my experience things should be further along.  The cost of hiring a team of three administrators can be 350-500 a day a piece plus court costs and the use of expert legal teams.  Even the use of one administrator for a small business who owes 50 k can run at 7-8k in bills.  There cost will be pushing 3 million quid by the end of January.  Honestly, I could write a book here but I've aired similar concerns as this has gone along, as well as try to ease minds a bit regarding payment of monies owed.  The easy acceptance of a 9 point deduction and pointless appeal over the 12 points for admin started the worry.  Haggling with the two Ronnies at either ends of the country over cash pay outs for 'cheating' really worries me.  That should have and could have been hammered down in legal red tape with grounds of no precedent and previous EFL acceptance from minute one.

48 minutes ago, Yani P said:

The preferred bidder could refuse to pay Parasite 1 and Parasite 2 a penny I assume and agree to let the courts deal with it after the takeover is complete?

Still gobsmacked and annoyed that the EFL are letting these 2 scumbags take this forward at all..

Absolutely.  Posted this earlier. In terms of administration there is no problem concluding a sale with this in the background.  There is no debt accrued in relation to this.  It may be a bidder is looking at this a potential cost and that's what these two parasites are counting on.  If someone buys the club and says I'll look at these two shithouses later, they don't concern me, they'll soon scuttle off.  This would never get to a court settlement.  The whole premise is absurd and if it got that far other clubs would veto it.  Lest we forget,  we potentially lost a sale last year due to another of Gibsons spurious claims and then couldn't get apply for a covid loan due him pushing the envelope on appeal.  If a buyouts successful we could counter claim and in absolute spades.  As for his gimp at Wycombe - send him an envelope with a dollar someones wiped there arse on - blokes a joke and a bigmouthed one at that.

Franny 'bog roll' Lee and Con Blatsis

2 hours ago, Curtains said:

Good article in Athletic today. 
 

Reading between the lines CK seems to be preferred bidder before Xmas but after that a long way to go .

Usually takes a month after preferred bidder announced to complete .

Verbal agreement over ground with MM and MSD but says not certain. 
HMRC talks positive but no agreement until preferred bidder 

Preferred bidder will have to get through EFL owners test and negotiate with Boro and Wycombe successfully to avoid going to court

Good news but loads to do yet 

Any money supposedly owed to these gobshites is a potential debt .  Anyone can buy the club should they choose and look at this later.  It will be a civil matter, not relating to the purchase .  An interested party may choose to discuss it with either prior to buying the club, but the preferred bidder doesn't have to negotiate anything.  Personally, I don't think they will.  

11 minutes ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Derby County v West Bromwich Albion 3:00pm Pride Park Monday 27th Dec 2021

Home against the baggies for a 3pm kick off on Sky Sports Main Event.

Can the Rams keep Inverurie Ram going into 2022?

Will this game be on? Will the preferred bidder be chosen? Will Santa have been good to us all?

Fortunately, they are a team that we have done better against in the past.

Hopefully the players and fans and everyone at D.C.F.C. will carry on to give their all and a positive result can be achieved.

Overall Games Won: 53 Games Drawn: 31 Games Lost: 38

Since 1986 at Derby Games Won: 8 Games Drawn: 3 Games Lost: 1

Derby County v West Bromwich Albion Head to Head

https://www.11v11.com/teams/west-bromwich-albion/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Derby County/

Played for both X1: Derby County v West Bromwich Albion

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/01/05/jp-played-for-both-xi-west-brom-and-Derby-including-george-thorn/

West Bromwich Albion History

https://www.wba.co.uk/club/history

Last time we won at home against West Bromwich Albion 5 May 2019.

Anti-Pasti are from Derby

http://www.anti-pasti.co.uk/history.html

The Exeter Arms Derby

https://retiredmartin.com/2016/05/18/top-100-pubs-exeter-arms-Derby/

 

Sing loudly and proudly.

Support Derby County Football Club on the way to the game, at the game and after the game and from wherever you are around the world.

D.C.F.C. Love, Life & Unity.

Got a name check in the Dave Grohl autobiography I read last week as did The Wonder Stuff another band with a Derby link. 

Anyone no why West Brom only had 11,000 at there last home game.  If it wasn't some sort of odd reason, that's pretty dog poo for a team that were 3rd in the table?

4 hours ago, Dean (hick) Saunders said:

Any club is one ? owner from being where we are. Those wishing doom on us somehow feel their current “status” is locked in forever with no chance that they could be in a ? show if fate and a few errors goes against (like it has for us).

I clearly remember being in The Mallard one Friday after work with a mate who supports Forest.  Might have been start of 2018 and Fawaz was selling to an American company.  That deal fell threw at the last minute and he was pretty much in tears going on about how they were doomed and had debts of 34 million to Fawaz in loans and a wage bill of 37 million, they'd just come out of some  FFP embargo on wages and now had no hope of a future and were heading for more charges.  Luckily some Greek geezer bought them for less and Fawaz didn't collect his loans which saved them from a hammering.  They only stayed up last match that year as well so they would have lost a lot of money with a massive wage bill on top. 

4 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59711474

Perhaps they can all be relocated to Anthrax Island . Perfectly safe apparently and a little bit of virus clearly doesn't bother them.  No vaccine passports or face masks required on the bus or in a shop. Perhaps freedom innit can be their leader.  Everyone's a winner.  A terrible strain for all of them this, akin to living under the Khmer Rouge. 

30 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Armageddon originates from Bedford, and it's officially the second-hottest in the world. The Carolina Reaper is No 1 at the moment, although these things are quite 'flexible'. Most hot chilis are from the same family (Capsicum chinense) and include 7-pot. Trinidad Scorpion etc as well as Scotch Bonnet, Armageddon and Carolina Reaper.

This is the one I saw. Appears it's number 7 in the list now.  When the bloke on telly - a super hot speed eater- wolfed  down a curry made from it at a restaurant in Sunderland, he started crying.  These new ones must melt the head.

The Infinity Chili pepper is a chili pepper hybrid of the Capsicum chinense species created in England by chili breeder Nicholas Woods of Fire Foods, Grantham, Lincolnshire.[1] For two weeks in February 2011, the Infinity Chili held the Guinness World Record title for the world's hottest chili with a Scoville scale rating of 1,067,286 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). On March 1, 2011, it was displaced by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, which registered 1,463,700 SHU

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Sure thing - although I have thought of doing my own next year.

I have a few Armageddon plants (Seriously hot - 1 million+ Scoville) which I have brought indoors and pruned back, ready to go under LED lights in January. The Memsahib grew loads of onions last year, and the plans are for her to grow some shallots next year for pickling. If that's the case, I'm happy to chuck some in some vinegar with a chopped Armageddon or Scotch Bonnet, mustard seeds and peppercorns.

I'm sure I saw a programme once stating the worlds hottest chili was from Lincoln