CornwallRam

What a brilliant thread.
The reality is that bringing in so many players is likely to be problematical. A couple just won't fit in and a couple will miss significant time due to injuries. The rest will take time to gel and it will take Liam a while to learn about his players.
I reckon that looks like a mid-table squad. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that everything could click and we make the top 6.
That is a far better position than I expected and about a million times better than I feared. We're a proper club again.
I know I've said it before, but thank you David Clowes. I think every Derby fan owes you a pint. 

We could have a double-headed statue of Billy Davies, talking to Billy Davies, about Billy Davies!

I know you’re half serious and have your tongue in your cheek but I think you have a point. Football Stadia need to be special and have character. There should be statues, monuments, landmarks, quirks. Things that tell you this isn’t just a Lego brick facility to play a game. I want a laser hologram of a Ram lighting up the sky for night matches. An Avenue of Derbyshire stones naming those who have played say 250 games for the club or scored 50 goals. A trail past statues of the greats. I’ve mentioned it before but Stokes Mathews statue is a work of art and genius. It’s inspiration, dreams and legend making all in one. Black and white photos of bandy legged blokes in long shorts mean nothing, but if you’re a kid with a Dad or Grandad looking at your legends carved in stone or cast in metal ..  it binds you to something greater

It's just occurred to me that it would be brilliant to have something like a hundred statues of our most historic figures around Pride Park...I'm thinking of a Ram's version of Gormley's Another Place.
We should have William Morley and our 'saviours' Webb, Gadsby and Clowes. Obviously we'd have maybe our 50 greatest players and many of our managers, but then it could be fun to have some villains. Keogh, Bennett and Lawrence for Joiner's gate. Mel for being a worse owner than actual criminals. Sam Longson for accepting that resignation. Paul Jewell for for his home movie and that season. Kenny Burns for being the most irritating of ex-players.
It would be a fantastic way to celebrate the club's re-birth and an acknowledgement that supporting Derby is a bit different, but never, ever boring.
I can just imagine taking kids to the ground and being asked who that statue is? It would actually be a great way to connect through the generations. 
COYR

It's just occurred to me that it would be brilliant to have something like a hundred statues of our most historic figures around Pride Park...I'm thinking of a Ram's version of Gormley's Another Place.
We should have William Morley and our 'saviours' Webb, Gadsby and Clowes. Obviously we'd have maybe our 50 greatest players and many of our managers, but then it could be fun to have some villains. Keogh, Bennett and Lawrence for Joiner's gate. Mel for being a worse owner than actual criminals. Sam Longson for accepting that resignation. Paul Jewell for for his home movie and that season. Kenny Burns for being the most irritating of ex-players.
It would be a fantastic way to celebrate the club's re-birth and an acknowledgement that supporting Derby is a bit different, but never, ever boring.
I can just imagine taking kids to the ground and being asked who that statue is? It would actually be a great way to connect through the generations. 
COYR

He’s a winger.
You’d want him to stick to the white line.

Come on. Own up. Who shed a little tear? 

David Clowes, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. This will never be forgotten.

But it would be about 25% cheaper than buying it retail ?

No, I think Pearce was an employee trying his best to make his boss's hare-brained schemes work.
After all, Mel was happy to interfere in footballing decisions, when he had no experience. He's a successful businessman, so it's beyond comprehension that he wouldn't be the driving force in business decisions. 

Build new training pitches on the nature reserve behind the ground and turn Moor Farm into a nature reserve. 

Build new training pitches on the nature reserve behind the ground and turn Moor Farm into a nature reserve. 

No, I think Pearce was an employee trying his best to make his boss's hare-brained schemes work.
After all, Mel was happy to interfere in footballing decisions, when he had no experience. He's a successful businessman, so it's beyond comprehension that he wouldn't be the driving force in business decisions. 

No, I think Pearce was an employee trying his best to make his boss's hare-brained schemes work.
After all, Mel was happy to interfere in footballing decisions, when he had no experience. He's a successful businessman, so it's beyond comprehension that he wouldn't be the driving force in business decisions. 

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No, I think Pearce was an employee trying his best to make his boss's hare-brained schemes work.
After all, Mel was happy to interfere in footballing decisions, when he had no experience. He's a successful businessman, so it's beyond comprehension that he wouldn't be the driving force in business decisions. 

Indeed - it's hard to defend Quantuma's 'deadline' communication, but I suspect that they deserve a huge amount of credit for untangling the rats nest left by Mel Morris. Assuming this final hurdle gets cleared  they have had a big hand in rescuing our club.

Indeed - it's hard to defend Quantuma's 'deadline' communication, but I suspect that they deserve a huge amount of credit for untangling the rats nest left by Mel Morris. Assuming this final hurdle gets cleared  they have had a big hand in rescuing our club.

Indeed - it's hard to defend Quantuma's 'deadline' communication, but I suspect that they deserve a huge amount of credit for untangling the rats nest left by Mel Morris. Assuming this final hurdle gets cleared  they have had a big hand in rescuing our club.

Indeed - it's hard to defend Quantuma's 'deadline' communication, but I suspect that they deserve a huge amount of credit for untangling the rats nest left by Mel Morris. Assuming this final hurdle gets cleared  they have had a big hand in rescuing our club.

There seems to be a widespread inability to separate poor communication from overall competence. That combined with a misappropriation of blame whenever things don't go to plan is a lethal combination.
We didn't enter administration for a laugh. In the financial position Mel Morris left us, even before considering the extra problems he created with the EFL and Steve Gibson etc, liquidation was a very real possibility and perhaps even the most likely outcome. People appear to have forgotten just how much of a poo-show was inherited
Very few people would have touched the job. Part of a (particularly unbalanced) Athletic article the other week included one would-be practitioner saying they wouldn't have taken the job on unless the stadium was included in the first place, but they also recognised that there was no way of forcing that to happen. It struck me as a bit odd to say the least - it's too hard a job for them to take on, but they'll criticise those who did when it proves difficult? Nice one, Gerald.
The only thing that matters is that there is a buyer, anything more than that - avoiding further points penalties from not paying 25% to creditors and not paying player wages - is a bonus. That we are currently in a position of completing a deal that provides those bonuses is evidence in itself that the claims of gross incompetence are pretty far fetched.
Yes, some things could have been handled better, that will always be the case in a complex deal like this. Imperfection isn't incompetence. Incompetence would have seen us fold months ago, or starting next season with a points deduction that far exceeds even last season's.
Complain all you like about deadlines etc, but quite frankly I couldn't give a toss if their communication skills upset people just as long as the job gets done in the end!

I'm glad I spent it with Q....

Apparently they’ve mixed up the paperwork with the contract renewals, so currently Curtis Davies owns Derby County.?

I don't want any set of fans to go through what we have gone through. 

The clue is in the name. I am in the Philippines.