sonofmidnight

The deal needs to get sorted ASAP otherwise Rooney may well get fed up and be off. Who could blame him?

Hopefully the positive, encouraging and appreciative attitude of our large fan base plays a small part in them wanting to stay. This group of players are fortunate to have us and we are fortunate to have them.

I'm really glad we've not got Mike Ashley. I cancelled my gym membership when he took over DWSports and it would have been a moral dilemma for me if he owned Derby County. 

2 hours ago, TomSaint said:

Please forgive me as i know ill prob get ripped to bits but have Derby got any Documentaries or anything i can brush up on my Rams knowledge?

I wasnt alive when Clough/Derby were winning things, all iv ever known is the championship ? I had some time away from football when we went up to the prem to embarrass ourselves so i need to educate myself ?

To say how old and rich in history our club is , there isnt a deal to sink ya teeth into apart from a few books.

Why would you get ripped to bits? I think it's admirable that you want to have more knowledge about our wonderful club and its most interesting history. 

Fans , players, management and backroom staff have all been magnificent. A huge well done to them all. 

Season over! Hopefully next season will be much better.

So frustrating. We need to capitalise on Reading losing so far. Such a shame Ebosele isn't playing. If they'd put 2 men on him like they have on Ebowei we'd be running rings round them! Hope Rooney's half time team talk inspires them and he can conjure up a bit of magic.

I've come over all emotional! Absolutely brilliant. I don't think I'll sleep tonight 

Fulham squad worth £184 million Derby £34 million. I think the lads have done us proud tonight regardless of the score.

There are some very judgemental people on this forum. Let's just wait and see what he says and does from now on. At least he has made the effort to actually watch us play and if he is prepared to buy our club I for one welcome him.

I am not going to look for what he may or may not have said 10 years ago. What is important is what he says and does now and in the future.  Being one of the older posters on this forum I look back with a degree of disgust at some of the things I did in the 70s and 80s. However many of these things were the social norm at the time. I am not making excuses but we are all swayed by the attitudes of our peers at that time. 

Never been on any football pitch in 53 years and I don't intend to start now! Focus on Wayne and the players before and definitely during the watch. We are still with a slight chance of survival so let's not do anything to jeopardise that.

Way back in the early 70s we were coming back from West Brom in our old moggy minor when the exhaust pipe became loose. We were chugging along when we saw an old couple walking along in slippers. My partner, rather naughtily, put his foot down on the accelerator and this couple nearly left their slippers on the path. We made it home though.

1 minute ago, Joe said:

Nothing that is said on this thread will help move forward the work that is taking place. No protests will help only hinder progress. However hard it may be it just needs to be left to those that are working on this and be patient. The finances of the club are complicated and we are in a mess so it will take time to be sorted out.

I think the fans have been very very patient but we are only human and not everyone can be as calm as you appear to be. The administrators have used words like imminent and repeatedly fobbed us off and this is what really annoys me. I know it is complicated but it's like they dangle a little string in front of us and then jerk it away over and over again. 

I am extremely annoyed about the phrasing of that paragraph about the supporters. How about acknowledging how patient we have been up to now  and how it has got us, the ones who really care about Derby County, absolutely nowhere.  Are we supposed to just sit and smile and say take your time administrators, bidders and anyone else who is involved in the decision making whilst our club goes swirling down the pan. Fans are desperate, passions are running high. What do they expect. People can only take so much and everyone has a breaking point. It is not the fans fault. The administrators are the ones who need to sort this mess out. They are getting well paid for it.

I'm sitting here having read this forum and wondering why after testing positive 6 days ago I am still self isolating. It seems that many people aren't bothering, aren't going to buy tests and are prepared to let the virus let rip.  However we still don't know the long term effect of this virus and I am very suspicious about what is happening to my brother in law right now. Before Christmas he could walk with ease.After catching covid at Christmas and being double jabbed and boosted he is currently in Derby Royal with severe unstable angina. He can't walk from his bedroom to the toilet without angina. The decline in his health is staggering!! Is this a coincidence or covid? No-one can say. If by staying at home I can perhaps prevent this happening to someone else then I will do so, but I appreciate that I am lucky that I am retired and can afford to do it.

I am thoroughly disillusioned and fed up with the whole lot of them.

I think Wayne has behaved admirably and been treated appallingly. As far as I'm concerned, although I would like him to stay, he can leave with his head held high. I believe that if we could have kept the squad we had at the start of the season we would have survived but with a depleted squad it really is an enormous challenge now.

?  Heard all this before, many many times.

So impressed with the way Rooney motivates these players. Great effort by all the players and the fans were amazing.  Well done to all.

10 minutes ago, IslandExile said:

We may not be stakeholders in the sense that we are financial creditors of the club but, as supporters, we are the lifeblood of the club. Without the fans, there is no Derby County. From that point of view, we are very much stakeholders. We are the community for whom the club exists. We cannot and should not be ignored.

This. I would far rather the administrators came out and said that the finances are extremely difficult to sort and it is going to take a considerable amount of time to sort out instead of using words like imminent. At the very least we deserve honesty and a weekly update would be good, even if it reported that no progress has been made.

5 minutes ago, Unlucky Alf said:

It was the Cheshire Cheese, Cheddar Cheese was for the mature customer

Yes you're right. It was my nick name for it. I don't know if Shades became Chelsea Girl though. Who  remembers Clouds which then became Cleopatra's on London Road? On Thursday night we'd all sit onthe floor shaking and nodding our heads to bands like Barclay James Harvest. Sure that's why I've got arthritis in my neck now. Sorry to all those who don't like the ' any old shyte' but it beats going round in circles speculating IMHO.

So who remembers the Cheddar Cheese pub just up from Boots and for the girls amongst us Shades the boutique where I bought most of my clothes in the early seventies. This thread has been hijacked!!

Do these mega rich football clubs have any idea of the impact their behaviour has, not only on the fans but on the incomes and well being of the wider community? Do they care? Would they kick  a stranger in the street because that is what they are effectively doing to the many people who rely on people coming into Derby on match days to help sustain their businesses. Where does this end?  Derby hates Middlesbrough, Middlesborough hates Derby. Derby's trade suffers so then Derby boycotts anything to do with Middlesbrough. Hate just breeds hate.  Resentment festers and grows and meanwhile the rich still have their wealth and the innocent suffer. It takes a big man to say enough is enough. Is Gibson a big man?

I am trying hard to remain positive and focus on all the good things I have in life and have a degree of control over. However I feel low and disillusioned, mainly over how nasty and vindictive the business of football has become. Like others if Derby is liquidated I am finished with professional football and will focus on supporting my grandchildren in whatever sport and team they play for. Greed and ambition are the death knell.