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13 minutes ago, Raminphilippines said:

Steve Gibson has just handed Reading a court petition for scoring. It states that if Middlesbrough fail to make the playoffs he will sue them for millions. 

 

Has he? Or did he just write it on his toys and throw them out of his pram?

Superb by Ebosele

Was Ok I Suppose

Referee comfortably their best defender. Two superb blocks. 
 

I’ve just had this in my LinkedIn feed. I might apply, and then see what information I can get as an insider at Gibson HQ

Interesting though. If it does go to court or an EFL panel, we’d surely say “In which case, we don’t accept the negotiated 9 point deduction. If you want to proceed with this case, and in doing so you’re preventing us moving out of administration until it’s concluded, there is no point us accepting that 9 point deduction. We only accepted it to expedite our exit from administration. If you’re preventing that by supporting this claim, then you’re going to first of all prove there is a case to answer.”

3 hours ago, Coconut's Beard said:

Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside?

It’s the wrong way round isn’t it? You want a wide midfielder to have a crunching tackle when infield breaking up play, and smooth skills when out wide to beat his man. 
Typical Derby to get it wrong

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

3 hours ago, Gaspode said:

to gain an unfair advantage (though why else would anyone want to do it in a creative way?)

To gain a fair advantage. 
 

On 04/01/2022 at 12:35, observer said:

couldnt the fans crowdfund the £20m to OWN the stadium, then rent it the club for free but with tied in benefits, structured around season tickets and discounted hospitality /events

 

If fans want to TRULY be in control then owning the biggest asset is better than owning the actual club in some ways

 

Interesting option. 20,000 fans at £1000 each. Or 2,000 fans at £10,000 each. 
Does anyone know what the proposed yearly rental to the club is? 

7 minutes ago, S8TY said:

He has got better and better and now doesn't look as uncomfortable with the ball at his feet

Just before he scored there was a delightful diagonal run across the box and controlled the ball with aplomb. He’s a better footballer than we sometimes give him credit for. 

19 minutes ago, BriggRam said:

I put Curtis in the same mould as Paul Mcgraph

Plotting our way to victory

Win 2, draw 1, lose 1 is 50% win ratio and 1.75 points a game. So it absolutely isn’t necessary to have a 55% win ratio to get 1.7 points a game. 
 

looking at our recent form in points per game

Last 10 : 1.5

Last 8 :  1.75

Last 6 : 1.67

Last 4 :  2.5

The trajectory is broadly upward, albeit with no real pressure.

If we go with 1.7points per game, that’s 46 points rounded down from 46.7.

Be interesting to see how it goes for the next 4 games!!!

Just now, Chester40 said:

Still time for Curtis to be a bit fortunate to not give a penalty away.

Think we had two better shouts

 - their defender leaned into a shot and clearly played it with his arm that he deliberately left there

- Ebosele taken out well after the ball had gone. Anywhere else and that’s a freekick, possibly even a booking. 

1 hour ago, ck- said:

Different Derby now though. We can score and we’ve got character. Still hopeful of a win

You let me down boys. 
 

Seriously, what great characters in this team

Aaaaaaaaaasassasssssdsfgggfgvhhg beauty

What’s wrong with this Sky commentary team? They’re being very complimentary

Ridiculous decision to give a freekick. . 

13 minutes ago, Ruud Aralliss said:

He doesn’t ever beat his man with much purpose though.  If he does it gets took off him by the next. Or slips.

Fair point, but at least it’s moving in the right direction. He’s not been beating his man for a while. 

Jozwiak looking tricky this last few minutes. 
 

just slipped there but he’s trying to beat his man

Different Derby now though. We can score and we’ve got character. Still hopeful of a win

Just now, LincsRam said:

Last 3 times Joz gets the ball he has been fouled.

They look very dangerous on crosses but we are still managing to get out of our half so its not constant.

Was just thinking the same. If the ref is going to keep allowing this it’s going to be frustrating. 
Shirt pulling, running into the back, clipping heels. Stops us getting any rhythm. B

7 hours ago, Ken Tram said:

Cheers! That's good to know! I just don't know why these developers add these unneeded permissions. The consequences of losing my calendars is so high, even if the risk of them doing an erroneous update that deletes them is zero in ten years! (Although, knowing that they've been doing it for 10 years does help!)

I’ve just tried the link I sent you in Google calendar on my iPhone and it asks for those permissions too. 
If that genuinely concerns you, you could try doing it as a two stage activity by adding the calendar to your Google account and then on your phone, selecting that calendar to be shown. 
it’s worth knowing that by default, a calendar set up in Google calendar has sync OFF by default. 
To check, go here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/syncselect

One final thing, you can set up notification for changes to the calendar when seeing it up.

 Hope that helps in some way. 

6 hours ago, Ken Tram said:

The ICS link was the last five years up to Jan last year ... LOL

I'll try finding the site directly ... ?

Interesting. I’ve just clicked on it and it downloads all matches to the end of this season and it’s up to date on my calendar, which is where I copied the link from. 

If you follow the link from here it tells you how to set it up for various devices, including how to make sure it updates properly on changes:
https://fixtur.es/en/team/Derby-county

1 hour ago, Ken Tram said:

Thanks ver much for the link to the games on the Derby Site. Likwise, I can always get the fixtures from asking Google "Derby County Fixtures"!

I just wanted to avoid typing all of the matches into my calendar. The Stanza weblink seems great - except they require a permission that allows them to read an delete any of my calendars - and I cannot risk that.

If Derby managed it - or the forum!!! - we could have an agreed format. e.g. "How to display the games, and what to do when matches change time, and if on the forum - the key things that people ask like "tickets available" and "on Rams TV or Sky" ...

Maybe I'll give it ago if no-one else has done it ...

I’ve been using this site for a while with no problems. 

https://ics.fixtur.es/v2/Derby-county.ics?e93f8ee0b8af82b5
 

it updates regularly when times change. 
 

I did write my own a couple of years back that emailed me when a fixture changed. Was a Google script that screen scraped from bbc fixtures, checking for changes every 1/2 hr. Bit of a hack but had the advantage of telling me about changes. I can see if I can find it if you like. 

2 hours ago, Truckle said:

I don’t understand why we are all so keen to blame Mel rather than the EFL. 

The problem with laying the blame at Mel’s door is that the logic just doesn’t add up.  It relies on 3 pillars:

• Mel is as thick as mince
• He actively decided to ruin and devalue an asset he owns
• He is some kind of agent who intentionally bought Derby to ruin it.

Let’s assume for a second that Mel Morris is neither stupid nor intent on ruining the club he supports, then you really have to ask – how does any of it make sense?

There is an alternative narrative to the ‘Mel ate my hamster’ view of the world. What he did during his time was try to get us promoted by sailing as close to the limit of FFP as possible, just like every other club with a reasonably minted owner.  Where he massively failed was in not having the foresight to build a time machine.

When we submitted the financial figures to the EFL on 30th June 2016 the EFL signed-off on those figures. As a result Mel based his future spending plans on how much he could put into the club while staying within FFP using that method. He funded the club on this basis for the next 3 years, without a murmur from the EFL.

Let’s say that the EFL had been even half-way competent – it’s a stretch I know, but bear with me – and had said on the 30th of June 2016.

“Mr Morris, we don’t think you should amortise in this way, can you resubmit using the previous method?”

What do you think he would have done? Given that he’s not stupid or intent on ruining the club I’m betting he’d have said:

“Right you are, I’ll change my plans accordingly”

And over the next couple of years sold Tom Laurence and not bought Krystian Beilik.  From the figures that have been quoted I think would have been enough to comply with FFP, and if it wasn’t he would have sold someone else, wouldn’t he?  Given the alternative was to destroy a really valuable asset he owned I don’t think that is an unreasonable assumption.  I would argue the EFL retrospectively moving the goal posts and a global pandemic that disproportionately hits the best supported teams are why we are where we are rather than the blame all laying at Mel’s door.

And if my Aunty had balls, she’d be my Uncle